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Bolo

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  1. So the Scorpions are out then? And Gogol Bordello? What about Die Antwoord or Jack Parow? Straya's Midnight Oil?
  2. What's wrong with it? I thought people were paying extra for the road worn vintage look nowadays?
  3. Almost forgot! Madeleine Peyroux! A must If you like Billy Holiday.
  4. Ministry and White Zombie. Their early 80s effort respectively being electro/wave and scratchy wannabe punk. Ministry found their feet somewhere between Twitch and Land of Rape and Honey.
  5. I knew I had some more to add! Lovely young lass making very likeable videos
  6. Humppa my friends! The kings of humppa are Elakelaiset from Finland. Please look for their many many renditions of your favourite tunes! A bit like, but not quite: https://www.humppa.com/en/
  7. The thought entered my head that this is village therapy and the men are taking turns airing their grievances.
  8. Some Russians. This deserves quality audio to bring out all the voices and harmonies.
  9. Lidl: 2pack for under two quid. Dark day to spend all the effort and no results though!
  10. I buy mine 144 at a time with the band logo on from in-tune GP. I use the large three-sided ones, takes about five years before I reorder.
  11. Muscle tension and hearing loss are different causes of tinnitus, you guessed it, one can be relieved to some extent by manipulating/relaxing the muscles. That won't affect the hearing loss or genetically induced tinnitus. Countering or 'masking' the sound of your tinnitus can be a pleasant distraction. There are hearing aids that also produce a noise to drown out your own. As for the article, it's peculiar. I work in the audiology department of a university hospital where we do a lot of research. Generally speaking putting electricity to the tongue to stimulate the hearing centers in the brain is like expecting to switch on the telly to a Christmas special in July using your microwave. We all want a cure for tinnitus. Over 80% of people with hearing loss experience ringing, humming, whistling, knocking, buzzing and/or hissing with a good 40% of those describing their burden as 'severe suffering'. Results have been seen in electrical stimulation of parts of the brain called the floculus when trying to suppress the effects of Parkinson's disease. However much more trials and testing is needed to pin down the exact where/how/why/how much etc etc to determine reliable outcomes and predictable results. Also in these trials patients report loss of their sense of horizon, they no longer feel what 'level' is. We're getting closer but we're still some years out from an easy fix.
  12. I may have missed it but 'Sausage' deserves a mention here. Oh and 'Duo de Twang' top!
  13. Bolo

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    A Godflesh beat with Napalm Death anger, this is very good and fits them well! Will check out the album, this is my jam! For hearing ND do groove I turn to 'breed to breathe'
  14. Up to last year, the festival season had never been busier, with new festivals sprouting all over the place. The line-ups usually consisting of some variant of guitar driven rock/pop, some singy-songwritey acts, and electronic music for the masses that broadly all identify as the same individual.. literally thousands of above acts roamed the western world in the last two decades with no sign of slowing down, until covid19 that is. Vast parts of Asia seem enthralled by K-pop, which has become an industrial Moloch all of it's own. Thank goodness for reheated jazz-funk. Music by people that still enjoy the craftsmanship of forging a coherent piece of music with real instruments and luckily being enjoyed by a sizeable crowd that will appreciate more complex melodies. There have been no Beatles since the Beatles. They rode the wave being the right thing at the right time, bringing American style marketing to the rest of the world. Elvis and his contemporaries paved the way, all that was needed was a sufficiently talented and productive European outfit to roll it to popular-culture hungry teens everywhere. Wait, what was the question?
  15. Yes, the death metal crowd can be so picky can't they!
  16. It seems to me like the OP states something along the lines of 'when I noticed effects being used I didn't like the way the bass sounded, therefore all bass sounds that use effects are bad'. Reinforcing that with 'the sounds I like will outperform sounds that I do not like, always'. Maybe asking people if they have examples of bass with effects sounding good could have made discussion more interesting than a yes/no situation.
  17. Do not. Let them heal as protected as possible.
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