Blame Canada...

marky · Post by **marky** » Wed Aug 20, 2003 8:41 am

Here's an excellent article by a Vancouver writer on the whole RIAA/file sharing/suing your customers phenomenon...

http://www.techcentralstation.com/1051/techwrapper.jsp?PID=1051-250&CID=1051-081803C

Post by **Sloth** » Wed Aug 20, 2003 2:33 pm

Speaking of Music... here are some recommendations from London (lot's of US bands)

Hey Slothers,

As promised here is a list of some of this year's best releases that I feel may be your cup of tea.

Calexico - Feast of Wire (bit of alt-country from Tucson, Arizona)
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Fever to Tell (garage punk revivalists from NYC)
The Kills - Keep on Your Mean Side (ditto but Anglo-American)
Mogwai - Happy Songs for Happy People (post-rock from Glasgow)
Goldfrapp - Black Cherry (top stuff, very dark and sexy)
Super Furry Animals - Phantom Power (Welsh wizards on top form - again)
The Dandy Warhols - Welcome to the Monkey House (good for just before going
out on a Friday night)

Happy listening! Enjoy what remains of your summer...

Dafydd Goff

The Sunday Times
1 Pennington Street
London E98 1ST

Post by **mccutcheon** » Wed Aug 20, 2003 10:34 pm

This guy doesn't know jack. I own all those records. but anyway, time has moved no. Calixico, from the evil heat, listen to the new 12' Alone again or. Yeah it's the band Love. And it is great.

marky · Post by **marky** » Thu Aug 21, 2003 3:51 am

Well no surprise there's a lot of U.S. bands. From what I can tell there's even less of an indie pulse coming from the U.K. than there is coming from here, these days, and that's the problem. Now I dug a few of those Kills tracks alright, and I heard some good production on a Yeah Yeah Yeahs track, but jeez man, the record on my metaphorical turntable is stuck between the years 1978-81. If I ever decide I've finally had enough of those years and am open minded to give a shite about new music again, I will be sure and let you know. Til then, I'm nothing but collector scum. Now don't think I'm just stuck in the U.K., though, I'll soon have a chance to check out what the French and Swedes were doing during this time. You should see the Swedish website. The front of it has a picture of an old fashioned real TDK cassette tape, the kind I spent a lot of time with in high school. I never expected to see one of those again that wasn't mine, and certainly not on a computer screen.

Having said that, Blondie's 1975 non-disco, simple, even twangy version of "Heart Of Glass" kicks ass.