tune of the day

[John Mc]

Every single track off "Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain". In it's own unassuming way it's the best album ever made.

[bravecaptain]

true x

[stegger]

Seconded. There's no way I'd be as cool and attractive as I am now if it wasn't for the presence of Crooked Rain in my life from aged 16.
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never ever bloody anything ever

[John Mc]

Crooked Rain... didn't come out until I was 18 which explains why I'm not as cool, or as attractive, as I'd like to be.

TOTD is undoubtedly Let's Get Ready To Crumble by The Russian Futurists.

"I do pop 'cause that's what my heart goes, I don't call it art, no sir
That denotes that when I wrote it I had other motives"

[John Mc]

The Russian Futurists album gets compared to Giant Steps in the review in the Telegraph:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2006/08/05/bmpopcds.xml&page=2

[Kris]

I tried ever record shop in Meadowhall on Sunday for Me Myself and Rye, but that album seems to be like a dodgy rogue state, with shops refusing to acknowledge it's very existence.

So I downloaded it last night. It can get horribly samey at times, but there are some great great tunes on it - 'Paul Simon' being a real standout. I can certainly see Polyphonic Spree comparisons, but can't figure out where the Giant Steps link comes from...

x
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"fashioned by the blade of a world that doesn't care,
feeling so removed, drifting thru stealing air then...
pause and think about it, try to move and shift the pain, but it's there you feel it kicking and you scream and feel alive."

[John Mc]

I couldn't find it it in the shops either so for the first time ever I bought a full album off Itunes. Surely you should be able to download high quality version of the songs from there rather than just MP3's given that it costs £8 per album. The record industry is evil.

It does get a bit samey, I reckon that's cos it’s a compilation album so they've picked out all the poppy stuff.

[lomez]

all that crooked rain business reminds me of 'give it a day' which i think came out just before it and really really was the tops. not least for the line 'and the word spread/just like smallpox in the sudan.'

[John Mc]

I like the new Arctic Monkey's one.

[chuddy]

ba ba ba bah

Build

by the Housemartins

[Hew]

and i was a boy from school by Hot CHip. Their new one is really good innit.
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Martin O'Neill's Claret And Blue Army

[Kris]

The Major Cities of The World Are Being Destroyed One By One By The Monsters.

65 Days of Static.

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"fashioned by the blade of a world that doesn't care,
feeling so removed, drifting thru stealing air then...
pause and think about it, try to move and shift the pain, but it's there you feel it kicking and you scream and feel alive."

[mrfiresky]

A couple of weeks ago I bought CrookedRain 2 disc special but havn't played it yet...indeed I have never even heard it so im a gonna put it on right now. x
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we spent a lot of time trying to make our guitars sound like trumpets...then someone told us we could actually use real trumpets

[che]

che says:
cursive - art is hard.

for thierry henry.

up the arsenal, saturday.

[che]

shame on you - hothotheat. who are fuckin stellar.