tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-81318403163912322832024-03-13T00:41:28.388+00:00Ria NightingaleRia Nightingalehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10516904453166814706noreply@blogger.comBlogger44125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8131840316391232283.post-74680677072657214062011-05-11T02:11:00.001+01:002011-05-31T02:11:41.217+01:00ChangeI'll be here now:<br />
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<a href="http://rianightingale.tumblr.com/">http://rianightingale.tumblr.com/</a>Ria Nightingalehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10516904453166814706noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8131840316391232283.post-8972656299405272352010-11-05T18:22:00.000+00:002010-11-07T16:25:58.877+00:00Shed Progress 2There have been two new additions to the coaster family. I now have 5. Is that too many coasters to have in one small room?<br />
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And 3 of these guys got delivered too.<br />
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Their purpose will become apparent later on.<br />
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The best thing is that they smell fantastic.<br />
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Familliar? I thought so too<br />
<a href="http://www.florentijnhofman.nl/dev/project.php?id=154">Florentijn Hofman</a>Ria Nightingalehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10516904453166814706noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8131840316391232283.post-57461894059970001732010-11-05T17:53:00.003+00:002011-05-31T02:10:17.031+01:00Typography 20 - 4 (Love or Hate)2 different Marmites. The first, I love. The second I don't so much.<br />
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It's weird how the slightest change makes a difference.<br />
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I do like marmite itself though.Ria Nightingalehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10516904453166814706noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8131840316391232283.post-82579475136687841412010-11-05T12:46:00.005+00:002010-11-07T16:29:43.608+00:00Typography 20 - 3 (Hate)Don't know how well you can see this. I popped into this shop today. The 'O'<br />
is too small. I don't like the 'R'. I'm not convinced the width of all the letters look right. I'm just not a fan.<br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Despite the type, the shoes are quite delicious, I want the middle pair.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVqwn9d94bn1sRi2vl57LmbE8fKzp5NsOKvlLb2ll_9EjQz-oY9Ft6i_lfc9IMh4gn2Ji46TlAaGAn_gFYvPu4-5RVhmpbSvRljrobXEGxGRkfOO_MIGYnwlZXxH5nu2SLxTXDrr4OCSUE/s1600/loafs.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"></a>Ria Nightingalehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10516904453166814706noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8131840316391232283.post-49998985325764561242010-11-02T20:10:00.000+00:002010-11-02T20:10:34.527+00:00Shed ProgressFor the past 6 months I have been decorating my shed, and turning it into a fantastic 70's/tacky/novelty knick-knack themed studio. It's been such a slow process, but after months of building, plumbing and wiring, I can finally get round to furnishing it, and filling it with lots of nice things, as well as getting it in order so that I can work in here. Today I have had my first experience of this. I'm actually testing it out right now.<br />
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I am speaking to you from the shed.<br />
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I can hardly contain my excitment.<br />
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I am tempted to upload some shed pictures in it's current state, and continue to update this, but I'd rather just upload a picture when it's all finished. Instead I will put up pictures of trinkets that I buy for the shed, then when it's all done, show the whole thing in it's entire glory.<br />
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A few weeks ago I was admiring Karlsson clocks. Well, I bought one.<br />
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I also by absolute accident found some amazing coasters whilst REALLY EARLY christmas shopping yesterday.<br />
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More stuff to come.Ria Nightingalehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10516904453166814706noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8131840316391232283.post-44995822871190627292010-11-02T19:26:00.001+00:002010-11-02T19:26:33.287+00:00NOTE TO SELFTO RIA<br />
START BLOGGING REGULARLY<br />
LOVE RIARia Nightingalehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10516904453166814706noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8131840316391232283.post-42053843569278083942010-11-02T14:35:00.001+00:002010-11-06T23:36:38.698+00:00Typography 20 - 2 (Hate)I really don't like the twitter logo typeface. I really really don't. I think it's the 'T's. Maybe even just the first 'T' I just think it could do with some tweaking.<br />
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One day I might tweak the twitter and then tweet about it. Who knows.<br />
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I have been going everywhere with this project constantly in mind and I have discovered that I am more likely to dislike a typeface than to love it. So I've decided to not only post typography that inspires me, but what I think is bad typography. I am not in anyway saying that it IS bad typography, it is just my opinion.Ria Nightingalehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10516904453166814706noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8131840316391232283.post-63401653974152735192010-10-19T19:20:00.006+01:002010-11-03T00:01:52.997+00:00Uni Induction Workshops - TypographyTYPE INTERPRETATION AND MEANING<br />
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<div style="text-align: left;">1 - 'decrease' and 'colour'</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">2 - 'up' and 'composition'</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">3 - 'hard' and 'order'</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">4 - 'down' and 'reduction'</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">5 - 'soft' and 'reflection'</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">6 - 'increase' and 'repetition'</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">7 - 'feminine' and 'scale'</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">8 - 'masculine' and 'texture'</div>Ria Nightingalehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10516904453166814706noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8131840316391232283.post-44500429051824854672010-10-18T21:52:00.003+01:002010-10-19T01:33:43.454+01:00Up and Coming Music Genres<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">Windswept Helsinki Vibez</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">Greased Iraqi Slam Dance</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">Icelandic Jungle</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">Hideous Pennsylvanian Groovez</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">Afghan Lickz</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">Brutal Bassoonz from the Aborigine Love Asylum</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">Japanese Terror Stomp</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">North Korean Grime</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">Juicy Czechoslovakian Beat-Bombz</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">Oiled Kalzakhi Beatz</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">Pumping Polish Pylon Riddimz</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">Awful Creamy Arizonian Rhumba Jamz</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">Massiv Russian Lead-Dropz</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">Furious Soupy Beatz with Angry Toe Riffs</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">Industrial Strength Pop-Metal</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">Poisonous Fun Whackz</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">Dangerously Thrashy Easy Listening</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">Digestive Fluid Rhymez laid over Grandma Punchworthy Basslinez</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">Crispy Irish Flexxx</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">Leathery Balkan Bin-Beatz</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">Leafy Somalian BANGAZ</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">Rampant Kenyan Slippaz</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">Lubricated Texan Thrustline</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">Watch out for these. You haven't cut real shapes if you haven't partied to Wobbly Amphibian Mash-Core.<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">(Collaboration with <a href="http://joecartergraphics.blogspot.com/">Joe Carter</a>) </span></div>Ria Nightingalehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10516904453166814706noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8131840316391232283.post-42148800093295815822010-10-12T19:12:00.041+01:002010-11-02T22:09:31.078+00:00Uni Induction Workshops - Image<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">ONE THING LEADS TO ANOTHER</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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Doing this felt quite familiar... <a href="http://rianightingale.blogspot.com/2010/05/final-major-project.html">http://rianightingale.blogspot.com/2010/05/final-major-project.html</a><br />
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<blockquote style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">We were fascinated by the out of date, vulgar subway design. We have a theory that the reason why people feel so intimidated in the Elephant & Castle area is because of the hypnotizing maze that has been put there.</span></div></blockquote><blockquote style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><div style="text-align: left;"></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">The subway is designed for ease of access, and a safe passage around the area, with the designer trying to create a fantasy underground world, however with the violent meandering of the subway corridors, looming low ceilings and ever present special brew drinking tramps, it is more a crime-infested underworld.</span></div></blockquote>Ria Nightingalehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10516904453166814706noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8131840316391232283.post-69224755044205817142010-09-27T23:11:00.002+01:002010-11-02T19:25:40.206+00:00First day on the FdA - Extreme Googly Eyes<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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My first day on the FdA Design for Graphic Communication @ London College of Communication.<br />
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Another Mix CD Cover for DJ Sam Dowling<br />
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I'm not going to explain anything about it, they're supposed to stand alone. But if you really really want to know what's going on I kept a blog throughout the project:<br />
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But before you look at that, post your reaction.<br />
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Clickedy click to make 'em big.<br />
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Mix CD Cover for DJ Sam Dowling, Plush Dafunk resident.<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;">A simple and easy to follow guide on how to make an ecosystem, for those of you who like to play God. Here is literally one I made earlier.</div></div>Ria Nightingalehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10516904453166814706noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8131840316391232283.post-79210934040146765872010-02-20T16:32:00.001+00:002010-04-04T20:19:31.780+01:00Modular Typography 2<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_nnUlR67iACI/S7iyCjMPIsI/AAAAAAAAAO8/UOPlnjXIRJk/s1600/A1+rows+small+and+cropped.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_nnUlR67iACI/S7iyCjMPIsI/AAAAAAAAAO8/UOPlnjXIRJk/s640/A1+rows+small+and+cropped.jpg" border="0" height="640" width="512" /></a><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;">The modules used to make this typeface are parts of a giant plastic paperclip, found in your run of the mill christmas cracker. Oh I love you random object inspiration.<br /></div></div>Ria Nightingalehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10516904453166814706noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8131840316391232283.post-90037484817142071322010-02-20T03:19:00.002+00:002010-04-04T22:47:55.912+01:00Modular Typography<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_nnUlR67iACI/S7f3eqxO4TI/AAAAAAAAAMc/hwi-1DnQmvc/s1600/modular.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_nnUlR67iACI/S7f3eqxO4TI/AAAAAAAAAMc/hwi-1DnQmvc/s640/modular.jpg" border="0" height="640" width="452" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br />Rules:</span><br /><ol><li>I am only allowed to use 3 shapes for each letter</li><li>The shapes I can choose from are: full circle, quarter circle, long line, short line. These must not be cut or changed in any way<br /></li><li>I cannot use a particular shape more than twice in one letter<br /></li></ol><br /></div><br /></div>Ria Nightingalehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10516904453166814706noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8131840316391232283.post-71629933021321468162010-01-06T17:40:00.003+00:002010-04-04T17:45:10.142+01:00Strawberry Cloud Cakes<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_nnUlR67iACI/S7jB-aw7NPI/AAAAAAAAAPc/4sdazNAkD4c/s1600/IMG_0020942smaller.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 293px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_nnUlR67iACI/S7jB-aw7NPI/AAAAAAAAAPc/4sdazNAkD4c/s400/IMG_0020942smaller.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5456324226639934706" border="0" /></a><br />Strawberry jam resides in the centre of these badboys.Ria Nightingalehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10516904453166814706noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8131840316391232283.post-48791698043630096392009-12-28T21:44:00.005+00:002010-04-04T22:28:46.339+01:00Top 6 Albums of 2009I couldn't deal with just 5. In no particular order:<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://slappingfish.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/them-crooked-vultures.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 175px;" src="http://slappingfish.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/them-crooked-vultures.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /></div><br />Them Crooked Vultures - Them Crooked Vultures<br />John Paul Jones, Josh Homme and Dave Grohl were three of the 5/6 names I would have shouted at you if you had asked me 'Who would you put in your ultimate rock band'. Imagine my joy when I found out they were going to be working together. JPJ is my favourite bassist of all time, Dave Grohl drumming is my favourite kind Dave Grohl, and Josh Homme, well. I love the man and worship every project he's been involved with. And on top of this, there's Alain Johannes too - such an underrated musician, he is as amazing as the other three and NEEDS more recognition. Watching them live you can just see they are a cut above other musicians, and they work so well together. A bunch of very clever men indeed. And watching Josh swing his hips when they perform Interludes with Ludes, is practically pornographic. He moves like Elvis did.<br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://z.about.com/d/rock/1/0/m/D/-/-/Horehound_cover.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 175px;" src="http://z.about.com/d/rock/1/0/m/D/-/-/Horehound_cover.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /></div><br />Horehound - The Dead Weather<br />This is just amazing. In the same way that Them Crooked Vultures is. All of them are stupidly talented. Live they are flawless. You'd think they'd been playing for over a decade, not barely a year. Alison Mosshart and Jack White have so much chemistry on stage, you just get sucked into it. Jack White really did assemble a masterpiece of a band here, you can tell he's a perfectionist. Their blusey album-ender is a corker, and their cover of New Pony is brilliant, as I am massively partial to a Bob Dylan cover, what with him being such a great songwriter, but a terrible performer, I love it when other musicians do his songs, especially bands like this that can pull it off. It completes the genius, and balance is restored.<br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B002QXNMY0.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 175px;" src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B002QXNMY0.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /></div><br />Sweethead - Sweethead<br />I got into Sweethead as they support a lot of the bands I go to see. How on earth can one woman be so sexy? Serrina Sims' voice along with Troy Van Leeuwen from Queens of the Stone Age's wonderful guitaring make such saucyness. Whether it's normal sexy, attitudy sexy, or subdued sexy, its pretty much all sexy. Other than "It's sexy" there's not much more to say. I recommend this album if "sexy" is your thing. And I recommend watching their video for <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58Kf2d9xMLM">The Great Disruptors</a>, because even if you don't like the music, there's a sexy lady in it.<br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.musosguide.com/public_html/musos.wp/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/Bombay-Bicycle-Club-I-Had-The-Blues-But-I-Shook-Them-Loose.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 175px;" src="http://www.musosguide.com/public_html/musos.wp/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/Bombay-Bicycle-Club-I-Had-The-Blues-But-I-Shook-Them-Loose.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /></div><br />I Had The Blues But I Shook Them Loose - Bombay Bicycle Club<br />It's been so good to finally hear a proper recording of this band. From the start they really deserved to have their music produced properly. Despite being young they are unexpectedly talented, and at times their music makes them sound older than they are... If that makes sense. Every track is fantastic, and I especially love how the Intro track is as good as the rest of the album - not just something you skip when you put it on. It would be too difficult to name a favourite as they pretty much all are, but Always Like This is basically my summer in music form, and The Hill just reminds me of sixth form when we used to "go outside and rise rise rise to the meaning of life" and makes me realise that I do just really "want to go back to old times". Ahh... On one hand its silly teenage indie music, yet on the other it's so much more than that.<br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://tonemarrowreviews.files.wordpress.com/2009/09/arctic_monkeys-humbug.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 175px;" src="http://tonemarrowreviews.files.wordpress.com/2009/09/arctic_monkeys-humbug.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /></div><br />Humbug - Arctic Monkeys<br />This album made me love Arctic Monkeys. I think I put this down to it being co-produced by Josh Homme. He bashed the Sheffield out of them and made them men. They are no longer spotty teenagers in t-shirt and tie combinations, they are mature, proper musicians, and Alex Turner's voice is beautiful now. And as a whole the album's really really sexy. There's that "sexy" again. I can see this ending in myself making a "sexy jar", in which I deposit a pound every time I say the word "sexy".<br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://outsidersblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/post-0004-kasabian-the-west-ryder-pauper-lunatic-asylum.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 175px;" src="http://outsidersblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/post-0004-kasabian-the-west-ryder-pauper-lunatic-asylum.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /></div><br />West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum - Kasabian<br />Now. This is the guilty one. I thought I hated Kasabian. I thought they were a rubbish mini-Oasis. And to be a rubbish version of something already that rubbish is... well. Bad. For this reason I almost feel ashamed to like this album... But it's actually brilliant. Granted, I dislike the lazy backing vocals, that sound like the voice of weird lovechild combination of the Gallaghers and Peter Griffin when he's on crack, or humming his own theme tune, but aside from this, every other aspect of this record is brilliant. It's really well produced, and Tom Meighan actually has a rather nice voice when he tries. Vlad The Impaler and Take Aim are awesome, and West Ryder Silver Bullet is beautiful.<br /><br /><br />All in all, I think what I've learned from this, is that I generally veer towards music that's "sexy". Perhaps my Top 2010 albums will be "Sexy Albums of the Year" instead.Ria Nightingalehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10516904453166814706noreply@blogger.com0