(Chinese, that is) Well well, content seems to be all the rage at the moment, it won't last... So has Tony Doogan been sacked then? Or is it just a temporary change of producer? Maybe B&S decided that their last album wasn't really much kop after all then. As in, nice as it was, it was more or less a not-quite-as-good copy of Twattybus. Right down to "Women's Realm" being almost a carbon-copy of the song "...Arab Strap", complete with handclaps. They've always admitted to wanting a Motown sound, but the closest they've ever got was on Dirty Dream #2. So if they think Mike Hurst will help them achieve that, I'm with them all the way... (Incidentally, am I the only one who initially misread his surname as being 'Hunt'? That would have made things far more interesting...) Motown is still a sound well worth aiming for, it's been resposible for some of the best pop songs of all time. Speaking of which; 10 songs which, love them or loathe them, are undeniably Perfect P!O!P! moments; All Saints - Pure Shores Dexy's Midnight Runners - Come On Eileen Diana Ross & The Supremes - The Happening Frances Nero - Out On The Floor Lightning Seeds - Life Of Riley Marvin Gaye - Heard It Through The Grapevine Robbie Williams - Angels Stevie Wonder - For Once In My Life The Monkees - Daydream Believer The Temptations - My Girl Mind you, most of you will have realised by now that my opinions aren't worth the paper they're written on. So when they're emailed, they must be worth even less. After all, I still believe the best Australian band at the moment isn't The Go-Betweens or The Lucksmiths, because The Whitlams are much better. Big Stu PS It's normally about this time of year that everyone on the list starts complaining about Valentine's Day, and how they never get any cards. So I thought I'd get in there first. +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the undead 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 +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "peculiarly deranged fanbase" "frighteningly named +-+ +-+ Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+