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  • Hard News: Ready for the Weekend,

    Just realised while clearing up a pile of books that it's Charlie Gillett who wrote The Sound of the City, the very in-depth book about American music, 1945-'71.

    Auckland • Since Jan 2007 • 2618 posts Report

  • Field Theory: The second test and the…,

    The Mantis and the Cricket?

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  • Hard News: Ready for the Weekend,

    BTW, no one ever talks about Big Star's Live album, but it's the greatest.

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  • Hard News: Ready for the Weekend,

    I finally met Graham Reid at Christmas after reading him for decades, and the one thing I wanted to say to him was to thank him for turning me on to Big Star in '92. Still some of my most favourite records. Highly recommended discs.

    Nice to talk to Jimmy a bit on Wed.; good guy. I told him he had a great name for blues singer, and he replied that he'd heard that, or something like it, a lot.

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  • Cracker: Wallywood,

    I'm the one with the beard, if that helps.

    Yeah, that narrows it down. ;)


    ...


    Children by the million
    scream for Alex Chilton
    .

    1987

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  • Cracker: Wallywood,

    Oh, no. Alex Chilton has died.

    RIP and thanks for the music.


    September Gurls

    Blue Moon

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  • Cracker: Wallywood,

    Is it? Well, I can safely say I'm totally confused now.

    I say A leads to B. You say B is predicated on A. We agree!

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  • Cracker: Wallywood,

    Nothing. It's a free world.

    Or have I misunderstood the question?

    No, but aren't you then saying that if my opinion being contrary to the consensus means nothing, then so does everyone else's opinion mean nothing, therefore even consensus (the balance of a group of opinions) also means "nothing"?

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  • Cracker: Wallywood,

    If you'll forgive me, there seems a relatively short route between "Well... who's to say what's 'right' and 'wrong' in this modern world?" and - sorry - fascism.

    Except for the very small detail that Fascism is predicated exactly on forbidding whole categories of people to have a say on what's right and wrong.

    That's what I'm saying!

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  • Cracker: Wallywood,

    By asking the question, you have provided the answer.

    I mean, you're calling for different treatment of the two situations. I'm asking, what is the basis for the difference? (Don't just say "different context"; I mean the actual basis).

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