Good Morning, wankchops.
It's pissing down and I've been at work since 8am. I am wearing yesterday's clothes, I need to write to my creditors telling them I have no money to pay them and I have chronic and painful flatulence*.

I am 84. My hobbies are reading, horseriding and swimming.

Ladies, form an orderly queue.

Q: Best year for music in the past 50?
Alt: Predict the next rag-head state to topple
Alt alt: If zombies nommed all of your cake, which Red Dwarf character would you be?

*I haven't really, I'm just fishing for sympathy.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 23 Feb 2011, 8:25, 182 replies, latest was 15 years ago)

Q: Classic Rock magazine makes a pretty decent claim for 1973

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 23 Feb 2011, 8:28, Reply)

Alt: Leicester - RIGHT KIDS???

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 23 Feb 2011, 8:29, Reply)

Alt alt: that crack rapist chappie.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 23 Feb 2011, 8:30, Reply)

*lines up*
Has a stab at 1979.

Qatar. It's only little.
( girlinthehole, Wed 23 Feb 2011, 8:30, Reply)

'79 was the beginning of recorded hip hop - good suggestion.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 23 Feb 2011, 8:33, Reply)

I remember it being very exciting musically for me around that time.

( girlinthehole, Wed 23 Feb 2011, 8:51, Reply)

I wasn't born.

(PsychoChomp, Wed 23 Feb 2011, 9:00, Reply)

That's why it was exciting.

(Poppet some assembly required., Wed 23 Feb 2011, 9:01, Reply)

Hehe!

( girlinthehole, Wed 23 Feb 2011, 9:03, Reply)

I think Monty has taken over Poppet's profile.

( Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Wed 23 Feb 2011, 9:03, Reply)

No, just me.

(Poppet some assembly required., Wed 23 Feb 2011, 9:09, Reply)

Fuck all this shit, I'm now online mates with Hanky 'Ryan' Spanky
I've got a gaz and everything
( Light In Chains maker of the ikea sofa, Wed 23 Feb 2011, 8:45, Reply)

You're just a friendly guy Rory.

( girlinthehole, Wed 23 Feb 2011, 8:52, Reply)

*ruffles hair*
Darn Tootin
( Light In Chains maker of the ikea sofa, Wed 23 Feb 2011, 9:01, Reply)

Oh Rory, you seductive groomer.

Are you just toying with his feelings?
(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Wed 23 Feb 2011, 8:54, Reply)

The man is a qotw icon
What's there not to like about him.
( Light In Chains maker of the ikea sofa, Wed 23 Feb 2011, 9:00, Reply)

quite a lot.

(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Wed 23 Feb 2011, 9:01, Reply)

Hang on I have a 30mb pdf file somewhere which lists the reasons

( Peej, Wed 23 Feb 2011, 9:30, Reply)

People called Ryan are cunts, fact.

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Wed 23 Feb 2011, 9:21, Reply)

empirically proven by Rory's post.

(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Wed 23 Feb 2011, 9:23, Reply)

1997 was good.
Wales.

Arnold 'Ace' Rimmer.
(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Wed 23 Feb 2011, 8:52, Reply)

Best year for music was 2010, for me at least.
I heard Tractor and Deaf School for the first time.

Alt Q: If Libya finally goes tits up, I predict Iran. If Gaddafi manages to hang on, I think it will settle down a bit.

Alt Alt Q: Ace Rimmer. Although on reflection that does not look so good.
( Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Wed 23 Feb 2011, 8:57, Reply)

I don't know anything about "years" for music, I just know what I like.
alt: no idea, they all seem fairly angry to me....
Alt alt: I've never seen Red Dwarf.
(Poppet some assembly required., Wed 23 Feb 2011, 8:58, Reply)

I saw your status.
I'm never, ever going to Australia.
( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Wed 23 Feb 2011, 9:02, Reply)

Was it: "I will kill you if you ever come to Australia?"

(PsychoChomp, Wed 23 Feb 2011, 9:03, Reply)

I cried.
I got inside the house, into my room and cried for about five minutes, before going into the bathroom and scrubbing my hands til they were red.
(Poppet some assembly required., Wed 23 Feb 2011, 9:06, Reply)

I thought they were really poisonous
But I read the article and they're absolutely hideous. And the fact they often get into cars... I hate spiders, and ones that can grow to be almost a foot wide...
( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Wed 23 Feb 2011, 9:08, Reply)

I screamed when I saw the first one.
by the time I found the third I was in tears and doing the Spider Dance with the bugspray in my hand. You know the one, where you shoot the spray at the spider - it goes ARGH WTF ARE YOU DOING TO ME? and rushes at you so you quickly run away from it?
(Poppet some assembly required., Wed 23 Feb 2011, 9:12, Reply)

Our spiders are tiny. One's never come after me.
I hate them.
( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Wed 23 Feb 2011, 9:13, Reply)

you're lucky.
the huntsman I saw on top of it's eggsac was at least the sice of my hand, if not bigger.
(Poppet some assembly required., Wed 23 Feb 2011, 9:19, Reply)

A mummy huntsman? So more likely to attack you? :(

( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Wed 23 Feb 2011, 9:24, Reply)

and hideously big.

(Poppet some assembly required., Wed 23 Feb 2011, 9:29, Reply)

Alt:
I think it'll stall for the time being. Everyone's waiting to see what happens in Libya.
(PsychoChomp, Wed 23 Feb 2011, 8:59, Reply)

73 had a lot going for it, as did 78
I'd also like to throw 91 into the mix. A large number of very good albums were released that year, across a lot of genres.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 23 Feb 2011, 9:02, Reply)

The Low End Theory, Blue Lines, Screamadelica
A good year.
(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Wed 23 Feb 2011, 9:05, Reply)

Pearl Jam's Ten
Chilli Peppers' Blood Sugar Sex Magic
Counting Crows' August and Everything After (possibly)
Soundgarden's Badmotorfinger

also, Bryan Adams was at number one for 16 weeks.

What's not to like?
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 23 Feb 2011, 9:10, Reply)

counting crows and Bryan Adams, that's what.

(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Wed 23 Feb 2011, 9:13, Reply)

I don't like much of Counting Crows' stuff, but that album brings back good memories
also, the Bryan Adams thing was in jest.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 23 Feb 2011, 9:14, Reply)

I knew you were jesting.
Was that CC record not 93 or so?

Also, Bandwagonesque by Teenage Fanclub was 91.
(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Wed 23 Feb 2011, 9:17, Reply)

I think you are right
that's why I said possibly

I always think of it as having come out in 91
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 23 Feb 2011, 9:20, Reply)

badmotorfinger was the shit one
august and everything after...sigh. Woke up this morning with a counting crows song in my head and a sense of melancholy
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Wed 23 Feb 2011, 9:17, Reply)

1996
alt alt q www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHS8hj4TdT8
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Wed 23 Feb 2011, 9:07, Reply)

1985 saw A-Ha finally break into the UK charts with Take On Me
And Dead or Alive topped the charts with You Spin Me Right Round, oh and Easy Lover by Mr Collins.
( TGB checking Off Topic is still shit at, Wed 23 Feb 2011, 9:08, Reply)

Morning peons
Q: 1989, as it marked the release of not only The Real Thing by Faith No More but also (Monty correct me if I'm wrong here) It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back. Also, at this point in time Metallica were still really, really good, and the Smashing Pumpkins hadn't excreted anything into existence yet. Plus, if you believe the NME, the Stone Roses invented dance music in 1989 with Fools' Gold, which was in no way a pile of self-indulgent shite twenty years ahead of its (OK, Radiohead's) time.

Hey, I'm quite pleased with the rationale there, I only said '89 cos it's when my favourite album was released.
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Wed 23 Feb 2011, 9:08, Reply)

A mate of mine reckons Fear of a Black Planet
Is better than Nation of Millions.

I had to laugh. Nation of Millions, is, I think, the only great album to be opened by 'Dangerous' Dave Pearce.
(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Wed 23 Feb 2011, 9:11, Reply)

Nation of Millions was the first hip-hop album I listened to on repeat
rather than skipping to various individual tracks, as I did with most such albums *cough*Wu-Tang Forever*cough*
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Wed 23 Feb 2011, 9:23, Reply)

Nation of Millions is a towering achievement.
Absolutely focussed, thought through, intelligent and angry.

Totally unlike me.
(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Wed 23 Feb 2011, 9:25, Reply)

Nonsense
You're quite tall, aren't you?
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Wed 23 Feb 2011, 9:32, Reply)

no.
About 5 foot 8.
(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Wed 23 Feb 2011, 12:26, Reply)

the black album is one of Metallica's best
so you are wrong on at least one count. also, Death Magnetic is superb, so arguably they are still really good
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 23 Feb 2011, 9:12, Reply)

It's probably their third best album
But only because everything since then has been gash, and as such it marked the beginning of a long trajectory downwards after two absolutely stunning albums
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Wed 23 Feb 2011, 9:22, Reply)

thing is
they are all good (except St Anger) but they are all really quite different.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 23 Feb 2011, 9:25, Reply)

Load and Reload are basically the same album with a drop in quality
but I'll give you that the rest are reasonably different from each other. Ride The Lightning starts out like Kill 'Em All pt II until Cliff Burton's influence becomes clear
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Wed 23 Feb 2011, 9:31, Reply)

it was going to be a double album
hence them sounding similar.

Neither is better than the other though. There are some superb tracks on Reload. Fixxxer for one, is an excellent song
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 23 Feb 2011, 9:41, Reply)

Some good reasons here,
I find it best to mainly ignore Metallica until Death Magnetic
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Wed 23 Feb 2011, 9:12, Reply)

I have actually never heard anyone take that view of Metallica before
I know there are those, like Vippers, who consider Death Magnetic decent, but the idea that it's their best album is a new one on me.

And complete bollocks, at that
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Wed 23 Feb 2011, 9:19, Reply)

I have ventured that it is up there with their best
but I also like Load and Reload.

In fact I like everything except for St Anger, which is a complete pile of shit.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 23 Feb 2011, 9:21, Reply)

Not too keen on Load and Reload
Kill 'Em All (1983) Excellent
Ride the Lightning (1984) Excellent
Master of Puppets (1986)Excellent
...And Justice for All (1988)OK
Metallica (1991)Good
Load (1996)Below average
ReLoad (1997)Below average
St. Anger (2003)Awful, just awful
Death Magnetic (2008)Excellent
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Wed 23 Feb 2011, 9:26, Reply)

all albums (over many years) Overrated

( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Wed 23 Feb 2011, 9:27, Reply)

I'd mostly agree
but I would probably give an OK to Load and Reload, with a good for a few songs off each
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 23 Feb 2011, 9:35, Reply)

smashing pumpkins were good
and I know I'm in a minority here
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Wed 23 Feb 2011, 9:16, Reply)

I think they were good too
Darth has a personal hatred of Billy Corgan though. I suspect that Darth's advances in a public toilet were cruelly rebuffed.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 23 Feb 2011, 9:16, Reply)

Everything after Siamese Dream was gash though.
Still, two good records.
(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Wed 23 Feb 2011, 9:20, Reply)

They managed a few good songs on Melancollie or however they spelt it
and the odd one off some other albums. I got put off Siamese Dream because Today was played badly by everyone I knew learning the guitar at the time. I loathe that song.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 23 Feb 2011, 9:22, Reply)

The song Adore was brilliant
i feel the need to dance to it RIGHT NOW
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Wed 23 Feb 2011, 9:26, Reply)

Don't be so crude
He didn't rebuff me, he gave crap head
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Wed 23 Feb 2011, 9:20, Reply)

Morning Darth
How's Eric?
(BelladonnaAnodyne Melissa's gonna wet herself, I swear..., Wed 23 Feb 2011, 9:20, Reply)

Morning honey
He's much the same, not eating enough but fairly stable. Enjoying all the attention he's getting, not so much the twice-daily antibiotics. Thank you for asking :-) how's you?
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Wed 23 Feb 2011, 9:21, Reply)

So So
I have to go do family stuff in about an hour and a half and I really can't be arsed at all, but I know if I make an excuse I'll just feel horrid and guilty all week. But I'm tired :(
(BelladonnaAnodyne Melissa's gonna wet herself, I swear..., Wed 23 Feb 2011, 9:25, Reply)

Rubbish
How long is it likely to take? Can you at least look forward to a decent wank sleep afterwards?
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Wed 23 Feb 2011, 9:30, Reply)

Until the boredom negates any guilt I will feel for leaving while I still have spare time
No naps today, I'm working at 5.30. I am getting fed though, which is nice, even if it comes at the cost of a well meaning but thoroughly depressing conversation about my employment prospects/love life/general health.
(BelladonnaAnodyne Melissa's gonna wet herself, I swear..., Wed 23 Feb 2011, 9:35, Reply)

Oooooh yay
You could tell them about Brighton Boy?
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Wed 23 Feb 2011, 9:37, Reply)

No fucking way
Very few people know about Brighton Boy. My family do not need to be included in that number. Plus, I'm a tiny bit pissed off at him.

Oh damn, I've turned into a girl.
(BelladonnaAnodyne Melissa's gonna wet herself, I swear..., Wed 23 Feb 2011, 9:38, Reply)

A girl?!
Sorry, the planned visit is off
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Wed 23 Feb 2011, 9:58, Reply)

I don't mind the ladyparts
I object to being irrationally pissed off that he took too long to text me back yesterday. I'm not sure that I know who I am any more.
(BelladonnaAnodyne Melissa's gonna wet herself, I swear..., Wed 23 Feb 2011, 10:03, Reply)

Also Pretty Hate Machine came out
So it was a good year.
( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Wed 23 Feb 2011, 9:23, Reply)

Dammit!
Now I feel STOOPID
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Wed 23 Feb 2011, 9:29, Reply)

Get a free debt restructuring company to do it for you, they can also negotiate thge terms of repayment
Alt: 1982 - The year Total Eclipse of the heart came out

Alt: we should use this as an excuse to invade more arab countries for oil regime change
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Wed 23 Feb 2011, 9:11, Reply)

Its pissing down
and I cycled 11 miles in to work.
Q. 1967
Alt. I'd like it to be Saudi Arabia but its not so likely
Alt Alt. I'd be the toaster
( Peej, Wed 23 Feb 2011, 9:18, Reply)

would you like any toast?

( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Wed 23 Feb 2011, 9:23, Reply)

I don't want any toast
He doesn't want any toast, in fact nobody around here wants any toast, not now, not ever, no toast.
( Peej, Wed 23 Feb 2011, 9:27, Reply)

What about a muffin?

( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Wed 23 Feb 2011, 9:28, Reply)

Or muffins!
We don't LIKE muffins around her
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Wed 23 Feb 2011, 9:29, Reply)

We want no muffins, no toast,
No teacakes, no buns, baps, baguettes or bagels, no croissants, no crumpets, no pancakes, no potato cakes and no hot-cross buns and definitely no smegging flapjacks.
( Peej, Wed 23 Feb 2011, 9:31, Reply)

If you haven't Googled that
then you are my new personal hero

my new personal hero me, age 17
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Wed 23 Feb 2011, 9:34, Reply)

I have watched White Hole a gazillion times
My sister and I can recite the whole episode

I've never seen one before, no one has, but I'm guessing it's a white hole.

*edit* Oh and I'm afraid the correct response was actually "Ah, so you're a waffle man!"
( Peej, Wed 23 Feb 2011, 9:36, Reply)

You're quite right. I apologise. It's just that talking to you can be very difficult
In fact, it's like having a conversation with John Robeson on dope
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Wed 23 Feb 2011, 9:40, Reply)

John Paul
( Peej, Wed 23 Feb 2011, 9:46, Reply)

Bugger. I shall attempt to create a new subthread to mask my shame
Paul George
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Wed 23 Feb 2011, 9:57, Reply)

I considered replying to my own post with exactly that
george Ringo
( Peej, Wed 23 Feb 2011, 10:01, Reply)

You used the word smegging, I'm afraid I will have to send death to your house
Could you send me your postcode please?
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Wed 23 Feb 2011, 9:34, Reply)

My postcode is TR10 9EZ

( Peej, Wed 23 Feb 2011, 9:39, Reply)

Google Street View, you fool!

(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Wed 23 Feb 2011, 9:41, Reply)

So? I've told people where I work loads of times.
In fact it would be nice to have a visit, even if I did get death.
( Peej, Wed 23 Feb 2011, 9:45, Reply)

Not a clue tbh, I don't really notice years on records, I just know if I like them or not
Alt: Iran
Alt Alt: Ace Rimmer

And I'm fucked off this morning, I managed to sleep through my alarm, despite getting to sleep at 8:45 last night (was fucking knackered). As it's the end of the month, I couldn't afford a taxi, so went to start walking, and tried to call work, only to find my calls have been blocked, even though I've paid the bill? ARGH! /fucked off
( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Wed 23 Feb 2011, 9:20, Reply)

Povvo lols

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Wed 23 Feb 2011, 9:27, Reply)

surely for you it is every year in which September ends?

(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Wed 23 Feb 2011, 9:27, Reply)

1994
The following great albums were released:

Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral
The Offspring - Smash
Machine Head - Burn My Eyes
Therapy? - Troublegum
Pantera - Far Beyond Driven
Terrorvision - How to make friends and influence people
The Prodigy - Music for the jilted generation
Korn - Korn

Also, Kurt Cobain died.
( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Wed 23 Feb 2011, 9:27, Reply)

I am coming to terms with the fact
that I actively like NIN. It's not right
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Wed 23 Feb 2011, 9:29, Reply)

I can't get into them

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Wed 23 Feb 2011, 9:31, Reply)

Have you tried being more charming and witty?

(PsychoChomp, Wed 23 Feb 2011, 9:33, Reply)

charming and witty rohypnol
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Wed 23 Feb 2011, 9:35, Reply)

Why do people have to ruin a joke
by doing a strikethrough with basically the same punchline?
(PsychoChomp, Wed 23 Feb 2011, 9:37, Reply)

it's funny because it annoys you

( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 23 Feb 2011, 9:38, Reply)

's s you ing.

LOL
(PsychoChomp, Wed 23 Feb 2011, 9:39, Reply)

joke rape

strikethrough with basically the same punchline shit on my winky
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Wed 23 Feb 2011, 9:39, Reply)

NakedApe AA a couple of months ago until he got less shit
(PsychoChomp, Wed 23 Feb 2011, 9:40, Reply)

This is zing of the day people
drink it in.
(PsychoChomp, Wed 23 Feb 2011, 9:42, Reply)

I had already clicked it

( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 23 Feb 2011, 9:44, Reply)

But AA is still shit...
Am I being ordered off the internet?
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Wed 23 Feb 2011, 9:48, Reply)

I'm not that bad!

( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Wed 23 Feb 2011, 10:18, Reply)

Winding you up mate
Chuck on some Green Day and you'll feel better
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Wed 23 Feb 2011, 10:19, Reply)

and you have definitely got better

( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 23 Feb 2011, 10:22, Reply)

This
I've been to see them/him live, listened to the supposed best stuff, listened to the supposed not so good stuff. It just doesn't grip me.
( Peej, Wed 23 Feb 2011, 9:34, Reply)

It crept up on me, I had a similar 'not getting into them' thing
They just seeped into my consciousness until I find myself thinking "I might listen to a bit of NIN, today"
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Wed 23 Feb 2011, 9:34, Reply)

that's how they get you
it's what happened to me
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 23 Feb 2011, 9:36, Reply)

They're not for everyone
Each album's quite different to the last, but all within an alt metal/industrial/synth genre of sorts.
( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Wed 23 Feb 2011, 9:35, Reply)

which album(s) do you recommend for faster stuff with more of a rhythm
I like the odd stuff, but doesn't quite work for me all the time.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 23 Feb 2011, 9:37, Reply)

You say you have The Fragile?
All their albums (except Ghosts and arguably Pretty Hate Machine) have faster songs. I'd say With Teeth is their more accessible album, Broken has their hardest songs, and The Downward Spiral is probably their best. Year Zero is interesting, more computer/synth based, and has some great songs on.
( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Wed 23 Feb 2011, 9:41, Reply)

I do indeed have the Fragile
I know Pretty Hate Machine well, but it is a little too electronic for my tastes (or for my 18 year old taste anyway, so I'll give it another go)

I'm working on getting the others. DLed the new one off the website the other day and am liking that.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 23 Feb 2011, 9:43, Reply)

The Slip is good
Feels a little thrown together as an album, not very cohesive, but it was released for free so I can't complain!
( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Wed 23 Feb 2011, 9:44, Reply)

I think it's the synth that I don't like...

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Wed 23 Feb 2011, 9:40, Reply)

I don't mind synths
Though less a fan of '80s-sounding' synths, which PHM is full of, but somehow it still works on that album. Maybe give Broken or The Downward Spiral a listen?
( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Wed 23 Feb 2011, 9:46, Reply)

I think I need to turn off the shuffle and puit more effort in
I have Downward Spiral and With Teeth, so I'll lock myself in a cupbaord and lisetn to them until I like them god dmmit!
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Wed 23 Feb 2011, 9:49, Reply)

TDS is a concept album, so should be listened to in order
With Teeth less so, but it's still made in an order that flows, if that doesn't sound too wanky.
( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Wed 23 Feb 2011, 9:56, Reply)

not that wanky
Lateralus is made to be listened to after you have rearranged it in accordance with a Fibonacci spiral. Now that is wanky. But I love it.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 23 Feb 2011, 10:03, Reply)

I gave that a go
It does seem to flow rather well!
( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Wed 23 Feb 2011, 10:15, Reply)

I've never really gotten into them.
I think I listened to maybe two songs, not even that.
(Poppet some assembly required., Wed 23 Feb 2011, 9:33, Reply)

Fair enough
Massive fanboyism aside, he's a technical genius and very talented individual, but his music isn't going to appeal to everyone.
( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Wed 23 Feb 2011, 9:37, Reply)

Good year

( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 23 Feb 2011, 9:34, Reply)

But bad for comedy
Bill Hicks died.
( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Wed 23 Feb 2011, 9:37, Reply)

pretty much the worst year for comedy ever then

( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 23 Feb 2011, 9:38, Reply)

gonna display my age and admit I've never heard of him.

(Poppet some assembly required., Wed 23 Feb 2011, 9:39, Reply)

you need to sort that out

( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 23 Feb 2011, 9:39, Reply)

I love Bill Hicks
But most of the live shows I've seen repeat a lot from the previous shows. I think in Bill's case the fact that he burned out rather than fade away helped his fame. Much like Cobain, I still see 13 year old mini moshers wearing nirvana hoodies, I predict that if they were still making "music" today that no-one would give a fuck.
( Peej, Wed 23 Feb 2011, 9:42, Reply)

you are almost certainly right about that
in both cases
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 23 Feb 2011, 9:44, Reply)

YAY! Internet approval!
I shall be happy for the rest of the day.
( Peej, Wed 23 Feb 2011, 9:48, Reply)

True
I think he would have had a field day when Bush junior got elected though.
( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Wed 23 Feb 2011, 9:47, Reply)

Three words spring to mind when I think of comedians mocking Bush Jr.
Shooting, Fish and Barrel
( Peej, Wed 23 Feb 2011, 9:51, Reply)

Absolutely

( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Wed 23 Feb 2011, 9:52, Reply)

Three more: why, fucking and bother.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 23 Feb 2011, 10:16, Reply)

Exactly, the person who mocked Bush Jr. the best
was Bush Jr.
( Peej, Wed 23 Feb 2011, 10:29, Reply)

Angry 80's comedian
Not for everyone, but hugely influential
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Wed 23 Feb 2011, 9:40, Reply)

Some of his stuff is showing its age
Most is still very poignant today. He was very angry, rather sick at times, and as NakedApe says very influential.
( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Wed 23 Feb 2011, 9:43, Reply)

Bill Hicks on abortion should be mandatory listening
For all people intent on restricting it unnecessarily:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJcebIEOkhY
(BelladonnaAnodyne Melissa's gonna wet herself, I swear..., Wed 23 Feb 2011, 9:51, Reply)

I couldn't agree

( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Wed 23 Feb 2011, 9:55, Reply)

Bill Hicks:
Intelligent, made excellent points, good ranter, admirable chap.


Just not actually funny.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 23 Feb 2011, 9:56, Reply)

his drugs rant is excellent
also, the bit about driving on acid. marvellous.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 23 Feb 2011, 10:02, Reply)

I agree - but the fellow simply doesn't make me laugh.
It's not even a criticism really, I just think he's been miscast as a comedian rather than a social commentator.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 23 Feb 2011, 10:03, Reply)

By the way are you EVER going to come to London?
I'm starting to think you're a Spanky sockpuppet.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 23 Feb 2011, 10:06, Reply)

you of all people should understand what it is to be skint dear boy
I commented yesterday that at the moment I can afford to get married or get my car fixed, but not both. This precludes other activities for me.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 23 Feb 2011, 10:17, Reply)

*narrows eyes*
No denial of the Hanky suggestion, I see.

Perhaps you've been to busy 'pumping your purple spunk-cannon' etc etc too much.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 23 Feb 2011, 10:20, Reply)

do you think I could suffer the crowd of brown-nosers who follow him around?
the fawning over him in the replies to his post this week made me quite nauseated.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 23 Feb 2011, 10:21, Reply)

That is an excellent selection
Except I think KoRn was '95
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Wed 23 Feb 2011, 9:55, Reply)

Wiki says '94
Maybe UK release wasn't until '95?
( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Wed 23 Feb 2011, 9:58, Reply)

1978
Parallel Lines, Black And White, Squeeze, Give 'Em Enough Rope, Germ Free Adolescents, Love Bites, More Songs About Buildings And Food, Misfits, Tell Us The Truth and All Mod Cons. Nice.

Alt: Ideally Saudi Arabia, but I'd settle for Qatar.

Alt Alt: Talkie toaster.
(BelladonnaAnodyne Melissa's gonna wet herself, I swear..., Wed 23 Feb 2011, 9:33, Reply)

Miss Miiiissssss
BelladonnaAnodyne copied some of my answers miss
( Peej, Wed 23 Feb 2011, 9:49, Reply)

I'll make an argument for '73
But I care about nothing this morning. Too tired
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Wed 23 Feb 2011, 9:34, Reply)

This thread involves too much thought really

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Wed 23 Feb 2011, 9:35, Reply)

Am I seeing you later?

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 23 Feb 2011, 9:42, Reply)

yeah, for Tayaabs
You're not old enough to forget so soon!
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Wed 23 Feb 2011, 9:54, Reply)

I was awaiting confirmation promised me by our mutual friend and co-diner.
ACTUALLY.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 23 Feb 2011, 9:57, Reply)

I am rather jealous

( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Wed 23 Feb 2011, 9:59, Reply)

You are welcome at mine whenever you like.
When the whim takes you, come down and we shall gorge on the flesh of a thousand sheep, effendi.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 23 Feb 2011, 10:01, Reply)

Most kind, will take you up on this offer fo' sho'
Were I not training the whole lab tomorrow I would have come on down tonight.
( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Wed 23 Feb 2011, 10:03, Reply)

The whole lab?
Is that the collective for your chins?
( TGB checking Off Topic is still shit at, Wed 23 Feb 2011, 10:11, Reply)

That's exactly it
My department's referred to as the 'computer lab', I guess because it sounds cooler than 'room full of pcs and geeks'.
( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Wed 23 Feb 2011, 10:14, Reply)

i don't think i have an answer to any of these questions
i am very tired and very very hungover and very very very irritable.

also my brother keeps telling me to type this into a new word doc

=rand.old()

and then press enter. but when i do it NOTHING HAPPENS. he is calling me a spastic. has anyone else seen this, what is it supposed to do, for the love of god?
( rachelswipe with a fork, Wed 23 Feb 2011, 9:58, Reply)

A picture of me appears.
Old. And randy.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 23 Feb 2011, 9:59, Reply)

i've already got several of those plastered to my ceiling
why would i need another?
( rachelswipe with a fork, Wed 23 Feb 2011, 10:00, Reply)

Also hungover...no idea about the rand thing, not going to try in case it's a I Love Horses link thing

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Wed 23 Feb 2011, 10:01, Reply)

it definitely isn't
i am not clever enough to do links, i have no idea how that shit works. getting pics on my profile took about 5 years and had to be done for me.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Wed 23 Feb 2011, 10:03, Reply)

And you've been the fodder for a thousand internet virgins ever since

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Wed 23 Feb 2011, 10:04, Reply)

sadly
i suspect i was fodder for many more before they saw the pics :(
( rachelswipe with a fork, Wed 23 Feb 2011, 10:05, Reply)

You are internet soiled goods

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Wed 23 Feb 2011, 10:06, Reply)

it would insert random text
depends on your version of word though as to what format it would be
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 23 Feb 2011, 10:06, Reply)

ah
no idea why it isn't working here then. maybe because they disabled the fun feature.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Wed 23 Feb 2011, 10:06, Reply)

it's not fun though
it'd either put "the quick brown fox etc."

or some shite about random text or something
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 23 Feb 2011, 10:14, Reply)

What a gas!

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Wed 23 Feb 2011, 10:07, Reply)

I thought it was =rand(200,99)

( TGB checking Off Topic is still shit at, Wed 23 Feb 2011, 10:08, Reply)

that's if you have the latest version
or something
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 23 Feb 2011, 10:15, Reply)

1988 was the best year for music...
...and also for the quality of MDMA.
(Tugnut Ex of this parish, Wed 23 Feb 2011, 10:23, Reply)