Down About It

Down about it – Smudge Yeah, that’s right – SMUDGE! It is a measure of some reassurance and vindication that most of the Lemonheads best songs were written by someone else – usually an Australian and usually Tom Morgan. The alternative Adonis figurehead that is Evan Dando can have all the swoons and Rolling Stone [...]

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Pulp

Pulp – Smudge Still a great song. I once saw (and probably could still) Love, Lust and Lemonjuice in Red Eye Records, second hand, for $50; You, Me, Carpark…Now! for $100. As it had to be a pricing mistake, i went to the clerk to ask. A condescending “Yes…”, a scoff, justification for such outrageous [...]

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Pulp

Pulp – Smudge The best use of the word “pulp” in this household. What an amazing band Smudge were. They were just before my time, or at my earliest of times with all impediment of the misguided and inflexible tastes i had back then, but over the 5, 6, 7 years their brilliance finally reached [...]

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