Listening now and liking it very much. It's a great winter album.

Tea

Mineral water or sparkling

Just finished it. I went in expecting a slow film and I got a slow film. But where my expectations and the reality parted was I predicted it would be relatively light on - how shall we say - pathos, and there'd be a few (not many) 'ugly' (if rather tame) band scenes. What I got instead was a rather ...

In it's own way the Best Days bit would make a lovely music video

Only Carnival of Light needs to come out now before the light of God saves us or something

Novel

Dairy Milk

Lighthouses or windmills

Cilla Black - Surround Yourself With Sorrow

Hello all! I'll be there on the first day - after all these years, a first for me.

It's seats but honestly I think I prefer that. I'm not good at standing for very long. I lower the risk of losing my friends if I/they need to go to bar/toilet/whatever at any point as well.

Today marks 10 years since I joined the original forum. I was a very obnoxious 13 year old but at least I was able to be social with people unlike now.

I have to link you all to Marcello's new Great Escape review. He's really getting to the heart of why its such a brilliant album
http://nobilliards.blogspot.com/2021/05 ... scape.html

My favourite music reviewer Marcello Carlin has reached Parklife on his blog where he and his wife Lena Friesen review every UK No. 1 album

http://nobilliards.blogspot.com/2021/03 ... klife.html

The TGE one will be epic size apparently

All the lonely, people where do they all belong. There aren't many albums I can 'relate' to, but the Great Escape , with its studies of people irretrievably trapped in dead-end lives, comes close. It's often said that - contrary to MLIR and Parklife - Albarn has no sympathy for his characters on the...

Optigan 1

Or else Yuko and Hiro/Battery

Manhoo wrote: ↑

07 Apr 2020, 14:24

I got bored during lockdown and wrote a review in defence of Babylon Zoo's first album because I can. https://lamortdelamusique.blogspot.com/ ... ith-x.html

Lovely stuff