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Restart your PC *Removes IT support hat*

Takes the piss out of people who can't write and comes out with crap like that??? dAFT cN*T!!

eh?

AF - I think he took a lot of the same influences a different direction...Lead Belly, Odetta, Blind Lemon jefferson, Rev. Gary Davis etc were the delta blues artists that inspired the likes of the Rolling Stones and the Yarbirds but they leaned towards rock. Dylan kept it pure, just him and a guitar, until he decided to rebel and piss a few people off. Rob W... "Well, you walk into the room Like a camel and then you frown You put your eyes in your pocket And your nose on the ground There ought to be a law Against you comin' around You should be made To wear earphones Because something is happening here But you don't know what it is Do you, Mr W?"

Sorry Toonraider, I know you said you hate rap but for anyone else who's partial, the new album from Blackalicious called The Craft came out last week and is excellent.

Yeah, I've read a few biographies so it rehashed old ground, but that didn't really bother me, the historical footage was a bit hit and miss. What did hit was amazing though - the Odetta footage was brilliant. 39551[/snapback] Forgive me I was half asleep (I taped it though) what was the Odetta footage? Was it that woman who kept whacking her guitar? She was amazing. 39554[/snapback] That's the one. She does Paths Of Victory on the Dylan Covers album May Your Song Always Be Sung Volume 2

Yeah, I've read a few biographies so it rehashed old ground, but that didn't really bother me, the historical footage was a bit hit and miss. What did hit was amazing though - the Odetta footage was brilliant.

Cheeky little chimp Robbie (is he or isn't he) Williams has an album, out soon too. Let's hope any singles from it shoot to number 1 and take up residency on our TV and Radio before he makes a witty speech at an awards show and has a cry on ITV about how lonely he is, oblivious to the fact that the reason is he's a twat. [/sarcasm]

Ah yes, where Dylan invented Rap

Music is like Tea, everyone likes it different.

Anyone watch part one of the Dylan doc last night then? It started slow but once they got on to his time in New Yourk it was quality. Strange, the way scorcese hops between his life story and the '66 tour of England but it was the DA Pennebaker footage that was most interesting. When he was told backstage that a gunman was after him his line was class "I don't mind being shot, I just don't want to be told about it!" Can't believe it wasn't used in Don't Look back. The highlight had to be when he shouted his way through Ballad of a Thin Man while the crowd booed him. "Something is happening here, but you don't know what it is" - it gave me shivvers. Anyway, part 2 tonight at nine BBC2, can't wait.

Aye, aye! The Late review team are in. Franz Fedinand have taken the pop rock template and made some great songs by following it, like most chart rock these days! They're not shit, just not particularly cutting edge. The people who loved their first album a month before it came out are the ones who now call them shit. It's the same musical snobbery that Coldplay also suffer from.

My 2005 (or end of 2004) top 10 in no particular order... Sleater Kinney - The woods - All female Heavy guitar rock that's toe tappingly pop like. Sort of White Stripes Vs Metallica. Fave Track - What's Mine Is Yours System of a Down - Mezmerize - It's a travesty that they get lumped in with all the other shit Nu-metal. Produced by Rick Rubin whose level of output is never less than outstanding. Even better than Toxicity. Fave Track - Revenga Sufjan Stevens - Illinoise - Acoustic guitars, banjos, piano and horns combined joyously. The track titles alone would give it classic status, the music just backs it up. Fave Track - The Black Hawk War, Or, How To Demolish An Entire Civilization And Still Feel Good About Yourself In The Morning, Or, We Apologize For The Inconvenience But You're Gonna Have To Leave Now, Or, 'I Have Fought The Big Knives And Will Continue To Fight.. Devendra Banhart - Cripple Crow - Moved on from just him and his guitar to a more glossy, extravagant production than normal. Still brilliant, I just preferred Rejoicing In The Hands. Fave Track - I Feel Like a Child DJ Format - If You Can't Join 'Em... Beat 'Em - Nothing original, just good party rap. Fave Track - Separated At Birth Camille - Le Fil - French Vocal pops and clicks backed by a monotone note (and some other stuff). Fave Track - Ta Douler. The Boy Least Likely to - The Best Party Ever - It's a nice album but not in the coldplay dull sense (I like coldplay so don't get me wrong, they just tow the line slightly) it's just lovely and nice and childish but never dull. Fave Track - Monsters Anthony And The Johnsons - I Am a Bird Now - Piano, Drums and one of the strangest singing voices you'll hear with the odd violin or double bass thrown in. I've spoiled it for myself by listening to it too much, but I couldn't stop. It's heartbreaking, depressing, moving, uplifting, stirring, inspiring and weird. Fave Track - For Today I Am A Boy Andrew Bird - The Mysterious Production Of Eggs - His voice reminds me of someone but I can't for the life of me remember who, in fact I thought he'd stolen most of his tracks (Oasis style) but I can't place where I previously heard them. Instantly familiar but never boring. Fave Track - A Nervous Tic Motion Of The Head To The Left

what type of music is that alex? it sounds like trance stuff I must add, i hate Rap music 38951[/snapback] The best way to describe it would be hard, minimal techno. His old stuff is actually very melodic and quite mellow, but this is a lot harder. It was a jokey comment as it's nowt like the stuff you mentioned. I've actually got into Nick Drake lately which you might enjoy. It's quite low key acoustic guitar stuff. 38958[/snapback] Have you tried Devendra Banhart? I'm banging on about him to anyone who'll listen. He's as good as Nick Drake but not as popular because he's still alive. Cripple Crow is great but Rejoicing in hands is better.

Do we have a taker? PM me your address and whatever you want will be there by the end of the week.

If I thought Lars Ulrich was getting 90% It'd put me off ever buying an album.

HERE it is at its cheapest. I wouldn't bother though. Don't get me wrong it's a cracking read, hilarious and uplifting. But it leaves you wanting to go and make someone happy, so you go to a forum and tell people if there's a DVD they want that you have, then they can have it. And the people in the forum turn their nose up at your random act of kindness, they provide an insight into the kind of response you get when you try to make strangers happy. They leave you dissilusioned by the whole notion and prove that people are just scum. Why bother? Being of stern mind I realise that this Forum is like a collective in the name of Raymond Price! I will not let it affect my ongoing kindness, but weaker people might have been dissuaded.

FOOL everyone into thinking you have just eaten an apple by rubbing your tummy and saying loudly "Mmm! That was a lovely apple."

Yeah, loved I'm Dave Gorman. MPDG chart was a thing of genius. Just ordered Dave Gormans Googlewhack adventure on DVD (only £5.87 - quite a bargain) and I'll be getting yes man once I'm done with join me I think.

Champion, ta.

Quality, I like that one. Thanks for the guidance (www.joinme.co.uk is down ). I'll concentrate all my efforts on old people to start with and report back. In the meantime, the first person to choose a single DVD (no box sets please, I'm not that nice ) from this list can have it gratis. First PM I get can have their choice.

Sorry Lou, I was thinking more Carpenter than Redknapp Well done to you. I was thinking I'll take a pack of Hob Nobs onto the ferry tomorrow for everyone, bit daunting as a lone joinee though, I'll have to lend the book to a few mates so they can help out and I'm not seen as a weirdo (moreso). I didn't watch any of make your own country as I wanted to read the book, now I realise there isn't a book

Lou? never heard of him. Anyway, as my first act of kindness. I've gone to the trouble of finding a Calvin and Hobbes strip for you. I hope it makes you happy.

You can't earn much of a living picking plums. Maybe if you'd stayed on at school you could have learned a trade