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Shaun Ryder seems to be quite an angry young man these days, and he’s channelled that into some killer grooves on this, their first new album in 14 years. Surprisingly good.

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yes Ive heard bit and peices. sounds great. I used to like Black Grape beifly. blimey that was 12 years ago now!!

Prince has a new album coming out too. Called Planet Earth.

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blimey that was 12 years ago now!!

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It seems like yesterday to me.

Life goes by really swiftly when one gets to my age, Brian.

When does your work permit expire?

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When does your work permit expire?

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when I die

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I'm listening to the new Frank Black album now. "Captain Pasty" is a favourite - a Frank Black standard! As a whole, the album is just as good as the first few FB albums, no worse, no better, quite all right.

It's LABRYNTH, idiot!

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I'm a little peeved that Stu has the new Liars already and I've had to make due with a single track stream on Pitchfork

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Have you managed to hear the whole album yet, Marquis? In a year when there's been some great releases, this is fast becoming my favourite album of the year. I can't stop playing it. I don't want to stop playing it. After the hit and miss stylistic experimentation of the first three albums they've finally achieved perfection, IMHO, with Liars.

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I must have been asleep about 6 or 7 weeks ago because I missed the fact that The National released a new album called Boxer in May. They, along with Secret Machines, Kings Of Leon, Yo La Tengo and Viva Voce, are probably my favourite US band and the album is absolutely beautiful. Why these guys aren't huge amazes me.

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Just bought the new Tomahawk album, Anonymous. For those who don't know, Tomahawk is Mike Patton (Faith No More, Mr. Bungle, etc.), Duane Denison (The Jesus Lizard), and John Stanier (Helmet, Battles). This album has them doing 19th century Native American folk songs. I'm listening to it right now and so far, it's...decent. I have to admit, something about Mike Patton's voice recently is starting to get to me. I mean, the man has amazing talent, don't get me wrong. But it seems that for every new side project he takes on he just uses one aspect of his voice, milks it for all it's worth, and just leaves a pile of affected mannerisms where a vocal performance should be. Or maybe his bag of tricks is a lot more limited than I realized. In either case, Duane Denison's guitarwork is great, and the album does have at least one truly awesome song (Omaha Dance). Maybe a few more listens will convince me.

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I'm particularly looking forward to albums by ... Smashing Pumpkins...

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I first recall hearing Smashing Pumpkins on the John Peel show sometime in late 91/early 92. A year or two later I’d borrowed Gish and Siamese Dream from my local library and taped them. I liked both albums a lot. When Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness came out I got a CD copy and was not impressed, feeling that they’d launched themselves into the mainstream, leaving behind the thing that made them different. Of course the rest of the world thought differently as the album became huge and people who had only ever listened to mainstream rock were introduced to a real indie band for the first time. Not only that but they bought the record and made MCATIS the biggest selling double CD of the 90s.

Having been disappointed by MCATIS I was not well disposed towards either Adore or Machina/The Machines of God, which I listened to, but only once or twice. I never heard Machina II/The Friends & Enemies of Modern Music and never bothered at all with Zwan. I quite liked Corgan’s solo record TheFutureEmbrace.

So here we are in 2007 and the Smashing Pumpkins are reformed (well Corgan and Chamberlain are reformed) and there’s a new SPs record, Zeitgeist, and I love it. The songs are well crafted melodic rock. Corgan’s guitar is terrific and Chamberlain’s drumming is inspired. Current favourite tracks are United States, (Come On) Let’s Go!, Starz and one of the limited edition bonus tracks, Death From Above. I suspect this album is going to be huge, though I doubt that it will surpass MCATIS in popularity - it’s a different time now.

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Television + Wilco

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i thought the same thing at times...

i love this album. absolutely love it.

even when i thought there was going to be the one or two songs that weren't as good as all the rest (a heavy metal drummer or elt, so to speak) they turned into some sort of beautiful crushing sound.

and the piano on it? good lord.


i do think it's funny, though, that so many people seemed to have doubts about this one (or most people i've talked to)...did a ghost is born leave a bad taste or something?

you kiss me, baby, in the coffee shop
you make me nervous, you gotta stop

smashing pumpkins album will NOT be huge. that bird has flown