ninetyeightytwo

Is a museum of analogue electronic instruments. I believe the Sisters of Transistors are curators, or something. I've never found it.

Excellent debut, follow up sounded so shallow by comparison with a genuinely unlistenable opening track.

Goldfrapp were another band to ditch everything that made them wonderful for a couple of albums of synth horrors, but they more than made up for it with that last album. Therefore, if this is as lazy as the preview makes it out to be, I'll give them one more chance. If they've "done a Goldfrapp" once, they can do it again.

Or, because there's only so much beery indie rock one can take before things get a bit stale.

Glastonbury will be better.

What an uncompromisingly cynical review.

Didn't even know that DiS had a record label.

I'll be over here.

Love Keane. Didn't appreciate at all that little dig at the end. Don't like Snow Patrol? Don't like Keane? Don't listen to them. It's that simple and it's easier than ever.

Why is Martha Wainwright described as "DiS's own"? I hate how there are musicians it's ok to like and musicians whose very existence has to be justified.

So refreshing. Should've seen the Guardian Guide's review of Brother Sport. Extremely lazy. Song's got electronic elements, so they liken it to Aphex Twin. Song's got vocal harmonies, so Brian Wilson's evoked. Song sounds vaguely "world", so (ahaha) Ladysmith Black Mambazo are mentioned. Ends by saying that it's "empty". Which is, obviously, to ignore the lyrics completely. Obviously, then, the product of one half-arsed listen.

*This* is how to do it. I wouldn't care in the slightest were it a negative review (of course I wouldn't). Were the tirade as eloquent and passionate as this, it would be equally as worthy. I'm just fed up with reviews written by people who either aren't listening or are listening for the wrong reasons.

Their set was delayed by about forty minutes - that couldn't go unmentioned!

The worst thing is, he's said that "like all creative musicians", he's not a fan of Radiohead - as if to suggest that anybody who holds them in any esteem is somehow lacking.

Probably won't be alienating any of his fanbase. It's not as if people who like Radiohead will also like The Fiery Furnaces.

Virtuosos of music and word who happen to be funny.

- to make the conclusion of an assessment a likening to a band to whom you profess having never listened. Very bad form indeed. Worse than when an associate of mine described MGMT as a "Komakino rip-off".

- the music will remain, the review will be but a distant memory. Who ever remembers reviews anyway? The only reviews that are in any way guaranteed an iota of immortality are those "misinformed mistakes" - terrible reviews of things now regarded as classics. The Dark Side of The Moon was, for example, almost universally panned upon release. (Cue tedious and predictable onslaught of "and it remains universally panned to this day" comments - or whatever).

The point is, a review is but one person's opinion and is, therefore, completely and utterly irrelevant. It's the music that counts, and the notion that people might still want to listen once the buzz has died down. In regards to Mumford and Sons - I think they will.

The comments for most reviews on DiS read simply "good review, I do, of course, agree". Nice to finally see that the opinions of the reviewers aren't viewed as canon.

...They've been playing Manchester since about 2006 and my girlfriend owns an EP...

...but I remember late one night finding myself in a state of deep and solemn contemplation all woozy with wine. Things of recent hadn't exactly been going my way, when all of a sudden History came on the radio. I wasn't all too familiar with the song at the time, but the opening strings just grabbed me and wouldn't let go for the following five minutes. Basically, like nothing else could at that moment, that song spoke to me and moved me to tears. I was made painfully aware of the redemptive life-affirming qualities of music.

...yeah, essentially, it's a song that carries enough gravitas to REALLY move some people. Evidently you're not one of those people, but that's cool, isn't it? Music speaks differently to everybody.

I must hear this.

...and indeed, with Hvarf/Heim?

I found them both utterly compelling. I can concede as to why people may have been disillusioned with Hvarf/Heim on initial release, but now that it's available as a budget release (most places are selling it for about £5) the music can be listened to without the attached stigma of "what's the point?", and it's absolutely glorious.

And Takk. Takk! That was most definitely for me the single greatest release of 2005.

If Sonic Cathedral had any sense of decency they'd release the new Engineers album!

That would entail that Radiohead would have to travel from Iceland to Manchester in the space of a day! It takes four days to get from Iceland to Manchester!

What did the person look like?

Every time I see a fountain surrounded by smaller fountains I think of Oscar Wilde. The big fountain is boastful but will one day stop working which will give the smaller fountains some time to shine.

I knew a clown once but he died.

His name was Pepe. He had an assistant called Billy, who died a couple of years earlier, reducing his double act to a single.

Nobody came to his funeral. He died poor and lonely whilst wearing makeup. They suspect suicide, as he was found dead with his head in a gas oven. There was a note written on the kitchen wall in makeup. It read "Nobody's laughing anymore".