For ages I kept coming across multiple copies "Tango Into the Night" by Fleetwood Mac on vinyl.

One of the places I lived as a student (which was only 3 years ago) was very close one of those Oxfam stores that specialised in music and books rather than clothing, and had a coffee emporium across the road. Happy days, indeed.

Hi DH - wasn't sure where else to write this.... IMHO I find the Blog area on here too 'loose'. There are too many mediocre threads started by the great unwashed, and the good ones tend to be lost or buried before they get going. My suggestion is that you Word folk are the only ones able to start a new topic but one of these threads is a weekly invitation to the rest of us to suggest a new idea, and then you can put that up as a new thread. Thank you for listening.

The previous post from PaulHThompson quoting Green on Arcade Fire can be found here:

http://www.wordmagazine.co.uk/content/indie-music-and-decline-musical-mi...

KB, never mind axeing the mediocre blogs by mediocre posters, why not just ban them from the entire area. Or simply remove them from the gene pool. Then chase their family and friends out of town on a rail. That should do the trick

yr sense of humour that I just found behind the sofa, kb?

The 1st time Queen appeared on ToTP Mercury held the mic with the upper part of the stand rising vertically. This was at a time when the best lead vocalists all had idiosyncratic, trademark mic styles. Mick Jagger, Roger Daltry, Paul Rodgers, Rod Stewart, Roger Chapman and Ian Gillan were singers from that era who'd fairly regularly appeared in the charts and had memorable styles. In the morning dissection of the previous nights ToTP I recall the consensus was that Mercury appeared to us to be trying to do something different, but failed to match the class of a Rodgers or Stewart etc.

Brilliant ! I'm sure "Midtronden" by Brock Manhunter could really exist. The fact that it opens with "Swamp County", moves on to "Licania conferruminata" and has a cover of "I See The Moon" halfway through is all entirely possible.

Talk about bald(ing) rock stars reminded me of a quote from Brian Eno's diary of 1995 - A Year with Swollen Appendices:

21 December:
‘…At the party, Rob Partridge said to me, "You gave hope to other balding men." My new epitaph: "Co-wrote a couple of decent songs and went bald shamelessly."'

This is great.

My first attempt generated -

Magdalena Kozena by NSX

Tracklisting -

Mount Balkenden Ker (the whole side of an album epic)
Sulcatone reductase
Walter Goodacre (the compulsory acoustic ditty)
Toadstool Geologic Park
Mena

My worry is that in my mind I can see the album cover.

Should I seek help?

There are quite a few mediocre blogs on here, quite a few from me, I admit and quite a few from people who actually work at the mag (I'm sure they won't mind me saying this).
None, however as mediocre as your first attempt (or as mean spirited either)
What Hepworth and crew are attempting is in the true interactive spirit, the magazine working together with the blog and podcast to not only get people involved, but to feel like they're being listened to.
I love it all, me. I'll wade through all kinds of tedium for the many gems that appear here.