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Goodbye Dan
@mr2dans
Writer | Musician | Consumer of cheese | Professional stone skimmer "Brothers, sisters, we don't need this fascist groove thang"
Cornwall Se unió Şubat 2012
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@batcountry1980 I'm the annoying sod in the corner wanting to choose Buzzcocks or Magazine or The Ramones or any number of similar vintage debut records that mean a lot more to me. Pistols meant nothing to me (unlike PIL) and The Clash needed to make Sandinista for me to fall in love with them.
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Imagine you’re sitting in the boozer with your pal, and a question like “who had the better debut album, Clash or the Pistols?” came up. It would be pretty strange if you were asked it, answered, and then the person just got up and left in silence. That happens on here a lot, though. Questions are fine, they spark music debate, which is one of the reasons a lot of us are on here. But to not give your opinion, and/or wilfully ignore all the answers, is just bizarre.
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@courtsidewithcp Any Laura Seigemund match can fill up a day's schedule on its own ,thank you very much.
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Surely not - is it just me or is the OOO a bit bare???
Order Of Play Tennis@ooptennis
WTA 500 Stuttgart Porsche Tennis Grand Prix OOP: Monday, 13 April 2026
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@EllenFWalker Well there's Bait and Enys Men, although that's Cornish film making, rather than British film making.
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The British used to make films with significant artistic risk like The Wicker Man and Penda's Fen now we make crap with names like "the bountiful pilgrimage of mr harold pettyfeather" and "the naughty penguin project"
Catherine Warr@HiddenYorkshire
Watching Educating Rita. God we used to make some good stuff. Now everything is 'heartwarming' and starring Jim Broadbent and Imelda Staunton with an indie acoustic soundtrack and a plot about a dysfunctional community overcoming hurdles together and called The Great Scruffthorpe Choir Project
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@SinceramenteTuo Grass court specialist is a tough burden to carry in this modern age. 😑
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Niemeier downfall needs to be studied like I remember her almost defeating Iga at US Open one year 😭
Porsche Tennis@PorscheTennis
Anna-Lena #Friedsam wins the all-German match in straight sets. #PTGP26
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@IrkthePurists But Dexys were clearly not a one hit wonder. (This is the example of such calling out I've just seen in my feed).
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It’s impossible to casually refer to someone as a one-hit wonder these days without some bore popping up to say ‘Actually, Girl I Need Your Loving Tonight got to number 26 the following April’.
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@TheFourthBardo @anon_opin Well I think they lost a lot when Will died and while Boss Drum has some good songs on it, it hasn't the soul of En-tact. It's not people being sniffy, they were genuinely a lesser band at that point. 1987 Strange Days Dream is still my fav Shamen song.
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@anon_opin Same thing with The Shamen, they brought out some great music in the late 80s and early 90s, then they got to no.1 with Eberneezer Goode, probably the most subversive novelty song ever, but it changed a lot of their audience's perspective of them, not in a good way.
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Giant Steps by The Boo Radleys is possibly the finest album made by any British group in the 1990s, and yet all most people remember them for is that bloody awful Wake Up song, the worst thing they ever did. Shame.
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@kostekcanu Beating Australia was easy - where she will earn her money is when she has to pick the squad for the finals. 🤣
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Another example of how the culture wars are so often fought on the ground of utter phantasmic bullshit. Ensuring every 14-15 year old school pupil has read Milton, Hobbes, Book of Common Prayer etc is as absurd now as it would have been 100 years ago
James 🇬🇧 👑@TypeForVictory
Every British child should leave school with a working knowledge of the KJV bible, Shakespeare, Homer, the Book of Common Prayer, Beowulf, Milton, Chaucer, at least one victorian novelist, and core political texts (Magna Carta, Hobbes, Smith). They're core to everything else.
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@kostekcanu I didn't see the match but I assume Birrell didn't stink the place out or Harriet would've reported her to the umpire.
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"Little things please little minds, so come on please, please me and mine"
If The Fall are worth a thousand words then surely King of the Slums merit a sentence or two.
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Is it acceptable for a 60 year old man to stretch his arms out and pretend like he's an aeroplane?
#askingforafriend
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@BernardThoma_ Well there's some amazing Kraftwerk albums you could go enjoy
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just heard a neil young guitar solo and a robbie robertson guitar solo and now im wondering if there’s even a point in listening to anything else ever
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@Paytress Sandinista is way more interesting and a hundred times more influential, but it's a game of opinions I guess. Nothing on Sandinista screams 'Hey, we want to be a big US-friendly rock band' though.
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Album of the year - 1977. What a disappointment they became afterwards, wanting to become a big US-friendly rock band. This debut stands as a perfect snapshot of the times when youth demanded more than dead-end career opportunities. Paid for by one of my 1st dole queue giros.
Melodies & Masterpieces@SVG__Collection
49 years ago today, The Clash released their self-titled debut album.
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@hairball1952 If I were The Spice Girls I'd have sued for defamation of character.
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@itaintwhywhywhy Sulk by The Associates. It's music from a completely different universe and I feel like I've spent most of my life peering out there trying to locate it.
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@greasedtea78 If a puzzle is useless with a piece missing then surely New Order should never have bothered in the first place?
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Magical.
Sorry, but I will take Peter Hook and the light live over "New Order" live every time these days. A proper gig with true heart & soul (no pun intended) The worst mistake NO ever made was trying to carry on after Hooky left.
A puzzle is useless with a piece missing.
Jack Bates@Jack_Bass_
12 strings of bass on ‘Your Silent Face’ - one of our favourites to play these days I think… @peterhook @ShergoldGuitars
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@itaintwhywhywhy The guy opposite me at uni owned only two albums - the Led Zeppelin one with Stairway to Heaven on it and one from Marillion - that he played on rotation, so F them. Pink Floyd had only one good song - Set the controls..., but at least it was great. Queen? Nah, not for me.
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As a child of 70s punk, I have softened over the years to many bands I point blank refused to listen to (Led Zep, Pink Floyd and other rock god behemoths)
Apart from Queen.
I've always fucking hated Queen and always will until my dying day.
And MUSE can fuck right off as well.
Mike Scott@IrkthePurists
Why do so many people despise Queen? I’m not a massive fan myself, but the hatred just seems off the charts. It can’t still be because of Sun City.
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@johnbarrett2468 On the other hand: Ridicule is nothing to be scared of
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@johnbarrett2468 Why are people hating on timeless pop classics that Adam and the Ants churned out at the start of the 80s and still sound mint today? 😕
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@editaurus They not only helped turn me on to the genius of Mikey Dread they also made their best album in partnership with him.
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The Clash's most important function was to turn people on to the Equals, Willi Williams, Mose Allison, and Toots & The Maytals.
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