Oh my goodness, PLEASE if you do nothing else do the National Trust homes. If you are any kind of a Beatles fan this is a real chance to soak up the childhood environments of John and Paul. The guides are friendly […]

For those of you who decry Facebook, I’d urge you to give it another go.

My advice would be…

One. Don’t browse it on a smartphone. The temptation is too great to just keep checking your news feed (which is […]

What I don’t understand is how you all managed to make contact woth each other when this site was down! I remember this happening and I just assumed that was that. It was only years later I discovered there was a […]

Yeah i agree. I used to lurk shyly and now dont feel any shame in posting a ‘boring’ thread, even if I only get a couple of replies.

Yeah it gets on my nerves as well. What really annoyed me was one particular user who previously flounced in a most dramatic way, stuck his head briefly back in (sometime last year i think) just to say, “Oh i see […]

Stock market.

St Francis FTSE.

That’s definitely one of those songs where the emotional intention far outweighs the lyrical merit. You have to switch off your brain to listen to it without cringing.

Mind you, I like the ‘minor fall and the […]

This might offend some purists but there are quite a few greatest hits albums I have which I feel are definitive for those acts and i don’t need anything more of theirs:

The Cure – Standing on a Beach […]

That ugly pretentious spoken word section in full:

“Mother Earth is pregnant for the third time
For y’all have knocked her up.
I have tasted the maggots in the mind of the universe
I was not offended
For I […]

Patron saint of rave music is St Francis of Acieeeeeeeeeeeeeceeeeiiiiiid.

I dearly love Funkadelic’s slow burning proggish guitar freakout Maggot Brain, but I cannot abide that spoken bit at the beginning. I need to skip it every time.

This is a bit obscure but has anyone else noticed the bum note Nina Simone plays in Sinnerman? A painfully perfect, awe-inspiring and exhausting performance, with a clunky out of place note. Its about six minutes […]

Oooooh, you could not be wronger. One of my favourite solos! Pure adrenaline. Jimmy Page can take his twenty minute violin bow guitar solos and stick them up his arse.

Backbeat, Nowhere Boy.

Wow. If there’s anything this thread shows it’s that there are many different ideas of what ‘cool’ is.

The original suggestion, Karmacoma…. Well, I would increase its coolness exponentially by choosing the […]

Nice! I think Tinariwen is a good starting point… I’ve had a few 4s with them.

I dearly love Glasgow and feel hugely attached to the place, but I’d struggle to recommend places to go that would make an impact on someone just there for a few days! I love just walking about the city.

You […]

I was going to say the same thing. The bus tour is great for getting a feel for the city and seeing most of the landmarks. It’s pretty decent if you don’t know Glasgow.

Oh very good!

I managed to get a four between Slipknot and someone else, but now I can’t remember who it was and I can’t find another four! I’ve tried everyone from Little Mix to Scott Joplin to Judy Garland.