mockney piers

it was someone on here moos. Nette was stalking her on the tube, but I've a feeling it was someone else who expressed attraction.

I can go with MSP as it was Holy Bible that got them the wider acclaim, though I'm sure fans will freak at the thought that the first two are no good. as for EMG I don't care what happened late, I'm looking for slow starters. I can have TH as your personal point of view, but seeing as their first two albums are classics I can't let them in ;) I was considering Led Zep on the rather weak effort that it was on III that they really found that distinctly Led Zep sound rather than being a fantastic blues rock band with a distinctive sound, if you see what I mean, but considering the first two are total classics with many of the all time best loved songs on them, I can't allow that either. It's actually really hard isn't it.

Who was it had a thing for brooks/wade/mitchell?

no loz, because we're discussing the 50% tax bracket. And I tend to agree that anyone falling under that is rich, not 'very very comfortably off' which is about the quibbliest semantics I've ever come across!!

indeed, London and particlularly the city skew figures for everyone else. Median figures are much lower. I used to have a link to a site with really good interactive breakdowens of all the data, but can't be arsed to look for it so here's wikipedia. Even at peak of careers (50-54 age band) the figures are pretty dramatic [pre] median average men - median men - mean women - median women - mean ? 19,300 ? 27,000 ? 23,500 ? 33,400 ? 15,100 ? 19,200 [/pre] number of taxpayers below the 100k = 29 million above it = 400 thousand

I'm not sure that was the point nette. I think it's more of a rubes-don't-like-science kind of thing!

I've already bagsied her Otta!! (6)

Excellent, nothing like a festival of historically dubious pedigree, retro fitted by crusty crystal types with a bit of 'celtic' thrown in to warm the cockles. Paint me blue and call me mockvoc, I'm in!!!!!

Ooookayyyyy. Modest Mouse - Lonesome Crowded West. I actually love their previous releases, but they're definitely fan boy territory and this was their first accessible album and mainstream success.

I was hoping Pulp's His 'n Hers would fit the bill but it seems it was their fourth album :(

Good calls otta. Weirdly I thought we weren't going to get anything from the last ten years, as the music industry has changed so much, it's all about an immediate impact these days, whether you're signed and if your first album fails you're cast into the wilderness or whether you're a 'youtube sensation' who's follow ups invariably disappoint (Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, I'm looking at you!!!)

I'll have a tentative stab with Yes. Meandering psychadaelia gives way to unfocussed rubbish before finding that Yes sound. Though I'm sure many will argue on here that they never did a good album ;)

Right, sort of taking jctg's lead here's a challenge, how about best third albums where the first two were rubbish and exist, unloved, only in the collections of die-hards and completists' collections. Anyone...anyone?

The new album 90 Bisodol (Crimond) is out this week!!!

Back in the dhss!! Good call that man....or woman.

Are any of those debuts?

I wonder if Spanish tourists wonder why on earth we have a square named after an obscure part of their south west coast. If you mention the battle they'd probably be surprised that they had a navy at all, thinking it was sunk in 1588!

eh? What happened to d)mockney piers whiling away the soul crushing minutes of his life sat at his desk at work whilst bleating about nothing to no effect? I feel left out :(

Ha a, yes he is. The footage of that first reunion with Waters' rictus grin whilst fist pumping crazily and the rest of them looking a bit bemused and embarrassed, like he was a small child who'd just discovered that shouting 'tits' briefly amused adults but didn't know when to stop, was just priceless!!

>>"Really, you think Southwark council is full of middle-class imogens and Toby's? I had always imagined a bunch of middle >>class amateur Marxists clutching copies of the Socialist Worker" thinking about it, they're the same thing aren't they ;)

I figured there were enough of them to sneak 55 grands worth of funding past the noses of the marxists to create 'colour thief an extravaganza of....etc'

Now that's much more like it. - Oh yes daaaaaalink, it was all the rage on Primrose Hill last year, Gwinny and the chap from Coldplay were there, oh wouldn't it be marvellous to get Dulwich on the map too, perhaps we can invite the wonderful James Nesbitt....

I'm confusedf magpie. The muslims who apparently think the pope is still behind some sort of crusade against islam are now happier that we're not symbolically burning catholics? Oh please tell me that was sophisticated irony, it's so hard to tell on here sometimes.

Well what a bunch of killjoy grumps you lot have turned out to be. I was rather looking forward to having some mulled cider in the park after dark and watching some well meaning fools make idiots of themselves in jester costumes under multi coloured strobe lighting, with some coincidental firework and bonfire action going on. I guess I'm going to have to make a pyre out of hedgehogs in my own back garden now and do it all on my lnoesome. Yours chagrined from champion hill*, Harumph bah humbug etc!!! *it aaalmost works.

I still don't think this has anything to do with political correctness, more a misguided pretentiousness. After all, anti-catholic sentiment is pretty much the only acceptable prejudice left in the country today ;) The fear and distrust of 'popery'* and catholic ritual and mysticism and the puritanical reaction was burned into the national consciousness in the 17th century and it hasn't entirely lost its grip. *No, not pot pourri!!!!!