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Everything Else / Re: The Last Analog Mind: A Psychological Autopsy of Generation X

« Last post by Winterwulf on February 24, 2026, 07:12:32 PM »

Had a listen to this today (yes, the AI imagery was either annoying or idiotic) but it did resonate with me. For all that I earn my living with computers, I still prefer analogue systems I can get hands-on with, don't have a problem with spending a lot of time on my own, and don't need to spend every waking hour staring at a phone.

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Everything Else / Re: Movies that make you grin, smile or laugh out loud...

« Last post by cthulhu on February 24, 2026, 03:15:18 PM »

The glory of ordering-too-much-stuff-simultaniously-unconsciously-and-forgetting-about-it: Two movies got in on the same day and i watched them both on one day and had a great time, thanks to your recommendations.

First i watched Restless Natives, never had heard of it before and found it to be a very charming, soulfull work of art with a punk attitude, meaning most of them learned to make a movie by doing it. And they did very well! Watching the making-of-documentary was also very interesting, the collaboration with Big Country...

Then i watched Local Hero and found it to be a lovely comedy, beautiful to watch and without big dramas unfolding but a constant developing of the characters and relationships and many funny moments.

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Everything Else / Re: What bands are you going to see?

« Last post by cthulhu on February 24, 2026, 02:49:01 PM »

got a busy week ahead -
Crowbar on Tuesday
Kaiser Chiefs on Saturday
Napalm death on Sunday

that really sounds like a decibel heavy week
just discovered that the Melvins, a band i know and like very much, have a cooperation with Napalm Death, a band that i don't know that much, called:Tossing Coins Into The Fountain Of F**k
What's your opinion on that?

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New Model Army / Live At Rock City Nottingham (1989) DIGITAL

« Last post by Gaijin on February 24, 2026, 03:49:05 AM »

https://www.discogs.com/release/14902960-New-Model-Army-Live-At-Rock-City-Nottingham

https://hd24bit.com/164769-new-model-army-live-at-rock-city-nottingham-2023-16bit.html

Cherry Red are apparently involved with this digital release. (!) I hope that means the band gets a slice of the revenue.

It's got some rough edges but sounds as good as can be expected from a soundboard recording.

https://www.discogs.com/release/5259382-New-Model-Army-Like-A-Storm

I previously had mp3s of 'Like a Storm' and it sounded quite bad, perhaps being sourced from FM or a cassette clone. The digital re-release is an improvement.

There's a comment on the discogs page that has some relevance:

"Groovytymes Dec 5, 2020
This is an official release, but not sanctioned by NMA. I know because I recorded it for broadcast in 89.
I even offered them the masters many years ago but they turned me down and were quite rude.
Can not vouch for the quality off this pressing, but the 2xCDs are straight off my master tapes when recorded , with full co operation of the band at Rock City"

If you're OK with a bootleg this is a fun nostalgia trip.

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Everything Else / Re: What bands are you going to see?

« Last post by Winterwulf on February 23, 2026, 08:41:19 PM »

I see the Levellers are going on tour next Autumn in the UK... and, yes, it's yet another anniversary tour with 'Levelling The Land' played in full...     Ah, what the heck, I'm going, just annoyed that I couldn't make  the 'Zeitgeist' anniversary tour last year...

Mind you, 35 years since that album came out?  I remember buying it on the day of release and listening to it with a couple of pals whilst drinking strong cider... happy times.

Somewhere, I've still got my 1991 vintage "On the Fiddle" t-shirt, and I found my tape of their early 12"s the other day. Both bought at their Sheffield gig in June '91, IIRC support was the Moonflowers - what a night!

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Everything Else / Re: What bands are you going to see?

« Last post by Phill on February 23, 2026, 08:20:31 AM »

got a busy week ahead -
Crowbar on Tuesday
Kaiser Chiefs on Saturday
Napalm death on Sunday

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Everything Else / Re: What bands are you going to see?

« Last post by Master Ray on February 21, 2026, 11:08:36 PM »

I see the Levellers are going on tour next Autumn in the UK... and, yes, it's yet another anniversary tour with 'Levelling The Land' played in full...     Ah, what the heck, I'm going, just annoyed that I couldn't make  the 'Zeitgeist' anniversary tour last year...

Mind you, 35 years since that album came out?  I remember buying it on the day of release and listening to it with a couple of pals whilst drinking strong cider... happy times.

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Everything Else / Re: Dario Argento and others thrillers/horror movies directors

« Last post by cthulhu on February 21, 2026, 09:45:31 AM »

You got a point there mentioning Get Carter in comparison, also a classic. Any other good uk crime thrillers which come to mind?
I also love the Harry Palmer movies The Ipcress File and especially The Billion Dollar Brain, both starring Michael Caine and the latter one is directed by Ken Russel and i find it a very special one. Kind of a surreal strange take on an agent story.

I just saw
Demon Seed - by Donald Camell, 1977

and i was thrilled. A very interesting story about AI and regarding the production year, this movie was way ahead of its time. Of course it is a little outdated but for me it worked on every level. Great sci-fi story, good actors, good cinematography and also the sfx are great and were very nice to watch.

If you liked The Matrix and more the story and question it raised about virtual reality, reality and consciousness i recommend:

The Thirteenth Floor - Josef Rusnak, 1999

This one was surprisingly good and i don't know why i hadn't seen this one earlier. I only got the dvd and it looks a bit less than it could look on that format and i would like to have a restored version on bluray. It seems a bit low-budget sometimes, but it has also great images and the story is what counts. A very suspenseful, clever take on virtual reality with a bit of film noir style in it.

@Guillaume
Were you able to watch Black Sunday and what are your thoughts? And more important: could you turn off the subtitles??

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Everything Else / The Last Analog Mind: A Psychological Autopsy of Generation X

« Last post by cthulhu on February 21, 2026, 08:48:42 AM »

I found this very interesting video about "our" generation and i think many of you can relate to the thesis it displays. Many observations i find to be true in here and i often thought about this themes. I would not consider myself as a computer nerd, but i grew up, as most of you i guess, in the analog times and witnessed closely the evolution of technology, writing stuff on typewriters before the personal computer came, programming a little on a commodore C64 computer and being fascinated with the dial in tone of the modems we had to connect to the internet..and now: wtf happened to society and the younger generations?

Would love to hear your thoughts about the thoughts in that video (don't know if i like the style it is presented in, the subtitles and the ai images, a little bit too long maybe, but that would be different discussions)

Why does Generation X see the world differently? It isn't just nostalgia—it’s psychology. In this documentary-style deep dive, we explore the "feral" childhoods of the 1970s and 80s to understand how a lack of safety regulations, benign neglect, and a "zero moderation" environment forged the last truly analog minds in history.

From the unsupervised freedom of latchkey kids to the raw physics of playground culture, we analyze how the pre-digital era created a unique form of resilience and "internal locus of control" that is becoming extinct in the modern world. This is not just a look back; it is a psychological autopsy of the bridge generation.

In this video, we analyze:

The Physics of Reality: How riding without seatbelts and fixing broken bikes built mechanical intuition and agency.

The Gift of Boredom: Why the lack of smartphones and the "Default Mode Network" fostered deep creativity and focus.

Social Calibration: How the brutal, unmoderated social hierarchy of the 80s playground taught conflict resolution.

The Latchkey Phenomenon: The psychological impact of solitude and hyper-independence.

The Bridge Generation: What the modern digital world needs to relearn from the analog past.

If you are Gen X, this is your story. If you are Millennial or Gen Z, this is the origin story of the world you inherited.

The Last Analog Mind: A Psychological Autopsy of Generation X
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tXeEElTfl8o&list=WL&index=28

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Everything Else / Re: What bands are you going to see?

« Last post by cthulhu on February 21, 2026, 08:30:15 AM »

I was living for more than 12 years in "the big city" cologne and my hometown is also about 50km distant to it. I think cologne ia a very good city for live music, to live there is another topic, but also to have a good infrastructure of subways to get you where you need to go, and most important, later back to your home. A great luxury to have. And the variety of music styles and artists who come to cologne is huge, so i feel for my music taste cologne delivered good. I saw The Sword two times in cologne and i'm a little bit disappointed when i found out that they only play in Hamburg and Berlin this tour, but i love this band so much that i just had to buy a ticket and now i have to figure out how to organize this, travel & hotel. I estimate this will cost me together more than 200€... and now 've written it, i better don't think about it more and forget it;-)

I have to post some vids here, maybe some of you will also like this fantastic blues-doom-heavy-rock music they play.

This one is from their Conquest of Quarantine - Lockdown Session and i just love the sound of the recording they did and all the other songs from that session sound incredible.
The song is from their first record, they don't have many and they changed their style a bit in the later albums.

The Sword - Winter's Wolves
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wytv8nz3qc8&list=RDWytv8nz3qc8&start_radio=1

A more bluesy one from a later album:
The Sword - The Hidden Masters
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ClqnCjulQ3g&list=RDClqnCjulQ3g&start_radio=1

17 years old video:
The Sword - How Heavy This Axe
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9KbmRTgigQ

A live recording from i think October 2025
The Sword - Acheron / Unearthing the Orb - Live
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTc-SjRuWdI

And a song from the Album High Country where the style shift happened. I had a while to get used to it because i was expecting a more heavy sound from them but then i fell in unconditonal love with it, a brilliant album
The Sword - High Country
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bI-HrHi1YvY