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Now then, does anyone know anything about those little FM transmitters for playing your MP3 player in the car? I want to get one for the missus but my research suggests they're all total shit. Is there a decent one out there? It would have to work with a recent-generation iPod Nano but it would...

Even for new vinyl, I'd say that only a small fraction of sales get recorded. Surely most new vinyl gets sold at independent, non-"chart return" stores or mail order. So, whatever the "official" figure for annual sales might be, couldn't you at least double that? For example, someone told me...

30 Rock. It kind of lost it's "heart" a bit as it went on and became kind of formulaic but it's extremely efficient in consistently delivering laffs in the way that's pretty much unique to the better US sitcoms. Nothing cheers me up like an episode of 30 Rock. Sometimes I feel like my id is...

Colm plays live drums on two songs on Loveless. The rest of the rhythm tracks are based on samples of his playing. Kevin wanted live drums on the album but apparently Colm was "sick" (make of that what you will) for most of the period during which Loveless was recorded. I think Loveless is the...

I'm so deep inside this motherfucker that don't think I have any perspective left. But I think that the only two tracks that haven't improved with repeated listens are "she found now" (generic shoegaze) and "is this and yes" (pastiche of Four Organs by Steve Reich). And I think that "if i am"...

I assume that's a joke buuuuut... No, Kevin generally doesn't use flanging or phasing effects, which makes the ludicrously flanged-out last track on the new album quite shocking. In fact, he doesn't use most of the effects people assume he uses: reverb, delay, chorus... Those weird guitar...

Highpoint of civilization etc. I have to stop looking at MBV stuff on the Internet. I'm not emotionally equipped to deal with the existence of people who don't like them. Silly, I know but there you have it. Edit: Having said that, I upset people on the MBV forum by having the gall to suggest...

I agree but must admit that "she found now" and "who sees you" haven't grown on me much. Don't hate me but I've made my own "phantom edit" of the album, replacing those songs with "City Girl" (from Lost in Translation) and a demo known as either "Kevin Song" or "Just Like Us". Have I mentioned...

My Bloody Valentine are the highpoint of human civilization :cool:

Kevin has promised an EP to follow up the album. Of course, Kevin is a massive bullshitter. There's actually a theory that the album is really three three-song EPs - or at least that it's structured as three "suites" of songs.

Ha! I think that was me, actually. You read it on the MBV forum? This is the one for me. Bloody jaw-dropping.

Haven't looked at Dissensus in days, mainly because I'm an MBV obsessive, so I've been buried deep in all this shit. Can't be bothered to read back too far in the thread but here's my experience... I was shitting myself when I heard the first three tracks. Didn't like them at all at first...

That looks quite interesting, actually. Currently reading Habibi by Craig Thompson. I can see this book offending people at every point on the political spectrum and I'm generally not into the "people in the developing world having a shit time" genre but from a purely comic-nerd perspective...

Thanks for the tips! The only Prince 12" I have is Let's Go Crazy, which has Erotic City on the B-side but I think it's on something else too, perhaps in remixed form?

Which 12"s should I be on the look out for, if I want some particularly choice/experimental B-sides on vinyl? Also, gotta give a shout out to Parade. I like Prince at his weirdest and most minimal and this is the album that delivers that most consistently, for me.

No, I think the whole point of 3D printing is it brings up the possibility of fewer surplus manufactured goods. If this technology got really good, it would create the possibility of true vinyl on-demand. In other words, you could have any album or song you wanted on vinyl, whenever you wanted...

It's interesting that the reason it's so lo-fi is that she had to down-convert the digital audio to 5bit 11khz to make the printing possible, rather than being something to do with the actual physical object.

Listen to "Raven". Love it when that flutey keyboard sample comes in. That was the exact moment RIP clicked for me. Me too. I feel like Splazsh occasionally fell back on gratuitous use of sidechaining and other lo-fi techniques, whereas RIP displays increased confidence as a producer. Now, he...

How did I manage to unleash all this pent-up anti-Actress sentiment?

Sweet!