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Comment on Let’s face it: F1 will be worse off without the manufacturers by Martin White

Martin White — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 15:17:13 +0000

I thought the racing was pretty good this year, though with a stretch of extremely boring races towards the end of the season (barring Brazil).

I’m not looking forward to the impact of banning refuelling next year.

Comment on Immaculate Machine at the Wilmington Arms @immaculatemach by Music Download » CMJ 2009 - Bill’s Friday nighttime picks (Immaculate Machine, Infinity Cat, Seaport Music & more)

Sat, 24 Oct 2009 10:53:55 +0000

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Comment on Lights! Camera! Acton! by Things I’ll miss about West London « John Kell Vs Satan

Things I’ll miss about West London « John Kell Vs Satan — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 21:42:19 +0000

[...] even less frequent services, apparently, and no new trains (yet). Still on a transport tip, the London Transport Museum Depot is the only tourist attraction in walking distance of where I currently [...]

Comment on Mercury revved by John Kell

John Kell — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 11:12:03 +0000

Florence and the Machine’s album is less heavy on the shouting – but yes, that’s a bit how her Glastonbury set seemed on the telly as well. It’s worth a listen (bar the dreadful ‘Kiss with a Fist’). I’m slightly surprised to see F+TM and Bat for Lashes get nominated, on reflection – they’re quite similar-sounding records. Florence edges it, to my ears.

White Lies I forgot to mention – I rather like them as a singles band, but the album doesn’t do much that is interesting beyond the singles.

Agree about Little Boots though – what the hell 6Music are doing playlisting that sub-Girls Aloud coffee table shite is beyond me.

Comment on Mercury revved by Daniel Paton

Daniel Paton — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 23:48:36 +0000

I’m so delighted that The Invisible and Sweet Billy Pilgrim have been nominated that I could comfortably forget about the mediocrity of the rest of the list! If one of these albums wins it will restore my faith in the industry but it’s very unlikely. I think it’s going to be won by one of the women and it’s been a few years since an urban act got a look in, so I reckon Speech Debelle has a good chance, in spite of being rubbish. Other than that, the favourite must be Bat For Lashes. I haven’t heard the Florence and the Machine album but she just shouted her way through her support slot for Blur at Hyde Park – it didn’t make me want to take a chance on the record!

Lots of omissions as always, but my personal selection is too subjective and unrepresentative. There’s less to complain about this year – glad that the ghastly White Lies and Little Boots have not been nominated. Micachu should definitely be there though!

Comment on Mercury revved by Kat Kennedy

Kat Kennedy — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 16:27:48 +0000

I’m totally in agreement with pretty much all of this, the only things I can’t agree to being about the albums I’ve not really heard! The Maccabees record has surprised me by being absolutely essential listening. For weeks, I’ve had to force myself to actually listen to other albums, because it’s been all I’ve wanted to listen to.

Had I written such a list yesterday I’d have liked to add the Dutch Uncles album as a complete outsider. Having seen the list, I am delighted that Friendly Fires are on it – that’s a genuinely interesting album with surprising influences. And of course La Roux, but the latter is to be discounted as I’m not impartial on that one!

Comment on New podcast! by Martin White

Martin White — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 12:31:25 +0000

That Noisettes track is geeeeeeeeeeeeenius! I’m clearly going to have to get the album.

Comment on New podcast! by John Kell

John Kell — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 20:14:24 +0000

Ah, thanks Sam – you’ve saved me from a schoolboy error! I’m having a play with the software to get a better version now…

Comment on New podcast! by Sam

Sam — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 19:52:31 +0000

The mystery of the bitrate solved! Your MP3 is in stereo, so that 64kbps is effectively being shared, 32kbps per channel. That’s too low for MP3 music. I reckon you can just about get away with 56kbps mono (and I keep an 192kbps stereo copy for my archives), or if you’re happy with your current file size, do 64kbps mono and you’ll sound much better!

Comment on Top 100 albums of the decade by Daniel Paton

Daniel Paton — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 15:38:15 +0000

One of the interesting aspects of this exercise for me is observing how my tastes have changed (and expanded). It’s an opportunity to highlight lots of records I either missed or underestimated at the time, and to concede defeat on the ones I wildly overrated!

I could include all the releases of the decade from certain artists so I’ll have to find some criteria for restraint.