2001: A Space Odyssey. The dialogue kept going out of sync in the 'open the pod bay doors' sequence.

Ladies And Gentlemen, We Are Floating In Space deserves two mentions.

In the UK, the peak of Britpop would probably have been the summer of 95 - Blur v Oasis in the singles chart, and the release of Morning Glory a month or so later.
(I bought London Calling the same day I bought Morning Glory. That put Britpop into some perspective all right.)

They say you have an exact double somewhere in the world. Maybe that goes right down to the dick.

The copy of Magical Mystery Tour I got last week from the used record shop, I decided, wasn't up to snuff: clicky, and the booklet was water damaged. I returned it yesterday, swapping it for Bayou Country by Creedence , which is pretty immaculate.

It's used by people who wouldn't know the difference between virtue and virtue signalling.

No maybe about it.

Hmm, fingers crossed.

Same thing happened with the UK original of the character, Alf Garnett.

Thanks, great reply.

I always thought the long story Jud tells about his friend's son who was killed in the war, and then came back, was the scariest part - actually living with him, seeing him shambling up the street, his hair a mess and his shirt tail hanging out. Great stretch of the book.

I didn't dislike it. Can I join?

Is the Neil Young album going to be part of the next Archives release? I see his mid- and late-70s albums are getting a box set rerelease this month:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/s/…
just as his first four were rereleased at the time of the first Archives, to make them sonically/volumistically compatible.

They tick all those boxes, that's for certain.

Still lots of Bob Marley.
First few Black Crowes albums. I have no idea if their critical standing is parlous or not these days, and I utterly ignored them when they were first around, but these are pretty good albums. One ends with a Bob Marley cover, so there's continuity there.
The new Arcade Fire album. I don't…

That Shithole New Hampshire is one of John Irving's best books. Incest in it, too, so it's relevant.

NVM

Facebook always makes me feel frightened and angry, but not for racist reasons.

This popped up in my facebook feed the other day, captioned 'Admit it - you saw them too!' Well, yes, I suppose I did, but that doesn't make me racist.

Should finish A Brief History Of Seven Killings in the next couple of days. Not even sure if I've enjoyed it, to be honest.