I hate it, despite one or two good songs. It's simple, I don't want to spend 80 minutes with that fucking man baby Pink. After Animals, this was an astonishing drop in quality.

Almost at the halfway mark re-reading Book of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe. I last read it years ago and wish I hadn't waited as long to re-read it. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/7c/Wolfe_shadow_%26_claw.jpg Cheers – I'd somehow never heard of this and picked it up after seeing your post...

Almost at the halfway mark re-reading Book of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe. I last read it years ago and wish I hadn't waited as long to re-read it.

jimmy spako wrote: Sun Oct 27, 2024 1:07 pm

That's pretty great. The last thing I listened to with Beins was his collaboration with Nuemann on the 2002 album Lidingö on Erstwhile.

These following compilations are all worthwhile. V/A : African Scream Contest - Raw & Psychedelic Afro Sounds from Benin & Togo 70s V/A : African Scream Contest Vol​.​2 - Benin 1963​-​1980 V/A - Bobo yéyé: Belle époque in Upper Volta Emahoy Tsege Mariam Gebru - Jerusalem (or any of her other...

Some other favorites of mine from 1994

Another Thought - Arthur Russell
New Plastic Ideas - Unwound
SAW II - Aphex Twin
For Victory - Bolt Thrower

Kali Malone - Does Spring Hide Its Joy for those of us who don't have 5 hours of spare time, got a favorite track? No favourite track but there are three versions of the same three part suite so I'd start with V1.1, from the shortest version. If you like it you may want to continue as it's quite si...

2023 albums worth a mention: Passéisme - Alternance Cattle Decapitation - Terrasite Swans - The Beggar Afterbirth - If But Not Of Reverend Kristin Michael Hayter - Saved! Sermon - Of Golden Verse Wormhole - Almost Human Kali Malone - Does Spring Hide Its Joy Shackleton & Zimpel - In The Cell of ...

When one of our puppies is naughty, my wife often says "Oh, you're a little monkey". Not funny in itself, but the way she says it in such an affectionate way is one of those little things I love about her. Replacing any number of possible expletives.

They are little monkeys.

This is a good one.