El Pibe

THIS is how to kick off your debut album as a statement of intent.

Blitzen Trapper's marvellously spiky take on wilcoesque alt country/rock. Major Label Debut. Does it count if their previous albums were self released and nobody could actually get hold of them until very recently?

I stumbled upon this song via a label sampler before the album came out, but it turned out to be the opener, huzzah. Great video incidentally. although debut _and_ final album, clearly noone else liked them :)

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I don't know if that's enough for Universal acclaim though. If writing a classic were, then Rene & Renata probably qualify for universal acclaim ;)

'middle class' is kind of a catchall term for 'stuff wot i don't like' for you isn't it Lousisa ;)

I have to say Reggae's not really my thing, but he did write some classic/lovely songs which you'd have to have a hard heart to get offended by.

>EP has moved the goal posts so many times in this thread that it now resembles Aussie rules. :D

universally appreciated.

you won't get much for them. Perhaps give them to a youth club or something (if age appropriate) and get a warm feeling?

well, i guess when everybody knows its a pharrel williams cover, but when the judges say 'i love what you did with it Lauren, you really made it your own' i might feel a bit aggrieved too. Besides it was a 'what the faaa?' tweet, hardly a court summons.

really interesting article on drones there nashoi.

Potatoes!!!!

I'm with SJ, I enjoy the whole process anyway. And good spuds a worth a peel a parboil a shake and some preheated oilive oil, and now my kids are likely to be up for dinner I get to have them a bit more often.

ha ha, some insight into improvements in arrangement http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/tv/s103/the-x-factor/news/a602984/foxes-criticises-lauren-platts-x-factor-song-choice.html#~oSzaDjzY5AisSW

wood burner?

I guess it depends on how elaborate you want it. If I have guests I'll have much more variety than if it's just us. And given I married an irish potnonomicaphobia sufferer, it's usually just the meat, butternut squash, red cabbage and good gravy, piece of piss.

Pretty sure it's that otta. You can't beat a home roast. I don't find them troublesome. Took me a while to get timings right, but once you have, roasts are practically fire and forget!!

That may well be by thought a few of the acts were completely swamped by them too. Anyway, early predictions for final 3? Chloe will bomb out when they etll her to change her schtick and she tries to do a perky abba number. So I'm thinking Itlain fella, maybe van driver and perhaps welsh bloke, geordie lass perhaps? Fleur seemed an absolute natural, so that'll be week 3 then!!

yesterday lunch was a bacon sarnie whist I raked about 100 sqm of lawn followed by clearing an outhouse of an old fridge, cooker, bath, two toilets, a sink 8 tons of polystyrene, a very manky boiler suit and 150 old barley sacks. Dinner was a squash risotto, and very nice it was too. I do like a good roastie on a sunday, but this was not the weekend for it sadly.

Whilst Blonde Electra were perfomranig I waas reminded of Jim Hackers Party Political Broadcast. If you have a radical agenda then you go for a staid, traditional formal backdrop, if you have nothing to say then you go with the dazzling new and exciting backdrop. All those bright colours, dancing girls and elephants were making up for the fact that they weren't zany ata ll, thy were just boring. Having said that I'd rather them than the girl that survived who won't last another wek anyway. Stevie on the other hand...the new Wagner!!!

Whilst I won't discount entiely the possibilty of an outbreak here, we're well set up to handle it. Nigeria managed t contain and eradicate an outbreak in a far more difficult environment than the UK would be. There is probably more useful stuff you can concern yourself with. Ebola's infection rates are very low, health workers are of course massively more at risk than the rest of us, and have taken a hideous toll in w africa as they don't have nearly as much of the protective equipmenty and ideal conditions for quarantine. Ebola has a couple of properties that mean it's not going to be *the one*. Firstly as discussed it's comparatively hard to catch, you need direct contact with fluids off a patient. It is quite hardy outside but not that hardy, it will die after a short space of time and in contact with disinfectant. Secondly It's not contagious until you're symptomatic, this makes it harder to go around infecting people, because you're ill, and much easier for quarantiine purposes obviously. When Platypus flu crosses species, that'll be the time to worry...or when antibiotic abuse in the the third world/US farming kills off its effectiveness once and for all, then it's time to panic!!!

It's not underrated either is it ;)

Which is fine. This is a thread dedicated to difference in taste.

don't get me wrong, one of my favourite albums. Just the zeal of the recent convert has made some rather ott in their worship of it. Plus you know, they only really did one album.