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earlier this week I had a morning of -
My Lost City, and Niyaz: Niyaz, together with Dead Can Dance: Into The Labyrinth.
Good stuff, but I think I overdid it with the serious tones and felt a little bit like jumping off from a cliff after all of these together , so I spent the afternoon following it up with School Of Seven Bells: Alpinisms, Bibio: Ambivilance Avenue, and Lotus Plaza: The Foodlight Collective, all of which balanced out the earlier albums.

Getting a bit random yesterday I'd uploaded what I thought was going to be a Doves album, (lent to me by a friend a while ago), boy I thought, have they changed since I last got one of their albums - (Lost Souls), but it turned out I was actually listening to Muse, , how stupid am I, (I don't know much about them).

Muse: The Resistance, how odd is this album! with huge chunks of MidgeVox, Queen, and shades of the Eurovision Song Contest creeping in along with fleeting echoes of Magma.
It made me think that it sounded like what might have resulted back in '79 if John had never left Ultravox and Midge Ure had instead become lead in Thin Lizzy and he then attempted to create the MidgeVox sound with a rock band.

I'm not convinced The Resistance works, or if its just really cheesy, but, erm, some of the tracks such as United States Of Eurasia/Collateral Damage, I Belong To You, and the Exogenesis Symphony 3-parter have really grown on me...

Little Boots - Hands

Mesh - A Perfect Solution

Not owning any Mesh material prior to this, I bought this album based mainly on positive feedback posted on this thread. This is a cracking album, so thanks for the tip

MemberD : What is the name of the China Crisis song that is played on that link?

Still waiting for "Working With Fire & Steel" in remastered form btw!!
(b-sides and all that is!! )

Scott: there are five or six songs on the player (top right) so I don't know which one came up when you went onto the page. They're all good and from different periods of the band's history.
A nice, different version of "Christian" there too.

Nice sunny morning so now listening to album "Difficult Shapes and Passive Rhythms (Some People Think It's Fun to Entertain)"

Merseyside's second best band after Deaf School
"dees ees fax" as Fat Rafa would say
Seen them headlining in Liverpool and supporting Simple Minds in a big tent in Milan just before Mr Kerr's name was changed from Jim to Juan !

Alright la! First saw 'em supported by one Howard Jones in north western student dive, then in a big tent in Bologna just after the Heysel disaster in 85.. they were trying to keep a low profile and were scared sh...less. "Seven Sports for All" . .but don't mention footy!

Sunny weekend, and glorious here again today too - which I am celebrating with my first week off work this year.

Spending the time with my ole mucker 'reggie' in the form of Third World, Aswad and various internet radio stations.
Love roots and dub reggae, so its a treat to be able to indulge while painting.

I see Jah glory...
in daa risin' sun