Well Bloody Hell

[David Blee <davidrb@xt...co.nz>]

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> Ordered from the Blueplanes website - gets to me (western NSW) within a 
> week.
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> What was I expecting - not sure. With the greatest of respect having 
> downloaded the "playing on the Boy Lard's" show I wasn't expecting much 
> - I didn't like 25 kinds of love, and if I never hear ..and stones, 
> meantime, mis-firing and pony boy ever again I won't be too unhappy 
> (unless being played live, of course). 
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> And for sure I was pissed off with the vinyl thing.
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> Well fuck. I would argue that Leisure, Broken Biscuits and The Bagman 
> Cries are Gerard at his most poetic, a kind of languid, elegiac, 
> spiteful, thoughtfulness...dark, too. Just totally stunning. He's had 
> his face buried in some great literature, great poetry...Rilke and TS 
> Eliot?
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> The real B side has moments, too; Angela Carter is 
> just.......grrrrrrr...just amazing, Great Movie Cliches., Cancer 
> Song..well it's all just The Best. Oak Apple Day is Lambchop meeting Red 
> House Painters in, oh I dunno, a slow train going through the Wiltshire 
> countryside.
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> I now get a bit of an understanding about Altitude. Makes more sense now.
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> More art, less rock and roll, more Gerard !!
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> fucking just brilliant.
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> On 31/12/2012, at 9:30 AM, Tim Bradshaw wrote:
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>> "Chine brilliance automotive" is the other one I found.
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>> The second CD is wonderful (now listened to it!): might well prefer it 
>> to the first.  "Scratch" is just great.
>> 
>> Just to gratuitously reignite some old arguments: my CD player finally 
>> seems to have given up (lovely early 90s Sony discman): it now seems to 
>> be easier to get a good record player than it is a decent CD player (ie 
>> something small – size of a discman would be ideal, definitely not the 
>> traditional hifi-unit size – with digital output but not some 
>> hifi-purist unobtanium silliness).  Does anyone have any 
>> recommendations (probably better mail direct to me)?
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>> On 30 Dec 2012, at 21:13, Roger Shepherd wrote:
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>>> I fear I may be responsible for misspelling "Laughing". What's the 
>>> other mistake?
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>>> ROger
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>>> On Sun, Dec 30, 2012 at 8:09 PM, Tim Bradshaw <tfb@tf...org> wrote:
>>> Slightly apropos of this: a couple of the track names have typos on 
>>> CDDB.  I have no idea how that gets fixed, if it even can be (I told 
>>> iTunes to submit information after fixing it but I suspect that goes 
>>> nowhere).
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