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"stipesdoppleganger"
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Life On Mars indeed. I was a happy little chappy was,nt i?
Reviewer Rank: 15
Helpful votes received on reviews & lists: 80% (10,901 of 13,686)
Nickname: stipesdoppelganger
Location: halifax, west yorks
In My Own Words:
Currently deriving lifes little pleasures from box sets of the brilliant US series The Wire, The Street on BBC 1 , You Have Been Watching with the aceribc Charlie Brooker and Mock The Week with the even more acerbic Frankie Boyle .Plus formula 1 and cricket highlights since i cannot watch it live thanks to those dunderheads at the ECB. Also books on cricket & football ,any book by Don Winslow and… Read more

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Music, Literature, cinema and getting by with as little hassle and drama as possible. I Like to laugh and write and hope my writing expresses this though whether my laughing does is anybodys guess.
 

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Reviewer Rank: 15 - Total Helpful Votes: 10805 of 13540
The Present ~ The Moody Blues
The Present ~ The Moody Blues
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
The Moody Blues were never going to be as good once quasi - mystic mellotron noodler Mike Pinder left the band. For a start they lost one of their strongest song writers and replaced him with bouffant topped knob twiddler Patrick Moraz who contributed...well lots of knob twiddling I suppose. Still the Present is by no means a bad album . Its just not up there with the bands best.
Released in 1983 it's the second album to feature Moraz after errr the other one Long Distance Voyager, and the album see's the band embrace many of the significant aspects of the times with the lush synth textures, plump… Read more
Wrought Iron ~ Nancy Elizabeth
Wrought Iron ~ Nancy Elizabeth
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
It starts with a deceptively simple three note piano motif on "The Cairns " . Then the vocal harmonies slink in like mist broiling round a mountaintop. I knew then that I would love Nancy Elizabeth's Wrought Iron. The cover which in it's sepia toned artiness reminded me of the Pixies brilliant Come on Pilgrim was already a considered signifier of quality. You can tell a lot by an albums cover. The cover and more importantly the music within did not let me down.
The music is sparse often just ivory spine , a touch of percussion or bass, a sprinkling of glockenspiel an urging of brass or a quiver of… Read more
The Triumph of the Political Class by Peter Oborne
The Triumph of the Political Class by Peter Oborne
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
If you thought your faith in politics and by proxy politicians could get not get any lower be prepared to be disabused of that notion by reading Peter Oborne,s The Triumph of the Political Class.
The theory which dominates The Triumph of the Political Class is that the age of mass, participatory democracy rooted in political parties has decayed, like the oligarchy which preceded it. In its place has emerged a small cadre of professional politicians and their collaborators, a cheery self absorbed bunch .Greedy, cynical and out-of-touch with vast swathes of the population the Political Class runs this country much as the Whig elite did in the 18th century, chiefly in pursuit of… Read more
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