Anna Key

'Parachutes' by 'they that wish they were Radiohead but cannot ever be'.

I was in a record shop (how quaint!) in Sligo and the lad in the shop had it on. I'd heard 'Yellow' and thought it was okay but in that shop the album sounded like it might bear up to a serious listen. It didn't. What a bag of shite.

Nowadays Coldplay occupy a part of my dark heart that I used to reserve for Dire Straits 'Brothers in Arms': music for turds that don't really like music at all.

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Nick

Without wanting to sound like pb, I like Parachutes! Well, haven't listened to it for a long time. Actually, all it is is much better than their other stuff.

No, I'm trying to sound aloof - I like it!!

Hey Anna, do you like any Dire Straits?

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zehner

bravo

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Anna Key

Nah, I know. It's horses for courses and all that. But still...

As for Dire fucking Straits (I go back a long way, see?), I had it in for those fuckwads right from the start. I mean...'Sultans of Swing'. I was utterly bored by it right from the off because of the weedy, reedy, bleedy poor Bob Dylan-esque vocal and then THAT line...(*shudders*) "....way on down, London Town".

London Town? London TOWN? How fucking provincial can you get? Who did he think he was? Dick fucking Whittington?

And then that 'Brothers in Arms'. Oh my giddy aunt. Words cannot describe my revulsion at that utter piece of Ford Mondeo-driving-sales-rep piece of absolute cuntwash. But I'll try...

It has no soul. It has no anger. No pain. No fucking rock and roll in it at all. And yet it sold by the millions. MILLIONS. And that is how you spot a turd - check their collection and if that is there - then be very, very, very careful.

Dire Straits is a 'gateway drug' to shit music for youths who are now middle-aged men; find 'Brothers in Arms' in their Ikea wire CD rack and you can bet yer arse that the...(** Double Shudder and gag reflex **)..The Lighthouse Family will also be there. Then there is no hope. No god-damned hope at all.

Kill them.

It's kinder in the long run.

Dead.

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LeedsLeedsLeeds

You forgot to mention McAlmont and Butler.

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Nick

I disagree somewhat though. Sure 'Brothers In Arms' is , but 'Love Over Gold' and 'Making Movies' are great albums.

They weren't that soulless back then. Only after all the dosh rolled in.

Let me just reiterate; post 1984 they suck.

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Anna Key

Yeah, Nick. I go a bit overboard but it's all just for shit and giggles I assure you. Coldplay get me in the same way. They are weak and vague, sort of anthemic, and there's just too much of 'em about. They remind me of a 6th Form band that played a couple of local pubs even though they aren't old enough to drink.

I'm way too old that's my trouble. Mind you, I hated being young; never any fucking money, know what I mean?

I've gone and gorn off-topic now.

So, to re-rail. Best album bought on a whim....Good Lord....The Wombles 'The Best of the Wombles'. When I was 25 and very, very, very munted.

True.

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Anna Key

No - I tried, I really, really, really tried to forget McAlmont and Butler and now you, yes you, have brought back the pain. Oh, the pain. The excruciating pain of 'Yes'.

What was that all about, eh? (Cliched 'I love the 90's type saying from grizzled Northern DJ type)

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You'd have thought I'd learnt my lesson when I first bought volume 1. Sadly not.

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Mr Pants

^^^Volume 2???? Volume 1 just wasn't enough???

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traveler2

On a whim:

1. Best: Raconteurs: Consolers of the Lonely.....

This album was much better than I expected the song they have on rotation sold
me - salute your solution . What I really like about it is how they interweave
Blues, Rock, Heavy Metal, Country, and folk in their music. It's pretty original to me.


2. Worst:

Hmmmmmmm......that is a tough one. I think it was "One Red hot minute" by the Red
Hot Chili Peppers.

I am a huge RHCP fan! Anything they put out rocks, basically. Not this one though. Of
course there were a few that were good like, " My Friends" and "Aeroplane" but not
much else

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And they started the conflict in Darfur too.

A little known fact.

The cnuts!

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The Dude

Best - Butthole Surfers, "Electric Larryland", they were playing it in a store and I bought it on the spot, great album.

Worst - An Enya album. I'm not proud of it but I'm man enough to admit it.

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