Awesome
It’s a really good album!
A few great hits, and then stuff like “Vanishing”… it’s a win.
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Awesome
It’s a really good album!
A few great hits, and then stuff like “Vanishing”… it’s a win.
I love them all!
Looking at the Wiki discography, it seems the Scottish charts gave them the most love.
Video makes me think of “Lord of the Flies.”
I wonder what Paul Simon thinks that - hmm. Also, a prev AF15 artist of mine surfaces - a very young Shawn Mendes. When he turns up, his voice is easily recognizable.
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You think it's a cover of a classic tune at the start, but it's a new twist. I'm either going to love or hate when stuff like this happens. I think they breathe new life into it.
4. Oh Cecilia (Breaking My Heart)
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Great album.
Looked it up and I had this at 2nd of 2003.
My fav!
Solid follow up to a mega hit
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Anthemic.
5. All Night
youtu.be/BqaoAQbkeXo?...
Yes!
“Ambulance” is another that-era standout to me.
My fav of their stuff
#3 in my world, FYI.
I love this one.
I put it at #18 of 2014.
Also, maybe I’m reading too much into it, but… put out a single on the GH called “Fake Your Death,” then disappear for several years? I wonder if that was a hint they weren’t actually done. 🤔
One Call Away - Puth
I always liked that show.
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Interlude before the Top 5.
The narrow misses:
16 / Just My Type
17 / Treading Water
18 / Can We Dance
19 / I Found A Girl
20 / Windmills
(All four albums will be represented in my Top 5.)
Awww
…I sold about two dozen cassettes recently - things I own on vinyl or CD.
Where cassettes and records shine over CDs though is the distinction between a Side A and Side B. That’s lost on CDs (other than Tom Petty’s “hello CD listeners…” bit after “Runnin’ Down a Dream”).
Alas.
The vinyl and CDs have outshined the cassettes in my mind. Better sound, no FF or rewind to get to what you want to hear if you aren’t playing the whole thing.
This said, I am glad cassettes seem to be getting attention again, if only for the ulterior reason that…
Definitely keep them!
Moving them is difficult, yes! I moved a select handful when I moved to a different city in 2015, but I have them all back now, having prioritized getting them from a storage unit in recent years (and bought several)
Also, whatever version of iOS I have my phone and iPad, despite Apple trying to force new ones on me every time I blink. Ditto MacOS. I know how things work and don’t need features changed or moved.
In recent years, there have been owls, sloths, titles, Super Mario Bros.
This is the current one. There’s a list of captions growing for these photos. You can’t have fun like that with boring digital calendars.
(The idea this month is that that squirrel is leaping away from February as quickly as possible)
Yes!
It’s just easier to have one on the wall to look at.
I don’t write on mine that much like my mother did when I was growing up… but I was used to her calendar notes above the phone at home.
Plus, the art aspect is fun. This year is the second squirrel one for me and…
…
1. If someone decides something isn’t “okay,” they can’t take away your DVD copy (thinking Simpsons, “Stark Raving Dad”… it’s a very heartwarming episode, really).
2. They can’t alter the aspect ratio on a DVD you own (thinking same show and the Duff Brewery episode that I’m told was mangled).
Good pick. I said CDs and records.
But DVDs are also a win. There’s a tower of those in the corner.
And three towers of CDs will some spilled to the tower by the DVDs.
You don’t need an Internet connection to enjoy any of them. You own them, and…
CDs, records… of course the first gut instinct answers.
Real newspapers and magazines, although it’s been a while, sadly.
