Joss,

Fair enough you dont like Gold Blade - thats fine and dandy by me. But beleive me my post was no attempt to bate people. I have, to my regret, seen all

these

bands and these are all genuinely held opinions.

Yeah, I didn't see that as a baiting attempt - however I'd be tempted to agree with you on almost all points, I'd agree that almost all of these bands are shit too. The only thing really that makes me believe in Arab Strap is the mix of David Holmes's Serge Gainsbourg's Don't Die Just Yet, which is brilliant. I bought the Delgados album on the recommendation of lots of people on this list and frankly find it pretty dull. Some of it's OK, but mainly shite. I can't agree with all you say though, cause I don't really wanna have Morrissey's babies - for the moment anyway, even if I did, it'd have to be in some sort of daft, Hawtrey-esque manner. I can agree with Ian Turton about Chris Leonard, I was having a hearty chuckle last night at the thing he stuck on Stuart David's Looper guestbook a few weeks ago. Well funny. James Errington - that wee bit about Blur going on TOTP looking like the Stone Roses was a bit of a joke really, although they did.. but I'm not having a go at them for that, that song was OK I thought. In my opinion they continually try to make themselves look like innovators however, when they are basically just copy people - they're pretty good at it I suppose, at least they have a tune, but most of it doesn't really do it for me. There's that one "Oily Water" which is their sort of MBV chorus one, which is very good at doing MBV, that one I like. I am unconvinced of anyone's ability to invent something like Britpop though - where all Britpop appears to mean is copying bands from the sixties. Hey Tim - cheers for your filling in the remainder of the guitar solos top 10. They were all great - maybe... If I'd heard of any of them! One thing right that's been on my mind recently - and has become a bit of a pub debate, which I'm wondering if you lot can help with. Do you remember in the 80's when everyone and his bloody aunt decided that Prince was a total Genius? Well, now were a good decade on from this time and we were trying to work out whether or not he is... I can see he's knocked up some great songs, SIgn of the times and Alphabet Street standing out for me, but genius, I dunno - throw enough mud at the wall, maybe... So what do you lot think? Prince - purple genius, or pint-sized twat. Cheers, Keith. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister@majordomo.net". . For unsubscribing, list rules, Tigermilk and sessions tapes, . please see http://www.majordomo.net/sinister . For questions about how the list works mail owner-sinister@majordomo.net . *** B&S new LP worldwide release 7th September, tour news etc. at *** . *** http://www.majordomo.net/sinister/news.html *** . Coinini athasach ata muid - ag canuint amhrain na . coinini - nach bhfuilimid? -----------------------------------------------------------------------