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Second: Woodstock (1970)

"Higher Than the Stars" - The Pains of Being Pure At Heart

"This Charming Man" - The Smiths (1983) "Harmony" - Clinic (2002)

"Whole New Way" - The Horrors

Nope, he is actually a guitarist, best known as a member of an 80's band.

"Surfacing" - Chapel Club

First one: The Last Waltz (1978) Martin Scorsese's documentary of the Band's 1976 farewell performance featuring an all-star lineup of guest performers including Neil Young, Bob Dylan, Muddy Waters, Joni Mitchell, Van Morrison, Emmylou Harris, the Staple Singers etc. The concert is intercut with Scorsese's interviews with the members of the band. An excellent tribute to a great era in American/Canadian music.

"We Carry On" - Portishead

Alain Delon, French actor who, supposedly, was the father of Nico's son, Ari.

"Processed Beats" - Kasabian

Happy Birthday.

^Yeah, you have to make an allowance for Farin, in his old age he's just not keeping track of all the American, MTV, flavour-of-the-month pop tartlet cardboard cutouts like he used to.

I figured that, but I wanted to express my distaste for her celebrity by responding to your sarcastic ignorance.

Just consider yourself fortunate. I agree many great artists go unacknowledged while those with a pretty face, a good publicist but limited musical ability become idolized, but I don't think that's anything new. Plenty of artists and their music have only been appreciated in hindsight and were often rejected or ignored in their own time. The converse is also true: artists have been celebrated for being the best thing since sliced bread, but years (or months, as often happens) later are looked on as unfashionable rubbish. 'Tis unfair and frustrating certainly, but its still just someone's opinion.

1. Outshined - Soundgarden 2. Stupid Questions - New Model Army 3. Satan Wants Me - Luke Haines 4. A-Punk - Vampire Weekend 5. Little Sister - Queens of the Stone Age 6. Paper Planes - M.I.A. 7. Hey - Pixies 8. Teen Angst (What The World Needs Now) - Cracker 9. Never Had Nobody Like You - M. Ward featuring Zooey Deschanel 10. Middle, The - Jimmy Eat World

"Around the Bend" - The Asteroids Galaxy Tour

Hmm 'not heard enough of' is even better criteria and I'll make a point of not talking about or listening too much to anything you mention.

Reading Catch-22 by Joseph Heller again. I need a good laugh.

Has there ever really been a time since the beginning of rock and roll, when albums mattered more to the industry and the general public, excluding established fans of specific groups than the singles used to promote them? Did radio stations ever play the whole album or even a side when it was first released? The casual music listener is often simply not enough of a fan of either music in general or artists in particular look beyond mainstream artists to alternative ones or the singles to album tracks, they just want a few nice songs to listen to sometimes. I don't think this is a new or a worsening condition of people in general. For alot of people music just isn't their thing, they take what's given to them, not caring much either way. Also, this sounds like it getting close to the tired Old music vs. New music debate. There is plenty of music out there with as much excellent musicianship and emphasis on musical skill and innovation as there ever was 30-40 years ago, but, for better or worse, much of it sits just beyond the mainstream media's grasp. Yeah I agree. I make a point of liking only bands I'm positive most of the people I know can't stand, its the only way I know they don't suck.

Looks like this could be it for Celtic. Hopefully Everton can avoid another pounding from SL Benfica.

The music industry has always been an industry like any other: it aims to expand and prosper. I don't think its fair to say it started out idealistic then became corrupted. There has always and will always be those who are in it for the money and those in it for the music (who I'm sure also don't mind getting a few checks now and again if only to pay the rent). As a business it needs to determine the kind of product likely to be most successful with the general public. Once they hit upon a winning trend who can blame them for repeating it and beating consumers over the head with it, like every other business does? Of course there are those in the upper part of the industry nowadays who care about the quality (as subjective as that really is) of the music product they sell, but probably most view it largely in terms of marketability and potential profit, not originality or merit. There are an increasing number of alternative ways to listen to and obtain great new music which are becoming a good-sized part of the music industry as whole. If however your viewing the industry only from a major label/mainstream perspective then it does look a little bleak unless of course your a fan of that music.

"I Cut Like A Buffalo" - The Dead Weather

Camembert, which is quite good baked, although cavier is also tasty with buckwheat blini. Quiche Lorraine or Beef Wellington?

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