Jimi Shandrix

They don't half talk some pish on sky. "Quality of the highest order". Don't get me wrong, for the EPL, that was a fantastically entertaining game of football but it was a fantastic game of football in the same way the Dundee derby was a great game of football yesterday. The mistakes made it.

Touche, tubbs, touche.

OK. I bow down to your superior knowledge. You'll have definitely seen him more than me. This, more than anything, shows you can ask 10 fans and get 10 different opinions. He was unarguably, atrocious today. Maybe not the worst player on show but definitely the worst one who cost £100,000.

Shocking standard of football on display today but an entertaining game for the neutrals. Easy to see where our problems lay. Lawler doing a decent impression of Jack Hamilton and the rest of the defence following his lead. Our signing policy in the past few years is why we are where we are. If we do end up going down, I'd still empty most of these c***s. He's been a good servant, but this has got to be the dying embers of Paul McGowans Dundee career. And don't get me started on fucking Mullen. This squad needs ripped up and if that means 2 or 3 seasons in the Championship then so be it. Still, for all that, we merited a draw. Both sides will feel they could have won. As for the DAB's, I have to hold my hands up and say fair do's. I laughed with the best of them at Tam Courts but he's done a fine job. Top 6 for that squad is a fantastic achievement. Spunking a hundred grand on Tony Watt is a shocker but I can't believe some dayglos on here are having a go at him. Football fans eh? Bunch of fucking weirdos. Anyway, incredibly, we're still in with a shout of 11th. By the way, did that co-commentator just go home after Bonnie Prince Charlie's rasper. p***k.

Just a fucking marvellous pop group, in the same way The Sex Pistols or Frankie Goes To Hollywood were a marvellous pop group. Pop music should be dangerous. Nobody is going to remember Sam Fender or Ed Sheeran. Everybody will remember the KLF though. This looks quite exciting.

"Hawaii" by The High Llamas, released in 1996, is such a beautiful, relaxing record in the way "The Notorious Byrd Brothers" by The Byrds is or "Eureka" by Jim O'Rourke is. Oddly, for a double album, I've never thought it would've made a better single album. There's not much filler going on here. It's difficult to separate it from the mid to late 60's output of The Beach Boys, in particular "Pet Sounds" or "Smile". I can't pay it any greater compliment than to suggest it might have fitted neatly between the two in The Beach Boys discography.

I would have loved to have gone to this. UUULLLAAA! Out of interest, who played the David Essex part?

Condition Of The Heart I Wonder U Lady Cab Driver Sexy MF Temptation

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"For Those Of You Who Have Never (And Also Those Who Have)" by Huerco S, released in 2016, was one of my favourite albums of the decade as well as being a modern ambient touchstone. Having said that he was retiring from music to tinker with cars in the desert, it came as a very pleasant surprise to hear that there was a new one on the way. The waiting is over and "Plonk" is here and a very different beast it is. He seems to have been listening to Warp's greatest hits as there is more than a hint of Autechre, AFX and even a bit of Plone going on with only the final track harking back to its mighty predecessor. It took a few spins but it's a grower save for a fucking awful vocal track near the end featuring the "skills" of SIR E.U. (me neither).

I haven't been paying close enough attention. Apparently the singer/guitarist/primary songwriter Isaac Wood left the band permanently the week the second album was released. The other 6 are carrying on but you'd have to think that they are going to be a very different band from now on. I still haven't come round to "Ants" but by f**k, "For The First Time" is still a cracking debut album.

Ah. Oh well. Who stood out this year?

Really enjoying the output of Archives Records who are based in Valencia. They released "Voicemail" by Robert Farrugia last year which I loved but I think they've topped it with their latest release. It's by the label boss, Agustin Mena, who goes by the name Warmth and it's called "Pale Sun".

Shit-kicking lounge act from the 70's.

What an exciting day! The postie delivered the new Songs Ohia double LP "Live: Vanquishers". This is a full band experience unlike the last live release "Live At La Chapelle" which was a solo outing. This is more like "Mi Sei Apparso..."which is unsurprising as they are recorded 2 weeks apart. The twin guitar work of Molina and Dan Sullivan is truly tingly. "Being In Love" sounds fantastic here but doesn't quite hit the heights of the "Mi Sei...." version. I'm nit picking though. This is a tremendous document of a tight as f**k live proposition. There are several highlights including "Nobody Tries That Hard Anymore", "Tigress" and "Come Back To Your Man", but I must make special mention of "The Black Crow" which tears the roof off. Unless you are signed up to the Secretly Canadian albums club of which this is the curtain raiser, you'll need to do the same as me and get on to either Ebay or Discogs pretty damn sharpish. I was £45 but that strikes me as an absolute bargain. As live albums go, this is a beauty. 9/10

The battle for 3rd place intensifies tomorrow as my beloved Fed travel to Thomson Park to face Lochee Utd. We have been inconsistency personified, well, all season really. A 2-2 draw at home to Harp, sorry, Couper Angus was followed by a 9-0 demolition of Downfield. So which Fed will turn up tomorrow? The same accusation, of course, could be levelled at Lochee Utd. Just been too inconsistent throughout and therefore both teams have been left in the slipstream of Carnoustie and East Craigie. I would love to get along to this one tomorrow but due to illness, I just need to take things day by day. Needless to say though, if I feel good the moarn, I'll be there. The game at Whitton earlier in the season was a belter with a 1-0 win for Broughty. Same again, please.

For every Sonic Youth or R.E.M. that emerged in the early 80's to go on to achieve great success, there was a hundred bands like The Stick Figures who released one single and disappeared. These tracks and a few others that remained unreleased are finally getting a wider release that they deserve. This was the A side and in my opinion it's a lost post punk gem.

For me, one of the years most eagerly anticipated albums is "Versions Of Modern Performance" by Horsegirl out on Matador at the start of June. It's so funny that these kids are so obviously in thrall to the early 90's in the same way that in the early 90's I, and many others, were obsessed with anything from 1967. What goes around comes back around.

Linger not on the bloated rawk pish of "The Second Coming" or the anti vaxxer ramblings of a has been no mark and just remember them like this - when they were the most exciting band on the planet.

An obvious choice. If you don't like this, you don't like music.

Nate Scheible's 2017 cassette only release "Fairfax" has finally been given a vinyl release. Mine turned up this morning. The music is all woozy vibraphones and hazy sax and electronics with spoken word parts lifted from a cassette love letter found in a North Virginia charity shop. I cannot begin to describe how beautiful this record is. One of these rare albums that when it's over you lift the needle, turn it over and start again.

The new Keeley Forsyth album may only have 8 tracks and clock in at a smidge over 26 minutes but it quality over quantity. Absolutely spellbinding.