CF Bobby G claiming to be influenced by Starsailor and Ornette Coleman; these days it‘d take 30 seconds on YouTube before the giggles kicked in

I think Loop one of the many bands who really benefited from just predating the reissue gold rush - the earliest CD of Raw Power I can find on discogs is 1988 - as they sounded a lot better before I heard the Stooges

seem to remember they mostly name checked Bitches Brew and got annoyed with comparisons to other shoegazers. Trying to decide when to bite the bullet and just buy a new copy of Blissed Out ahead of 1988

White men aged 45-54 from the South West, who own a home in a town, are in work and have an undergraduate degree There are about 5,200 Britons like this

Um...

“that nasal singing which, for the life of me, I cannot imitate.”.

“After the Gold Rush“ Voice?

Very easy this one; the Mercury Rev is lovely and surprising, the Built to Spill is...the US equivalent of Landfill Indie, "Sad Adam Brody Montage Indie"

See also my answer to “why have you not got ‘simultaneous collapse of Microsoft and Alphabet in your risks?”: because on that day I’m driving home via a tinned food and shotgun shop…

Man, I would love to see the votes for this one broken down by geography

Yeah, this is it. Though I accept that it helps to be about my age (different class=22, ”wait, maybe the all the dancing isn’t helping with the loneliness?”, hardcore=25, “how did we all end up in this hole?”, Life=28, “maybe adulthood is actually a positive thing?”

Which is why I will always love the chutzpah of including “the second side of Til the Band Comes In”

Funnily enough I came to post ”this Savy Fav record is pretty great, shame it‘s up against Pulp’s best album”. I get the point about the palette, but the run of songs from Minnie Timperley to Bad Cover Version is near untouchable

Muse are closer to Oompah than they are to rock and roll, though

Until somebody mounts a convincing defence of secondary modern schools, we need to shut up about grammars. You can't have one without the other

I like it, as I always do with his work, but it does very much remind me of being in a magazine office when a white label Aphex 12" arrived for review and nobody could agree if it was brilliant 45RPM breakbeat or brilliant 33RPM dub...

Had forgotten that about the plane. He was obviously a frequent flyer - one of my 2 sightings was on a flight out of Newquay in about 2008. He was wearing the same jumper as when I saw him at a Trance Europe Express night at Heaven in...1993?

Shame it's such a one-sided match up; even a bunch of half-finished Aphex Twin sketches is going to leave Muse sounding like a comedy band

Ooh, for the first and last time (unless maybe we get Metronomy vs one of Charley Stone’s many bands) this is a local derby - Teignmouth vs Exeter (Analogue Bubblebath was a Mighty Force release, we’ll take what we can get).

True, but the fact that everyone who writes a column is, by definition, in a job they passionately love (because otherwise they'd go do something easier for more money) means they undervalue the difference between the work you choose and the work you do to earn.

I don’t even know how to phonetically spell the way he‘s going to pronounce “Tahiti”

<waits for re-evaluation of The Nephilim>

Cover of Siouxsie and the Banshees Peepshow CD

Oh, hang on, Peepshow is 1988? Maybe the best of the Old Punks Go Pop records

Yeah, it's going to be in my top 3

He'll be crying himself to sleep tonight, on his enormous pillow...

Ah, poor Moira Kelly...

TAKE THAT BACK IT IS A MASTERPIECE! HEID! TROOSERS!

Going out on a limb - you don't have teenage kids, right? <looks at morning bathroom access rota, weeps quietly>

Listening now, it sounds like everyone's glowing description of the Fall (as opposed to the actual Fall who always sounded like a competent garage band led by a mad tramp)

looking at the bluesky demographic, I suspect we're facing 3 months of people banging on about fucking Momus, too

OK, obviously the Converge is more interesting, so if I vote for it will the man stop shouting at me?

That'll just be me. How much do we need to bribe @bestalbumbrackets.bsky.social for a Pop Art vs Lovely clash in round one, is the question?