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"Anyone got the new Elbow album?"


Got it today at Sainsbury's for a reasonable ?9.77 (shhh don't tell the missus, that's 3 and a half canap?s).

Rather enjoying it so far, probably a grower but it wibbles along at a good pace. No standout tracks so far, but it's all rather tight with that trademark sound toned down a squidgin giving it a slightly laid back feel.


Ooh just got to Richard Hawley on The Fix (track 8), Hawley and Elbow is a great combination!!

Great lines from the opening [elbow] track Starlings


"I sat you down and told you how

the truest love that's ever found

Is for oneself

You pulled apart my theory

With a weary and disinterested sigh

So yes I guess I'm asking you

To back a horse that's good for glue"

Today through no fault of my own had to listen to a kid's iPod thru speakers containing mainly Now That's What I Call Music 379 (Girls Aloud, etc).


Utterly appalling - had to turn it off. The (low) quality of so much of today's pop really makes me angry!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • 1 month later...

Ooooh I'm very excited about Camille at the moment - I have just bought her album and can't stop humming it! Very French; very theatriccal; some wonderful rhythms that has me doing bizarre little dances in the garden. I know she played London this week ... did anyone catch her?

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And what else is being listened to in East Dulwich at the moment?

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds' latest Dig Lazaruz Dig! If you caught them on Jool Holland's Later last week you'd have seen them blow all the competition clean of the stage. Also, another that's been a constant on my sound sytem late at night is Cat Power's Jukebox which is a great covers album. She makes all of them her own. A great late night record enhanced to capacity with a decent bottle of red and a big fat spliff.

Went to Fopp (Hurrah!!!!) and grabbed a selection of ?3-5 oddities.


ULLAdubULLA II - War of the Worlds Remixy stuff, real guilty pleasure this one

Do it Again - Tribute to Pet Sounds by the likes of Mazarin, Architecture in Helsinki, The Wedding Present, Daniel Johnston and others

Tokyo Police Club - great but WHY so short?!?!


Ooh, and full price for Breeders' new album, lovely. (I was taught English (the discipline, not the language) by Josephine Wiggs' mum)

The Pixies - I'd forgotten how good they are.


I saw them at Brixton a few years ago and bought a CD of the gig on the night (recorded straight from the desk). Anyway, I lost the CD (alcohol was involved) until YESTERDAY! So pretty much listening to the Pixies at Brixton exclusively at the moment.

I'm not listening to it yet but Bonnie Prince Billie has a new album out next week I think which has me quite excited


Thanks to a recent haul by Lady MacGabhann I'm listening to Girls Aloud on my shuffle more than I'm keen on (just how compressed are some CD's btw?? I can hear LOUD before the first note is played... normal hiss, normal hiss.. ooh this next track has very loud hiss!! Then my ears bleed)

Ok I have quite 'folky' tastes most days.... Here is my most played tracks at the moment


1. Kate Rusby - Planets

2. Ray LaMontagne - Jolene

3. Ani Difranco - Napoleon

4. Billy Joel - Shes got a way (I just got married.... it makes me sentimental)

5. The Cat Empire

6. The Foo Fighters - In Your Honour

7. Missy Higgins - anything really. I love her.

8. The Waifs - Sunflower Man

9. Paul Kelly - If I could start today again

10. Counting Crows - Round here

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