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Leicester Bangs commented on the post, A Streetcar Named Desire 1 month, 3 weeks ago
Getting Mrs Bangs on board is partly my thinking behind behind badging it the Year of Classics. The idea is a varied diet of established oldies, recent adaptations and even — in the case of The Scarlet Letter — […]
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Leicester Bangs commented on the post, A Streetcar Named Desire 1 month, 3 weeks ago
Well, there can be only one winner, and you’re it!
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Leicester Bangs commented on the post, A Streetcar Named Desire 1 month, 3 weeks ago
Nobody fancy a crack at the sampled dialogue? Clue number one, the dialogue was:
Stella: “You didn’t need to be so cruel to someone as alone as she is.”
Stanley: “The delicate article she is.”
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Leicester Bangs wrote a new post, A Streetcar Named Desire 1 month, 3 weeks ago
Year: 1951
Director: Elia Kazan
Damn. My NY resolution is to consume more of the classics in one form or another, and the project began strongly with films of A Man For All Seasons (1966), The Crucible […]
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Leicester Bangs commented on the post, Afterword Room 101. 2 months, 2 weeks ago
Twitter. And how I can’t stop myself clicking on it. See also MailOnline.
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Leicester Bangs commented on the post, Let’s show those Quietus people what a proper list looks like! 2 months, 3 weeks ago
Good to see another vote for I Like Trains. My favourite by a distance.
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Leicester Bangs commented on the post, This week I discovered……. 2 months, 3 weeks ago
That Suede’s Mat Osman and TV egghead Richard Osman are brothers.
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Leicester Bangs commented on the post, Let’s show those Quietus people what a proper list looks like! 2 months, 3 weeks ago
Just ten from me…
1. I Like Trains – Kompromat
2. Vladislav Delay, Sly Dunbar & Robbie Shakespeare – 500 Push Up
3. Sky Cries Mary – Secrets Of A Red Planet
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Leicester Bangs commented on the post, Blogger Takeover LXIX 3 months, 2 weeks ago
Up until this very moment I thought the same!
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Leicester Bangs commented on the post, National Album Day 4 months, 2 weeks ago
Yeah, I thought and still think they were absolutely brilliant. Along with Trevor Horn they were the catalyst for a lifelong love of studio-as-instrument music. The loops! The film-dialogue! The riffs! Giorgio […]
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Leicester Bangs commented on the post, National Album Day 4 months, 3 weeks ago
My 4CD set of Flaunt It by Sigue Sigue Sputnik arrived this morning and it’s very splendid thing indeed*. Just clicked on the link and apparently it’s a ‘National Album Day’ release. Who knew!?
(*apart from […]
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Leicester Bangs commented on the post, Obituaries 2020 4 months, 3 weeks ago
Bunny ‘Striker’ Lee, who invented the ‘flying cymbal’ sound and gave King Tubby the nudge that produced dub.
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Leicester Bangs commented on the post, I Like Trains – Kompromat 4 months, 3 weeks ago
I hadn’t thought of it like that but Leeds breeds this sort of band, doesn’t it? I’m thinking also of the mighty Cassandra Complex.
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Leicester Bangs wrote a new post, I Like Trains – Kompromat 4 months, 4 weeks ago
What does it sound like?:
During last night’s Tim’s Twitter Listening Party for Kompromat, the host asked for four-word reviews of the album. One of the tweeters came back with ‘Electronic Gothic Social Comme […]
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Leicester Bangs commented on the post, Identify As A Hat 5 months, 2 weeks ago
If you refuse to recognise my new identity it’ll be classified as a hat crime.
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Leicester Bangs commented on the post, RSD2020 6 months ago
Yeah, I concur. Folk I encounter are the same. There’s a bit of an atmos to RSD that you don’t get other times. I turn it into a bit of a day out, saddo that I am.
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Leicester Bangs commented on the post, RSD2020 6 months ago
What’s the case against RSD, then? (Apart from ‘store’, which is indeed annoying.) I know that my local record shop owner isn’t keen, feeling that it costs him a lot for not enough return, but as a consumer, […]
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Leicester Bangs commented on the post, RSD2020 6 months ago
I had a great one. Rockaboom in Leicester had opted out so I took myself to Leamington Spa for the day, scoring both of The Fall releases (Live in Austurbaejarbio on vinyl — woah), Lee Scratch Perry, Linton Kwesi […]
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Leicester Bangs commented on the post, Advertising on the Internet 6 months, 2 weeks ago
Hello, I can’t go into detail now for time reasons, but I tried Amazon and Facebook advertising, an Amazon limited-time price drop, and a Goodreads giveaway. In terms of generating interest and sales the last two […]
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Leicester Bangs commented on the post, Songs that have taken your breath away on first hearing. 6 months, 3 weeks ago
This, yesterday. (p.s stick with it for a ‘surprise’ ending)
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