Alex

Iirc Blur’s biggest song from their early days was ‘There’s No Other Way’. Class pop song Tbf

I was joking btw

It’s the complete works of Zappa 👍🏻

It’s funny how Exile’s that committed to pretending to care about human rights in relation to the Saudi regime, that he doesn’t even consider the casual racism on his part detracts from that.

I remember you mentioning that ages ago now I think about it, SpongeBob. Knowing her I mean. St. Etienne’s cover of Only Love Can Break Your Heart was quality (as was Weatherall’s remix of it)

I thought that was meant to be genuine. The bored look on one of the lass’ faces and the fella just smiling was good acting if it’s fake iirc.

I can distinctly remember me and about 5 mates watching the tv when there was a piece on the news about Blur v Oadis and the race for number 1 (think Blur won with Country House?) and not one of us gave a shit. And we were all young lads at the time. Total manufactured bollocks, like you say.

About 8. Although I’d only really disagree re: Screamadelica. I still think it’s class. Entroducing has its moments but he’s right about there being more interesting artists even on the same label at the time. I got Definitely Maybe when it came out. Like everyone reckons they did but actually didn’t. It really only took off on the back of its follow-up. It’s ok, I think Colombia is comfortably the best thing they’ve done, but it was like a homage to previous Manchester acts with a bit of pub rock hoyed in. By the time they really took off with What’s the Story….the were already like a parody of themselves. I still like The Stone Roses debut but Tony Wilson was right about The Happy Mondays being more interesting. I think Squire is a cool guitarist though. He’s right about The Score and The Miseducation… some great stuff and a lot of filler. And Killing Me Softly is a like for like cover. There was a fantastic jungle (DJ Hype?) mix of Ready or Not though. The Who are overrated full stop. Cream did a few good tracks and lots of shit and most of it is horribly dated. And Clapton got much worse later in his career and agree he’s a gargantuan cunt. Eminem had already peaked and I can barely listen to any of his stuff these days without cringing myself inside out. Cum on Everybody is my favourite one of his as it’s basically a catchy block party hip hop tune. I like The Beatles but that’s not their best either. Although A Day in the Life is great imo. And I have a mate who fucking loves Zappa. I appreciate his talent and some of his live shows are worth a watch, when he wasn’t taking himself too seriously. Amazing musician but nah, you’re alright.

The well-known Panenka Magazine which I hadn’t heard of but appears to be a small, Dutch-language magazine only available in its native Netherlands.

Welcome back, stranger

I would’ve gone with Basque/Wear as opposed to Wear Basque Football Tournament like

I’ve started following his podcast but haven’t started it yet due to having almost waded through the huge Talking Sopranos one, with its hours long 90-odd episodes. That piece is superb though. I lived and fucking love(d) the 90s and it continues to boil my piss about the way it’s presented compared to what it was really like. Mainly because things like the Britpop stuff masks the actual good stuff from back then. But I don’t think I’ve quite seen my feelings on it articulated so brilliantly. Cheers for that.

Wouldn’t be surprised if it’s a completely fake account. Although there are plenty of genuine unmitigated cunts out there too.

You can almost guarantee she’s talking absolute fucking shite about her circumstances too. And grossly exaggerating the reasons she ‘needs’ to send her kids to a private school.

The evidence is there, in fairness

Apparently we’re selling Almiron for an absolute fortune to a Saudi club because we’re about to breach FFP regulations. I love how they just bake something up, then get annoyed by it. Almiron may well end up over there. But I can’t see the fee being far off market value. And either way this season looks like being a profitable one in terms of ffp.

I appreciate a lifetime of being a Newcastle supporter can leave some emotional scars but you can get 500-1 for us to go down

And they blamed Mowbray for the home form

Coupled with regularly getting one over on us whilst having an unprecedented* run of consecutive top flight seasons fairly recently. *By their own, post-50s, standards

I mean wtaf? If RTG if anything like representative (I’d like to think it’s not btw) then a canny few thought Mowbray’s time was up. I couldn’t get my head round that but who in the name of god do they think their owners would have lined up if Beale was forced out after a handful of games? You’re probably looking at someone already there holding the reins until the end to f the season. I know I’m biased but I’ve never known a fanbase so determined to make life difficult for their own team playing at home. I really don’t get it. Then they have the cheek to go on like they have a vastly superior fanbase to us and massive they are and all that accompanying shite

All the best, mate. I hope they can get to the bottom of it and it’s nothing serious

I haven’t travelled much cross country in years on the train. It’s fucking snail’s pace once you get past York and leave the East Coast Mainline. If only there’d been some high speed link planned

Aye, I had a shit night’s sleep. The wind was fucking horrendous. Sounded as bad as Arwin a few years back though probably less damaging due to the more ‘normal’ direction this time. Coupled by having to go to Birmingham this morning. Although my train was cancelled I was able to catch a slightly later one which I was delighted about. It did make think about the hurricanes in places like the Caribbean though. Where the winds are sometimes 2-3 times stronger than that. That must be genuinely terrifying

Paxos is lush. As long as you can be arsed with having to get a ferry or hydrofoil from corfu. The latter takes about an hour.

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