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or the m.i.a diss either. still this is a joyful record i love it.

if it wasn't for the beard in that picture he would look like a 14 year old boy.

who's comment is odious

is pretty hilarious

sound was pretty bad though i couldn't really even hear anything. but still i enjoyed it!

but more american and more better. elbow are quite good though.

i'm so fucking indie

oh dear

the word 'progress' suggests a development in sound and also an improvement in quality over time. obvs bloc party's sound is now different to silent alarm, for this i applaud them, BUT THIS IS ABSOLUTE SHIT!! to suggest that people who don't like it are just unthinking luddites is completely missing the point!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyPMrGGoNTI

lollapalooza indeed

i have a soft spot for the killers, in all probability i wouldn't buy a record by them, but considering how big they are they could easily be a whole lot shitter. they have some cracking little toons in the back-catalogue.

YEAH!

his face at 5:05 is classic, 'this is just noise'

the verve

hmmm i don't know how i feel about that.

it's pretty lovely.

still it has nothing on almost all bright eyes records though.

was v close between that and Kala.

also, hurrah for the non-representation of los campesinos and frightened rabbit!

they're fucking shite.

you're right about dan le sac.. though, god it's shit.

the first day of my life video is so american-twee i love it.

aside from this qualm, i'm excited!

would probably say they have a better chance of getting on there than Johnny Foreigner or Frightened Rabbit tbh, thank god.

I think the prices are probably too high - too high for me to want to go to the o2 even if it is Leonard Cohen - but that is the price you're going to have to pay to see someone of this stature. Dylan prices pretty much the same, wasn't the Radiohead gig at Victoria Park £40? I hate to use the term but that's the kind of 'market' we're talking about.

In an ideal world Leonard Cohen would be playing at the Old Blue Last every Friday night for £10 a ticket, but that's never going to happen.

I doubt that the artists in question have much power to charge what they want etc. Particularly if they are playing the kind of huge monstrosities that Cohen is doing on this tour. I would presume that those types of decisions are made by the venue themselves, his tour managers/label etc. That's not to say that he wouldn't have some kind of say over things, but really I think it would be pretty limited.

With regards to 'the fans' thing I really think that's a non-starter. It's not as if 'the fans' have elevated him to this position through sheer force of goodwill. The simple fact is that people like Leonard Cohen and Tom Waits are basically the creme de la creme of music and that is legitimately the kind of price that one should expect to pay.

Word Gets Around - what an album

even though they are ABSOLUTE SHIT

it's so annoying! what cretin is booking this tour for him? are they like deliberately booking the most souless places they possibly can? or just where pays the most? :(

WHAT IS IT WITH THE FUCKING O2??!

really really bad. I usually like 'strange' voices but alas.

a 15 track opus!!

i liked the art of fiction but i'm not sure i'm digging this..

Monkey bastard hands!

but since that they have been utter shite. fair play to them for trying to 'develop' their sound etc, but it just hasn't worked. the musicianship is poor, and the less said about his lyrics the better.

having said that it would obv be wrong to simply 'go back' to doing what they did circa-2004.

perhaps they should just give up?

i really thought his first record was wonderful.

yeah

literally cannot wait to hear this! without doubt one of my favourite bands of my lifetime.

ouch

Maverick A Strike was one of the first records I ever bought! good times!

boo to Times New Viking though. it's just poor. it's like they thought 'wouldn't it be cool if we wrote a load of pop songs and covered it all in a thick layer of distortion to demonstrate just how idiosyncratic we are', they are boring!

generally a nice list though. the lack of vampire weekend is disappointing, would personally also have mentioned the dodos record, nick cave, and possibly even adam green somewhere along the line.

minus the wild beasts part