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Back in 1978, the Jacksons had a minor hit with "Blame it on the Boogie" with Michael Jackson singing the lead, as he mostly did with the group. Michael Jackson was one of the writers of the song.......but not the Michael Jackson that sang it ! It was an English guy called Michael Jackson {he...

Just over 3 years ago, Boris Johnson was smugly putting himself about after his party won the UK election with a majority of 80 which meant slaughter for the Labour and Liberal Democrat parties, and it basically meant that, providing he didn't do anything stupid, the Conservatives were in a...

Now that you have one of these, no task will ever escape you again.

I was having this discussion with my kids this morning and even though they are 21 and 18, in their lifetime, there have been loads of fictional animals and when I started to throw in mine, that list became bigger than many lists I could name. So who are your favourite animals in fiction ...

As a musician/engineer {and others}, which of your senses do you consider to be non-negotiable ? Which would you cope better with if it were to become significantly diminished ? If given the choice, which would you rather lose, your hearing or your sight ?

Can you often tell the brand of electric or acoustic guitar being used in songs you like or hear ? Like, could you always tell a Rickenbacker or a Gibson or a Hagstrom or an Epiphone or an Ovation or a Martin or a whatever ? I can't !

I grew up in England in the 60s and 70s and in Nigeria for 4 years from '77 to '81 and I consider myself fortunate to have grown up in what I view as the golden age of comics. Obviously, I was young so that colours my view, but there was something about comics in that period that grabbed me and...

What ingredients make a good thread for you ?

a] Poor lyric x Poor music = b] Poor lyric x Good music = c] Good lyric x Good music = d] Good lyric x Poor music = Is a] always worse than d] ? Can b] ever be better than c] ? Can a] ever be better than b] or c] ? Support your answers with songs, please.

Are there any songs that contain subjects that you are so opposed to that you won't listen to that song ?

Has there been a moment in a TV show or film franchise you've been into when it "jumped the shark", that is, hit a point where you felt it got demonstrably worse and started sliding downhill to the point where you just couldn't watch it anymore ? What was the show/film and what was the moment ?

Which artists, bands, writers, actors, directors etc, do you feel came out at the start of their career with guns blazing, being involved in a wonderful debut and then never attained those heights again ? It doesn't even have to be that their work thereafter was bad or progressively worse, just...

Is it coincidence or just laziness ? The number of bands that share song titles is ridiculous. The Beatles, the Osmonds and Barry Moore {now known as Luka Bloom} each did a fantastic song called "Girl." I'm sure there are others. The Kinks, Shakti and Clannad each did a truly great song called...

Are there things that your parents taught you while growing up that you have clung to and adopted as you've progressed and are there things they taught you that you have wholesale rejected ? Are there things you wholesale rejected but found yourself coming back to as you got older ?

This is another of those threads in which there is no right or wrong, but plenty of scope for disagreement and different {and probably opposing} opinions. Which is your favourite period/era of music and why do you think that is ? And are there any particular periods in music history that you...

This is supposed to be a fun thread....but it might not turn out that way ! Namely, what are those phrases that pop up in a home recording context that drive you up the wall or you just don't understand, still ? One of mine is when people talk about flipping the phase. I mean, I know what it...

Ex-Pink Floyd bassist {he left the band 38 years ago}, vocalist and songwriter Roger Waters has given an interview with the Daily Telegraph journalist, Tristram Fane Saunders, in which he says that he's re-recorded the entirety of the album "The Dark Side of the Moon." Here is the interview in...

Does anyone know when panning bass and drums to the centre of a stereo mix first happened ? Which song/record/engineer/producer ?

Variation 2. This one is a little more difficult and esoteric, but is definitely worth the sweat. Take a song, any song from any era. It might be one you adore or it may be one that you hate. Either way, it doesn’t matter because what you end up with is going to bear absolutely no relation to...