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  • I really think it’s time for Soulstrut to be done, Raj. While I know that Soulstrut got its first toehold on the strength of, like, Iron Monkey heavy-metal-breaks mixes and Alphonse Mouzon mp3s and shit, once the forum clicked (what was that,…
  • Oh shit! In a low-key but undeniable way, one of those people, to paraphrase James Murphy, without whom my whole situation doesn't exist. Not only were Mike's music and mixes and designs inspiring at a pivotal moment, boring deep into…
  • hcrink said: Yeah, I don't know exactly, but I'm sure there were no barcodes before late 70's This is starting to remind me of the golden ticket part in the beginning of Willy Wonka's Chocolate Factory The first commercial UPC co…
  • indiana45s said:If a person went to such great lengths to make album covers, there is almost near certainty that they did some kind of recording. You think so? To me, it seems like all of this is obviously the handiwork of someone trying to g…
  • soulmarcosa said: But it's weird.. isn't "minger" UK slang for an ugly girl or a generally ugly, unpleasant and/or stanky person? Yeah, I think you're right, but I also recognize as a term regarding (cover your ears, Marco) meat process…
  • dukeofdelridge said: SCARFING MATERIAL! ÔÇ£SKARFING,ÔÇØ wunnit? With Chef Boy-Am-I-Hungry? That was my shit. Often literally. Anyways: - Oh, come on--no one fucking calls it that: ÔÇØÔǪwhen I get back to L.A. TownÔÇØ (Joni Mitch…
  • I'm not trying to make any point with this or imply that it's any kind of metric--just a by-the-by thing that this thread has made me semi-curious about: How many black NYC residents are currently active on soulstrut? Two? Three?
  • Upon review, most of what my brain has filed as "great lines" are actually, when confronted on the page, multiple sentences long. Either that, or they don't really say anything when removed from their context. Good, honest-to-goodness stand-alone si…
  • Yo La Tengo, and Greg Tate's mostly-really-not-very-good Burnt Sugar.
  • HarveyCanal said:james said:tripledouble said:loopable The "...but s/he's got a great personality!" of record collecting. When all you are looking for are a couple stabs and then it's straight to the trade stack...yep, exactly like the datin…
  • yuichi said:batmon said:White dudes Dozens game is terrible. Trying too hard-related. "Trying too hard" is kind of a bold claim from someone who used to call himself The Basketball Scientist. b/w Your mom is so fussy, she c…
  • Your mom's head is so big that her wig has a retractable roof.
  • I heard your mom stacks chairs for Bobby Knight.
  • I heard your dad was running around Detroit in some hot pants, talmbout "Mo' cheeks!"
  • I heard your mom washes dishes down at the cafeteria and talks about how she's "hittin' trays."
  • I heard the manager at Old Country Buffet was locking up for the night when your mom tried to call him for goaltending.
  • I saw your mom on the Kiss Cam making out with a bucket of wings. Related: Back in high school, my man Nguyen from Vietnam was snapping on one of his dudes, and I can't remember the setup, but the payoff was something about dude's mom being n…
  • DJ_Enki said:There was also a lamentable skate punk phase where I liked any band that got any sort of mention whatsoever in Thrasher magazine. Holmes, teenaged me used to make recipes that I saw in Thrasher. Shit with like sardines and flour torti…
  • I actually grew up in South Kakalak, home of the crazy white people (shout out to Bob Jones, Susan Smith, the NAACP boycott, Maurice's segregationist BBQ, that lady who let her kids die in her hot car while she was playing video poker, ad infinitum/…
  • JectWon said:DB_Cooper said:HOW DARE YOU QUESTION MY MOTHER'S KNOWLEDGE OF PROFESSIONAL BASKETBALL. Nah bro....your ENTIRE family, son. Your grandfather? Pshhhhh....whats he know about the triangle D? I thought so... :walk_away_son: …
  • Jonny_Paycheck said: Damn, that's a lot of eyebrow-working crammed into like four secords.
  • It seems notable that whenever this "ban" shit pops up, the people most deeply involved--the plaintiff, the defendant, the loudest voices in the chorus, etc.--are almost never people who are known on this board for their music-related contributions.
  • Thanks for the kind words, Stacks. Coincidentally enough, the (now-ex-) wife of one of my good friends--alluded to in my post above--is a big fan of both 80s music and Michael Franks, and in the course of talking with her a while back, it see…
  • - That Darkside Psychic record is still really working for me. - Two songs that use ÔÇ£legÔÇØ as synecdoche for ÔÇ£sexÔÇØ: Special EdÔÇÖs ÔÇ£I Got It MadeÔÇØ and Van HalenÔÇÖs ÔÇ£UnchainedÔÇØ - I pulled out the eponymous 4 By Four reco…
  • My personal favorite is Dragnet, but my feeling is that This Nation's Saving Grace is probably the one record to listen to if you want to decide whether or not you really like The Fall. All the DNA is there. If you like something on that record, you…
  • HarveyCanal said:james said:HarveyCanal said:It's like the hard-headed deejay who swears that a certain song is hot, yet when he plays it his crowd unmistakably goes flat. How long does his grand theory of goodness get pushed ahead of the re…
  • LazarusOblong said:Mark E. Smith said it already: You don't deserve rock and roll.
  • HarveyCanal said:It's like the hard-headed deejay who swears that a certain song is hot, yet when he plays it his crowd unmistakably goes flat. How long does his grand theory of goodness get pushed ahead of the reality of simple acceptance/d…
  • HarveyCanal said:james said:HarveyCanal said:Either you like or you don't Just these words alone make me want to kill myself. Plaese to provide us a dissertation study on why you like certain things versus why you don't. I'm not gonna …