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The Banana Wrote
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The Banana Wrote is a sometimes slightly sideways, sometimes slightly off kilter look at what's happening in music today. Focusing primarily on rock, it's a mixture of opinion and reviews, matched with iconoclastic, polemic commentary.
Recent Posts
Smashing Pumpkins Release New Tune
We all know Corgan is as mad as a box of frogs, and his latest crackpot project is beginning to come fruition. And here it is......
Howard Devoto O\'Brien
Ok, watching Jools Holland on Auntie 2, and being kinda freaked out by Howard Devoto and Magazine. Is it me, or is he a fat incarnation of Richard O'Brien?Spooky shit huh?....
The Worst Guitar Solo Of All Time
Sometimes you just gotta wonder:.a: how did this idiot get signed?b: who signed him?c: who the hell would pay to see him play?d: what the fucking point is?e: where did all the talented musicians go?f: could my arse have done better? Ok I can answer t...
The Soundtrack To Your Dinner
Why is it so damned hard to match dinner and music together? You try to add a little jazz to proceeding's, a touch of Herbie Hancock, but then it becomes too much like the Culture Show. Classical music is for people into classical music, so that can ...
Tied To The Nineties
PEARL JAM, ALICE IN CHAINS & DINOSAUR JR rejuvenate the long lost 90s. . .It's not very often you get the chance to take a great big step back in time, to revisit the youth you miss so much, revere the icons of that time again, basically just fee...
Further Proof Brandon Flowers Is An Idiot
Celbrities have long had a strange penchant for giving their offspring stupid names. Peaches Geldof. Apple Martin. Moon Unit Zappa. Daisy Boo Oliver. Princess Tiamii Andre. Prince Michael II 'Blanket' Jackson. The list is extensive. And now joining t...

