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Hi from another noob. Name is Stephen. 40s. Favourite bands/artists (in order of itunes listing)

Amon Tobin
Aphex Twin
Bat For Lashes
Beastie Boys
Beck
Beth Orton
Bill Evans
The Birthday Party
The Black Keys
Black Sabbath
Blur
Bob Marley
Bon Iver
Bonnie "Prince" Billy
Bootsy Collins
Boys Next Door
Brand X
Brian Eno
Butthole Surfers
Cat Stevens
The Charlie Byrd Trio
The Chemical Brothers
Chet Baker
The Church
The Clash
Coldcut
Coldplay
Cosmic Psychos
Creedence Clearwater Revival
The Cure
Curtis Mayfield
Daft Punk
Dali's Car
Dark Arts
Darling Downs
Dave Brubeck
David Bowie
Dead Can Dance
Dinosaur Jr
The Dirty Three
Dizzy Gillespie
The Drones
Echo and the Bunnymen
Ed Kuepper
Elvis Costello
Emily Remler
Etta James
Faith No More
Firekites
Fishbone
Frank Zappa
Funkadelic
Gorillaz
The Gun Club
Iggy and the Stooges
Inca Babies
Interpol
Iron and Wine
Jack DeJohnette, Miroslav Vitous & Terje Rypdal
John Coltrane
John McLaughlin
Johnny Cash
José González
Joy Division
Lamb
Laughing Clowns
Leftfield
Leonard Cohen
Marvin Gaye
Massive Attack
Miles Davis
Models
Neil Young
New Order
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
Nick Drake
Nico
Nirvana
Otis Redding
Parliament
Pearl Jam
PJ Harvey
Pony Face
Radiohead
The Ramones
Ravi Shankar
Red Garland
Scratch Acid
Shakti
Sly & The Family Stone
Smashing Pumpkins
Sonic Youth
Soundgarden
Spain
The Stone Roses
Suicidal Tendencies
Swervedriver
The Temptations
Thelonious Monk
Tim Buckley
Tom Waits
Vashti Bunyan
Wes Montgomery

I love you. Seriously.

LOL this is all so sudden ;')

Just let it happen, man. Just let it happen. Haha seriously though, that is a killer list. Very diverse too. I approve.

Hey who am I to turn down Thom Yorke.


Thanks. Had to seriously narrow it down for posting.

pretty exhaustive list

heard nearly all of them, they're all pretty good

I listen to more than that, though

Hi Stephen. Welcome :)

Yeah, that list'll do! Welcome aboard man, I hope you stick around.

So long and thanks for all the fish
 

Just wanted to pop on and say thanks for all the recommendations and general distraction. I will probably keep myself pretty scarce just because I find myself getting annoyed by the handful of people who tend to dominate every board. I just find myself questioning why I keep coming back only to be annoyed so I thought rather than rely on an ignore list to make it a palatable experience I might just call it quits for now.

There are a number of people who made this an enjoyable place to hang out and I thank you for that. Special thanks to Lisnaholic for the FAIR club. Sorry for it's demise but perfectly understandable.

Merry Christmas and Happy Happy Joy Joy.

Nooooo, you're one of the good ones. Please don't go!

"So long and thanks for all the fish" - nice quote Stephen, but I completely agree with Janszoon.

I noticed that you haven´t been around much recently, and I thought that, like me, you were probably busy, fed up or both. I didn´t realize you were so exasperated with MB that you were considering calling it quits.

From start to finish, you´ve been as essential to the FAIR club as anyone, and I´ve enjoyed our various exchanges over the two-and-a-bit years that it was running. It´s just a pity that more people didn´t support it ... which leads me on to my quote, which goes something like:-

"All it takes for evil to triumph is for good men to remain silent." There are big chunks of MB that I don´t usually bother with, but I hang around for the gems; some great recommendations, and some international friendships, like ours. MB is like a party; you´re never going to like everyone there, so just find the nice guys and hang out with them. If you walk out, then you´re letting the bad guys win ...

Well, you´re a big boy, Stephen; you´re an adult with lots of other things going on in your life, but I for one will be sad if you really decide to leave us.:(

That's a nice list! Welcome :D

Uhh... You might want to take a look at the date of the #1 post and Stephen's post count.

Hey welcome to mb

There where times I left for weeks or months at a time because of personal reasons some which I wish not to discuss. And there were many times I felt like quitting MB because I was annoyed by a post, certain members, or this place can be sometimes. A lot of times I think I should flat out quit MB and focus my time and energy just on becoming a better musician. Even though we we're close MB friends there is a part of me wants to convince you not to go (I hate to see good members leave) but on the other-hand there is a part of me that can understand how you feel. Whatever you decide, I wish you the best of luck.

Stephen...you seem like a real stand up kind of guy, you have great taste in music, and you have basically been one of two people who supported me in my feeble attempt of a journal :)....thanks for the great suggestions and the great comment

hope you choose to linger and pm from time to time :)

don't leaaave :( :( :( :(

Dude, if I'm part of this problem, tell me, I will stop. Serious.

Aww thanks for the love. I have been sorta lurking but been pretty dead inside so haven't had much to say.


LOL Paul, sorry to leave you hanging like that. You were never part of the problem.

Sorry to hear you have been having a rough time. Hopefully things will start looking up soon.

Thanks DJ. Nothing as dramatic as it sounds. Just the cumulative effect of the excruciating minutiae. Well a number of downers but nothing millions of other people don't face every day.