Synthesizer Patel

Yeah, they are both worthwhile. I didn't mean to put people off the first one. It's just I think the second one tops it, so I'd say to people get that first.

What songs do you like on The Greatest Hits? That might give us all a clue as to what album you might appreciate best. (for now, without knowing those details, i'll say After The Goldrush, or Rust Never Sleeps - seeing as how nobody has mentioned that yet)

"In My Own Time" is a far better album than "It's So Hard to Tell" if you ask me. It sounds like Ella Fitzgerald singing with The Band, whereas her first album is very stark, because it was recorded very quickly with just her banjo mainly. Everyone I know says she sings either like she's drunk or she's crying, but I like her. As I said, get her second album cos that is essential - not so much, her first.

I've got a cherry tree in the garden, and it yields many cherries in the spring time, but by the time they are ripe enough for picking they seem to all disappear. Some people have told me it's birds. I think it's the cherry ghost.

Isn't Timperley so much more than just a concept though? "Guess who's been on match of the day? I have, in me big shorts!"

Does anyone know if the Ys Street Band EP has leaked anywhere yet?

Yeah, I'm listening to it right now! Absolutely brilliant album. I think it's the least concepty of that run of kinks albums: from Village Green to Muswell Hillbillies, and then after that they got just a little bit TOO concepty for my liking (although I do still like me some Soap Opera every now and again) A new concept album I like a lot is Trials Of Van Occupanther - Midlake, and in some ways Ys - Joanna Newsom is a concept album.

Is it vanilla? I like vanilla.

My Blue Heaven - Fats Domino Don't Say Tomorrow - The Prisonaires Flat Foot Sam - TV Slim Ain't Got No Home - Clarence Frogman Henry Bring It To Jerome - Bo Diddley Here Comes The Judge - Pigmeat Markham Nothin' Shakin' (But The Leaves On The Trees) - Eddie Fontaine Bear Cat - Rufus Thomas Open The Door, Richard - The Charioteers

I think the fact that it's a Rock N' Roll hall of fame and 90% of it isn't Rock N' Roll is rather funny in itself. I like this list. It's wrong in so many ways that there's got to be something deeply right about it on some untapped level.

i'd love to hear that

skank in england just means dirty, really. someone can be a skank (not just a female, but a male too sometimes); and something can be skanky, or skanked-up, or full of skank, if it is dirty. (i am from england, by the way) i think that the reviewer is referencing to the dirty guitar sounds that sometimes occur on the album (see You Are My Face, by way of an example)

No; it does piss me off when they play Beatles songs, though. Personally, it's not really my thing, this Fab Faux, but if people want to go and see it then let them. The only negative points I can think of are that the article took up column inches which could have been about an actually exciting new band, as could the stage be better used for such things. But, we don't live in an ideal world, do we? Not yet anyway.

I can't even think about music when I am hung-over. I have the worst hang-overs in the world. They can even last for 2 days. And any music is just too much to handle.

If there really is a good rip of this, I'd be very keen to have it too, please.

Is ORKIE actually Essox500? I'm sure I've heard this all before. I hope he is, I miss the old shitter.

I like Arcade Fire a fair bit, but I think they've got to prove themselves a bit more before I'd rate them as highly as Wilco. I don't like either of their albums as much as I do some of Wilco's albums, but I feel that they could quite easily make something in the future that would change that opinion. As for bands that I rate as highly as Wilco, I can only think of Super Furry Animals as a band who have changed from album to album and still held my attention without getting caught up in their own hype, like lots of other bands tend to do.

Yeah, I don't think he was awe struck as such either. But, Clapton did go to Woodstock after hearing Music From Big Pink, as did George Harrison, Van Morrison, John Martyn to name but a few, and completely changed his style as a result of that. I wouldn't say that there weren't minor moves toward what the band did by other bands slightly earlier, but it wasn't until that album that people really sat up and changed what they were doing musically. The thing about Robbie Robertson was not just that he was a great guitarist, he was a great song writer too, and very rarely do those two things co

I think the fact that you can actually hear the difference in music pre-Music From Big Pink/The Basement Tapes and post it, kind of shows that they will be more than a footnote. It's not about the people that heard it so much, as the musicians. And, not only can you hear a difference, but it actually improved it (unlike, say, Thriller) - so I think The Band have Wilco beat on that count. They might eventually have more quality albums than them (actually they already do), so they've got something on them I guess. Anyway, . . . ah, forget it, what's the point

If we are talking walks, I'd say have a walk along The Embankment at night and over Hungerford Bridge to South Bank - that's a great view of London by night. That Jack The Ripper tour sounds kind of fun to do too, maybe that'd be a good idea as at least you get to see some cool Victorian stuff.

I wouldn't go to Brixton if I were you. It's not really dodgy, but it's bad enough that you might run the risk of getting mugged especially if you look you don't know where you are going, plus there is nothing there of any great interest. The suggestions of The Borderline are a good one. It's on Charing Cross Road, right near London Astoria, and also Denmark St (England's Tin Pan Alley), which is a whole street of musical instrument shops. Also around Soho is Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club (which is worth walking past, I guess, at the very least). Soho's Berwick St is where all the record shops ar

you can listen to one of the songs from the new album on myspace now if you so wish.

Thank you, actually I looked there yesterday, but their bandwidth must have been used up because it wouldn't work. Works fine now. Thank you for searching for.