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  1. Since this forum is sooooo metal, does anyone else here like Belle and Sebastian? I love them. "The Boy With the Arab Strap" is the most poetic album since... Morrissey's "Vauxhall & I".

    Fey indie they may be. But that's no bad thing! Why emphasise agression etc in the musical emotional palette?

  2. The now i am mostly digging "thriller" by Michael Jackson. He may have gone mental but he could slam a tune when he was sane. The whole album is pretty darn good too. "Off the Wall" is similarly funky but lacks the depth. If pop has depth. which it may. Hmm.

  3. Yeah where is the New Cavern to be? I mind him saying the vaults aaaaaaaaaaaaaages ago: this still the case?

    p.s. Fopp pisses over One-Up. I have got about 10 Miles Davis and John Coltrane albums from Fopp for 5 each. You don't get that in One-Up.

  4. AND I FORGOT:

    The Velvet Underground & Nico.

    The Wall, Pink Floyd.

    Best Of, The Smiths.

    all of these changed my life, they coloured my thoughts and feelings and were accompaniments to what i was doing. If anything affects how you think and feel like those albums did to me, they're life-changing. Sure, some albums are better, but those are the ones that led to new discoveries and perspectives.

  5. 1. "Appetite For Destruction". First album I ever bought, as a 9 y/o lad, 1988. Made me see life in a whole new way. And revealed the POWER of music!!

    2. "Nevermind The Bollocks". DESTROY.

    3. "The Beatles 67-70". Suddenly music was in colour.

    4. "Nirvana Unplugged". Oh the aching fragility.

    5. "Maxinequaye", Tricky. Was getting into bifta at the time and this was the major accompaniment.

    6. "The Boy With The Arab Strap", Belle & Sebastian. The sweetness of adolescent melancholy, when you're not adolescent or melancholic! the poetry of the lyrics, too.

    7. "Leftism", Leftfield. Stomping.

    8. "Kind Of Blue", Miles Davis. I listened to this every day for a year. Jazz at its most refined.

    A nice selection, no?

  6. A book called "Bad Wisdom" (Bill Drummond and Zodiac Mindwarp) has some of the best lines ever:

    "I feel like a Victorian hymn writer".

    "I am a worthy executionaaaaaaaaar!"

    "I felt like the ocean".

    "We all loved each other and set out singing Boy George tunes. I was wearing a bra."

    Then there's the Simpsons ones:

    On cutting traffic speeds: "Sure you might save lives, but millions will be late!"

    Lisa: Do we have any food that wasn't brutally slaughtered?

    Homer: Well, I think the veal died of loneliness.

    Billy Corgan: "Billy Corgan, 'Smashing Pumpkins'."

    Homer Simpson: "Homer Simpson, smiling politely."

    Homer: Son, when you participate in sporting events, it's not whether you win or lose: it's how drunk you get.

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