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AN4 said:
lol Poor Mowl
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Mowl's richer in life than you'll ever be, Jimmy.

You're an unemployed loser who watches telly all day, then plays with his playstation all evening and into the dawn, only taking occasional breaks to post KPop and songs by The Bangles and The Spice Girls because he thinks that's all 'edgy' and hip.

Get that new telly, Jimmy: a big huge one that covers one whole wall of your bedsit.
That way you can pass the days until you die fully immersed in a fictional/virtual world with no blecks in it and nobody complaining about wypipo.

AN4 said:
Never knows why I post a music video, can never put two and two together (no matter how obvious)
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Has never cared what music videos you post, especially the ones by very little girls.

AN4 said:
Reason: Extremely low IQ
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How big a telly can you afford, Jimmy?
How big is your wall?
How much do you have to spend?
Is your play-station up to date and ship-shape?
Fresh batteries in your remote controls?
Big cold slab on the floor next to you so you don't have to stand up?
Fitted yourself with a colostomy bag so's you can piss and drive at the same time, is it?

I see you're up and at 'em on the kiddie site?
Half past ten on a Saturday morning?
Were you doing a dirty-up-all-night, was it?

Y'know, it's been a while since you mentioned Dunning-Kruger: what's up with that?
IQ? - Check!
Posting chess moves when cornered? - Check!
Using exclamation marks to soften the content of your posts on the kiddie site? - Check!
Getting Swordid to help fatten out your threads with replies about Parlon/ROC/Jews? - Check!

Personally, I think this post was a master Jambo-style move: let the kid know you're a gamer too, that way he mightn't boot you out for being a cunt:



Loser.
 
AN4 said:
Poor Mowl, never has a clue what's going on (which is why I named the song after him)
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You have the most abysmal taste in girlie music I've ever seen: same with your boy-band fascination with Liam and Noel Gallagher.

Bet you're also a B'Witched fan?



Which one's your favourite, Shay?

The twin anorexic slappers or the the wan in the fake blond hair?

Or is it Jesse himself?

AN4 said:
Saying that I haven't bought a games console in over a decade is pretty much saying I'm not a gamer 🤣
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Poor Jimmy: his whole life is gaming and posting on chat sites.

A total addict.
 
David said:
This Harry Enfield skit is spot on from what I can remember. In primary school during the 1995-96 era fellas would boast about listening to Oasis in order to seem like hard men. Being an impressionable kid at the time I went along with the pack.

"Shove your grammar, maths and geography lessons up your arse old man teacher, I'm going to be a rock star just like Liam and Noel Gallagher one day".


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I tried to get the wife into Oasis but she'll only watch music videos with black lads in them.
 
If y'all haven't seen/heard this already, give it a shot.

These two manage to make an orchestral wall of loops out of the effects pedals on the floor.

Angine de Poitrine - Full Performance (Live on KEXP February 5th 2026)​


 
The Police - 'One World (Not Three)' (1981 - Ghost In The Machine)



This one's a right cracker, with Stewart's drumming taking center stage. In a truly fucking majestic bastardization of reggae and pop/rock themes, he shifts from drops on the third beat of the bar over and into straight 4/4 bridges like he's taking a walk. Flurries of paradiddles on the hi-hats in between the vocal lines keep it steady but greasy and he erupts into drum-breaks in the most surprising of tight spaces, focusing attention away from the song and lyric and off into the whole new paradigm for the cosmos he invented and called his own.

There's only one Stewart Copeland, and without him Sting and Andy's careers might well have taken different turns.
That said, each of the three players have their own unique styles, it's just amazing they all made room for each other in so many three-minute wonders.
Important to remember too that when laying his drums, most of these songs weren't even fully finished, yet the drums ALWAYS went to tape first.
Sting and Andy often changed whole chunks of the original takes, sometimes even deleting their entire input and re-recording them in a different key.
The tension in the studio was often fraught with violence and Sting and Stewart in particular went at each other more often than they ever admitted.
So much talent in one little band of three blokes from radically different backgrounds:

Sting's old man was a shipbuilder from Newcastle, they were a staunch working class family and his first job was as a teacher, first band a jazz orchestra.
Andy was a top session player for years before he met the other two, ten years older - he covered the blues scene as well as many forays into progressive rock.
Stewart was also a progressive rock player with Curved Air before he met Sting, then they began a career as a session rhythm section before starting The Police.

The first album 'Outlandos D'Amour' had a punk element to it, mixed with distant strains of reggae from Stewart which heralded the style of the next album.
'Regatta De Blanc' was the cornerstone of their 'new' sound with a few Number One hits in 'Walking On The Moon' and☝️'Message In A Bottle'.
'Ghost In The Machine' showed signs of what ultimately became the very thing that destroyed the band: Stewart and Andy trying to remain vital/central.
Then 'Synchronicity' cemented their demise: none of them liked the end result and it broke the band in the end.

The Police were the first pop/rock band that captivated me, I knew I'd never hear another group break all the barriers these three did.
I studied every one of their records and played along with them until my fingers bled, then some more.
There are still elements of Stewart's playing style in evidence on pretty much every record I've played on, such was his influence.
But these days there are multiple renowned drummers copying/lifting Stewart's style, and many tend to fail: they try too hard, and it shows.

Still, I occasionally stick on the albums when I'm painting and sketching, and they still inspire me even today, over forty years since they were laid.

 
Such an underappreciated band, proper indie rock music. A dozen Manchester area bands with potential likely flew under the radar with the advent of Loudmouth-Liam and the mid-90s media's fixation on Brit-pop.

What's the Story is just a wall of noise from beginning to end, like some low-fi (instrumentally at least) black metal cassette produced in the box room of an 18 year old kid living in Oslo.
 
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