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Some funny, some terrible, and some just downright creepy.... http://www.zonicweb.net/badalbmcvrs/badalbumcoverstopten/toptenbadalbumcovers10.htm Mike

I reckon they're a great band, the new single Naive is a quality bit of song writing. They also sound nothing like Hot Hot Heat.

Stella or Guinness. Fuck everything else. Drink a pint of one followed by a pint of the other for a traditional 'Flemish Carbomb'.

Best: Foos @ Oxegen '05 Metallica @ Dublin RDS '03 Wilt @ Witnness '02 Jacques Lu Cont @ Oxegen '05 Black Strobe @ Oxegen '05 Maximo Park @ Oxegen '05 Green Day at Witnness '02 Franz at Oxegen '04 The Strokes at Oxegen '04 Getting 200 free Rum and Coke vouchers for the Bacardi Bar off some guy who I went to school with at Oxegen '05 Seeing some asshole who kept me awake all night on the final night of Oxegen drink a bottle of my piss as we packed up to leave Worst A 7 mile walk to the site followed by the pissing rain and mud at Witnness '02 A 4 hour bus journey for a 10 mile distance in 33 degree heat with windows that didn't open and a stupid bint beside me who complained about the heat the WHOLE FUCKING WAY But its all worth it....anyone else heading to oxegen this year? gonna be fuckin awesome. Mike

http://www.nme.com/news/metallica/22250 Hopefully this is a sign that the new album might actually be decent, unlike the last four. Anybody listened to St Anger recently? Thought not. Mike PS: Not worth another thread, but what a surprise; Barry from Mogwai slagging everybody again: http://www.nme.com/news/mogwai/22251

The little white earphones, crap as they are, came free with your iPod, no? Is your iPod within 12 months of purchase? If so, click on this link: http://depot.info.apple.com/ipod/?country=uk&language=en Enter your serial number, and follow the instructions to get a replacement pair of earphones delivered to your door, FREE OF CHARGE! You just have to tell them what's wrong, and what you've tried to fix it, and they send you new ones. Sorted! And there we were thinking Apple were tight, money making cunts.... Mike

god is any of this really necessary?

Yeah I think its past the point now where they can't be big. Kind of like a rolling stone, there isn't really much that's able to stop them. I couldn't believe that 'I Bet You Look Good...' went to Number 1 through word of mouth alone. I can't really have seen daytime Radio 1 playing it as often as shite like 'The Pussycat Dolls' before it was released. It restores your faith in music that an alternative record can still hit the top spot through the underground. I saw them in August just after I heard 'Fake Tales of San Francisco' in Belfast, and I only went because I'd heard the hype and heard they were going to be huge so thought I'd seize the opportunity. Regrettably, I knew about 2 songs in the entire set, even though it was superb, and they were awesome live. Mike

I heard it mentioned in the most-overrated band thread; what does everyone think of these boys? I expect there to be fairly split opinion over this, but I reckon they're on the brink of really taking off when their album comes out on the 23rd. There's a limit to how big an indie band can be I guess and a limit to how big a band can get in a short space of time but what's gonna happen with them? Mike

U2 is the best call ever. Not written a single decent song since they released Achtung Baby. The most pompous rock group on the planet thrown into the mixture. Plus, I saw footage of them live in Chicago on the recent tour on telly and their fanbase appears to consist solely of thirty-something housewives dancing who think they 'rawk'. That alone is enough to fuck me right off. Mogwai Eminem (these days) Chili Peppers are pretty overrated PS: says 'Quofan'.....

This is the only piece of the article I agree with: I'd have a wild shot in the dark and guess that was printed in the Daily Mail? It's hardly diluting our national identity is it though? If anything it paints the British to be a compassionate and accepting nation; which if you think about it, is surely a good thing? Mike

Did anyone else buy an iPod Mini and then go fucking mental when they brought out the much smaller, thinner Nano about 8 months later? Problem with the Nano is the screen scratches to fuck dead easily. Still an incredibly nice bit of kit tho. I'm interested in the Sony one but I'm out of favour with Sony after my third consecutive PS2 broke. Fucking disgrace. Whilst we're talking technology, I'm wanting to buy some *awesome* in-ear headphones for my iPod. I'll pay up to about 60 so can someone tip me off on the best ones on the market? Cheers Mike

You're talking shit mate. How has the 'Arctic Monkeys' got anything to do with 'Child Molestors'? Its not the same thing at all. Someone called the Child Molestors would be blatantly trying to cause controversy and get attention through their name. For christ's sake if people start hating music because of a band's name we're all doomed! Please explain how you think these are connected in any way. Mike

At recent Northern Ireland vs England game after David Healy's WINNING goal: (To Away In A Manger) "Away in a manger, no crib for a bed, The little lord Jesus laid down his sweet head, The stars in the bright sky Looked down where HEA-LEY, HEA-LEY, HEA-LEY!!!" Also - may not go down to well - to England fans: "Are you Scotland in disguise?"

I got caught cheating in a fourth year exam. Some dick in front of me asked me for an answer by writing "4a?" on his pencil and expecting me to write the answer on the pencil and hand it back to him in "can I borrow your pencil style". I couldn't be fucked with the rigmarole so I just told him the answer and not only did an invigilator hear me, he also shouted 'OII!!!!' from the back of the hall, ensuring that everyone in said hall instantly looked at him, and then me as he charged towards me. He then grabbed my paper off me, wrote " -20% FOR TALKING" on the front and asked me to see him afterwards, where he promptly gave me a first class bollocking. However, it was I.T, and I got 78% (after the reduction). Fuck authority. Mike

most jokes are buddy boy. when was the last time you actually made up a joke?

the film studies lecturer, lesley harbridge at aberdeen uni. boo yeah.

Liquid's like having a drunken wank. By the time you remember how shit it is, it's too late.

I dont like him but I feel too many people took the green day approach ie: Billie Jo (onstage at Oxegen): Who here hates George W Bush?! Everyone: ME!! Billie Jo: Who here hates Tony Blair? Everyone: (even louder) ME!!!!! Well obviously if you ask an Irish audience if they like a British prime minister, they aren't going to say yes. Too many young impressionable kids who know fuck all about politics and aren't doing what everyone should do - which is make up their own fucking mind. I love Green Day but preaching bullshit politics isn't what rock bands are meant to be doing.

Not listening to Lady Mercedes.

Fucking right! I'm a block ticket holder at windsor park and I'd have been there on wednesday night if it wasn't for the fact I was in Budapest and I'm now in Prague. I've seen over 30 games and I'm so gutted I wasn't there, that would have been the best moment in my specatating career. Get in, David Healy, get in Northern Ireland, and perhaps most of all FUCK ENGLAND!! Well done Scotland too. Mike

those are all amazing considering they're free. Hard-Fi at marischal? i think so...