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  1. To display how open minded I am, I just tried it again. Yep. I still hate it. Dreary bouncy synthy kitten music.
  2. ENDLESS LOSS - Traversing the Mephitic Artery NP - HENRY COW - In Praise of Learning. 'Violence completes the partial mind.'
  3. Come on over. You know you want to.
  4. Yeah, nah. I've never found the mix of church organ sound and rock instrumentation appealing. And yes, he can clearly play, but there are so many more interesting things you can do with an organ (no obvious jokes needed here thanks - those I'm talking to know who they are) - Messiaen, Anna von Hausswolf, Keith Jarrett - to name just a few. And then there's the fucking choir.
  5. True and true. I guess it's partly the diversity of their output that has consistently put me in two minds about them. Partly I love their ambition and weirdness, partly I feel they just go on and on and not a lot happens. But they draw me back somehow. And talking about Jarboe, have you heard the album 'Neurosis & Jarboe'? It's pretty good.
  6. MURG -Strävan NP - SWANS - The Glowing Man. I'm settled in for a couple of hours here.
  7. Well. I haven't listened to Swans for some time and I don't have this one. I shall have to re-assess everything, my whole life probably.
  8. ABBERATION - Refracture ATREXIAL - The Serpent Abomination. OK until they spoilt it with a wimpy last song. OUTLANDER - The Valium Machine NP - LYCIA - The Burning Circle And Then Dust
  9. KANONENFIEBER - Kanonenfieber Live at Dark Easter metal Meeting WALLFAHRER - In Dubio Pro Misanthropia. Their new one. Very noice. About to be NP - ASUNOJOKEI - Live Album: Island in Full. I'm going to enjoy this, so fuck yers all.
  10. ASEITAS - False Peace OWL - Crystal Delerium
  11. Then you miss out on the lovely idiom - 'he trousered it' - meaning he nicked it, innit? And Barry Humphries was very old when he died a year or two ago, so he had plenty of time to do what he done. I am many things, not all of them worthy, but I ain't 'high falutin' and I reject the existence of that strange North Americanism in my world. Today...CORPUS DIAVOLIS - Elixiria Ekstasis YFEL - Beneath The Mountain's Vigil COAST - Live 2023 NP - LYCIA - In Flickers
  12. Guilty as charged except for 'high faultin' - no Australian is 'high falutin' - whatever that means Let sleeping fossils lie. As for lyrics - it's like most things in life for me, it depends on the context. So, sometimes I do (care) and sometimes I don't. I like singing along to lyrics that inspire or amuse me, but most extreme metal lyrics do neither and it doesn't matter. And it's one-eyed trouser snake, GG, thought you probably knew that. Like much of the Oz argot that we think is ancient folk sayings, this expression was invented by Barry Humphries. NP - BLEMISHES - Ambivert. Just trying it out and it's a nah. So, GOROD next.
  13. I didn't feel excluded. I was just offering my usual dry commentary. Back in the eighties...well, for half of the eighties I was a medical student, then I was an overworked intern then resident, and I had a young family to support and there was post graduate study. Jeez, I was busy. I still had time for music...I had no time to be in a band, but I played in hospital reviews and some jam sessions. There was still jazz - Anthony Braxton, Art Ensemble of Chicago, but also more mainstream stuff - Kenny Wheeler, Jan Garbarek, Keith Jarrett and electric stuff - Miles Davis, Weather Report, Mahavishnu Orchestra, Bass Desires, Bill Frissell, Soft Machine, Rock? Oils, Magazine, David Sylvain, The Church, King Crimson, Van Der Graaf Generator, Yes, Robert Wyatt, Zappa, Adrian Bellew, Art Bears, China Crisis, The Blue Nile, Steely Dan,The Psychedelic Furs etc etc You get the idea. And I still like all that music. Not a jot of metal until the late nineties. Then a lot of catching up and looking forward, not back to the fossils.
  14. I actually would love to play along ( I was in the UK in the 90's not the 80's - still as a young man though), but I genuinely could not name one JFP song. I have heard some, but I paid no attention. So I guess I'm a Jonny-come-lately metal head, but I don't think I've missed anything. Just say no to fossil metal! And it's cool you don't like Ulcerate. All the more for me.
  15. I listened. I didn't say I liked it Sad but true. You don't know what's good for you. Yeah, but you haven't quite caught up with Ulcerate yet.
  16. And again, I must attempt to drag you fossils away from fossil metal CONVULSING - perdurance WESENVILLE - III:The Great Light Above NP - ISENORDAL - A Moment Approaches Eternity Those little girls were pretty cool though
  17. PANOPTICON - The Rime Of Memory
  18. I'd forgotten about those dudes. I could never understand why the singer would sing in his own made up language when Icelandic would have mystified most of the rest of the world just as well. Maybe he couldn't be fucked learning actual lyrics.
  19. Yep. I just got a Bandcamp notification about this too. Woo the hoo.
  20. HECATONCHEIR -Nightmare Utopia ROTTING SKY - Sedation
  21. I think it warrants a second view and I want to do it as a double bill. I bet if you do that you won't think it is too short! They couldn't continue with all the characters - too confusing. My wife - who has not read the book and has no interest in science fiction - had no real idea who anyone was and her overall take was it looked good but too much fighting. The daughter who hasn't read the book either but who likes fantasy and science fiction enjoyed it and understood it well enough. The son and his wife thought it was a 5 out of 5. I first read the book when I was 14 and it blew my little mind. I haven't re-read it for many years. I don't think the storyline was significantly altered - true, the timespan was compressed and I would have like to have seen Alia as a creepy grandfather killing toddler (but 2024 is probably not up for that). There was not enough weird mysticism and I think Paul's visions of the future and how he was forced to mould his fate could have been explored more deeply and clearly. And riding sandworms is intrinsically weird and a bit silly but was done as well as could be. Still looks silly though.
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