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21 December 2010 ~ 5 Comments

Ronan Keating & Maire Brennan – Fairytale Of New York

Ronan Keating has a problem. It’s not him – it’s you. Or at least, his audience demographic. Eking a living from pensionable old ladies has been easy enough – his CDs are just another of life’s little OAP luxuries, along with boiled sweets, slippers, and commemorative plates with pictures of boiled sweets and slippers on [...]

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28 June 2010 ~ 7 Comments

Sixpence None The Richer – There She Goes

There She Goes is one of those songs. Whether soundtracking fond memories of hazy teenage summer crushes, haunting bitter-sweet laments or providing the audio for a number of falling-in-love montage sequences in cheap rom-coms, There She Goes will be the go-to song for decades to come. It’s hard to overstate the song’s perfection. The La‘s [...]

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06 June 2010 ~ 1 Comment

Limp Bizkit – Faith

Trying to mock Limp Bizkit is a thankless task. They’ve already done all the hard work for you in a series of selflessly moronic gestures: the band’s masturbatorily-themed name; the pathetically mindless music; Fred Durst’s matching cap-and-bootees ensemble; Fred Durst’s name; Fred Durst’s face; Fred Durst. Who else, other than Limp Bizkit, would take a [...]

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