10 August 2010 ~ 0 Comments

The Corrs – Little Wing

We’ve been here before. What is it about Jimi Hendrix‘s Little Wing that induces such foolhardiness and drives bands to turn their minds inside out attempting to replicate the song? After Sting, apparently overfed on ego and too much fois gras, performed an audio force-feeding and distended the song into a horrifying nine-minute aural catastrophe, [...]

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20 June 2010 ~ 5 Comments

Take That – Smells Like Teen Spirit

There aren’t many times when the words ‘Thank God Kurt Cobain is dead’ could be legitimately muttered. Today is one of those days. Smells Like Teen Spirit is one of the very few heavy rock songs that everyone loves, and everyone knows. Thus trying to reconstruct the thought process behind Take That, at their mid-90′s [...]

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