I'm more partial to Oasis now than I ever was. I think it's because of the Flying V guitar in that video with all the helicopters. I see no reason why brickkies should or shouldn't make music, or musicians become brickies. Communists used to do that as punishment for excess grooviness. I also think it's OK to nick tunes. There are only so many ways to make the air vibrate. If you think up something "new" someone else will immediately copy it and run off with all the money. And where do you draw the line between "influenced by" and "ripping off"? It keeps lawyers in business, I suppose. [Keith Watson] Nothing really against brickies, it was more a way of getting across what I meant than singling out Bricklayers for non-music making duties. Again, it's not really the nicking tunes that's the irritating bit - it's a fact that they're crap as far as I can see and that they're all the same - the fact that Noel considers himself one of the worlds greatest ever songwriters and that shitloads of people are currently slapping him on the back and agreeing that rankles a little - I'm also a little sick of people with their arms around Paul Bloody Weller in the NME. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister@majordomo.net". . For subscribing, unsubscribing and other list information please see . http://www.majordomo.net/sinister . For questions about how the list works mail owner-sinister@majordomo.net -----------------------------------------------------------------------