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Been listening to a lot of Megadeth lately

New or old stuff? I haven't heard the last couple but everything i have heard after Youthanasia sucks (and Youthanaisa is not good)

My first 12" single might have been Rock Me Amadeus by Falco. As if it needed extended.

STONE COLD CLASSIC

[Chorus]

First album I ever bought was Chorus by Erasure. A far cry to what I'm into nowdays!

Why would I look around at the people in Scruffy Murphy's and think "none of these people really like Heavy Metal - they are just in it for how it makes them look"

Ironically, this is true of a lot of the people who do drink in Scruffy Murphys nowdays.

A lot of whataboutery creeping into this discussion.

I'm also not into the new art. Very glad it's going to be available here but its costly - we've got my wifes old copy here which is missing all of the models, so probably give this a miss at £150.

[Franz]

Franz - the new album by Elay Arson

Technically synthwave / darkwave but a lot more experimental than that. A lot of guitars and vocals / autotune for a synthwave album, and also a fair few more modern electronic elements that I'm not savvy enough to know the right labels for. Challenging but kinda cool now the synth scene is a getting a bit oversubscribed.

It's also a concept album about Elon Musk creating a killer car with a dead mans brain and then it going on the rampage.

https://elayarson.bandcamp.com/album/franz

I don't like the idea that as a rule comedy has to 'punch up' because comedy shouldn't have rules as such. 

I definitely don't think there should be rules or anything in comedy. A lot of the things I'm really interested in are fairly extreme in their content and I'm a big opponent of censorship on the whole. I just think that punching down when making a joke isn't comedy, it's just really cruel behaviour.

Also is this the same Jimmy Nailz I met at a Fight Club Pro show in Wolves a few years back? We might have talked about Dredd then.

The very same! 

Awesome!
Although I cannot believe you don't like Leigh Gallaghers art on Hookjaw.

I always think for jokes one should punch up rather than punch down.

I don't watch a lot of sitcoms so my reference is primarily ones when I was a kid, but I'm willing to bet stuff like Terry and June has aged badly. I reckon though that a really good comedy show should capture a bit of zeitgiest, so they're bound to wind up out of date as societal attitudes change.

Sometimes it's context. My wife had never watched the film Trading Places and when I showed it to her last new years I was rather embarrassed to find it contained a number of homphobic comments - but they're completely superflous to the context of the film and you can still enjoy it with little more than a wince about how things were in the 80s.

Generally though I think the idea of 'cancel culture' doesn't really exist outside the minds of objectionable sorts who don't like being told they can't enjoy their casual racism anymore, and I think a lot of the stuff they hate is driven by corporate box ticking exercises. A lot of us lefties want to see a better society but I'm pretty sure BLM protestors don't care about Fawlty Towers being taken off Amazon Prime.

And now I've listened to it like 30 times since yesterday.  I love it so much.  Amoral is amazing.

The best way to listen to music! One of the coolest things about WFH for me.

Cover - Fantastic. I'd have it tattooed on me if me mutha wouldn't kill me for it.

You should do this anyway, I'm sure she would come round.

Also is this the same Jimmy Nailz I met at a Fight Club Pro show in Wolves a few years back? We might have talked about Dredd then.

[Dredd]

The prog rocked up yesterday. Awesome cover, digging the contents!

Dredd The Justice Department coming across like proper bad guys again and I'm enjoying this one very much, although Dredd vs some punks seems like a formality and the real story is Maitland. Despite her motivations I can't help but feel she's acting like a bit of a chump.

Stickleback - Looks great, not a lot else happening to comment on this week. [spoiler]I cannot for the life for me remember who the guy who shows up at the end is.[/spoiler]

Skip Tracer is ok. I still like the manga art style being used for India and nobody else. I can't help but wonder if this would be better if there was a bit more happening each episode - for an adventure story it sometimes feels a little slow paced sometimes.

Fiends looks amazing, is engaging, already feeling invested in where this is going.

Hook Jaw - definitely my favourite thing in the prog atm. It's really building the creepy horror atmosphere and the artwork has the right mix of gore and menace. The picture on page two [spoiler]with open mouth and the water foaming over the side of the boat whilst the guys pull away[/spoiler] is nightmarish. There's still a reveal to come as no way this is just a big shark gobbling everyone up, there's something more sinister at play and I think [spoiler]it all ties back to the witch from chapter 1[/spoiler].

That was Alan Grant and Barry Kitson.

You are correct, apologies to Mr. Kitson there!

Snap! That's 'A Total Near-Death Experience' and it's one of the Dredd stories that both shocked and hooked me as a teenager and stayed with me ever since. There's a frame later in the story where Dredd punches the now-toothless perp in the mouth and he's just pictured kneeling on the floor with blood or spit pouring out from under his mask, unable to talk and tears streaming down his face, and it's just horrible. Steve Dillon drew it, can't remember the writer offhand.

Looked it up in the Case Files (Alan Grant) and funnily enough this story was immediately followed by A Childs Tale, which was another episode that horrified me as a youngster. Nothing gory in it, just bleak as all hell.