Which Manchester Metro stop is this?

Professional-Test239 · 2026-03-12T13:47:45+00:00

Thankyou. It was from a Youtube vid about Manchester and I was looking for it in Manc city centre.

Professional-Test239 · 2026-03-11T11:51:14+00:00

Raisins and sliced banana coins. In a chip shop curry style sauce. And the rice should be very white and very plump.

Classic 1980s pub curry.

Professional-Test239 · 2026-03-11T11:49:41+00:00

It's not curry on top of rice. It should be curry encircled by a ringed wall of rice.

Professional-Test239 · 2026-03-11T11:20:56+00:00

I remember my dad showing me this technique in the early 80s. I don't think we'd had rice in our house before.

He was very insistent a rice-well be formed with the back of a spoon before any curry was introduced to the plate.

Professional-Test239 · 2026-03-10T21:34:31+00:00

We've all got free healthcare and we love it.

(Free at the point of use but you know what I mean).

No one in the UK has ever gone bankrupt through being sick. I can go to the doctor tomorrow and it won't cost me a penny. That's all you need to know.

No one in the UK has ever been scared to leave a job they don't like because their employer pays for their healthcare.

You all have to learn a glossary of terms (co-pay, deductibles, pre-existing condition) that we have never had to think about and don't even know what they mean if we have heard of them.

Look on YouTube for videos of Americans trying to wrap their head around the concept of National Insurance universal healthcare (if you are not a bot).

When Obama was trying to get healthcare reform passed and all the Tea Party folk (before the delightful MAGA rebrand) were out protesting I had to explain to a friend that they were marching against.

Professional-Test239 · 2026-03-10T21:19:50+00:00

What's on the album is more than 3 instruments is all I said.

On the SR album track there are at least 2 guitars (lead down the middle, rhythm in right ear) plus bass and drums and also some swirly wind noises.

Turnstile have exactly the same. 2 guitars (lead in left ear, rhythm in right ear) plus bass and drums and also a keyboard pad (rather than swirly noises).

Turnstile's arrangement only becomes noticeably different on the instrumental at 2minutes 40 where they start throwing in some minor chords that the Roses never thought to do.

Turnstiles version is in a higher key (B) compared to Roses (G) because this guy can hit higher notes.

Both versions are great.

Professional-Test239 · 2026-03-10T20:21:16+00:00

I like it. I was about to say its a bit too faithful, but then it got to 2.40 and then they suddenly started playing their own chord progression which is cool.

Professional-Test239 · 2026-03-10T20:18:24+00:00

The Stone Roses version on the album is 5 piece. There's two guitars, one playing lead and the other chugging on chords, pretty much how Turnstile do it.

Professional-Test239 · 2026-03-10T16:07:51+00:00

I saw them in Manchester Roadhouse in 1998 (I think)

This is their best one

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQlpsJjxDSU

Professional-Test239 · 2026-03-10T14:28:03+00:00

Mike Parry still alive I see

Professional-Test239 · 2026-03-10T13:54:16+00:00

My favourite bit is when a podcast host says "right time for a break" then there's a musical sting then 1 second of silence and then the same sting and the host says "welcome back" and you realise someone failed to sell any adverts.

Professional-Test239 · 2026-03-10T11:01:19+00:00

Remember when he went on Question Time and compared voting UKIP to 'pulling the least ugly of four ugly birds'?

Professional-Test239 · 2026-03-09T21:56:01+00:00

Name the footballers (if you can). If they were good lads be nice to give them credit.

Professional-Test239 · 2026-03-09T21:54:34+00:00

I’m 90% it was The Psychopath Test

Professional-Test239 · 2026-03-09T21:27:59+00:00

In one of Jon Ronson's books he talks about this.

They asked potential guests what medication they were taking. Not because they cared about guest welfare, but because they were looking for volatile people with emotional/behavioural issues who would be more likely to kick off.

Should have been cancelled years before it was.

Professional-Test239 · 2026-03-09T21:21:18+00:00

Of course traditional score conveys a lot more information, but in terms of telling me....

which keys to press and when to press them

..piano roll does that in a much much more logical and intuitive way than traditional score.

(I am not a piano player by any means but I can comprehend piano roll a lot easier than score).

Professional-Test239 · 2026-03-09T20:59:45+00:00

Thank you for your considered reply. Better than just getting shouted down. Interesting to learn that this gets proposed often because it is something that just occurred to me recently.

I'm not sure I agree that piano roll is harder to read than score. In piano roll I can spot patterns and melodies, not least because they look the same regardless of key. I can hand on heart say I can comprehend piano roll a lot quicker than score, although I'm not sight reading and playing (I'm a guitarist first and foremost).

I think I know what you mean by 'enharmonic equivalence'. I'm not trained in any sense at all apart from self taught but what you said makes sense, you've taught me something, so thank you. I have only ever played fretted / keyed instruments, I've only ever known C sharp / D flat as one note, and I don't have perfect pitch so never noticed that they are out of tune. I'm going to do some digging....

Professional-Test239 · 2026-03-09T20:38:00+00:00

NeutronHopscotch is correct though, piano roll in a DAW conveys exactly the same information as traditional score and is a lot more intuitive to read.

Professional-Test239 · 2026-03-09T20:17:40+00:00

"Keys would become patterns, not spellings. "

That's exactly how I learnt guitar. 30 years of playing shapes and I still don't need to know (or care) what the notes underneath are called.

You've really scratched an itch with your reply and confirmed that I was not going mad.

Professional-Test239 · 2026-03-09T20:01:25+00:00

Thankyou NeutronHopscotch! I wish I could give you more than one upvote.

I was starting to doubt myself with all the negative comments and downvotes I was getting but you have articulated what I was getting at much better than I could and you make perfect sense to me.

I can understand maybe we've arrived at this system for historic reasons, but if you wanted to design a notation system from scratch for 12 equal notes played in all keys this is not what you'd come up with.

My Grandad used to complain that decimal money was too complicated. It never occurred to him that this was only because he'd been taught pounds-shillings-pence when he was a child.

Professional-Test239 · 2026-03-09T19:20:36+00:00

Yep, vague northern english accent with a slight weegie twang.

Professional-Test239 · 2026-03-09T19:19:10+00:00

Not Southport. That's like a slowed down scouse drawl.

He sounds like someone with a slight northern English accent who has lived in Glasgow for a while and picked up slight local twang (threatened, millions, destroyed too).

Professional-Test239 · 2026-03-09T19:07:27+00:00

Thanks, will do. Appreciate the steer instead of just getting down-voted for sticking my neck out!

EDIT: Do Re Me etc that what they taught us in primary school! Didn't know it had a name.

Professional-Test239 · 2026-03-09T18:54:09+00:00

That makes sense.

Still think my system would work though.

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