tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1930103.post109075650079773260..comments2024-03-28T09:33:26.444+00:00Comments on No Rock And Roll Fun: Simon Hayes Budgenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07084524317888577404noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1930103.post-1090787792651273362004-07-25T20:36:00.000+00:002004-07-25T20:36:00.000+00:00Can't disagree - if it was the proper look they we...Can't disagree - if it was the proper look they were suggesting at how video makers have 'stretched the boundaries' of the form, there were plenty of stylistic holes - Leftfield's Africa Shox? Add N To (X), surely? Instead we got Baby Got Back, which is hardly Bohemian Rhapsody, and that bizarre attempt at forming the history into a proper timeline. So, British bands started it, American hair metal then took it up for years, rap stole it and gave it to Madonna, British underground dance took the baton (great research, by the way, to describe UNKLE as a collective - that's DJ Shadow and, um...) and passed it onto rap. And to finish, Rockbitch, who nobody gives a shit about. They also neglected to mention that Smack My Bitch Up (or Smack Up Your Bitch, as the Times once called it) had that title, that sample, that video and a single cover featuring a crashed car just after Diana died, and on the back of the attendant publicity rocketed to... number 9. After two number ones.<br /><br />Can we now have a moritorium on Alexander Armstrong voiceovers?Simonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05834265575179460764noreply@blogger.com