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That’s exactly what also happened with Romo though! In both cases a journo or two sticking their neck out and the paper quickly backtracking

Bros have let themselves go a bit

I think of Tiger as being the NME equivalent of Romo in the Melody Maker, this “we have to define what comes after Britpop!!” attempt when the answer the readers actually wanted was “more worse Britpop”

Vote and bonus today both went to Brazil, albeit very different flavours of Brazil

Paula Cole was a big “oh THAT’S who that song is“ moment, happy to have that sorted I think as I instantly vote for Busta Rhymes

That is kind of what they’re doing with the Absolute line (to enormous success) but of course they’re already promising a Crisis involving that

Final set of Round 1 polls! As we started with the most streamed song in the poll (Spice Girls) we end with the tiniest (Pullover)

Trinidadian-British!

I think the other thing is that when their stuff comes up in the polls they make no converts. Billy Ocean, a British guy doing US style music, won a golden beat! I don't think I've ever seen anyone who didn't already know them going "wow" over an MSP song, which I'm sure says something!

This countdown turns out to be like a John Peel Festive 50 where there's lots of variety and then the top end is entirely The Fall

This is a perfect comparison lol

The most interesting thing to me about the US reaction to Oasis is that the very big "Definitely Maybe is the best" faction here seems almost non-existent there

One of the interesting things about this for me is that the "good at comics" and "good at events" axes correlate but not totally - Shooter and Lobdell are writers for whom big events bring out their best, whereas there are lots of people whose event(s) are very low down the list of their good stuff

Yeah Waid is involved, Hama writes Weapon X, Loeb does X-Man, Nicieza does a lot, the hands on the tiller are Lobdell and Harras tho

They're not even a "didn't travel" band like the Jam or the Stone Roses (though they didn't) - over here there's everything from idolising to despising them but also a keen sense of the different phases of what they did and from outside it looks like absolute narcissism of small differences

Don't think there's a UK band which inspires such a variety of opinions among Brits and such uniformity of opinions among Americans (mostly 'shrug') as the Manic Street Preachers

No - I decided that doing all the tie ins yourself rules it out (same kind of deal with HoXPoX) - with 7S there was the extra consideration that it would be my #1 and I liked not knowing what that was!

When the interviewer asks how sure you are of finishing it

An incredibly square cop too

I think so, I’ve always assumed that he was trying to use that weird device to jump earths and ends up dying cos they aren’t there any more