benrith

thing is pretty pathetic. Just send the message to it's recipient and be done with it.

at the Brum Bar Academy the same night that Death Cab for Cutie are playing in the main Academy next door? Error.

it's actually more like "I had the time of my life" from Dirty Dancing.

is really reminscent of the Baywatch theme tune.

danger of your theory being tested anytime soon though eh?

he snapped the turkey's neck like a twig between his thumb and forefinger.

"I wanna be a soldier who a captain on some sinking ship would stow far below"

is pretty wretched no?

lets all have a fight to see who loves music and hates racism more!

= me increasingly glad about my Glasto ticket.

I've been waiting for it since about last July.

it's genuinely really good then.

I'm stunned.

get hold of this album anywhere in Birmingham? Is it only available on import at the mo, or is Birmingham just rubbish?

= typical Myspace user? Worrying.

until you're hopping about on the back patio trying to clean off some dog poo with a hose and a stick.

that I was objecting to.

always come from The Sun newspaper? I never used to have them down as tabloid fodder.

is a massively innaccurate description of The Thermals' music. Also, I'm guessing from what you've written that you meant to give The Thermals 4 and The Cribs 7.

although it's about a year and a half since I first heard it - new material soon surely?

Also, isn't the line "At every occasion I'll be ready for the funeral"?

roll on being at home!

my first thought was honestly "I wonder what Someone Still Loves You Boris Johnson will do". I'm not sure what that says about me/him/them, but hey.

Last time I checked it was illegal to piss on someone without their consent.

with that out of context headline quote. Very tabloid.

is Brian a relation of Jimmy?

James Mercer is such a dude.

Coxon and Albarn were clearly pulling in opposite directions after 13. Graham Coxon was clearly happiest on the self titled album and wanted to drench everything in distorted guitar (as he has done with his solo stuff), where as Albarn wanted to move on to the more "world music" inspired sound of Think Tank, Gorrillaz and TGTBATQ. You can't really have a definative encapsulation of Blur's sound, because the most interesting thing about them was how they morphed over the years.

(which they weren't), wouldn't that hit be Slight Return rather than Bluetonic? Besides, I remember their first album being rather well like and respected at the time.

but he could just not bother to publish a whole three paragraphs dissing it, when the gist is "your singer is a sell out and I don't like your bland, overproduced ska".

e.g. if I die in a car accident - In The Backseat by The Arcade Fire, if I die in a house fire - Burning Down The House by Talking Heads etc...

Self indulgent - yes
Tearjerking - yes
Swearing in a house of God - oh yes!

Blunt clearly wrote that song about a Dorset farmer.

Also "Gone are the dirges of yore" - how ironic.

Radiohead - Kid A
Death Cab For Cutie - Transatlanticism
Eels - Daisys of the Galaxy
The Shins - Chutes Too Narrow
The National - Alligator
Million Dead - A Song To Ruin

Maybe not all "the best", but definitely the albums that I come back to time and time again.

would you like to see on the album. For me:

Videotape
Arpeggi
15 Step

Bangers 'n'Mash and Bodysnatchers on the other hand are properly shit from what I recall.

Yes it is.

They played it on XFM just after they reported that he had died, while I was listening on a portable radio at Kings Cross. I nearly cried in public.

and have another listen. I liked it quite a lot at the time, although it veers dangerously between cheerful pop brilliance and being properly cheesy.

in a land of no CD players and get back to Birmingham on Friday night. I will be watching Cursive the following night. That gives me 24 hours to fall in love with these songs!

I love Seven Swans and Illinois and this album ain't half bad for "also rans".

OK, Skip Divided is none too great, but the rest just keep growing on me. The track which has reallyh crept up on me over the last few days is Cymbal Rush - it's frankly awesome.

and only really love Blue. I'll not be too sad to see them go, but they soundtracked my summer once upon a time when I was 15, so I'll always have that to thank them for.

please use those as standard - it's a very good idea.

I've just accepted a job in Birmingham - this will make a fine start to proceedings.

but it's going to have a rubbish ending.

on Plans is more let down by the composition and instrumentation than Ben's lyrics and vocals, so there is no reason that to believe that a new Postal Service album won't be of a very high standard.

just a general anti-war sentiment.

o his last two albums and only one or two on Lifted... When The President Talks to God is the only example that immediately springs to mind.