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Methinks you are giving them too much credit. The Editors are okay-ish; I listen to them now and then but I just cannot get inspired by their stuff.

Tortoise & Bonnie 'Prince' Billy "The Brave and The Bold"

I've been a subscriber for about 3 years to R&EB. I found them on a search engine whilst looking for robotic things. You get a free cd (sometimes two) of compilation discs from different independent labels. The A5 magazine you get with it is full of reviews of bands you've never heard of, but you now want to get into because the reviews are so brilliantly written!

I think you get about 3 mags a year. it's really cheap to subscribe to it. You can pay via Paypal too.

Shark Batter records is run by someone who is a member of Dawn of The Replicants.

**** Me USA

Right now I'm listening to NOTHING.
Just bought a new cd receiver, fresh out of the box.
And guess what?
It's a DOA! (Dead On Arrival)

Blondie Eat to The Beat

One of my favourite Blondie albums ever and criminally, I’ve not listened to it for many, many years.

So many years in fact that I’ve only just realised that Sound-A-Sleep is clearly based on Pachelbel's Canon in D major – the same piece of music that Eno used for Discreet Music, that Village People creator Jacques Morali used for Go West, that The Farm used for Altogether Now and John Foxx used for Harmonia Mundi on Cathedral Oceans iii!

Yeah, all of the ones that are still in print. I'd love to get hold of the ones I don't have. I envy people who've got the whole set & have been into R&EB from the start, the lucky devils.

WOW! It's my favourite Blondie album too. Much better than 'Parallel Lines', more mature fleshed-out sounding. They reached their peak on 'ETTB' & then went all safe & commercial on us.