No Rock And Roll Fun

POP PAPERS: A RESPONSE: We've kicked the comments off for the time being, as Ennetation wobbles quite a bit and so we're giving it a bit of a rest as we look for somewhere else. Meanwhile, of course, we welcome any contributions to ongoing debate via email (norock@bothsidesnow.co.uk). Which isn't quite how becky bamboo came through with a riposte to this week's pop papers, but anyway - here it is:
Whatís funny about Blender is how like Q it is
have you seen the revamped rolling stone? it's got the sidebars and questions and charts of Q. they got a british guy to take over there too and it shows.
On, then, to the nme, which has Queens of the Stone
Age - neither interesting or attractive - on the front page...
hey. I like QOTSA.
'kay - I've got problems with this bit:
news: how desperate is this - oasisí hopes for america ever giving a fuck about them is now resting entirely on Stop Crying Your Heart Out appearing in a scene in Birds of Prey.
um, really? birds of prey? if so, I didn't hear it. I heard an oasis song during the last scene of "red" on smallville though. did they get their WB superhero shows mixed up?
Radiohead benefitted from inclusion in Smallville
this is just laughable. for the reasons you listed,but also because they NEVER played any RH songs. EVER.
lex offered clark RH tickets (and the use of his limo) so he could go with lana. that was it. (from omar's recap: "Lex tells Rosycheeks that he should ask Lana to go with him to the Radiohead concert in Metropolis the next night. And, because he's a game-show host now, Lex tells him that if she says yes, he'll throw in the concert tickets. Now, I don't know if you know what it's like getting Radiohead tickets, but let's just say that Lex is definitely pushing my buttons right now.")
they could use the same equally laughable argument about weezer. but then how to explain the countless alt crap rock songs they've used that have rightly vanished without a trace?
Queens of the Stone Age come across as rather likeable, amusing young men - they just look like twits and play turgid music, thatís all...
turgid? not really the word that comes to mind when I listen to them. assuming there's a negative connotation there. and I don't think whasshisbucket - the redhead - looks like a twit. I think you're tarring them with the awful nu metal brush and it's not deserved, si.
Hmmm. Well, it's QOTSA weekend on MTV2, so maybe I'll go and see if I'm wrong about that...