There comes a time when you have to let the music do the talking for you: You have tried your best to please everyone But it just isn’t happening No, it just isn’t happening And it’s fucked up, fucked up Thom Yorke putting it better and more succinctly than I ever could. New owners, the [...]
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Wednesday 21 July 2010
Worry not, all things are well
I am probably too late getting to The National, as I would bet they already pick up quite an amount of praise in the right quarters, but given that I don’t really listen to any radio stations or music shows these days, I am often to be found a pleasing couple of months behind the hype machines. When I was a [...]
Friday 4 June 2010
Float on
Sometimes, as pal of ten minutes hate Mark Woff says, you have to not force it. The sun is out, this is just up the road… … and I have books to read, work to do, not to mention Japanese to learn. There are plenty of things upon which to direct the ire but others [...]
Monday 31 May 2010
Hate highlights – 31 May
A happy bank holiday to all readers of ten minutes hate – hopefully the sun is shining! If not and you are chained to the computer today, here are my picks from the hate over the last seven days or so: Revisit last weekend’s Ska Sunday – and please add your own choices in the comments [...]
Sunday 23 May 2010
Ska Sunday
I love ska. I love Sundays, I love sunshine and summer. So the first day of the year to combine all of these elements called for a heavy rotation of ska on the old music box today. For once, I am not going to be a musical purist about it, some of this probably crosses [...]
Friday 14 May 2010
Tory mix-tape: the anti-fun edition
Continuing our theme of Tory era mix-tapes, here’s one to take you back to the good old days when the Conservatives got the anti-fun bug to such an extent that they decided to try and ban an entire genre of music. In case you haven’t seen it in all its glory before, ladies and gentlemen, [...]
Wednesday 12 May 2010
We’ve been here before
A short musical interlude for all ten minutes hate readers who don’t remember what this was like last time around. Listen carefully, this could be valuable survival advice: And if things get really tough, there is always this beauty: Good luck, everyone.
Sunday 9 May 2010
Hate highlights – 9 May
Well, I have to admire your persistence. It is Sunday though, so kick back with this mix by Kavinsky, courtesy of Dazed Digital, while you peruse the finest reading matter ten minutes hate has to offer. First, the inevitable election coverage: Suggested reading material for E-Day minus 1 On the day itself, you were urged [...]
Thursday 22 April 2010
All that scratchin’ is makin’ me itch
I get a continued kick out of the fact that one of the most popular posts on this here ten minutes hate of mine continues to be the one called ‘stop being a sap!’ which features Joe Strummer’s words about taking control of your life and creating something for yourself. Malcolm McLaren, whose funeral took [...]
