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mellotronworker @mellotronworker.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I mean really...what can you say about this? #HighLlamas

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mellotronworker @mellotronworker.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

The reason given for the arrest was that she and others were "shooting dice in the dressing room".

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mellotronworker @mellotronworker.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I can only imagine the tortured brains of the average Express reader as they see this sort of headline, and want to cheer it on but then find it hard to because *she's...you know...not that I have anything against them....you know...but...you know...it just feels a bit wrong...you know...*

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mellotronworker @mellotronworker.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

She's what you call a 'two bagger'. One bag over her head and one over yours in case hers comes off.

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mellotronworker @mellotronworker.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

P'Shaw. That's nothing compared to the 23 minutes Ian Beck took over the artwork.

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mellotronworker @mellotronworker.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

"It always starts but sadly seldom ends...."

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mellotronworker @mellotronworker.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

It must be hard to win over hearts and minds when you could barely make up the numbers for a Sunday League team.

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mellotronworker @mellotronworker.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

It also suffers from Juliet Bravo syndrome, where the whole of the station seems to be a sergeant, two inspectors, eight cops, a Chief Super and an unpleasant DS. No wonder they are fighting a losing battle at every turn.

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mellotronworker @mellotronworker.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

By S02 it has turned into an incredibly unlikely main story about drug dealing and cleaning up 'ar cummunity', with a side story featuring Charlie from Casualty, with the real main story being who is having sex with who on the shift. I will try for S03 but I am losing hope.

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mellotronworker @mellotronworker.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

S01 seemed okay and appeared to be pretty good with a bunch of RUC recruits taking on a troubled part of Belfast. The one less than credible part was how an English former social worker turned cop manages to survive, but that's another thing. All in all, it's not at all bad.

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mellotronworker @mellotronworker.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

'Devil Rides Out' was actually really good *at the time* but the forward/reverse film effect on the Angel of Death scene is pretty risible now, and Jim Hacker plays himself as usual. It's all Dennis Wheatley drivel, of course. #TheGoatOfMendes

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mellotronworker @mellotronworker.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

If you sell five I'll give you a coconut.

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mellotronworker @mellotronworker.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Sigh. My other half once referred to Robert Fripp as 'Kid Crimson and the Coconuts'. I had to award her five points for that.

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mellotronworker @mellotronworker.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I still have a vivid memory of watching this and collecting Sugar Smacks badges...

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mellotronworker @mellotronworker.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Yesterday I foolishly tried to make up a list of 9 albums that I treasure the most....and somehow left this one off. I know it's divisive, & the sound quality is described as 'in the red' but I've never heard poetry and simple music pressed as relentlessly and artistically, anywhere. Masterpiece.

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mellotronworker @mellotronworker.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Really? This place? Bugger Balmoral.

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mellotronworker @mellotronworker.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Already I can see that this list is drivel. I've missed out about three albums at least which should have made the cut. No Bruckner. No Satie. No Tallis.

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mellotronworker @mellotronworker.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Actually, I lied - this is the Stravinsky I have, as conducted by that old Nazi Herbert von Karajan. I played this nearly every day for months, at one point. The only thing that might have obsessed me more than this was Erik Satie.

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mellotronworker @mellotronworker.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Bad luck mate. It was 50/50 after all. 😀

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mellotronworker @mellotronworker.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Nice to watch Scotland snatch shit from the rectum of more shit. We play football like most people speak a 7th language. If we were incoherent then it would be a monstrous improvement. My top tip for the next match: stop abducting strangers and forcing them to play a sport they cannot comprehend.

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mellotronworker @mellotronworker.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I assumed the other two because there are so many varieties and different pressings of both. I have Plunderphonics on cassette, the recording having been banned already. I have the feeling it might have come from a slightly "official" source. Amazed that you don't have Eskimo!!

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mellotronworker @mellotronworker.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

#My9Albums as of 6th October 2026. It will absolutely change tomorrow.

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mellotronworker @mellotronworker.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The Oldfield one is a complete take on the EST he was going through at the time, probably one of the most appalling mind-control cults there is.

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mellotronworker @mellotronworker.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

For the truly arresting, there is Blind Faith's album cover. In that it could get you arrested.

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mellotronworker @mellotronworker.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Worst Genesis album? Wow. That could be quite a fight.

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mellotronworker @mellotronworker.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I cannot imagine a more arresting cover than King Crimson's first. Whatever you may think of the music contained within that visual is something that will live in your imagination for a very long time.

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mellotronworker @mellotronworker.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

It certainly puts lie to the nonsense that he spoke about when he said that the troubles of F1 do not even 'moof der needle'. People who fling headphones around the pit wall are not untroubled by what they hear.

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mellotronworker @mellotronworker.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I did once hear 'cunt the fucker' at a football match, which I assumed was an exhortation to strike the ball with more than usual force.

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mellotronworker @mellotronworker.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The Oxford was never the same after Willie Ross left it! @ianrankin1.bsky.social may know more.

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mellotronworker @mellotronworker.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

on Eldorado, and there are other near-quotes from Mr Blue Sky, Rockaria! and others I cannot quite place. It's strange to hear someone almost parodying himself like this. Definitely worth a listen, but you might want to frisbee it through a window. Caveat emptor. #LouisClark #per-spek-tiv #ELO

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mellotronworker @mellotronworker.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

It's really dated - it has that really irritating PEWWWW! synthetic drum all over it - and seems to have a horrific identity crisis, to such an extent that I cannot really tell if I like the work or not. It also quotes ELO to a silly degree, with the coda being a carbon copy of the last flourish

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mellotronworker @mellotronworker.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

idea of the sort of mishmash that it is, except that where 'Prelude' actually understood variations and themes, this one seems to have lots of ideas of varying degrees of connection tacked onto one another in a manner most Oldfield, where nothing that happens really references what has gone before.

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mellotronworker @mellotronworker.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

which wander in and out of focus. (I am sure that 'Someone To Watch Over Me' is quoted somewhere) The funny thing is that for all the sound and fury it never really takes off, and seems stuck in a strange furrow from which it cannot escape. If you think of Klaatu's 'Prelude' from Hope you get an

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mellotronworker @mellotronworker.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I played this demented thing on the bus today. Louis Clark was of course the orchestra and choir arranged for ELO, and it shows. The album is in two halves of about 23 mins each, each being a maddening instrumental that reeks of ELO, Oldfield, Klaatu (yes really) and has snippets of other tunes

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mellotronworker @mellotronworker.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Bernard Braden and the Patsy Wilcox may disagree with that more than just a bit.

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