Votes that would've gone their way anyway, most likely. Great negotiating skills on display here. The EU must be whimpering with fear.

The 'magic money tree' phrase was most notoriously used during one of the few election debates May took part in, in reply to a nurse asking why her pay hadn't gone up in real terms since 2009.
It's looking like a decisive moment, that one, now - the point where even the people who aren't feeling it too badly realised…

Sure is, buddy.

Radiohead playlist, currently Lucky.

Courtney Barnett - David
Stevie Ray Vaughan - Lenny
Nick Lowe - Just To Be With You (This Christmas)
Lou Reed - Wagon Wheel
Paul McCartney - Somedays

It's hard to say fuck the Tories when they're in a complete death spiral, but fuck them regardless for giving 1bn to the DUP to secure votes the DUP would've given them for free anyway.

Yeah, they know what's gone on in that place, and their own repressions are under threat.

'the attempt to run a convent/school/infirmary up in this converted Himalayan palace is doomed to failure … '

5th.

No harm in starting at the beginning with Guitar Town. If you want to see him stretch out into rock, Celtic-tinged, and vaguely psychedelic stuff as well as country, Transcendental Blues is first class.
My personal favourite is probably Train A Comin' - newly clean, just out of prison, starting over again with a…

Have an upvote regardless.

But if you don't pick one, someone might pick one for you, and that'll be Dirty Work.

You assume right, and yeah - the last couple of weeks here have been something to behold. Of course, chaos feels like it's just a shot away, but for now …

I heard somewhere that the whole murky rhythm sound on I Just Want To See His Face was a big influence on Tom Waits when he jumped into experimentation. As for golden period rankings …
Exile On Main Street
Let It Bleed
Sticky Fingers
Beggars Banquet

It probably wasn't rare to talk like that in the 50s, and only a little rarer in the 80s.

Maybe they'll be in the 2nd part, since it's adult Mike who collects the stories.

I'll defend him on the 'times have changed' point. I read the book as a teenager when it came out, and that scene didn't jump out as being particularly strange; it's only in the last 5 to 10 years that it's been 'noticed'. I bet none of the reviews mentioned it either.

I need to get my hands on that soon. I've got all his albums.

I'm in the UK and I barely know who they're talking about on Chapo, but I listen to it religiously.

Some Rolling Stones, mainly a playlist of the 68 - 72 golden period, and especially Beggars Banquet. Such a good, thick, earthy sound, and the piano is amazing on that album. What would Sympathy For The Devil be without Nicky Hopkins? Still pretty good, I bet, but anyway.