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December 2, 2002 at 8:48:44 PM CET [music, albums] December 2, 2002 at 8:48:44 PM CET 40 years, 40 albums: news To make the navigation to the different reviews in this series easier I created an overview page. It is still quite empty with only three albums but I hope I can fill it up till my birthday, July, 14th. The year column links to the poll in which you dear readers have hopefully voted for your favourite. The album column links to my amateurish review and the last column titled RYM links to the top 100 albums as rated by the contributors to the rate your music site of said year. Everyone can become member there and review and rate albums. I closed the 1980 poll. The overwhelming winner was Joy Division's Closer. JD fans should be patient. The band will be covered in the series though it won't be the album you are probably thinking of... 40 years, 40 albums is a good exercise for me to relisten to my old albums and reevaluate them. Actually listening to the 1999 stuff was another indication for me that I have too many records. Maybe I should start selling the ones I don't like anymore via Ebay. The most striking examples from 1999 I just listened to were Sigur Ros, Flaming Lips, Perry Blake, Smog, Spain and Radar Bros. A good rule for future buys would be to first sell an old album before buying a new one. Discipline is a discipline I have never been good at and I can definitely improve on. Probably even better than selling old albums would be a cd exchange where people exchange second-hand cds. Does anyone know if a place like this exists? In case it didn't I guess it would be about time to create one on the interweb. The new economy will come back one day, you know. link (4 comments) ... comment [music, concerts] December 2, 2002 at 8:23:38 PM CET Concerts this week There are three live shows in Offenbach this week I thought of going to:
Ryan Adams is on his own this time and all I heard of him in the past nine months (after the last excellent concert in the Batschkapp with his band The Sweetheart Revolution) was bland middle of the road rubbish. Bright Eyes singer Conor Oberst hasn't got the voice of my dreams and I am not in the mood for his melodramatic, introspective and self-lacerating songs. I will probably attend the Low concert though. I heard one of their newer tracks which I didn't like too much as it sounded more like a normal rock song than the older slow atmospheric stuff on their first two records. But Tom Liwa from Duisburg which is almost my hometown (only the Rhine separates them) should be interesting. He played in an indie band called Flowerpornoes before which I don't really know but I listened to some tracks from his latest double album 2 Originals of.. and I liked what I heard. Singer songwriters singing in German without sounding pathetic are quite rare in this country. link (no comments) ... comment [chess and games] December 2, 2002 at 7:57:07 PM CET A game for clever anarchists Rules of Card Games: Mao (via caterina.net) The main feature of Mao which distinguishes it from many of its predecessors is that there is a rule against explaining or asking about the rules. New players are expected to join a game and deduce the rules of play by observation, trial and error.
link (no comments) ... comment [music, artists] December 2, 2002 at 6:44:35 PM CET I am a heartless monster Why don't I feel the slightest bit of compassion after reading this? Maybe his singing will sound better now with two artificial front teeths. Maybe they will pack it in altogether. That wouldn't be the worst solution. I wouldn't miss them. Can someone please forgive me? link (no comments) ... comment [music, songs] December 2, 2002 at 5:59:28 PM CET Wer parodiert hier wen? Elmar Brandt im Steuersong: Willste sparen, kauf' doch öfters mal bei Lidl oder Penny Markt oder Aldi oder mal gar nichts...
Franz Müntefering am Sonntag im Tagesspiegel-Interview:
Ich erhöhe Euch die Steuern, gewählt ist gewählt! Dennoch, was wir machen, ist richtig: Weniger für den privaten Konsum – und dem Staat Geld geben, damit Bund, Länder und Gemeinden ihre Aufgaben erfüllen können.
So richtig lustig find ich das jetzt nicht mehr, wenn unsere gewählten Volksvertreter die armen Satiriker jetzt auch noch arbeitslos machen... link (no comments) ... comment |
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