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    Grant McLennan RIP

    Horrible news - I loved that band
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    The great 80's brit synthpop thread

    sigue sigue sputnik? or is that little outside your time frame?
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    Good urban walking shoes

    second on the blundstones
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    Eurovision, Lordi, and Finland

    I so wish that were true ..... come to think of it Ireland won the eurovision about a million times in the 80s AND got shitloads of EU cash so maybe..
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    gnarles barkley

    Same experience - heard it weeks before it came out on a radio station my daughter was listening to in the car and immediately had the 'whats that?' feeling you get with that pop moment; some records seem to float in from outer space, and 'crazy' though I'm not putting it up there with what...
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    The Smiths

    point taken
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    The Smiths

    Personally, I tried not to fight anyone, being then, as now, a complete physical coward, but it didn’t stop me getting a few slaps from the outraged populace in Dublin and a scary encounter with a few NF skin types in Notting Hill tube station in early ’78. In Kulturkampf terms, we fought...
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    The Smiths

    see now, that's the kind of thing I mean...
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    The Smiths

    a perfect Smiths song title !
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    The Smiths

    Actually, i have to admit to been a Roxy fan as a kid - It's Biryani's* subsequent rise to huntin' shootin' fishin' prole hating minor gentry that annoys me *Anyone else remember how the NME used to irritate him no end by varying his name outlandishly?
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    The Smiths

    And I pretty much detest everything he's ever done; I saw the Smiths just after Hand in Glove came out and then - and through the subsequent 23 years - I thought the self- absorbsion, vanity, conceit and milk toast whiteness of the music betrayed everything we fought the punk wars for. In the...
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    Do you play an instrument?

    so; 5 pianos , about 8 guitars, 2 oboes and lots of knob twiddling (and Droid on his tin whistle) - ladeez an' gennelmen, the Dissensus International Orchestra ! (or the dis- consort of St. Sepulchre?)
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    Do you play an instrument?

    Guitar 'professionally' for years (i.e. full time, in that i didn't do much else, but not as in 'made a decent living'); can play a bit of piano and do things with cubase and the like. Definitely hear music differently as I've gotten more technically aware; virtuousity impresses you differently...
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    How big is your .....

    forgot to show you mine ..... 1500Lps, no idea how many 7" - 3-400 cds; only buy CDs now when there's no choice.....
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    How big is your .....

    record collection? Just wondering .... LP/ 7" - CDs? or is everything on your hard drive?
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    What PostPunk has RIU&SA make you drolly over?

    sorry but Maddy's singing on Prince Charlie Stuart trumps everything for me - 'my love was six foot two/ without stocking or shoe/ in proportion my true love was built' that and the mutant venus in furs fiddle and guitar does it for me each time
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    Best find/ most regretted sale - loss

    thanks - now I've realised that i haven't seen my copy for a while either...
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    Best find/ most regretted sale - loss

    This has probably been done before and if so I apologise, but if not .... 2 questions; 1)Best junk shop/ charity shop find and 2) record you most regret selling I'm guessing a fair few people here have -or have had - the sort of record collections that act as a bank in times of stress, and may...
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    What PostPunk has RIU&SA make you drolly over?

    you're all wrong! Please to see the King is the best Steeleye Span record by a mile -and Carthy is on it
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    ID cards, my emotional repsonse

    How is burning Mass Cards going to help?
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