Mine’s just arrived. Also unblemished, pleased to say.

Also in The Reckoning: “And you’re sleeping with some hippie half-wit
Who thinks he’s Mr. Mark Smith.”

Semi-final

Medium Medium come up against Simple Minds and this could have bene the final. With nothing to separate the two it goes to penalties and for a while I was going to put Medium through simply […]

You’d be right. Based on my one play so far, the difference is actually fairly minimal. It’s certainly not a radical overhaul.

MES often mentions himself and The Fall. The best one is probably in Paintwork:

Then I woke up, then I decided to recommence my diary
Then I read Paula Yates on Vision mopeds,
Then I found out we were not […]

That’s amazing. I think Bill Brewster must be responsible for at least 64% of the sleevenotes I read, with Tim Lawrence the author of the rest.

Round Four Round-Up

Tones on Tail come up against Medium Medium and you couldn’t get a credit card between them. MM win by the slimmest of margins and for reasons I couldn’t articulate, other than their rem […]

Phew. What a haul! Later that evening I, too, bagged myself the Dennis Bovell album via the 6pm cut-off.

Steal! Steal!

Round 3 round-up

I won’t list them. It’s all in the link. To sum up, there were some easy decisions to make in this round, with the big-hitters (Visage, Simple Minds, 23 Skidoo) making short work of their res […]

I know what you mean — doesn’t seem fair does it? — but it was all auto-generated by the site.

🙁

Thank you. The site* lets you make whatever league you want, but I’m sticking to post-punk for the time being.

(*The link, for anyone who missed it: https://challonge.com/2ul8cykx)

Round Two Round-Up

A Certain Ratio Guess Who?
Furniture Why Are We In Love

Winner: Furniture

Maximum Joy Stretch
Tones On Tail Lion

Winner: Tones on Tail

Medium Medium Serbian Village
Mataya […]

Good work! Clearly a band I need to look at harder.

I was at that one! During the finale, which was a long, freakout version of Group Four that had me in absolute raptures, my wife destroyed the mood by shouting into my ear, ‘Are they going to finish soon!?’ She […]

It’s the songs, though, not the bands. Guess Who is okay, but that version is bettered elsewhere and it’s certainly no Knife Slits Water, so Furniture win that particular battle (though as you say not the war).

Round one round-up!

Surface Mutants When Are We? (Now We Are)
Vs
Furniture Why Are We In Love

Winner: Furniture

Maximum Joy Stretch
Family Fodder Disco Purge

Winner: Maximum Joy

Tones On […]

Ah, but you’re failing to legislate for my ongoing prejudices, and here’s one: I have never really rated ACR. What’s more that version of Guess Who isn’t even the best version. I can confidently predict now that […]