Ah, The Cure, that's it, yes! And a bit of New Order maybe. Lovely new avatar you've got there. And timely I see.

Sounds good, thanks, there are some 80s sounds going on in there which got me interested...

I don't know 'em, yet, but I've heard the name and I hear they're kewl - cheers!

Cheers Brad-Thank you!

Hey Brad-How is the Black Kids stuff? I've got a track-which I really like.

Actually, Waving Flags would be a clever bit of subversion, if the yobs started singing along with it, as it's all about welcoming other nations with open arms. Well, that and getting drunk. :)

I'll keep an eye/ear on the upcoming footie coverage and let you know if I'm as clever as I think I am. ;-)

Ha, lol, excellent! And I see your [track artist=Elbow]One Day Like This[/track] and I raise you [track artist=British Sea Power]Waving Flags[/track]...

Hi, I'd like to personally invite you to join the [group]Group Owners[/group] group. Hope to see you there!

Oh gawd yes - we're going to be hearing that strings riff ALL summer! :-0

It's weird, and often the same thing with them, I can hear that it's technically very good but somehow they still set my teeth on edge. Maybe it's because their songs always sound so ready-formed for a car advert or a football montage...

Hey that's clever! I've got a bevy of smart playlists set up already for various combinations of rated/played/checked or otherwise, but I can see that function becoming VERY handy. Cheers!

Oh yes. Amongst other things. ;) Ha, don't encourage me with that sort of turn of phrase! :D

Very well thanks. Somewhat knackered, but that's not at all unusual for a Monday these days. The combination of karaoke and that young fella you're sharing my shoutbox with are wearing me out every weekend at the moment. In the nicest possible ways! ;-) Glad things are cool with you too.

Nah, sadly not. Mostly I have to keep it very mainstream pop/dance so I have limited opportunities to drop something a bit leftfield in. But I'm working on it! :) Did you have a nice weekend? Summer's come early here, it's crazy.

I don't think we will ever hit Super. That's okay though, Very High is acceptable.

I completely agree with you about this week's Idol! It's still going on, but I just had to tell you how much I'm laughing - Syesha just compared her American Idol journey to the Civil Rights Movement. Oh dearie me! :-D

Crystal Castles are great! How strange, that's two Canadian albums I like so far this year, and both use a lot of 8-bit video game music. Yep, Idol tonight, just watching Heroes first. Sylar's back! DL's dead! And apparently Nichelle Nichols is in it. Blimey!

You're right! I hadn't noticed - which is kind of the point, I guess. The only Canadian album on my hot list so far this year is [artist]Cadence Weapon[/artist]'s second helping of experimental hip-hop...

Well I ain't talkin bout Avril Lavigne! ;-D

I'm so glad I'm not alone in my Long Blondes obsession. I've managed to get both you and [user]Mimey[/user] hooked on the new album so far. It's going to be my album of the year unless something really spectacular happens before Christmas. Come on, Canada!

Hello there... Great taste! If I wanted to get a Boards of Canada Album... which one should I start with.

Hell yeah! Can't wait. :) The line-up at the [url=http://www.last.fm/event/432551]Reading Festival[/url] might get you a bit jealous too...

PS you missed your annual opportunity to make fun of my grey icon for two hours this morning. :-)

Just had a look at the details on Wiki, there are some really boring song choices there this week! I enjoyed them all meeting Neil Diamond last time around, they were all staring at him like Who is this old man? Do we have to be nice to him?

It's like Christmas morning! :)

Things aren't too bad. How about you? I'm just ripping through a few finals this week. yeah, I just wasn't dig the new Portishead. I thought it was okay. Maybe I was in the wrong mood the times I listened to it. How were the FButtons live?

Yes I guessed you'd know about them-do you have both albums?

Interesting! Anyway, don't ACTUALLY let me stop you from changing your chart displays if you want to! It's handy, but I can always find some other sucker, er I mean mate, to refresh at. ;)

Really? Does it show up as a fresh visit each time? I always thought it was unobtrusive to do a refresh. Not that I mind, I do have very little shame you know. :)

Nope, sorry ;) I think I went through some friends lists and that's how I ended up on your profile ;)

It's weird, that's one track I really haven't managed to get into, but I keep seeing people citing it as an album highlight. And yours are VERY good reasons! Hmmm.

Don't do that! It's your page I keep refreshing to see whether the new monthlies are out!

Ha, no, sadly Mexican history hasn't made much impact around here. We always get the first Monday in May off, it's some sort of cultural hang-up from the old pagan tradition of May Day. Have you seen the Wicker Man? Fertility rites and all that. Actually, I'd probably better not go into too much detail about how I've spent my day. ;-D

Hi Brad! Public holiday here today so no work. I've been hanging out and having fun. :-) Yeah, Third is excellent. I'm all about Machine Gun and The Rip right now. And yeah! - it's time for those new charts, I'm impatient too.

Ooh they've gone all disco! I'll see what I can do. :)

Hey Brad Do you know anything about The Samuel Jackson Five? The samples suggest Post Rock-hope all is well!

Oh well! I thought there might be new heights of musicgeekdom going on, with complicated secret ratings formulas and the like. You know I enjoy that sort of thing. :)

Yo! Big up the Todd Zilla! Er, anyway, I was doing some iTunes library maintenance which involved using the comments field and then sorting by comment. And I noticed on a lot of the tracks I've got from you, there are Ratings in the comments, ranging from 74 to 3377. It's VERY interesting, care to tell me more?

Me and George were talking about it (OBVIOUSLY!!) and I said, well she must make her notes in the technical rehearsal. And it occurred to us that on X-Factor (pretty much the British version of Idol) they're pretty up-front about it - Simon will say well, that wasn't too bad in the rehearsal but tonight you were shit. But for Idol, they've never admitted that. It felt weird!

Brad! Sup?

OH. MY. GOD. Bwa ha ha!!! Have just seen Paula time-travelling. I loved how when she was told they'd all only sung once, she threw her hands up and shouted But this is so HARD! And George loved how Seacrest had to dodge the camera's eyeline because he didn't know what to say or do. :-D As we say over here, can't Adam & Eve it!

So you DID learn how to time travel! ;-) No, we get the first show on Thursday nights and the results show on Fridays... I can tell you're gagging to talk about it!

I'm still on Tiger. It's all so '06!! :) I hear you can time travel and all sorts if you've got Leopard. But I love my MacBook, and these days it even goes on a date with me every Saturday night, so I can run the karaoke from it. :-) Free promotion for Apple all round!

They look NICE. *drools*

Well...there is World of Warcraft, but that is hardly high-end...haha.

Hmmm...if only high-end games were developed for MacOS :-) And if only I could build my own..... :-)