Sunday, March 21, 2004
This week’s NME
Looks like Jack White is loosing it. Pictures in this week’s NME of his court appearance in Detroit show him looking like a cross between one of the goons in “A Clockwork Orange” and Michael Jackson. Surely not a good look for a court appearance?!?
If you didn’t get this week’s print version of the NME (and lets face it I have to convince myself that it’s worth it every week since it seems to be getting more like Heat every week), then you will probably have missed Singles review by “Andy Capper”. Single of the week, “Make Out. Fall Out. Make Up”, by Love is All, has one of the best reviews I’ve seen in a while, I quote:
“Love Is All’s second ever seven inch is the best HEART AND SOUL pop song released since Beyonce’s ‘Crazy In Love’ … this sounds like the members of Bikini Kill, Madness, Phil Spector’s Wall of Sound and The Nation Of Ulysses got together on The Muppet Show and sang the best song ever written – backwards! Then the crazy deaf genius that recorded it put all the microphones down a toilet while a dog (wearing shades) jumped all over the mixing desk, pissing wildly with excitement.”
Now that is a single review. I know exactly what that record is going to sound like. Andy, we salute you. Also, later in the same column, Andy quite rightly points out that most people equate Nickleback with crap metal, but are quite happy to listen to The Darkness. By far the best column I’ve read in the NME for weeks, it had me giggling like a 10 year old all the way to work.
