WORLD BEAT ‘Trabbie’ sends us

WORLD BEAT
‘Trabbie’ sends us links to the CNN ‘World Beat’ feature, part 1, 2, 3 and 4, conveniently encoded in Real Video.

(Allard, if you’re reading this – your hotmail account bounces right back to me – have another one?)

LIKE A TALKING BOOK, ONLY

LIKE A TALKING BOOK, ONLY DIFFERENT
If you never bothered reading that whole article from The Age then the fella who wrote it, Michael Dwyer, also recorded the interviews for radio and today Australia’s Triple J played the first instalment, an interview with Bono. There’s some good comments not included in the article. There’s also the sound of the studio’s neighbouring concrete factory. Excuse the butchery, but songs and parts of questions were hacked out.

[mp3s no longer available],

1. Eno falls on a keyboard. 0.9mb – making the album
2. The last rock stars. 1.6mb – the usual pop music thread
3. Keeping yer clothes on. 1.6mb – the album’s racier tracks.
4.Never sounded so sour. 2.5mb – Peace on Earth and the Omagh bombing.

TRIED TO SAY GOODBYE, CHOKED

TRIED TO SAY GOODBYE, CHOKED
It’s the nastiest spin (eh heh heh) we’ve found on All That You Can’t Leave Behind so far. After a few positive words Spin pulls on the steelcaps, offering choice comments like “over-indulgent glistening of studio polish and tacky keyboard washes — not to mention Bono’s shockingly puerile lyrics… may remind you more of the last Backstreet Boys album than The Unforgettable Fire… it would seem the group has become the butt of its own joke… only seems to prove that Bono had a major jones for that Macy Gray album.” Oh, if you’re going to bag the lyrics on Peace on Earth you might want to get them right. Points, at least, for agreeing that the start of Walk On fell off the back of Barry White’s truck.