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Ryan from the ‘StopMe..’ Blog writes: I greeted Jarvis Cocker’s 2006 solo album with unbridled excitement because the drought since the last Pulp release had been almost half a decade. Since then, I’ve listened …
Ryan (StopMe): As a follow up to last weeks TEN4SE7EN I got my copy of The Real Tuesday Weld’s new album ‘The London Book Of The Dead‘ through the post. It comes as an …
Here are another ten songs that have come to my attention this week. Seven are brand new but three are oldies/goldies that are just new to me (No doubt many will have heard them …
Hilarious! The news that Sarah Palin was found to have “Abused her power as governor by trying to have her former brother-in-law fired” made my week. I can’t wait to see what John Stewart …
Ryan (StopMe): I’ve spent a pleasant week reading a stack of new books I’ve just bought like Marjane Satrapi’s engrossing and witty ‘Chicken With Plums‘ and Alan Moore’s unsettling ‘From Hell‘ ( A journey into …
Me and Music Like Dirt’s trip to Krakow was great (The architecture was gorgeous) but we only found two record shops (Chain stores aside). One was a small second hand store called Reserwat Winyli …
Music Like Dirt and I are away in Poland where Kraftwerk are playing in the splendour of an old steel-mill. Sounds like the perfect setting to me. Here are ten more tunes that’ve been …
Marking the 60th anniversary of Windrush and the 50th of the Notting Hill Riots “Spit It Out” by Warning! Heat Ray! is one of this blogs favourite tracks of the year. MLD co-writer Ryan loved …
Ryan from Stop Me If Youve Heard This One Before returns having been locked out of his own blog when Wordpress received a shirty letter from the DMCA (Do they dress as a cowboy, policeman …




