There wasn't a thread. So I made one. Not a huge amount to say other than I have been enjoying Bug Club today.
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I am listening to Black Flag this morning.
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Just went to use a Spotify presale code to buy tickets for an upcoming tour:
How about go fuck yourself.
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Wow, something I like even less than giving Joe Rogan $200m.
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It looks like I could have just accepted in order to get the code, then removed the permissions straight away. Instead I elected to not get the code and thus probably not buy the tickets.
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New Blackbraid for those who like black metal. If you don't, Blackbraid is possibly the most accessible exponent of the art working today and I recommend giving this a go, it's stunning.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1nvPCg6QM5c&ab_channel=Blackbraid-Topic
New Hives for those with more rock and roll tastes.
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Daughter went to see Post Malone last night.
Another of the signs of old age when I could not name a single song by the chap who is selling out 3 nights at the O2.
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Today I have listened to Highway 61 Revisited and am now listening to Slipknot's eponymous first album. One might think that these make no sense together and sonically there's a lot of difference, but there's also a surprisingly common theme to much of both.
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Coming back after 10+ years with an absolute banger. Shocked it’s taken sometime this long to do a music video homage to Evil Dead, to boot.
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Imagine, in 2023, getting headlines out of pretending to be shocked by the plot of The Wall: metro.co.uk/2023/05/25/roger-waters-investigated-by-german-police-after-wearing-nazi-outfit-18848034/
When the film has been out for 40 years.
This seems pretty bad also?
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In a musically related mundane moment, this morning I bought Nige Tassell's new book "Whatever Happened to the C86 Kids".
I used to have a copy of the C86 tape. Albeit much, much later than 1986.
So anyway, marvellous.
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Just won a contract with a pretty damn good record label who have promised to let me look round their file room where they keep copies of 40 years of releases.
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This was playing in the supermarket today. I suppose I might have heard it before and it not registered, but it registered today. It might be the worst song I have ever heard. I thought it must a parody of bad 80’s soft rock ballads.. or, at least, just a really terrible 80’s soft rock ballad that someone had put on for a laugh.. but it is somehow neither of those things. Don’t listen to it. It’s not bad in a good way.
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Riot fest is looking tasty this year
So it order to get ready for three days of fun and sun (I hate the sun), I have oddly been listening to Ultravox, Soft Cell, the new Kesha Album and the Exploited.
Only one of those artists is going to be at the festival.
Chicago: Zigging and Zagging.
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Fair amount of those bands I’d love to see (again). Although festivals can be a chore, imho.
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Yeah, that's a terrific lineup. Apart from the obvious ones, I notice Empire State Bastard buried right down at the bottom - that's the new band with the guy from Biffy Clyro and Dave Lombardo from Slayer. I would definitely check them out.
