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But why? It sounds identical to the original. I just don't see why anyone would buy it.

I think it sounds quite different to be honest mate, It's a low rawer, much stronger vocal and has a great Northern Soul/Mod vibe to it, I actually prefer it to Duffy's version, it manages to almost sound like it was the original version without staying into Mark Ronson territory.

Im gonna play devils advocate here and say yes there is a 'Black' music station run by the BBC called 1xtra and I think thats what Deluk is on about, so lets not be too hasty in hinting somebody is a racist.

Why board a sinking ship?

You should do what Tony Parsons did in the mid 70's, storm the place and demand they employ you, the NME used to be great, it could be again if they actually employed people who had opinions, didn't think everything was great and actually fucking cared PASSIONATELY about music rather than printing rehased press releases and calling them reviews.

You'd be ideal mate

Samething happened to Kerrang! Throughout the 80s it was a cracking read, with great journalists like Mick Wall and Morat. Then it became Smash Hits with fringes ...

I take back my remarks after realising I had misread the original post. One thing I will say though is that although I'm one of these people who are often (wrongly) assumed to possess an uncritical acceptance of any anti-racism talk, I do feel that things like 1Xtra and the MOBO awards are clearly outdated and in many ways counter-productive in their attempts to reinforce and reiterate the importance of black culture in today's society. It shouldn't need to be said.

But back on topic, I thought Beyonce's last song 'Halo' reached new realms of shitness.

Who may well have copped his name from a particularly rubbish waterslide.

Now I may well be wrong, but I'm sure I heard a song with the line 'I'm sorry I misleaded you' in it the other day? If so then I'm afraid all hope for the human race may well be lost.

Whilst we're on the subject of tunes that sound like you're having poo forced into your ears, have Avenged Sevenfold released anything this year? Whichever steroid addled jock jam they release would surely take the crown from allcomers.

If not then it would be a rage in the cage between the graceless, lumpen ladrock of Kasabian, The Enemy and Twisted Wheel and the autotune endorsed stylings of those careerist hacks in Metro Station, 3oh!3, Brokencyde or whichever nu-emo band is soulessly dry humping the cash cow right now.

I have a lot of hate in me.

On another note, Deluk may care to rephrase that post a tad, you probably didn't intend to sound like an inbred farmhand?

No worries, we all misread things from time to time.
I dont know about 1xtra, MOBO and things like that as I have not got that heritage so I really wouldnt understand what these things mean to a person that regards themselves as 'black'. There must be some kind of need or desire for them as they are still around and are very popular, I find the idea of Music Of Black Origin funny though as if we take it to its logical conclution most modern music would fall under the MOBO banner! LOL

Must do. in that case, and for the last time...

NO I WON'T BUY YOU ANY FAGS, AND GET OFF MY FUCKING GARDEN WALL!

I'm glad you borught those up dude, I meant to add "Our House" to that. I'd completely forgotten about that Lid Rock song (it's not really even a fucking Kid Rock song). Shit, can't be arsed rubbish that people were still stuped enough to go for.

Mind you, I am a complete hypocrite when it comes to this cos I can't help really liking Lethal Bizzle talking all over The Clash's (and to think, I like to think of myself as punk) "Police On My Back", so my opinion is about as valid as the songs I'm ranting on about.

Nothing wrong with sampling something as long as you re-invent the hook as part of a new job, just singing some new words over the top of something doesnt count, Normal Cook has been guilty of that on several occasions, although that's not the best example cause I quite liked "Praise You" and "The Rockerfella Skank"

Lethal Bizzle = the rapper that Dizzee Rascal wishes he was, not a chance Dizzee, Mr Bizzle has considerably more talent and Roots Manuva even more so.

All of which should kneel at the feet of The Last Poets, the guys who invented Hip Hop back in the late 60s (even pre-dating Gil Scott-Heron)

Now I may well be wrong, but I'm sure I heard a song with the line 'I'm sorry I misleaded you' in it the other day? If so then I'm afraid all hope for the human race may well be lost.

I heard a song the other day that had the word 'mischievious' (MIS-CHEE-VEE-OUS) in it - that's not how you pronounce mischievous, for fuck's sake!

And as for 'the graceless, lumpen ladrock of Kasabian, The Enemy and Twisted Wheel', I couldn't agree more - Kasabian the most on account of them
actually believing that what they do is in any way 'classic' or 'imaginative' or 'edgy' or 'not shit'...

To be fair The Enemy are basically just so embarrassingly bad that I think it'll probably be punishment enough for them to listen/look back in years to come and realise it for themselves. I have read some fucking brilliant reviews of their second album recently though - some truly scathing critiques that are bang on the money! Well, I laughed anyway...