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errr...ok. :rolleyes: :lol: (unfortunately, the people who have commented on this, including myself... we've yet to make our debut album..... I can feel one brewing, though... ahem)

very true..... his early solo material is jaw-droppingly excellent... and let's not forget him and Kate's Games Without Frontiers..... which still gives me goosebumps even after all this time. It's so refreshing to see a younger music fan like Daniel who's prepared to actually dig around for old music..... I thought in this disposable download only-now-is-important age, this kind of behavious had all but vanished. Thank God it hasn't. When I was growing up, my main musical joy was burrowing round and finding the origins of the current music I loved..... it opens your ears to a whole new arena. Never For Ever is one that most Bush fans barely mention...... strange considering it includes some of her finest work. I'm not keen on Babooshka, maybe I've heard it one too many times, but Breathing is phenomenal. The one I always love on NFE is Infant Kiss - if this song had been written today, Kate would've been hung, drawn and quartered by the tabloids...... it's such a brave and interesting take on the usually untouchable child abuse topic. The album I think is unfairly slagged off is Lionheart.... yes, it was rushed and some of the tracks could've been worked on a bit more..... but there's some fabulous moments on there, too.

Ghastly artwork..... maybe it'd look better with 3D glasses?

agreed - a few tweaks here and there and, yes, it sounds like a big hit single to me, that one.... maybe nearer the summer, though? 'Carmen' is a staggeringly awful choice for the next single.... and Blue Jeans? Um.... wasn't that the b-side/aa side to Video Games anyway? Which, in all honesty, is where it belongs. TIWMUG and National Anthem are the two blindingly obvious choices for the next single, I think... they're the 2 tracks everyone seems to highlight after hearing the album, anyway.....

I think your winning cover is my favourite winning cover for months - it's stunning.... well deserved.

were my votes discounted, then? I do love Jake's work normally, but I wasn't keen on his entry last week. Loving his one this week, though.

Both great, Mikey (as was your cover last week....someone's on a roll!)..... I think I prefer 'B', though. And you'rwe right, the image is very Sylvian.....

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The last three covers submitted here are all deserving winners. All three simply stunning. Here's mine... http://i293.photobucket.com/albums/mm76/blissfulignorance_2008/schoolofsevenbells.jpg

No, it isn't. As I stated, I work for a company delivering training for Work Programme... and I can assure you, the people we see through our doors who have never ever worked almsot ALWAYS come from families where their parents, grandparents have never worked either.

I'm not a fan of A4E or Emma Harrison - but..... as someone who works in a training centre that sees these people day in day out, are you telling me that 9% into work is a POOR achievement? I think you need to wake up and stop talking from your ivory tower. We're in RECESSION. We have an unprecedented FORTY, yes FORTY per cent of people coming through our doors who CANNOT read and write. So to get even one of these people into ANY type of work is a massive achievement. We deal with an alarming number of people who have absolutely NOTHING to put on a CV... that's NO training, NO work, NO college, NO qualifications. The ONLY way to ensure these people eventually get into some sort of work is through running through what most of us would consider incredibly basic sets of training - and yes, some of that training DOES include work experience. And thank God it does - it eases people into work, through a side door if you like, and very often the company who take the person on a work experience scheme do actually take them on..... if the person bothers to attend. For the record, over half the people who undertake work experience simply don't turn up - regardless of whether there is a job at the end of that work experience (which is often just 2 or 4 weeks - often standard when doing a work trial anyway). Jobseekers Allowance isn't a given right. It's not something the state simply 'owes' jobseekers. When you sign on, you're signing a contract agreeing to do whatever it takes to find work or whatever it takes to get you trained up to become employable and work ready. And are you trying to tell me teaching people to read and write, placing them in environments where they may be working for the first time in their lives (often in their 40s and 50s) and trying to break the hideous cycle of 'claiming' (often 3rd and 4th generations of a family where usually NOBODY has ever worked) is a BAD thing? Wake up, Scott.

Bar True Blue, I reckon you're doing a stellar job so far :cheer:

I hope they put on a better show than they did tonight at the Brits... Christ, they were abysmal?!

Just a glorious pop song..... exciting, joyous and just...perfect.

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I'm 50/50 on these... I bought Alpinisms... but it's 30% ok, 70% seriously not ok at all. Yes, they're very Ccoteau Twins.... but without the mystery, grandeur...and stunning vocals.

Yep, Mikey, definitely the normal hues one... lovely.

Have you changed this, Mikey? Sure I saw one without the hues changed earlier? Think I preferred the first one..... one of your best in ages.

Interesting, it's quite a topic to choose though!

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The last album was decidedly patchy (gorgeous artwork, though), Future This...well, people have slagged it off on here but..... if you like MGMT's debut then you can't really fail to like the new Big Pink album.... yes, it's commercial, yes, it's anthemic...but...so what? It's a seriously great album.

I like Emeli Sande, even bought tickets to see her soon, but Next To Me is a seriously duffer of a single.... MOR-tastic..... and from what I've heard of the album, after 2 plays through it, it's more of the same. Perhaps she gave the strongest songs she had to other people because, bar Heaven (which, let's be honest, is a remake of Massive Attack's classic Unfinished Sympathy), she really doesn't have that many great tracks of her own, on her album, at all. Deeply disappointing.

My Love Is Your Love is the only single of hers I'd ever want. The rest.... sorry.... schmaltz.

They were always Britain;s naffest, most clueless and utterly awful girlband, anyway - so why make a comeback? Pointless. Next?

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