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If you're going to look at the birth of hip hop then it's got to be DJ Kool Herc, Afrika Bambaattaa and Grandmaster Flash who were running the original block parties and started to mix and scratch, as well as paving the way for the B-boys who helped define hip hop culture, which in turn paved...

I've no skin in the game here, but that statement re HSBC is ridiculous - you honestly think there's a risk that they lose details of all their account holdings? "Nobody outside of HSBC has a copy of that database", you obviously dont understand disaster recovery and data centre resilience, let...

Bliney haven't heard that in years, completely forgot about it. Have you read, See you in the bathroom? It's a great book chronicling the NY punk scene of that time - a decent read.

But you claimed that Blur did it before Oasis, my point (and I much prefer Blur to Oasis BTW) is that they both followed a parallel track, and it was only the media battle that really amplified them both and really made them really appeal to "the mainstream". Both bands in much of 1994 were...

Nah, Suede's debut album was released in March 1993 and could probably lay claim to that. I'd also ague that until Parklife Suede would have been far more recognisable than Blur, especially given the MM cover that proclaimed them "The best new band in Britain".

But you're looking at it from a musos perspective - that's not what you said, you claimed Blur were instrumental in getting people to move away from dance music / boys bands as they'd impacted on popular culture before Oasis. I can guarantee that I was one of probably 3 people in the 5th year...

Not really, Modern Life is Rubbish was hardly a game changer, it was only once they released Parklife and the subsequent media "battle" started to play out that they both gained popularity alongside their "rivals" and can really started to appeal to people beyond those indie fans who'd been...

I like MF Doom, but can you really say he "changed history, culture, fashion etc" ?? For me it's probably The Beatles, Bowie and the Pistols.

For me, the difference between cycling and say football is that you know exactly what the riders are feeling and how hard it is. You can climb the same mountains as they are, sometimes hours apart, (its just you'll be going at less than half their speed and havent done 200km before it), whereas...

I have 4 standing tickets for sale, and would be happy with £250 for the lot of them - listed them on Twickets but no luck so far as I dont even think it's sold out yet.

Duran Duran in 6 goes

Is the craze that's swept our office today. Absolutely brilliant, it's like Wordle but with recording artists (top 1000 on Spotify) Whilst it has a daily puzzle to solve, it also has the ability to set ones for your mates to solve, which we've spent most of today doing. Be prepared to lose...

Plenty of hallucinations in there. Rioch playing for us in 1973 - 1976 and Lennie playing for us in the 1960's, even ignoring the Southgate omission.

You must have had the temperature turned up high on that request ? The level of creativity is pretty high, but just proves the variability of the output based on probability matching of tokens.

I did an experiment the other week with Claude, Gemini and ChatGPT whereby I asked it whether Festa scored a goal in the 1997 FA cup final. Only Gemini gave the correct answer (Claude thought that he played for Chelsea), so for those who think that AI is coming for our jobs tomorrow, if your...

No the alternative is that he didn't give £250k (assuming we get the loan back, which is doubtful) of our money away when there's kids starving a couple of hundred yards from his vanity projects, especially to one so niche.

I've probably seen him about the same, but have never worked out how many songs I've seen him do (I cant even remember all the venues TBH). I have a spare ticket too (Mrs Jumpers is now in Italy on business) although think I'm in the seats.

That's the thing with Springsteen, you never know what you're getting until you get there as he changes the set nightly.

No jungleland :oops:

That's a strange one, Boro are only 6 points off the play-offs and have had a comparatively decent season.