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DanP commented on the post, The Things Kids Say! 2 days ago
She may be an Australian thing? A ‘Karen’ is a reductive and two-dimensional stereotype which takes as its basis an entitled middle-class woman who, at the nearest provocation, asks to ‘speak to the manager’. […]
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DanP commented on the post, The Things Kids Say! 3 days, 14 hours ago
I too am au fait with ‘lit’, ‘on point’ and ‘fleek’ – though I’ve only heard fleek in the context of one’s eyebrow sculpting.
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DanP commented on the post, Tennis: Australian Open: celebrity v quarantine 4 days, 14 hours ago
The whole thing has turned into a bit of a clanger. We look forward to the Open, but my 12 year old daughter’s take is that the players are experiencing “what happens when you don’t read the Ts and Cs” and that […]
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DanP commented on the post, The best thing you've done this year 4 weeks ago
Started a new band which, in the interests of perversity, we’ve named Picasso’s Ear. Whilst our students were in lockdown, I tapped a fellow simpatico teacher to see if he wanted to strum an occasional acoustic […]
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DanP commented on the post, Happier Endings 1 month ago
Good selections re Bragg and Human League, both of which in my collection also. Tomorrow is a great song, though replaced on the vinyl reissue with an inferior US mix. The album still stands as his finest, […]
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DanP commented on the post, Happier Endings 1 month ago
Welcome to Wherever You Are has, this far out, proven to be their most cohesive and lasting for me. Should have been granted much more weight. Full Moon Dirty Hearts also seemed to get lost as their star waned. […]
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DanP commented on the post, Happier Endings 1 month ago
Should have seen what I was *going* to call it…
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DanP commented on the post, Happier Endings 1 month ago
I’d pretty much accepted the, er, accepted wisdom that Inks (as my Italian aunties called them when they first came out) only really got good from (most probably) The Swing and (most definitely) Kick, but Shabooh […]
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DanP wrote a new post, Happier Endings 1 month ago
I’ve spent this afternoon listening to INXS’ Shabooh Shoobah and Morrissey’s Your Arsenal (don’t start…). What I’ve realised they share is a final song that is upbeat and hooky, that was released as a single, […]
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DanP commented on the post, Get Back preview 1 month, 1 week ago
I was skeptical when I first heard about it – Sorry, Paul, but The Beatles is a story, and Abbey Road can only offer narrative redemption if Let it Be remains “the shittiest load of badly recorded shit with a […]
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DanP commented on the post, No Voting necessary – Your Favourite "free" CD 1 month, 2 weeks ago
Q magazine’s Chill CD was very good and worked as a standalone album. Groove Armada, Who Knows Where the Time Goes, Solid Air: pointed me in a few new directions did that one. The next month was ‘Drive’ that also […]
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DanP commented on the post, Funniest movie? 2 months, 1 week ago
With respect, so far you’ve all spelled ‘Monty Python’s Life of Brian’ incorrectly.
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DanP commented on the post, Suede alive! 2 months, 4 weeks ago
I’ve always understood the ‘tinny’ production of the first as a deliberate stylistic choice, just as much a part of its meaning as the songs themselves. I think it’s sounds sinewy and debauched and wastrelly. I […]
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DanP commented on the post, The Discreet Charm Of The Box Set 2 months, 4 weeks ago
I really like them. superdeluxeedition is my second go-to site after here. But I’m pretty choosy in what I’ll pick up. Demos don’t interest me particularly; I’d be happy to stream those. But outtakes and b-sides […]
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DanP commented on the post, Brian May (*Still* Not Dead! Hurrah!) 3 months ago
Horses for courses and all that, but them’s fightin’ words. One of the most joyful sounds to my ear, that guitar.
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DanP commented on the post, Brian May (*Still* Not Dead! Hurrah!) 3 months ago
They were riding a wave of goodwill here in Sydney after playing a bushfire relief concert last summer. When travelling to Brisbane after, one of the papers (or a TV show?) tried to beat up an altercation between […]
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DanP commented on the post, Covid-19 hasn’t directly affected my life much. 3 months ago
Similar to @mikethep, we’re very fortunate in Sydney. Low numbers of new infections at present and most people cautiously going about their lives. Melbourne is in a far worse position so there’s a sense in Sydney […]
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DanP commented on the post, HAPPY INTERNATIONAL CAPS LOCK DAY! 3 months, 1 week ago
ROBERT SMITH SPEAKS ENTIRELY IN CAPS LOCK ON THE CURE’S SOCIAL MEDIA. WHY ARE YOU SHOUTING ROBERT?
As a teacher of teenagers, we’ve been talking about how their use of social media language has apparently […] -
DanP commented on the post, Best/worst and "bad but not that bad" rock managers 3 months, 1 week ago
McGuiness and U2 seemed to me a similar pedigree to that of Epstein and the Fabs. For the most part, honour and respect on both sides. Midnight Oil used to credit manager Gary Morris as a band member on their […]
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