t h e h a t l i s t

September 01

Stick these in yer pipe and smoke ‘em THE WHITE STRIPES: ‘White Blood Cells’ - Blues so raw you’d need to soak it overnight and boil it for an hour just to stop it ripping your innards to shreds when you ate it. Led Zep meets James Brown at Robert Johnson’s crossroads. Yowsa. RIDE: ‘OX4 - The Best Of’ - You got that? The best of Ride. That’s all the information you need. THE ROCK OF TRAVOLTA: ‘I Love It When A Plan Comes Together (Nu-Skool Monks Mix)’ - The Rock get the dance makeover with unsurprisingly splendid results. MAGOO: ‘Realist Week’ - Norfolk’s psychedelic spiral heads take a mellower route to the heart of the sun, but still as hot as ever. THE CHAMELEONS: ‘Why Call It Anything’ - The return of the rock roughnecks - gorgeous, glorious gothic pop from the band who influenced everyone from Ride to Oasis and proof that you can disappear for ten years and still come back sounding as fresh as ever. KAITO: ‘You’ve Seen Us… You Must Have Seen Us’ - Proof that girl-fronted indie pop as a genre is not dead in the water but still more than capable of sticking handfuls of red-hot sewing needles up your complacency. THE REINDEER SECTION: ‘Y’all Get Scared Now, Ya hear!’ - 16-strong Scottish music collective featuring assorted lo-fi types doing the morbid alt-country thang to occasionally magical effect. Not exactly the So Solid Crew, and thank the Lord for that. TV ONE: Demo - Spacemen 3 acolytes, long since thought dead, back from the swirling sonic grave with more cyclic psychedelia. MO*HO*BI*SHO*PI: ‘Vague Us’ - Wales’ synth-fuzz crazies finally deliver the debut album we’ve been waiting for. And are we impressed? Oh yes we are. THE SHATLIST Stick these up yer arse and fuck off while DAVID GRAY: ‘White Ladder’ - As seen on TV with that annoying couple getting divorced. Well come on, wouldn’t you divorce your partner if they liked David Gray? PEPPERCORN: ‘Free Love’ - The New Tracy Chapman! Just what the world fucking needs. Welcome to the 21st Century! BEN & JASON: ‘Ten Songs About You’ - The New David Gray! Whoop whoop whoop! Oh look, we’ve pooed ourselves with sheer excitement. ALISHA’S ATTIC: ‘The House We Built’ - The New Wave of New Simpering Fifth-Rate Joni Mitchell bollocks. MELISSA ETHERIDGE: ‘Skin’ - The new shit on a stick. Haven’t you retired yet? SUM 41: ‘All Killer, No Filler’ - The New Blink 182! Aaaaaagh!!!! Jesus fucking Christ!!!!! THE QUIREBOYS: ‘This is Rock’n’roll’ - No, this is shit.