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Christ. One Everett True was one too many.

Based on my own recollections, I think we've gone from one extreme to another. In the 80's there didn't seem to be much sense of history. Alternative music seemed largely to start from punk as year zero, and pop music was all about the production sounds of the then new technology. Acts who were...

@Chinese Arithmetic i dunno. i hear what you're saying about Mojo and Uncut and Dylan and Neil Young. that music is still great it just needs rescuing from the blahs. one of my pet campaigns was to try and get ian penman to write a book about dylan. like, this is good for *this* reason, not...

I saw Music For Stowaways/Listening on a torrent site yesterday and almost downloaded it out of curiousity. And I'd rather listen to Heaven 17 than Franz Ferdinand, I guess.

Oh God, no. I used to love Penthouse and Pavement, but I think listening to it now would make me cringe. Dare is a much better record, I think.

The Cabs albums I like the most: Microphonies, Red Mecca, 2x45. Also good: Voice of America, The Crackdown. To an extent you probably did have to be there maybe, but I still really like them. I love the sheer density of ideas in every track on Microphonies, and having evolved over a long period...

I've got the Elevators albums and some other International Artist things on the vinyl versions issued in the 80s by Decal, and they are pretty nasty sounding pressings. The 180g thing is overkill really. A decent pressing on average thickness vinyl is fine. Really thin discs or crap pressings do...

All very good points, and I certainly ignore their efforts to persuade me to pick up the latest lumpen indie rock they're touting. But, while I know it's in no way rational, this endless touting of rock classics has just ruined a lot of that music for me. I think maybe if things change, as...

Definitely disagree on Ny, Stones, Byrds, even if I may never want to hear them again. Mojo and Uncut I just never open these days - Percy Plants gurning visage on the latest issue of the latter is offputting all by itself- I own several of their albums, but is Led Zep minus one reforming...

...or, why I don't listen to non-electronic music these days As a teen back in the eighties, almost all the music I bought and listened to was current new releases. Some indie rock type things I heard on Peel or saw in NME, but mainly stuff like Virgin era Cabaret Voltaire, other industrial...

It's funny, I've been thinking about starting a thread on here about how my listening has moved almost exlusively to electronic music and a bit of hip-hop and away from 'real' music and the reasons I think are behind it, to see if anyone could relate.

Yes, I read this on another message board a while ago. IMO it could be a good thing; for me R&S have got into a bit of a rut, just ploughing the same digital dub furrow. The recent Maurizio Tony Allen remix was the most interesting thing I've heard from him in ages. I'd like to hear the two of...

Anyone heard this? I'm just listening to it now, and it's surprisingly palatable. Certainly compared to Photek's Form and Function 2, which I also heard today and was utter fucking shite. It's a tragedy to hear something with his name on sounding this dire.

Ah, I didn't know that. That's a real acid mosnster of a tune. Their other two combos are great too. In the same vein, Marcellus Pittman is also good.

Omar S is making some of the most interesting music around these days as far as I'm concerned, kind of in the same vein as Theo Parrish. The 'Just Ask The Lonely' cd that 'Striders World' is on is a good one to check out. Anything on his FXHE label is worth a listen.

It always pisses me off when as soon as people of that kind of persuasion at work or elsewhere hear that you like hip-hop, techno etc, they assume that you won't like or know anything about rock. Whereas invariably I know more than they do, hence I am able to discern that the likes of The...

Yeah that guy's opinion is worthless, but nevertheless, I lost interest in The Fall long ago. It's a myth inside Smith's own mind that he is the be all and end all of what made them good. The likes of Scanlon and Hanley and Smith's ex made a huge contribution to the records by The Fal that I...

Not heard this new stuff yet, but the Mad Mike 'Hi-Tech Dreams' 12" that was out a few months back is one of my fave releases this year. Maybe they really are back on track.

"What Albini has in common with Patton, other than a certain determination to not give in to their audience, who just want to pigeonhole them and dumbly rock out (equals: have a good time for their hard-earned entertainment dollar) instead of understanding that they are important artists (though...