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Posts by foxfeeder
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As I recall, McSween isn't too bad. I agree, pork 'haggis' isn't haggis. M&S should do one of their sultry-voiced ads - "This isn't just haggis.... In fact it just isn't haggis."
As you can imagine, here in the Highlands you're spoilt for choice. Mine was my preferred one, from one of our local butchers, the wonderfully named Hastie and Dyce. I'm not sure why I like that name so much but I just do. If a detective duo drama was ever set in Inverness....
Yes, you can't beat the local butchers really. My father was from Dunscore, near Dumfries, so I knew the haggis of the local butchers, Jim MacFadzean in Dunscore, now no longer with us, or John Houston in Dumfries, John is gone too (was a friend of my father) but his son still has the business, https://www.jbhouston.co.uk/
It's a shame your M&S ad wouldn't work to a wider audience, it's genius!
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Contrasting breakfasts:
yesterday - haggis (left over from previous night's dinner) and mushrooms on toast with fried egg and crispy bacon.
today - blood orange, pineapple
Aye, ye cannae beat the Chieftain o' the puddin' race!
Choice is a bit restricted in North West England, it's either this or McSween, if you want the authentic item. Most of the others, even Marks & Spencer, are pork based, which is just wrong!
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I mean't it's over YOUR HEAD, in that, you don't understand. Carter's little pills was a product that came out long before you were born. Has nothing to do with Jimmy Carter, Bonham Carter or whatever, GET IT?
American product presumably? I'm in England. If I said Benylin, I guess you'd be stumped!
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Over your head.
Who's "Over Your Head Carter"?
Unarmed with a reference that makes sense, I'm assuming you mean Jimmy Carter, owing to his age. Should you ever get to be his age, and still have a mind as sharp as his, you'd be grateful to be propped up by pills, much as my mother is, being 2 years older.
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To be blunt, GARBAGE. More errors than carter has pills. Hewitt needs a proof reader, as well as a fact checker. Up to you of course but my advice would be to not waste your money.
Clarence? Helena Bonham? The unstoppable sex machine? Get?
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In the beginning (pun) I liked it all bar YOSW, and Wot Gorilla was fine but a bit out of place. Gradually though, 11th Earl and OFTV have dated very badly, leaving side one as a bit of a let-down.
Side 2, however, was, and still is, Genesis at amongst it's finest, Mouse is a great song, and a good story, Blood is the highspot, but the instrumentals don't step down far, and Afterglow is a great closer. Trick, Lamb and England are their finest hour(s), but side 2 of W&W are in the ball park.
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Motherlode, Lady Lies, and the easy winner, Many too many! FYFM would be 4th, the rest are unrated by me.
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10CC and Supertramp? Apples and oranges.
I agree, but for some reason, on the old forum, it cropped up more than once.
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Helliwell always talked disparagingly about that "album with a rose on the cover" during concerts. Frankly I've never actually listened to it.
I urge you to do so. I can arrange an mp3 copy if you want, or it's on YouTube:
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I don't think so. If you buy The Lamb as a standalone release I believe it includes the CD and the DVD. And I'm sure that's the same with all the Nick Davies mixes of the albums. You don't have to buy the box set in order to get the 5.1 mixes (which is good because nowadays those box sets are bloomin' expensive).
Bit of Googling reveals this to be so, BUT it was very much a hotch potch of formats and territories, plus I didn't have a 5.1 set up back then. So, hopefully, this box might address all the options re bonus tracks, mixes, and, as per some old 5.1 versions, the slideshow on the 5.1 mix.
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It has already come out in remastered/remixed 5.1 as have all studio albums.
I thought it had, but it's in a massive boxset, isn't it?
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Really? Enjoy:
External Content www.youtube.comContent embedded from external sources will not be displayed without your consent.Through the activation of external content, you agree that personal data may be transferred to third party platforms. We have provided more information on this in our privacy policy.Well, that's unusual! You agreeing with me. That judiciously avoids being music on all 3 counts. Possibly worse than the Robert Fripp "Frippertronics" album recorded in various Polygram foyers around the world, back in the late 70's/early 80's, and whose title I forget, thankfully. It makes Bob Mould's "No water in Hell" sound like a masterpiece. If we could just get Kanye West to "sing" over it, we could have another Bohemian Rhapsody on our hands. Not!
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Also a big fan, I think the first album, Supertramp, from 1970, is their best. Post Hodgson they went downhill, and Hodgson's Eye of the Storm shows why. FLW is a poor album though, with 2 really good songs on side 2, C'est la bon and Don't Leave me now.
Past comparisons on the forum have been between Supertramp and 10cc, (not big in the US I believe), and for my part, while I respect the musicianship and intellect of 10cc more, I only own their "best of", while I have several Supertramp albums.
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Or, better still, 5.1! It's certainly an album that would be good to have in that format, as long as it's not overpriced.
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He mentioned sounding like Al Stewart as well, which he did.
But nowhere near enough, sadly. As an Al Stewart fan, I can't hear much similarity, the odd moment, but Tony, like Steve on Cured, didn't seem to put it in a key he could sing comfortably or naturally. Steve's worst was probably Can't Let Go, Tony's (from memory) was By You. Maybe, if he'd stuck at it, he'd have improved as Steve did.
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Certainly, Drake and Post Malone are right up there in terms of sales but so are Ed Sheeran, Billie Eilish and Arianna Grande, so rap isn't quite having it all its own way. In the UK, I'm not sure rap features highly at all, our biggest seller is apparently Lewis Capaldi along with the aforementioned Sheeran and Eilish.
I'm open to anything. If I alphabetised my CDs Madonna and Magazine would be neighbours as would Genesis and Girls Aloud, as well as King Crimson and Kylie if I didn't file her under M. So far there's no Little Mix, though I did recently hear one of theirs I like.
However, I don't tend to get on with rap.
Rap still features too highly though - music comprises 3 basic elements, rhythm, melody and harmony, at the most basic level, rap tends to ignore harmony, and lacks a lot of melody in many cases, in short, save yourself some money and buy a drum machine, set it up and leave it running!
I'm very familiar with Lewis Capaldi, my daughter is a rabid fan and my wife has it in her car. He has talent, for sure, but his songs are all too "samey" (those telling quotes again!
), Ed wanders between good and, on occasions, tedious, and Arianne is one of a long list of female singer-songwriter-clones who all trot out near identical songs moaning to their ex's about how "I tried so hard but you always let me down". Eilish however, treads her own path (with her uncredited brother's help, it seems) so maybe something fresh is on the way.I don't have an issue with any genre, I like a lot of jazz, free form and trad, though I've never bought any, and a good pop song takes some beating. Oops, I did it again by Britney is undeniably brilliant.
There are 3 rap tracks I like, Grandmaster and Melle Mel: White Lines, the one that goes "It's like that, and that's the way it is" - forget who it's by, but I have reasons for liking it, which would take a bit of explain. The other is Morris Minor and the Majors (really the brilliant Tony Hawks) and Stutter Rap. Which is, of course, a parody!
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ACF is easily my favourite, except for the instrumental tracks, which are lifeless. Soundtracks would be my second choice, Lion of Symmetry is outstanding, You call this victory a close second, and Short cut to somewhere not far behind. Luckily, some of the instrumentals are very good too.
I see some people still make struggle to make that distinction between commercial success and quality. Rap/hip-hop is probably the biggest selling "music" these days, does anyone here like it, at all, let alone more than prog, Genesis style pop, or even Little Mix?
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You beat me to it. Also a keen and talented horologist, his documentary on Marie Antionette's watch 3 or 4 years back was superb. RIP Nicholas.
The watch docu is on BBC 4 tonight as a tribute!
