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None of the crowd though, perhaps unsurprisingly...

I couldn't help notice that you seem to quite like My Vitriol and not quite fully adore FOTL.

We need to have words...

well... crap?

I expect my LastFM chart to be rather one sided this May.

Website worked fine for me? I hope this does well for them. I'm tired of seeing great British bands I love over the years struggle when they are yet another in a long line of those who quite blatantly shit over 95% of what the rest of the world produces...

For 5 albums you could pick up in HMV for £20?

Hmmm....

So agree with your 7/10 wholeheartedly

With some extras on top

Its not going to be them on stage with lots of people from that record doing covers is it?

I was hoping for the full National treatment...

I loved Chromophobia...

And Batman. The guy is a hero of mine already, but this...?

I really want that childens book commissioned. Make it happen DiS!

You never went to Underground then at Mojo's, or those great drum n bass nights at the Waterfront my friend...

That debut was very good indeedy

Especially as the guy who gave me my initial copy of it, put an Au Pairs best of on the B-side...

I love all of his records and comps (though I haven't heard 'This films crap...").

Read a great interview with him once where he was asked what he did with all the money he'd made from doing the Oceans 11 OST. Supposedly, he went out and spent it on all the records that he hadn't been able to afford at that point.

I'd love to rummage through this mans vinyl collection...

'Tangled up' wasn't on the shortlist...

Nah, can't be arsed.

Well done I guess to all of you that like it. Remember to change your damp sheets though when you get home...

to do Falco's laundry

And haven't seen them before. But they were pretty bloody fucking amazing from what I could see...

include the word "Underworld"

So that piece up there is actually libelous....

About why Arab Strap are the single most amazing band ever, then drop me a line and I'm all over it

that Saturdays highlights were few and far between, but you really should have checked out Model 500 and Carl Craig. Great stuff.

Also... if you were watching RATM from the side of the stage with the other journalists, then I'm not surprised you failed to enjoy it. Should have been down the front with me

That what's known as inevitably, surely?

was at ULU, 3 days after I realised that 'Alligator' wasn't actually mediocre as initially suspected (something I felt might be down to having only listened to that record solely for 3 weeks solid).

It was the best gig I ever went to. The guy i was with and I both ended up crying tears of semi-joy / pain. Honest to God.

I never saw what the fuss was about. So glad I did just in time to see that show

Look at the festival's name:

ZOO8

At the most they can do a ZOO9, then they're screwed. Because as Chris Morris will tell you, "10 into ZOO won't go..."

I love Moaner. It destroyed the Roundhouse. The last 2 albums were patchy. They're still in a league of their own, even at their age.

When they played that 6 minute noise freakout from "Second toughest..." at the Roundhouse, 'Rowla', I nearly creamed my pants.

we've all had the benefit of digesting and refining our thoughts about for the best part of a decade

I haven't heard this record, so you may well be right. Though I'm pretty sure Outta my head came out about 3 years ago now so I guess this is her marketing agency realising its merit at long last.

But fuck... No merit in pop music for 8 years? Are you deaf?

I'm not sure if you've noticed, but indie is on its raped, illegitimate knees begging to be finished off and bludgeoned with a Rihanna record. Pop music (albeit in a crossover form nowadays with hip hop and R&B) is in the ascendancy, and showing the way forward where other acts are failing to break into a sweat. In the last few years we've had outstandingly progressive records from Girls Aloud, Justin Timberlake, Rihanna, Annie, Robyn, Britney & Timbaland amongst others whereas indie has got to the point of over-saturation and tediousness that boy-band pop did back in the 90's, and is now giving us such wonderful acts as The Feeling, Scouting for girls, The Hosiers etc.

The future is pop Dom, though I suspect you're correct that Ashlee here isn't a shining example of its pinnacle. Better start getting used to it...

quite hypnotic too the more I do of it. I think its the streetlighting?

the Best of the Beatles

Its obviously The Chap's new record...

I had some kind of opinion about this

It was. I loved Flame. Unhealthily...

would have been a nice addition

WTF?

Why not 6? Or 7? How do you rate how hard an album is to record?

That'd be an amazing graph...

They're far too trendy for my liking and fit all too easily into magazines like that free Vice one.

BUT I do like some of their tunes like Bathroom gurgle.

Pretentious, of the moment ear candy they might be. But intriguing nonetheless...

They rock my little world...

Its an album by a guy looking back on his past cringing and thinking "did I really do that?"

Thats my gut feeling anyway. After interviewing him and hearing the new 'love' direction, I'm pretty convinced this whole record is poking fun at himself (very brutally at times and sometimes with sadness) for mistakes made in his youth

shame on us for enjoying ourselves!

I kind of know what you mean, but I'm guessing that largely arose from people hearing this for the first time. In my case, it was more down to the 6 pints of Guinness I'd drunk...

the monkey calypso song!

that, like Title TK, I'm thinking "yeah... s'alright?" after 15 listens, means in a year I'll be posting topics just over there (<) saying wild statements like: "OMFG How awesome is Mountain battles?!?!?!"

it all reminded me very much of early New Order / late Joy Division. Hooks bass lurked in there, the drum rhythm in Machine Gun is pure Blue Monday and the creeping sense of paranoia fitted too.

Not that this is a bad thing, just that it did feel a bit similar at times...

at numbers 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2 and 1

I'm not going...

personally I love it too

might not be consistently amazing or anything THAT new, but I'd take it over almost every other recent bands' efforts

Maybe I'm just turning into an old bastard

I couldn't give two tosses about The Enemy, Klaxons etc. It's what I'd expect. But to slate the Britney album is a huge fucking misjudgement. Amazing album as pop records go.

No, fuck it. Amazing album as records go...

just to see how many fools actually think the first 3 albums are worth more than 7 / 10 nowadays...

Great article. Personally, I went off the Manics ages ago but much of this rings true. I too harbour soft spots for a few tracks on "KYE" though. Fuck knows why, as its shit, but hey...

"Close my eyes" is probably my favourite track post "EMG" anyway. I think it was a B-sdie somewhere?

isn't too bad until he starts singing. Then it kind of goes on and on and on and on... It would have probably worked well live I imagine, which is where all cover versions should remain. They nearly always suck on record. Unless they're done by Johnny Cash, Arab Strap or The Slits.