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That's an excellent post, Philip, and deservedly linked. I absolutely agree about English football's nostalgia habit - it's almost sacrilegious not to agree that England-Germany 66 and England-Brazil 70 aren't the two greatest matches ever played, yet watching them they both seem dull...

Droid, this is wicked stuff. Excellent work all round - been putting a smile on my face all afternoon. I had to YSI this to my other computer (the one with the CD burner), so to save a bit of Droid's bandwidth here's the link for those that want...

Legends, all - thanks.

There must be someone writing songs in Elvish and Klingon. Don't want to hear them though :)

O plunge your hands in water Plunge them up to the wrist. Stare, stare at the basin And wonder what you've missed. Luv that bit, anyway.

Daydream Nation was my entry point into SY fandom (I'd read about Dirty, thought I'd like it, but my local mainstream record shop had sold out, ended up with DN instead, hated it first time, persisted, loved it passionately more or less since), but I find I'm listening to the more recent stuff...

There's some particularly good stuff in the Other Minds collection: http://www.archive.org/audio/collection.php?collection=other_minds

mms - that's brilliant. Found exactly what I was after first try. Many thanks! :D

Obviously Gemm is the place to start looking for second-hand vinyl; but where's best online for books? Is the old Amazon/eBay combo still the best bet, or am I missing some giant second-hand book marketplace?

Not so much spambots I think, but Blogger tend to release any URLs that haven't been posted to after a certain length of time, so all that lovely pagerank you built up all that time ago just gets snaffled as someone else grabs your old URL. Funny, I can't seem to find any explanation about this...

This story might interest: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/music/4441910.stm

The closest I've ever come to demanding my money back from a cinema. Terrible, terrible film.

Errr ... MARRS, anyone?

I'd love to see that happen, but it ain't gonna. :mad:

Re UK copyright: I wrote to my MP about this recently as the UK is presently considering extending copyright in recordings to 75 years to meet European standards; the answer she got from the relevant minister (sorry, I'm being vague cos I can't find her reply any more) was basically a fudge...

True, but those sort of things are more useful from the composition/production: they explain exactly how a musician created such and such an effect in the studio, and help others to do the same. They're sort of analogous (very vaguely) to musical scores in that way. So they might function as a...

You might have missed my post a few pages earlier: http://www.dissensus.com/showpost.php?p=33489&postcount=100 Any more you want to know? Oh, and I've just seen this forthcoming Radio 3 broadcast which includes various bits of spectral (and non-spectral) music, available to listen to from...

Yeah, W&W is someone who successfully treads that tricky line between formal and informal and has something to say. Everyone should read him (see also his stuff at the riddim method. The M.I.A analysis I think you're talking about was here at Clap Clap. That's also a good 'un, and is as good a...

Bartering is the thing. Friends tell me it's a buyer's (renters?) market for rental places in London at the moment - places are getting hard to shift since the buy-to-let boom, so barter away, for cheaper rent, furnishings, bills, whatever.

Great thread. I think Dogger's said most of what I'd want to say (I was at that same conference listening to Fountains of Wayne), and bravo to borderpolice's analysis of the drum and bass/dubstep distinction. A perfect example of how a little bit of technical knowledge, plus some proper...