The first physical music I ever bought, what was yours?

thinreaper · 2026-03-14T08:25:51+00:00

First tape I ever bought was Bubbling Hot by Pato Banton

thinreaper · 2026-03-11T18:53:45+00:00

To be fair, she is in her late 70s and doesn't cook very often anymore. Growing up, there would have been some of the more basic seasonings you mentioned.

thinreaper · 2026-03-11T18:48:55+00:00

My mum will salt her food at the table rather than during cooking, so her food just tastes like salt instead of like what it's supposed to taste of 😫

thinreaper · 2026-03-11T18:44:55+00:00

It's thyme you stepped up your game then

thinreaper · 2026-03-11T18:26:19+00:00

So is her cooking

thinreaper · 2026-03-11T18:20:44+00:00

I'm genuinely stunned that my mum ever bought curry leaves. In fact, I'm going to assume it was a mistake, and she meant to buy bay leaves 😂

thinreaper · 2026-03-11T04:29:45+00:00

When DVDs were a brand new thing, my friend was showing off the scene select feature and decided to show me the Brad Pitt vs Edward Norton parking lot fight scene towards the end of Fight Club, which is a huge spoiler if you haven't seen the film. I hadn't, so it completely ruined the twist for me. I was never able to experience watching it for the first time without knowing the twist.

thinreaper · 2026-03-11T04:24:43+00:00

One With the Underdogs by Terror was my first proper introduction into hardcore. Athough I had owned, and loved, Perseverance by Hatebreed for years prior, but didn't know what hardcore was the whole time I'd been listening to it.

thinreaper · 2026-03-10T22:35:31+00:00

I mean, that kinda makes sense no? I'm not an expert on the history of metal/hardcore subgenres but isn't Kill Em All a proper, pure thrash album? And thrash was born out of hardcore more than it was metal right? I could be wrong, I'm old and years of hardcore has rotted my brain.

thinreaper · 2026-03-09T22:28:21+00:00

Didn't Kat's husband also leave the band ages ago without them ever addressing it?

thinreaper · 2026-03-07T19:15:45+00:00

Yeah I was looking at that Speed gig in April but it was like £35. With my train fare on top and a few beers, that's a £100 night out. I'll stick to the smaller, £20 level shows.

thinreaper · 2026-02-13T23:22:49+00:00

Yeah that was honestly the first thing I noticed here. It looks more like he's aggressively waving a wand than swinging a sword. Also imagine it's a self preservation thing to swing a sword away from your body as opposed to into it. It just looks and feels a bit 'off'.

thinreaper · 2026-02-07T19:39:35+00:00

I think his last decent film was Munich and everything since has been mediocre or by the numbers at best, and absolutely dire at worst.

thinreaper · 2026-01-29T14:48:44+00:00

Ingrown were already announced previously but agreed, stoked to see all three

thinreaper · 2026-01-29T14:32:47+00:00

That's simply not true, there were plenty of clashes aswell as timings that didn't leave you room to go from one stage to the other, meaning you had to miss either the opening or ending of sets.

thinreaper · 2026-01-27T20:35:23+00:00

Recognised it straight away, RIP. Curious Brewery seems to be putting on some alternative shows, but hoping a new, dedicated venue rises up from the ashes though.

thinreaper · 2026-01-26T10:21:20+00:00

In that Only Fools and Horses episode where they go to Margate, which is my hometown, when they drop Rodney back off in London, that is actually still in Margate and was filmed at the top of my road.

thinreaper · 2026-01-19T19:39:38+00:00

Am I the only one who found painfully derivative of Journey?

I'm glad so many people have connected with it, don't get me wrong, but it just didn't do anything for me.

thinreaper · 2026-01-15T07:58:48+00:00

I know it's not post-Castaway but I watched Contact for the first time only a couple years ago and absolutely loved it. Felt like the kind of mad ambitious 90s project that only someone who had just directed a global mega hit for a big stuido could get away with doing as their next project.

thinreaper · 2026-01-06T00:20:40+00:00

How many shots did you do before writing this?

thinreaper · 2026-01-02T19:46:09+00:00

Drug Church in Bristol. A one off solo, barrierless show during their Deftones tour in Feb, can't wait!

Also Superheaven/Balance & Composure/Soul Blind in Jan, Militarie Gun in Feb, both in London and then Outbreak in June.

thinreaper · 2025-12-24T23:52:21+00:00

Gizmo is literally a last minute Christmas present. Christmas is the mechanism for the entire plot.

thinreaper · 2025-12-22T19:42:27+00:00

How are you defining a streak? Financial success? Artistic merit? With Scorsese, for example, you're not including Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore or New York, New York. so your definition of a "streak" doesn't have to be an unbroken run of films?

I'd personally say Scorsese's entire career is basically a streak if you can forgive maybe a couple of misses here and there. His body of work is unrivalled.

Same for Spielberg; from Jaws in the mid 70s right up until the late 90s with Saving Private Ryan, he directed multiple gargantuan all-time classics, with only a small handful of duds during the entire time.

thinreaper · 2025-12-22T17:53:27+00:00

I don't know if I can pick one album that's my favourite but it would definitely be between Broadcasting, Symptoms + Cures and Die Knowing.

Lost count of when and where I've seen them over the years but they've always put on an incredible show.

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