Glen

absolute bollox being written here about vinyl.

Hook it up on the right system and it's the best deepest ballsiest sound you can achieve.

I used to have Rega 2 turntable and a Creek amp and it sounded immense. Also you could barely detect crackle.

Now come the difficult bits ....

ITS A PAIN IN THE ARSE.

ITS EXPENSIVE. 

I'll never go back. 

BUT it's the best pure listening experience. No doubt 

On 12/23/2022 at 7:29 AM, Mr.AOR said:

This doesn't come close to anything on the debut or II, MASSIVE drop in quality.

glad to report 90 sec samples on Apple music sound excellent. Much more in line with what I loved about II

On 12/21/2022 at 8:58 PM, CMGiordano said:

The problem for Force Majeure (aside from the production) is that they've set the bar so damn high with their previous efforts that they were bound to not measure up at some point. It's by no means a bad album, but it is weak by H.E.A.T standards.

agree 

On 5/18/2016 at 1:27 PM, Glen said:

 

Not much change here - except Steep Panther replacing White Widdow (which I hardly play - must rectify that)

 

Also HS - 13 - is it really 89% good?? Will have to re-visit that asap.

 

Anyway, on spins alone -

 

1. HEAT - Tearing Down The Walls

2. Steel Panther - Balls Out

3. Vega- Stereo Messiah

4. Work Of Art - Framework

5. Seven - s/t

interesting to revisit this 6 years on.

Those 5 and white widdow are still the 6 I would be most inclined to play still.

I think now tho it would be :

1. WoA

2. Vega

3. HEAT

4. White Widdow

5. Seven 

based purely on play count 

Top 3 are by far my most played albums from that year 

13 minutes ago, AlphaMale said:

Messi is not retiring. 

last world cup game 

28 minutes ago, Geoff said:

Yeah, I agree. I’m happy to wear a nappy on my face for the rest of my life, and I know you are too. So I wish that Geoff cunt would just shut the fuck up and accept it, even though we have somehow survived our whole lives up to this point without masks… but not from now on. Wrap my face in that nappy and let’s never communicate again properly for the rest of our lives together! And fuck that Geoff cunt. 

such hardships you faced 

41 minutes ago, heavyharmonies said:

... and yet you still can't resist participating.

nor can u

Here's a promise - no one post is this thread again and you will never hear another peep out of me about covid ever again ever in yr entire life.

let's see if Geoff & co can resist moaning about something else.

I bet anything you want they can't resist replying

You watch..............

and yet you blame me......

let's see. 

100% they reply......

8 hours ago, Metal T said:

C'mon dude you have 376 posts in this thread alone -    You LOVE the topic!

I don't have that many posts in 2 years.

 

been on my mobile for at least 10 years. No idea on stats. It is now officially the most boring topic in history. Especially Geoff moaning about wearing a mask 😷 

fantastic match, correct result imo. Great to see Messi ending his international career on the ultimate high. 👏 

10 hours ago, Jez said:

They were great last night. No support, 2 x1 hour sets trying out their theatre style setlist. Lots of 'Kickstart' stuff and all the classics.....Enjoy tonight

yeah we had a standard 90 mins set. Great stuff 

2 minutes ago, Geoff said:

Where do you get info like this, that most doctors and nurses don't have time for anything else because they're too busy dealing with covid? As someone who is around doctors surgeries, hospitals and nursing homes all day through my working week, I have never seen or heard of anything like that. Heard every doomsday scenario predicting it, though. 

As an observer, the biggest issue is watching people still bumble over themselves enforcing restrictions that do nothing more than waste everyone's time. 

I think that what has happened in (or more to the point, what hasn't happened in) healthcare in anticipation of everything terrible that was supposed to happen due to covid, is far, far worse than anything covid the virus itself has caused. (ie. undiagnosed and untreated actual health issues)

Just remember, there was a time when women were not allowed to go for a breastscreen, due to covid restrictions. For over 99% of people, covid is a cold. Not sure 99% of people with cancer are as lucky.

 

I fully agree it's a cold now. 100% 

I've been saying that for weeks on here.

What is different between Aus & UK is that in UK the health system was at the brink of collapse and 2000 people a day were dying. Yes, fact.

MORE THAN ANY OTHER CAUSE OF DEATH ALL PUT TOGETHER. 

fact.

That didn't happen in Australia so I can see why you will never understand it. 

But people were genuinely scared at the time.

However things have changed now , the virus is just a bad cold now, there is no need for any restrictions or any more at all or boosters imo. 

And after nearly 100 pages of discussing this it's got just a teeny bit boring 😴 

4 hours ago, auslander said:

https://thehill.com/opinion/finance/592011-coming-soon-climate-lockdowns/

 

asks for link, gets crackpot opinion of some Fox news presenter 🤣🤣

6 minutes ago, heavyharmonies said:

Certain employers are still mandating boosters here as conditions of employment. Some universities are requiring boosters as conditions of enrollment. Biden is also still trying to enforce it on members of the military. So mandates are still out there in various forms.

interesting.

Even the mandate for health workers was abandoned here back in Feb 22.

Completely optional now 

I'd be very interested to know if ANY other country apart from Australia has mandated boosters?

Pretty much I don't know anyone now in UK getting the booster except my parents who are in their 80s. its just a bad cold now.

its over, done.

1 hour ago, Geoff said:

Lol, yep, you get it. The problem is that we weren’t forced to get vaccinated early enough! That would have fixed everything. If we were forced to take vaccines earlier, we could have been mandated to take two extra boosters before the lockdowns ended and everything would have been flawless. Excellent analysis, mate.  

Well every other country in the world opened up once they reached a certain level of vaccine rollout. 

Problem was yr country was about 9 months behind everyone else.

1 hour ago, auslander said:

Yep UK elites loved their lockdowns so much I hear they are already discussing mandatory lockdowns for environmental reasons. Stay at home to save the planet. But you will no doubt accept that as it is determined to be necessary by your social betters mate.

horseshit. 

2 minutes ago, heavyharmonies said:

Tell that to all the people who lost jobs and businesses for refusing to get vaccinated. Tell that to the people who were deplatformed and debanked for saying or writing things deemed "misinformation" at the time, but now turning out to be accurate after the fact. Tell that to the people who were arrested or fined due to this draconian nonsense.

It set precedent for what sheeple will tolerate when COVID-24 is the next pandemic.

Much more was lost than was ever "given back".

sorry mate, but not a lot of that happened in the UK.

I'm sorry you live in obviously such a shit country 😔 

1 hour ago, Metal T said:

and rightfully so...

 

like i've said many times over once you lose your freedoms it's almost impossible to ever get them back again outside of a whole lot of blood on the floor.

Well we lost our freedoms, but we've got them all back.

Best way to live life is to have a little faith mate 👍

8 minutes ago, heavyharmonies said:

That, and more importantly the fact that many of the people in charge in the various Australian states revealed themselves to be the most Orwellian authoritarianist nazis on the planet. Yeah, that "minor" component.

They took Mein Kampf as an instruction manual.

didn't help 

1 hour ago, Darkstone said:

I think the underlying point to this isn't about how effective certain vaccines were.

10%, 60% or even 100% effective.

It's irrelevant.

Making them mandatory was the big issue for me.

 

what most Australians moan about is how their liberties were stripped of them by lockdowns and restrictions.

This was almost entirely due to a disastrous vaccine rollout. Probably the worst of any country in the world.

By July 21 nearly 90% in uk had received a dose, Australia had barely started.

Mandatory or not. this is the reason why Aus has been suffering nearly a year longer than the UK in terms of restrictions 

2 hours ago, auslander said:

Funny how you have to come and defend your masters Glenn every time someone questions the bullshit that was rammed down our throats for years. 

And your oft repeated lie that the vaccines were not sold as a 100% necessary cure-all. They bloody were, and thousands were ostracised because of dead-eyed disciples who do whatever politicians tell them.

if you're government hadn't ditched a perfectly safe vaccine, you'd have opened up when we did and all this would be history 😉 

Fact is your government had the worst vaccine rollout performance of virtually any country in the world and you're all still whining and bitching about it. 

2 hours ago, Geoff said:

lol, what do you mean? What else could or would it be? Of course it's constructed to prove a point, but do we even need it for the point not to already be blatantly obvious?

all taken out of context 

I can't honestly believe you watch that montage and believe that it hasn't just been copied and snipped from various sources to achieve desired effect? I love the way its sped up so no one can see the source or context in which each piece was written  Brand always was a comedy act and not a very good one at that.

Shakes head.

from day one every knew (or at least we did in UK) that all vaccines were not 100% effective. No vaccine is . And that they all waned to below 50% over 6 months. Pfizer was the worst Astra held up better, but that was scaremongerd cos of a few cases of blood clots

Move on from all this bullshit mate. it's not worth wasting your time and energy on. 

On 10/10/2022 at 2:39 PM, Geoff said:

Love the song, but those vocals are a face being dragged along a gravel road. I hope I could get used to it for the sake of the good song... but it's a rough voice. 

this ^^^^

I want Argentina to win cos I don't want same country winning consecutive world cups.

Also would be a nice end to Messi career.

Also France didn't deserve to beat us.

Hope that clear