Stevie, you are more than welcome. I am dead pleased (and also entirely unsurprised) that you ended up rating Falling In Reverse as highly as you clearly do (as do I). I pretty much agree with everything you've said - and especially with your comments on progression. Yes their early stuff was fun - ...

Peter, since you're clearly a Skyrim aficionado... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G97xdpy6Am4&list=PLaV2bHVOlYSDbo0JGghjISwfO3hH9jBav I think you might find this sort of thing amusing. There's a full playlist at that link. For info, Viva La Dirt League are a bunch of Kiwis who have been making ...

I have to admit that The Drug in Me is Reimagined also hits me VERY hard in the feels (and you'll understand exactly when and how, Stevie) - as does Last Resort Reimagined for that matter. And it's not because they're so utterly different and literally worlds apart from the original tracks - they'd ...

Sounds like you're about halfway through my list of recommendations. I'm actually really pleased (but not surprised) that your interest has been piqued - and as you haven't yet reached the videos, I can safely say that IMO at least the best is yet to come! I'm also interested in the comparisons you'...

Joking aside, I'd be interested in your thoughts, StevieG. I know your musical tastes are both wide-ranging and eclectic - and I'm just a tad confident that you'll see a teensy bit of evolution of musical style as you go from older to more recent. And don't give up halfway through - their more recen...

Despite his "taken utterly out of context" sig quote assurance, StevieG is invariably wrong. On all matters. Eternally. And if he's not next to post, he's just being wrong again. As he also will be, if he is next to post. (Sure, it's a heavy cross to bear, Stevie... but hey, deal with it b...

This is another band I've recently got very much into. I'm a big fan of the fact that it's nigh impossible to fit them into any one genre (or two...or three for that matter). Again I urge anyone who doesn't know them to dive into at least some of the later tracks listed below. FIR have been around f...

Good for you, Menolly. I agree wholeheartedly... he's incredibly original (and unclassifiable) plus soul-baringly honest - and as you say, getting a #1 slot for his second album with literally zero backing from any label is a staggering achievement. I don't know Animal Flow, but will make a point of...

It's been a long while since I've posted on KW... and who knows? It may be a long while until I post again. However... I find myself simply having to share this singer/songwriter with you. He's called Ren. Here is a link to one of the most original and most moving tracks I have heard in as long as I...

I was equally really surprised to see Suella Braverman brought back as Home Secretary. Sure I was delighted to see the back of her predecessor Pritti Patel who had the same levels of compassion and tolerance as Pol Pot - but bizarrely, Braverman looks to be cut from very much the same zealot cloth. ...

Peter, the whole point is that the process gone through categorically *does* have legitimacy. No single constitutional law has been broken in the least and things have been done exactly by the book of centuries-long enshrined laws, rules and regs. (Whether you agree with them or not is irrelevant......

No - I don't buy it TF. ...and that's your right, but I suspect you've been blinded by indignation. Nobody has the slightest idea of what Sunak has planned for this country; he hasn't given a single interview, written a single word, during the course of this 'contest'. Maybe not during the course o...

What interests me is that we are having our third Prime Minister in six weeks thrust upon us - and without so much as a single vote being cast by the public to endorse or otherwise, his elevation to the primary role in the governance of our country. Now this, it will be argued, is perfectly within ...

It's a seemingly never-ending pantomime, isn't it? It is crucial that the decision is not given back to the utterly out of touch and befuddled tweedy Tory gerontocracy out in the Shires... they're the morons who put Liz in number ten in the first place. Give that bunch of privileged and clueless old...

#RishiWasRight In fact he was spot-on - take a look . Of course he was. Because he'd already shown himself over the last two years to have a competent grasp of macro-economics. And as per the YouTube clip linked to above, literally every single thing that he predicted would be the result of the Trus...

Hey Pete :) I don't know whether Keir will get the bullet or not - it depends on Durham as you say. There are some real militant harpies on the Labour front bench right next to him, so I'm actually okay with an ineffectual stuffed shirt as Labour leader! Re the Tories, I think it'll come down to:- B...

Johnson strikes me pretty much as the archetypal and classic Shakespearian tragic anti-hero. There's no doubt that in many ways the guy is no fool - and a lot smarter than his adopted bumbling persona would lead one to believe. He could have been a good PM - not a great one at all in the league of C...

You're more than welcome, Menolly.

As to the Guardian? It's one of the more serious UK dailies that in UK terms sits centre left...

...which from a typical US standpoint would probably cause it to be viewed as sitting somewhere on the extreme left

Despite having repeatedly confirmed that there would be no more from Pink Floyd, the band (well, Gilmour and Mason, plus Guy Pratt on bass and Nitin Sawhney on keyboards) have been inspired by the Ukrainian invasion to briefly reform and release a brand new song in support of the country. https://i....

Skyweir wrote:Some are madder than others

Typical

Sky, you *always* make it all about you, eh?