Did I say The Delgados were folk as fuck? Silly me, I meant Del Amitri. Did I say I was reading Greil Marcus? I'd forget my head if it wasn't screwed on! I meant Malcolm Muggeridge. No I haven't heard "Domestiques", but I'm sure it's absolutely smashing. Of course Greil Marcus talks bollocks most of the time, that's why he's an established rock critic. He does go on about dadaism a bit here, but I think it's "Lipstick Traces" where he really goes to town. I haven't read it, but I've got the album - ba ba bab ba ba ba bab eeeeeeeeeee oooooooo bo bo bo - it goes, but it does have some top tunes as well, and you can programme out the dadaism. Anyway, I've stopped reading the book now, following Warrander John's Sid Snot outburst. I haven't been so put out of joint since I was accused of living in Neorockland and having boring packaging ideas. Speaking of established rock critics, I'm no Stax expert, but what I have heard is quite wide-ranging, and not very formulaic at all, from gentle gospel to smutty funkathons and rumpy-pumpy blues howlers. Perhaps all this diversification came about when they released 27 albums on the same day, but at any rate, it's not all Otis Redding and Booker T and the MGs. Not that I've got anything against formula, mind. I had a fantastic dream starring the Duke himself. A new Felt retrospective had been released, called "Feltrospective" and Duke was on the radio talking about it. Hmmm. B&S content: A while back there was talk of a Peel session, has anything happened? I think that number three slot in the festive fifty is the finest hour in the short career of B&S so far, quite an honour. I do hope B&S get back to old habits soon though, making eight instruments sound like two instruments played inside a cavernous bread bin with a bit of trumpet on top. Sister Disco +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list please mail "sinister@majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo@majordomo.net". For list archives and searching, list rules, FAQ, poor jokes etc, see http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +---+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" +---+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+