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Simon West
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Music, mainly.
One of these two - can’t remember which came first. North Walsham Woolworth’s, probably the 79p ex-chart rack, late 1981.
November 3, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Very sad. Dave Ball has always been underrated as a songwriter and particularly as a sound designer/programmer; each of the first three Soft Cell albums is quite distinct in its sound, and I’ve never heard synths sound quite as grimy as they do on The Art of Falling Apart and This Last Night
October 23, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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The day we turned off comments on tQ was a happy day, though it was sad to lose this comment left by Diamanda Galás, which is one of the greatest comments left on any comments section ever.
October 22, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Behold
October 18, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Rema-Rema
September 25, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Slightly annoyed they changed the format from the previous 4CD/1LP sets (if only for consistency’s sake)
August 20, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Justified Ancients of Marham
July 14, 2025 at 4:09 PM
June 25, 2025 at 2:52 AM
I’ve been very happy with the 2009 Light in the Attic edition, apparently mastered from the original tapes, though I’ve not compared it to the 2016 version. Sounds great, lovely tip-on gatefold jacket too.
June 10, 2025 at 5:54 PM
The singles from Kings get all the attention these days but Prince Charming is absolutely fucking hatstand; barely a song at all. It’s brilliant.
June 6, 2025 at 9:40 PM