Nereffid
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On first thought, I'd say favourite track is Heroes, which gives me an excuse to link to this.
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Sweet! Some VW I haven't heard before.
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Also an influence on Philip Glass.
Shankar's Symphony was one of my favourite recordings of the year. His daughter Anoushka plays sitar on this.
in RIP
Comment by Nereffid
December 2012
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@Dogs singing the blues: I'm glad to hear Keyboard Cat is still getting work.
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On first listen it didn't induce the two complaints I sometimes have about such choral collections - that the overall effect is either too same-y or too darned lovely. There's a good variety here (mostly recent compositions but a few Renaissa…
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Lost is most definitely the main reason why things like coincidences don't bother me much these days. I started to hate it for its failure to answer any questions, and keep adding more, until I realised that this was actually a reason to love it. No…
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Jonah, as it happens I'm just one episode ahead of you with Breaking Bad, so I suggest you watch the next episode (ie, penultimate of season 2) and then decide whether you and the show are a good match. The episode I just saw relies on a very big co…
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This is a lot of fun. Starts out not unlike a Donald Westlake story but - I'm about halfway through - moves into stranger territory. -
Perhaps any such post be titled "Music Is Not Good".
"Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy" - H.L. Mencken. -
Re: MiG end-of-year. I'm with Craig on this one - I doubt there'll be much overlap. Any best of 2012 list that isn't solely classical will probably elicit mostly blank looks from me, anyway.
I was planning to do some sort of MiG post on … -
On past form, there's a reasonable chance you'll be replacing a working DLM with a non-working one, so why take the risk?
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At last - I've submitted something.
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Yeah, I've found various other things to keep me occupied over the last few months. There's an outside chance I'll manage to get the latest chapter of my history finished tomorrow but it could just as easily be another two weeks...
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Happy birthday everyone!
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Surely if you suggest a "tabula rasa" to a recommendations engine you're just asking for trouble?
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(Quote) ... so far. There's still plenty of time.
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