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Thing about Neill is he won't be going to a club where he isn't starting 11 and other thing that may sway him is roMoreeio. Then again after our 12m loss announcement I can't see the club being able to afford to pints of lager and a packet of crisps let alone any of the players mentioned in this thread.

JJ you know I'm not a cricket supporter! (Actually you may of been not posting when we lost the last series.) But judging by the media coverage and colleagues who are cricketeers the confidence is up again. Home pitches/crowds plus a bit of humble pie from the last Ashes tour have commentators getting behind them. It's funny but the success of Australia at the World Cup has got a lot of other sports in Australia worried and therefore they are uping their game in everything from appearance to attitude. It is a well known fact that once football finally breaks in this country the other major sports, including cricket, will all be fighting over the scraps of sponsorship money.

Hate to say it gents but I'd be looking at Australia winning 1-0. It has been to dry for to long and I can see a lot of rain a happening this summer.

Fuck I hate Evan.

gram parsons - alternate takes from gp and grievous angel

It'll never make the LP - maybe the best of in years to come. Lucky it's an mp3 release only

Rob let's be honest if you were a half decent muso it would be more: and I can't find a good shooting up smilie

Thought you said you are a double D

NO plonky! Sounds like you had more than enough Jack Daniels over the course of the weekend! Get to bed and ring in sick tonight if needs be. Too late. JD, boiling water and a spoonful of organic honey is sat in front of me. And you know as well as I do that the ringing in sick thing just isn't going to happen. I'll just go to sleep in the corner if needs be. Don't listen to the anally retentive Scot, Cath - make it a triple!

How could a smack ridden western not be interesting?

That's the big issue IMO - who is the right player for him? I have serious reservations that Owen & Martins are going to be too similar a player and lets face it, we're going to be sadly lacking in height up front. Martins is not a natural replacement for Shearer, neither is Owen. And personally I don't think it's any coincidence that the best Newcastle United team I've ever watched consisted of two fantastic crossers of the ball (Gillespie & Ginola) and two/three blokes in the middle who were awesome in the air and deadly with their feet (Shearer/Ferdinand/Asprilla). I'd hope we're looking at the likes of Ashton in January, not that I think West Ham will sell him as they seem to be hanging on the "it'll all come good when Ashton's back" line. Hell I even now wish we'd challenged Everton for James Beattie. I saw a highlights package of the 4-2 win against Villa in the 96/97 season (I think it was) and fuck Sir Les and Shearer were a sight to behold. Unfortunately the fucking idiots that produced the program did it to highlight Yorke's ability but I dream of a day where we can look forward to watching our strikers being as prolific as those two were together

daft comment, not true and only said by bairns I'm afraid You might think it's daft Leazes, but factually it's correct. People are laughing at the piss poor way this club is being run. It's even gone so far that I hear people say they feel sorry for the Newcastle fans, not because of the years without silverware, but for the pathetic displays both on and off the pitch which the input that our fans give is deserving of so much more. We're an absolute joke at the moment and no wave of a magic wand by the fat fairy is going to turn it all around. Until the upper levels of management are re-planted, we're never going to get of this slippery slope. At the present moment, the Championship beckons, even more so than it did under Souness IMO. Leaze this is from that telegraph article linked in another thread. National media opinions speak volumes.

moved on to a compile of radiohead b-sides!!!

fuck just kill me now - a self authored compile. bob evans - she's alone slowdive - catch the breeze morphine - the night dj shadow - six days unkle - rabbit in the headlights bob evans - sadness & whiskey joy division - love will tear us apart elbow - fugitive motel dios malos - my broken bones einsturzende neubauten - blume radiohead - sail to the moon dios malos - you make me feel uncomfortable mogwai - haunted by a freak sophia - oh my love radiohead - how to disappear completely portishead - sour times the stills - animals + insects

It's not that simple, though, is it? Surely one of the main benefits of the whole download "revolution" (cough) is that it gives artists the ability to release material at their own will, i.e. as individual songs, "EPs", "albums", indeed in whatever form or quantity and at whatever stage of production they desire, irrespective of record company parameters and timelines of the "album and four single releases with diminishing chart returns" variety? It might well still be the case that a lot of bands, particularly those signed to major labels, still adopt (or are forced to adopt) "one album every 18 months and a couple of tours" (say) as the timeframe that dictates their actions, but we're still in the early days of the digital music age, so I don't see any reason why the trend shouldn't keep moving in a more random and free direction. But that's just it isn't it? With the download "revolution" gone is the need for a band to actually construct a linear journey, because the confines and restrictions of pressing play on an LP, whatever format, and the listener is expected to passively join the journey the band laid out by their choice of song selection. Fucking hell Patrokles, you'd argue a pie is a pastie, wouldn't you? But you would still be wrong. I've just finished the beta band's heros to zeros, something not from the "reference high-points from the entire canon of popular music, spread over many many years," and just like the releases from many a contempary artist I can name that you haven't heard of, in response to your points of reference, it can back up the arguement that only by listening to the LP do you get the music experience they, the auteur, intended the audience to experience. But that would be pointless if others who read this thread don't know who we are talking about, wouldn't it, so the best examples are releases people are familiar with? By the way, right now I'm listening to a compilation I made entitled, "fuck, just kill me now" which is meant to help me wallow in my low mood. It is purely and simply about how I feel and being able to listen to it in musical terms BUT it isn't about what the various artists on it intended and that is what is wrong about your arguement on this subject. LP releases are about the auteur's projection of their music, compiles and hits type releases are nothing more that a collection of moments throw together and the two are nothing alike bar the size of the disc they are upon.

Try juju by Wayne Shorter if you like a kind of blue.

Up until that point you almost sounded knowledgeable. The artists of the dowap period of jazz are represented by their "best of" releases purley because some mulitnational record exec decided to repackage what they had in their archive and most LP releases by 60s girl groups were nothing more than a best of anyway! The best example is mowtown, a record company whose whole success was on their release of singles. Back to dowop jazz, you cannot convince me that juju by Wayne Shorter, Charlie Parker with strings or a kind of blue (just three example from the bebop to dowop period that spring to mind) can be dismissed as pale second rate releases when compared to some A'n'R wankers choice of "hits" by the same artist! By the way, the question wasn't about "the bands themselves" the question was, "Is mp3 and other downloadable music the death of the lp (long playing) release? Singles will always be the "commerical" necessity of the industry but singles are the reason why mp3 distributed music will grow and grow and the concept of the LP journey is dying. Patrokles, I do apologise I have made mistake and had a brain fade, confusing doo-wap and dobop jazz. My mistake, hence I will apologise and not cover my mistake by deleting my post, allowing the world and gemmill (Hi Scotty) the opportunity to see I am a tool. But further to the discussion, you are still incorrect because let's be honest doo-wap as a genre is just a collection of traditional songs (hit singles in other words) performed as nothing more than barber's quartets or as non gender specific mowtown girl band sound-a-likes. Just for clarification, an LP isn't just the sum of 12 plus tracks, any best of, by any band fits that requirement. An LP is the white album or Ok computer or london calling or movement or whatever floats your boat. A lot of song from various periods in a musical life lumped together does not make and LP except in A'n'R record selling eyes.

Hope your right dad. (You don't own any Bob Seger by any chance?)

Up until that point you almost sounded knowledgeable. The artists of the dowap period of jazz are represented by their "best of" releases purley because some mulitnational record exec decided to repackage what they had in their archive and most LP releases by 60s girl groups were nothing more than a best of anyway! The best example is mowtown, a record company whose whole success was on their release of singles. Back to dowop jazz, you cannot convince me that juju by Wayne Shorter, Charlie Parker with strings or a kind of blue (just three example from the bebop to dowop period that spring to mind) can be dismissed as pale second rate releases when compared to some A'n'R wankers choice of "hits" by the same artist! By the way, the question wasn't about "the bands themselves" the question was, "Is mp3 and other downloadable music the death of the lp (long playing) release? Singles will always be the "commerical" necessity of the industry but singles are the reason why mp3 distributed music will grow and grow and the concept of the LP journey is dying.

The best posts are always the ones that state how pointless the thread they're posting in is. I feel it really raises the bar. True, but metal is an aggressive form of music where it's about the riffs and the rhythm as much as anything else, so the fact that some metal bands come up with pretty bog-standard lyrics is about as newsworthy as "Titus Bramble has a fat arse". There's good and bad in any genre if you go out looking to find whatever suits your argument. Thank you meenzer, it's about time someone set verlaine straight (sorry the ambiguity of that statement means I just can't edit it. ) He does seem to like songs about girls so maybe he's not heard kiss's beth (actually no it appears he has ripped it off.)

But this isn't about the death of vinyl Rob, this is about the death of long playing releases, no matter what format they are released on. Vinyl and what we have lost between it and CD is just an example (you know for the kids that haven't seen anything but those little silver discs) and now the whole LP journey is being replaced by pop song length sound bites.

Law and order in the next room

Perth is dead at the best of times tbh I was once in a place in New South South Wales (small coastal town called Ulladulla iirc) where the shops closed on a Saturday afternoon - wtf? Ulladula small fishing village 5 hours south of Sydney. Bet the pubs were open? That's the place, the pubs were open Well there is fuck all else to do in country Australia, actually I'd say that applies to anywhere regional that I've seen in the world, unless you're interested in livestock alex?