Synthesizer Patel

oi! careful what you say about billy. he's about the only person on that list who's opinion i'd actually take any interest in. plus, he lives very close to me & has an excellent moustache.

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I'm listening to that too. Really good stuff.

I love Soap Opera - especially Ducks On The Wall, You Make It All Worthwhile & Have Another Drink. Also, Percy (which is an original soundtrack - from a movie about a man that gets a penis replacement) is great too - and comes in between Lola and Muswell Hillbillies in the release order.

Exactly. I'm a fan of the sound too, but I think if people are expecting their albums to sound like Sgt Pepper or something, then they're gonna be a bit underwhelmed by what they hear on first listen. That's the album where their production became bigger and better, in my book; it definately got a lot more bottom end into the mix. One of my favourites too.

The Kinks are incredibly British (or certainly their best stuff is), and their music is very character based, so you might have to be British to understand fully all of the content. I don't know; I am British, so I can't say for sure - cos I understand it all, but growing up in a village in the south east of England even in the 1980s, I can say that this music is dearer to my heart and more representative of my life than any other British Invasion band. I think you'd probably have to look to The Smiths before you find something similar in British music. Anyway, that's why I'd put them above Th

this site is very interesting, and funny at the same time (how can you have anything that's "forgotten" making a "7 forgotten wonders of the world" list?)

Pretty good. I prefer the last song - The Fast Lane - when both the man and woman sing together, and it sounds melodically a lot like Belle & Sebastian to me. The production is definately a lot like Lavender Diamond, your're right.

That stands out as one of the songs I like on the album. 300 MPH is really the only other one, as it's got some swing to it which I think is missing from the other tracks. Effect & Cause is not bad either, but their final tracks are always fun/interesting, and sadly this is perhaps the least fun or interesting on any of the albums. That Irish - "alive alive alie ooh!" singing (or whatever it is he's saying) - in Prickly Thorn, is pretty bad though. Anyone else thinking that too?

I'll have to check them out. What do they sound like?

I've only listened to it once today, and I'm currently of the opinion that it's the worst album they've made so far. Icky Thump (the song) is not an indiction of what all the songs sound like in terms of sound & tempo, but it seems to be a fair indiction of the quality. NP. Nicky Hopkins - The Tin Man Was A Dreamer

Very true, although one correction to that history: I thought Ringo had a Prince Albert, and Brian Epstein had lots of fillings . . . (I could go on)

? He's dead though. NP. Sky Blue Sky

I tried listening to Icky Thump, but it's way too loud for this time of the day.

Can these songs on the VW commercial be sold to Audi for an ad campaign? I would assume not. Can the songs being played on commercial radio stations be played on 'Uni FM', or BBC Radio 2, or somesuch station? Yes. I think that is the fundamental difference.

He's an aquired taste. (imo) - better get that in there, before someone says "well, actually everyone likes him!"

I hope by "poor" you mean without wealth (well actually he's dead), rather than "shit"?

Yeah, I can agree with that to a certain degree. I'd actually have been a bit happier if they were a bit more involved in the ad - personally - depending on how it turned out (the white stripes one being an example of one i thought turned out quite badly, but could have been good) - otherwise, to me, it's just another shitty car ad with a bit of music I like. Really the proof of all this will be how things pan out over the next few years or so with their music. One thing I will say though (and this came from a documentary I saw a while back on Ivor Cutler - although I am making up most of th

If ever I think of Alt Country, I always think of Lambchop as being the best of that term.