Larsen B

It's fair to say the vast majority will ignore such advice.

Poor man's JJ72!

All illegal music downloading is undesirable in my opinion, although I'm no angel in that regard. In the case of charity records I think it is particularly reprehensible. You might go out and buy the actual record (good for you), but not everybody is going to do that when they can just get it for free. The people responsible for putting it on the blog should be ashamed of themselves.

Well, I think from what you've said in brackets that you have deduced yourself why I might think it "disgusting".

I've seen this being given away for free on blogs, it's disgusting. The National's song on it is pretty good.

As a diabetic I always getted excited by "no added sugar" but I'm inevitably let down when I see that the natural sugar content is already too much for me. Diabetic jam is just gross, though not as gross as diabetic chocolate.

I think all the places I can think of off the top of my head have been mentioned already. Other places are too personal to myself and closely related to specific memories. They would probably seem very insignificant to everyone else. I'd maybe say the Glenfiddich Distillery because I remember taking various foreign visitors there and specifically remember picnics on the picnic tables (conventional I know), being scared of the video at the start of the tour and hating the smell in the mash room.

Anti-football by Aberdeen in the second half, but they can't really be blamed.

I've heard good things about the Threatmantics so I may pop down for that show.

Momus - Forbidden Software Timemachine Magnetic Fields - Distant Plastic Trees/The Wayward Bus Animal Collective - Merriweather Post-Pavillion The Pastels - Mobile Safari Arthur Russell - Another Thought Franz Ferdinand - Tonight: (preordered)

It might actually be a good idea to make such a list, because otherwise stuff I've been "meaning to buy" will just be forgotten.

I think the second series has actually already been made hasn't it? I thought the show was ok, Neil Oliver just makes me laugh. Every episode seems to feature slow motion clips of different things falling to the ground, be it chess pieces or blood.

I've just started reading the Vesuvius Club, and very good it is too.

Well get on it. It's da best mang.

I'm pleasantly suprised. You got Searching For the Young Soul Rebels?

Do you twink it will be a good night then?

I agree, being a Celtic fan. I'm offended by people's ignorance and stupidity when they call me a Fenian. How could I take part in nationalist movement that ceased to exist long before I was born and in an entirely different country. It is often the people who make such stupid comments who then have the cheek to complain about the plight of sectarianism, which the Old Firm bring to Scotland.

I have the green-eyed gazungas for that one.

I espcially agree on those two. I remember in WWE good ol' JR always used to say that two wrestlers were "literally beating the hell out of each other". Now that would be worth seeing.

Once got threatened with a booking for my boot laces repeatedly coming undone. Other than that i was Paul McStay-esque in my model behaviour.

Any solo Billy McKenzie actually worth listening to? And how about The Beauty Stab?

Those are funny reviews, and there are enough of them that I can save some for a rainy day.

Copied, and slightly modified from, the "Best of 2008" thread: 1. Wild Beasts - Limbo, Panto 2. Okkervil River - The Stand-Ins 3. James Yorkston - When the Haar Rolls In 4. Beach House - Devotion 5. M83 - Saturdays=Youth 6. Portishead - Third 7. TV On the Radio - Dear Science 8. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!! 9. The Week That Was - The Week That Was 10. Wave Pictures - Instant Coffee Baby Honourable mentions to Fleet Foxes (actually maybe they should be number 10), Aidan John Moffat (or him), Eugene McGuinness (or even him), Frightened Rabbit and Magnetic Fields. Best Re-Issue: The Triffids - Treeless Plain/The Black Swan/Beautiful Waste Best Compilation: Arthur Russell - Love Is Overtaking Me Biggest Disappointments: British Sea Power and Magnetic Fields albums (even though they're both decent)

Arthur Russell - Love Is Overtaking Me

Strictly sports-casual.