Noel, Noel Noel...
It's a massive heap of shit.

What's telling is that your excellent tastes at that time also extended to Five Star. A similarly excellent act.

'Gracelands' is the kind of bollocks trendy teachers liked - the kind of embarrassing cod world music that spastics in wholemeal jumpers listen to on the way to the fucking WOMAD Festival. People who have kids with stupid names, people who have convinced themselves stuff made with brown flour doesn't taste like a cross between lead and mud.

Those lyrics you have quoted above are fucking terrible too. 'Moonlight sleeping on a midnight lake'? Dismal teenage poetry. Gibberish. Not exactly 'Pretty Vacant' is it?

The patronising appropriation of 'African rhythms' is both offensive (the artists involved were, to quote one fellow above, 'bumraped') and just awfully shit. Embarrassing and insipid middle-class twaddle.

I for one am ashamed of you.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 1 Feb 2010, 16:25, 1 reply)

I feel so much better now.
Thanks for not disappointing me :)
( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Mon 1 Feb 2010, 20:48, closed)

No problem my dear fellow.
I'm starting to think that I actually am a meme.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 2 Feb 2010, 13:14, closed)

Man, your face is on the Popular page over there
so yes, yes I think you are. Can I hire you to facially impact anyone who calls it 'Gracelands' without irony?
( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Tue 2 Feb 2010, 13:32, closed)