Craig White’s Comments (group member since Oct 04, 2017)

Craig White’s comments from the Amazon exiles group.

ok, it's a pity that a Scottish team didn't win the Europa League last night, would have been a great boost for a country with such a dim reputation in this field..........

..........but, ha ha ha! to their (majority of) scum-sucking, bigoted, entitled supporters - too many union jacks hanging from windows round about here - had it been Celtic, my opinion would be the same! any other Scottish teams would have got my support in a similar situation (mibbe not Ayr, mind you 😁). Scottish football will never move on unless those who run the old firm start to seriously take steps to wipe out the pointless hatred that exists, and is a mystery to the majority who perpetrate it. stupid, stupid, stupid!

innaresting

blues by 5
cats
bulldugs
demons
saints
tigers
giants
lions
dockers

cheers Val

efterjemma,

I Can't Go For That (No Can Do) - Hall & Oates
Last Request - Paolo Nutini
How Long - Ace
Only You - Bobby Hatfield
I Couldn't Help If I Tried - Dexy's Midnight Runners

https://youtu.be/H5tDsR52Yjk

ha ha, i knew that'd lure you back! the signed copies have all gone now - mine is signed in gold ink, and apparently applied with a paintbrush! Horace's album is excellent, trad roots style, tho' the falsetto is mostly beyond his reach now - no great issue!

good to see you

paid for this months ago, one of the most crucially influential albums in the field of electronic music. made with the assistance and loan of equipment of TG, the first 3 tracks are as striking an opening salvo as you'd hear anywhere - after that the remainder is only brilliant and inspired! early copies (like mine) come with a signed art/post card. obvs, Rental hasn't signed it!

https://mutebank.co.uk/products/thoma...

.......or his son, Young Master Bates! parp!

more celtic genius in the queue after Young Mungo,

Poguemahone, an epic from the Irish master of the dark.

and £2 worth of charity shop goodness, Old Men in Love

well, that was a long book! 😁

if you enjoyed Shuggie Bain, and really who didn't, Young Mungo is even better - beautifully written, heartbreakingly desolate and depraved, this is a brilliant and awful book. what kind of mother sends her 15 year old son on a fishing weekend with a couple of random drunks? painful and compulsive book.

.....sound better than ed sheeran at any rate!

i'm looking forward to Scotland's world cup qualifier with Ukraine - a match that practically the rest of the (non-Russian) world will want Ukraine to win! if we (Scotland) win then we will be all the bad bastards of the day.....and if we lose we pass the big bastard baton on to the Welsh! innaresting situation!

if the Ukraine entered a piece consisting a series of reverberated farts in biscuit tins it would win! there is no other result! the whole show is tainted with corruption and driven by political opinion, when was it last all about the song? the rest of Europe hates the Engl.....sorry, British, so the strange neo-hippy chap will finish near the bottom with slightly more than nil points!
but, yeah, it is fair entertainment, but probably not for the right reasons!

tighter than a.........

bulldugs by 17
tigers
power
cats
swans
lions
dockers
blues
demons

cheers, Val

anyhoo,

pressuresounds.bandcamp.com/album/tri...

some more great mixing/dubbing by the dreadlocked Italian. doing some great work for pressure sounds.

charity shop 99p bought my (practically pristine) replacement CD of,
discogs.com/release/2671953-Ian-Dury-...

a brilliant album that doesn't require any ramblings from me.

....and for some reason, and the same price,

discogs.com/release/5784849-Bob-Dylan...

a notion bought this (ach, Rab's ok!), the only other studio album i own is Desire (his best? i think so), and on a wee look when wmping it, discovered that this had been Dylan's first no,1 US album since Desire, so hmmmm


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please take note, greedy bastards like the rolling stones!

bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-humber-6137...

punk - ground zero

new wave - bandwagon hoppers

post punk - building up from ground zero

no, a railway spike through the brain would engender an appreciation for prog rock! 😁

actually, i know what you mean and there was marked differences in music taste depending on your status in the classroom - this was true of my experiences,

the educationally gifted - heavy rock, metal, prog rock

the sporties (jocks? och aye the noo!) - electric light orchestra, queen, and other non-challenging musics

the rebels and non-compliants - punk

thickies - not really focussed (liked tractors and stuff)

didnae vote - hands full - injured wife - naughty pup - pissed off cat - too much fun!

efterval,

get the fear!

The One To Wait - CCFX
Angst - Rammstein

https://youtu.be/ONj9cvHCado

ah, sorry to hear that, Soviet, Rainbow Bridge seems to be a busy place these days! feel your pain.

seems you wanna! no?

apart from a couple of enduring friendships, i haven't had a meaningful exchange with anyone i went to school with for 40 odd years, and y'know, i could barely give a rat's pecker about them. teachers? i imagine most are resident in the nonce wing, which is where they'd be heading if they taught today!

oh, quite definitely, i don't subscribe to the worship of one who 'died for their art' - he didn't, but he had many issues of health and in his personal life, not to mention the rising fame pressure, that it apparently all became too much! the bulk of the 2nd album had been recorded, so it wasn't as a direct result of 'Unknown Pleasures'.
seriously, tho', you'd be made of brick if the message of this record didn't touch you!
.......and one day, when i've got the time and notion, i'll tell you why punk was important to all genres - even crusty auld proggies! 😁

i don't like him at all, so there's some balance! 😁

Huck - 'Unknown Pleasures' was a 'first' in many ways - it sounded like nothing you'd ever heard before. Martin (Zero) Hannett's unique and doomy production in alignment with Curtis's individually mournful singing and the very dark (although not really noticed by the rest of the band) nature of the lyrics - it was perhaps the first 'white' records to properly address despair and grief in a meaningful way. that Curtis killed himself within a year illustrates this, the playing obviously contributed to the uniqueness - Morris's skilled drum patterns drenched in echo, Hook's forceful bass played like a lead instrument and Sumner's meandering and distantly lonesome guitaring. it all added up to a very special piece of work.
i saw them fairly recently after this, and the live show was on a par with the record in intensity and tension. Curtis may or may not have had a seizure at the end f the set (it is known that he had one that evening) but as he came out of one of his unique dance moves it looked as if he didn't know where he was - he walked off, not returning to let the band finish. it really was the stuff to turn your head, and everyone should own it, even if they don't like it!