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I have to admit, I can take or leave Arcade Fire.... ok, they're a name to drop, have been for a while, but they've really not released anything groundbreaking or life-changing.... or new sounding. And someone, somewhere PLEASE sort this band's graphics out - The Suburbs is, without question, the ugliest and most thrown-together album cover of the year.... nil points. Nasty.

That Siobhan Donaghy album is incredible - easily better thanm anything her ex band did with her... or the drivel they've released since.... Today I've been playing..... Matia Bazar - Ti Sento - classic old HI-nrg..... GREAT record from the late 80s Yazoo - Goodbye 70s (Black Light Odyssey remix) - stunning.... how to completely rejuvinate an old classic Soft Cell - Heat (Yer Man remix) - as above - well worth checking out

great choice..... absolutely beautiful song :wub:

she has done a few odd live appearances since.... I seem to remember one with her and Dave Gilmour from a few years back, there used to be a grainy video of it on YouTube. As for a definitive Kate top 10...hmm... difficult.... mine seems to change with my mood... but I'll get scouring my Kate albums and get back on this one....

love it :heart:

10 L 9 D 8 H 7 B 6 F 5 K 4 G 3 A 2 C 1 E

this morning... Kate Bush - Night of the Swallow The Smiths - There Is A Light That Never Goes Out Black - Wonderful Life

I'm really really shocked that Ben went - for entertainment value, he was one of the best housemates in there - what are the general public thinking? Wrong result - it so should have been John James who couldn't even spell 'personality' nevermind have one....

Christ! Did anyone see Steve's wife on BBLB last night?! it's no wonder he's perving over all the women in that house.... I know I'd be in no rush at all to go home, personally :o ;) This task is the best yet - cruel as hell. I think BB should get those beds moving if John James and Josie keep lounging about in them... every time they settle, tip up the bed.... I'm bored $h!tless with them both - especially John James who couldn't get more stupid if he tried.

Agreed - the word ethereal can be a bit sick-inducing - but it's definitely a deserved description for Under The Ivy - how amazing that a song this brilliant only made a b-side. There's a box set called 'This Woman's Work' available.... all the studio albums up to Sensual World and a CD of all the extra tracks and b-sides - lots of which are easily good enough to be singles. Also includes a gorgeous book of photos. Boxset's usually about £50 on eBay - definitely worth that much. There's another song called 'Ne T'enfuit Pas' (think that's how to spell it).... another lost classic worth tracking down, which is on the 'extra tracks' CD in the box set - it's from The Dreaming era - stunning it is. After our KB chats, my playlist has been... Kate Bush - Under The Ivy Kate Bush - The Song of Solomon Kate Bush - Delius had these 3 pretty much on repeat.... Delius sounds great in the car, with the footsteps travelling from speaker to speaker....

1st on it is then please, Steve, 'Skegness' ;)

it's beautiful.... and this track, and This Woman's Work, both make me fill up a bit, gotta be honest. I like how it's really short..... a true case of quality over quantity ;)

There's quite a few trials for Adobe PhotoShop online - free for 30 days kind of things, which is the legal way to get this pricey programme - however, it's easy to download illegally, too... and there's loads of online tutorials to help you through - it's one of the easiest graphics programmes when you get used to it... and if anyone ever needs a hand with anything with PhotoShop, just message me, if I know how, I'll do my best to help

Thanks Steve... from yours - I like the 1st and 3rd one.... can't decide

It's a fantastic album - very 90s... but Baptism really is one of the singles of the year for me..... hideous artwork, though, but superb album.

They desperately need a fit gay lad in there...... Mario just CANNOT be the only gayer in that house - the shame of it.... :huh:

Robot... love the Crystal Castles cover you've made almost as much as I love the single itself - great stuff. Gorillaz for me this week... but not sure which one - Skegness or Northern Lights? :unsure: http://i293.photobucket.com/albums/mm76/blissfulignorance_2008/gorillazvf.jpg http://i293.photobucket.com/albums/mm76/blissfulignorance_2008/gorillazvf1.jpg

Was the Duran director Russell Mucahy? And I agree, the videos from that era were great - in fact, one of my favourite Duran records was from that Big Noise (?) period - 'Do You Believe In Shame?' whhich, alongwith 'Come Undone' was, IMO, their career highlight - but hardly set the charts alight. I'd say the best Duran video was for 'The Chauffeur' - again, a fantastic song.... the video, all in black and white, with the girl in the back of the car getting eyed up by the chauffeur in the front seat... who turns out to be female, too. Lots of nipples and strange dancing - sexist as hell - but a very gorgeously shot video. Wedding Present - I can't ever say I was a fan of them to be honest..... always seemed a bit loud, laddy and jangly for me...? And Talk Talk - surely, alongwith Squeeze and XTC, Britain's most underrated band of all time.

Lene Lovich - Stateless Shakespears Sister - Sacred Heart Kate Bush - Pull Out The Pin

John James has studied Big Brother more than any other contestant on the show before him - he knows that relationships in the house, especially ones that aren't as cut and dried as they would be on the outside, work in keeeping interest in otherwise deeply boring housemates (i.e. - him). He also realises the value of the 'first kiss' photos when they leave the house etc. There's no way on earth this guy is interested in Josie - he just realises how popular she would be with the public. His only interest in her is giving him a bit of airtime, as he doesn't have the intelligence or intellect to hold his own in a room full of people. The guy's a fraud, spineless and deeply stupid. And for walking out of the fire exit last night just for some airtime and attention, there's absolutely no way he should've been allowed back in the house - end of.

I second that - I've come to the conclusion, with the appalling way he's treated the females in the house, that he doesn't actually like women very much at all.... in fact, he seems far more smitten with JJ than ANY of the females who've been in the house..... favourite to win? My damp-knickered dullard 14 year olds, maybe....

PLEASE get John James out - the man is so spineless and devoid of personality, he needs his mother (Josie) in the house to give him cuddles and reassurement - one of my least favourite contestants EVER - if he was ugly, he'd be out in week 3 - especially now with the way he's playing Josie who, let's be honest, is too stupid and smitten to resist.

One of THE great dance records of the 90s - incredible track....

Kate Bush - Moving New Order - Fine Time Lene Lovich - Flex - forgot what a truly brilliant album this, and her first, 'Stateless', is...

Kate Bush's debut single was number one... but the debut album Kick Inside' stalled at number 3, despite reaching platinum status in the UK. Shame, as this would've made her the first.... :(