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Noboru Wataya commented on the post, Lingo init! 1 month, 1 week ago
Ped (‘a natural soil aggregate’). And before that, admonishment (or rather whether admonishment is a proper word – it is, apparently, and not the same as admonition).
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Noboru Wataya commented on the post, Songs about Films 4 months ago
Contains spoilers.
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Noboru Wataya commented on the post, Linda McCartney exhibition in Glasgow 4 months, 3 weeks ago
I was there yesterday too – through from Edinburgh by train with a friend, we rented bikes from near Queen Street station and cycled along the Clyde, stopping off at the Riverside (transport) Museum and Tall Ship […]
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Noboru Wataya commented on the post, The first gig you went to… 5 months, 3 weeks ago
First gig: Queen at Glasgow Apollo, 30th May 1977.
Went with: John Park, aka Pecker. I was 14. We lived about 20 miles outside Glasgow and it was a condition of my being allowed to go that I found somebody to […]
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Noboru Wataya commented on the post, Great Graffiti of our times 2 years, 5 months ago
In the 1970s, Glasgow Queen Street station used to boast ‘Al Jolson’ and ‘Ride the range with Tex Ritter’.
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Noboru Wataya commented on the post, Albums you appear on … 2 years, 5 months ago
Masquerade Masquerade – The Skids Live. I’m ‘on’ tracks 17-22 which were recorded at Glasgow Apollo on the 16th June 1979.
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Noboru Wataya commented on the post, A Twist In The Tale 2 years, 6 months ago
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Noboru Wataya commented on the post, Songs that sound like other people’s songs* 2 years, 6 months ago
Meredith Brooks’s Bitch – frequently misattributed (see below) to Alanis Morissette:
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Noboru Wataya commented on the post, Why put the title track on another album later on….the strange case of Sceamadelica! 2 years, 6 months ago
Jason Falkner – Author Unknown
Appears not on Jason Falkner Presents Author Unknown but on the next album, Can you Still Feel?
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Noboru Wataya commented on the post, Twin Peaks reactions thread – SPOILERS 2 years, 6 months ago
I struggled a lot with the first two episodes, to the point of nearly giving up, but began slowly to warm to it in the latter part of the third. After Wally Brando appeared in the fourth I was completely on board. […]
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Noboru Wataya commented on the post, I know we can make this scan 2 years, 6 months ago
Ditto Tracy Jacks by Blur –
(Tracy Jacks) got stopped by the PO-lice
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Noboru Wataya commented on the post, Pet Shop Boys vs. The Divine Comedy – the arched eyebrow war 2 years, 6 months ago
The lyrics on the Promenade album are consistently great, but musically it’s pretty wonderful too, as he’s channelling Michael Nyman throughout, as on this track (Geronimo). I love the way the initial sibilant in […]
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Noboru Wataya commented on the post, I wanna take you higher – the falsetto thread 2 years, 6 months ago
Like Donald and Davey Stott formed a post-rock outfit:
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Noboru Wataya commented on the post, Songs that namecheck the International Date Line 2 years, 6 months ago
Yesssss!
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Noboru Wataya commented on the post, I wanna take you higher – the falsetto thread 2 years, 6 months ago
I’m not sure how much of this is falsetto and how much is just ‘high voice’, but it’s ace.
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Noboru Wataya commented on the post, Songs that namecheck the International Date Line 2 years, 6 months ago
It’s good, but it’s not right.
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Noboru Wataya commented on the post, Songs that namecheck the International Date Line 2 years, 6 months ago
Exhibit 2 (Big Audio Dynamite: E=MC2)
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Noboru Wataya wrote a new post, Songs that namecheck the International Date Line 2 years, 6 months ago
Exhibit 1 (Wire: Men 2nd)
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Noboru Wataya commented on the post, 6 Music Power Pop shows 1 and 2 2 years, 6 months ago
Thanks, Nogbad – will definitely be giving this a listen. I’m a big fan of Jason Falkner (and The Grays), and I’m pleased to see Van Duren’s Oh Babe on the playlist.
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Noboru Wataya commented on the post, Saki, Pynchon, Woodstock and the Sanjak of Novi Pazar 2 years, 6 months ago
Like you, KFD, I’ve read and enjoyed The Crying of Lot 49, but I’ve also read/enjoyed Gravity’s Rainbow and V. These are, as you suggest, not the easiest of reads – the periodic breaking into song can take a bit […]
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