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The bit that you skip #51: Counting Crows – Cowboys
In May of 2008, I went to Tijuana -first time- as part of an installation job at a couple of data centre hubs. We made base there, and then had to go to a few places, like Ensenada and Rosarito, and install a few routers, E1 splitters, do massive cabling, and generally working too many…
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The bit that you skip #50: Oxo Foxo – The Hunting Song
Depression is a strange beast. You can’t fully beat it, it always comes back, one way or another, sometimes stronger than it was. You know the meme: music changes rhythm, new health bar for the boss. The fight hasn’t finished. As much as I love snow days and how quiet everything goes, it can get…
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The bit that you skip #48: Sinead O’Connor – The emperor’s new clothes
When Nothing Compares 2 U came out in early 1990, I was transfixed by the video. Her broken heart, pouring through her vocals and soul-ravaged face. It was a tremendous contrast to the early pop-rap and new jack swing on the airwaves. Sobering as a firecracker thrown in the middle of a early afternoon party,…
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The bit that you skip #47: Doves – The last broadcast
In 2012, I couldn’t fly back from Sheffield to Mexico due to a visa issue. My student visa was due for a renewal and the process was going to take roughly four months. It was a long, draining uphill battle, but still, the real issue was missing out on holidays with my parents. I usually…
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The bit that you skip#46: Dead Kennedys – Holiday in Cambodia
Back in 2011, I tried to get a podcast going for sloucher. It was called Radio Chaneque, where we promoted independent music and did a few interviews. My idea for interviews was to mix things up. Invite an artist, have them choose 8 songs that formed them and then I would choose one song of…
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The bit that you skip #45: Deftones – Anniversary of an uninteresting event
It’s never “the right time” for a break-up. But you can clearly tell when it’s coming. It can be a fidgety soon-to-be-ex partner, weird changes in personality, or a distance increasing in both physical contact and long distance communication, i.e. text messages. It doesn’t matter the hardships you overcame together. It doesn’t matter the burgers…
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The bit that you skip #44: Caroline’s Spine – Varsity Blue
My routine of spending my holiday time in Tampico went a little off-course in 1999. Easter was a write-off, and I had summer school to make up for a couple of courses I had failed, so I needed to catch up if I want to graduate in time. I didn’t, because of social service. Oh,…
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The bit that you skip #43: Devo – That’s good
What’s with Devo and donuts? The video for Freedom of choice features some choc covered rings of mighty flavour (TM), and That’s good features a not very subtle innuendo that flew over my head as a kid. MTV did catch it, though, and Devo got a lot of flack for it. Weirdly enough, I thought…
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The bit that you skip #42: Michelle Wright – Take it like a man
“Wow, she’s fucking angry!” “I don’t get it…” “Of course you won’t. Give it a few years, and you’ll find out how angry those words hit” I could never zero out what style of music my aunt Beatriz liked. She lived in Tampico-Madero and I spent most of my holidays at her gaff. All the…
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