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grumpyoldgit,

Documentary evidence that the 1970s were more fun than the 21st century.

grumpyoldgit,

Love this! One of the best gigs I’ve ever been to was Pixies at the Brixton Academy, some time in the early '90s. Epic evening.

The Fall - R.O.D. (1986, Peel Session version) (www.youtube.com)

Weirdly, I heard this earlier this evening on BBC R3, which as Brits will know, is the BBC’s high-brow / classical radio station and just about the last place you would expect to hear Mark E. Smith’s dulcet tones. Probably proof, should we need it, that we are living in the end-times. Whatever, it’s been going around in my...

grumpyoldgit,

Lots of good choices from their first album. Then Came The Last Days Of May is my favourite.

grumpyoldgit,

Difford and Tilbrook are great songwriters.

grumpyoldgit,

Well, If you asked me what my favourite Waits album was I’d probably say Swordfishtrombones or Rain Dogs. But somehow, late at night when a few whiskies have been drunk, it seems to be the '70s albums that end up on the turntable.

grumpyoldgit,

Lighting was Wright’s speciality. The Alchemist is pretty epic too.

grumpyoldgit,

Yes, the architectural detail is amazing.

grumpyoldgit,

Well it is a cart horse with a bloody great spike on top of its head. What is more surprising is that anyone ever thought of unicorns as being cute.

Sabbath Bloody Sabbath - Black Sabbath (1973) (lemmy.world)

When I was in school, way back in the 20th century, I used to argue with my mate Steve about which was the greatest heavy metal band ever. Steve insisted it was Led Zeppelin. I was adamant it was Deep Purple. With hindsight, clearly we were both wrong, because of course it was Black Sabbath!

grumpyoldgit,

Yes, when I have used Edge it’s been absolutely fine. Probably better than Chrome. I’d likely be quite happy to use it most of the time if it wasn’t for the fact that Microsoft are so intent on forcing me to do so.

I mostly use Vivaldi now which I think is by far the best of the Chromium-based browsers.

grumpyoldgit,

Exactly, it’s not news. If you buy DRM-encoded media you don’t own it. You are just leasing it on terms decided by the seller, which are subject to change at their whim.

Buy DRM-free or physical media and make your own copy.

grumpyoldgit,

Yes, I mostly buy from Qobuz and Bandcamp these days, and they’ve been solid so far. But I don’t trust keeping my files in the cloud (aka some else’s server), I buy DRM-free, keep copies locally, and keep them backed up.

grumpyoldgit,

I think I’d go for No Thugs In Our House.

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