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Some crackers on this thread, particularly Alkaline's Sutcliffe-esque musing 'even covered in blood and piss, she'd still get it'.

I find it kind of heart-warming that people are still making this kind of music. In the days of 'Nu-Rave' and Camden knobs and laptop singer-songwriters, it's good to know that somebody is still listening to Anti-Flag and Lagwagon and battering away on shit recording equipment in their garage. That said, I'm never going to listen to any of these recordings ever again, but I appreciate you're still bashing away at it.

Currently listening to Ponytail. Sounds like Deerhoof after stealing Television's guitars, propa' awesome.

Agreed. They're touring with No Age and Times New Viking, but I think Glasgow is as close as they're getting.

Ben E. King - Stand By Me (obviously on it's second outing, I'm not in my late 40's) I'm happy with that.

I'm surprised he wasn't too busy pissing on girls that wouldn't sleep with him again, that was pretty 'scene' last year wasn't it.

Singing is something that tends to bring out your accent more a lot of the time, I tend to talk in a fairly non-descript accent as I make the effort to do that because I tend to talk very quickly so if I have any kind of accent on top of that, I'm pretty much incomprehensible. There's some situations where my accent is more noticable though, like when I sing, when I'm drunk or when I'm annoyed about something, then I tend to naturally lilt into it. The more west of Scotland part of my accent I've lightly grown from my Mum's side tends to come out a bit more when I sing or get worked up in anyway, particularly in the rolling R's. I generally have no real noticable accent at all though. I find the whole singing in an extreme Scottish accent a la Glasvegas or Twilight Sad quite endearing to listen to, but because I don't say things like 'Ma' and 'Shouldnae' in day to day speech, I obviously wouldn't start using them when I sing. The guy from Glasvegas does talk like that though, to the point I'd imagine he literally couldn't sing anyother way without serious concentration.

Good choices, The Cramps are painfully underrated.

When I shave my hair into a mohican and start taking women to 'adult theatres', then you'll know I'm not far off it!

Oh and everyone in the world should listen to Windmill/Matthew Dillon. His voice may not be to everyone's taste but I find it pretty fucking incredible, he released his debut album on Friendly Fire last month to shockingly little fanfare (although I'm pretty sure it was released in some fashion last year). He's kind of little bits of Mercury Rev, Arcade Fire and Portastatic all pieced together in a more 'singer-songwriter fashion'. I'd reccomend listening to Boarding Lounges or Tokyo Moon first. MySpace.com - Windmill - London - Alternative / Experimental / Indie - www.myspace.com/windmillband

I was giving customer's brown Sprite at work, amazingly nobody said anything and glugged it down like the fucking morons they are.

What you listening to right now? Bikini Kill - Rebel Girl What albums are most played on your ipod/mp3? at the moment... Animal Collective - Strawberry Jam Los Campesinos! - Hold On Now, Youngster Jens Lekman - Night Falls Over Kortedala The Concretes - Hey Trouble Those Dancing Days - Hitten EP Rilo Kiley - The Execution Of All Things Any albums you would recommend we get? Manic Street Preachers - The Holy Bible Talulah Gosh - Backwash M. Ward - Post-War New York Dolls - New York Dolls

It was from a live review piece the NME wrote on one of the Pistols reformation dates and the pre-gig press confrence. I know the NME are generally associated with writing bollocks, but it was a review written by James McMahon who is pretty much one of the biggest Sex Pistols fans writing in modern media, so I don't really doubt it. Sex Pistols - Sex Pistols; Carling Academy, Brixton London, Monday November 12 - Live Reviews - NME.COM

When Johnny Rotten claimed 'England has too man foreigners', called a French female reporter a 'fucking whore' and said he voted Tory in the last election, he died in my eyes. I'm a Sex Pistols fan, and that's what makes it hurt even more. I don't think Johnny himself actually started a fight or made the racist comments put towards Kele, I think he's too media-savvy to do that but I don't doubt he laughed and riled up is bouncers into saying those things, it's just another nail in his already heavy coffin. As Alkaline said, Gruff Rhys is not the kind of guy to make things up, he has literally nothing to gain from taking either side in the argument. John Lydon has become the cartoon that many claimed he always was and it's heart-breakingly sad to have to admit it.

I love the fact this kid's strolling about Torry pissed up and kitted up like fucking Rambo and they're worried about his bad language.

Hoho, I've been waiting for this! If Ayr win this I will literally mention it every single day to every Aberdeen fan I know, till I'm cold and dead in the ground. Particularly Don's fan taxi driver's who tend to laugh like bastards when you mention you support a second division team.

Yeh, as much as I like South Park, it's a bit of a shame he will only be known to most as the voice of Chef. I just listened to him doing By The Time I Get To Phoenix, amazing stuff.

I quite liked that 'critical evaluation' one. I tend to like my electronic stuff quite fidgety and glitchy like Dntel or Figurine etc, so this is probably a bit more straightforward and danceable for my tastes. I liked when the more 'bleeping' synth came in around the 1:50-2:00 mark, infact had that been used throughout the song I would have probably liked it quite a lot.

My great aunt once found a human tooth in a tin of soup. She got fifty pounds worth of soup vouchers as compensation....

Anyone who listens to the Cocteau Twins is cool. I know what you mean about performance art students at RSAMD painfully well though, I've met many RSAMD acting students and on the whole they are total knobs.

I've been a firm 'supporter' of KOL since the first album and I genuinely think the newest album is going to make them one of the best rock bands of the last ten years. The new stuff sounds amazing.

The problem with articles about 'Hipsters' is, they are always written by 'Hipsters' who are such big fucking 'Hipsters', they believe they have risen above their peers. The immaculate descriptions of 'Hipster uniforms' makes me think that the writer was almost certainly at a loft party in NY listening to Crystal Castles and wearing an ironic ski-jacket last week. I've got an American Apparel cardigan, however I'm not on Facebook or MySpace so I don't know where I stand now

Haha yeh that's right! I'm still baffled as to who he thought was going to be impressed by the picture. In my head he was probably a pervert and lives in some weird hovel with our picture printed onto his pillow.

I got Noel Fielding constantly for about 18 months, presumably because we share a similar beak-nose and I had a similar nest of hair. It was funny for a week, but the moment I had a group of Rugby fans taking photo's of themselves with me in the Old School House singing the fucking 'soup song' it lost it's novelty value. I've had the guy from We Are Scientists a good few times (the singer, not the moustached one) and my all time favourite from a drunk in a Kebab shop 'You look like a fucking poor man's Bobby Gillespie.

Read the few posts above, I was hilariously pretending I was under the belief we were discussing a plumbing company in response to KimyReizeger. I actually like Glasvegas.