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Devin Townsend/Ocean Machine - Biomech

The best posts are always the ones that state how pointless the thread they're posting in is. I feel it really raises the bar. True, but metal is an aggressive form of music where it's about the riffs and the rhythm as much as anything else, so the fact that some metal bands come up with pretty bog-standard lyrics is about as newsworthy as "Titus Bramble has a fat arse". There's good and bad in any genre if you go out looking to find whatever suits your argument.

Achtung Kinder - Mark Vernon Is A Gay

I love Steve Watson's "whee, we're all going to slide along the ground in a mass celebration... oops, no we're not" after Albert's goal

It's not so much that I think it's all thrash metal or cock rock, just that it's all noisy shit. Oh baby, pleeeeeease... give a little respe-eeeecct... tooooooo-oooooo heavy metal There's something not quite right about a gay man taking the piss out of me about Erasure. While defending heavy metal? I'll admit it's not your everyday scenario... You'll be talking about football next. And you'll be rattling on about which players have the sexiest legs.

It's not so much that I think it's all thrash metal or cock rock, just that it's all noisy shit. Oh baby, pleeeeeease... give a little respe-eeeecct... tooooooo-oooooo heavy metal There's something not quite right about a gay man taking the piss out of me about Erasure. While defending heavy metal? I'll admit it's not your everyday scenario...

It's not so much that I think it's all thrash metal or cock rock, just that it's all noisy shit. Oh baby, pleeeeeease... give a little respe-eeeecct... tooooooo-oooooo heavy metal

Well OK, it was the production that made the drums sound like dustbins rather than the drums themselves. Either way, you'd expect someone like Ulrich to notice/care. I got Napster-banned from my favourite PC in the 24-hour labs at uni for downloading Metallica stuff. Bastids.

Ruined by tbh.

Sunna - One Minute Science

http://simcity.ea.com/play/simcity_classic.php ...sort of.

It's pretty grim here too. I'm going London-Edinburgh by train later today, so I'll wave at you through the drizzle...

We had two season tickets between my parents and me at the time, and it was my turn to sit it out. Fortunately, my mother being the borderline gloryhunter that she is, the memory of the trek to London for the Charity Shield humiliation a few months earlier was enough to persuade her to let me go in her place. I remember saying to my old man at half-time that I still reckoned it was a case of "next goal wins" - didn't expect the win to quite turn out like that, though.

10 years ago this afternoon, shirley? (I wouldn't normally be quite this pedantic, but it is you, Craig... )

Something in the world of music. I was going to say rawk star, but I might actually prefer to be a classical virtuoso of some description - I imagine there's a far greater sense of satisfaction at a good night's work, and there'd be a relentless stream of poshos willing to pay £100 a pop to see you, plus plenty of opportunity to branch out into CD sales and sit on your arse and like Pavarotti for a while.

I remember the commentator on Premiere in Germany used to keep referring to Ruud van Nistelrooy as "Van..... the Man". Practically every time he had a shot on goal. That wasn't annoying at all.

The new Bellamy tbh

Brainstorm - Among The Suns Quirky Latvian indie-pop-rawk at its finest.

Botnleðja - Iceland National Park

That can't be healthy? Willies!

Baltic-worthy tbh

I would sooner kill myself. Subliminal messages? Apparently if you play Maiden's "Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son" backwards, it says "EAT.... MORE.... PIES...."

Wouldn't necessarily agree with the last sentence, but there's a lot more to metal than people unfamiliar with the genre would give it credit for. Same way that I know bog-all about rap/hip-hop/whatever, so a lot of it sounds fairly similar or derivative to my ears, but I'm sure there's plenty of innovation and sub-genrefication going on there too. I just have no particular desire to educate myself about it.

Roeder's Krul Intentions? Roeder To Be Kind To Krul?