Sorry, meant Precious insider dealing, capitalist cunt (in the nicest possible way 
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Iām certainly going to short sell minions. It seems the market is flooded with shoddy units that are overly gobby.
All I need is the other side of the arb nowā¦
Heās right, but we all knew that. Sadly investment was made but alone it didnāt transform the NHS in the way that was needed. Now itās too late for plan A and plan B is going to cost many times more, and this government appears unwilling to recognise let alone act and start doing something about it.
Instead theyāve continued pretending it isnāt happening and bullying its leaders into trying to make the best out of fuck all.
I like three guardian review of the new Bjork track: āItās like overhearing two nymphs having a flute-off in a wood full of horny ghosts.ā
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I suspect that @htm_1968 will have pre-ordered the limited edition bile green vinyl edition.
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I suspect that @MGOwner will have done an involuntary sex wee on the basis of the description alone.
VB
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Not knowing itās associated with Bjorkās screeching. Instant soft-on 
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I do like a flute, mind 
Good point, well made.
VB
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oopsā¦
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The following two paragraphs explain our emotional response to music and is worth reading even if youāre vaguely interested. None of this is particularly new to me, however itās an excellent explanation, the best Iāve read, and doesnāt require any prior understanding of music theory. The square brackets are my additions.
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The āfundamental musical problemsā we will address in the study of counterpoint center around the way in which some basic principles of auditory perception and cognition (how the brain perceives and conceptualizes sound) play out in Western musical structure. For example, our brains tend to assume that sounds similar in pitch or timbre come from the same source. Our brains also listen for patterns, and when a new sound continues or completes a previously heard pattern, it assumes that the new sound belongs together with those others. On the other hand, the breaking of these regularities in the sonic environment can signal danger, or at the very least the need for heightened attention to be applied to the sonic āculprit.ā Identifying irregularities in the sonic environment and boosting attention and adrenaline when one is found have been absolutely essential to the survival of the human species. These abilities are also what allows music to have the emotional effect that it does on so many people. Whether or not a composer or songwriter is aware of the science and psychology of hearing, a masterful composer mediates and plays with these basic concepts.
āMediatesā and āplaysā are important ideas here. Music that simply makes it easy for the brain to parse and process sound is boring [A nursery rhyme] āit calls for no heightened attention, it doesnāt increase our heart rate, make the hair on the back of our neck stand up, or give us a little jolt of dopamine. On the other hand, music that constantly activates our innate sense of danger is hardly pleasant for most listeners [Free Jazz]. Thus, fundamental to most of the music we will study is the dance between tension and relaxation, motion and rest.
Where does Prog fit in?
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āFitā, lol, prog struggles to fit the xylophone solo onto a single CD.
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Didnāt Jimmy Young refer to his show as a Prog e.g. āin tomorrows progā. Perhaps Terry isnāt as progressive as we all thought, a closet JY fan ? 
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Between a nursery rhyme and free jazz. But considerably closer to the former in terms of following compositional conventions.
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Normally I donāt approve of guns in general, and guns at concerts in particular. However, this makes me think there is a role for giant models of guns:
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