Synthesizer Patel

Well, I can tell what you mean if I really listen hard and let my imagination run away with me! (I think I can see what you mean with the vocal phrasing at times). Weirder than that reference - I think I can hear a bit of a melody from Little Boy by The Staple Singers in Battersea Odyssey.

If I were to tell you that one of the songs on the album isn't even written by Bob Dylan, that'll give you some indication about how much care and attention went into making this a worthwhile album. Unless you've got money burning a hole in your pocket, I wouldn't waste your money (actually, that's not true; i would waste your money, just not my own )

I'm not a fan of Love Kraft either. I'm not sure what it is about it, cos the production is good and the songs are good too, but I can never be bothered to play it - which is an important requirement for any album, obviously.

Yeah, I know what you mean. I skipped through the tracks quickly on the first listen, and thought it sounded a bit too similar from track to track, but I spent most of yesterday and today listening to it, and that feeling slowly disappeared so that I'm loving it right now. Carbon Dating and The Gift That Keeps Giving stand out as two of my favourite tracks at the moment. NP/ Hey Venus! again

No sign so far; well, I haven't found it yet, anyway. It might be out there somewhere, it's just I haven't seen it.

Yeah, it has got a lot of zither on it, hasn't it. I'm now starting to think it sounds like Love Kraft with better songs, but I can definately hear their early sound too. Definately not as good as Person Pitch, but it's still better than most other things out so far this year. NP/ Hey Venus! - Super Furry Animals

2/3 of Strawberry Jam by Animal Collective. Anyone else heard this yet? Has the whole thing leaked? What, if you have heard it, do you think?

It reminds me of Fuzzy Logic at the moment (if I had to say what it sounded like, in regard to their back catalogue). It's all very straight forward, really. The album's got a very trebley sound, like Radiator. Um, what else can I say? I've only listened to it through once . . . It's good, though. You must have heard The Gateway Song & Runaway (the opening two tracks), if I had to guess what you'd heard at Glastonbury.

SUPER FURRY ANIMALS - HEY VENUS! (oink it)

...well I've been thinking that for years! I will hold you to this though, I never forget. Yeah I agree. My point about China really was how 'production' is where the problem lies, rather than with the 'product'. If the Chinese produce a TV set for an American and the American chooses to a. leave it on all day or b. never turn it on the percentage of the products "carbon footprint" wouldn't differ so much in either case, is my point; because it's the production where the fault lies. So, in the same way, if an Electric car is made alongside a gas-guzzler, then if they are both produced

Are you refering to targets, laid down, that very few Western countries are actually likely to achieve, even though they were seen as inadequatly low by certain countries (Britain for one), when you speak of emissions standards? Or there's also the proposal to have countries buy "carbon credits" from other less industrial countries so as to offset their higher than allowed carbon emissions. Obviously China has poor standards, but it is as much about the sheer amount of production as the way in which they do it - even if they were to clean things up to current Western standards, it would still

I think drink and drugs ruined The Band myself. I also think that Dylan not mentioning Robertson in Chronicles has more to do with the fact that the book wasn't interested in the period of time in which Robertson was a part of Dylan's life, rather than anything else. I also also think that without Robbie Robertson you'd have simply had a great band without any actual songs to play, which is not such a good thing to have.

There's an Alejandro Jodorowsky Boxset out, in the UK anyway. It also includes Holy Mountain, which is even weirder than El Topo. "Fact Finders alert!": George Harrison wanted to be in it, but said he wouldn't take a shit on camera, apparently, so Jodorowsky said he couldn't work with someone like that; Bob Dylan also wanted to be in it too. I'm currently watching the second series of Deadwood.

My guess is: when Bob Dylan dies, and probably Robbie Robertson too.

It's really good stuff, though. I don't like the albums (well Slow Train Coming is good), but the concerts are great.

You can never have too much Dylan. I'm hoping they do another Bootleg Series issue soon, and make it either from the late 1960's to early 1970's period (self portrait kind of stuff) or from his Born Again tours. I doubt it'll happen though, I get the feeling Dylan doesn't like either of those periods so much for some stupid reason.

Who said that then? The only way I can back up what I said, cos it's hard finding information on this (although I did watch a BBC documentary which was questioning whether people should be buying electric cars, rather than sticking with what they already own, which is where I got this view point from), is to look at China and see that those Chinese aren't the consumers, yet are responsible for the most pollution, so it is at the point of production on things where the carbon footprint is the greatest. Does that make sense? I'm certainly not saying this is 100% right, but it makes sense to me.

I did point out a few pages ago that the majority of a cars carbon footprint comes from its production (it must have got lost in the frenetic posting activity). So; again, if a real impact on the environment is to occur, this is the point at which things need to be changed, and not with the mileage a car gets or whether it's electric or not; as this makes next to no difference if the car companies are burning fossil fuels like mad people. So, any list of "eco-friendly" cars shows next to nothing in regard to it's impact on the environment, and the same is true in regard to non-friendly list

It's a fact that any new car, no matter how eco-friendly (be it electric or whatever) causes a larger "carbon footprint" than even the worst gas-guzzling car that is currently on the road, simply because nearly all of the carbon footprint occurs during manufacturing and seeing as how this doesn't change too much between the type of car you buy it doesn't make too much difference. So anyone bothered about the environment would be best suited to buying secondhand if they are that way inclined. Seeing as how VW's are well known for lasting a long time, then getting yourself one of them might be a

What do you think of it? NP.

If you read The Trial, and enjoy The Trial; then see if you can pick up The Castle by Kafka at some point, as it's basically the same theme, but slightly more interesting (well, I thought so). And; if Kafka doesn't get you depressed enough, you should get Hunger by Knut Hamsun, which is about a man - a writer - (never find out his name, actually), who is starving to death slowly because he is too proud to beg for money, but is unable to sell his stories to make money to live. Nice.

he's better known for his association with tracey emin, who is very famous in the uk (he went out with her for a long time in the late 1980's); i don't know how well known he is around the entire country, but i am from the same county as him so he's well known around where i live, along with holly golightly (another musician, who played on the white stripes album "elephant") who's from the same area. he's been painting, writing, making films, and making music for years. he was friends with jack white for some time, but i like what made them fall out (from wikipedia): really he's kind of a

He's not that obscure, just because you haven't heard of him doesn't make him obscure. The irony that he refers to is not that they are writing a song about money when they have money - as that actually isn't ironic - the irony is that the song (as part of the album) made them money - which is ironic. Does that make more sense now? Slow down; read it all through again with a cup of tea or something; and relax.