Hints and tips:
...A: BNB / Binance coin Where is Tether incorporated? A: British Virgin Islands “I don’t care, just please stop talking about this shit”. Which Davos 2024 attendee said this, when asked about bitcoin?...
...It takes almost an hour and a half for one single samba school to slowly parade by, with the same song on repeat. Then you must brace yourself the next one. And the next one....
...To his dismay, his record label at the time, Virgin/EMI, turned it down in 2001. A version of the album leaked in 2011....
...But even the best songs risk being overplayed. Almost half of Universal’s music revenue comes from songs less than three years old, meaning it must stay vigilant in finding new talent....
...But the space being traversed here is less deserving of exploration. ★★☆☆☆ ‘We Will Always Love You’ is released by Virgin EMI...
...Full of sound and fury that signify little, Imploding the Mirage is an empty vessel. ★★☆☆☆ ‘Imploding the Mirage’ is released by Virgin EMI...
.... ★★★☆☆ ‘Pick Me Up Off the Floor’ is released by Virgin EMI/Blue Note Records...
...“MAH” takes a vocal sampled from a 1970s disco song, El Coco’s “I’m Mad as Hell”, and ratchets its angry sentiments up with a furious acid-house assault. ★★★★☆ ‘No Geography’ is released by Virgin EMI...
...But the songs are too simple and repetitious to match even the better moments of Brown’s solo career, let alone his increasingly remote Stone Rose heyday. ★★☆☆☆ ‘Ripples’ is released by Virgin EMI...
...High As Hope’ is released by Virgin EMI...
...Beck Colors (Virgin EMI) Beck follows up the gloomy but richly realised Morning Phase, winner of best album Grammy in 2015, with a disappointingly synthetic swerve into brightness....
...The Killers Wonderful Wonderful (Virgin EMI) The Killers have gone from the glammy synth-rock revivalists of 2004’s Hot Fuss, when the Las Vegans were often mistaken as a British band, to the full-throated...
...Lil Yachty Teenage Emotions (Virgin EMI) “Little miss lady in the yellow, hello, would you like to push pedals through the meadow with me?” Lil Yachty sings. Rap purists shrink in horror....
...‘Now’ is released on Virgin EMI on September 29 Photograph: Keith Mayhew...
...Credits: Decca, Universal Music, Virgin EMI...
...Credits: Elektra, King Tubby's Music, Virgin EMI...
...Jim James Eternally Even (Virgin EMI) Eternally Even finds My Morning Jacket’s singer Jim James getting political with songs about climate change and inequality....
...Metallica Hardwired . . . to Self-Destruct (Virgin EMI) Having appalled conservative fans with their wrongly maligned collaboration with Lou Reed, Lulu , Metallica return to safer territory on Hardwired...
...Emeli Sandé Long Live the Angels (Virgin EMI) Emeli Sandé’s debut Our Version of Events was the biggest selling album of the year in the UK in 2012 and the second biggest seller of 2013....
...Banks The Altar (Virgin EMI) The murky emotional material of Jillian Banks’s second album The Altar is clear from the opening track “Gemini Feed” in which the LA singer confronts a “passive-aggressive...
...Empire of the Sun Two Vines (Virgin EMI) Australian duo Empire of the Sun are known for their outlandish imagery. Live shows feature dancers dressed as swordfish....
...But the songs, less so....
...Credit: Rhino, Warner Brothers, Chrome Dreams, 4AD, Virgin EMI, Parlaphone UK, Virgin UK...
...Paul Simon Stranger to Stranger (Virgin EMI) Paul Simon’s 12th solo album is bookended by songs about night fears: not the sign of a senior statesman resting on his laurels....
...ABC The Lexicon of Love II (Virgin EMI) “Things get better second time round,” Martin Fry sang on ABC’s masterpiece The Lexicon of Love in 1982....
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