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Top 5 albums of all time?
Hmmm. This could either be really easy or really hard. Well, in my opinion and in no particular order…
Radiohead – OK Computer (I’m going to limit myself to one from these guys)
U2 – The Joshua Tree (All That You Can’t Leave Behind was also very very good)
The Mars Volta – De-loused In The Comatorium
The Beatles – Revolver (Hard choice due to The White Album, Sgt Pepper’s…, Rubber Soul)
Led Zeppelin – Led Zeppelin (Led Zeppelin IV is good too)

If you could be in any band/group, who would it be and why?
Rage Against The Machine during the early & mid-90′s – angry, political and brilliant

What would be your ultimate concert line up?
Mate, what a question. The only caveat I’ll put on this one is that the artist or band has to playing still and reunions don’t count (i.e. Led Zeppelin, Rage Against The Machine):
Radiohead, Dave Dobbyn, Massive Attack, SJD, Lemon Jelly, The Prodigy, The Chemical Brothers, The Mars Volta, The Arctic Monkeys, Coldplay, The Foo Fighters, Bjork, Metallica, The Phoenix Foundation, Muse, Nine Inch Nails, Oasis, Queens Of The Stone Age, Sigur Ros, The Killers, The White Stripes, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Roots Manuva, Blur, Beck, Red Hot Chilli Peppers, U2.

First CD/tape you ever bought?
Mmm, I’m not going to admit what my first cassette was. But I know I did buy a Now That’s What I Call Music compilation with ‘Spice Girls – Viva Forever’ on it. Oh the horror.

Song that most reminds you most of your childhood?
That song by Cliff Richards that goes ‘We’re all going on a summer holiday. No more working for a week or two…’

All time favourite movie?
The Shawshank Redemption

Book you’d be most likely to recommend?
Ooh, Mark Z. Danielewski’s House of Leaves.

Do you have any pets?
Nein…

Best Christmas present you ever got?
Um, well there is the digital alarm clock that my Aunty gave me that just keeps going and going and going on one battery. And a very sensible jacket that I’ve had for years and recently wore all over the South Island.

Who are you tagging to complete this as well?
Monsieur Bartleby, DB, Pete Corin, Meg.

Runs for about 53 minutes and appears to have most of the songs off the downloadable version of their new album In Rainbows, plus at least one of the new tracks only available on the physical version of the album.

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I just want to acknowledge that the Spice Girls reforming and playing to sold out shows goes well beyond beating a dead horse. This is kind of like hybrid cars: look, here’s something that is a bad thing dressed up to feel good in new marketing! New marketing! Oh man, now that makes it suddenly all better.

That the Spice Girls are playing a sold out 17 night run of shows at the O2 Arena in London speaks to the indoctrination of many young girls during the Spice Girls first run as living Barbie Dolls regurgitating manufactured production-line pop on demand. It was crap then and it is crap now. They are not important, useful or nostalgic. May they harvest the masses for their gullible dollars one last time and cease to exist.

Seeing the Spice Girls in their push-up bras singing about “girl power” is far from empowerment and much more about selling out all over again a generation of women to their right to liberation.

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Source: Rolling Stone

LINKS
Photos from the Reunion Show and More [rollingstone.com]
Led Zeppelin Finds Its Old Power [nytimes.com]

BONUS
500 foot art installation at Tate Modern in London, NZ woman injures herself “I just didn’t see it” [nytimes.com]

UPDATE (03/12/2007): Download the recording of the show.
The playlist is online and if you dig the show, add it to your feeds!
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I’m joining nsu on UPFM‘s Beat Dungeon this Sunday for a chillout special.

nsu says “2 hours of ambient, dub and downbeat sounds from the dance music spectrum, and of course don’t forget those NZ grooves too!” To quote Timothy Leary “Turn on, tune in, drop out”.

To listen in I recommend the live stream but if you’re in New Zealand frequencies are 107.5FM Akl, 88.1 Wgtn.

Giveaways and laid back tunes! If you’re listening text in with any questions, I promise I’ll answer them all.

Tune in
Sunday 2nd Dec 4pm NZT, 4am CET, 3am GMT
Saturday 1st Dec 10pm EST, 7pm PST

How seminal is this? Stuff like this makes YouTube great.

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