If You Feel This Way Then Clap Your Hands =========================== Sam wrote: <<< Surely SIMO,B is one of the best tracks on the DCW. For me, the highlight of the entire album comes at 3:03 on this track, when that synth gambols into the break-down like someone putting an axe through a watermain. Wonderful stuff.

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Dear Catastrophe Waitress is a great song, whatever slander Carsmile Steve has been spreading about it. Step into My Office, on the other hand, is just a bit *average*, I'd say. Especially the bit that goes "I want to give you the job, a chance of overtime", that sounds more like someone putting an axe through Pete Waterman. But you should still go and buy the single on the strength of the B sides alone. Love on the March, which didn't sound that good on the radio, and which I might have said bad things about her before, is rather splendid. It really goes to show how much difference a good arrangement and recording can make. I especially like the harmonies and the fact that it gets really angry. All credit to Mr Mick Cooke. Desperation Made a Fool of Me is wonderful wonderful wonderful in every way. Gosh, I would buy the single on the strength of this song alone. I think that the main problem with B&S releasing album tracks as singles is that the other songs are implicitly less important once they have B side status. Lots of people are likely to think, "Oh, well, if Step Into My Office is the best song on it, and I've got that already, then I won't bother", whereas Step Into My Office is actually the worst song on it and the other two songs are ace. In fact, I think I'm going to call this the "Desperation Made a Fool of Me Single", because I think it should be. And I Don't Know, If She Floats or Drowns =========================== I spent Saturday homeless, as the landlady had got some workmen round to put double glazing in my bedroom and they stank the rest of the house out with Kiss FM. As I crossed the bridge I noticed a goth floating down the river. A lot of people were standing and pointing and eating crisps. It seemed that, while the English were winning the rugby, the Welsh were enjoying a more traditional form of entertainment. If she survives she's a witch, if she doesn't she's a goth. It works out well either way. I had a secret hope that when the girl was rescued the water would reveal that underneath her funereal robes she was wearing pink spandex, but, as might be expected, there was only layer upon layer of infinitely black underwear, woven from spiders' webs and dyed with bats' blood. You Don't Have to Wear that Dress Tonight =========================== I was very sad that Roxanne was voted off Pop Idol, because I thought she was really good. It seems you need to have a weight problem or a stutter to win a talent show these days. At least Suzanne is still in. Gosh, I love Suzanne. Almost as much as I love Martine McCutcheon. I really want to go and see 'Love Actually', even though I heard it's rubbish, simply for the lovely Martine. I wonder if anyone has seen it. I hope she says "Lumme" or "Lord love a duck" or something of that sort; it would make my day. xxx R _________________________________________________________________ Use MSN Messenger to send music and pics to your friends http://www.msn.co.uk/messenger +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister@missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo@missprint.org. WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "peculiarly deranged fanbase" +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "frighteningly named Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +-+ "sick posse of f**ked in the head psycho-fans" - NME June 2001 +-+ +-+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +-+ +-+ Snipp snapp snut, sa var sagan slut! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+