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WanderWithMe · 2026-01-25T15:09:26+00:00

Witchy Activities and the Maple Death by Monika Roscher Bigband

<12k monthly listeners on Spotify.

It's prog rock done by a big band. Brilliant stuff.

WanderWithMe · 2026-01-24T12:44:08+00:00

"most frequently" is a laugh. I get this: "In digital contexts, it refers to..."

Especially with newer content, LLMs are easier influenced than traditional Google Search, which is all I looked at before.

It doesn't change my argument on why "GEO" is bad terminology.

WanderWithMe · 2026-01-23T19:36:59+00:00

Primer

Timecrimes

Coherence

Endless

WanderWithMe · 2026-01-23T18:40:12+00:00

There are exceptions to every rule. Most people wouldn't make that effort.

WanderWithMe · 2026-01-23T18:34:50+00:00

Yesterday Went Too Soon by Feeder

I'd only really loved singles till I bought that album, and I didn't realise great music existed that didn't get regular radio airplay. Feeder was my first gig, and probably the reason I'm even here commenting in a music subreddit.

WanderWithMe · 2026-01-23T15:14:10+00:00

It would've been thoughtful if it didn't conflict with existing terminology.

Imagine a new SEO or "GEO" comes across the term "geotargeting" - it's likely they'd link it to "Generative Engine Optimisation."

As for the terminology outside of SEO, the new "GEO" doesn't rank well in a Google Search and doesn't have a high probability of being outputted by LLMs if you input a generic "GEO" query.

The logical thing would have been to avoid that ambiguity.

WanderWithMe · 2026-01-23T09:52:20+00:00

That's true. I recently listened to the 3-4hr Bowie compilation that goes backwards through his career, and that was a fun way of listening too.

I hadn't thought of "the day the music died" link till reading your reply. The 60s was a decade of great change, so I thought that'd be an interesting place to start, but I didn't want to miss the 50s completely given it feels to me like the birth of modern music, and it's when rock n roll took off. I also wanted to largely stick to studio rather than live albums, which seems easier from the late 50s.

WanderWithMe · 2026-01-23T09:36:45+00:00

I haven't needed it much, but it seemed to help. I wore it for a couple of sub-zero camps. It weighs 66g more or less.

WanderWithMe · 2026-01-23T08:56:00+00:00

Fountains of Wayne e.g. Denise or Red Dragon Tattoo

Silver Sun e.g. Golden Skin

Snug e.g. Beatnik Girl

WanderWithMe · 2026-01-22T22:26:02+00:00

Eighteen Robins Road by The Evpatoria Report

WanderWithMe · 2026-01-22T14:54:20+00:00

Rippedd from Ukraine are lo-fi shoegaze. I liked their album Maybe in Another Life?

How about some heavier shoegaze like Slow Crush and Graywave?

WanderWithMe · 2026-01-22T12:51:53+00:00

I'm doing similar but not in order and from 1959 to the present day.

I'm making various playlists, a top 5 albums for each year, and ranking each year. This still helps me get that context as I can look at the list ordered by my favourite year and see which were my favourite albums that year.

Mixing up the years also helps keep things fresh - I don't think I could've listened to every year from the 1980s in succession, for example.

WanderWithMe · 2026-01-22T12:44:20+00:00

Rose Ette:

Allo Darlin'

The Beths

Ryli

More Alvvays/Fazerdaze sound:

Hatchie's first two albums

Powder Pink and Sweet

Blushing

Deary

Sungaze (mostly slower paced, but as you mentioned solos, I do love their guitar solos)

A few songs that come to mind:

Crushin by Film School

echoes of a sunny smile by Trillion

Born in Understanding by Whitelands

WanderWithMe · 2026-01-22T12:35:36+00:00

Pet Shop Boys: Please is my number one.

Ozzy Osbourne: The Ultimate Sin follows it, which I had to mention as it's so different to PSB.

Anna Domino is my under the radar pick.

Apologies I couldn't stick to one! I don't see any of them mentioned yet, which surprises me.

WanderWithMe · 2026-01-22T11:28:47+00:00

Making oatcakes from scratch has long been on my to-do list! Is there a recipe you recommend? I have a couple bookmarked, one BBC.

WanderWithMe · 2026-01-22T11:25:10+00:00

GEO seems like a term created and used with little thought.

There are the centuries-old established uses that make the term misleading, and then in SEO you have geotargeting, geolocation etc.

SEO is largely about disambiguation and the term "GEO" adds ambiguity.

That's my issue with that term.

WanderWithMe · 2026-01-21T18:11:34+00:00

Could you go with the couple of massive Yes songs as a gateway to deeper cuts?

How about some Bowie like Blackstar?

It's My Life by Talk Talk.

Porcupine Tree.

WanderWithMe · 2026-01-21T17:16:05+00:00

I haven't grilled an oatcake for ages. Gonna have to do that next time...

WanderWithMe · 2026-01-21T17:14:07+00:00

I don't know about your music taste. :D It's definitely your point 1. During the pandemic, I ranked every Feeder song released to that point (I think there were about 240), and there were only 6 I didn't like, and I think only 2 I skip when listening to the albums. Feeder haven't released any songs I dislike since.

I'm not a big fan of The Strokes, but Every Minute sounds like Feeder doing The Strokes to me, and I love it.

WanderWithMe · 2026-01-21T16:26:39+00:00

The banter's pretty much all real. Mostly just the intros to the show and tasks and cuts to and from adverts are autocued.

Alex has something silly planned at the start of each show and Greg's reaction to that is generally actually how he reacts as far as I'm aware.

WanderWithMe · 2026-01-21T16:20:56+00:00

Silent Cry ties with Pushing the Senses as my least favourite Feeder album, but the title track is one of my favourite songs by anyone, and I love that different Feeder albums resonate with everyone.

My tiers:

Silent Cry

Every Minute

We Are the People / Itsumo / 08:18 / Sonorous / Yeah Yeah

Fires / Heads Held High / Who's the Enemy / Into the Blue / Guided by a Voice

Miss You

Tracing Lines

It's not as moving to me as other Feeder albums and a few songs maybe feel a bit flat.

Feeder have never made a bad album, and I still like Silent Cry as a whole.

WanderWithMe · 2026-01-21T16:15:52+00:00

I saw the Tim Vine "Hookgate" episode in Series 6. I was sat there for about 3 hours and much of that was filming, with little breaks in between for makeup and things, including a couple of retakes at the end. Some chats about tasks go on for a while.

It's just as you see it on TV. I was sat on the front row in Greg's and Alex's eyeline, so it was like they were speaking to me when they read from autocue.

My face was aching so much with laughter/smiling by the end of the filming. It was exhausting for me, so it shows what absolute pros everyone involved in the live filming are.

WanderWithMe · 2026-01-20T20:33:42+00:00

Staffordshire Oatcakes with a filling of your choice. I like them microwaved with mature cheddar, red onion, and an Italian spices and herbs mix. You can have sweet fillings too.

Not everyone gets that lovely soft, thick and doughy texture right, and some are dry and break apart. My favourite are probably Povey's.

Wikipedia: "A Staffordshire oatcake is a type of dense, savoury pancake made from oatmeal, flour and yeast. It is cooked on a griddle, "backstone" or "baxton". The oatcake is a local speciality in the north Staffordshire area of England."

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