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This year, I'm feeling this one. Ho ho ho.

I think that's kind of the point of the movie tho. It plays explicitly with both the perception and reality of the period. As Tony Wilson say (in both movie and real life): "When having to choose between the legend and reality, always print the legend." :)

For me, all roads lead to Kandinsky on this one: "Every work of art is the child of its age and, in many cases, the mother of our emotions. It follows that each period of culture produces an art of its own which can never be repeated. Efforts to revive the art-principles of the past will at...

"The visual data will be fused with some of the best speech recognition software, advanced natural language processing, and speech synthesis in the world." Sure thing. I expect it will still spout sense and nonsense in equal measure ;) No doubt someone will try and get it to pass the Turing...

"The Thief That Stole My Sad Days" by Moodymann "Hoping" by Louie Austen (Herbert's High Dub) "My Funny Valentine" by Miles Davis "Where or When" by Benny Goodman, with Peggy Lee on vocals "Love On A Real Train" by Tangerine Dream "The Birdie Song" by The Tweets

Yeah, maybe I was trolling a little bit there... :cool:

I love lists, so can't resist. In no particular order (and probably not even all from 2005), but: - Assassination of Richard Nixon - Dead Man's Shoes - Batman Begins - Ghost In The Shell: Innocence - The Constant Gardener - My Summer of Love - The Life Aquatic (was that this year..?) - Head On...

Crikey. And I wasn't even trolling. ;) In the absence of any other comment, I'm not sure what that's supposed to mean. But given the posts that followed, it seems pretty prescient :) I'm not convinced that's what he's saying. I think he's railing against professional critics, the unseemly...

"It would be wonderful with a 100-year moratorium on literature talk, if you shut down all literature departments, close the book reviews, ban the critics. The readers should be alone with the books, and if anyone dared to say anything about them, they would be shot or imprisoned right on the...

Small aside on the subject of Star Wars. Yes, it's a phenomenon, and yes, it's marks a major turning point for the industry (altho I've heard the same said about "Jaws", which comes out 2 years earlier). But one of the things I've long found most interesting about it is that it's just as...

It was for precisely this reason that I proposed people list the stuff with a high play count; not what they think they like. I know it's a bit of a pain; but honestly, it's quite illuminating. Sort by play count, people! :)

'Scuse the ressurection of this v old thread, but it seemed the most appropriate place to ask... I just read about this - anyone got it? And if so, any chance they can hook me up? :) Thanking yow...

Oh dear, you're absoutely right. I stand corrected. Hopefully this is self-explanatory: albums should have been released in the year AD2005. But as thread starter, I am giving awarding myself a special dispensation. Mistakes made by others will not be tolerated ;)

Also, not a book exactly, but I heard about the Children's Poetry Archive launching last week - it's really great.

It's about this time of year that I like to start doing that man-thing where you compile a list of your favourites of the year. This year, instead of busting a blood vessel deciding what makes the shortlist, I thought I'd just look at the playcount in iTunes. And it seems that my Top 20 Albums...

I finally got round to buying this yesterday - Holy Mother of Fuck. It *is* astounding. But I got it on vinyl - any chance someone here can hook me up with an MP3 version of the album, so I can listen to it on my iPod..? :)

So, the UK mediasphere is full of the news that we need to be bracing ourselves for an extremely cold spell - but all I can worry about is the fact that it's practically December, and there are *still* leaves on the trees. Like, more on than off. (At least, that's what it's doing south of the...

Tricky playing live in 1997 - I've never seen anyone so skull-fuckingly stoned, and he went on to play the most meandering set imaginable. At one point, he says to the audience - "Did you actually pay to see this?" Maybe he was riffing off that old Pistols line - "Ever feel like you've been...

Don't know if I'd say it was the most unpleasant ever... but when Pharrell declares his intention to "tear your ass up" at the start of <i>Frontin'</i>, I always feel a bit uneasy. What a classy geezer. I bet he has the ladies eating out the palm of his hand with that one ;)

The article isn't talking so much about the vocabulary as the pronunciation. White kids have been using "black" slang for yonks; but the emergence of an Estuary English/West Indian patois hybrid is a relatively recent phenomenon, blood :)