Matt Thrower

A meme of an adult woman and a redheaded child. Panel one has the woman saying "Good news Bobby! According to these test results you're gifted". Bobby responds "Wow! How gifted?" In panel two. In answer, the woman says "you're in this blue region here. Panel four is a bell curve with a blue section marked "keen, lifelong awareness of own deficiencies".

Well I know one of the members disappeared under mysterious circumstances, likely suicide after a history of various problems, and you can hear some references to that on Everything Must Go

Thanks! The Holy Bible is also on the album list so I will be getting around to that one in the fullness of time :)

The snack selection in the supermarkets seems incredibly poor this year. Could be a lean Christmas unless you've some some incredibly more-ish secret on the shelves somewhere?

I'm sorry, in what way is this "festive" other than the fact you've put "festive" on the marketing?!

I've heard Gang Starr tracks before and they never quite landed for me but this album is absolutely the biz.

Album Of The Day Step In The Arena by Gang Starr

#21 is Step In The Arena by Gang Starr. New to me. This album's chief sin is filler: when you cut the fat from it's excessive 18 tracks there's plenty of absolute bangers left, fat beats overdubbed with funky, jazzy samples and smart, emotive raps. 4/5 1001albumsgenerator.com/albums/05wcY...

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An incredibly handsome man in a holiday sweater that reads "tech support, I'm here to delete your cookies"

As the manager of the Library's IT department, I have to set a professional tone.

Thank you. Sadly none of the branches of either here have a pharmacy. Which is probably why the Boots is all booked out :(

You can indeed if all your local branches aren't booked up months in advance like mine were

And - crucially - more of them as prizes, so the odds of winning go up. That would be enormously popular, I suspect.

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My Tyranids love hunting my guard for sure haha

Colin and Klausi - Bettlepugs of the 4th Memnon Regiment Colin is dressed in a Cadia pattern uniform, Klausi is wearing a Krieg pattern uniform with a gas mask

The fiercest and most dangerous predators are those that hunt their prey in packs. Their collective determination is often inescapable.

Also: fair.

Kings of Leon were also cut from the list completely having had three albums dropped, which has to smart big time.

If you're interested the random generator I'm using keeps all the cut albums.

How did you define "best"? Were there any particular gems you unearthed that you hadn't heard before?

Don't think I've heard of Laibach - thought I had, but I think I'm getting the confused with a folk group called Breabach.

Morresy is a terrible person, but his musical influence is regrettably undeniable.

I'm enjoying the odyssey, pain and all. It's fulfilling what I wanted from it.

I'd have to get it out to remind myself, but when I wrote up the review I mentioned the Worker of Nights and the Importonomicon as being particularly cool

This has the funniest art I have ever seen in a board game.

Interesting. There's some definite cruft there. One big surprise is them cutting Good Kid, M.A.A.D City which feels to me like a quintessential cut of modern rap

I've heard two really good albums so far that I'd almost certainly never have come across otherwise.

is there a list somewhere of what's been removed and added? Be quite interesting to see.

Ballad of Worms by Cage

Such Horrible Things by Creature Feature

Insect Royalty by Primal Scream

Glistening, She Emerges by One Leg, One Eye

Human Fly by The Cramps

Head Like a Hole by Nine Inch Nails

Sun Bleached Flies by Ethel Cain

bodyache by Purity Ring

Absolutely not. But at the same time, it is kind of an interesting voyage through music history, even the stuff you hate. Might be better approached chronologically rather than random, but that would front-load a ton of crap.

It is fulfilling my wants, however, by making me hear more diverse music

Album Of The Day The Beach Boys Today! by The Beach Boys

#20 is The Beach Boys Today by The Beach Boys. Side A is too chirpy and harmonic to hate entirely despite the shallow, misogynistic, repetitive lyrics. Side B, however, has similar material set to ballads and is just unforgivably bad. 1/5 1001albumsgenerator.com/albums/1xPtX...

Top-class fending there, sir.

Ouch! Sorry 😢 It barely notices if you're not the owner, I can assure you.

Only the Guardian would put this as one of the top 20 films of the year

What a lovely cover