Comment on That sounds like that which sounds like… by holy joe
Anytime! You can hear the Others version, together with a lot of other great stuff, on the recent budget 3 CD compilation issued by RPM, “Looking Back – 80 mod, freakbeat, and swinging London nuggets”.
View ArticleComment on That sounds like that which sounds like… by WorldbyStorm
It’s a great version. The Shadows of Knights literally replicated it. Maybe a very slight emphasis on the guitars, but the vocal phrasing, etc. It’s very very similar. That compilation sounds amazing.
View ArticleComment on Left activism…a paradox by WorldbyStorm
‘or hold onto recruits from such communities’ That’s key. People aren’t gullible, or unthinking. The level of awareness is high even if class consciousness is low (interesting discussion to be had on...
View ArticleComment on Left activism…a paradox by WorldbyStorm
Hard to disagree. Even on their own terms they failed abysmally over CP 2.
View ArticleComment on Left activism…a paradox by Paddy Healy
It is important to understand the reasons for the failure of the ULA and its substitute the CAHWT. To conclude that it was due to wrong estimations, lack of bright ideas, lack of patience, lack of...
View ArticleComment on Sunday Independent Stupid Statement of the Week by Bob Smiles
Front page also manages to blame public service for Anglo
View ArticleComment on Left activism…a paradox by WorldbyStorm
No ad hominem stuff Pete. I’ve told you before, I won’t again.
View ArticleComment on Sunday Independent Stupid Statement of the Week by Jim Monaghan
Mind you a supine regulator was part of the problem. Our senior public servants have let us down all over the place from FAS to regulation.
View ArticleComment on (un)reasonable expectation or wise after the event? by...
even Fine Gael’s ‘pro-life pledge’, as expressed by the PLC themselves in polling they did on the issue last year, was described as “a clear commitment that women in pregnancy will receive whatever...
View ArticleComment on Sunday Independent Stupid Statement of the Week by NollaigO
Surely your Harris quote is very mild compared to his follow-up: The fact that I have to argue O’Connell’s case at all shows why we need to retain compulsory history at Junior Cert level. Without the...
View ArticleComment on New poll… by Joe
Seanad figures are interesting. And the campaign not even started yet. You never know with referendums. People might just vote against whatever the govt are recommending just to vote against the govt....
View ArticleComment on Sunday Independent Stupid Statement of the Week by Starkadder
I had a good history teacher in secondary school. She told us the Independent chain of newspapers was always right-wing (“they opposed the Lockout and the 1916 Rising, and very strongly supported the...
View ArticleComment on Sunday Independent Stupid Statement of the Week by NollaigO
Clearly you were taught by a rabid republican; God bless her! In my earlier post I wanted to advise Mr Harris to go back on the tablets but feared being banned from the site by WbS for ad hominems!
View ArticleComment on Sunday Independent Stupid Statement of the Week by Ed
I wonder is he thinking of this site (as ever, projection is involved – ‘gormless’ and ‘rabid’ how are ya!).
View ArticleComment on Left Archive: Times Change, Democratic Left, Spring 1997. by Ed
The photo of a guy in a balaclava and sunglasses pointing a revolver at the camera that goes with the ETA/IRA article – wasn’t that also used in an earlier edition of Times Changes that we saw on CLR?...
View ArticleComment on The 50th Anniversary of the death of Vol. Desmond Swanton, IRA,...
I like the pattern, and of course it’s new as could be. As long as there is a controlled release, you’ll be able to keep your marriage intact. In fact, the lightbulb was invented before Edison was even...
View ArticleComment on Rebels without a platform… by smiffy
I’d be surprised. There’s seems to be some pull-back from Enda Kenny’s hardline stance that they’ll never be allowed to run for Fine Gael again. He says that now, because he needs to keep Labour in...
View ArticleComment on Rebels without a platform… by Joe
The threat not to let them stand for FG in the next election is a tactic to make the waverers vote with the govt. Any of the ‘rebels’ who vote with the govt on every occasion after this one, will...
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