Happy Face

So the NUSC are resigned to not being able to work with the current board?

I'm miles behind. Well that's something to look forward too.

Just for those like Parky to whom a name means nada..... RAAAWK! Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!! - Good time fun from the bloke I thought was a miserablist. Best Moment = Today's Lesson (3:29) Elbow - Seldom seen kid - Wheras Coldplay do the U2 trick off over producing the biggest stadium rock sound they possibly can, Elbow create some absolutley MASSIVE tracks with none of it sounding as forced, just an overdriven guitar is all you need. Best Moment = Grounds for Divorce (1:15) Wolf Parade - At Mount Zoomer - Another group with a track called Grounds for divorce That was on the last album though, this one is almost as good as that classic. Best Moment = Language City (4:13) TV on the Radio - Dear Science - Just found out in this thread they're too popular to like I've not been so sad since The Arcade Fire sold too many records. Anyway, I'm sure it's ok to like this rock, Dudes with afros are great. Best Moment = Dancing Choose (2:17) Black Mountain - In The Future - Can sprawl off into lengthy bouts of tedium, but when they've got a crunchy riff and they can keep it succinct there's nothing better. Like on Best Moment = Stormy High (2:45) Extreme - Saudades de Rock - Don't anyone bother. Just a personal thing. Favourite rock band of my youth after Queen droppedreunited in full. Best Moment = Take Us Alive (0:00) Marnie Stern - This Is It and I Am It and You Are It and So Is That and He Is It and She Is It and It Is It and That Is That - If it was the eighties again and Eddie Van Halen was a woman and he wanted to release something up there with Eruption, he'd release this. Best Moment = Roads? Where we're going we don't need Roads (0:38) PAAAWP! Vampire Weekend - This years Strokes with a bit of Paul Simon hoyed in. Unfortunately overhyped before the album even came out. Best Moment = Walcott (2:46) Camille - Music Hole - French mentalist makes like the bloke in Police Academy and builds songs on the whole around noises from her music hole. Best Moment = Money Note (4:28 - she just wants to beat Mariah) Jamie Lidell - Jim - Full on pop departure. You know on Midnite Vultures when Beck tried to do Prince but fell short? Well Jamie Lidell does too, but he has a far better crack at it. Best Moment = Hurricaine (2:26) Hot Chip - Made In The Dark - I can't be doing with the slower tracks, but the first half of the album is almost perfect and more than makes up for the second half. The great thing is, other people have the opposite opinion. Best Moment = Out At The Pictures (1:06) Santogold - Santogold - I'm going to be lazy and say she's this years M.I.A. She's not really, but basically she is. Spank Rock are involved too, wahey. Best Moment = Lights Out Girl Talk - Feed The Animals - An onslaught of sample after sample of the most popular tracks. The samples are so short he can give it away for free without clearance on any of them. Best Moment = Dip in at any moment and it'll be good, and if it's not it will be within 15 seconds. The Dodos - Visiter - Not really Pop but I don't have too much acousticy stuff. Some gorgeous stuuff. Best Moment = Joe's Waltz (3:50) Jim Noir - Jim Noir - Might find it sickly sweet like Andrew Bird or The Boy Least Likely To, personally I think it's the loveliest bounciest most uplifting thing out this year. Best Moment = Happy Day Today Bon Iver - As I say, one I'm only just coming round to. Far too depressing to enjoy, But some of it just cuts your heart in two. Laura Marling - Alas I cannot Swim - Just a young lass who writes and sings some of the lovliest songs on her acoustic. HIP HAAWP! Atmosphere - When Life Gives You Lemons, You Paint That Shit Gold - Though it doesn't have any one track as good as That Night off the last album, there's still lots to enjoy with a bitter edge. Best Moment = You (Fraggle Rock Stylee) Dan Le Sac Vs Scroobius Pip - Angles - The rule is that British Rap can only be done for laughs and that's largely how he plays it, very well, but Letter From God To Man is brilliant without self mocking, and luckily Radiohead agreed to the sample that delayed an official release for so long. Best Moment = Letter From God To Man (3:00 - gets all drum and bass on your arse) The Cool Kids - The Bake Sale - Stripped down to the bare minimum flicking it's nose at the shite in the charts, just flows and beats from start to finish. Best Moment = Mikey Rocks GZA/Genius - Pro Tools - To be honest, I've not got throught the whole album. I include it only because 0% Finance has had more listens than any GZA track on my ipod than Liquid Swords. Truly a one track classic. ELECTRAAAWNIC! Fujiya & Miyagi - Last year wasn't it? Either way, absolutley brilliant Ratatat - LP3 - They drop the rap and go all out electric. Best Moment = Shiller (put some good headphones on and turn it up full) Fuck Buttons - Noise, distortion, wailing banshees ten minute dirges. It's all lush, especially when accompanied by delicate bells and that. Best Moment = Sweet Love For Mother Earth (6:05) NOMO - Ghost Rock - This one beat me. Had to check Amazon. "owes as much to Can, Eno, and MIA as it does to Kuti, Francis Bebey, and Funkadelic. There's no loss of steam as this Michigan collective incorporates new influences. NOMO breaks through with a matured and developed sound that's fully their own. They've shared stages with Earth Wind And Fire, Konono No. 1, Sharon Jones, and Dan Deacon. RIYL: Konono No. 1, Can, Fela Kuti, Charles Mingus, MIA, Radiohead." So there you are. Best Moment = Brainwave Hercules and Love Affair - Hercules and Love Affair - Another one track album as far as I'm concerned, Hercules Theme is quality.

Love that clip.

David Kelly did a few pages back. Can you do one please? And break it down into genres..thanks.

So you do think Happy Face arguing himself into a position where he was sitting squarely along-side US Christian Neo-Cons was funny. Me too. You're mad as a fucking balloon Fop You don't pay attention, this is why you end up where you do. (sitting squarely in-between US Christian Neo-Cons in this case ) I pay attention, I just don't see why it's such an issue for you. I'm sure I align with conservative christian beliefs on many many things. I reckon the christian conservative group in the US that complained about this are also against....I don't know....let's say...murder. Are you pro-murder or squareley and wholly in the neo-con camp (on that issue) you utter fucking imbecile? I'm sure you do as well , you clearly do on this issue. [now have you 1) gone back and read through the entire thread until you've seen what you missed? Or 2) decided to stop pretending you missed it? ] I had done option 1 prior to my previous post. Now, are you pro-murder or a neo-con?

You don't pay attention, this is why you end up where you do. (sitting squarely in-between US Christian Neo-Cons in this case ) I pay attention, I just don't see why it's such an issue for you. I'm sure I align with conservative christian beliefs on many many things. I reckon the christian conservative group in the US that complained about this are also against....I don't know....let's say...murder. Are you pro-murder or squareley and wholly in the neo-con camp (on that issue) you utter fucking imbecile?

David Kelly did a few pages back.

Freedom, free speech, censorship...... and Happy Face and his US Christian Neo-Con allies trying to destroy the first 2 and bend the latter to their whim. Aye, if you can find anywhere in this thread that indicates what he's banging on about give me a shout.

I can do you a copy if you want. I may take you up on that, I'll let you know tomorrow.

I've been recommended the Coldcut one a few times now but not been able to purloin it. Or was that Cut Copy? Eithher way, I'll have a gander

It's great fun. I'm not interested on the technicalities of mixing or how he achieves what he does, but the song selection and the scattergun onslaught of great tune after great tune was a winner for me. I've no doubt a layman could put together something quite similar (I read he generally came up with about a minute per day, so two months rather than 2 weeks) but I don't know that their ear for what goes with what would be as good. The tracks selected are unashamedly poplar too which has the added benefit of annoying people like Sloop who'll only listen to a mix if they can show how clever they are for recognising one cuban horn section from 1963. If Girl Talk could do it live with Vinyl, i'd be impressed. I take your point about the song selection (its funny) but isnt this just doing the "its so uncool, its cool" thing? Of course taking the unashamedly popular (e.g. Whitney Houston) and making it impossibly cool (mixed live with Leftfield's genre defining Not Forgotten) has all been done before, years ago, without a computer. By the way, that's Peter Kay tastic. "A computer! A computer isn't an instrument. In my day we had proper musicians, they had talent, they could actually PLAY other peoples records. Put a bit of bloody Basement Jaxx on for your mother. Smack My Bitch Up." Nice one grandad

It's great fun. I'm not interested on the technicalities of mixing or how he achieves what he does, but the song selection and the scattergun onslaught of great tune after great tune was a winner for me. I've no doubt a layman could put together something quite similar (I read he generally came up with about a minute per day, so two months rather than 2 weeks) but I don't know that their ear for what goes with what would be as good. The tracks selected are unashamedly poplar too which has the added benefit of annoying people like Sloop who'll only listen to a mix if they can show how clever they are for recognising one cuban horn section from 1963. If Girl Talk could do it live with Vinyl, i'd be impressed. I take your point about the song selection (its funny) but isnt this just doing the "its so uncool, its cool" thing? Of course taking the unashamedly popular (e.g. Whitney Houston) and making it impossibly cool (mixed live with Leftfield's genre defining Not Forgotten) has all been done before, years ago, without a computer. Standing on the shoulders of giants.

I'd love to say I bought all of those but it would be a lie. But no there were lots of albums I heard (I'm fortunate enough to be able to listen to music at work now so I can listen to quite a bit and I've felt I needed to check out more this year because of the let downs of of some of my more anticipated releases) and didn't think too much of. The big let downs were Destroyer, Wolf Parade and Islands for me but I've heard lot of other that did nothing for me. I just went through my Ipod and listed the ones I enjoyed although I admit not all of them are good album but they all did some good stuff. I'd forgotten about that David Byrne album, I must get my hands on that. Also the Sigur Ros album is one I must listen too more, it didn't stick with me as much as their last few but I still quite enjoyed it. I sent HF the RS link for the DB/BE album, if he's still got it in his pm's it should still work. Sent.

It's great fun. I'm not interested on the technicalities of mixing or how he achieves what he does, but the song selection and the scattergun onslaught of great tune after great tune was a winner for me. I've no doubt a layman could put together something quite similar (I read he generally came up with about a minute per day, so two months rather than 2 weeks) but I don't know that their ear for what goes with what would be as good. The tracks selected are unashamedly poplar too which has the added benefit of annoying people like Sloop who'll only listen to a mix if they can show how clever they are for recognising one cuban horn section from 1963.

Amen. If that's the case Chris Martin is Pheebs. does that mean I would do Chris Martin? "do him!" do him? Or just do him? in a stink up her smelly cat kind of way. Gwyneth Paltrow's his smelly cat right? Stink her right up.

TV on the Radio have reached the tipping point? God Damnit! I don't understand the kids these days. It used to be cool to fawn over whatever Pitchfork was rating highly but now that's apparently uncool and you can only be cool if you listen to really obscure experimental folk from some forgotten realm. Honestly, I don't know how they can listen to music with their head so far up their own arse. I seem to remember it was Sloop that made a similar Pitchfork related jibe at some of the stuff I said I liked ages ago. Needs some new material.

Amen. If that's the case Chris Martin is Pheebs. does that mean I would do Chris Martin? "do him!" do him? Or just do him?

TV on the Radio have reached the tipping point? God Damnit!

Amen. If that's the case Chris Martin is Pheebs.

Which of us can honestly say we haven't ever bombed out at the christmas do and texted someone.......anyone......as a deperate measure regretted first thing in the morning? Either that or you're clearly irresistable Wykik, the emotional turmoil is the price you pay for adonisity.

You ought to smash his face in.

We had a few of them too. He had one decent album IIRC, but only when he got an actual vocalist in to help him write some actual songs. Are you kidding mme? Sex and Religion was a shiteous album of unparalleled proportions. Passion and Warfare, now that's and album.

Comes up with the melodies Coldplay plagiarise. Clearly the source should be sacrificed.

FOPFAIL!