The Mighty Musical Observations Thread

[Dr. Medulla]

Everything But the Girl have recorded their first album since 1999. To be released next spring.

Surely they could've included the girl after all this time.

I respect them for their commitment to that principled restraint. Providing a girl is exactly what people would expect. This shows it's not just a nostalgia cash grab.

[Marky Dread]

Everything But the Girl have recorded their first album since 1999. To be released next spring.

Surely they could've included the girl after all this time.

I respect them for their commitment to that principled restraint. Providing a girl is exactly what people would expect. This shows it's not just a nostalgia cash grab.

Oh!

[Kory]

Everything But the Girl have recorded their first album since 1999. To be released next spring.

I wonder if it will continue on from their late electronic styles, or go back to more acoustic stuff from earlier.

[Dr. Medulla]

Everything But the Girl have recorded their first album since 1999. To be released next spring.

I wonder if it will continue on from their late electronic styles, or go back to more acoustic stuff from earlier.

Both Tracey's and Ben's solo records in the interim have leaned electronic, but certainly not as obviously as those last two EBTG albums. My gut says they do something more akin to Amplified Heart.

[Low Down Low]

Who is this handsome devil?

[Dr. Medulla]

Who is this handsome devil?

How is he getting healthier looking as he ages?

[Low Down Low]

Who is this handsome devil?

How is he getting healthier looking as he ages?

I guess it could be that some bodies just have constitutions that can withstand more repeated punishment than others. Fuck knows truly, but I'm stoked to see him looking so well, all that horrible bloatedness around the face all but disappeared.

[Dr. Medulla]

Who is this handsome devil?

How is he getting healthier looking as he ages?

I guess it could be that some bodies just have constitutions that can withstand more repeated punishment than others. Fuck knows truly, but I'm stoked to see him looking so well, all that horrible bloatedness around the face all but disappeared.

Yeah, life's lottery. Mark E. Smith aged like a piece of liver kicked around the room, whereas Topper (last photo I saw anyway) is how you would hope to age.

[Low Down Low]

Who is this handsome devil?

How is he getting healthier looking as he ages?

I guess it could be that some bodies just have constitutions that can withstand more repeated punishment than others. Fuck knows truly, but I'm stoked to see him looking so well, all that horrible bloatedness around the face all but disappeared.

Yeah, life's lottery. Mark E. Smith aged like a piece of liver kicked around the room, whereas Topper (last photo I saw anyway) is how you would hope to age.

Lydon not aging all that well either I'd say. I'm tempted to think that snark and bitterness ages folk like old leather, but in the end I'd tend to agree there's a fair bit of the old dice roll to it all.

[revbob]

Who is this handsome devil?

That's certainly an improvement. Now if his speaking could also improve. Ive long since past hoping for a glimpse of his creative genius it would be nice to just hear him speak clearly.

How is he getting healthier looking as he ages?

Yeah but this is a guy who went from 50 to 70 in the blink of an eye. And hes only 64.

[Dr. Medulla]

Who is this handsome devil?

How is he getting healthier looking as he ages?

I guess it could be that some bodies just have constitutions that can withstand more repeated punishment than others. Fuck knows truly, but I'm stoked to see him looking so well, all that horrible bloatedness around the face all but disappeared.

Yeah, life's lottery. Mark E. Smith aged like a piece of liver kicked around the room, whereas Topper (last photo I saw anyway) is how you would hope to age.

Lydon not aging all that well either I'd say. I'm tempted to think that snark and bitterness ages folk like old leather, but in the end I'd tend to agree there's a fair bit of the old dice roll to it all.

Even without the thyroid issue, Lydon's aged into a puffer fish. But, credit to him, he doesn't seem to give a fuck about his appearance.

[Low Down Low]

How is he getting healthier looking as he ages?

I guess it could be that some bodies just have constitutions that can withstand more repeated punishment than others. Fuck knows truly, but I'm stoked to see him looking so well, all that horrible bloatedness around the face all but disappeared.

Yeah, life's lottery. Mark E. Smith aged like a piece of liver kicked around the room, whereas Topper (last photo I saw anyway) is how you would hope to age.

Lydon not aging all that well either I'd say. I'm tempted to think that snark and bitterness ages folk like old leather, but in the end I'd tend to agree there's a fair bit of the old dice roll to it all.

Even without the thyroid issue, Lydon's aged into a puffer fish. But, credit to him, he doesn't seem to give a fuck about his appearance.

That is fair. Of all the issues I'd have with John, appearance doesn't feature anywhere on the list.

[Kory]

Two neat-seeming compilations of post-punk/goth/positive punk coming out soonish:

https://superdeluxeedition.com/news/you ... 1982-1985/

https://superdeluxeedition.com/news/int ... c-1979-89/

[Dr. Medulla]

Two neat-seeming compilations of post-punk/goth/positive punk coming out soonish:

https://superdeluxeedition.com/news/you ... 1982-1985/

https://superdeluxeedition.com/news/int ... c-1979-89/

The Progressive Sounds one sounds like a banger.

[Silent Majority]

Shane's in a lot of pain from the falls that confined him to the chair. His drinking and (non-prescription) drugging has mostly fallen away but he's more cantankerous and having less fun than ever, understandably, and is sinking a lot of those yuletide royalties into physio and carers (which is why they started selling all the biro scrawls of tits and dicks on vomit bags from touring in the 1980s, first as that £500+ book and then latterly the originals to the fashionable boho rich). There is scraps of an album recorded over the last few years with uninspired St Patrick's Day stompers band Cronin. There's material on there that's been written since 1998, a version of Wild Mountain Thyme and some rerecordings of Pogues and Popes numbers, including the below which snuck out on the album the backing band put out mostly without him in 02.