Ditto. Don’t understand all the hate.
13.03.2026 22:40
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Ditto. Don’t understand all the hate.
I wonder who decided adults don't need pictures
That’s amazing. Where is it, if I want to make a pilgrimage?
Never noticed that. It is weird.
The Japanese pressing had Paul McCartney & Wings on the obi so I think it was widely understood to be a band record but don’t know why they wouldn’t put it on the cover.
Hard agree on the first five. Sorry to admit I don’t know Guided By Voices at all. Will have to keep an eye out for them.
Altar - NewDad (2025)
First encounter with this band. Reviews suggested dream-pop, but Julie Dawson’s cool vocal riding over propulsive guitars and a driving rhythm feels closer to indie rock. As if Hope Sandoval from Mazzy Star was the singer with The Cranberries. Hazy rock?
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Irish Rock ’n Roll - The Mary Wallopers (2023)
Not a reinvention along the lines of Lankum. This is traditional Irish folk, just played with punk energy. Rowdy, funny and politically charged, this is music to sing along to with a pint in hand. The natural heirs to The Pogues.
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I think you’ve nailed why Chopper is such a great story. Chopper is the one we’re rooting for but if Dredd didn’t pull the trigger at the end because he wanted a happy ending for Chopper, it would be like the shark giving up & swimming away instead of eating Quint.
Any other stories which do this?
Talk Talk - The Colour of Spring (1986)
Never able to find a good original pressing of any Talk Talk albums, so I got the 2014 reissue instead. It’s low noise with a decent soundstage, which suits the quiet moments on this album, as it’s surprisingly meditative for the mid-80s.
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Hot take:
As much as I enjoy a great Judge Dredd hero story, the best Dredd is Dredd as the shark in Jaws. A dead eyed killer, tuned only to the word of the law.
The heroes should be the citizens, and the best one should ever hope for is Dredd silently, if briefly, seeing you as having a point.
The Frames - Fitzcarraldo (1995)
The Frames were always on the sidelines of Irish music, known for their live shows, but never really excelling in the studio. “Revelate” was a revelation (pun intended), showcasing Hansard’s songwriting and Mac Con Iomaire’s textured violins.
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Thin Lizzy - Jailbreak (1976)
Ireland was economically stagnant and culturally conservative. Thin Lizzy were a hard-rock band and the combination of twin-guitar harmonies, lyrical storytelling and Phil Lynott’s swaggering genius, reinvented Irish music. This is their masterpiece.
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Given how fresh the first album sounds, even now, I can understand that. How did it sound when you finally heard the second album? Did it seem like more of the same at the time?
Don’t Look Back - Boston (1978)
Production is immaculate, guitars are glorious, vocals soar, but it is a bit too smooth.
I know that’s unfair and it only seems formulaic to me now because Boston defined the formula, but I guess my modern ears want more than technical mastery.
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Los Lobos - How will the Wolf Survive? (1984)
For some reason, this sounded very familiar to me.
Halfway through side one, it clicked. Steady 4/4 beat, accordion, fiddle? This is Irish Country & Western. You could two-step to it in any rural hall in Roscommon.
Small world.
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Mazey Fade - Secret Watchers Built the World (1994)
Bought this without any idea what it was. Turns out it’s Noise Rock from early 90s Liverpool.
No hummable hooks. No uplifting choruses. Just the sound of something being noisily taken apart. Quite the antidote to Britpop.
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I know it is the wrong answer. Rumours is obviously the band’s masterpiece, an objectively perfect record, but I have always loved the gloriously expensive weirdness of Tusk.
Drop an album that was important to you when you were nineteen.
Did it occur to the bar owner that people queuing is not that they don’t understand the old system, rather an indication that the old system wasn’t working?
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Guess you'd call this the... Wok Of Shame.
The more classic films I watch the more references I can see in other films and by the time I am old I will be very knowledgeable and also completely insufferable
I was gonna make a list of movies that were my top ten but then I deadass forgot every movie I saw this year besides Sinners so I guess imagine I made a list and number one is Sinners
Our Beloved Revolutionary Sweetheart - Camper Van Beethoven (1988)
Jangly surf guitars, surging folk violin, and sardonic punk lyrics which skewer American mythmaking, revolutionary posturing, and suburban malaise with a deadpan delivery that makes the jokes land harder.
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Are You Experienced - The Jimi Hendrix Experience (1967)
This is a German pressing of the U.K. version which doesn’t include “Purple Haze”, “Hey Joe” or “The Wind Cries Mary”.
Hard to imagine what this sounded like at the time, hearing feedback & fuzz used deliberately.
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The #1 movie when you were 10 years old is how your 2026 is going to go.
A Charlie Brown Christmas - Vince Guaraldi Trio (1965)
What’s remarkable is how little this album dates.
It is a perfect album. Not just the best Christmas jazz record, but one of the great mood pieces in modern music - gentle, introspective, and endlessly replayable.
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