well folks I'm back from Madrid with a lovely suntan actually that's not true but at least I've now gone white instead of my usual pale blue colour. there's lots that I want to reply to but I probably won't remember it all now. the weeklies late eighties belonged to NME cos they at least realised that hip hop existed and liked public enemy a lot. Early nineties to MM though cos they actually had people who could write about music rather than just jump on a bandwagon. these days they are both populist rubbish selling to oasis/manics/stereophonics fans (oh yeah and those who like the one song that travis have recorded 20 times with different lyrics) and so the only opinion I trust for music is the list opinion, it hasn't let me down yet. the single I love winter wooskie, northern soul ensemble...hmmm if it's done well it'll be great, if not it could be a bit ropey, as for the instrumental, please let it be upbeat with lots of lovely horns and not something slow like century of elvis without voiceover. new album people worried about it being crap....well lets just wait and see, I don't think the track list is usually considered a guide to how good an album is (Nasenbluten's tracklist for 100 percent no soul guaranteed being the obvious exception, how could tracks like cuntface and cocksucker not be good? and the only tracks without naughty words on a 2 record set were called kill more people and concrete compresser). And I'm not too worried that others than stu M are doing more writing cos it's like simon and garfunkel sang (in their reunion concert in central park in 81, in a verse added to the boxer) "after changes upon changes we are more or less the same" now what else did i want to reply to bollox I can't remember one point though every male who has typed the name of the instrumental track on the new single to the list owes the bodyparts page a photo, as does all those who said things about damage to certain muscles (girls as well that one). was reading saturdays guardian suplement today (missed it when I was in Madrid) and it had extracts of sylvia plath's journal in it. Very good which is a problem cos it'll cost 30 pounds when it's released on april 3rd, why can't I like cheap books, catherine cookson can be found in charity shops throughout the land but not anything good. right that's enough crap from me for now love as always owen With that the narrow wizard waggled his bushy eyebrows and disappeared in a flash of blue flame leaving behind only a faint smell of cinnamon +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+