Dr Gloom

i used to love cud. saw them at the riverside. pretty sure i was at that fanclub gig too. i was at that oasis gig at the riverside on their first tour just after live forever came out when some random jumped on stage and lamped noel. that was memorable. only lasted 4 songs then their tour bus was pelted with bottles as they left the club. saw blur at hyde park when they got back together a couple of years back. that was up there and better than when i saw them at the uni on the modern life is rubbish tour and at the poly on the park life tour. mainly because it brought back all the memories of seeing them play again, depsite them all being a bit old and fat.

ry cooder paris texas soundtrack is class for this

if we sell him, we'll need two new strikers.

one of the few times i went there a lad i was with pulled a slapper 10 minutes after spewing up in the bogs. classy

oooh, central park - that was the pre-ritzy bar right? nasty

i'll be there tonight, freezing me tits off in 5 layers and two pairs of socks, alongside the non-london-fied geordie nutters with their tops off. this is my favourite away day in london, despite the fact we almost always lose. 8 bells for me too.

Toonpack vying with CT for worst taste in music on the board.

Stone Roses - Stone Roses Prince - Purple Rain Slick Rick - the great adventures of Slick Rick Tracy Chapman - Tracy Chapman Michael Jackson - Thriller NWA - straight out of Compton Beastie Boys - Paul's boutique The cure - disintegration De la soul - 3 feet high and rising The Smiths - the queen is dead

The best decade for me in my lifetime, though partially influenced by the fact I was a teenager/young man and music never seemed so important. But even if you step back it was a breakthrough decade. It had the birth of rave culture and a hundred sub genres of electronic music, the rise of hip hop into the mainstream, grunge, britpop etc etc.

roots manuva - run come save me arctic monkeys - whatever people say, that's what i'm not calibre - second sun the streets - original pirate material the strokes - is this it foreign beggars - asylum speakers kings of leon - youth and young manhood libertines - up the bracket the xx - the xx the roots - phrenology

howay man, are you honestly saying you haven't noticed the improvement in the board since he left? every thread turned into the same old shite when he posted. now debate is varied and fun again. though CT is doing his best to fill the gap with the incessant jonas bashing.

Anyone into UK hip hop? There are some quality artists out there: Roots manuva Foreign beggars Black twang Aspects Task force Ty Rodney P Fallacy and Fusion Et al

I'm telling you, the agressive drive to completely reduce the deficit (which is failing) is just cover for for the Tories' real aim - a complete restructuring of the social contract established back in the post war years. Thatcher tried but didn't quite manage it. These cunts will destroy the public sector if they can get away with it.

Top 90s hip hop albums Tribe - midnight marauders Nas - ilmatic Wu Tang clan - 36 chambers Dre - the chronic Snoop - doggy style Notorious BIG - ready to die Tribe - low end theory Mos Def - black on both sides Pharcyde - bizarre ride to the pharcyde Gang-star - hard to earn Dj Shadow - endtroducing GZA - liquid swords Roots manuva - brand new second hand Common - resurrection Beasties - check your head Pharoe monche - internal affairs

no. they really weren't. one album wonders too weren't they?

good shout. second coming though? that's a classic difficult second album if ever there was one. i was going to put the first stone roses album in until i realised it was released in 1989. now that makes me feel old.

it's a challenge. getting in a combination of the albums you listened to the most at the time, a mix of different genres you were into and the ones that still stand up today. i could easily do another five or six versions of that list depending on metrics.

blue lines and screamadellica just missed out on my top ten.

the only manics album i really liked.

where's yours?

the whole attack on the the 'benefit culture' really boils me tits too. does anyone really think the majority of people that are on benefits want to be on benefits? it's madness. here's a little secret - being on benefits when you have to worry about rising food and fuel prices is not fun for the majority. hardly the life of riley the daily mail would have you believe. and they're not the ones that created the financial crisis. just an easy scapegoat to make pay for it now.

the tories really are prolonging the misery. and there isn't a plan b. plan b seems to be more of plan a. if the medicine isn't working, let's not bother changing it - let's just have some more. i think what's really going on is the tories are taking this opportunity to try to rewrite the social contract that was established when the the nhs was formed in 1948. and it there's a good chance they might get away with as the public might not notice until it's too late. but let's be clear - a decade of cuts will impact everyone. the middle classes will be start sharing the pain before long. and they keep saying we're all in this together but then go after the poorest in society with more cuts to the welfare state. they're cunts basically. thatcher summed them all up when she said there's no such thing as society. that's the way these privileged toffs all think. i was born into wealth so why should i give a shit about the man born into poverty?

at least someone's laughing

really not easy to break it down to just 10 but here's my best effort nirvana - nevermind orbital - the brown album pavement - slanted and enchanted dj shadow - endtroducing tribe called quest - midnight marauders the prodigy - experience blur - parklife nas - ilmatic coldcut - journeys by dj leftfield - leftism