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I'd forgotten HOW GOOD In Rainbows is. It's bloody marvellous. I'm one of those Radiohead fans that really aren't bothered by the first 2 albums. OK Computer is a bit of a masterpiece, but my technology bleeps and squeaks get all excited from Kid A on.

"EDM", or "Electronic Dance Music" is a pathetically vague genre label invented by American major record labels because they wanted to rebrand a ton of music to shed "rave culture" which was associated with drug excess in the United States. It incorporates absolutely everything from house, detroit techno, drum 'n' bass, garage, trance, dubstep and it's horrendous US counterpart 'brostep', and now effectively pop music. Therefore, it is an absolutely shit way of describing music. It's like saying Madonna and The Rolling Stones are the same, because it's pop music.

Oh my god, it's happened. Someone has actually used the term "EDM".

Well that's lovely. Good to see the wheels of perpetual stupidity are turning.

I am learning many surprising things from this two year debacle. Firstly, Turkey is being led by an absolute insane bunch of hypocritical berks. I didn't know quite how bad it was. Secondly, I didn't realise quite how screwed Libya was, and how dangerous it is sitting at the moment - ripe for a proper IS expansion. I think the moral of the the last 15 years of stories for "Western" culture is: if there's a despot dictator in a Middle Eastern or North African state, leave them alone and mind your own bloody business and let them sort it out themselves.

I wouldn't listen to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. It's in Coventry and relies on sources on the ground that are rarely verified. I presume that most of the reports come from Raqqa is being Slaughtered Silently, who are accurate and on the ground. The fact that they're still operating is a miracle, what with Russia and France/US/us bombing them, the nutters who occupy the city running amok and, probably most frighteningly, managing assassinations of contributors outside the warzone in Turkey.

We are absolutely done. The only thing I am now worried about is us having a smaller points total than Derby's legendary last stint.

Come onto General Chat thread, see love in for Mungo's Hi-Fi. You can tell we're all here, avoiding the main forum like the plague. On a side note, I clocked Neil Barnes from Leftfield wearing a Scotch Bonnett Records tshirt when performing as Leftfield live for 6Music

The problem with London is the Londoners. None of my mates are from there. None of the people I have conversations with are from there.

Got this beaut on vinyl. The epic layered opener by mad-as-a-box-of-frogs Michael Bundt really must have sounded like he could see into the future when it came out in 71/72

Van Helsing is the only film I have walked out of a Cinema after paying. New Street Odeon in fact.

Are you seriously saying the dross in that dump is better than an a pint of Marstons Old World or pedigree inside the stadium??

Thing is awol, it's all skewed in the media in the UK, even amongst the left-wing papers. Madness. I think the simple fact that Yemen is undergoing a Shia rebellion who are tied to one of the big baddies, Iran, and are being bombed by our very good friends the Saudi Arabians (I wonder what the investment levels are like in media organisations across the UK....in fact, the EU?) so it's best not to upset our mates. You can tell they're our mates: our tosspots of leaders decided to ensure they have a place on the UN Human Rights Commission. A country that are about to chop off a 17 year boy's head and crucify it because he was in a pro-democracy protest. We've really got into bed with some of the most messed up human beings on the planet with Saudi Arabia, and I think the general public isn't aware just how evil they are. ISIS comes from the them!! Iran should be our sodding allies.

Bigged up the new one to my mates, went to the old one countless times but I was the only one who'd been to the new one, did the double header, Friday night drinking in the bar and grill, which is good but not snobs, went in the club as soon as it opened, bout 8 of us, the only people in there, DJ clocked us straight away and spent about an hour playing oasis, roses, phonics etc was brilliant, went in on the Saturday night and it was horrific, absolutely packed in there, took about 25 mins to get served, spent about 45 minutes in there, was pissed off when Kanye came on, walked out when they played the script or some other pop nonsense Big Wednesday was the only night to go to the old one in the first place, I have the image of the new Snobs on a Saturday night being like the old Bakers in Five Ways

Bull and Bladder, you a yam yam living in exile? Hey man, just because it's in Yammer territory, doesn't mean I speak back to front! I'm an Edgbastonian *flicks hair in mock poshness*

Can't see a mention for The Lamp Tavern in Southside/Digbeth, a tiny little boozer with a great gaffer. The Bull & Bladder in Brierly Hill is the HQ of Bathams, and quickly became a favourite pilgrimage when visiting my folks. In London I'd recommend none to a West Midlander. They have NO IDEA how to keep their beer. Nice pubs everywhere, sure. Shit beer. The Sam Smith's pubs are about the only place I can consistantly get a good pint. Failing that, The Prince of Wales in Highgate is a great pub with all the characters from the village, sometimes spoiled by a dodgy pint.

Mine starts and ends with Blue Monday. I hate it. Well to be fair, it is a record released after 1956

Sick of the hype already. Sick of being told they are back, sick of being told its just like the old New Order. Sick of being told its their best since TechniqueIts not like the old New Order at all. No Hooky basslines and for me that set them apart. And Giorgio Moroder would like his sequencer back. Track 4 "Plastic"'s synth line might as well be I Feel Love. Track 5 is Yello at which point I gave up Captain, I am detecting large volumes of middle age in this sector Well you'd have to be, to have been a fan in the first place 31 is definitely too young to be middle aged. I hope. 31 is too young to have seen them live at the Imperial Cinema on Moseley on the Movement Tour EDIT: I think I'm trying to say we come at their career from different ends. I was there at the start and for me their powers waned after the first three albums. In fact I wasn't really a fan of Blue Monday and detested Confusion but they picked it up again then started losing it for me. As much as everyone loved Technique, I didn't. For me it was always Movement, Power Corruption and Lies and Low Life, after that pretty much meh apart from the odd tune To be honest, the large volume of work from 1985 to 2005 doesn't interest me bar a few singles.For some reason, they've just got this one right for me. I really wasn't expecting to like it, at all. On another note, I'm really digging the new Kurt Vile album If anyone wants to hear modern, highly politicised purist hiphop only to be entirely remixed using only cat noises, I'd suggest Meow the Jewels. I can honestly say I would have never expected to hear Run the Jewels and Zach De La Rocha rapping to a track remixed by Geoff Barrow from Portishead, who has massively pitched down a cat's purr for the bassline.

This doesn't make sense You're already a vinyl collector!

Sick of the hype already. Sick of being told they are back, sick of being told its just like the old New Order. Sick of being told its their best since TechniqueIts not like the old New Order at all. No Hooky basslines and for me that set them apart. And Giorgio Moroder would like his sequencer back. Track 4 "Plastic"'s synth line might as well be I Feel Love. Track 5 is Yello at which point I gave up Captain, I am detecting large volumes of middle age in this sector Well you'd have to be, to have been a fan in the first place 31 is definitely too young to be middle aged. I hope.

Sick of the hype already. Sick of being told they are back, sick of being told its just like the old New Order. Sick of being told its their best since TechniqueIts not like the old New Order at all. No Hooky basslines and for me that set them apart. And Giorgio Moroder would like his sequencer back. Track 4 "Plastic"'s synth line might as well be I Feel Love. Track 5 is Yello at which point I gave up Captain, I am detecting large volumes of middle age in this sector

Wasn't he a resident at a club in Birmingham for quite a while? I think I may have seen him at House of God around....2001?

Seen Fever the Ghost, Gwenno, H Hawkline and the Bluetones this week. Bosh

NEW ORDER'S NEW ALBUM. IS. AWESOME.