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A fan of his work, from my chair I can see the full 2001 and Rama series sat on my bookshelf which I enjoyed immensely.

Words can be too easily bandied about these days; too easy to call one 'visionary' and another 'genius'. He simply looked to the horizon, while the rest of us gaze at our feet.

Trite, but true :S

Thank you, peterwolf.

That photo is extremely funny. Peter Wolf's comment is not. At all.

Caught it on iplayer and have to say I was pleasantly impressed - didn't fall into many of the standard cliches and the characterisations were nicely done. Slightly bog-standard 'Blade' theme at the end, but hopefully that will wear off - nothing more tedious than MORE people dressed in black claiming they've never felt so powerful etc. 8/10

Perhaps he's gone back for 'sloppy' seconds ...

Y'know, while this *is* a good thread, I'm assuming the lack of response from its original author means he either HAS found out just how good those blow jobs are and we'll never hear from him again, or the lady just hasn't replied ...

He's also the man that mixes the one drink that finishes Jock off every time.

Water?

Some people just line themselves up for a fall and this optimistically-titled band did themselves no favours with their first album, a four-and-a-half hour leviathan which peaked at number 4 in the UK ... but only thanks a hastily-corrected computer glitch at online retailers Amazon. The cover image of the book-shaped release didn't help, critics gleefully suggesting the band had about as much chance of entering the aforementioned pantheon of musical greats as a one-legged goose looking the wrong way. It would be wonderful if, like so many before them, the band's egotism and boundless enthusiasm for their own music was an indicator of genius. Sadly, the album is your bog standard American college rock set piece, with a few foot-tappers but nothing special. Seemingly hell-bent on leaving themselves open to mocking laughter, lyrics include "you never heard of us, but that's gonna change; there's a big thing coming, it'll seem real strange; we're the best there is, honey, don't go a'laughing; we're here to stay, babe, we're not just passing".

It will therefore come as no surprise that the goose which graced their album's cover undoubtedly lived much, much longer than their dominance of the charts ...

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"Shampoo have a lot to answer for, though no earthly punishment can surely redress the sin of inspiring this Northampton-based quartet of tuneless harpies" - G2

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With an ironic band name, this 27-piece collective formed in the Naples ghetto quickly took on a more European feel with the addition of Casper Turnlight, the bastard son of a hippy mother from Doddiscombleigh in the West Country. Amazingly, he took this shambolic assembly of random Italians and formed them into a relatively coherent musical force. Beyond them into the impossible is right, as Alpine Northeast had a tendency to produce records aspiring to absurd levels of greatness and being monumental only in their ability to fail. A record to subject people to.

The Minor Freedom Fighters represented a nadir in the pre-Libertines rockscape, with Apologise for Nothing firmly sandwiched between Suede's Coming Up and Up the Bracket it's hard to understand why MFF were ignored while Doherty and Co were venerated. To be honest, the answer is simple - pure, unadulterated, Class A, luck. The Minors were a four piece formed in the halls of the University of Hudersfield's Storthes Hall campus, which had previously been a mental hospital, and took their name from a book about obscure Bolsheviks spotted on the dusty office shelf of lead singer Jason Close's left-wing communications lecturer.

With a sound so close to that of the Libertine's, it's impossible not to draw comparisons between the two, but ultimately what the Minors had in musical talent, they lacked in stagemanship and sheer balls. At any other time, they'd be megastars but instead were subjected to the ignominy of being labelled as Libertine copy-cats. Even the release of the 'As Well As We Can' LP did nothing to convince listeners, and they split acrimoniously in 2004.

Couldn't resist ...

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The End is Nigh - the financial black hole its editor is still paying off :P

All posted today. Hopefully you'll get them by the end of the week.

Thanks again.

I thought he meant "dildo"

Would lend new meaning to ...

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