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I used to get irritated by the Tories using that old Belloc meme of "holding on to nurse for fear of something worse" vis-a-vis vote for us 'cos we might be crap but the other side is EVIL! But when faced with Michael Howard and his cronies, suddenly I understand the attraction of this train of...

David Amess could do with putting some discipline into his own son before blethering on hypocritically about "greatness." streatham is rock-solid labour insofar as if a freak tsunami wiped out everyone south of st leonard's church they would still get in with an unassailable majority...

"simon reynolds' music tastes slightly different to those of other posters on dissensus" shock horror youth cult probe

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i bought the album

is morley asleep in that photo?

Don't know about top tens, but my absolute favourite record at the moment is Tomorrow, Tomorrow and Tomorrow by the Bill Fay Group. Recorded in fitful sessions between 1978-81, but only now released - and only the third album of original material to be released by Fay in almost 40 years of...

Neubauten at Kilburn National in '83 in a double-header with Showaddywaddy. Quite possibly the best gig ever.

Liked Vespertine a lot but not Medulla - it would seem that, as with too many artists these days, she's opted to make records for Wire readers.

30-year parallel to the only partially intentional interface between folk and improv? (the Joe Boyd/Nick Drake/Tippetts/John Martyn/Richard Thompson/Mike Heron/John Cale overlaps) real precursor to fence collective = mike cooper's early '70s albums suspected precursor to nu folk-electronica =...

I have an ancient tape of Music For Airports (Ambient 1) by Eno, and there is this strange, cyclical bleeping and undulating high-pitched (but vaguely melodic) whine which goes through both sides which I am not entirely convinced was not put there by Eno himself. On the newly remastered CD...

My set, originally purchased in 1981, is still in perfect working order, as astonishingly is the Walkman which came with it (oh, that grey industrial 1981 steel look).

Watch the price of 2nd-hand tapes at MVE go back up to a tenner then!

Well that's excellent news. Blimey, "Don't Shilly Shally" - produced by Robin Guthrie IIRC!

The thing is - those triple CD "Best Love Songs Ever" compilations you get at Tescos for £9.77 with their plentiful tracks by Simply Red actually help subsidise Blood and Fire.

A bit of both makes for a balanced and pleasant world, I think.

I'm a bit pissed off that Roddy Frame won't reissue his Postcard stuff on CD because he considers them rare treasures too valuable to be wasted on pleb record buyers or whatever it was he said in that Uncut piece. Very democratic - let everyone buy second-hand copies for a tenner apiece!

Were it not for Paul Lester you wouldn't have had either of these pieces in Uncut. They don't have me in Uncut anymore either. I am not sure whether this is a happy or sad ending.

Consider, for instance, the cover of Coltrane's Live At The Village Vanguard Again! They look like a bunch of tourists! http://www.alwaysontherun.net/coltrane/vangagain.htm

You ought to read Francis Wheen's biography of Karl Marx - highly entertaining stuff which indeed confirms that back in the mid-19th century old Karl, Friedrich and poor Jenny were EXACTLY the Nathan, Dan and Claire of their time, romping around Highgate/Manchester/etc, going on the hunt and...