Metamatic Forums Socialising The Green Room What Music Are You Listening To ?

That's just crazy enough to work! I'm just trying to imagine David crooning a Bill routine such as "Today a young man on acid realized that all matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration ...", or maybe Bill riffing on "Small Metal Gods".

“THE DOOR IS AJAR…”

Ha! That'd be great - it'd be a hell of a lot more interesting than Uncommon Deities at any rate!

Basically I put a sort of ‘chillout’ playlist together on my phone. Usual suspects: Kate Bush, Boards of Canada, Talk Talk, blah blah. Got kinda bored of it very quickly – realised I’d accidentally created a weird ‘café del mar 3CD Tesco set’ with some of my favourite artists. Wrong wrong wrong. So started to spice it up a little with some Bish Bosch, Manafon and two Bill Hicks albums – now it’s spectacular – a sort of audio Finnegans Wake. It’s quite something on shuffle when ‘Please Do Not Disturb’ comes as a welcome relief after 'Zercon…' and then goes into 'The Sensual World'! Gonna see if I can stretch it to 7 hours.

“Whatchoo readin’ for?!”

Oasis.
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I'm sorry.

That's just unacceptable.

I know. It's complicated...but it's not you, it's me ....

GONNA LIVE FOREEEEEVUUUUHHHHHHHHH!

.. it's a kind of Tourette's thing.

I feel quite boring just listening to Tour de France Soundtracks

Joni Mitchell The Hissing of Summer Lawns

Pet Shop Boys "Electric". Great fun, possibly a bit throwaway in places and is that the third album in a row where a classical tune has been appropriated? There was also no need for the guest spot rap on "Thursday" but it is thankfully brief. "Axis" I swear has listened closely to A-Ha's "Here I Stand and Face the Rain". But these are minor quibbles (and the last one is not really a quibble at all) and although I suspect this will probably go down as a minor album in their canon - closer to "Relentless" or one of the later "Disco"'s - one feels obliged to say they have earned the right to choose to do whatever they like. And we have the right, if we choose, to like whatever they do.

Visage - Hearts & Knives

Pretty good actually

Against all the odds my album of the year so far. It just hits the spot.