a very soapy taste.

...Joan Armatrading ?

Ditto on "The Sound of Music." I've also never seen "Mary Poppins," "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang," any of the "Star Wars" films or a complete episode of "Star Trek."

In the case of the former few, I've deliberately avoided them. There's just something about Julie Andrews which makes me want to punch kittens.

regretted losing the wall of vinyl. CDs have gone the same way now.

someone who has worked in music retail for years, it's interesting to note how the CD backlash has grown and attitudes towards records (or "vinyls" as some people annoyingly insist on calling them these days) have changed.

For decades the biggest curse of the record buyer/seller was the dreaded snap, crackle and pop. People would bring LPs back and vociferously complain at the merest hint of surface noise.

Then, in the 90s we find producers regularly adding fake record crackle to CD tracks.

Jump ahead to the present decade and newly converted vinyl buyers have become almost evangelical in their praise for records. Not only do they not care about a certain amount of crackle ("it adds a touch of authenticity, mate") but they will tell you that their records sound better than CDs.

The way album tracks used to be sequenced is about the only thing (barring big cover art) that I miss from vinyl albums. A good vinyl album was sequenced with an impactful (is that a word?) side 1-track 1 to drag you in and a side1-final track that made you want to hear the other side. A good few not-quite-great vinyl albums had all or most of the best tracks on side 1, which was handy because you never needed to hear the sub-par side 2 material if you didn't want to.
Very many CDs are far too long. Just because you Can get nearly 81 minutes of music on a CD, it doesn't mean you've Got To.
Even with those rare albums whereon every single track is a gem, it's sometimes nice to have a pause half way through, which the act of flipping over provides without any distracting conscious effort from the listener.

Of course the frequency response of 12" vinyl dance singles is an entirely different kettle of bananas. Get hold of a 12" of Tom Browne's "Funkin' For Jamaica" and play it loud. You'll feel what I mean, especially if your living room has a wooden floor.

What he said.

seen The Godfather.

Bond films. Both at the cinema on first release:

Goldfinger - just for the Aston Martin DB5

Live And Let Die - purely in order to hear the epic Macca song through a giant sound system (hey, it was 1973, we made our own entertainment back then).

For better or worse, I'm in the same boat WB

is trying to stop it bleeding by pinching the bridge of the nose, particulary if your nose is bleeding because someone has punched and broken it.

but bloody (sort of pun intended)irritating especially when driving one handed down the M6 with blood pouring from my nose.

It got so bad I had to have the missus take me to hospital. The first two questions were

- are you an habitual cocaine user? No!
- have you recently take viagra? No!

So there's two more things I've never done.

I'll tell you what does hurt. Having a nosebleed cauterized.

I used to get them all the time as a bairn. Numerous inspections by varied doctors, consultants and specialists amounted to a diagnosis of "You've got a weak blood vessel at the top of your nose. You'll probably grow out of it". Luckily I did, but not until my mid-teens.

As I understand it, bleeding itself isn't painful, it just usually happens when you have done something painful to yourself (cutting, grazing, breaking etc.), so people assume escaping blood = pain.

Old bands too. I love to slag off Rush and Yes without ever having listened to them. Why would I listen to them? They're rubbish.

Which ones haven't you heard?

I've been known to slag off films I've never seen, such as Forrest Gump (eventually saw it, and was relieved that it really was as egregious as I'd been telling people...). I also count Peter Greenaway as one of my most hated filmmakers, despite only having seen two of his works.

Slagging off bands you haven't heard, though - that's just wrong!

;-)

And you will think differently. Secret ingredient: a good splash of vodka at the end.

Samantha and her 36 bees then...

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