Synthesizer Patel

do you think when he sang Will To Love in front of a fire making loads of crackle noises, on whatever shitty portable recorder he used, it meant that the song wasn't as enjoyable as if he'd waited 30 years and recorded it in a modern studio with all the trimmings? and to be fair i don't want to look at pictures of neil young at the best of times, let alone whilst i'm enjoying his music. i think he should wait until we have the technology to build a time machine so that he can invidually carry people back in time to sit in on the recordings.

What it sounds like to me is someone who is really not very 'cutting edge' with this sort of thing thinking that they are very 'cutting edge' with this sort of thing. Someone needs to tell him the truth about all of this, and the sooner the better. Actually, I wonder how many people he's spoken to about all this? And nobody's told him he's talking out of his arse about what people want from Archives? or any other music dvd or whatever he thinks it is.

Marcella - Beach Boys Judy Is A Punk - Ramones Get Up Edina - Desmond Dekker

I'd say get this one: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Nosferatu-Definiti...8755&sr=8-1 Although someone on amazon does complain about one scene (or rather a few shots from a scene) being cropped. Not that I've seen this version, but it says it has the original score - and the person who complained does say that everything else about it is perfect apart from that one thing. The only thing is that it's the most expensive.

i think you're probably right about there being good modern hip hop, but i'm far to much into discovering old folk acts and stuff like that to have time to search out the good stuff for myself. what was good in the past was that the good stuff wasn't so hard to find. so, i guess really what i meant was that the popular stuff from the past is better than the modern popular stuff.

slick rick. and can i mention Derek B - which'll mean nothing to you americans, but was massive for me in primary school as a child! i can't believe i found this on youtube: bad young brother (he samples prince!) i used to do kung fu in my friends garage and listen to this cd all the time.

the best of it is better than the best of 3ft high, yeah. but, i think i prefer 3ft high over all. can everyone just take some time out and watch this and then tell me both that rap isn't good, but on the other hand modern rap is nowhere near as good as the old skool stuff.

Evil Urges. It's getting better and better - fuck a duck, Sec Walkin' is amazing! This is what I'd hoped Wilco were going to do on Sky Blue Sky, but didn't.

that drum and bass sound is massive - it's nearly as heavy as that on the album, and on a few of the other tracks - that's one of the big reasons why i like it so much, it's pretty funky really.

yeah, that's it. and as i said, it's kind of oop although traders on amazon and ebay do have it, and probably some shops, but if that stops being the case - which it will do fairly soon - i'd imagine the price will shoot up, and it's really worth having - one of my favourite british folk albums (and i do have a lot of them). don't bother with lindisfarne!

here's a few sandy denny songs, then - for anyone interested. crazy lady blues (written about linda thompson - richard's girlfriend, then wife) the optimist the sea (which is fotheringay) you never wanted me (a cover, but a great example of her singing talent)

you need to get their albums! if you like fairport and sandy denny, and that kind of stuff then you'll love their music. i imagine you can get them in america - they were remastered in england a couple of years ago and were fairly cheap to buy. if you were thinking of getting anything then get "i want to see the bright lights tonight" and "pour down like silver".

the song is Did She Jump or Was She Pushed by Richard & Linda Thompson from Shoot Out The Lights

trevor lucas? he was the other main songwriter in Fotheringay, and probably worked on a lot of her solo stuff too, as well as being her husband - he might even have played a bit with Fairport, i'm not sure. i was saying that comment cos of the richard thompson song. i doubt she was pushed really. (edit. and i got it wrong anyway - it's did she jump or was she pushed!)

her The North Star Grassman and the Ravens album is as good as any Fairport album (well, maybe not Leige & Leif, but you get what I'm saying I hope) and also Fotheringay is equally as good. I'd get Fotheringay while you still can (even though it's not too cheap) cos it looks like it's about to shoot up in price as it's out of print. i might upload a song from each in a bit - just for anyone interested, so as to sample them. also - the question is: did she fall or was she pushed?

the first part of the album is my favourite at the moment. evil urges is the best song they've ever recorded, i'm amazed is great, highly suspicious is great (although the drums let it down), and although touch me is the weakest link, it's still really good. i'd like to hear the actual cd, as the rip i've got is very flat sounding.

yeah, haven't you ever heard A Northern Soul? actually, it's pretty good - unlike Urban Hymns. this isn't a massive one, i think most people think it anyway, but James Taylor is terrible (he did one good song - Little David, on One Man Dog, and he didn't even write that!)

you're still saying all the right things! (except he says "tyres", not "tired")

no, you're still not quite there yet.

I think a lot of people think that, don't they? OR at least people who have heard it. ok, my new one: Jeff Buckley is shit! and i'm not saying his father was loads better, cos that's obvious - i'm saying he's shit! how people can go on about him is beyond me. listen to the tindersticks instead (a white band with real soul, and a conciderably better understanding of music production)

listening to Evil Urges. really liking it a lot. don't like the drum sound much (more specifically, the snare drum sound - the cymbals are fine), but everything else is sounding great.

the link i found for this leak kept saying i needed to enable cookies and wouldn't work properly (never had that problem before, and my cookies are enabled . . . in fact i am very proud of my cookies!) so does anyone . . . you know . . . wink wink, nudge nudge, say no more . . . please

no, but that could work under the other banner i was going to say which was that as a whole britain makes and has made better modern music than america. and, without question, i am certain america has lost the ability to make good pop music - of that i have no doubt. (although i do have a little bit of doubt about the first thing i said)

i think that anyone who doesn't like the beach boys doesn't really like music . . . or life; and normally i'd be joking if i said that about something to someone, but, in the beach boys case, i think i actually mean it. i can't really think of anything too blasphemous other than to say english folk music is better than american folk music. but i assume everyone knows that already, don't they?