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Right Here In The Middle - NOW PLAYING
I tried to approach it as if I had no expectations, as if a new band had recorded it in a vacuum, but I don't think it'd cut it even if that were the case.

Comment by Windows98 July 2016 permalink
Does the rest of the world care about the UK's EU referendum?
I think it's partly the ranking system, which they've changed (although I don't remember how it went before and it doesn't seem that different), but also because it's such a close race. The results would be in within hours d…

Comment by Windows98 July 2016 permalink
Dumb Parent Tricks
Cool. I tried fencing when I was 12 and I was not good at it, although it didn't help that I was the only kid in the class.

Comment by Windows98 June 2016 permalink
Oh you look just like . . . : albums separated at birth

Comment by Windows98 May 2016 permalink
We're getting old, and sometimes we go to shows by ourselves.
I forgot to put Mogwai in my list above, although I didn't see them by myself.

Comment by Windows98 April 2016 permalink
Oh you look just like . . . : albums separated at birth
I just noticed that resemblance the other day.

Comment by Windows98 February 2016 permalink
Miscellany
Personally I won't miss it because I don't miss who I was back then.

Comment by Windows98 January 2016 permalink
Scrobble that year, y'all
I'd be surprised if Bowie doesn't top my chart this year.

Comment by Windows98 January 2016 permalink
Bowie
I think if someone had asked me how I'd feel if Bowie died, I wouldn't have understood the question. Bowie...dead? I would have said I was a pretty big fan before, but I'm more into his music than I realised. That might sound like som…

Comment by Windows98 January 2016 permalink
Scrobble that year, y'all
B.B. King (264) Afghan Whigs (154) Johnny Cash (152) ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead (129) Lucinda Williams (124) Custard (122) Aphex Twin (120) Kristin Hersh (119) Run the Jewels (107) Swans (105) Radiohead (102) Air (87) Alela Diane …

Comment by Windows98 January 2016 permalink
We're getting old, and sometimes we go to shows by ourselves.
This was my best year for concerts ever. I didn't go to many, but all the ones I went to were gold except the first one which was merely good. The ones I went to alone are in italics. Ministry Soundwave Festival (Faith No More, Soundgarden, T…

Comment by Windows98 December 2015 permalink
Oh you look just like . . . : albums separated at birth
I can't find it online, but the artwork on the CD issue of Skip Spence's Oar looks a lot like the above, minus the octopus. Not the album cover, but the CD itself.

Comment by Windows98 August 2015 permalink
Right Here In The Middle - NOW PLAYING

Comment by Windows98 June 2015 permalink
Oh you look just like . . . : albums separated at birth

Comment by Windows98 April 2015 permalink
Oh you look just like . . . : albums separated at birth

Comment by Windows98 April 2015 permalink
Where were we: 2015 music thread
I think I'm going to like The Magic Whip - probably not love it. It is of course not only their first album in 12 years and their first with Coxon in 16, but also their 8th overall, and Albarn has released about as many since then with his vari…

Comment by Windows98 April 2015 permalink
a thread for your band I guess
I heard a couple of your songs back in the day. My favourite was the one you said you didn't actually play on and it had a German title.

Comment by Windows98 April 2015 permalink
I went out last night and saw a band
I saw her album in the best sellers at JB and I checked the national album chart and it's there, too. I think my assumption was a bit off. I mean she may well may more popular in the US, but not unpopular here as I was implying.

Comment by Windows98 April 2015 permalink
I went out last night and saw a band
I actually wouldn't know a Courtney Barnett song if I tripped over it. She seems to be more popular in the US than Australia. Ditto Darren Hanlon, although he was popular here in the early 00s when nobody had heard of him anywhere else. I saw h…

Comment by Windows98 April 2015 permalink
We're getting old, and sometimes we go to shows by ourselves.
I've got nothing against going to shows alone, but too often they involve a three hour trip each way for me, so most of the time I fail to convince myself to go, never mind anyone else. The age disparity thing wasn't an issue when I saw Ri…

Comment by Windows98 April 2015 permalink
Where were we: 2015 music thread
The new Blur single was very well chosen in that it's neither an entirely new sound nor firmly rooted in any particular part of their past. The new album could sound like almost anything.

Comment by Windows98 April 2015 permalink
Right Here In The Middle - NOW PLAYING
I don't think I'm able to rank my favourite REM albums, but it'd look weird if I did because New Adventures in Hi-Fi would be #1 while anything else released after about 1988 would be well down the list. I do really like Monster, howe…

Comment by Windows98 January 2015 permalink
2014 Last.fm Round-up
Early last year I embarked on a mission to listen to every album I own (which I'm only a fraction of the way through), but it hasn't affected my chart much. John Lee Hooker wouldn't have 172 plays, but mostly it's bumped up artis…

Comment by Windows98 January 2015 permalink
2014 Last.fm Round-up
While I wouldn't say my chart is unrepresentative of my listening habits, it's not entirely accurate for a number of reasons. If I have an album on my computer and/or my iPod and I listen to it on anything other than those things, I often …

Comment by Windows98 January 2015 permalink
2014 Last.fm Round-up
Guided By Voices 336 Kristin Hersh 207 John Lee Hooker 172 Throwing Muses 143 Elliott Smith 111 The Beatles 108 Erik Satie Lonnie Johnson 101 Angel Olsen 98 Nirvana 82 B.B. King 81 Laura Cantrell 81 Johnny Cash 80 Beck 78 Pixies 75 Jeff Buckley 74 …

Comment by Windows98 January 2015 permalink
Songs of Innocence and 19 Other Records: 2014 in Review
I'm kind of annoyed that I bought Burn Your Fire and then Olsen released a deluxe edition with an EP's worth of genuine bonus tracks (no "demo" this or "live" that). I'm selling my Full House DVDs. And now St. Vin…

Comment by Windows98 January 2015 permalink
Miscellany
He's taking being lasered through the heart pretty well.

Comment by Windows98 January 2015 permalink
Songs of Innocence and 19 Other Records: 2014 in Review
You're on the money with number 3.

Comment by Windows98 December 2014 permalink
New TV & Movie in general thread
Yeah, I can't think of the last time I saw a show turn around like that for the better. It just didn't have any real stakes until that reveal about 2/3 through the first season.

Comment by Windows98 December 2014 permalink
Songs of Innocence and 19 Other Records: 2014 in Review
I would have put the Scott Walker and Sunn O))) collaboration pretty high if I'd heard it in time, but I always try to get my list done in early December or else I keep thinking of more stuff I should listen to and my list doesn't get done…

Comment by Windows98 December 2014 permalink

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