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As a 'in the dark, headphones n all' vinyl fan I totally agree that the art of music appreciation can so easily be lost to the ears of a flippant downloader. I totally hear Nick's point about flicking through an album on laptop speakers and straight away getting online to disect it - especially when this comes from an influencial journalistic source who other lazy critics may then borrow from and spread the misinformation like a plague. Example perhaps being Kaiser Cheifs, people on this site were perhaps prematurely commenting on how lame the lyrics to 'never miss a beat' are. Right or wrong, they missed the irony and although yeh maybe obvious, the point in jumping the gun.

I think all music fans have a moral responsibility not to abuse the ease of downloading, it is great to be able to try before you buy, as long as you do actually buy and support artists that have given you something. I once belonged to an infamous members only file sharing website via a friend's invitation, the one time i uploaded something that i had bought online was a new album by a well known lo-fi psych band. In uploading this i immediately got a bunch of angry comments from people saying the quality was shit and i should be 'suspended' from the site for a while for not adhering to the rules. I was docked ratio points.... fact of the matter is the album is lo-fi anyway and i figured beggers could't be choosers... I was wrong. Anyway, I quickly realised the kind of place i was in, theses people actually think they have a right to expect people to just provide them with top quality, free albums for trade like some horrible black market without consequence. Its like a bad white collar crime commune, too much ignorance to regular society so i got out fast. Some friends who are a part of this network won't hear me out, they think its about give and take therefore fair, that downloading and uploading ratios make it fair, some buy records and understand the artists predicament but a lot don't even consider the artist in the matter at all and only consider the ratio. It is clear to me that people are never gonna be uniformly morally responsible enough to give the artists the respect and money they deserve for their art, therefore some kind of law is (regretably) needed.

Definately a complex issue.

the show was very no frills, basic and nothing really special happening on stage. I don't know how true this is but perhaps the reason why??

you're right, its brilliant, so foul and cosy at the same time!

awesome, also The Lilys doing Nanny in Manhatten on TOTP was pretty memorable

Especially for the Whistle Test possiblities. All depends on how much they are charging tho...

a decent review. After listening to the leaked Atlas Sound - Logo's album there's no doubt that Bradford should be remembered in this generations iconic influences - awesome.

relatively free thinking and liberal country is getting more and more ridiculous, this is insane! I think Malay Minister of Health Chua Soi Lek exposed the Malay public to far more graphic indecency with his sex tape earlier in the year

talk about Fuck Buttons without describing them as being like *insert highly subjective/personal/indulgent metaphor here*? So overrated!

is a tool anyway

absolutely rule - every track of theirs i've managed to get hold of is 60's psych at its finest. Good call on the Robert Wyatt too.

half of the new album. I may be alone but i like Courtney's more recent freeflow Lou reed esque songcraft style as heard on 'Welcome to the Third World' - warrants more listens. Wasp in the Lotus is a killer new album track too although so far i'm not as keen on the second half of the album.

Found it to be a suprising slow grower of an album that sounds like it should be much more immediate. More lastability and interest than the last Animal Collective record. Barnacle Goose is the shit.

- if there isn't a bad track on the album, why a 6? Every song is a winner and it has consistency. A really solid psyche garage pop album in my book, more fun than introspective.

coz i wanted to hear what Science was up to!

to them but i think they're f'in brilliant...Badadonkey and Barnacle Goose being proof. I think seein' em live changed everything for me.

did

Polvo, they were pretty damn good even if their stage presence was a bit subdued

be a manchester date there...

about black poverty over happy hardcore beats...i might have to let that one slip. Still its different, i doubt scooter is clued on that life like Nas.

i totally disagree, it is a better album than the last one in that it is much more of a grower and is so much more dense. Bad review.

pretty cool...there is hope once more

is pretty darn weak, primary school disco fodder at best - like a really bad Liam Gallagher Oasis song. Then again the new Kooks single is pretty tosh, not sure which is worse...

of children...

that is shaping up to be an ace time

manchester date if anyone'd be interested in comin'

release...Mercury is awesome

the word now?! its been reclaimed and reborn so why hide from it! 50 Cent is a tool if he thinks rappers are using it for shock value. Hope at least one Wu member speaks up about this...

60's stylee

getting across not *illustrating

a bit there, bit of sarcasm, i wouldn't take too much offence. I am also mixed race and know how god damn annoying that would be if Kev was serious but if you read on he's illustrating the point that Noel Gallagher may as well come out and say it, that its a festival for 'pure white bred' rock stars, music that wasn't born out of black music at all!!! ....Mixed race makes all sense!!

i gotta say (apologies if i offend anyone) depending on how you define hip hop, the Beasties is kinda weak, cool beats but vocally pretty poor. I really hope this is not a black / white thing going on with all this backlash but either way Kanye would have been a much smarter move, even if Jay-Z is pretty family friendly these days...Would love for Snoop to some how erupt onto the bill, even tho he's banned.

the greatest hip hop artist but still he'll colour the lineup and bring a bit of diversity to the usual new and aging pop rock acts, thought glasto was meant to be about diversity and suprises anyway? Plus how many people in the UK love Jay-Z? He charts well and will no doubt put on a big show. Noel Gallagher gets more and more grumpy old man everytime i read about him! sometimes comically offensive and sometimes just plain offensive - plus his hair become more and more like an elderly ladies buffon every time i see him

its a pretty darn good album

west of the fields is classic REM

brooker would go for it! He rips on this kinda thing enough plus his attitude to that kind of public eye dating means he probably wouldn't allow himself even if he wanted to. Who knows but what a weird story!

problem is with these guys, for me this interview doesn't paint them grumpy, just realistic and insightful compared to the modern day indie rock community. Its refreshing that UK indie rock still has bands like this floating around the mainstream.

a fair review, but a bit cocky. Sure the record doesn't have amazing lastability, that is true but to claim that it may have been written without emotion and is 'calculated' is a bit much. Even if your own personal gut feeling tells you that, does a reviewer have the right to tell an artist that he is faking emotion / his heart isn't in it? Emotion on record can surely be calculated as much as anything else, its all subjective. Infact for me its refreshing that its not overly emoting all over the place. The review does makes sense, just crosses that boundary a bit

is like a progression of the cure i'd rather Robert Smith didn't take, but Yoni pulls it off brilliantly. Come see the Manchester Why? show 6th June! www.ticketline.co.uk