Jimmy Martin
@jimmygila.bsky.social
Teeth Of The Sea, Angel Witch, Miranda Sex Garden, Flashback, Supernormal, "my brain hurt like a warehouse, it had no room to spare"
He has a habit of making disingenuous arguments along the lines of ‘The Sound Of Music should be seen as more culturally important than Sgt Pepper as it sold many more copies’ - even on face value not an original viewpoint yet he hammers it into the ground.
November 15, 2025 at 9:13 PM
He has a habit of making disingenuous arguments along the lines of ‘The Sound Of Music should be seen as more culturally important than Sgt Pepper as it sold many more copies’ - even on face value not an original viewpoint yet he hammers it into the ground.
Big fan of the rakish angle on Philthy's titfer here
November 15, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Big fan of the rakish angle on Philthy's titfer here
Very odd omission especially given how much Little Mix feature. Fair enough they probably couldn't get any interviews but weird not to even be mentioned in passing.
November 15, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Very odd omission especially given how much Little Mix feature. Fair enough they probably couldn't get any interviews but weird not to even be mentioned in passing.
Curious to know yr thoughts on these docs when you've watched 'em btw, particularly any pedantic bugbears. (Mine for the record is despite Heidi Range being a talking head her earlier 9 month stint in Atomic Kitten isn't mentioned once - no idea why)
November 15, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Curious to know yr thoughts on these docs when you've watched 'em btw, particularly any pedantic bugbears. (Mine for the record is despite Heidi Range being a talking head her earlier 9 month stint in Atomic Kitten isn't mentioned once - no idea why)
The Goonies. Not seeing it between the ages of 5 and 12 made me stubbornly resistant to the shrieking, wisecracking and yowling
November 14, 2025 at 3:51 PM
The Goonies. Not seeing it between the ages of 5 and 12 made me stubbornly resistant to the shrieking, wisecracking and yowling
Beginning to wonder if "Daniel Hannan" is some kind of performance art project that got out of hand
November 13, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Beginning to wonder if "Daniel Hannan" is some kind of performance art project that got out of hand
This is another one, on every Wiki page of a big movie. Completely meaningless.
November 12, 2025 at 3:18 PM
This is another one, on every Wiki page of a big movie. Completely meaningless.
My most infuriating bug-bear is The Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame. Nowhere in Rock & Roll have I been confronted by something I care about less. Why the rabid fascination with establishment validation for a supposedly rebellious art form?
November 12, 2025 at 3:16 PM
My most infuriating bug-bear is The Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame. Nowhere in Rock & Roll have I been confronted by something I care about less. Why the rabid fascination with establishment validation for a supposedly rebellious art form?
Can imagine that there might have been something refreshing about this stuff when compared to, say, All-American Rejects or w/e. I had an Aussie friend in 2003ish who felt similar.
November 12, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Can imagine that there might have been something refreshing about this stuff when compared to, say, All-American Rejects or w/e. I had an Aussie friend in 2003ish who felt similar.
The Oasis tune? It’s not the worst but I struggle with Noel’s busker’s bellow. The best Oasis song is Supersonic imo tbh. All downhill from there!
November 11, 2025 at 11:07 PM
The Oasis tune? It’s not the worst but I struggle with Noel’s busker’s bellow. The best Oasis song is Supersonic imo tbh. All downhill from there!
It was. And I reckon it is!
November 11, 2025 at 10:51 PM
It was. And I reckon it is!
The devil's advocate would suggest that every band - no matter how ropey - has one 'best song' and The Libertines' would be Don't Look Back Into The Sun - even this one however sounds like a drunk time travelling skiffle musician blundering through a cover of Another Girl Another Planet
November 11, 2025 at 10:26 PM
The devil's advocate would suggest that every band - no matter how ropey - has one 'best song' and The Libertines' would be Don't Look Back Into The Sun - even this one however sounds like a drunk time travelling skiffle musician blundering through a cover of Another Girl Another Planet
Again as Luke says above, the cultural references were very on-point! Just the songs were rubbish, that simple. White Stripes and Hives both better bands x100.
November 11, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Again as Luke says above, the cultural references were very on-point! Just the songs were rubbish, that simple. White Stripes and Hives both better bands x100.
The Strokes certainly eked a quarter century career out of six months of excitement. WS and FF are in a different league to The Libertines imo though- sloppy musicianship is not a sin in itself, it was the combo of tawdry cliched debauchery and ropey half-written songs that did some of us in.
November 11, 2025 at 10:01 PM
The Strokes certainly eked a quarter century career out of six months of excitement. WS and FF are in a different league to The Libertines imo though- sloppy musicianship is not a sin in itself, it was the combo of tawdry cliched debauchery and ropey half-written songs that did some of us in.
Baffling in retrospect.
November 11, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Baffling in retrospect.
It’s good! Nice to see Mis-teeq (a great band yet to reform conversely) getting their dues.
November 11, 2025 at 8:38 PM
It’s good! Nice to see Mis-teeq (a great band yet to reform conversely) getting their dues.
Worth noting here also that the 50something former hardcore kid contingent of my social circle has been going crazy in the last couple of weeks about the new stuff by Shudder To Think
November 11, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Worth noting here also that the 50something former hardcore kid contingent of my social circle has been going crazy in the last couple of weeks about the new stuff by Shudder To Think
There are a lot of cynical reformations tbf! And bands who make duff records. Mentioning no names (Pixies)
November 11, 2025 at 8:31 PM
There are a lot of cynical reformations tbf! And bands who make duff records. Mentioning no names (Pixies)
I’m sure you watched the same BBC doc I did recently Ian and this ‘rediscovering the joy of performing’ aspect did seem to transcend the narrative near the end. Sugababes Glastonbury shows were nuts in a way that went beyond nostalgia.
November 11, 2025 at 8:30 PM
I’m sure you watched the same BBC doc I did recently Ian and this ‘rediscovering the joy of performing’ aspect did seem to transcend the narrative near the end. Sugababes Glastonbury shows were nuts in a way that went beyond nostalgia.
Honestly feel like someone as supposedly open minded as Byrne has developed this rather reductive doomer argument fuelled by his annoyance at being perpetually asked about Talking Heads all the time.
November 11, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Honestly feel like someone as supposedly open minded as Byrne has developed this rather reductive doomer argument fuelled by his annoyance at being perpetually asked about Talking Heads all the time.
Might not make sense to non-metalheads but the 2006- incarnation of Celtic Frost was an insanely vibrant and forward thinking phenomenon - Monotheist, the album they made, took the original spirit and pushed it way beyond.
November 11, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Might not make sense to non-metalheads but the 2006- incarnation of Celtic Frost was an insanely vibrant and forward thinking phenomenon - Monotheist, the album they made, took the original spirit and pushed it way beyond.
Slowdive I’d agree are by far the wildest example, a band who couldn’t get arrested towards the end of their original run eclipsing all their peers and attracting a much younger audience. Souvlaki is now the 39th most popular album *ever* on rateyourmusic!
November 11, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Slowdive I’d agree are by far the wildest example, a band who couldn’t get arrested towards the end of their original run eclipsing all their peers and attracting a much younger audience. Souvlaki is now the 39th most popular album *ever* on rateyourmusic!
Wonder what the US perception of The Libertines is? I'd imagine they barely register, in that Stone Roses-playing-to-an-empty-field-at-Coachella kind of way but hard to verify
November 11, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Wonder what the US perception of The Libertines is? I'd imagine they barely register, in that Stone Roses-playing-to-an-empty-field-at-Coachella kind of way but hard to verify