pmj1980

The Death Of Bunny Munro. There's a clip of him reading part of it out on the Guardian website, it's a bizarre watch.

Although I haven't liked anything they've released since they got back together, I would have thought there would be at least a couple of good songs among 44. Corgan's also made noises about some of the new stuff being a return to the more laid-back, psychedelic Siamese Dream-type sound.

Duplicate paragraph in there, by the way.

the Thom Yorke single at all. It doesn't sound like a throbbing menace to me, or a rapist's dick for that matter. It sounds like he's taking the piss out of everyone. Overlong, rambling, pointless - none of the economy of Radiohead's better stuff, or even of most of The Eraser. I've listened to it a bunch of times now and I can't think of any reasons to try it again.

It's a massive shame, I'm a big Radiohead fan but it seems like they're just putting out cast-offs now. These Are My Twisted Words was rubbish too, although Harry Patch was pretty.

to enter DiS competitions these days? That seems like a bit of a joke. I hope this is a one-off that's come about because twitter are paying for the prize or something like that, and not a lame exercise to try and get people subscribed to your twitter feed.

So those of us who funded the album by preordering it are now going to miss out on bonus tracks? That seems a bit off, clearly we should get to download them as well. They'd better do it... *shakes fist*

I think you've misunderstood me - I just mean that they've been around for five minutes and have no back catalogue. When I think about the bands I've seen at Brixton - REM, Pixies, Weezer, the Manics - I kind of think this lot should really go and play some smaller venues. Is their set going to be 40 minutes long or what?

for a band that's released one single or something. I don't care who plays drums for them really. I wonder how much they're trying to charge for tickets?

I have no idea which of those albums should win because I'm not familiar with them but I can safely say that the stuff I am familiar with is terrible and if that's the best they can come up with then there's something wrong with their scope/taste. I mean really, I'd like to care about the Mercury but it's become a lame joke.

should really be on their list.

...from Selectadisc in Nottingham, £14.99. Good stuff.

Nice compilation though.

Noel singing it. Easy, no? The melody is pure Oasis, and the lyric about 'a carnival of idiots on show' is exactly the sort of thing Noel would write.

Everything Oasis have done in the last decade, doesn't it?

Sounds alright, but just how much do they want to be Joy Division? Even more than Interpol, that's how much.

I thought this might be the case as soon as I clocked the minimal/industrial sleeve art and the word 'factory' in their name, and the song confirmed it. The drums sound like they're actually sampled from She's Lost Control.

though, since he was probably talking to a journalist.

has mostly been released anyway, hasn't it? Half of it's on Pinkerton, and a few tracks surfaced in other places. There was one on a compilation a couple of years ago, and I'm sure there were one or two others floating around online.

If you have a sandwich, and you cut it in half, do you now have two sandwiches or is it still one?