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We're playing that game are we? Ok
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"We need to ban these self-walking children, they're a danger to our cars."
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I do think the magic of Oasis was that it was a make and do kinda band. Noel had some songs, Liam could sing and looked great, and then the rest were their plumber/brickie mates. Filling the ranks with pros didn't improve "we made this in our shed with spare parts, it's great" vibes either.
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actually I've worked it out - it's an ID for a google drive but it is passworded so it's not a MASSIVE security risk, just a minor one
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EVERYBODY, THE MODS ARE ASLEEP, SHARE YOUR API KEYS
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It's a bit archaic. When I worked as bar staff in the early 90s, it was deffo still around as an industry term. I could imagine a US article written by asking around in the office, and there's an English bloke there whose not lived in the UK since then, chipping in the odd bit.
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say say say what you want, he wrote a lot of hits
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Well that's an artistic argument, and it's subjective, therefore I can't win with with son. But I can win a numbers argument, as *objectively* the Beatles made a series of LPs that have resonated with millions, not just a couple of them.
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Fans are going to fan and I'm sure in the context of 4 Liam solo LPs, 2 Beady eye LPs, 4 Noel LPs and the 5 off peak Oasis LPs it holds it's head higher than most as it's closer to that moment where they did, somehow, make stuff that really reached people.
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I amused myself with his Glasto gig, making an alt setlist that swapped in songs of equal stature. No one would have gone home going "he didn't play the hits"
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Actually that's an angle to refute one of my kids who likes to wind me up saying Oasis are as good as the Beatles. Beatles didn't do two good LPs and blow it, they're all great to the end. And there's a handful of solo LPs that are not just artistic triumphs but proper fuck off hits too.
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My experience of Oasis wasn't ever choosing to listen to them, but them being on bloody everywhere, and that LP wasn't. People just didn't play it when you were around their flat, or in a shop whatever. Because they did it once and went nah. So I didn't hear it.
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Getting my oyster card out at my front door
Getting my keys out at the ticket barrier
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Speaking as someone the same age as him and who grew up about 30 miles from him, it is an interesting album because it sounds EXACTLY like one of the rougher kids from my school made a concept album about listening to early hip hop in the 80s, growing up in the Midlands and stealing VW badges.
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I'm getting the weird face-painted dude from the Alex Harvey Band (one for the kids there) and some sort of Angus Young / Hitler from Sparks hybrid.
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Common in the West Midlands where I grew up
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Less/fewer is pish. I know the rule but getting it right or wrong creates jack shit ambiguity. Now bought/brought is worth getting right, that conveys information.
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Doctor Who is basically the England national football team for nerds, in that everyone has an opinion on what they are doing wrong, and watching it/them, apparently, makes all the fans miserable.
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No but I worked at two publishers, one magazine and one newspaper whilst things were being shut and declining around around me.
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Oh yeah I think it's great. I do read the things it throws up and it makes me slightly sad that magazines are crap these days - basically coz there's no money in them/ads so a feature like this that requires a day on the phone can't be made as filler. this would be the lead item.
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I dunno really - that's just something I wanted to follow, to get random prompts of 80s music to google and listen to on streaming, so therefore made it myself coz no one else was doing it.
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But yes it's broadly correct in that Fesshole is my attempt to entertain the masses, Anon Opin is fuck it, I'm doing it coz I find it interesting and Swear Clock is fuck you, I don't care how unpleasant this is, in fact that's half the point.
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Can’t believe all the replies you’re getting saying that that that isn’t actually the Great Pyramid, but the smaller pyramid of Khafre, which is next to it. I mean, what is wrong with people? Bloody pedants. Just enjoy the joke, you idiots.
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Thank you Sam Bam Thank You Wham. I appreciate your commitment to finding great content and appreciating it.
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Why Dame Judi Dench, you don't look a day older than 85
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This post said it better
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Nope it breaks the rule because it makes the conversation about the edge cases instead of the majority. It's impossible to have this conversation where the subject stays about the subject and not the edge cases, which I think says something fundamental about how internet debate is so screwy.
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Lol. The one people mostly point to is Bladerunner and fuck it, even with the v/o it's still a 10/10 film.
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No film has ever been improved by adding extra scenes. I'll say that and replies will be the one or two exceptions where it did improve a film, however saying 99.9% of films were not improved by making them longer has less impact so I'm sticking with the first sentence.
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the lighting on this is quite sinister. Makes me want to play a Medusa Touch game where you crash planes on London with the power of your mind (probably frantically clicking whilst a Richard Burton face gets increasingly evil looking)
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They've still got a few of these in my local library. I should ask if anyone uses them.
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Just have no interest in this stuff. Never seen Godfather or Goodfellas either. I think it's fundamentally about how you fit in into this fantasy world and I know I'd be running a small business getting done over, and not the person doing the doing over. It would be hell.
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That's what I thought but that's not what matt is saying. Matt is saying he has to half build it to make sure the idea works. He has to do half it regardless of money.
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Obviously I say do it. Art is the stuff you're unsure about. Artists are the ones who step into the unknown.
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I'm just repeating my theory really. If the work is good enough then people look past the problems. My personal one is Woody Allen, I am 100% sure he's a massive problem, but stick Annie Hall on and I'm swept away every time.
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I 'Nintendo' (intend to)
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People will look past anything if they like it enough and the Harry Potter books (well the first few before the publishers stopped editing her) really work, they completely enthral kids. It's like Ja*ko being a massive n***e doesn't stop people enjoying Billie Jean. Whereas Gary Glitter is OVER.
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They play high quality video games on the Amstrad GX4000 console www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fFN...
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Where's her third album? It's like the Stone Roses all over again.
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I have a immediate pun reply in my head and I'm not going to post it, but be warned, puns are springing unplanned into my mind, others don't have my self-control.