Ha - well, I think so, anyway. Personal taste of course. I might have loved the show you didn’t, impossible to tell 😁

Oh wow - I’m kind of jealous, even if it was a bad show. I’d love to have seen them in their early days!

R.E.M. (3 times)
Beastie Boys (2 times)
Prodigy (2 times, and going again later this year)
David Byrne (1 time, but seeing him again in July!)
Puressence (2 times)

Ideally doused in salt and vinegar and consumed while walking along a seafront promenade.

Only a few examples of that so far, but I fear there are more coming!

Buying records, and also browsing Discogs adding records to my cart before not actually buying them.

At most they could maybe remove it for Chrome users. But unless Google is going to start editing 3rd party websites, I don’t see how they could remove copy/paste entirely.

More to the point, why would they?

I think this is the exact plot of The Discovery on Netflix. In the film, it leads to a lot of suicide.

This is the one I was going to say - I got it second hand somewhere, on a whim because I had a voucher to spend. Had never even heard of it before, but boy oh boy, what an amazing decision that turned out to be!

I almost picked Pet Sounds myself! Such an incredible album, so much invention and depth ❤️

Rubber Soul - The Beatles
To me this marks a turning point in the Beatles’ output, from fun, rock ‘n’ roll/pop music, to serious artistry, more challenging themes and lyrics and more interesting instrumentation.

Sample track: In My Life

Dubnobasswithmyheadman - Underworld
Hugely important in British dance music, a total departure from their first two albums and the start of a run of classic electronic music. It’s a shame they’re still best known for Born Slippy, because there’s so much more to Underworld than that, and it started here.

Sample track: Dirty Epic

The Velvet Underground and Nico - The Velvet Underground
Famously known as an album that not many people bought, but all of those who did started a band. Hugely influential, full of great songs, some gentle and fragile, others cacophonic and dissonant. A masterpiece.

Sample track: Venus in Furs

Might make more of a statement to simply remove the US flag and have nothing there.

Replacing it with something else makes it look like you’ve chosen a cause in preference to the USA.

Removing it simply says that you are no longer showing support for the US, with no other message. Also less likely to make you a target.

Wow, nice catch on the hex codes!

Other than Edinburgh, where I live…

• Paris
• NYC
• Amsterdam
• Berlin
• The Scottish Highlands

Bubble wrap?

As is almost always true with “Why” questions, one should first try it again without the “Why”.

If you want a really interesting look at the Narcissus story I can’t recommend highly enough a podcast called Alex Andreou’s Podyssey, which covers the story in it’s very first episode. It’s a fascinating deep dive in the story, and the podcast as a whole is excellent. Well worth a listen.

Confusingly there is also a podcast app called Podyssey, so you could listen to one on the other if you wanted 😁

Al Green - How Can You Mend a Broken Heart?

When he sings, “Cos mine is”, it gets me right there. See also “How can you mend… this broken man…” 😭

In a nuclear war loads of people wouldn’t die but would love unhappily ever after.

I think it’d be hard to get into the mood at all tbh.

Ah ok - I didn’t know that and that makes sense. So the “mountain” isn’t really as big as it might seem?