Joe Biden. Watching his speech and Q&A… fucking hell! Hard watch. He just said he chose Trump as his running mate. Embarrassing.
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You couldn’t make it up 
or could you…
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It’s getting to the point that Trump will be a shoe in with this idiot.
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biden’s cooked. i think he knows it too, and everyone’s just stalling while trying to coalesce around a better option.
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Read an article that said his doctor’s had brought in a neurologist/Parkinsons specialist to the White House 8 times in the last 12 months.
Seems to me that it’s symptoms of either dementia related to Parkinson’s or the medication prescribed to deal with it. Sadly i’ve experience of both through my parents.
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Yeah, same. Grim stuff.
Rod Stewart.
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Do like this though 
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He should have done more disco.
I still don’t like his voice. Vic Reeves is a better club singer.
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when I first started getting into music , I did the usual thing of watching TOTP and taping the Top 40 on a sunday, This was 88-89 so a lot of cool stuff was charting - early house, hip hop, Soul II Soul etc, + all the Stock Aitken Waterman nonsense, What I could never stand was when what sounded like something from another century popped up like Rod Stewart or Elton John and you had to sit through 3 minutes of some absolute dirge, usually every week as it inevitably sold loads. Just the shittest music ever, bloated white middle aged stadium ballads and half hearted rock churned out to support an escalating coke habit.
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Elton John. Sure some of his peak stuff is undeniable (and I loved it as a child) but so is the level of schlock. If I have to hear another one of his bathetic dirges… The phenomenon of Elton John reminds me of nothing so much as the rise of a corporation–some key early bits, widening outlook through devolution into mass popular taste (EJ in the 80s–not a pretty picture), carefully curated revenue streams via tours etc, and then finally exponential growth through M&A–musicals, he’s done six of them. Of course this trajectory could apply to a lot of musical acts these days, but with Elton it seems particularly apropos.
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I distinctly remember the Brit Awards from 89 it must’ve been (the infamous Sam Fox/Mick Fleetwood year?). I too was finding my own way through the musical minefield and was naively expecting some Manchester Vibes in the Area or something equally as cool and edgy. Instead Fairground bleeding Attraction seemed to clean up, dull as fuck. That song Perfect, jesus goes through me, nails down a blackboard. I cannot stand it.
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I think it was that year or the following one that Soul II Soul didnt win anything.
So I was 10 or 11 when i decided award shows were bollocks. That never changed.
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My sentiments.
Managed to sustain a career for nearly 45 additional years which technically died in 1980
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Dear Apple, I can’t believe that in 2024 I have to spend half my day wrangling my mouse. It lags, it jitters, it jumps and once it starts it lasts for hours. Nothing can fix it until it decides stop doing this BULLSHIT.
Sorry, I am at my last mousey straw. It makes using a DAW, VST and any music software infutiating.
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This is how Ed Sheeran’s career will pan out
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also (and i know this is bernie’s fault) - some of the absolute worst lyrics ever penned.
got examples galore but the first time that i actually read the true lyrics to “someone saved my life tonight” and realized that he was really saying “sugar bear” - i was astounded. i though it was like french or something, i had been joking “sugar bear” forever and not realizing those were the real fucking lyrics.
there’s so many songs that are absolute classics, hooks galore - hummable forever. but if you swapped any of the lyrics even with boilerplate love bullshit you’d have twice the song.
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