Yeah. Yours I just avoid...
:shycouch:

Yep.

I'm not quite sure what point you're making here. Your journal languishes on the third page, hasn't been updated since February, so there would be nothing for me to "skim" anyway.... :confused:

The Music Banter Members Journals Weekly Update Thread, week-ending April 12 2015
 

Submitted for your consideration: an ordinary street in an ordinary town. Could be your town. Or the one a few miles away. Or another town in another city. Or state. Or country. Basically, a street in a town whose location has not yet been, nor probably ever will be, confirmed. Can you please let me get on with this without so many questions? Thank you. Now, as I was saying: an ordinary street in an ordinary town. But this town, and this street, is anything but ordinary. For if you look through the curtained windows and peer behind the normal-looking facade of the painted doors, you'll find people hard at work in bedrooms and lounges and attics and kitchens, with desktop or laptop, ipad or phone, sitting feverishly writing about their favourite bands, artistes, gigs and albums; perhaps movies and drugs too. And television.

You look back towards the road that led you here, and an icicle stabs your heart as you realise you can no longer see that road: it does not exist. You are now on a street and have no idea how you got there, and there seems to be no way to leave it. Mesmerised, transfixed, you find yourself drawn towards the neat rows of houses as the sounds of muttering, typing, cursing and music grows louder in your ears until it blocks out all other sounds. There is no turning back. You've just crossed over into
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Although much of his time is being taken up by the new journal he shares with Unknown Soldier, of which more later, Anteater has still managed another small leg of http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...ravaganza.html, bringing us artistes such as The Coral, Geyster and Al Jarreau

while Deadchannel comes back from the, er, dead, to proclaim he is in fact not passed away, http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...ell-funny.html. Indeed. He's kicking off his new journal with Pord and then venturing into the murky world of jazz with two giants, Coltrane and Davis.

And still http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...-darkroom.html, Frownland has pictures of his doggy (so cute!) Zappa, as well as some of his own band, including a weird Nosferatu-like cautionary tale on smoking...

http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...63-2013-a.html is up to 2007 (not far to go now, huh? What do you do at the end of this, I wonder?) and albums he dug from that year include Animal Collective, EI-P and Burial

while innerspaceboy is listening to art-punk/jangle pop and also undertaking to enrich the musical appreciation of his co-worker. Generous, I say.

Down at http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...seur-cave.html Isbjorn is listening to Ensiferum and, um, Taylor Swift? Hell, Batty listened to Britney! But still...

Thre's a lot of Pokemon going, um, on in http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...is-arcade.html as well as some Mario, and a character spotlight on Jasper from Fable III, while in http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...nal-music.html he's listening to the music of MB members (see further on too) with albums from Mondo and Frownland.

http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...de-sparks.html continues with everything you needed to know about the band plus live reviews

Machine is listening to Jeff Rosenstock, Death Grips and Leviathan, as well as writing some more lyrics in http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...-its-dumb.html

Oriphiel is playing some video game soundtracks while he's http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...ck-garage.html, with Gun, Dynasty Warriors 4, Dark Cloud and Morrowind

Plankton is giving props to a friend of his in http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...listening.html

and http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...o-reviews.html returns as the starry one reviews Foo Fighters.

After our lengthy Tom Waits discography, http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...d-journal.html gets back to some srt of normality with a review of Journey's Escape in the “Klassic Korner” section, and other than that, not much happening in my journals this week. Plenty of writing but I've kind of missed the deadline for posting, so expect a lot next week. Oh, http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...-showroom.html resurfaces with a review of Mondo's latest album. Told you there'd be more later! ;)

Judas Priest are just outside the top five for 1984, at number 6 with Defenders of the faith in http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...y-history.html, and in http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...78-2015-a.html, Unknown Soldier and Anteater move on to the fifth album, Isolation. Having discovered that bassist Mike Porcaro passed away recently, they'll also be running a tribute to him, but that will only make it into next week's update.

Finally, the long-anticipated and awaited smackdown between Wpnfire and Chula Vista never materialised, so Zep go unavenged by their staunchest defender. Wonder if he saw the review? Anyway, the armed one is now moving on to Doom Metal, with Paradise Lost, and brings the curtain down on the update in style with an interesting discussion of the album sleeve.

And as I like it when people put thought and a bit of entertainment into their writing, that very article is the one I'm picking for my
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Taking
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this week is the discussion engendered by
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Seems everybody is a fan of Sparks. Except me. Never got into them. But there's surely a lot of conversation going on in Lil's new journal...

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December began with more haiku reviews and then Isbjorn looked into MC5's Kick out the jams, Sonata Arctica's Silence and then returned to his exploration of Folk with Simon and Garfunkel's The sound of silence (see the link? Unintentional? Only he knows for sure...) Next up it was more haiku reviews and then Wishbone Ash's Argus followed by the godawful (apparently) Dragonvarius by Dragon Guardian, proving that you can get worse than Dragonforce! And so into January of this year.

Joining forces with the now-defunct (sorry man, can't say I didn't warn you it was a huge undertaking and you had better be ready to back it up) “Devils' Dancefloor”, Isbjorn reviewed Maiden and Sabbath's debuts, and Judas Priest's Screaming for vengeance before throwing in some more haiku reviews and on to London calling by The Clash as well as Orthrelm's debut, finishing up with some more haikus.

So, as next week sees February and March, I'll probably throw in April too and finish off Isbjorn's journal there. Any takers for my next Classic Journal?

Yes. The last words of a dark stranger, half-glimped in the shadows, flow around your ears and echo in your brain as you stumble towards what looks like the headlights of an oncoming car. You have to get out of here. Or do you? Perhaps you should stay, a seductive voice sings in your ear persuasively. Perhaps you will stay. You WILL stay. The voice has changed from cajoling to threatening, and you can now see that the lights you thought were those of a car are in fact the flickers from torchlight as a procession makes it way along the street, comes level with you and passes on down the road without a word or a sound.

Unable to resist, and with the final lines of Iron Maiden's “The number of the Beast” ringing in your ears hypnotically, you find your feet pulling you after the crowd, joining the procession, falling in step. You realise you are forever now trapped in...
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That was f*cking beautiful, Trollheart. Made my day.

x2

This is my favourite part of the MB week.

Thanks guys. You have no idea how much that means. Sometimes it's hard to put the time aside and get my head in the game to do this, but knowing you look forward to it makes it so much easier.
:thumb:

Awesome entry, Trollheart. The introduction got my attention. I'm a little disappointed that you didn't mention the propaganda post in my journal, but still, great stuff.

Yeah, as I said before it will happen occasionally that a post may be missed out. This may be because I didn't think it that worthy of inclusion, I'm pushed for time, there's too much in one particular journal to include everything or I just make a human mistake and miss it. I try to include most if not all entries in every journal but sometimes it's not possible.

For those interested, I've finally got around to beginning to index my journals. Pages 1 - 100 of the Playlist are now online; they're posted as a separate thread and I hope they'll be stickied. I haven't linked entries, but have written what's on each page, so hopefully that'll help. I'll be doing my main journals, so if anyone needs any help just shout.

^is there a reason it needs to be stickied?

Well yeah, because otherwise as other journals are updated it will slide down the pages and people won't be able to find it.

I guess I didn't phrase my question properly. I don't see why your index for your journal is more important than other people's indexes for their journals. Hence why i'm confused as to why you need it stickied.

I don't see why it needs to be stickied.
If you want people to be able to find it easily just put a link in your sig like everybody else does.

Man, you're touchy these days intcha? I'm not saying it's more important, but it is the biggest and a lot of people have asked me for an index, so I thought keeping it at the top would be handy. Gleesh! Can't say anything around here but you upset someone! :rolleyes:
Sure, why not? I just thought if it starts falling down the page it might be hard to find, but yeah, linking it in the sig would probably sort that.

Welcome back by the way: how've ya been?

The Music Banter Members Journals Weekly Update Thread, week-ending April 19 2015
 

Jesus! What was that? No: over there! There! Beyond the trees --- I know, I know. Got to keep it together. Are you sure that thing's loaded? NO DON'T POINT IT AT ME! What are you trying to do: make their job easier? Okay, okay. Deep breath. Only three hundred yards. Beyond these trees, the road and the pickup, and then we're out of here. Over there! Fuck! No, no, sorry: my mistake. Hey you can't blame me! They could come from .... anywhere .... two hundred yards. I can see the lights from the road. Maybe we're going to make it. Maybe we're .... Oh god! Where did you go? Where? Hello? Hello..?
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Well, that's certainly how it seems round these parts! Dark groans and moans echo in the cold night air as three journals which have not been seen for some considerable time stagger through the mist, one of which is surely limping and creaking on long-unused legs, having been away for a third of the time I've been running my journals! Although for every time there is a man, and for every zombie there is a hero, and so we have a longstanding member starting his first journal, not to mention that there's an air of disbelief and confusion too, as my own various journals lie deserted and empty, not even a bone or a skull dropped by a roadside to mark the faintest presence or signs of life...
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So saddle up, make sure you have a spare box of ammo for that shotgun and let's head on down onto the smoke-shrouded, pitted and blasted battlefields that used to be city streets, as we try to avoid being finger food for the hungry undead...

Speaking of which... ;)

The Batlord is leading the pack for once, so if you http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...-oblivion.html, you'll witness his take on Elektra: Assassin

while Black Francis is continuing his exploration of KAS Prouct in http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...l-journey.html with their second album

and after three years, downwardspiral is back with http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...9787-list.html (wonder if he realises that could be mistaken for a journal on celebrities: A-List?) to try to kick this thing into life again.

Finally, after much anticipation, Exo has managed to drag his butt down to Journaltown and we're very happy to see him here. http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...s-musings.html opens this week, and he's already wittering on about NPR, so expect interesting stuff.

Thought there was a comedy theme going on at http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...nnerspace.html there for a moment. Didn't he mention
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in one of his articles? Oh no, wait: that was Morton Feldman, not Marty! D'oh! Well innerspaceboy is talking about the SEM Ensemble anyway, as well as publishing the results of his recent survey, compiling a playlist of ambient music, and, um, finding that certain links don't work... to be fixed post haste no doubt! To inner-finity, and beyond!

Janszoon's either pre-empting Metal Month III by six months, or he's six months behind for Metal Month II: I prefer to believe the former. Either way, in http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...ime-place.html he's reviewing the cracking debut album from The Tygers of Pan Tang.

No Arcade this week, but maybe that's because Ki is getting all excited about this FFS collaboration and talking about it in http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...nal-music.html

While LiL is kind of on the same page with interesting stories about one half of that collab in http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...de-sparks.html --- oh, and music too.

http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...ck-garage.html as he is, Oriphiel is looking into the phenomenon of women in metal (a subject to be tackled during Metal Month III also by myself) with Fanny, Birtha and of course Suzi Q, and is admitting falling for Curved Air. Testify, brother!

Plankton has finally hauled out http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...um-bucket.html again, and are we sharks hungry! He's continuing his long-hiatused (is that a word?) account of how he became a genuine guitar god with help this time from Joe Satriani. Good to see ya back, mate!

And Soulflower is back too, discussing http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...dness-art.html with an entry on Kenny Ganble and Leon Huff, legendary producers behind the Jacksons.

Nothing from me at all this week, as I've been hard at work indexing all my journals so that you can find what you want. So now, if you need to find that rare album review you remember reading three years ago, or want to check out a band of the NWOBHM, start getting into Robin of Sherwood or just catch up on the classic albums I've been looking into, you can track anything down here http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...something.html. Updates to my journals will recommence tomorrow, in preparation for my four-year anniversary.

The top five for 1984 begins to take shape in http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...y-history.html as Accept's Balls to the wall takes the number five spot, and in http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...78-2015-a.html there's as signposted last week a tribute to the late Mike Porcaro before the guys get into Fahrenheit, the next album up.

Wpnfire lets us know how much he does not like Priest's Stained class in http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...s-journal.html --- Batty begs to differ, by which I mean he hits him over the head with a big hammer and says “You're wrong asshole! Listen to me!” :D

Now, you can call this a fix until you're blue in the face, and I'll still tell you you're right. I don't care. This album does not get enough love around here, and for someone of Janszoon's standing and calibre to praise it means it definitely is my
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There have been a lot of updates this week, but someone who seems to have worked just that little bit harder is Oriphiel (not that this is unusual for him: he's like the other Ki!) and so he gets the title of
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for all his work on women in heavy metal and Curved Air, a whole lotta updatin' goin' on, as they say!

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Time to wrap up our look into Isbjorn's journal, as we head into February, with the Misfits kicking things off, then there was a review of the movie Romeo and Juliet, followed by more haiku reviews before he went off on a tangent about Mars... He had a pop at Valentine's Day and then as March was ushered in announced he was no longer Briks but would now be called Isbjorn. Next up, and featured as the Post of the Week that week were The True Rules of Music Banter, before he reviewed Onus by Jahzzar, One man army by Ensiferum and 1989 by Taylor Swift. Sound very familiar? Well that's because we've now caught up with him, and apart form some stuff about Janszoon's old avatar and propoganda posters, this is where we take our leave of the Poseur Cave, and wish Isbjoren all the best for future entries.

Next week: I haven't decided yet, so if you want yours considered drop me a line, otherwise I'll just choose someone's journal at random. Maybe.

We have a new journal opening this week as I mentioned, as we welcome Exo into the fold finally, but more importantly we have not one, but three journals which are
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Yes, both Plankton's http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...um-bucket.html, back after six months (but it seems longer) and downwardsprals's http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...9787-list.html, clearly the more zombified, returning after three years! Then we have Jansz, making a very welcome return with http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...ime-place.html. Let's hope you all stick around. Hate to have to go through all that trouble of burying you again...

And that's us out for another week. Hope my indices prove helpful if you're trying to wade your way through the somewhat packed tomes some of my journals have become, and as I say expect plenty of new stuff from tomorrow. Thanks for reading and see you all next Sunday.

Till then,
Keep a wary eye out and remember, that sound you thought you heard? It probably is what you think... Shoot first, ask questions later! Be safe!
Unless you're one of them, in which case, eat lead!
Toodles!

I'm confused about the downwardspiral mention. He didn't make any new entries, he just responded to people talking about his original post years ago.

No that's not the case. He mentions he forgot about his journal but has stuff written up, that he hasn't posted for a while but is getting back to it. Maybe I'm giving him the benefit of the doubt but it looks like he's preparing to get back to making entries. If not then I'll be left with Picard on my face, but that's how it looks to me.

Anyway, it really worked for the "Back from the dead" thing which formed a backdrop to the whole "Walking Dead" theme this week... :thumb:

Ah, that makes sense then.

<----I get 2 mentions this week! Alright!

Thanks for the spotlight TH ma man.

The Music Banter Members Journals Weekly Update Thread, week-ending April 26 2015
 

It's perhaps appropriate that, as tomorrow marks the fourth year of my original journal (well, since my original original one in 2008, which was deleted) and also the second anniversary of this thread, a member who was coming to the same conclusions as I that April evening in 2011 and preparing to leave has decided instead to do what I did, and give it another go here. Hopefully he'll have reason to be glad he did. More about him later.

But now, as they say, on with the show.

Come with Anteater as he steers the ship steady as she goes on http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...ravaganza.html and brings us to harbour at “Westocasty songs by artistes usually known for other styles”, and he ain't kidding, with bands like Suspyre, Daft Punk and Foreigner in the frame

then http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...-oblivion.html, speaking about his number one girl (can you guess who?) and also highlighting the phenomenon of REAL superheroes on the streets of America. Yeah, only in the Land of the Free...

Black Francis becomes the latest member to step outside of the confines of one journal, and in hsi new one he's looking at http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...ms-nes-ps.html with Aerobiz Supersonic, Digimon 3 and a whole lot of other titles no doubt that I have never played, heard of or knew existed, having never ever possessed anything close to a games console. Video Wars between Ki and BF in the wind? Meanwhile in his regular journal, http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...l-journey.html he's still looking at that album from KAS Product.

Innerspaceboy only has the one journal, but does he pack a lot into it! This week in http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...nnerspace.html there's the Innerspace Hot 100, Sherlock Holmes and the case of the ruinous RFI, and even the shadowy Illuminatus can be found lurking within those digital pages. What do you mean, they don't exist? Yeah. Sure they don't...

After a somewhat rocky start and a threat to exit quickly,and as hinted at in the intro, joenorwood77 has calmed down and done the sensible thing and opened a journal to promote his http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...band-week.html. He'll be listening to the entire discography of one band every week and choosing his top five tracks, and if you want to join him in his endeavours, or just read about how he does, you can catch him there.

Machine is reviewing Tyler the Creator's Cherry Bomb in http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...-its-dumb.html

http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...de-sparks.html continues with A Woofer in tweeter's clothing, more than thirty years before Twitter!

Which rather quickly brings us around to me. Now, as mentioned in the intro tomorrow marks the fourth anniversary of http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...d-journal.html, my first ever journal (after the original version was deleted) and I'm trying to mark that by running some of the first sections I created in that journal. So this week we have a return for “The Secret life of the Album cover” and “Gobsmacked!”, the former featuring Rainbow's iconic album sleeve for Rising while the album that had me so bowled over is Sean Filkins with War and peace and other short stories. There's also an amalgamation of two sections, as I merge “Two sides of the same coin” and the long-absent “Gone solo in the game” and look at the often similar solo paths taken by two of prog rock's giants, Fish and Peter Gabriel. There's also room for the return of “The Hook”, with Aneka. Remember her? Yeah, thought not.

To Batty's intense annoyance, I begin my coverage of “The Apprentice” in http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...-emporium.html, with episode one of the US and UK versions, and the Irish one to follow, while we're finishing up 1968 in http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...ive-metal.html with a look at the debut albums from Jethro Tull and Soft Machine, second efforts from The Nice and Procol Harum and .... the Pretty Things? Hmm. Yeah. Heading towards 1969 soon!

And we close with excitement reaching fever pitch as 1984's top three take shape in http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...y-history.html, with Celtic Frost just outside at four, and Metallica taking the number three slot. Anyone like to lay any money on numbers two and one?

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has to go to Batty, for his entertaining and informative expose of real-life superheroes, and also for his restraint in not mocking them too much at all. Excelsior!
So nobody got in touch and said “Do me! Do me!” Nobody contacted me about featuring their journal here either...
:shycouch:
so I started looking through the section for one that might be interesting, and up popped herself.
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I thought, yeah, this one deserves to be highlighted. What I read of it I really liked and though Steph didn't quite keep it up to date in the same way as others did and do, it's a real Urban case of quality trumping quantity. She may not write that much, but when Wolverinewolfweiselpigeon writes, people take notice. So we're going to start going through http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...-tripping.html as the latest of the
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(I should note that I haven't spoken to WWWP, and so before I obtain permission from her to do so, I will not be featuring any extracts from her journal here, in case she would rather I did not.)

As ever, I will be doing this in two-month blocks each week, so with her journal opening in June of 2012 , and after an interesting introduction WWWP got down to business with “Music I found through Music Banter”, including Elliot Smith, The Olivia Tremor Control, Yo La Tengo (featuring the lady herself rendering a beautiful cover of one of their songs, and showing just how much talent she has: not just a pretty face, though she's certainly that too), Arab Strap and Mountain Goats.

Then there was a gap of a year. Yeah. Well, she said she was dealing with some stuff but wanted to relaunch the journal, and so coincidentally a year and a month later, July 2013 she started her themes, the first of which was Bikes, Beers and Brownies, and featured Wingnut Dishwasher Union, Badbadnotgood, R Stevie Moore, Cody ChestnuTT, then there was a slight break to talk about The Antlers' Hospice. I know how you feel Steph: that album ripped my heart out too, in a really good way. Stunning. This was followed by Belle and Sebastian, Why? (no, they're a band, dummy! Insert obligatory “Who's up next” joke here...) and Casiotone.

Finally we had one of the very best posts ever in all the time I've been here, her mini-short story “The Feeling Seller” before she embarked upon a track-by-track analysis of Lucius' The Lucius EP and that's where we leave it for this week. More next Sunday!

So tomorrow I begin what will be my fourth year posting in my main journal, and I must say it's been a blast. Hope to continually improve it over the next four years and more (what do you mean, the only way to improve it would be to shut it down? Who let Batty in here?) and who knows, maybe add a few more to my growing list of journals. Nah, only kidding. Or am I? Time will tell. Be afraid. Be very afraid. Maybe.

Till next week,
Toodles!

Thnx for the mention TH but i don't wanna compete with KI. :p:

I follow his journal and saw it was doing well and that made it easier for me to start one but with a different concept.

The post of the week was great, i gotta check Batlord's journal out.

****'s world wide, man.

Real life British superheroes find crime hard to find - Telegraph

Sorry for the lack of updates this week. I have a lot of things I want to put in my journal(s) but I couldn't find the motivation to write them out.

Don't worry, my awesome entries made up for your lack of mediocre ones.

I was just about to say the same thing, but then I realized I haven't posted anything in a while.

The Music Banter Members Journals Weekly Update Thread, week-ending May 3 2015
 

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And now it's time for another instalment of "Woodland Life" with Professor Dickie Attenborough...
As winter retreats and spring gives way to summer, one of the most wonderful events in nature takes place, as those rare creatures, Journalisticus Escribus Major, also known as the lesser-spotted Journal Author, who have been hibernating through the harsh, cold months, come peeking out of their burrows and sniff the morning air. These creatures are timid, and enjoy their comforts, so if there is still a chill in the wind they will retreat back into their burrows, to wait for the day to warm. Eventually, though, if you have the patience you will be rewarded by the sight of the first tentative snouts, small round eyes long unused to the bright sunlight blinking as they slowly emerge, looking around and padding the soft earth around them. Satisfied, they begin to walk on the grass and, gaining confidence with each stride, their eyes enlarging as they adjust to the light, they can be seen moving in the direction of the newsagent or corner store, in their traditional search for cigarettes, chewing gum and newspapers.

Come with me now, as we go where no camera has been before, and explore what they have been up to while locked away from the winter. Mind your step and be very quiet, for there may be young 'uns in the burrow, and we don't want to frighten them. Slowly now, and carefully....

It seems we have come too soon to catch a glimpse of Insectivore Progressia, the Anteater, as it is still sleeping soundly in its burrow, but we are very lucky to see the rather rare creature called Musicus Electronica Videographicus, more commonly known as Aux-in. We can see that in http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...continuum.html it proudly displays the evidence of its work --- mind your feet there! --- with the second part of The Bangers Only Club featuring Reepublic, Cicada and Third Party among others, as well as its take on metal electronica (?) with Koven, Loadstar, Diamond Eyes and more. It even has a review of A song across wires by BT and In the air by Morgan Page. A busy little creature indeed!

Leaving quietly, and leaving everything exactly as it was when we found it: NO you may NOT take that rare dub house special edition mix CD! Put that DOWN! Now you've got your scent on it, and it may not return here for fear of being discovered! Didn't I ask you to restrain yourselves? Sigh! Put it down, and on we go to

http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...ms-nes-ps.html where the sounds of beeps and casio music and lasers firing inform us that the Franciscus Sable or Black Francis is well into its reviews, with Zelda, Uncharted Waters, Metal Gear and more. No I don't know what they are. NES: I assume it's some sort of tribal god or something. Let's move on. Good god! How many times have I to tell you people? Put that controller down: it's probably got a game in progress. Is everyone here now? Fine, QUIETLY now...

http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...nnerspace.html seem to include wedding bells! Yes, we are privileged to witness that most rare of events here in the world of the Journal Authors, the wedding, which will be suitably nerd-themed (nerd-core I believe the innerspaceboy is calling it). As if that were not enough, we see evidence too of its aversion to 24-bit audio, The Personal, Portable Media Cloud and a review of Electronic Music by The Electrosoniks. Another busy little animal, certainly.

A somewhat new addition to life around here, only recently arrived to the area is joenorwood77, which has been working on its http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...band-week.html --- please, don't touch its lists: I'm sure they're all very much ordered as it wants them --- and this week it's looking at Third Eye Blind while over at

http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...is-arcade.html there are games turning into MMORPGs (probably some figure of their legends, I'm really not sure. A wise man, maybe? I'll look it up when I get back) such as Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, Elder Scrolls and of course World of Warcraft, then there are Pokemon cards (Now this one I do know: Pokemon is the All-God of the ancient Shintoslants, said to have created the world with the four sacred words: “Gotta Get Them All” --- nobody knows what it means and it has remained a hot topic of debate among theological scholars...) as well as number six in its top ten games, with “Paranautical Activity” and then games it thinks there are too many sequels to.

Next to the Ki's burrow is that of its mate, the LiL, which is working on http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...de-sparks.html with more songs from the band the female of this species just can't stop talking about.

A little way off we find a new creature who has just very recently moved into the area. It is slightly apprehensive, given the raw alpha-male power given off by the Ki, but seems to be beginning to settle in and in http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...your-time.html it's writing about a band called Foetus

and an odd little creature that lives on http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...crap-heap.html is the Pet_Sounds, which though young is far more mature than its appearance suggests. It is currently trying to ingratiate itself with the powerful Axus Guitarus Divinicus, also known as Plankton, by reviewing its album Krill. It seems to have worked, as the stronger creature has ceased sniffing menacingly outside the Pet_Sounds' burrow, and they seem to have come to a mutual acceptance of each other. Secure in its safety, the little creature is now also reviewing more of its top fifty Beatles tracks, with “Dear Prudence” and “Back in the USSR” .

And now we come to the most odd little denizen of these Woods of Journal Land, the Trollheartus Longwindicus Maximus. This is a creature that is physically unable to write a sentence without it becoming a paragraph, a paragraph without it turning into a page, and so on. One of the most industrious creatures in the whole wood, it can spend literally days on its work, ignoring all outside stimuli and only stopping to consume a chocolate bar and a glass of fizzy orange before hurrying back to its lair to feverishly pick up its work again. Prone to hurt feelings, it remains convinced it is usually right and yet this is also, paradoxically, one of the gentlest and most nurturing creatures in the forest. Legend has it that it was the Trollheartus that built this mighty wood with its own hands, though that is probably apocryphal, if not total nonsense. Let's investigate its den and see what we can find.

After something of a hiatus while it worked on its content indices, the little animal is back hard at it and in http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...d-journal.html there is “Never mind the movie” with the Click OST, as well as a helping of MUSH with Art Garfunkel, while in a bitter dispute with the Batlordicus Metallum Jestericus, the creature presents “The Apprentice” in http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...-emporium.html, this time the Irish version. Another of its projects (it has many, and can work on them all, having sixteen arms and four heads, all working independently of each other) is http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...ive-metal.html, where it wraps up 1968 with Soft Machine, Procol Harum and The Pretty Things. Finally, as promised there is the beginning of coverage of the graphic novel Watchmen in http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...d-2000-ad.html.

As we leave that cave behind us, the sound of screaming guitars and bellowed vocals tells us we are approaching the lair of the Soldiera Unknownus, which is almost finished its look at 1984 in http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...y-history.html, as Scorpions, as expected, take the number two slot. This creature however works in concert with the earlier mentioned Insectivore Progressia, the Anteater, on another work, which they title http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...78-2015-a.html. A most exceptional find, as these creatures rarely if ever work together, the last one I can recall was when the Trollheartus and the Batlordicus attempted to resolve their differences over Star Trek: Voyager. They now only see each other at weddings and funerals. The Toto album being reviewed this week, anyway, is “Past to Present”, a retrospective.

One of the oldest and most respected (and feared) of these woodland creatures is the Hatemonger Urbanicus, which has for the last while been working on a relaunch of its flagship journal http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...who-thing.html. This week it was proudly presented, with a full introduction and setup before the creature related the first full Doctor Who story. There is a buzz of excitement around the wood at the re-emergence of this much-missed journal; you can feel it in the air and hear it in the chittering, whooping cries they send to each other as they jump, crawl, climb and slither through the forest.

A strange ritual these little creatures engage in after emerging from hibernation is the awarding of prizes and titles to each other. Well, research would indicate that it is the Trollheartus that actually instigates and awards the prizes. These are usually for well-written or interesting entries in their Journals, and the first we can witness right now, as we look into this week's
http://www.trollheart.com/quill.jpg
and it goes to innerspaceboy, for its incredibly inventive and interesting description of how it plans to tie the knot with its mate:
(Sorry that some pictures had to be edited out: the maximum image count, you know... Trollheartus Longwindicus Maximus)

Fascinating! Another award given out by the Trollheartus is its
http://www.trollheart.com/workhorse.png
which this week is presented to the small electronic creature, Musicus Electronica Videographicus, the Aux-in, for its fine and diligent work in http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...continuum.html.

But hush! It seems we may be even luckier than I thought! Here comes the Trollheartus, snuffling and waddling our way, and I think it's about to ... yes, yes! This is just incredible! It's sitting down, punching something up on its screen and, if we're very very quiet, we may be able to hear it recount the latest of its
http://www.trollheart.com/classicj2.png

“The last time we looked into WWWP's journal we got as far as July 2013. Now we move on to (Yes yes! It has a lovely speaking voice, which one would not expect from so ugly a creature. I agree. But please, keep your voices down. We don't want to scare it away!) August, as she explored the Lucius EP and then gave us her top five make out songs, top five songs for driving and then floated an idea that would have involved prizes, but seemed to think better of it after some negative feedback.

Nothing as negative or shocking though as when October rolled around, and she posted “Five things my boyfriend said before he raped me.” I won't dwell on this as it was some time ago, and I'm sure she wants to forget it, as do we all. It would, however, be the end of the year before she would be strong enough or want to post again..."

That was just ... indescribable! Wait till they hear about this back at base camp! What a singular opportunity, and we were there! Absolutely unprecedented.

Well, I think the creatures are coming back to their lairs now, clutching packs of Rothmans and cans of Budweiser and Metal Hammer magazines, so it's time for us to gently leave these timid little creatures and let them get on with their lives. Make sure you haven't left anything behind you; they can detect if you've been here if your'e not careful you know. Now, gently ... gently! ... close the door and follow me back down the path. Are we all here? Good. The bus is just over that rise.

(If you would like to make a donation to help the conservation of these exceptional little animals and protect their habitat, send a stamped, addressed envelope to PO Box 9901, Dublin, Ireland, or visit www.savetheirhabitat.com. Thank you.)

Till next week,
Stay out of my burrow, strangers!
Toodles!

Boy, you really haven't been a gamer in your life, Have you Trollheart? :p: I can't believe you don't know Nes refers to the original Nintendo system, as in this.

http://shopbuy.org/static/category/o...do-nes-box.jpg

As in, everybody and their momma knows the Nes! i'd be surprised if you didn't play it yourself.

i dig the Franciscus sable nick :yeah:
And not that anyone cares but im gonna finish reviewing Kas product in my other journal.. eventually.

Yes, I realize Trollheart's jokes are like opening a box of Lucky Charms only to find that there are no marshmallows, but he was joking.

You see that MusicBanter? You see that? I'm a star!

http://www.my-wall-decal.com/img/hol...ll_decal_h.jpg

Thanks for letting everyone know about my legend status, and the write-up, Trollheart. Not just aux-in, thee aux-in.

Not just a star, but an "it".

Yeah, as Batty says it's a joke. I of course know what it stands for. Just thought it would be funny.

There you go, thinking again.

@ Trollheart. It was actually a pretty good write-up, and I'm not just saying that because I won your horse.

Yeah well I got the 2015 v.2 upgrade: I can think now (within reason, of course...)
Thanks man. You deserved the award. It was between you and innerspaceboy, but as I awarded him the PotW I thought it would be only fair you got the WotW.
Thanks for the kind comments; makes this thing all worth it.
And watch out for hunters: that thump!thump!thump! you use as a mating call is very distinctive...

You're getting your Attenborough's mixed up. Don't you mean David?

As you once said to me in another thread, that's all you got from the whole post?? :laughing:
http://i681.photobucket.com/albums/v...f4eca849-1.jpg

The first line was wrong so I didn't bother with the rest.
Besides, one of my journal posts mentions him so I'm obligated to point out your error.

Seems fair. Carry on.

The Music Banter Members Journals Weekly Update Thread, week-ending May 10 2015
 

Off we go without preamble this week. Hey, cut me some slack! I'm creatively exhausted after last week's magnificent octopus! You don't like it, you know where you can ... hey! Where are you going? Come back! Um... anyway...

First out of the traps this week is Aux-in where in http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...continuum.html he's comparing the mixed and original versions of Oceanlab's Siren of the seas.

Following close behind is Black Francis, where http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...l-journey.html he's still working through those KAS Product albums, with their third and final one, Black and noir, while in http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...ms-nes-ps.html he's remembering Evil Zone and some obscure thing called Final Fantasy VII. Sorry, other way round.

Remember http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...y-journal.html? Well, it's back. Apparently. We wait with not-quite-bated breath...

You can learn a lot about Exo's life and also his skill in photography in http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...s-musings.html

while Freebase is laying down some more http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...stronauts.html with his latest groove

and innerspaceboy is getting all chill in http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...nnerspace.html with Kruder and Dorfmeister as well as Underworld, not to mention some, ah, spring cleaning!

Meanwhile, joenorwood77's http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...band-week.html continues, this week with Meiko.

http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...de-sparks.html has an interview with the guys

Mr. Sir is checking out Fat Freddy's Drop in http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...your-time.html

and Pet_Sounds has some personal stuff on http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...crap-heap.html: glad your dad's problems are there too now, Pet_S. On the scrap heap, I mean.

It's 2004 in http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...ar-1965-a.html with albums from Madvilliain, MewithoutYou and MF Doom among others.

That brings us to me, and in http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...d-journal.html I'm ranting (when am I not?) about mostly payday loan companies. “To Play the King” finally wraps up in http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...-emporium.html as Urquhart goes to-to-toe with the monarch, and there are reviews of John Grant's Pale green ghosts and Night Runner's [i]Starfighter[/url] in http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...i-reviews.html. Been letting these journals slip recently; expect more updates from next week on.

To nobody's surprise, Powerslave is the top album of 1984 as Unknown Soldier prepares to take us to the midway point of the eighties in http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...y-history.html

The return of the http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...who-thing.html has been hailed as one of the great events of our time, and this week he's telling us all about Daleks and why he ... doesn't really like them? :yikes:

http://www.trollheart.com/classicj2.png
After an extended hiatus --- totally understandable under the circumstances --- WWWP was back to ring in the New Year with an entry in the very last day of December 2013 as she looked at Javelin's Canyon candy. It was March of the following year before she resurfaced, this time with her band's first single (which I had to say I didn't like) :shycouch: and then her last entry to date would end up being nine months later, as in December of 2014 she reviewed Creepoid's s/t.

And that's been it so far from this gorgeous, talented, missed writer. Situation must be resolved! Steph? Steph! Nearly half a year now? Come on: we're waiting for your words of wisdom....

Next week: someone else's journal.

And that's it for this week. Tune in again next Sunday for ... for ... well I don't know what for do I? I can't see the future, and if I could I certainly wouldn't be wasting it here with a bunch of losers like .... um, that is, er ...
Toodles!