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O Rose thou art sick. The invisible worm, That flies in the night In the howling storm: Has found out thy bed Of crimson joy: And his dark secret love Does thy life destroy. ___ What do we make of this, then? Fingers on buzzers please

Music in the wild. Right now I'm listening to Pharoah Sanders on the toilet of the Ally Pally bar. On the way up I was transfixed (because stoned?) by the full moon flanked by jet stream slashes. I've often regarded planes since reading Luka's poem about how serene they look from here but up...

What do you see? There's a thin membrane of visualisation that music journalists try to make substantive, as substantive as the sounds themselves. Perhaps this is the thicket of dancing architects that they get themselves into. But it is there, I do visualise things. I was listening to a...

No pootube embeds permitted. Hyperlinks are permitted and links to pootube playlists. I want you to describe the stage on the journey each choon represents. This can be as elaborate as you like. You can make up a story, with symbolic animals. Your interpretation of 'mystic' is up to you. You...

I read this yesterday and it seemed to chime in with a lot of discussions happening in the music forum re: the future, advertising, death of soul/emotion, etc. I thought I'd plonk it all in here, where we can talk about it and perhaps this thread could be linked from those other threads...

Depersonalisation might be the wrong word. I am listening to Spotify as usual and it's on shuffle. It gives me the feeling of listening to radio in the past, of being played things you'd not listen to by yourself necessarily. But the difference is that at any moment I can intervene and skip a...

Know any? No names necessary, natch - just anecdotes, insights, erotic fiction.

I think of anyone on here Luka has the most artistic temperament I've seen - which is to say, he's a fundamentalist. This is by no means an insult, although it might be a mischaracterisation. But you see what I did there? I shied away from taking a strong position. I apologised for myself in...

So momentous it gets its own thread 🔥:poop:🔥

Thought, I love thought. But not the jiggling and twisting of already existent ideas I despise that self-important game. Thought is the welling up of unknown life into consciousness, Thought is the testing of statements on the touchstone of the conscience, Thought is gazing on to the face of...

It's what the people are waiting for. Why? 1. His taste is impeccable, but also idiosyncratic, especially on this forum, and I'm genuinely curious as to what would qualify. 2. He always writes good stuff to accompany his COTD selections. How? I would suggest a maximum one selection per day...

Read any good ones lately? I'm talking 'Gone Girl', 'The Goldfinch', etc. The sort of novel that millions of people buy. Read any bad ones lately/ever? What are your favourite pop novels?

I wanted to post this example of something crap somewhere, so why not a thread of crap? (N.B. not stepping on thirdform's thread's toes here cos you don't have to like this stuff) Just love how Master P is doing a fifth-rate 2pac impersonation here.

And the rewatchables and rereadables. I'm interested in knowing what you listen to repeatedly or have been listening to repeatedly lately. And if this habit is dying in the internet era where you can constantly scratch the itch for new discoveries. What are the pros and cons of revisiting...

I'm going to post maximum one maxim per day, without the author named (obviously easily googleable but the idea would be to discourage prejudgement), and let's see what we think of them: It seems that in order to inscribe themselves upon the heart of humanity with everlasting claims, all great...

Prepared to get shot down here if he's some sort of hipster boogieman, non barty approved fodder, turns out he's a poshboy or something But fuck it this is anthemic Anyone feeling?

Stop me if this idea is as boring as the thread title The first dance music that I bought on vinyl and regularly mixed and raved to was drum n bass - which was structurally speaking extremely formulaic and predictable. It almost always went more or less like this: INTRO (64 bars, say) / FIRST...

Think I've got my etymology right here: χολή (kholḗ, “bile”). I am sat in a café in London and they were just playing that Cardigans song from the Romeo And Juliet OST. This depressed me, as I was lately depressed by hearing the same old festive pop songs from the 80s in a Tesco's in the lead...

So e.g. Luka please compile a ten track list of 90s rap that isn't the obvious stuff. Just write the artist and title (and explanations/descriptions if you like) otherwise the thread will get clogged up with YouTube embeds.

What is it