I am seeking to overcome my own partisanship with viewing sport. I don’t know how I acquired it; schools build it in very early with dividing the children randomly into houses/clans/groups and then having […]

Not much here about the Van show itself – so I thought I might share some thoughts: 1: He looks like he’s lost weight so he seems even smaller. But the suit doesn’t seem to be stretching to hide his girth. I have […]

I think I preferred Mick when he was not quite so eager to agree – so much put on laughter here I couldn’t watch it. I am a grinch though.

Like many here, I have been watching cricket for a long time and I can’t quite recall seeing English cricket in this much disarray since the dark 90s. Such a meek acceptance of a series loss; Stokes and Brook on […]

I had a Bob friend say to me that his daughter had been listening to STC and that he had never played the whole record. My view shared with him and now here is that it is a great sounding record and he wants to […]

Same – sometimes I think I’m done and then I hear something accidentally and then I play him for a week or more.

While I understand the book industry is under threat, the focus on early years in bios remains frustrating. What happens in the latter years, the emergence of self-consciousness, the lack of development in the […]

Right. Who wants to hear anybody do Blowin’ ? But if I see ‘As I Went Out One Morning ‘ then some thought has gone into the project.

Odd – Chrisf – lots of people love Oh Mercy but I find it to be too self-conscious. Most of the Time , Man in a Long Black Coat are particularly so. For me, Disease of Conceit is so bad it could be from Down in […]

Junior, we were separated at birth. Though whatever number Another Self Portrait is terrifically rich.

Exactly the same for me. Now and then I think I’m done with him.

You never got Blonde on Blonde but you love H61R? It’s a strange thing.

I listened to Last Chance to Learn the Twist. The opening “The Music of the Devil” I found to be remarkably bad – an uninteresting concept that is even more drably executed and then lasts for an excruciating 4 […]

That was one of the albums I liked a great deal when it came out. I listened again to “She Wants So Many Things” on my drive home. It is objectively ‘good’ but I find it to be like much of his work after Mona […]

Not sure that Elvis thought so but you seem confident. Many years ago, Musician magazine reviewed his album Struck By Lightning remarking that it was ‘surprisingly strong’ set of songs and was often similar to EC. […]

Well… I think… 🙂 FWIW: I think band members should be grateful to the songwriter. I think songwriters should figure out when the guitar lick becomes part of the song – can you play the song without […]

I mean that AI prompt guidance I provide alongside my students is determined by the knowledge and skills they have. Then AI will assist them to develop their skills from there. For example, it might be to explain […]

No – I needed to finish the sentence in a hurry, became distracted by the meeting I was in and made a human error.