Getting wrapped up in something on the internet to the point of running out of time elsewhere is inherently silly, and yet after a huge splurge in traffic at my other blog Bad Cover Versions, it’s exactly what I’ve done today.

So this post is a little curtailed, and I apologise profusely. Look on the bright side: perhaps this time the music itself will do the talking, as opposed performing tricks in the background, trying to grab your attention from my incoherent jabbering.

And what a song to choose to showcase in such rarefied environs. Apparently Aerials Up…

Doctoring the ANBAD Donkey picture has now become the highlight of my week. I think I need to realign my priorities.

Still, here’s the final World Cup-related picture for four long years, and what wonderful synchronicity that Nigel de Jong’s joke tackle in the World Cup Final was a picture-perfect shoe-in for some DONKEY VENGEANCE.

Still. MIXTAPE!

FIRST! Superhumanoids have made a bundle of slow-burning songs that might make your hairs prick up. How they program robots to do that I don’t know. Persona is an iron robo-fist enveloped in a velvet glove – understated, shimmering, cool.…

Hey, remember the fuss about the proposed closure of BBC 6Music? No, neither do I.

But plenty were enraged at the time. A fuss was splurged all over Twitter; tiny, ironically hi-topped, feet were stamped; and online petitions – the world’s least-regarded form of complaint – were clicked.

I am pleased at this volte-face, not least because it makes BBC grand fromage Tim Davie look just like the hopeless cretin that one 6Music DJ memorably described him as to me.

Moreover, it presents me with a readily-seized opportunity for smugness, as my wildly hopeful…

Today we celebrate the life of a girl group. In doing so, we also mourn their death.

ANBAD is in the useful and happy position of almost wholly writing positive words about bands and music, so allow me a rare, and brief, foray into negativity*. It is for good reason – an example, a lesson – for new bands on what not to do next.

The Pipettes are – were – my favourite girl group. Listen to their (old) bright, sharp and bold sound and you’ll quickly see why. Smart and fun, sexy and strong, retro without…

Nicking bits from other people’s songs is just fine by me. Countless bands get their knickers in a twist over it – Google “Elastica + Wire + lawsuit” for breathtaking examples of wholesale riff-stealing – but such re-appropriation could just as easily be passed off as a charming pastiche, right?

I’ll give Light Pollution the benefit of the doubt, and say that their use of a familiar drumbeat is mere coincidence. And let’s face it, stealing the drumbeat from Be My Baby for their song Drunk Kids is no crime. It never did the Jesus And Mary Chain any harm…

My online French teacher told me that it was OK, and that means it is true.

She said that learning a foreign language can take whatever form I like – and so, with a staggeringly unoriginal non-deviation from my usual routine, I used this as an opportunity to listen to lots of French language bands.

So imagine my slight disappointment when I later discovered that this is recognised as a great way to learn. That’s not fair! I’m trying to be different, OK, not one of the herd.

Still, before I abandoned this approach as - pah! –

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Boring ANBAD Donkey t0day. He’s all out of footballers to mock. This one is what advertising people would call ANBAD Donkey Classic.

Here’s a really good mixtape though, not like all those rubbish ones that have cluttered up your life in the past.

FIRST! Love Ends Disaster – I’m going to be frank: there are moments when I wholly wavered whilst listening to Love Ends Disaster. There are times when City Of Glass Cowboys appears to be heading down the MOR safety-first route, like – hell – Keane. But every time, the band snatch the song back from…