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Originally posted by Rank outsider
Sorry, you are allowed no companionship and that includes animals.

I am afraid you have to choose again.
would a blow up doll count as companionship?

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Originally posted by stellspalfie
would a blow up doll count as companionship?
Roy Plomley would turn in his grave and then wash your mouth out with soap.

Do you think this line of thought affected your choice of author?

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Originally posted by Rank outsider
Roy Plomley would turn in his grave and then wash your mouth out with soap.

Do you think this line of thought affected your choice of author?
a man has needs god damn it!!!!

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Originally posted by stellspalfie
a man has needs god damn it!!!!
Maybe. But fortunately he can also control them.

Otherwise the phrase 'I can't wait until Friday comes' would have meant something quite different in Robinson Crusoe.

😉

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Originally posted by Bosse de Nage
The Pearl: Harold Budd and Brian Eno (with Daniel Lanois) (sundowners!)
Ah, yes. Interesting choice. If Eno/Budd made it into the last 8, I'd take "Ambient 2: Plateaux Of Mirror".

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Originally posted by rwingett
Perhaps FMF can fill me in on whether I missed anything essential in that last quarter, or whether it was just more of the same.
More of the "same", I suppose. I found it engrossing.

Last quarter...

Part III 'Surviving in fantasy land - the Individual in the World of Reason'.

Images of Immortality or the Victory of Idolatry
Life in a Box: Specialization and the Individual
The Stars
The Faithful Witness
The Virtue of Doubt

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Originally posted by Bosse de Nage
[David Bowie: David Live (1974).] First Bowie album I owned (vinyl, sides 3 & 4 printed the wrong way round), I love it. The arrangements were gorgeous (Moonage Daydream far superior to studio), the cover photo offended my dad, the suit was to the ultimate detriment of my sartorial sensibilities, but let that rest.
I think the live 8 minute "Sweet Thing" suite is possibly my favourite 8 minutes of Bowie.

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Originally posted by FMF
Ah, yes. Interesting choice. If Eno/Budd made it into the last 8, I'd take "Ambient 2: Plateaux Of Mirror".
The entire run of Ambient recordings has been made available for download at www.ubu.com.

The Island recordings of Momus are also up on the same website.

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Originally posted by FMF
I think the live 8 minute "Sweet Thing" suite is possibly my favourite 8 minutes of Bowie.
Yes, the studio version pales by comparison. In fact David Live probably spoilt me for Diamond Dogs, which I have probably listened through entirely four times at most.

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Originally posted by Bosse de Nage
Yes, the studio version pales by comparison. In fact David Live probably spoilt me for Diamond Dogs, which I have probably listened through entirely four times at most.
I have a soundboard from that 1974 tour. I could upload one for you.

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Originally posted by Bosse de Nage
The entire run of Ambient recordings has been made available for download at www.ubu.com.
[One of the] soundtrack[s] of my teens! And a couple of items I'd all but forgotten.

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Originally posted by Bosse de Nage
Yes, the studio version pales by comparison. In fact David Live probably spoilt me for Diamond Dogs, which I have probably listened through entirely four times at most.
Here is a great Bowie fanblog. http://bowiesongs.wordpress.com/ Apologies if it was, in fact, you who tipped me off on it!

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Originally posted by FMF
I have a soundboard from that 1974 tour. I could upload one for you.
That would be a generous contribution to online music culture.

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Originally posted by FMF
Here is a great Bowie fanblog. http://bowiesongs.wordpress.com/ Apologies if it was, in fact, you who tipped me off on it!
Cheers, it wasn't me.

Was listening to Reality the other day and thinking it was really rather good ...

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Solo Monk - Thenonius Monk

Kind of Blue - Miles Davis

A Love Supreme - John Coltrane

What's Going On - Marvin Gaye

The Royal Scam - Steely Dan

The Elephant Riders - Clutch

Parabola - TOOL

And some version of Brahms' Clarinet Quintet

A guitar

If my only choice in books is the Bible, I suppose I'll take a copy

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