List of my music ratings on Yahoo Launchcast Radio

This post is really an aide memoire for my own benefit; the hacks at Yahoo seem to be on to my multiple identities scam which allows me to listen to my fantastic customized radiostation most of the day. I think, without blowing my own fiddle, that I have amassed the greatest most bestest playlist in the history of cultural history. So without further adieu - the doors have been sealed, the mic is now off - I present my tastes in music for general aquirement...and posterity.

Oeuvres Completes:
Aphex Twin, Autechre, Joy Division, Grace Jones, Interpol, Sparks, Devo, Boards of Canada, Sisters of Mercy, Beck, Mogwai, Brian Eno.

Only this album(s):
'Neu 75' by Neu!,
'Low', 'Lodger' and 'Heroes' by David Bowie - and maybe 'Labyrinth',
'This Modern Dance', by Pere Ubu,
'Pleasure Principle' and 'Telekon' by Gary Numan,
'Walking With Thee', by Clinic,
'Lunatic Harness' by Mu-ziq,
'Funky Christmas', by James Brown,
'Dead Cities, Red Seas and Lost Ghosts', by M83,
'Goldfinger: Soundtrack', by John Barry

Selected Songs:
'Age of Consent', 'Ceremony' by New Order,
'New Religion' by Duran Duran
'Whats New Pussycat?', by Tom Jones
'Just Fascination', by Cabaret Voltaire
'Corpses in Their Mouths' and 'Dolphins Were Monkeys remix' by Ian Brown,
'Melt', by Leftfield,
'Mojo Pin' by Jeff 'better off dead' Buckley,
'Airbag', 'How to Disappear Completely', 'Idiotheque', by Radiohead,
'Dancing in the Dark', (yeah!!) by Bruce Springsteen,
'Marquee Moon', 'See No Evil', by Television,
'This Connecting Flight', by David Holmes,
'Bela Lugosi's Dead', by Bauhaus,
'Barely Legal (E.P. version), by The Strokes,
'The Rat', by The Walkmen,
'Halcyon and on and on', by Orbital,
'Sayonara', by The Pogues,
'Perfect Pop Band', by Komputer,
'Patience' by Guns n' Roses,
'At Home He's a Tourist', by Gang of Four,
'Babies', by Pulp,

Somethin else, hah? Feel free to partake of the 'good vibrations' emanting from this blob - oh ho ho, i is good!

On the Leprosy of the Epic Film

Before you join the herd and file towards your local cinema for the latest Ridley Scott 'epic' - 'Kingdom of Heaven' - , permit me to launch into one of my patented (t)issues - luxurious and expensive, but also handy and re-useable. While the first phase of the epic film in the 1950s and 60s were lavishly reactionary and disgustingly religious, they did manage to keep Charlton Heston busy. Yet the new phase, begun in Synge Street C.B.S in 1997 when a 'Braveheart'/'Michael Collins' double-bill was shown during religion class, have no merits beyond mesmerising potentially violent scobie's for an hour and half. Yes, the ingredients of this epic genre were plain to see; swelling music, opening (minor) battle, major-battle interspersed with (romantic) events elsewhere, rousing nationalism/humanism, and appalling historical inaccuracies. Yet Ridley Scott, with his wank-fest 'Gladiator' introduced new 'epic' signatures such as the stroking of the wheat-field, the caressing of muck/sand, and the presence of black characters who spoke English to Russell Farell. His forthcoming devilry 'Kingdom of Heaven' is of grave concern to the anti-epic contingent here in Ireland. The lover's of the epic (Lepers) will wet themselves to see epic veterans Liam Glesson and Brendan Nesson both starring alongside Jeremy 'Irish tax-exile cos of that Lolita incident' Irons reprising his role as a cleric from 'The Mission'. With Mel Gibson as Jesus fighting the English in revolutionary America, Gandalf the White treating Brad Pitt's acne on the beaches of Troy, and Mick Lally showing Val Kilmer his favourite leprachaun suit, the history courses in UCD should be packed for generations to come. With at least two versions of 'Beowulf' on the way the leper-achauns will be haunting the cinema ailses for some time to come.