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PaulVincent commented on the post, It’s April Fool’s day -seen any good ones yet? 2 weeks, 1 day ago
Although you probably need to live near the Aldridge-Brownhills part of the West Midlands to get full value from it, this spoof article from excellent local blogger Brownhills Bob is one of the best I’ve seen in y […]
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PaulVincent commented on the post, All-time fave – no list 2 weeks, 1 day ago
Seems to be interested only in this one topic and its replies. No comments on any other topics, no info in their “profile”. Odd.
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PaulVincent commented on the post, All-time fave – no list 2 weeks, 2 days ago
My mom & dad knew nothing about buying records outside of those stocked by WH Smith, so Dad drove me to a local record shop I’d recced, where I picked out the VdGG magnum opus and Focus’s “Moving Waves”. I was […]
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PaulVincent commented on the post, All-time fave – no list 2 weeks, 4 days ago
Van der Graaf Generator – Pawn Hearts. My favourite, most-played CD (if you count the transition to the remastered version in 2005 to be the same CD), just as the vinyl album was my most-played album ever since I […]
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PaulVincent commented on the post, Album Remixes 2 weeks, 4 days ago
The Cure’s “Mixed Up” and Kraftwerk’s “The Mix” remain perennial favourites of mine.
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PaulVincent commented on the post, Ask the Massive – doing an Open University degree 3 weeks, 2 days ago
I know what you mean – a couple of years ago, I wanted to find out if I could still understand some of the group theory and linear algebra topics that I’d covered in my OU degree courses. I no longer had my OU […]
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PaulVincent commented on the post, Ask the Massive – doing an Open University degree 3 weeks, 3 days ago
I did my maths degree with them, 1980-1985 and found it an enormously enriching experience. I’m quite strongly introverted, so the “lone distance learner” learning style suited my personality – learning style […]
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PaulVincent commented on the post, Barbara Thompson – Live at the BBC 3 months, 1 week ago
Like VV, this is probably a bit pricey (albeit excellent value) for a casual purchase, for me, but it seems to lie in the sweet spot intersection between my strong liking for jazz, and my love of Colosseum (their […]
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PaulVincent commented on the post, Poll – Best Archive or Box Set Release of 2020 4 months ago
1. Colosseum Live ’71 – Colosseum
2. Wrong Way Up – Eno / Cale
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PaulVincent commented on the post, The Avalanches – We Will Always Love You 4 months ago
I think referring to Jamie xx as “flavour of the month” might also be pushing it a bit, The xx having being formed in 2005, and receiving award nominations by 2009. Time does fly rather, though, these days.
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PaulVincent commented on the post, Help me buy a whisky? 5 months, 1 week ago
After years of swearing by Ardbeg’s spectacular peated single malts, my current favourites are from the Arran distillery (just across the water from where I live now). Their “basic” 10-year-old is delicious, with […]
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PaulVincent commented on the post, Playing in reverse 7 months ago
A few years ago, They Might Be Giants toured Australia, doing a “full album” set in which they played the whole “Flood” album… in reverse track order. They kindly gave away a live recording as a downloa […]
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PaulVincent commented on the post, Older bands still doing interesting stuff 7 months, 1 week ago
I confess, they only really came onto my radar when my wife’s best friend from school days married Rob Lloyd (a good few years ago, now). Caught up with their later stuff pretty sharpish after that.
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PaulVincent commented on the post, Older bands still doing interesting stuff 7 months, 1 week ago
The Nightingales. Long history (second only to The Fall in number of Peel sessions), but reinvigorated in their current incarnation with Robert Lloyd’s lyrics as acidly topical as ever, ably supported by former m […]
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PaulVincent commented on the post, Older bands still doing interesting stuff 7 months, 1 week ago
You beat me to it! Totally agree, and Hammill continuing to restlessly explore new territory with every release, refusing to slip complacently into the musical equivalent of a comfortable old chair, pipe and slippers.
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PaulVincent commented on the post, Artists with seemingly little or no regard for their back catalogues 8 months, 1 week ago
The biggest crime of the Citizen box was losing the lovely, mysterious bass-solo intro to “Rikki Don’t Lose That Number”.
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PaulVincent commented on the post, Artists with seemingly little or no regard for their back catalogues 8 months, 1 week ago
As “artists” per se, a disregard for their back-catalogue is entirely appropriate – art is about the doing of the art here and now, not what you did years ago. However, touring and album-releasing is all about ped […]
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PaulVincent commented on the post, Utopia Avenue 8 months, 2 weeks ago
I’m with you, Barge. Halfway through now,and it’s prime Mitchell. It was a long wait, after Slade House, but well worth waiting. Wonderful to see the mind-hopping theme from several of his novels emerging once aga […]
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PaulVincent commented on the post, ATM – David Mitchell (the author) 8 months, 3 weeks ago
Since you enjoyed The Bone Clocks, I think you’d enjoy Slade House, too – it’s effectively a side-shoot of The Bone Clocks. A terrific short self-contained novel, too.
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PaulVincent commented on the post, ATM – David Mitchell (the author) 9 months ago
See above. And lockdown has played havoc with my Kindle backlog, as I only use it when I’m away from home (no more suitcase half-filled with books for holiday reading!) last time I looked, my Kindle “to rea […]
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