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Sheryl Crow featuring Sting
Always On Your Side
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Remember when Sheryl Crow wrote Stonesy rockers brimming with pop culture references like There Goes The Neighbourhood and If It Makes You Happy? Remember when the mere mention of Sting’s name didn’t bring you out in a cold sweat? Nah, we’re all too young for that. Always On Your Side - released to plug a reissue of Crow’s flop Wildflower album, last chance saloon-spotters - is a schmaltzy piano ballad rendered teeth-grinding by a horribly dated drum loop and some truly heinous lyrics. (Our pick: “You were always waiting to be picked to play the game, but when your name was called, you found a place to hide”). It’s like that decade-old tin of treacle you found in Auntie Ethel’s attic after she’d died: saccharine, gloopy and utterly stale.
Thank the Lord above that dreary old Sheryl Crow and her rubbish music isn't the only singer with a new single out this week. More singles reviews from Christina Milian, Lil' Kim, Angels & Airwaves, Morning Runner and The Like after the jump...
We're coming to the light at the end of our Eurovision Song Contest betting odds tunnel - and what a shockingly tacky light it is. Ugh! We've just seen Cheryl Baker's pants!All this Eurovision betting odds malarkey does have a point - the winner of Eurovision will take home some kind of Greek trophy - a fistful of kebab meat in a sock, as far as we know - and the comforting knowledge that they are up there with Katrina And The Waves, Abba and that transsexual Israeli. Heady stuff indeed.
Here are the latest Eurovision betting odds for Romania and Russia, with help from PaddyPower.com...
The Beta Band were a unique band. If they weren't making music for other bands to rip-off for greater monetary gain, they were giving their own albums such a pasting that nobody bought them.
But now Steve Mason - the one from The Beta Band with the monk voice - has branched out alone for good as King Biscuit Time, and his new album Black Gold is easily the equal to anything The Beta Band made, perhaps even better. It's just a shame that Steve seems to have buggered off right before Black Gold is released.
It's well known that anyone reviewing a Shack album is legally obliged to mention the band's troubled past, so let's begin there. In a nutshell, then: lost albums, studio fires, heroin addiction, Cast.
Now that's out of the way, we can turn our attention to ...The Corner Of Miles and Gil, the new album by Shack. It's a album by a trad Scouse band on Noel Gallagher's record label that was produced by one of Space, so it could easily be terrible. But it isn't - ...The Corner Of Miles And Gil is, in fact, a thing of outrageous beauty.
The 2006 Eurovision Song Contest is just days away now, and things are shaping up nicely. The dresses are appropriately tacky, the hosts are traditionally wooden and Terry Wogan is growling insults into a mirror as we speak.
So far, the details on each Eurovision routine haven't been disclosed. We know that the UK is doing that stupid schoolgirl dance, and we'd expect that - as usual - the girl who takes the most clothes off will win the contest. And we wouldn't want it any other way.
Here are the latest Eurovision betting odds for Poland and Portugal, with help from PaddyPower.com...
We've got something for you. That's right - Eurovision Song Contest betting odds. At 10.30 in the morning. Just like every other day. Surprised?The Eurovision Song Contest 2006 is being referred to as The Year Of The Rendez-Vous, since around 21 performers have already done the Eurovision thing in the past. And most - if not all of them - spectacularly failed to win. This is shaping up to be the worst Eurovision ever! Fantastic!!
Here are the latest Eurovision betting odds for the Netherlands and Norway, with help from PaddyPower.com...
Time for another Eurovision Song Contest betting odds explosion - where we try and pick the singers that will gurgle and shriek their way to Eurovision glory in Athens.Don't forget that there's a lot of fun to be had betting on the Eurovision Song Contest - it couldn't be simpler to do, and it could inspire a lifetime's worth of hatred for several European countries. And how often do you get to say that?
Here are the Eurovision betting odds for Moldova and Monaco, with help from PaddyPower.com...
The 2006 Eurovision Song Contest is continues to barge its way towards us like some kind of demented glitter tramp drunk on alcopops, and we're still doing our Eurovision betting odds.
This year, the Eurovision Song Contest will be held in Athens, a city where the soldiers wear frocks and metal shoes, kind of like pretty horses. Since Celine Dion has taken part in Eurovision, this is apt - after all, Celine Dion looks like a pretty horse. But not as pretty.
Here are the latest Eurovision Betting odds for Lithuania and Malta, with help from PaddyPower.com...
