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 | AggravatedYeti god that video is still so my life, right down to those blown out tips.
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 | KalleJ hi kiran, it's kallehow are you doing?
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 | klap also i wasn't referring specifically to that thread convo but the discussion as a whole - like tiny mix tapes' review and some other articles i've read online
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| klap well yeah. why are we on this website again
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| klap that's pretty obvious but could we maybe pick a worthwhile album to have a discussion about
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 | breakingthefragile Well thank you very much man for taking the time to tell me man. It means a lot. It was a pretty thought-provoking topic that was posed.
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 | Hep Kat i got you. yeah i dislike mmj, but my wife likes them so ugh
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| Hep Kat you gonna make a 2012 list? you have marginally better taste than most people
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 | someguest I'll have to check it out soon then.
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| someguest Have you heard the new Lord Huron? It looks like it might be pretty interesting.
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 | alachlahol ok then i present: brothertiger - golden years and casa del mirto - 1979. both lps both good they will bring you back to better times
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 | Deviant. You've been cut down in your prime man! And no probs dude, anytime
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| Deviant. Is it just me or have you spent more on time here since you were made emeritus? Koreless - 4D, XXXY - Bash, George Fitzgerald - Child, Mosca - Square One, Disclosure - The Face, Julio Bashmore - Au Seve, Floating Points - Shadows
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| alachlahol i can tell you what they are im not joking around
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| alachlahol thereve been some good jams thatve come out in the past year or so if you want them
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| klap don't fail me wench
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| klap haha who am i kidding your account's been inactive for 130 weeks of course you can't. what's your e-mail
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| klap you can't log into your account?
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 | Satellite oh man definitely listen to "god, forgive these bastards" by the taxpayers as well. potentially my aoty.
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 | kingsoby1 hmm, i really should make a hip hop essentials list. you like pharoahe monch? if so check out organized konfusion and his early solo record Internal Affairs
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| Satellite well if i didn't already rec the new menzingers and sidekicks to you then i'm an idiot. new make do and mend is good as well. tbh i haven't been upping the punx as frequently and fervently this year so far.
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| AggravatedYeti that, "Daily Routine," "Killumaniti," "Snakes." MMmmmm, Mmmmmm good.
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| AggravatedYeti So good man. Cannot believe how much I have missed that early 90s Jazzy Hip Hop.
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| AggravatedYeti sup bitch. aint been on this shoutbox in a while now. POPULATE.
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| klap fb msg me your e-mail
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 | Kellerdeck You seem to like obscure bands, so I have a request for you. If you don't want to do it, no big deal with Me, I just think you might enjoy it. I'm in a band called Rest, and we've been getting really good reception around here, I was wondering if you'd write a review about us, seeing as we want to hear more opinions about the music. The album can be downloaded here: http://rest6911.bandcamp.com/ The album page on sputnik is here: http://www.sputnikmusic.com/review/48721/Rest-Rest/
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 | Lucidity Hey Kiran...I'm seeing Dr. Dog in a week. I heard they are better live than on their studio albums. Confirm/Deny?
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| Satellite you should review THE NEW MEZNINGERS
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 | BigHans Dude you must have been living under a rock if yuo havent heard this. Its a Gaslight Anthem side project, and its ****ing stellar. http://www.sputnikmusic.com/review/45641/The-Horrible-Crowes-Elsie/
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 | Gyromania Merry Christmas, bud! I miss talking to you on AIM!
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 | Irving Merry Christmas Kiran! Not coming to Malaysia for the hols again this year? Nasi lemak and roti canai are sending their regards =)
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| Irving Kiran! I'm back in Malaysia for good now, and - most importantly - have gotten a job at the Petronas Twin Towers starting next month! (am working as a junior geoscientist) If you're ever in the KL area again do give me a shout - it'd be nice to get to meet you in real life! (and moreover neither of us can make the half dozen mini Sputnik reunions that are happening stateside anyway haha) Take care man!
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 | wabbit dalhousie? I actually almost went there last year, one of my best friends is there it's a really fun town. And ya we get killed by textbooks esp because most of them aren't really necessary for the course. But welcome to my country.
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| wabbit So I heard you are studying over here now.
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 | outline Drinking age is 19 and the bars are supposedly good. No traffic at all as long as you're on the penninsula. Crime rate is pretty high, but as long as you stay out of the bad areas and the commons at night you should be fine. The only really big problem is that almost no bands play here. It's worth seeing Titus Andronicus and ****ed Up during Pop Explosion, and there's a decent underground scene, but in Halifax it's a huge deal when Arcade Fire drop by. You also might want to get into hockey.
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 | Electric City i did! but it was so short the modsd it and now its a soundoff
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 | FelixCulpa Lyckades inte få en biljett till WoW trots flera försöka att köpa ett pass secondhand. Måste fråga om du såg James Blake idag. Lång kö till Annedalskyrkan antar jag också ;) Du får ha en trevlig tid här i gbg vilket som! Om du vill ha nå tips om stan e det bara att fråga!
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| wabbit yahttp://ghostship.bandcamp.com/again but nothing is there best song.
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 | DaveyBoy Ive shoutboxed about 6 who were in it last year. One of them will probably do a list or something.
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| AggravatedYeti I'm agreeing with you on Lenses Alien home slice. My Plainclothes still cuts off though : ) I think in the last like 10 seconds but regardless the rest of the record is primo.
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| wabbit Hey you should check out Downer's band Ghost Ship. They are shoegazy-post-punk (but somehow don't sound like the cure) and are actually really really good. Esp the song But Nothing
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 | Douglas thanks a bunch man, will get on those sugar pops
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 | HBFS no problem mate, do you enjoy the album?
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| HBFS haha, nah they said "Release Notes:So we heard some bitches bitching that out s***'s no good. Now, we don't like that! So instead of going to bed, i'm fixing it, and you better be happy about it."I downloaded thed version from what.cd so it didn't cut off :)Also for the full track 4 this should work man, just google this:Cymbals_Eat_Guitars-Lenses_Alien-(Advance)-(Trackfix)-2011-SiRE
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 | porch yeah just a couple of weeks rambling around germany, should be fun though. any new releases you think i should hear? haven't been keeping up
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| AggravatedYeti fffuucckkk yes! Been waiting for a while now. Been liking the Little Dragon too I see. Pretty sweet record.
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| porch eh not much on my end, having a nice chill summer so far but will be doing a little travelling in august hopefully. sup with you
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| Douglas well i am currently really digging Youth Lagoon, Wu Lyf, James Blake and what not, but if you have anything that is sort of unique hit us up :)
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| Deviant. One big hairy advertising entity
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| Deviant. Haha, was gonna give you new Joy O but I see Yeti is already playing pass the parcel with the link
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| Douglas I want you to please give me some recs, since i think you have the best taste of the staff. Cheers.
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| klap new feist you BASTARD
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 | pianotuna http://depositfiles.com/files/s80z1gxur
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| pianotuna yeah their new album leaked today as well. i have it lying about my computer but too busy with flying club cup and gulag orkestar. i don't care how similar a lot of the songs sound, they're all so awesome.
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| pianotuna saw them yesterday as support to arcade fire (mumford and the vaccines were there too, shudder). honestly they were so awesome and i only knew a couple of songs, perfect songs for a summer's midday. trumpet dancing!
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| AggravatedYeti liking this Youth Lagoons the more and more I listen to it.
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| wabbit How did I get bumped down by NickelbackFTL?
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 | StreetlightRock But I had pretty much the exact same thoughts about Wild Beasts and I changed my mind quick sharp about that, so I'll see!
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| StreetlightRock Just had my first listen then.... not as impressed as I thought I would be. Like, they've got a new sound, but once you get your head around that it becomes a bit predictable. Twinkly, reverb soaked guitars, scraggly ,half-shouted gang vocals, organ-lite synths to provide extra atmosphere... for every song. As far as they've got something new going, I like it... but once that newness wears off it's a little so-so.
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| Electric City not yet but i will be scouring the internet daily until it doesss
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| wabbit When did I lose top Neighbour!?!...damn. But you should make a list of 2011 music so I get the stuff I should have checked out.
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| Satellite oh, and i hope to god you've heard the new laura stevenson, but if not you can stream/dl the whole thing @ http://laurastevenson.tumblr.com/post/4952733435/download-laura-stevenson-the-cans-sit-resist-for (i think you have to dl the songs one by one, but it's so worth it)
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| Satellite 1) red city radio - the dangers of standing still, 2) elway - delusions, 3) iron chic - split 'n s***, 4) daytrader - last days of rome, 5) the dopamines/dear landlord split
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| AggravatedYeti ****ing alright Cristiano!! No champs trophy or la liga win but god damn 40 goals; not a half bad season at all.
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| DaveyBoy That I am Kiran. I think that's 3 years in a row Ive won whatever league I have been in. Just call me Barcelona.
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| AggravatedYeti I'll formally induct the 4 of yall into my clan and we can take a family picture and make it the blog's banner. Everyone needs a fuzzy sweater though or we won't fool anyone. we'll be a Yeti herd.
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 | Blindsided Hey would you mind adding our blog to your blogroll?http://hopelesssound.blogspot.com/
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 | Ire aw man now you're making me feel bad. look at my face
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| Ire As lame and fanboyish as it may sound, I really thought you were going to review Asobi Seksu's latest.
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 | Yotimi Hey man, don't stalk me, I'll give you recs for free - check these: Le Loup - The Throne of the Third Nation, Smart Went Crazy - Con Art, Ellen Allien and Apparat - Orchestra of Bubbles, Soul Coughing - Ruby Vroom
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| AggravatedYeti yep. so much for the giant killer. holy s***. And here I was thinking Real's win yesterday may be the most convincing of the round.
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| AggravatedYeti also **** sputnik for consistently cutting off my shouts half-way. bastards.
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| AggravatedYeti regretted leaving the game at half when I came home and saw the score. But yeah Inter dug quite the hole for themselves. And no matter how much I want a Real-Barca showdown seeing them lose to Shakhtar would be so worth it.
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| AggravatedYeti also: holy s*** that was one fine piece of work by Stankovic.
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| AggravatedYeti yeah I noticed that right as the match started : ) what I get for not paying attention for a week. either way **** yes time for a Real-Barca standoff.
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| AggravatedYeti CHAMPS LEAGUE IN A HOUR. YYEEAHH BBOOYY LETS GO RONALDO!! (even though Spurs are rly awesome) I predict 1 Benzema goal.
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| AggravatedYeti haha. If I never pressed, nothing would get done : ) Out of curiosity where are you situated now my globe-trotting homie? Also: Prefab Sprout - Steve McQueen. All the hype Robertsona's been shoveling onto that record is pretty well-deserved. Its like Belle and Seb meets Soundheim--kind of.
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| AggravatedYeti listen to lewis. bump that murray st. rating. that is all.
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 | plane you should do a review for gashcat
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 | conradtao planning on grabbing that tUnE-yArDs review? glad to see you liked it, btw =]
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 | This Life is Genocide http://coloursareburning.blogspot.com/2011/03/sundials-neversettle-2011-plan9.html. bro, check this out. you might like it ;]
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| conradtao hey kiran - planning on writing a review of the new weeknd record?
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| plane **** yeah. Can't wait for you to hear the acoustic set I witnessed.
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 | gaslightanthem Tell me about it, really chill listen (although some lyrics kinda made me 'wtf lol'). Definitely gonna be bumping it till Tomboy.
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| AggravatedYeti nice, nice. Trying to get myself some press-passes for Bonnaroo and seeing Bass Nectar in about a month. My friend just threw an over-night music festival at his farm yesterday. WAS A BLAST. And yeah basically just waiting for summer. Winter is cool but by March I'm over it. Also is it just me or is 2011 in dire need of some Monitor-level goodness from an album? I think so.
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| AggravatedYeti Yeah it wasn't too bad. Had some brews with some friends, watched Kickass! Which was pretty sweet. Beyond that life has been somewhat one-note, but spring is coming and the beaches have started to open up here. How about yourself? Everything is going well I hope. Been on a Kinks kick recently eh? always awesome : )
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| AggravatedYeti success!! New Pains, new Strokes, Kiran is fixed. Good things do come in 3's. And if Arsenal is any indication bad things come in 12's.
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| AggravatedYeti YAH THAT'S RIGHT 3.5 KING-O-LIMBZ. Whats up babycakes? hope all it well. ppeeaaccee.
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| This Life is Genocide hey bro, just got your email and i'm gonna start goin to town on it sometime either tonite or tomorrow. i'll mail you back the product of it.
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 | AliW1993 well ive had a few quick looks and cant find it yet :( its out in 2 weeks so not too long i suppose
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| This Life is Genocide well im about half way done with this defeater review, if you got the time could you possibly go over it and what not when im finished with it?
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| AggravatedYeti That's all I've been listening to as well. I mean, what else do you need? O yeah, frog eyes.
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| AggravatedYeti RECOMMEND ME A MIGHTY ALBUM KIND SIRE. Also Arsshhaavvviiinnnn! Hell of a match yesterday holy crap.
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 | Slum Just read it! Thanks a lot, man, this is super helpful. I'll read over it a couple times before my next review and I think it will definitely help.
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| Slum haha on sputnik during a lecture, I know that feeling dude. Can just send it whenever you want man, I just appreciate the thought
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| Slum Sure thing, nevin1320@hotmail.com or same address except @gmail.com, whichever you prefer
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| Slum Thanks, dude, I look forward to it!
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| Slum Hey Kirgasm, since I see you as the best writer on the site, I was wondering if perhaps you could skim through a couple of my recent reviews and tell me where I can improve. It would be Greatly appreciated, man
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| AggravatedYeti Yep, it is in 2014. Funny how UEFA spoke out so quickly post-spending-sprees to reinforce their staunchness on the matter. Watch a salary cap be implemented in a lot of leagues.
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| AggravatedYeti Villa nabbed my dude Michael Bradley on loan too. Looking like they'll be a blast to watch again, as opposed to the jittery disappointment of this current season. But very true. I was reading an interesting article, if I remember correctly was on ESPN, about how a bunch of big Euro clubs are on route to financial ruin with their absurd spending. A list which includes pretty much everyone making headlines for blockbuster deals yesterday...
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| pianotuna shuffling is the most fun thing ever. you need to get yourself an ipod shuffle and become addicted to it. also, to but in on the TRANSFER stories... remember when joe cole was enthusiastic about joining l'pool? same things gonna happen with carrol.
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| AggravatedYeti Suarez was a great buy and even though I hate liverpool, I'm happy he made it to a big team with a nice contract--as he deserves it (handballs and all). And agree, dunno wtf they were thinking with Carrol. I mean the ownership now have a track record of extremely good investment choices concerning their sports teams (The Bahhston Red Sawx) but they've also had a few major-major flops. Surely they're hoping Andy isn't one of them, but, ehhh...he's really good but...
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| AggravatedYeti I could use a few myself really...Also: Frog Eyes man...wow, again. Album got even better last night. Oh and WTF Chelsea and Liverpoo spending spree and I hear Arsenal may be trying to ditch Arshavin (i.e. 90% of the reasons I watch their gamesss) Thankfully the window is shut.
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| AggravatedYeti Pretentious and Kiran are not two things I associate with one another. Now Fjords and spicy curry on the other hand...
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| pianotuna haha yeah, i put that on a playlist i burnt for a friend and keep playing that list now, only a really sombre mag fields song comes on after it and ruins the tone. i need to learn from my mistakes and make that ariel pink song the entire playlist.
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| pianotuna yeah i got that frog eyes record, ahvent listened yet. track 7 failed to work for me. :( should be good though, just cant be bothered with it right now.
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| pianotuna album of the year so far. and dylan dug it up. who'd of thought it? also rec me things.
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| alachlahol Toro Y Moi - Underneath The Pine LP dropping february 22nd: http://****yeahtoroymoi.tumblr.com/
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 | Bitchfork if it doesn't smack an everlasting smile on your face color me murderous.
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| Bitchfork http://www.mediafire.com/?vnqtwuynqgn#1
Guernica - Shinseiki E No Unga
japanese progressive pop with huge classical and cabaret influences and you'd love it.
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| Blindsided Thought maybe you'd be interested to know I reviewed OWTH's Hospitals.
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 | Romulus i smiled almost as much as ed after reading that
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| Romulus where would sputnik be without us finding some way to rep the lion king in every single thread?
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| AggravatedYeti I just wish I had given it more attention sooner. they came through here on tour : (
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 | theacademy i am marcy playground when u see the request
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| StreetlightRock Woah psychic connection much? I was listening to their whole epography(!) today (But mostly because they just won a local award for 'Next Big Thing' recently). Hopin' if they release a full length this year it'll be awesome and they make it big time.
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| DaveyBoy Who knows. Aussies are so inconsistent. Took 115 mins to beat Iraq, who are not as good as Uzbeks. Cahill seems injured. If he lifts, it could be the key.
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| DaveyBoy I doubt a clean sheet also. I was hoping the Aussies would make the Asian Cup final just so Stockdale would get another game. Didnt expect to beat the Uzbeks by 6 though.
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| DaveyBoy Well they are mostly Fulham, but who knows what could happen against Liverpool.
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| DaveyBoy Haha. I would have 19 points more if I had Berbatov as captain. But anyway, I will not accept this as your final comment towards me. Since I have 5 players still to play.
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| AggravatedYeti Paul's Tomb is pretty a-ma-zing. I just took a walk around in ze snowfall w/ Native Speaker
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| AggravatedYeti I feel ya. It's no 'Shepard's Dog' or 'The Creek Drank The Cradle' but I enjoy the direction he went in enough. I need to listen to it more really. New Frog Eyes, Braids, G-Side and Destroyer have been keeping me well occupied.
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| porch yeah, i had low expectations for it and justifiably so. oh well at least they gave us entertainment and solid gold
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| pianotuna theres always other boys theres always other boyfriends
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| AggravatedYeti s*** son. so many new records in the past 3 days. But this will be perfect for the feetz of snow outside.
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| alachlahol well dude guy i really like it but im a drooling fanboy so the bias is heavy and unreliable if you want an impartial opinion
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 | mallen- Yeah the old account had too many problems and I couldn't deal with it anymore
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| alachlahol just snatched it up, will have a go at it shortly. this is a pleasant surprise friend i didn't realize it was coming out in feb thanks for the heads up
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| alachlahol are you teasing me i really don't want blue balls this early in the week
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| pianotuna ever since i saw her on some old nevermindthebuzzcocks episode i've been all in love with her
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| pianotuna and it's always you and me always be together
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 | acADHDemy omfg that list... so stupid... really a new low
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| acADHDemy lol you know i love you... i just feel for the kid who writes 126 reviews and then gets the 'you didn't get shafted because you weren't even being considered for those spots'... i shouldnt have even gotten involved lol...
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| AggravatedYeti ohh shnap getting close to 1000 ratings yyeeahh bbooyy.
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| alachlahol hell yea it is dude, I Want You (So Bad) and Neu Chicago are two of my favorite songs from this year they kill me every time. last half of the album was kind of underwhelming compared with the first
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| Deviant. I have it floating around somewhere, but never got round to it. Plus given GA's recent output I wasn't finding myself entirely motivated to look into it
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| alachlahol alright only one listen the album is good not great and loses steam quickly. millionyoung has never been one of the 'nostalgic' chillwave artists hes more in it for the dancy feel and me not weeping from thinking of childhood when i listen to it is why its only ok
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| StreetlightRock It totally is :') At first I was like this is pretty good, now I can't stop listening to it.
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| This Life is Genocide none of it has failed me yet, but I've started with Belle and Sebastian, Beach House, and Sunny Day in Glasgow, so wherever to go from there.
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| Irving Sounds like fun =) Enjoy Malaysia for me Kiran! (and the rest of the world too!) I'll bug you around Sputnik when you get back to your reviewing/blogging duties ;) WEEEEEEEE ARE THE CHAMPIONSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS, MY FRIEEEEEENNNNNDDDD....=)
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| Irving Kiran, you are officially more Malaysian than me. There you were in the peak of the action, and all I could do was stream the match from my hostel room in St. John's, Newfoundland. I envy you =) How long will you be in nasi lemak land for?
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| Irving OMG!!! JEALOUS!!! I was just craving some nasi lemak yesterday LOL!! o.O What would I give to be there right now! Did you catch the final with the rest of the locals at a local hawker store?
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| Irving Oh, and tomorrow's a public holiday in Malaysia. The PM declared it immediately after we won. As you can see, we're starved for success my friend XD Not many Henrik Larssons in our squad!
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| Irving My dear Kiran, I have 3 responses for you: i.) that was actually the best display by the national football team for quite a while, and ii.) the final is decided over two legs - we tore Indonesia apart in the 1st leg and deserved to win :D Finally, check this out: iii.) "Congratulations 2 Malaysia who beat Indonesia in the Suzuki cup final. I played against Malaysian u23 team 18months ago, quite a good team." Do you know who tweeted that? Rio Ferdinand. I am proud to be from roti canai land :D
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 | qwe3 yeah man i stayed ON chaweng. went to that place what was it called...Ark Bar or something. right on the beach. so chill. dudes selling laser pointers and s*** were annoying but hey.
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| qwe3 Haha I was in Koh Samui too actually. Such a sweet place, but I'm at Bangkok airport chilling with free wifi waiting to get a plane back to tokyo. Gonna party so hard for New Year.
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| qwe3 sorry bro im in thailand and haven't had much internet. good areas to go are: Roppongi, Shinjuku, Akasaka, Shibuya/Daikanyama etc. but actual places I'd check out clubs/bars like Womb, Pure, Ageha. Also check out some izakaya (which are like japanese style bars) which are all over the place. some really good ones are in Shibuya. Hope that helped dude.
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 | Knott- ...and Sepp Blatter, who thinks he can save the world through the medium of football. I mean, I'm all for the redemptive and unifying power of sport, the Olympic mentality and all that, but abandoning common sense to hold the competition on 'new frontiers' doesn't achieve that, because the footballing world at large is going to spend the whole 4 weeks thinking, "what the **** are we doing here?"
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| Knott- QATAR 2022 the every-stadium-inside-60km, let's-move-it-to-winter-and-****-all-the-domestic-leagues-up-because-Qatar-is-that-important, we'll-let-people-drink-just-for-the-month what-the-****-fest. If you thought South Africa was bad..
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| Deviant. So it would seem that despite not being released or even being reviewed James Blake has already picked up best new music on Sputnik haha
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| Deviant. So so so good, Lindesfarne 1 and 2 are immense
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| qwe3 yeah bro, im actually back in tokyo for like 3 months until school in aus starts again. why?
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| AggravatedYeti tbh I've never been a fan so that and sufjan I just stayed away from. Whenever I was apt to give it a shot I remembered it was 3 ****ing discs. But now...mmaayyybeeee. Also how's the Wolf Parade treating you?
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| pianotuna i definitely don't go by robert. that'd be like me calling you kevin xxx
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| porch do you like unwound?
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| porch i'd recommend starting with the argument as its their most cohesive, accessible album and basically summarizes their whole career. then get repeater. You cant go wrong with fugazi though, everything they did was great
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 | ConsiderPhlebas Only read Steppenwolf so far, but it's been a breath of fresh air in a weighty semester
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| ConsiderPhlebas Definately gonna look it up. Writing an essay on the book at the moment. It's very good, some great ideas.
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| Knott- So did you ever check out Steel Train?
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