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Adam Green recommended Is This It by The Strokes in Music (curated)

Is This It by The Strokes

2001 | Rock

8.0

(4 Ratings)

Album Favorite

"I can't say enough about this album. I heard that when The Stooges came out everyone thought they were retro garage band not realising they were pointing the way forward to punk. Every song on Is This It is amazing. I played 'Modern Age' for my daughter the other day, and just for that song alone it could be one of the greatest albums. I was there for the making of the record and I was so blown away by their dedication to making this perfect music and executing it perfectly every night. It was crazy. These guys would really yell at each other if they missed one chord or beat. They were perfectionists. They were the first band of my age group who were great. There's a level of precision that The Strokes brought to making their music and their approach to it – the way Fab tried to emulate a drum machine in his playing – it feels obvious to people now but it was counter-intuitive at the time, no one had done that. Everything about Is This It was a statement in the opposite direction to what everyone else was doing. Before this the trend was for people make albums that sounded like they were performed in arena, they're soaked with reverb, Is This It is this weird insular record with the distorted vocals. People were confused by the decisions that were made when it was made when it came out, but now you hear it copied infinitely. It's funny that for a band that were criticised for being retro they've now come to define their own times."

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Super Arc Light

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“This is Twitch gaming at its finest on a mobile device” – The Guardian “To show off the...

Ross (3284 KP) rated The Elis James And John Robins On Radio X Podcast in Podcasts

Jan 4, 2018

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Humblebrags

Made Up Games

The championing of "e-mail"

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I am a PCD

Two friends chatting about music, life, love, veganism and social media on Radio X. Excellent features such as "Humblebrag of the Week", "Made Up Game", "Abbatoir" (where some of the biggest bands in the world are debated and listener votes either put them safely in the paddock or consign them to the abbatoir) and "Winner Plays On".
Both comedians in their own right, Elis James is a football-mad Welsh mod and John Robins is a Queen-obsessed stickler for the rules. Both have enough in common and enough different opinions to make the show hilarious and something of a cult. Listen to all shows from the start to become a "retro-oner" and a "Podcast Devotee" (PCD).

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Daniel Boyd (1066 KP) rated Mafia III in Video Games

Jul 24, 2017

Mafia III

2016 | Action/Adventure

7.7

(6 Ratings)

Video Game Rating

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Not as good as Mafia 2 (0 more)

A retro tale of revenge

Not everyone loved Mafia 2, but I did. I thought the story at the time was one of the best that I had ever played through, so I was extremely excited to get my hands on the third outing.
When the game was released though, I held off buying it as all I heard was how it was full of glitches and bugs. After a couple of months and a few updates, I eventually got round to playing it
Unfortunately Lincoln's story isn't as interesting as Vito's was. This is still a decent gangster story, but it is to Mafia 2 what Black Mass is to Goodfellas. They are both pretty good but one is a league above the other.

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The Marinated Meeple (1853 KP) rated Stay Alive in Tabletop Games

Apr 18, 2018

Stay Alive

1965 | Abstract Strategy, Kids Game

7.5

(4 Ratings)

Tabletop Game Rating

the satisfying drop of the other players marble into the chute (2 more)

Taking out your sisters pieces

Figuring out the patterns of the slides.

I loved this game as a kid.... not sure it would hold up now.

I'd love to get my hands on a copy of this game. I'd love to try it out now and see how it holds up. I imagine it would be pretty easy to memorize the patterns of the boards sliders, The real skill is in knowing how to move them, and the placement of the marble pawns. I think I would have a blast reliving my childhood for an hour. playing best out of three. I also think this might make a very cool retro art piece for my gaming room wall.