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pop-Indie is properly growing on me these days, after years of steadfast refusal. It's impossible to hate that Modest Mouse song, and Willy Mason is kind of good too. Also, the out hud album is excellent, on first listen. Dunno, life in that old corpse yet, although maybe only in the US...

Middle class people have real lives too.

I wouldn't want anyone misreading this and thinking I'm a codger. I still get carded occasionally, if it's really dark!

I reckon that just displays taste - doom patrol is definitely his finest (and most extreme) hour. DC recently put out a couple of trades, as well. I still re-read my doom patrols, but most of his stuff does seem terribly 90s now (and not in a good way).

So I notice on this board that there are a wide variety of locations, but many commonalities of interest. Which leads me to suspect that a lot of y'all (like me) are expatriates. Anyway, I thought it'd be nice to have a little place where those of us who are in some sense dislocated can...

Can it be done? I met a gay dude in his 70s at a club in Tokyo last weekend, with a long wispy grey beard (as per the regulation "old asian guy" stereotype). He was shirtless and really going for it. He was actually so old that there was no way it would be anything other than cool, but what...

This is so on the money. Look at the way prices for early 90s old school and jungle stuff shot through the roof on eBay after Tigerbeat started popularising it for the indie crowd. Probably not that many of 'em will buy it now, but in 5-6 years time there'll be a revival...

Ha! This takes me back... I tried to run a happy hardcore/jump-up night in a Cambridge college bar in the mid 90s and it got shut down for being too druggy. I don't think it's purely the music though - singaporeans don't get rowdy when grime is played, they just pester the dj to play...

I think some of his finer moments are as follows: "Everybody dancin" has this fantastic stripped back rawness and minimalism to it. "The wanderer" is his best "when doves cry" creepy spiritualism moment. "Hold on" is fantastic uplifting gospel business, one of those records that can genuinely...

"Beer and parsley gravy provided by Red Stripe"

Back in the day, blah blah blah... But Rotary Connection: "Want you to know you made me happy, want you to know you made me sad, want you to know that you are the best thing that I ever had" Just says it all, straight out. Beautiful business that is. No frills, no pretence, straight out...

Tokyo desu ka? Come east, mofo. Fuck.

I'm going to go walking in Tokyo on friday. It's bitterly cold and a bit damp and grey, so perfect walking weather. It's very flat so you can walk for miles, and it's good because no two bits of it are really the same so there's lots to look at. The downside is there aren't many places with...

Personally, I'm not disagreeing that the gross level of inequality in the world sucks, or that working conditions in many places are poor. However, you guys need to extend a touch of empathy and common sense to the people who actually work in these places. Firstly, one of the main complaints...

yeah but the difficulty about all the anti-sweatshop arguments is that there are two killer pieces of info that you need to answer: 1) How do you know for certain that things would be better if there weren't sweatshops in these places? I mean life is pretty desperate in Myanmar, partly...

I dunno, the govt campaign against happy hardcore in scotland in the mid 90s was pretty successful. They closed down all the clubs that played it and it got forced off the radio. You heard it blaring out of cars still for a while, and people would go to netherlands or newcastle to hear it, but...

I hate ethical consumerism. It's immoral. Why should I have to pay more for something because it comes with a nice ethical stamp? Does that mean only middle class people can afford to be moral these days? And why is the onus on the consumer to a) find out about how stuff was made and b) hunt...

Buy a helmet.

Lady S Didn't she get her break through the Streets or something? And if that's the case, do people resent the Mitchell Brothers too? And if that is true, it's damn stupid. It's like rappers hating on people for getting a break via Dr Dre or something.

Obvious omissions from this thread: donae'o essentials I really like donae'o, he's got this mature elder statesman thing going on and is kind of charmingly laid back compared to how hyper most mcs are. Fair enough, he's not some dazzling talent, but pretty much everything he does is nice, and...