And the pager. Tremendous track.

I thought we might not find a paen to the fax machine – but Rog has obliged along with such other 80s ideas as satellite links and wire services:

We could probably do a thread just on the answering machine. 70s one hitter Paul Evans

More vanished tech. An ode to the answering machine:

Along with the car, the telephone I think is the technological item that has inspired the most music. Here’s one of my favourites: now does anyone know which phone. I’d like to think its an 80s BT Trimphone but […]

By 1970 there were songs about it.

Early Muse classic about the joys of AOL Instant Messenger.

Gary Cooper in High Noon. Unlike most Westerns it’s an exercise in style and technique as well as action and character. Just astonishing.

Shane. Brilliant and rather written out of the classic Western canon […]

Can you put out a fire with gasoline?

Quora says: Gasoline is highly reactive with heat and oxygen, but if there is no oxygen, and the heat is insufficient to start the reaction, then it would put out a fire, […]

Also isn’t your heart now in some third party possibly via a dodgy Chinese organ-legging operation after it was sold on. Sounding less like an Christmas classic and more like Crank 3.

Assertion: I am always crashing in the same car.

At some point the AA are going to cancel your membership, the garage are going to suck their teeth and say ‘not really worth it to repair this guv’ and it will […]

It’s only a paper moon
Sailing over a cardboard sea
But it wouldn’t be make believe
If you were here with me.

Ella your superpowers do include feeling bad because your lover is not there, but not turning the […]

Should I Stay or Should I Go: you can’t deny the will of the people or alternatively there’ll be a second referendum to decide.
What chance have you got against a tie and a crest? In the jobs market less than 20 […]

Erm a little beg to disagree of course. I find Parade patchy with awesome highs but some filler, and PR gold all the way through.

Well I hope they turn out to be more than a lightning strike, but I think I played the debut once and was not that impressed.

What is definitely worth it is a monitor. Gaming and video streaming are about the only things that work on a TV at the distance you watch TV from.

Unless you fancy sitting a foot from the TV for amazon, word, […]

You mean apart from The Word? That’s why most of us are here, after all. For those who may have wandered in in the last couple of years we started life as a community blog on the webpage for much-missed monthly […]

thanks so much @tinysuns – why does it does not surprise me that I am not the only person interested in a comprehensive, exhaustive perhaps even exhausting set of post-punk lists.

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A weeks worth of reading to be stacked up between trips. Can’t ransack the shelves like I did yesterday. ‘I am giving up on The Moon Is a harsh mistress as it’s unrea […]

Thanks but it’s the PDFs I’m after the further listening was a real labour of love