Ayatollah Hermione

Is it as sexist and racist for no good reason as everyone says it is?

Had a quick blast through The Chromatics last night and this morning and only 2 or 3 tracks jumped out at me. Maybe I need it on in the background when I'm sipping tea on a Zurich hotel balcony. Listening to Father John Misty, Dirty Projectors and Tallest Man on Earth today. I like the desperate rush to hear everything come the end of the year.

Going shopping today so I know what my tea will be tonight.

Superb

CT's next thread: "Any tips on tying shoe laces?"

Lovely bloke.

Keep a hold of it, man. Once there's been a documentary on BBC4 about him, some daft sod will buy it for £500

Fuck, didn't realise Bill Fay had an album out! Love his s/t and the album of demos. Will be on that in a hurry.

Aye, it's a bit much like. I love hearing Neil Young pissing about on his guitar though, always sounds jolly good.

They buy me lager though.

Didn't think much of Smashing Pumpkins or AYWKUBTTOD albums. I've went through Scott Walker once as I was dropping off to sleep and I can't decide if that's the best way to hear it or the worst. Kept my attention though.

Same here tbh. It's been hyped for ages but I don't see it like. For my synth pop, I've been listening to the Chairlift record. Some great choruses on there. If I had to pick some albums to definitely recommend, they'd be: Frank Ocean: Channel Orange Tame Impala: Lonerism Bryan Scary: Daffy's Elixir Fiona Apple: The Idler Wheel The Weeknd Trilogy (if it counts as a release) as it's the best way to hear those albums. Killer Mike: R.A.P. Music If you like the rock and the blues music, there's Dr. John's Locked Down, Jack White's Blunderbuss and Thee Oh Sees' Putrifiers For a healthy dose of dad rock, there's Neil Young's Psychedelic Pill, Bob Dylan's Tempest and a surprisingly fun Springsteen album I also liked that iamiwhoami record, if you haven't heard it, Chez.

Seen him live in action plenty of times and he looks a smart little player to me like.

This sort of ridiculous "WELL, WHY HAVEN'T WE BUILT ON LAST YEAR?!!!" is a totally hollow opinion too. It doesn't take into account that last season, while brilliant, saw us be quite fortuitous at times and have relatively little bad luck with injuries. This year, we've had more games (including a hard mid-week trip to Man U in the Cup) with Europe and a squad stretched by injuries and suspensions. At times last season, we weren't very good, we were very direct, cautious and squeezed a lot of 2-1 and 1-0 wins on the back of a performing back four and midfield partnership in Cabaye and Tiote. The centre halves aren't performing (but at least Coloccini can recapture his form, not sure on Williamson) and the midfield has been chopped and changed so many times and is missing its key player in Cabaye. Pardew has had to rely on youth that isn't ready in Sammy and Ferguson, to an extent in certain fixtures due to lack of spending in the summer but the performances of Anita and Bigirimana suggest that the scouting system is still valid and that Pardew knows how to nurture these players along and plug them into a system that works. As we've set up this year, we've been no different to how we were last season. Two banks of four with the intention of being difficult to break down with the ball worked wide to win set-pieces or get balls into the box for Ba. At times, we can go through the middle with Ben Arfa to get it around the box. Injuries have meant that the attacking shape has changed this year but at the back, we're still the same but we're seeing our back four (Santon aside) suffering from poor form and we're leaking goals because of it. The amount of times Coloccini has fell asleep at the back and we've conceded a goal in and around our six yard box has been plenty. Pardew's systems are fine and they are directly linked to the successes of last season. Yes, they're basic but I don't recall much complaints when these basic systems got us 2nd top in November. Or when we were in Europe by April. It's this growing trend of some people on here that the nebulous "Pardew" is in the wrong without taking any external factors into account. I think Pardew's subs have been poor at times, in the sense of personnel and how late he's been leaving them and the insistence on Krul punting it up field when you have players like Santon and Coloccini to bring it out from the back infuriates me but I like his philosophy of setting us up to be hard to beat first and foremost. It's just this season, our defensive play has been shocking and it'd be a blinkered man that won't say Coloccini and Williamson have been equally to blame, not to mention Tiote's reckless passing in our own half. We'll stamp out the shite, we'll get players back in form and we'll be fine. There's a bigger context to everything at a football club and running every single moment under a microscope achieves nothing productive when talking about it.

See? This isn't relevant football discussion. We're in a bad run of form ffs with the rest of the season to go. It's just talking about whatever unfiltered thing pops into your mind.

It's been the same four discussion points for months, man. There's nowt more to say. If the threads weren't full of reactionary nonsense, I'd be in them more often. There's never any news, really so there's no merit in discussing if Pardew should be gone (fucking hell!) or the finer points of the squad when it's the same things being said over and over. Nothing is taken in any recent context anyway, just long-standing, out-dated stubborn opinion so the discussions are completely irrelevant.

No doubt he's a good pro and all that. I hope we go one better and sign Kanu this time.

He's probably scared to celebrate in case he smashes his rib cage apart on the frosty pitch.

Shefki Kuqi: Better than Pique IMHO.

I get most of my football discussion out of the way with my mates immediately after the matches tbh. I don't sit about thinking about it all week, what's the point? Not like we can do owt about it

Not many people can say they told Lennon and Coltrane a thing or two. RIP.

You're an idiot though

Neil Young album is mint. Wish there was better drumming though.

Just remembered Gaslight Anthem - 59 Sound Hold Steady - Boys and Girls in America The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - S/T Ryan Adams - Heartbreaker Beck - Sea Change Songs:Ohia - Didn't it Rain

Nothing about that 5th placed finish suggests that he's got to grips with this management lark yet.