Slowdive - always sound great, always a truly live experience, never stagnant and only about the past, and most importantly the music has always been amazing

Agreed.

Spore was horrendously disappointing after what I’d read about it.

I bought into the hype and pre-ordered it, and then regretted it.

I’d been given the impression by previews you’d get to play it as a singular session or experience, which I guess they never could have pulled off, but finding it to be segmented as it was was disappointing.

And then the way it portrayed “evolution” seemed deeply flawed to me. Choices you made had almost no consequences - rather than gradually going down different paths and committing to things playing out in different ways, you could just completely change your mind or go back on things, your choices didn’t really matter.

Deadwood.

The movie to complete it is passable, but seasons 1-3 are 10/10.

Sonic CD.

For years and years it was a mythical sonic game, a rare golden-era game hardly anyone had got to play. And I’d slightly mis-remembered it appearing way more advanced and fluid than a mega drive game.

After being obsessed with Sonic in my youth, after finally getting to play it, it just felt like a less enjoyable Sonic 1.

I’ve never even bothered to finish it.

Sex Pistols:

“God save the Queen, The fascist regime, Who made you a moron, And touched your wife’s bum!”

I 100% genuinely thought “Lose yourself to dance” was “You just suck the dicks” when I first heard it on the radio.

I was wondering who it was by and why it wasn’t censored being played at lunchtime.

Dr Feelgood was a band where this happened

I’d say Kraftwerk was Ralf und Florian initially, but I’d suggest Karl became an essential member from The Man Machine onwards.

Ralf and Florian weren’t ones to give any credit unless credit is due, and Karl’s name is all over many of their best songs and composed many of their most famous melodies.

I find Kraftwerk post-Karl way too sterile and Karl post-Kraftwerk too unrefined. I think Ralf and Karl really complemented each other in terms of composition and production.

Because politics encompasses almost everything, to be truly politically neutral would mean having no strong views on anything in life.

It’s possible to be neutral on certain topics, but to be fully neutral you’d have to have no real opinions on economics, immigration, the military, the role of religion, equality, education…

So the quote is saying you can’t truly be neutral on everything, what specific things are you actually neutral on.

The Glam Metal Detectives.

Thought it was really funny but it’s completely forgotten now.

A C64 is one of the only retro machines I’ve never encountered before in-person. Presume they were less popular in the UK because of the Spectrum.

But I have a default appreciation of it because of my childhood Amiga adoration.

I actually installed Virtual64 on the Mac the other day and was trying to learn some ways to mess around in BASIC. Hoping to get to know the C64 (and Spectrum) better, mainly just for the fun of it.

Map Men / Jay Foreman

Interesting and genuinely amusing for about 15 years at this point.