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joint 3rd, you mean ;) Love the Rihanna cover.... the white text looks a bit invisible in parts though... but what an AMAZING photo of her :o

She speaks - and spoke back then - fluent Italian - and also, you really think an American national would be questioned in a foreign police statuon over a murder WITHOUT an interpreter? Especially a foreign national as rich as Knox. Interesting to read today it looks like Knox is going on the Oprah show - for a large payment no doubt - and she also kept a daily diary of her ordeal - which undoubtedly will be touted round to the highest bidder. And I agree finding someone dead in your own flat MUST be a shocking, horrific experience - but one which would blank your memory about your whereabouts on the night that it happened......?

That might be the case if the nurder hadn't happened in your OWN home. In an instance like that I really think you'd recollect every single minute of that night. Especially if you're bring questioned about it the very same night or following morning.

You're on Buzzjack, the site that music taste forgot. Of COURSE Dakota will leave, followed by the classic Gorillaz track. That whole list, bar a few notable exceptions, reads like a charity shop bargain bin. The gays might like penis, but they dint line listening to their owners.....

well, we're being led to believe that Knox is wholly innocent and whiter than white... and I don't buy it. At best, she was well aware of the murder and the chain of events that led to it... at worst, she was involved in it. Either way, she's lied through her teeth throughout. And if you're 100% innocent... then I'm sorry but you DO NOT lie. All we can hope for now is a retrial...... because justice has absolutely not been done here.

Hips Don't Lie by a country mile. Foul.

Despite being an almost note-for-note lift from Massive Attack's seminal Unfinished Sympathy, 'Heaven' is still one of the year's best singles. And the follow-up is great, too.... can't understand why she's taking so long to release the album though - next year??? Why?

err..... really? :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: And PLEASE - replace 'influenced' by 'note for note ripped off'.... far nearer the mark.

I'm more than a little uneasy at this outcome.... I'm not totally convinced she's 100% innocent...... and the evidence, whilst spoiled by the local police, didn't point to her being a completely innocent party at all. I think she's lied about the chain of events in the house that night.... her story never added up. So - why did she lie? And isn't now the time to tell the truth? Instead, she'll be made to look like some kind of American national heroine, paraded around the chat shows, raking in millions from her 'ordeal'. Well, I for one can't prove her guilt - but I don't think that court wholly proved her innocence, either. That poor girl's family, haven't they been through enough? This is a living nightmare for them.

Alex or Mark are gonna walk this show, surely? I DETEST Anton, Jay and Aden... vile sex-crazed dirty pigs.... botherers. Yeuch.

Full agreement..... he's not the greatest act on there by a long chalk, but I think the British public like to "get behind our boys" (if you'll pardon my French), so I think he may do quite well. If he remembers the lyrics..... Jade was robbed last night... any other judge than Kelly would've put her through. Jade's a very... British kind of act - Kellyu just didn't 'get' her.... she hardly gave a poor performance at the judge's house, not her best - but certainly better than Janet Devlin who, already, makes me want to projectile vomit. I think the first week show should feature all of the contestants sent home from judge's houses..... they should each do a song and be put up for the public vote. The winner gets to enter the competition proper, the week after.

Would've (and should've) been Jade..... her mix of Adele and Amy Winehouse style vocals would have sailed her through to the finals - what on EARTH was Kelly Rowland thinking? My least favourite is Janet Devlin - surely ONE Ellie Goulding is more than enough for anyone? I went with Amela - hot and a terrific vocalist.

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Well second hand... but from my oldest bestest mate ;) who only ever worked with them because he loves Will so much - and pities his association with Goldfrapp because of her moodswings and hideous temperament. And I've encountered her a few times through the years in Bristol - and she's always been hilariously rude - to everyone. :P I love a good diva me, you're right, Jark, and someone being an out and out cow would certainly not put me off them or their music - as you say, the Divine Grace is probably Diva Numero Uno - it adds to her appeal for sure. I loathe anodyne, squeaky clean nothingness pop stars.... which is why Cowell's motley stable leaves me deadly cold. And despite Goldfrapp's 'personality' I do actually really like them - especially the first 2 albums. As for egos in the music industry - to even be IN the industry you have to have an ego the size of a house. I don't ever believe these naive, shy, retiring personas some stars put across - impossible to REALLY be any of those things in the music industry.

I'd say Felt Mountain is pretty consistently excellent..... and far and away their greatest achievement. I don't think the style of Supernature borrowed from anything other than their own previous album - yes, it was wholly inspired and influenced by T Rex and Giorgio Moroder..... but it was definitely massively influential for them..... there was a time after the album when a fair chunk of the charts were 'Supernature inspired'... Christ, even Rachel Stevens robbed a song or two off them, the shame of it. Not forgetting Kylie, Madonna et al. And the reason I say they set out to make a 'hit record' is because a mate of mine in Bristol actually worked on Supernature, and several of their other albums, too - and that whole album was intended for 'the charts'...... they'd started making music to shift units instead of the pure enjoyment of it. Much to the discomfort of Will, apparently, who was far less happy to move in this direction than Ms Goldfrapp. Who, it must be said, is rather unpleasant by all accounts. The difficult artist handbook was written by her .... Popbitch reported ages ago some musicians saying, when rating the awkwardness of working with some acts, "How difficult are they? On a scale of one-to-Alison"? And this is a spot-on quote...... my mate had said exactly the same thing. But going off topic...... I love bands that evolve and change their sound for each album... but..... it has to be valid and worthwhile - and I don't think Supernature is either of those things. But that's just me, I know many others love it.

Well, after the cosmic filmic beauty of their debut and the ballsy, stomping electro of Black Cherry, then came.... gulp... Supernature.... an album that was deliberately written to have "a big hit". 'Number 1' in particular is just toe-curling - how can you even think this track isn't selling out a band who, just a year before, had dazzled with the likes of Train and Strict Machine, and just before this, had enchanted with Lovely head and Utopia...? Ooh La La was again a deliberate attempt at making a seriously annoyingly catchy radio 'hit'...and...it worked. To the total disgust of 90% of their earlier fans (especially at the live shows that followed where almost all the 'fans' in the audience chatted or used their mobiles throughout material played from the first 2 albums - and stood in awe of, ahem, Ooh La La etc). I don't see anything whatsoever risky in any of the tracks on Supernature... they'd all been done before to much greater effect on the previous album. The only track that holds up now is Ride a White Horse. I would say it's miles and away the worst Goldfrapp album. But that honour will never be taken away from Head First :puke2: :puke2: :puke2:

I disagree - the cynical sell-out Goldfrapp album was the vile Supernature.... hideous album......

GREAT image - and it's much much nicer with the revised font, FM.... like it a lot. :)

I wasn't unfortunately - us minions were allowed to watch the soundcheck - but from quite a way back..... as much as I love Bowie, in a way I'm almost glad to not have met him as he is one star I just know I'd turn into a blubbering, blabbering wreck in front of. Just because, well - it's Bowie..... it'd be like bumping into Jesus. Only much better, of course :D

As we're resurrecting old threads, here's another old one...and... how times change. Here I am lauding Lennox.... these days I can't bear to hear her painful whine. Interest will be raised due to the Victoria and Albert Museum exhibition of her work and costumes but - sorry - it's about time Annie realised - her voice is shot, it's gone.... what does anyone else think?

I'd rather listen to Elbow on constant repeat for three weeks than sit through even half of Nevermind....... Garvey has more songwriting class, talent and skill than Cobain could ever dream of. And personally I find Elbow as interesting as watching paint dry. As I've mentioned here before.... give me Hole over Nirvana. Any day of the week...... (and can we ever forget...Nirvana, the ones who didn't blow their brains out on the kitchen lino... ended up as...gulp... the Foo Fighters. Vile).

They were the commercial-end of many better bands..... the bast*rd sons of the Pixies, JAMC, etc etc etc.... and whilst I can't deny their influence in the States, which was bogged down in hair rock at that point, they arrived in Britain when we were well and truly over rock music..... and I don't believe they were influential at all over here - then or now..... I remember the album coming out when I worked in a record chain and thinking how old fashioned and...well... naff it was. At a time when Britain was getting engulfewd in seriously interesting underground dance music, well, Nirvana were a bit of a bad Yankee joke. In Utero, I agree, is a lot better.... but Nevermind? Nah - a pretty average US rawk album propelled to ludicrous degrees of supposed 'classic status' by disaffected spotty kids who knew no better. In this month's Q, Elbow are speaking about their bafflement at its popularity too. This is one of the few times I've agreed with them or Weller.

It was Milton Keynes, yes.... I actually worked at the gig - a mate of mine worked for the merchandising company Brockum.... and I worked on the tshirt stall for the 2 days of the 2 gigs..... loads of money, cash in hand, too.... and we got to see the soundchecks and most of the gigs, as the only busy time was when people arrived or left. The money they made on merchandise over those 2 days was jaw-dropping. And what a superb gig it was, too...... Bowie's hand-picked Greatest Hits tour..... loved it.

The Corrs. Yeuch.

how on earth can they miss these? Especially Daysleeper, Lotus, Near Wild Heaven and Drive.... that's a very very strange selection..... and one that, to be honest, has put me off... why have an incomplete 'Complete' album? :rolleyes: :(