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Gerry Rafferty - Station to Station, great sounding LP, he died young from boozing.  Songs like Night Owl and Baker Street resonate now im older / old

A gentle splurge made in Utopia Records. So nice, if a bit overwhelming, to browse through so much stuff. It's a serious establishment.

Bathory- Blood, Fire, Death LP.
Hellhammer- Apocalyptic Raids LP.
Poison Ruin- Hymns From The Hills CD.
Sisters of Mercy- Floodland CD.
Bathory goat tshirt.

I was working over in WA a few months ago at a refinery, went to get a fistful of rags from the rag bag in the stores, usually shredded cotton, pulled out a rake and in amongst them was a cut up Bathory tshirt with the front print intact   I've got it on the record player as cover now.

At an academic conference from work. Randomly assigned room shares. Roomy is Belgian, was wearing a Trouble t-shirt. Get talking metal, natch. Turns out it's Simon from Possession   

Amazing!  Been listening to their new album a good few times, solid band

Good news for those of you in the Cork region...
Cllr Honore Kamegni has your back...


https://www.instagram.com/reel/DaDTfURKgnf/

"Tighten the corner"..."as you can see"  is this a joke or is this clown an actual cllr?

None of it matters anyway since it was proven that technically the best possible way of listening to music was through a CD played in the early runs of Playstations that still had the aux out on them (before they moved to scart and some other proprietary connector).  I am not even joking there is a write up on it online.  I think I even posted it here before somewhere.  Anyway it makes no odds

My CD player is an old Sony bluray player using the optical line out or whatever its called to the amplifier. Its supposed to be better than RCAs but honestly as I'm an ould fella who spent a fair few decades in noisy work environments it doesn't matter a damn

You can keep it clean as a nun's gowl but it still sounds shite 

   I have hundreds of LPs but yeah you're 100% right, always some spittin and fartin going on with records

Zeke -  'Til the Living End, Seattle band's album on CD on Relapse.  A $AUS3, blind purchase in a charity shop on the way home from work.   

Australian LP version of Deep Purple - In Rock

Blaspherian - Summoning of Infernal Hordes.
Blaspherian - Allegiance to the Will of Damnatiom
Beherit - Drawing down the Moon

Australian humour is either razor sharp black comedy or toe curlingly retarded, there is no in-between and there's far more of the latter than the former

What examples of the razor sharp black comedy are there? 

Jethro Tull - 2nd album on Spotify
Paw - Dragline on CD

All sorts of gems in this article

https://www.rte.ie/news/dublin/2026/0604/1576751-grafton-street-attack/

"The event in Bewley's was a Nigerian rap night"   

Pet Peeve is no more caffeine for me.  I went to get the blood pressure checked a few days ago - 175 at idle rate.  The fella in the pharmacy said 'that's very high, you might need an ambulance".  That fair put the wind up me.  I'm wearing a monitor for the next 24hrs  that's taking readings every 30 minutes but the BP is back to 120.  So no more Aldi 500ml cans haha

It's great. Was nominated for several Oscars.

Didn't know that, yes a brilliant film, stuck in my head the last few days. Can't wait to rewatch it from scratch and complete it

Sepultura - Roots 0/10
Why listen to an album I have zero appreciation for? A fella at work handed me this out of the blue having waited six months for it to arrive from Brazil where his missus knows Andreas' family, who signed it. And included a plectrum. Fuck!  So yeah, the least I could do was take it home an spin it. Once.

I bought the EP or CD maxi single of the same name at the time.  Yes, 0/10 is all it deserves, the reviews on Metalarchives are gas, from 0% up to 90%+. The writing was on the wall where they were heading after Arise