That's New Zealand.

Well then, I'll assume you didn't grow up in Australia.

Make it a velvet painting and I'd bid for it.

Bunnyman!

I still own this album on cassette, which I bought as a pre-teen, and I've listened to it as recently as 2015. My cassettes and my 90's car stereo both hold up! The music, only somewhat…

Yeah, but that's a cover. It was already enduring for like 15+ years before INXS invited Jimmy Barnes to shout all over it.

I would have thought it's more likely speed than coke, but whatever. Really, though, I figure those noises are just the sound of an unhealthy seventy year old who breathes weird while ranting.

What on Earth is a 5th century ape?

Wait, you'd allow children to join the military? Wouldn't 25 become the new minimum age for enlistment? I think this policy needs review. How's your Tuesday afternoon? I'll book the boardroom.

Have another!

Anybody that rags on Murder Ballads does not understand how Cabaret works.

That moment where Cobain's voice cracks is, I believe, largely responsible for the subsequent rise of indie folk/country.

I've spent so much time on YouTube trying to find my favourite version of "You Were Cool"* which never fails to overwhelm me.

Good call. Early Fugazi, like Waiting Room or Suggestion is just otherworldly - so simple but so unique.

Best song they ever made, as far as I'm concerned. Just beautiful.

Billy Bragg puts on a great show, so I say do it. I've seen him with a band in a club, solo in a theatre and solo in a sweaty festival tent and he always kills it no matter what the situation. It's as much about the between-song banter as it is the songs.

A lot of hand-wringing here about whether it's okay to appreciate this movie today. It was a troubling film for colonial powers at the time - hence why France banned it. It was troubling in the Eighties when Iraq and Iran were at war. It was troubling ten years ago while the War on Terror was peaking. The movie was…

Gross.

Jeez, just having a cache like that would feel like a constant weight over me. Just a pile of danger in the attic. I hope they're at least thoroughly locked up.

His name is Blake and he's a cool guy once you get to know him!