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    • GilesG
      Giles
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      HAAAAA!  Don’t lie to me Giles. We all know it’s Taylor Swift Adele.
      Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

      FUCK - Busted….

      "OK face up to it - you're useless but generally pretty honest and straightforward . . . it's a rare combination of qualities that I have come to admire in you" - Geo 2011

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      • jerkulesJ
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        @riffblaster general I’m a newbie here, never realised I was rubbing shoulders with a musical hero!

        Seriously though. Jane Doe was a formative experience for me, I was about 14 when it released and it blew me away. Seen you guys a few times over the years in London, always a wonderful experience. Anyways, big thanks and love!

        And thanks for connecting the dots for me @Giles. I love the image of Paula, unaware of what’s about to happen, in the pit for Converge 😂

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        • GilesG
          Giles
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          And thanks for connecting the dots for me [url=https://www.ironheart.co.uk/forum/index.php?action=profile;u=1]@Giles.

          I think you have just summed up my existence…..

          "OK face up to it - you're useless but generally pretty honest and straightforward . . . it's a rare combination of qualities that I have come to admire in you" - Geo 2011

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          • GilesG
            Giles
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            I love the image of Paula, unaware of what’s about to happen, in the pit for Converge 😂

            I literally piss myself every time I think of it…..

            "OK face up to it - you're useless but generally pretty honest and straightforward . . . it's a rare combination of qualities that I have come to admire in you" - Geo 2011

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            • TripleterrorT
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              Tough choice, initial salvo
              1. All Mod Cons - The Jam
              2. Head Hunters - Herbie Hancock
              3. Never Mind the Bollocks - Sex Pistols
              4. Ethiopian Knights - Donald Byrd
              5. Germ Free Adolescents - X-ray Spex

              just wear - don´t compare - what matters is that one loves what one is wearing…

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              • Alex_24A
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                Music Albums (Top 5 is impossible to pick and subject to change but here’s a good go at it):

                1. TOOL - AEnima
                2. Pearl Jam - Vs.
                3. OutKast - ATLiens
                4. Dave Matthews Band - Remember Two Things
                5. The Allman Brothers - Eat a Peach [emoji527]

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                • TripleterrorT
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                  @Alex_24:

                  Music Albums (Top 5 is impossible to pick and subject to change but here’s a good go at it):

                  1. TOOL - AEnima
                  2. Pearl Jam - Vs.
                  3. OutKast - ATLiens
                  4. Dave Matthews Band - Remember Two Things
                  5. The Allman Brothers - Eat a Peach [emoji527]

                  Big fan of Idlewild South by The Allan Brothers

                  just wear - don´t compare - what matters is that one loves what one is wearing…

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                  • mclaincauseyM
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                    Great list, @goosehd ; I am re-reading Kool-Aid now.

                    There was such a fundamental disjoint between the Pranksters and just about everything else that had come before, even if Cassady managed to bridge the gap between the Beats and the Hippies. All bets were off, anything was possible, and there were some genuine polymaths in and around the group (I am particularly gobsmacked by the brilliance, breadth, and depth of people like Bear Owlsley–what couldn't he do??), it was not just a bunch of drug-addled idiots (although of course there were also those).

                    A second of 5 albums to slot next to NOMEANSNO WRONG might be Joe's Garage by Zappa, and a lot of that on the strength of a young Vinnie Colaiuta's incredible drumming and drum sound. I would love a multitrack recording so I could just tune into the rhythm section on that thing.

                    I will also add Waiting for Columbus by Little Feat.

                    @Paul9221 I was trying to fine Snowy's sales post so you could see the bag, but I found ANOTHER Gibson Porter bag he sold–check out my response, you may get a kick out of it.

                    Think it, be it.

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                    • Alex_24A
                      Alex_24
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                      Books:

                      1. The Brothers Karamazov - Fyodor Dostoevsky
                      2. A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
                      3. A Feast of Snakes - Harry Crews
                      4. Ham on Rye - Charles Bukowski
                      5. The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger

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                      • goosehdG
                        goosehd
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                        My tattooist knew Owlsley personally and would tell me stories about the scene during that time.  He was a biker, but during that time everything was interconnected.

                        "I don't give a shit what anyone else is doing, we will do what is best for us and our customers" - Giles P. :)

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                        • NikN
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                          Nils Frahm - Screws
                          Frank Ocean - Endless
                          The National - High Violet
                          Kendrick Lamar - Damn
                          Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca

                          Karl Ove Knausgaard - My Struggle 1
                          Phillip Hoare - Leviathan, or the Whale
                          David Foster Wallace - Infinite Jest
                          Henri Bergson - Time and Free Will
                          Timothy Morton - Humankind: Solidarity with Nonhuman People

                          Tehching Hsieh
                          Agnes Martin
                          Janez Janša, Janez Janša, and Janez Janša
                          Jerome Bel
                          Anselm Kiefer

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                          • jerkulesJ
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                            4. Ham on Rye - Charles Bukowski

                            Good shout! I re-read this year, for the first time since I was a teenager. A real gut-punch. I loved it even more the second time round.

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                            • mclaincauseyM
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                              very very cool @goosehd … a wild time in history that won't come around again

                              Think it, be it.

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                              • Alex_24A
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                                @Tripleterror:

                                Big fan of Idlewild South by The Allman Brothers

                                Another classic [emoji119]

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                                • Alex_24A
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                                  @jerkules:

                                  …I re-read this year, for the first time since I was a teenager. A real gut-punch…

                                  I read it for the first time this year, and it is definitely a gut punch…
                                  Then I read “Post Office”, “Factotum”and “Women” right after…

                                  Bukowski was one of the Greatest [emoji119]

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                                  • scooterS
                                    scooter
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                                    Top 5 Albums:

                                    Alice In Chains - Jar of Flies
                                    Incubus - Make Yourself
                                    NIN - The Downward Spiral
                                    Queensryche - Operation Mindcrime
                                    Rush - A Farewell to Kings

                                    Honorables :

                                    Fear Factory - Obsolete
                                    Local H - As Good as Dead
                                    Pantera - Cowboys from Hell
                                    Steve Vai - Passion and Warfare
                                    The Prodigy - The Fat of the Land

                                    Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.

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                                    • Alex_24A
                                      Alex_24
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                                      Alice In Chains - Jar of Flies
                                      Incubus - Make Yourself
                                      NIN - The Downward Spiral
                                      Pantera - Cowboys from Hell

                                      All arguably part of my ever-changing Top 5 as well [emoji119][emoji106]

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                                      • neph93N
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                                        @Alex_24:

                                        Bukowski was one of the Greatest [emoji119]

                                        I thought that when I read them as an 18 year old. When I read them as a grown up I found him to be a miserable hack.  Different strokes.

                                        «Stevie Heighway on the wing!
                                        We had dreams, and songs to sing…»

                                        • Dame Vera Lynn
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                                        • ARNCA
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                                          Like everyone else I’m finding just 5 albums tough and my answer would probably be different next week but in rough order of discovery I’m going for:

                                          The Pogues - Rum, Sodomy & the Lash
                                          Herbie Hancock- Head Hunters
                                          The Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
                                          Efterklang - Piramida
                                          Jakub Józef Orliński - Facce d’amore

                                          “Every day that you survive you get a free sunset“

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                                          • JoberwockyJ
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                                            @Alex_24 I would have included "make yourself" in an honorable mention
                                            @ARNC I used to BLAST "Yoshima" when I worked alone in the furniture making studio after midnight in University.  I had keys to the woodshop as a TA, would go in there late, night owl as I've always been, throw on some tunes and get cracking  😉
                                            @scooter Fat of the Land is a solid left field mention, I remember wanting that album so bad when everything on the radio in my area was everclear and 3eb

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