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Archie Valparaiso commented on the post, Now That's What I Call Afterword Friendly Music! 2 months ago
I am too late for this, as ever, but my reaction scrolling down the thread has been one of mounting incredulity as the one name I expected to top the list got not even a passing mention. Surely the Quintessence […]
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Archie Valparaiso commented on the post, UK voters abroad 3 months ago
No, I’m not bothering topping up in the UK, because Spanish pensions are much more generous than UK ones (a full one here is about 85% of your average salary over the last 15 years). Instead, I’m having my UK […]
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Archie Valparaiso commented on the post, UK voters abroad 3 months ago
Even though I haven’t paid any taxes in the UK for 35 years, I did invest money in the British state throughout my twenties by paying in all my NI contributions. I’ll soon be entitled to recover some of that […]
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Archie Valparaiso commented on the post, UK voters abroad 3 months ago
So anybody who is a citizen of one country but lives, works and pays taxes in another will always be unable to vote in either? Tough crowd.
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Archie Valparaiso commented on the post, UK voters abroad 3 months ago
Following the wonky logic of some people in this thread, If Brits abroad who pay no UK taxes shouldn’t be entitled to vote in UK elections, then presumably all foreign nationals who are currently working in the […]
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Archie Valparaiso commented on the post, I love the BBC, but… 4 months, 1 week ago
Dairylea Lewis?
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Archie Valparaiso commented on the post, I love the BBC, but… 4 months, 1 week ago
Oy! That’s no way to talk about Clodagh.
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Archie Valparaiso commented on the post, Bingo Little’s Best Of 2023 4 months, 1 week ago
Just a tiny footnote to dewonkify that Rosalía translation. “I could double the time/I could tie heaven up” should be something like “I can fold time up/I can tie the sky down.”
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Archie Valparaiso commented on the post, Jeff Beck has left us 1 year, 3 months ago
We’re the knights who say “nay”.
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Archie Valparaiso commented on the post, Jeff Beck has left us 1 year, 3 months ago
Not necessarily clearly the majority view on Twitter as a whole, and my tweet was in response to my timeline being filled with tributes when his death was announced, but the responses I got all amounted “thank god […]
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Archie Valparaiso commented on the post, Jeff Beck has left us 1 year, 3 months ago
On Bingo’s final paragraph: That’s what I was referring to by citing Jessie J. up there somewhere. For the same people to enthuse about both Jeff Beck’s or John McLaughlin’s guitar playing and, say, Ian Curtis’s […]
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Archie Valparaiso commented on the post, Jeff Beck has left us 1 year, 3 months ago
Musicians appreciate him because they have hands-on awareness of just how fiendishly difficult it is to do what he did. But the technical difficulty involved in playing something isn’t a factor in whether I find […]
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Archie Valparaiso commented on the post, Jeff Beck has left us 1 year, 3 months ago
(I posted this before the extended edit appeared, so I was responding only to the first paragraph. I completely agree with the second one.)
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Archie Valparaiso commented on the post, Jeff Beck has left us 1 year, 3 months ago
Ah, yes! And we ended up kindalike agreeing, didn’t we? (tl;dr: He was brilliant, although his music didn’t do much for most people.)
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Archie Valparaiso commented on the post, Jeff Beck has left us 1 year, 3 months ago
Oh, sure. Horses for courses, innit. All I was saying was that Jeff Beck’s music leaving people cold is clearly the majority view among the general music-lervin’ public, not some kind of weirdass outlier as […]
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Archie Valparaiso commented on the post, Jeff Beck has left us 1 year, 3 months ago
From reading this thread? Yes.
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Archie Valparaiso commented on the post, Jeff Beck has left us 1 year, 3 months ago
It’s probably only to be expected that folks here would pile on Lodes [Load on piles? – Ed.), as if his opinion of Jeff Beck’s music were equivalent to some kind of mad marginal flat-earther woo, but here isn’t […]
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Archie Valparaiso commented on the post, I've got this mole 1 year, 3 months ago
I bought the lad one of those for Christmas. I’ve got the 9. Best phone – including an iPhone – I’ve ever had. Not particularly bells ‘n’ whistly, just reliable, fast and clutter-free.
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Archie Valparaiso commented on the post, Kaleidoscope (on Netflix) – thoughts? SPOILERS 1 year, 3 months ago
The random-episodes gimmick was a bit pointless, I agree, but at least it served to get the thing noticed and talked about. All too many equally well-made shows (hi, DEVS!) slip under the radar because so much new […]
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Archie Valparaiso commented on the post, Gridiron fans? 1 year, 3 months ago
I do wonder how fans in America handle all the franchise changes over the years. Do local folks in Baltimore who used to support the Colts still follow them, even though they’re now based 600 miles away? Or do […]
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