Wall of Mouths

Maybe this will give them back their brains, so to speak.

I never really noticed much difference between the quality of Babyteeh and Pleasure Death. It all sounds messy but it fits the music.
I’d buy them anyway, but I hope the band get some input into this and don’t let them do a Rammstein remaster (‘Turn it up until it hurts!’) because that’d be a real shame.

I’d be interested to see T? do what the Pumpkins are doing at the moment with their reissues. I’m sure they’ve at least got some interesting live recordings they can put out.

For me I just liked it immediately, whereas CT is a grower and - as much as I like it - has never really caught in my mind.

Is Marlow the ‘brief crack of light’ on the album?
I think it’s very much needed otherwise it’d be pretty bloody unrelenting. I’m pretty excited to hear some of these songs live.

Got mine today from Amazon.

I might be weird, but I liked the whole album all the way through, right from the first listen.

The second half of the album kind of blends into one song (but one with ‘movements’) until Stark Raving Sane. I like that.

It’s definitely got the doominess and paranoia of Nurse and the like, but also a clear progression from Crooked Timber. Easier to get into than CT, in a way, but it’s like they took everything that went into that (and anything cool that they heard since) and smushed it into slightly more accessible songs in that weird way that they do.

It’s a circle peg in a square hole. It doesn’t fit, but they made it.

Not music, but I saw Andrew O’Neill at the Live Theatre on Sunday. Very funny man, nice bar, good ice cream, great night.

I like Celebrity Masterchef because everybody’s always so crap. BBC celebrity editions are just wonderful because most of them work for the BBC anyway.

Masterchef in general is great fun when I feel like shouting at everybody on the telly.

As a friend once said, “It’s not about the cooking, it’s all about the simmering sexual tension between John Torode and Gregg Wallace.”