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ha, sorry! I was curious after you mentioned it, so I had to find out.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/world_cup_2010/8711835.stm ...so now you know!

I am going to kill someone, or be killed whilst listening to this band. I just haven't decided yet. Some of them went on to be in the Jesus Lizard, so I guess some folk will know what they sound like.

http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entries/report-assads-office-hacked-password-was-12345 This could go in many different threads.

The Capstan Shafts – Kind Empires This is excellent. Fuzzy, lo-fi (but not deliberately badly recorded!) pop songs. All the instruments were played by the same guy, Dean Wells. He's ridiculously prolific, releasing 10 EP's and 7 albums since 1999. This album is 14 songs in about ~25 minutes. If you're a fan of bands like Guided by Voices, Times New Viking etc, I think you will really, really like this. It's nothing revolutionary or particularly ground-breaking, but the guy clearly can write a damn good song. He appears to be more consistent than Robert Pollard as well!

life advice: lead a more fulfilling life

do you have nothing better to do with your time than post 23190873120987 times a day on this website?

Oops, badly worded. I meant that I simply prefer playing FM to spending time with most people.

Aw man, never do that! I used to save before important games, but now that I've returned to FM after a year long absence I've not done it once. My Rushden & Diamonds side are destroying all. In the play-offs in League 1, halfway through the 2014/15 season, although I just have FM10, so this is my sixth season. Still. I might do a big post on my team on Sunday. I love this game more than almost every person I know.

Sorry, what time? I did see it in an article a couple of weeks ago but I've forgotten.

When will the results be made public?

Tennis – Young And Old I think I saw a review of this album saying it was a nice collection of "breezy pop songs". I can go with that. Husband on guitar, wife on keys/vocals, third wheel on drums. Very, very summery.

Imagine if this game went to penalties and a Suarez miss gave Cardiff the trophy. What a day that would be!

Yeah, I can't stress how good a read Our Band Could Be Your Life is. Michael Azerrad has done some tremendous work to put that book together.

Fuzzy rock, female/male vocals. Ace.

http://deadspin.com/5886424/and-now-for-your-uk-weather-where-the-forecast-is-bucketloads-of-cunt People on TV saying words they're not supposed to will always be funny. Always.

To be honest, you could pick almost any song by these guys.

I just won the Conference with Rushden and Diamonds on my third attempt on FM10. Came 2nd in the first two seasons and lost in the play-off final both times. This time, though, no fucking about, won the league with two games to spare and 100 points. Now to get relegated from League 2 on the first attempt. My eyes hurt.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitney_houston r. i. p. and all that.

Have you heard Witch? J Mascis on drums. They just sound like Sleep/Sabbath/Melvins etc. Amazing! This can be my recommendation for the next week. A review: "Thee Oh Sees almost compulsory yearly release drops on June 14th in the form of Castlemania, the band’s 9th studio album. Castlemania marks something of a departure for the band: the unrelenting whacked-out garage of previous albums is still present, but punctuated by effervescent psychedelia reminiscent of Magical Mystery Tour Beatles. It’s fair to say that Castlemania is an album with a dual personality: on the one hand, it revives the light-hearted West Coast psychedelia of the 1960s and on the other, it continues the rock and horror garage of The Mummies, The Cramps et al. It is testament to Thee Oh Sees capability that they combine these seemingly disparate elements so artfully. Take Corrupted Coffin, for instance; an incessant guitar riff combines with screeching tapes and guitar freak-outs to create a typically incendiary garage track. Yet, by the time we reach Pleasure Blimps, we are in summer of love territory: tambourines, xylophones, guitars and “la la la’s” abound in homage to the optimistic psych of the late 60’s. The hallucinatory rambling of Stinking Cloud combines this bipolarity in a light-hearted morbidity that is the albums zenith and the apotheosis of John Dwyer’s vision on Castlemania. When he says of the album, it’s “songs about bad things, packaged in a summery record about getting numb to life and it’s little pleasures as you take it for granted with age,” it relates most strikingly to this track. Thee Oh Sees – Castlemania I think the reviewer got one thing wrong, though... it's their 12th album, apparently. Ridiculously prolific. If you like this, then the vocalist/songwriter John Dwyer has been in loads of other bands. They all have a similar kind of garage-rock vibe, but my favourite is Coachwhips. This album is about as simplistic as rock and roll can be, really. 11 songs in 18 minutes in a guitar/organ/drums power trio. Imagine if Andrew WK's "I Get Wet" was recorded for about £10, and you might get an idea of what it's like... unrelenting power chords and distorted everything all the way. Coachwhips – Bangers vs Fuckers

http://www.last.fm/user/machadavenu

:58. BASS POWER! The whole thing, really, but the riff at :28 is still the best, imo.

They were really good at ATP. I liked the album, but was pleasantly surprised at just how much I enjoyed them live! After waiting several years, I'm finally going to see Mastodon a week tomorrow night. With the Dillinger Escape Plan supporting. Dream line-up.