Shaki

You're wrong.

I wa just yankin yer chain min, fishing for some vitriolic criticism from vinyl lovers and genuine music fans!!

In all seriousness though, having never really owned any vinyl (other than a few 80s speed metal hand me down from my cousin - God bless her for my introduction to Helloween) I don't feel any nostalgia for vinyl. Everything I owned as a kid was on tape until CDs came along. Maybe I missed out! Maybe I'll be harping on about good old CDs when albums are distributed in pill form.....

As for the other point regarding "albums", I was reading a piece in Uncut by that slavic sounding bloke from Kasabian who was banging on about how no British bands makes great albums anymore (apart from Kasabian in his eyes of course - their forthcoming album "Empire" is going to be the greatest thing since "Definately Maybe"...make what you want of that statement!). He was taking great umbrage with the fact that so many people do now just download individual tracks onto playlists, the hit single is the be all and end all and that the concept of making a great album is now lost (he was also banging on about his love of vinyl!). Quite what distinguishes a proper album from a series of individual tracks i'm not quite sure. does anyone agree or disagree with this statement? Are there many British bands making great albums these days?

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I find that vinyl has a strange crackle about it, inhibiting my enjoyment of the recording. Also when youre trying just to listen to your favourite song and sometimes you dont get the needle bang on the right spot that can be annoying too. Theyre also fairly cumbersome to transport. As far as albums go, who buys and listens to a whole album these days?! When its so easy to just buy the best tracks (most albums you hear have got some dodgy ones) Id rather do that and create playlists in my iPod so you can have like: The Monster Song (the automatic), I Predict a Riot (Kaisers), She moves in her own way (Kooks) etc without all the boring album fillers.

I'd bin them all and buy the albums on CD. I find it's a much better sound and they are easier to store. Alternatively, you can download the best tracks from the albums for 79p each from ITunes Music Store......

All we need is for Hogan and the Ultimate Warrior to come back full time now and the WWE will be a joke.

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Yeah. That will be the incident that turns this once noble sporting organisation into a joke. ;-)

Jesus' date=' while they're busy pocket raping Aberdeen fans where the fuck does all the money in Scottish football go? It certainly doesn't go on improving the level of football in this country, our youth development program is shit, there's more emphasis on getting ageing or second rate foreign players in (thats not meant in a xenophobic way btw as they do add a depth to the game). But surely there should be some sort of emphasis on making football in this country good, not lining the pockets of greedy board members/chairmen *cough Milne cough*[/quote']

Do you actually think Stewart Milne and the rest of the board are lining their pockets with money that should be invested back into the club?! We're in serious financial trouble, I canna see them doing that! Aberdeen FC or any other scottish club outside the old firm is an awful investment with no return. Milne will have lost money in AFC.

On the football side of it, we're fucking shite (one of the key issues here!) and there's not a chance in hell that even the "better" games at Pittodrie last season were worth 20. This is the sad economics of scottish football though. This is no doubt the optimum price that works the best economically.

In totally simple terms (forgetting season tickets and a lot of ins and outs):

If the tickets are 21 each and 10,000 turn up = 210,000.

reduce the price to 15 and you need 14,000 to turn up = 210,000.

Are you going to consistently get an extra 4,000 per week with this pricing strategy? I don't think so (particularly given recent performances.....ok we're 3rd, great! But it's nae been any fun)

Scottish Football is in a bad bad way. Money is unfortunately the main focus for all clubs. It sucks and all clubs have to rely on their "diehards" to sustain them. My diehardness is wavering......

Mon the Scotland though! I've got my ridiculous national team optimism back!

Girl at my work selling 2 camping tickets. 300 for the 2. PM me if interested or e-mail duncan@millstreamassociates.co.uk

Cheers

Shaki

I should popping down to this.

Mia Riddle sounds lovely.

I don't care how she sounds! I'm just going to ogle her!

But in all seriousness she does have a great voice from what I've heard.....

A guy i work with is selling a ticket for this for 50 because his mate can't go. 11th and 12th August. Cheaper than buying it on Ticket Master.....

PM me if interested.

6. And now' date=' we have the Mole Station Native Nursery, based in New South Wales:

[url']www.molestationnursery.com

Was dubious about that ones existence - Could anyone really be that dumb?!

Is there really a place called Mole Station?

I clicked on the link to find out, only to receive the message WEBSITE BLOCKED. ADULT CONTENT and a bit about it being reported to my IT dept! While this is a common error with our system (dictionary.com comes up as adult content also) Im now quite worried that I may be called up on this one!!!

So, can you please explain why you were trying to access molestation nursery at 10.30 am on Monday?

Nope' date=' next best thing, Dangerfields FREE at The Moorings. Then afterwards, "Whack-A-Junkie" down at the beach.[/quote']

you know Junkie's only feed off the things they steal and beg from humans because the human race criminalised, therefore inflating the price of Heroin. This once proud species has been forced to sit on our streets begging us for money and breaking into our homes and shops, threatening violence etc because of OUR SELFISH ACTIONS........

The seagulls of the mammal world I tell ya!

So basically' date=' yes, we're all fucking shit, our race aint superior and the only reason we are still here is becasue we are able to exploit nature and get away with it...for now.

I'm happy with that conclusion.[/quote']

So, we going gull culling tonight or what?! ;-)

Can just see the Evening Express:

NE Man Fights Panda in Seagull Dispute

mmmmm, i love that cheese and bread breakfast (honestly!). I heard that they were closing these places down to tourists but I doubt if that's true. I'm not going all that way JUST for legal ladies of the night and I'm sure many tourists would be of the same opinion ;-)

Disclaimer: Legal or not, I in no way condone prostitution.

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Humans are the self proclaimed rulers of this planet. So is fucking everything else over how we would expect a good ruler to behave? If a bunch of aliens landed here with superior technology and treated us the way some of us would like to treat seagulls' date=' would they be considered good rulers?

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No, but Alkaline would be holding his hands up saying "fair enough, survival of the fittest and all, time for us to make way, where do you want to stick that pipe? Up the ass or down the gullet?"

Vincent Vega taught me all I knew about Amsterdam -

"It's legal to buy it' date=' it's legal to own it and, if you're the proprietor of a hash bar, it'slegal to sell it. It's legal to carry it, which doesn't really matter 'cause -- get a load of this - if the cops stop you, it's illegal for them to search you. Searching you is a right that the cops in Amsterdam don't have."[/quote']

Of course! If only the words of Vincent had come to me in my time of need I might have got some sleep that night!

When ze seagulls follow ze trrrawler, it's because zey sink sardines will be thrown in to ze sea. Zat is all.

I found a nice jail cell last time I was over. No nonsense self coloured walls and floors with a plain wooden bench in one corner. "No shmoking or banging on the wallsh" was the only condition of staying there. Only a EUR 50 fine for my 2.5 hour stay too! A bargain I'm sure you'll agree!?

....and the offence?! .....pishing in the shtreet! Apparently public urination was one of the top answers given by Amsterdam residents when asked what annoyed them most about tourists so the police were clamping down on it. Doing it behind the police station was a bad idea also!

Oh, and if you do happen to get arrested for something trivial other than suspected drug peddling or theft, they are not allowed to search you so you DON'T actually have to consume everything that is in your pockets while your sitting in the cell waiting to be charged/fined!!!

As for accommodation, just make sure you book something decent before getting there.

Please learn from my mistakes!

"At times your view may be limited or obscured and will at all times be from behind the band. "

Scrap that for £340, surely their asses ain't that fine these days?!

DIRTY HEARTS CLUB ::

Aberdeen based band pitched between Jeff Buckley, Neil Young and the band.

......With a little more riffage I like to think ;-)

Looking forward to seeing Kid Canaveral.

Burn, the 5th song on the album is beautiful. I particularly like the line

"don't pay no mind, to my watering eyes, must be something in the air that I'm breathing, yes and try to ignore, all this blood on the floor, it's just this heart on my sleeve that's a bleedin". The soul is dripping from his voice there.

I too was at the gig in Glasgow in November, absolutely brilliant! Thought all the soul may have been lost at the AECC though, a shit venue at the best of times and I didn't really fancy seeing David Gray. Was anyone there?

Unfortunately one of his songs ("Trouble" I think) was used in the recent chick flick "Prime". I don't know what's worse, his song being used in that film or the fact that I have seen that film......

line up has changed for this. The bill is: Crimea, Little Kicks, Call To Mind and Diablo

yo sam what times the 1st band on?

Flaming Katy on at 9. I presume we'll be the first band.

aceeeeeeeeeeeeee

UJAW are great

Haven't seen them live but really like the sound of their stuff on myspace. I see they're playing T Break Stage at T in the Park too.....

Does exactly as it says on the tin, nothing wrong with that!

Other people..........and their opinions.