Dear Sinister, I have a contribution to the Floydular conversation, sorry to say, but first - Have any of you listened to the Reverend Al Green lately? I'm not sure if you should or not, but if anyone has a chance to see him in person by all means make the effort! Don't be fooled by the JESUS! refrains, the man has sold his soul to the d-e-v-i-l I tell you. I'd imagine from recent debate that some of you would be a little disturbed to be getting your groove on next to a woman 3 times you age that knew *every* *single* *word*, but you'd be just plain wrong in my book. All this Floyd talk has me remembering that my very first reaction to B&S (IYFS) was not only "how 60's", but very specifically that it reminded me of Syd Barrett. After a little while it was hard to remember why I even thought that, but it probably had something to do with the the beautiful quirkiness of the melodies on that album. I can't remember the last time I actually wanted to listen to Pink Floyd, but I can remember an age when I did want to, which is more than I can say for most bands... On a similar note, I can't bring myself to buy the new Stereolab, which is distressing since a friend has done the engineering and/or production on the last 3 albums. There's nothing that's more annoying than not being able to compliment someone you know. BUT, I would never, ever miss a chance to see them live, which is a point I think worth making. They have a magical way of combining politics and pleasure that hasn't faded for me at all over the years. Not many bands have been able to maintain that for as long as they have. Still, there's nothing like the feeling when they light into the likes of Our Tritone Blast"... o.k. that's all, sorry for the ramble. Just to spice it up, I'll tell you that I hit a major milestone towards aldulthood last night. I was in the middle of it all when my girlfriend started laughing uncontrollably. "It's just so funny", she said. And I didn't even mind. matt ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the undead Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister@missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo@missprint.org. WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "peculiarly deranged fanbase" "frighteningly named +-+ +-+ Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+