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Everything posted by Meenzer
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Still a more qualified chancellor than Gideon. Meanwhile: http://hipsterttoi.tumblr.com/
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All scraped from my list in the name of remaining concise.
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He's making exactly the same points as before. They didn't work then, so - even if you think they should have done - what on earth makes you think they'd work now?
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Of course it's Gemmill. Your mistake is assuming he means it's happening now.
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A vegan and an old person who's just had a hip replaced walk into a bar and never stop talking ever.
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I've never fully understood what the point of that kind of reporting is. We can't change owt about it so why let it push Wills/Kate from the front pages?
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Fuck off man. And if this was what he actually meant, it'd be particularly glorious:
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BUT THEN I HAVE TO KICK SOMETHING OUT OF MY LIST
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#100 LIL WAYNE *closes window*
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See that's it, I think I set higher standards for a Decemberists album so if there's even a few hints of filler (The Bagman's Gambit, When the War Came...) I'm likely to mentally mark down far more than I would for any other artist. OTOH I can't have five of the ten 2000s spots belonging to the Meloy gang, as much as they may actually deserve it, so hey.
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Christmas is shite anyway. Embrace the miser.
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If he/they play(s) that at all these days, it'll be in an impenetrable jazz-funk workout version. Still awesome though.
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In that case, make mine a top 11 and apologise to Sufjan for the obvious omission. Stupid brainstorms.
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I know "Silent Alarm" is better than "A Weekend In The City" in terms of general consistency, but the latter has a couple of songs that shit all over anything on the former. The eternal debate on how to judge an album, I suppose - by "average rating" or in terms of those few tracks that really do it for you even in the presence of some obvious filler?
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See, this should theoretically be easier, since my taste should have shifted less in the meantime. But it's not. Anyway, a fairly spontaneous brainstorm again: The Mountain Goats - The Life Of The World To Come Red Sparowes - Every Red Heart Shines Toward the Red Sun The Cooper Temple Clause - Kick Up The Flames, And Let The Fire Burn Loose iLiKETRAiNS - Progress Reform Trisha Yearwood - Heaven, Heartache And The Power Of Love The Gift - Film Christian Kjellvander - Songs From A Two-Room Chapel Justin Townes Earle - Midnight At The Movies Kathy Mattea - Coal Sigur Rós - () No room for a Decemberists album despite them being arguably the most sing-a-longable band of the decade. I may have to rethink this.
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There's a few nice away days in there (and a few nightmares).
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I like them generally pre-Richey's disappearance, but aye, saying Holy Bible is their best album is like saying George Weah is Liberia's best footballer, it's true but it doesn't tell half the story.
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I loike her. She's spunky.
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Being my formative years musically, there'd be a list of what I loved at the time and a list of what I love now (but didn't necessarily hear at the time), and they'd probably look quite different. We're talking about a period when I evolved from a metalhead to... well, a Eurovision-loving metalhead who likes other things too. But anyway, here's a brainstorm of ten albums that I devoured ravenously and that can probably be said to have shaped me, one way or another: Therapy? - Troublegum Godspeed You! Black Emperor - F# A# ∞ Manic Street Preachers - The Holy Bible The Loud Family - Plants And Birds And Rocks And Things Tom Waits - Bone Machine Strapping Young Lad - City Sigur Rós - Ágætis byrjun Anthrax - Sound Of White Noise Eels - Electro-Shock Blues Rico - Sanctuary Medicines Even if they're predominantly quite mainstream choices and a few of them may seem a little gauche to the all-grown-up me, I'll stand up for them as 90s classics one and all.
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Wasn't named in the travelling squad. Has someone dropped out?
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Simplistic lo-fi guitar music as protest tool. We really are back in the 80s.