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Feb 25, 2023Liked by We Are Scientists

Love this game!

Recent:

Lobes - WAS

As Long As You Are - Future Islands

A Bath Full Of Ecstasy - Hot Chip

Bablesberg - Gruff Rhys

American Dream - LCD Soundsystem

16 year old me:

Blur - Blur

His and Hers - Pulp

Odelay - Beck

Radiator - Super Furry Animals

In It For The Money - Supergrass

Hello Nasty - Beastie Boys

Very heavy into Brit Pop and rightly so as it’s class! Some bangers in this list! Might give them a spin now!

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Also you may tell I was excited writing about my teenage musical choices with the sheer amount of exclamation marks used.... I shall not apologise!!!!

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A fellow Beck fan! 🖤

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Keith and I (Chris) both thought about putting Colors on our Recent lists but judges ultimately ruled that album a little too old.

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Colours is so bloody good! Saw Beck back in June last year was amazing. Actually considered putting his recent support for that tour/recent collaboration, JAWNY, on my list but decided an EP doesn’t count.

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Haven’t heard it! Will check.

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Feb 25, 2023Liked by We Are Scientists

Recent:

WaS - Lobes

Hot Chip - Freakout/Release

CMAT - If my wife new I'd be dead

Griff - One foot In Front of the other

Olivia Rodrigo - SOUR

Age 16:

Pulp - This is hardcore

Rage against the machine - rage against the machine

System of a down - System of a down

Blur - Parklife

Garbage - Version 2.0

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Feb 25, 2023Liked by We Are Scientists

These lists are assuming WAS are on repeat - Lobes and WLAS both being there otherwise.

Recent

Midnights - Taylor Swift

Never Happy - Joel Harkin

Teenage Wildlife - Ash

Six The Musical Cast Recording

I Don’t Know What I’m Doing - Nerina Pallot

16

A Certain Trigger - Maximo Park

In Your Honour - Foo Fighters

The Black Parade - My Chemical Romance

Eyes Open - Snow Patrol

A Fever You Can’t Sweat Out - Panic! at the Disco

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The Black Parade and Eyes Open are great albums (although I prefer The Final Straw) They are very much from my ferrying around small children in the back of the car era.

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Oh I love Final Straw! I got really into Snow Patrol again last year, and listening to it brought back so many memories. Somewhere A Clock is Ticking is one of my favourite pieces of music ever (along with Life on Earth from their most recent album)

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Feb 25, 2023Liked by We Are Scientists

Almost feels like some kind of confessional soul-bearing here...

Recent

WAS - lobes (obvs)

Courteeners - st Jude

Noel Gallagher - back the way we came

Strokes - first impressions of Earth

Pulp- his n hers

16

Lloyd Cole - don’t get weird on me babe

Morrissey - viva hate

The Smiths - meat is murder

New Order - technique

Housemartins - the people who grinned themselves to death

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Ah, a fellow Gen-X'er! I enjoyed those same albums when I was 16.

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Millennial with parents who have excellent taste, I’m afraid! Last time I saw New Order with my Dad and we bought matching T-Shirts

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Aw, that's nice!

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Love Lloyd Cole and New Order! 🖤

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Feb 25, 2023Liked by We Are Scientists

5 I've listened to recently

Idles - crawler

Studio cast - Six the musical

Yoshi umr - Digimon world lo fi beats (great game)

Bo Burnham - inside (incl outtakes)

Frank carter and the rattlesnakes - sticky

16 yr old list (estimated)

Slipknot - vol 3, subliminal verses

Meteora - linkin park

Cradle of filth - live bait for the dead

Offspring - splinter

Dogs die in hot cars - please describe yourself

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Feb 25, 2023Liked by We Are Scientists

God, I love a list! Very much approve of August and Everything After. It might’ve made my list but I think I was at uni already when it came out. My 16 year old list is a bit of an approximation because it was a really long time ago. I know these are the albums I loved the most while I was still at school.

Recent (excluding WAS because what would be the point!)

Late Developers - Belle and Sebastian

The Theory of Whatever - Jamie T

Here’s What You Could Have Won - Kid Kapichi

Gulp - Sports Team

Somebody’s Child - Somebody’s Child

16 year old me:

Actually - Pet Shop Boys

God Fodder - Ned’s Atomic Dustbin

Don’t Try this at Home - Billy Bragg

Out of Time - REM

Levelling the Land - The Levellers

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Feb 25, 2023·edited Feb 25, 2023Liked by We Are Scientists

Recent:

Tell Me That It's Over - Wallows

Lobes - WAS

Juno - Remi Wolf

Live from the Fox Theater - Nickel Creek

Miniature Tigers - Miniature Tigers

Age 16:

No World For Tomorrow - Coheed and Cambria

Robbers and Cowards - Cold War Kids

Louder Now - Taking Back Sunday

With Love And Squalor - WAS

Oh No - OK Go

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Feb 25, 2023Liked by We Are Scientists

Recent:

Lobes- WAS (obviously)

Go farther in Lightness- Gang of Youths

Hits to the head- Franz Ferdinand

A irmandade das estrelas- Carlos Nuñez

Castor et Polux- Jean-Phillip Rameau

16:

With love and squalor- WAS

You could have it so much better- Franz Ferdinand

Tyrannosaurus Hives- The Hives

¿La calle es tuya?- Estopa

La rebelión de los hombres rana- El último de la fila.

Looking back my taste hasn’t changed, just expanded! (Except pop, sorry, still can’t get on board with that)

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Feb 25, 2023Liked by We Are Scientists

The Hives are a class band! Can’t wait to see them support Arctic Monkeys this summer! Xx

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Feb 25, 2023Liked by We Are Scientists

Recent:

Lobes- We Are Scientists

This Is Why- Paramore

Bad Bunny- Un Verano Sin Ti

Harry’s House- Harry Styles

Tell Me That it’s over- Wallows

16:

With Love and Squalor- WAS (omg I’m old 😭)

Decemberunderground- AFI

First Impressions on Earth- The Strokes

Almost Here- The Academy Is

The Black Parade- MCR

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Ha ha ha ha ha "old" ;) :)

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My exact same reaction. :-)

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Feb 25, 2023Liked by We Are Scientists

RECENT

Jay Reatard SINGLES 08’

Mean Jeans On Mars

Kittycraft Mew

Beck Midnite Vultures

Yeah Yeah Yeahs Cool it Down

My Favorite Happiest Days…♾

at 16

Rentals Return of the Rentals

Gin Blossoms Congratulations…

De La Soul 3 Feet High and Rising

Green Day Insomniac

Ben Folds Five S/T

Bush Razorblade Suitcase ♾

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Feb 25, 2023Liked by We Are Scientists

Recent(ish)

Second Nature - Lucius.

Lost in the Cedar Wood - Johnny Flynn & Robert Macfarlane.

Flotsam & Jetsam - Peter Gabriel.

& Co - Daði Freyr.

Me around 16:

Discovery- Daft Punk.

Reanimation - Linkin Park.

Dangerously in Love - Beyoncé.

Patience - George Michael.

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Feb 25, 2023Liked by We Are Scientists

Recent(ish)

Harry’s House, Harry Styles

This Is Why, Paramore

Lobes, Some Band

Sour, Olivia Rodrigo

Replaying My Chemical Romance like it’s 2005

Ashley Jean at 16

Justified, Justin Timberlake

Fallen, Evanescence

So Long Astoria, The Ataris

Composure, Waking Ashland

In the Zone, Britney Spears

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Recent.

WAS. lobes .

RHCP. Return of the dream canteen.

Ghost . Impera.

Pearl jam. Gigaton.

5......

Along time ago ....

Manic street preachers.

Generation terrorists.

Inxs shabooh shoobah.

Pearl jam. Ten.

Alice in chains. Facelift.

RHCP. Blood sugar sex magik.

All sounded great on tape then .

But even better on vinyl now...

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Generation Terrorists is still a great album. Love it.

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Hi lou . I know it's a classic

Followed closely by gold against the soul. ..

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Recent:

Rocky Votolato - Makers

Neal Casal - Fade Away Diamond Time

Desperate Journalists - Desperate Journalists

The Beths - Expert in a Dying Field

The Twilight Sad - Nobody Wants to be Here, Nobody wants to leave

Age 16:

Gene - Drawn To the Deep End

Blur - Parklife

Toad The wet sprocket - Dulcinea

The Smiths - The Smiths

The Replacements - Tim

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SOLID 16-yr-old list — we didn’t get Gene in the US and a friend showed me (Chris) that album when we started coming to the UK in 2005. Great.

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It's a shame so many good UK bands never made it here. Thank god for 120 minutes on Mtv back in the day (probably the only good program)!

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founding

Ooh. Expert in a Dying Field ❤️ Great choice!

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Yeah a new one that snuck up on me.

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Been putting off diving into this record, but it’s time

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You really should. It’s excellent.

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arrhhh it’s so hard to pick! 🤔

RECENT:

WAS - Lobes 🫶🏻

Sea Girls - Open Up Your Head

The Sherlocks - World I Understand

Blossoms - Cool Like You

Coasts - Coasts

AGE 16 (my pop-punk/indie crossover year!)

Busted - A Present for Everyone 😳🫣

Simple Plan - Still Not Getting Any

The Killers - Hot Fuss

The Futureheads - The Futureheads

Maximo Park - A Certain Trigger

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Love both of these sets of five! Sea Girls and Sherlocks albums are both great.

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Recent (other than Lobes, of course):

Here's What You Could Have Won - Kid Kapichi

Wet Leg - Wet Leg

Supportive Partner Please Stand Here - Phillip Jon Taylor

-!- - Dead Poet Society

The Myth of the Happily Ever After - Biffy Clyro

16-year-old me (that was junior-senior year of high school, it all kind of blurs together):

Whiplash Smile - Billy Idol

Strangeways Here We Come - The Smiths

Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me - The Cure

Bo-Day-Shus! - Mojo Nixon

Nothing Like the Sun - Sting

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