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OASIS – “The Importance Of Being Idle”
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(#1016, 3rd September 2005)

When I heard the news Oasis were reuniting, my first thought was, “thank God, an angle on the ‘Idle’ entry”. And in the heat of renewed Oasis mania it felt like this might even end up being their penultimate Num[…]

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McFLY – “I’ll Be OK”
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I still find McFly hard to appreciate, but in the comments for their previous No.1 I linked a piece by Ciara Moloney which made the strongest case I’d seen for them as songwriters and musicians. One of the questions this piece asked was why critics[…]

#EventsDearBoy – THE BIG LIST
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As you might know if you’ve been on Bluesky, I’m counting down EVERY COMICS EVENT* *(that I’ve read) from worst to best and writing a little paragraph on each. I might Do Something with all this when it’s finished but for now […]

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  1. I find the piece to be a very effective argument for a more positive evaluation of the musical value provided…

  2. I wonder if their late 2006 bunny will be the one to win you over. I was a big McFly…

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