Music (aka - The internet is dead and I'm bored)

Mmmm, Dan. I like the look of that record list. Excuse me while I accost you like a frightfully boring stranger at an interesting party.Firstly, I'm glad to see that Belle and Sebastian are appreciated round your neck of the woods.Remain in the Light has to be one of my favourite records. And 69 Love Songs (but all of it, dammit! I got it as a triple CD set, and love it all (well, with a couple of exceptions))Not having ever heard any of their songs before, I just bought an XTC best of, and it is particularly sweet.A friend did me a copy of Spike(?) by Elvis Costello a while back, and its fantastic... its got "Let Him Dangle" on it. Are "My Aim is True" and "This Yesr's Model" better than that? I don't know any other Costello.Have you ever heard any Aphex Twin? Some of its rather good.Ah, that's better.

I'm going to definitely check out those earlier Elvis Costello albums then.Aphex Twin are (is? - hes only one bloke) really good. Listening to Aphex was the first time I thought "yes! electronic music can be music I can understand as a song, and is something that I want to listen to on my walkman". Well, maybe I didn't think that exactly, but near enough. It might not be your cup of tea of course, and sometimes he goes off on totally unlistenable odesseys of hellnoise (but even thats great in small doses). I'd recommend Windowlicker or Come To Daddy if you care to hear a couple of his more accessable songs. Come to daddy is particularly fun because its a kind of logical conclusion of heavy metal, with two lines of lyrics... "come to daddy" and "I will eat your soul" deployed for maximum heavy metal fun. The middle 8 scream never fails to get the hairs standing up on the back of my neck. Windowlicker has a great hook and fantastic publicity stills....Page Not Found - 404Ah, that's better.

I play guitar okay (nothing fancy), a very basic piano, and have just started trying to get to grips with the harmonica (ah ebay! you send me cool stuff in the post). I write songs, so I have to sing (no one else will) but I sound pretty weak.I just remembered a great lyric...Standing in line just to buy a potato!