Must have spent an age experimenting with 19/4 and 13/8 until he found some solid 4/4 beats.
― gonna send him to outer space, to hug another face (NickB), Monday, 25 June 2012 13:35 (eleven years ago) link
19/4 is the time signature for power walking IIRC
― Arvo Pärt Chimp (Neil S), Monday, 25 June 2012 13:49 (eleven years ago) link
what exactly are they "Guarding" anyway
― The Cheerfull Turtle (Latham Green), Thursday, 28 June 2012 13:28 (eleven years ago) link
Manchester.
― Andrew Farrell, Thursday, 28 June 2012 14:00 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2012/jun/29/a-to-z-of-pop-genres-2012
"Indielectual" eh?
― Number None, Friday, 29 June 2012 15:33 (eleven years ago) link
Indiegestible morelike
― Too Busy Thinking About Mr. Abie (Tom D.), Friday, 29 June 2012 15:33 (eleven years ago) link
There is a band called Alt-J ???
― gonna send him to outer space, to hug another face (NickB), Friday, 29 June 2012 15:35 (eleven years ago) link
I like how it starts off pretending to genuinely help the confused uncles with 'Afrobeats' and then slowly descends into hardcore trolling.
― Matt DC, Friday, 29 June 2012 15:37 (eleven years ago) link
Hardcode Trolling?
What kind of music is that then?
― Mark G, Friday, 29 June 2012 15:42 (eleven years ago) link
what is EDM?
― reflexing cozen stail (cozen), Friday, 29 June 2012 15:43 (eleven years ago) link
Epileptic Dance Music
― Too Busy Thinking About Mr. Abie (Tom D.), Friday, 29 June 2012 15:44 (eleven years ago) link
they've been very lucky with the distribution of initial letters there...
― koogs, Friday, 29 June 2012 16:13 (eleven years ago) link
Not to mention
Is guitar music on the way out?Are guitar bands becoming a thing of the past, as dance and rap groups become more popular? Readers share their thoughts
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/musicblog/2012/jun/29/readers-panel-guitar-music
― recordbreaking transfer to Lucknow FC (seandalai), Friday, 29 June 2012 17:33 (eleven years ago) link
lol
― dis civilization and its contents (nakhchivan), Friday, 29 June 2012 17:34 (eleven years ago) link
In theory, "Night Bus" would be the most awesome genre in the history of music.
But I always imagined it to sound a bit like drunk girls singing the Specials' Nite Club along to tinny mobile phone beats.
Why give such a great genre name to such terrible music?
― White Chocolate Cheesecake, Friday, 29 June 2012 17:41 (eleven years ago) link
they've got Night Bus wrong in fairness
― Number None, Friday, 29 June 2012 18:05 (eleven years ago) link
It's a pretty clever way to highlight lots of good new music while simultaneously winding up the kind of people who take these lists too seriously. Hats off.
― Temporarily Famous In The Czech Republic (ShariVari), Friday, 29 June 2012 18:14 (eleven years ago) link
hmm yeah im sufficiently estranged from what steve lamacq once described as 'new music' to learn something from the guardian
― dis civilization and its contents (nakhchivan), Friday, 29 June 2012 18:33 (eleven years ago) link
and a taxonomy of stupid names is often useful
interesting to see how the premises formerly trading as wonky are now operating under the name lazer funk which is even an improvement
― dis civilization and its contents (nakhchivan), Friday, 29 June 2012 18:36 (eleven years ago) link
I don't think that one is accurate either. The term "lazer bass" was knocking around in the wonky days along with aquacrunk etc.
― Number None, Friday, 29 June 2012 18:38 (eleven years ago) link
aquacrunk was the kerlon of post-nuum genrenames, quality dismissed as pretention by the coarse and unthinking masses
― dis civilization and its contents (nakhchivan), Friday, 29 June 2012 18:41 (eleven years ago) link
also purple wow iirc
― dis civilization and its contents (nakhchivan), Friday, 29 June 2012 18:42 (eleven years ago) link
RIP
http://www.factmag.com/2012/06/27/various-artists-purple-legacy/
― Number None, Friday, 29 June 2012 18:43 (eleven years ago) link
joker was the one that got away
― dis civilization and its contents (nakhchivan), Friday, 29 June 2012 18:46 (eleven years ago) link
Rather annoyed with the Guardian app for bunging a whacking great medal table in the middle of the home screen, with no option to remove it in the settings. I emailed them, and they just said it'll be taken down when the Olympics are over. No response about spoilering, or annoying people who don't give a toss about the Olympics.
― Madchen, Wednesday, 25 July 2012 12:04 (eleven years ago) link
is there an equivalent of http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguardian (i.e. just the articles that appeared in the print edition) that doesn't look terrible ON IPHONE?
(note: i do not want to give the guardian any money until they stop publishing martin robbins)
― caek, Wednesday, 25 July 2012 12:08 (eleven years ago) link
http://m.guardian.co.uk/ ???
― koogs, Wednesday, 25 July 2012 12:46 (eleven years ago) link
thanks, but that's the current home page. i want the print edition, i.e. the page that changes once per day, not rolling news + commentbait like http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/jul/24/harriet-harman-wrong-conservatives-feminists
― caek, Wednesday, 25 July 2012 12:49 (eleven years ago) link
This should do the job for you, caek (third-party thing produced using the Guardian API)
http://guardian.gyford.com/
― Alba, Wednesday, 25 July 2012 12:57 (eleven years ago) link
perfect! thanks!
― caek, Wednesday, 25 July 2012 13:02 (eleven years ago) link
Outdoing themselves here
http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2012/aug/11/devastated-by-my-sons-tattoo
― pandemic, Saturday, 11 August 2012 09:29 (eleven years ago) link
Whoops just noticed someone's already posted that to the not Onion thread.
― pandemic, Saturday, 11 August 2012 09:32 (eleven years ago) link
Can see the value in their US coverage having a range of opinions but employing this guy isn't a particularly good look:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/us-news-blog/2012/aug/16/2011-gaza-flotilla-tweet-clarification
― Temporarily Famous In The Czech Republic (ShariVari), Sunday, 19 August 2012 07:28 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/blog/2012/aug/22/prince-harry-royal-status
He could get as drunk as he likes and strip of all over the place –just like any old toff. Zzzzz to that, we'd say.
this genuinely reads like it's written with ten-year-olds in mind
― it's-a me, irl (DJ Mencap), Thursday, 23 August 2012 11:20 (eleven years ago) link
capitals in first par, closed window.
― Know how Roo feel (LocalGarda), Thursday, 23 August 2012 11:21 (eleven years ago) link
Observer, but the first sentence is inexexcusable for getting to publication:
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7123/7867366280_2fde44c86b_z.jpg
― passive-aggressive display name (aldo), Sunday, 26 August 2012 21:32 (eleven years ago) link
It doesn't make sense!
― Eyeball Kicks, Sunday, 26 August 2012 23:48 (eleven years ago) link
inexexcusable?
― a bag of andy capp's hot fries (stevie), Monday, 27 August 2012 09:16 (eleven years ago) link
Yes, my editing is as bad as theirs.
― passive-aggressive display name (aldo), Monday, 27 August 2012 09:33 (eleven years ago) link
I don't know about the readability of the sentence, my main worry (not sure if this is also the point aldo was making) is that it's surely wrong to say "revamped range of Marvel comics" since Justice League is and always has been a DC publication.
― my father will guide me up the stairs to bed (anagram), Monday, 27 August 2012 10:31 (eleven years ago) link
Yes, my point is that, and a bit more. It's like describing when the Graun went tabloid sized as their "revamped range of Times newspapers".
― passive-aggressive display name (aldo), Monday, 27 August 2012 11:00 (eleven years ago) link
Or the launch of BBC3 as part of the BBC's "revamped range of ITV television". Oh no, wait, that works.
― passive-aggressive display name (aldo), Monday, 27 August 2012 11:04 (eleven years ago) link
open goal, but couldn't resist posting the second comment on this: http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/wordofmouth/2012/sep/04/online-reviews-rant-in-restaurant?commentpage=last#end-of-comments
― Know how Roo feel (LocalGarda), Tuesday, 4 September 2012 13:17 (eleven years ago) link
A-man-using-a-computer-008.jpg
http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2012/9/4/1346753390687/A-man-using-a-computer-008.jpg
― DG, Tuesday, 4 September 2012 13:21 (eleven years ago) link
http://i.minus.com/iGFHbdFHnjhH3.png
― caek, Saturday, 15 September 2012 09:11 (eleven years ago) link
Online news sites: the art of not clicking on things
― Know how Roo feel (LocalGarda), Saturday, 15 September 2012 09:15 (eleven years ago) link
as much as that article is largely polyfilla I found the stuff about the novelist who tried to visit everyone on her friends list quite entertaining
― Did communist FB take down the awesome bacon quran picture? (DJ Mencap), Saturday, 15 September 2012 11:47 (eleven years ago) link
Shame to see this go: http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/allotment/2012/oct/05/allotments-gardens"After five years, Allan Jenkins and Howard Sooley bring the Observer Organic Allotment Blog to a gentle close ..."
― djh, Saturday, 6 October 2012 10:53 (eleven years ago) link
Interesting double standards in today's paper.
A long editorial about Jimmy Savile and the BBC and a Rock & Pop front page piece on Led Zeppelin on which Jimmy Page is not questioned about his predilection for 14-year-old girls.
Lost in Showbiz mentions Chris Brown and Justin Lee Collins as negatively as you would expect, while the radio reviewer protests about Andy Kershaw not being put back on Radio 3.
This is not to mention certain prominent columnists who think it dictatorial that a dickhead with a long criminal record should be jailed for wearing a T-shirt, while at the same time practically labelling Assange a rapist when he has neither been charged nor tired for the offence.
It would be useful to know whete they draw the boundaries.
― Here he is with the classic "Poème Électronique." Good track (Marcello Carlin), Friday, 12 October 2012 08:23 (eleven years ago) link