Inkcap; Gathering Mushrooms

These rap artist types ask a lot of questions, don’t they? Take Timbaland, the great but uncommunicative rap artist who has made an impression on the R&B scene since the 1990s (NB. not to be confused with Timberland, who make hiking boots). He worked with Destiny’s Child on the song Get on the Bus taken [...]

I think the main, if not only, reason why The Beautiful South’s song How Long’s a Tear Take to Dry? only made it to number 12 in the UK singles chart is because they never got round to giving their poor audience an answer. This was in spite of the song having an awesome video, [...]

You remind me of the babe
What babe?
Babe with the power
What power?
Power of voodoo
Who do?
You do
Do what?
Remind me of the babe
And so on went the cyclical questioning in David Bowie’s Magic Dance, from Labyrinth. We all know how frustrating questioning loops can get (see Henry and Liza’s discourse about that godforesaken bucket), so I think it’s [...]

By 1999, Savage Garden weren’t just content to sit at the top of the Australian and US charts, steadily working their way towards selling 25,000,000 albums. Oh no, that clean-cut Austalian duo had had enough of the vacuous world of music making, and decided it was about time that they addressed some of the deep [...]