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Quite possibly the most horrible record of 2011.

David Gerard — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 13:10:40 +0000

George Michael doing a laid back MOR version of “True Faith” by New Order. Through a vocoder. ~~While wrapped around a lamp post.~~

Music critic oppressed by The Man.

David Gerard — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 10:12:13 +0000

Bulgarian Alexander Alexandrov has been most unfairly sentenced to 16 years’ prison merely for killing his neighbour, who played “Angels” by Robbie Williams two thousand times in a row at top volume over the course of a week. Obviously not a trial by jury.

James Blunt tops decade charts, pop declared dead.

David Gerard — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 20:13:34 +0000

PUBLIC ENEMA, The Hit Parade, Thursday (N! News) — James Blunt’s Back To Bedlam was the UK’s biggest-selling album of the 2000s, objectively establishing the final death of pop music after fifty years.

The 2000s were the decade of falling record sales, plummeting profits for the ~~six~~ ~~five~~ four major labels, a number one single requiring only a few thousand downloads as opposed to a hundred thousand physical records twenty-five years earlier and a race to the bottom by the music industry to come up with something, anything, so horrifyingly insipid and stupid as to destroy instantly the mind of anyone exposed to it, like a saccharine Cthulhu, in the quest to find a sufficiently common lowest denominator.

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The occult symbolism of the Video Music Awards.

David Gerard — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 17:56:08 +0000

From unexpected drama to shocking performances, MTV’s 2009 Video Music Awards managed once again to raise eyebrows and get people talking. What most people missed, however, were the occult meanings encoded in the VMAs. The TV event was in fact a large scale occult ceremony, complete with an initiation, a prayer and even a blood sacrifice. Vigilant Citizen looks at the symbolism used during the show. Cheers to Annette for alerting me to this vital information.

Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds’ legacy to benefit lupus.

redcountess — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 06:54:19 +0000

Julian Lennon and co-songwriter James Scott Cook will donate a percentage of profits from a song on Lennon’s new EP to the Lupus Foundation of America and St Thomas’ Lupus Trust.

Titled Lucy, the song is about Lennon’s childhood friend Lucy Vodden, the alleged inspiration for Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds, who suffered from Lupus for many years before dying in September this year. Cook had a grandmother, also called Lucy, who also died from Lupus.

Rage Against The Machine For Christmas No. 1

redcountess — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 02:55:36 +0000

There is a social networking campaign to stop Simon Cowell achieving another Christmas no. 1 spot this year with one of his overblown ersatz productions.

The creators of the campaign are asking people to buy Rage Against The Machine’s Killing In The Name Of online from iTunes, Amazon etc. between December 13th and December 20th in order for it to qualify for the Christmas no. 1 spot.

Never gonna run around or desert you.

David Gerard — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 13:27:38 +0000

Rick Astley takes us through his finest Rickrolls. I had someone Rickroll me by phone a couple of months ago.

The Wall of Hair.

redcountess — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 14:50:55 +0000

From the same company that brought you the Black Velvet Wesley Crusher.