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    Choon of the Day, redux

    The Year of the Dragon begins! The trickster rabbit sent scuttling back to its hutch. Hold tight all Dragon posse, and our Rat, Monkey, Snake brethren.
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    Choon of the Day, redux

    Police Camera Action posse hold tight :cool:
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    Martin's top 100

    Oh yeah, Denis Nilsen...she did work with him in the Jobcentre in Cricklewood, and also George Michael's cousin. Tell us the seduction story...
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    Martin's top 100

    Totally up for that. Will take me about 8 hours to come down, but fuck it. I don't really speak to her anymore since she tried to scam the family by pretending to have cancer (knowing how Fortuna works, I wouldn't dare...) Can tell you more about The Fox though...hang on, are you Catalog??? 😮
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    Martin's top 100

    Gossip please
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    Martin's top 100

    William Kent, earlier, buying Szechuan chips (I need you to copy the recipe. I'll pay you)
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    Martin's top 100

    You deleted it William...but I agree!
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    Martin's top 100

    87: COCTEAU TWINS – “GARLANDS” LP (God, I hate the fucking artwork for this one! Should've pilfered the 4AD budget and hired Sleazy to do something better) Don’t take any heed of ‘experts’: most of them don’t know shit. If you’re a shy bloke from a hellhole like Grangemouth…but you’ve...
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    is £25 a lot to pay for a curry?

    The poppadoms should be complimentary, no? The naan would be, what, £3? The drink... £1.50? Which means, if you take off service, the masala was £15+?? Sounds like Woops got scammed. Pre-Covid, I used to pop into New Balti in Golders Green (RIP) and get a lamb kata masala, bombay aloo, a...
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    Martin's top 100

    88: VARIOUS – “THE SECOND COMING” LP “Are you going to be there…to witness…the SECOND COMING?” Whitehouse screamed on their first LP in 1980. Well…OK, yeah! Why not. This sampler, released on William Bennett’s Come Organisation label, harks back to a brief nascent period of experimentation...
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    Martin's top 100

    Didn't he say it was "Satan's greatest work of art" and they cut the "Satan's" part? But yeah, spot on about the press.
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    Martin's top 100

    89: STOCKHAUSEN - "OKTOPHONIE" CD I’ve never understood the classical avant-garde, meaning I don’t know how to appreciate it on an academic or intellectual level. I’m just drawn to stuff that sounds weird and mental. If it disturbs me or makes me laugh, that’s a good start. I don’t understand...
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    Simon Reynolds

    Great review, and glad to see others hear Head Over Heels as the best. 10/10, truly psychedelic record. Especially dig the SARS/Covid precog.
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    Things that make you question our future

    The first collisions were achieved in 2010 at an energy of 3.5 teraelectronvolts (TeV) per beam, about four times the previous world record.[4][5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_Hadron_Collider
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    Dickens

    Finished Little Dorrit, which took me just under 2 months, on and off (been reading at a snail’s pace this year). Overall: enjoyed it, with some real high points, but a few frustrating parts: But Dickens more than makes up for it in other areas, especially the Merdle/Flintwich storylines...
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    The telephone directory

    Don't think I've seen one since the early 2000s. Used to keep it in the hall by the phone in case of an emergency - pointless, as the landlord sorted all the repairs anyway. Sadly my parents didn't see the potential psychogeographical/hauntological value in keeping the 1980s volumes and...
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    Martin's top 100

    90: ANNE BEAN / PAUL BURWELL - "LOW FLYING AIRCRAFT" 7" There’s a low flying aircraft. There’s a low flying aircraft. A low flying aircraft. Please evacuate immediately. Please evacuate immediately. There’s a low flying aircraft. There’s a low flying aircraft. There’s a low flying aircraft...
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    Martin's top 100

    I was 7 or 8 when I first saw a copy of Are You Experienced. I was transfixed by the cover shot: Jimi hovering like a warlock moth above his long-haired, freak-brother bandmates. Adam & The Ants, The Human League and The Jam were ‘adults’, but felt more like older teenagers – while The...
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    Martin's top 100

    96: VARIOUS – “STREET SOUNDS: UK-ELECTRO” LP Haven’t delivered any Oi! yet, so here’s an LP with a Union Jack on the cover. There’s one strand of MuSIcK-biZ chicanery I enjoy: using a stream of aliases to pretend you’re tapped into a scene bigger than you, your mate and his dog. From the...
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