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@jacob cough .. self aware fan boy …

yeah no man is an acquired taste IMHO .. not so much the music, as Tim’s voice. There are certain bands I just fail to engage with .. no matter how much I like the music because of the voice. (I’m looking at you Geddy!)

Even Wilson’s voice sometime grates on me.

It’s interesting that he is a phenomenal guitarist and yet recognizes supreme guitarists and coops people like Guthrie .. but on the voice .. not so much. Blackfield and No Man being exceptions, but then they are joint projects.

@gregmorris what did you do?

@manton i like how you have handled the tweet archive

@devilgate I’m with @danielpunkass EXCEPT at the time it was music - i think ideology is a ‘post punk retro definition’ for most people .. over on LinkedIN i have a couple of Punk friends who are all about ideology and rarely really reference the music other than name drops.

@ayjay from the end of world war 1 to the start of world war 2 - 21 years

@Annie 💯

@njr thank you .. clarifying.

Hats off to the Verge for not editing it out. Unlike pretty much any other media organisation in America would do. In fact is doing.

If not then - then when?
If not there - then where?

Somewhere nice and quiet so nobody hears?

Yes it’s hard. Yes it wasn’t appropriate? It never is.

@frankm ✅

@byhess after 10 minutes of seeing big issues - suddenly 90% (not 100%) of the problems seem to have gone - so maybe you are ‘on it’?

@combatdavey fair cop - but at same time I do see Reid as one of the good guys - so the flagging was more along the lines of “wait - even the ‘good guys’ speak rubbish” - or ‘whatevs’. At time of posting I didn’t realise that it was that old …on the click through I provided, the date was April 2nd this year .. under ‘Fortune’.

I guess that should have been my clue - a name that when younger I associated with respectable journalism and today ‘clickbait central’. Let’s call it a 🔗🎵 A Momentary Lapse of Reason