Does anybody here happen to have a spare copy of the vinyl sleeve for Tricky-  Maxinquaye? I got the album and inner sleeve today for a couple of quid, but no front sleeve, I know it's an unrealistic ask, that's why I won't bother starting a thread about it.

I am not interested in hit-lists and album charts, so can't tell you anything bout that. But i DO know that a major music store in Rotterdam had a large billboard of TOU in Rotterdams' most busy shopping area. Hadn't gat a camera with me, then I would have taken a picture of course.

ATM I'm In Berlin, so if I spot anything here, I will let you know, OK?

'Tales of Us' reached the top ten in the UK, Belgium, Germany and Switzerland, and the top twenty in Ireland, Netherlands, Norway and Portugal.

That's from wiki. It would be interesting to see how it's faring compared to previous frapp albums.

A_is_A said:

....i can't help but notice that the Catholic's take the brunt of the political persecution/jokes in stride. There is really no other religion i can think of that handles it quite as well. For example, try pulling off the Pussy Riot show at a synagogue or mosque and see what happens??
...i think busting into a place of worship ...wearing ski masks and desecrating an alter was a shitty thing to do.... The board can use a little healthy debate :D

  Dang! And there I was agreeing with you on the Lily Allen vid.

So here's the "healthy debate" part...

1) The Catholic Church takes persecution/jokes in its stride? Try telling that to the thousands of people tortured and killed by the Church over the centuries, simply for disagreeing with its dogmas. More recently, take a look at the persecution of those who have tried to expose the Church's deliberate and systematic protection of child rapists.

2). Pussy Riot protested in a Russian Orthodox Church, rather than a Roman Catholic one. The Patriarch of the ROC has recently declared his support for anti-gay legislation, saying of same sex relationships,   “This is a very dangerous apocalyptic symptom, and we must do
everything in our powers to ensure that sin is never sanctioned in
Russia by state law, because that would mean that the nation has
embarked on a path of self-destruction.”

In light of the intense persecution of LGBT communities in Russia lately, fuelled by this kind of crap, I think Pussy Riot's non-violent protest was brave and justified. The Russian Orthodox Church isn't a place of peace and respect, it's an active centre of violent homophobia.

So, I know, obviously, that Britain doesn't celebrate Thanksgiving but do you have a similar holiday in the late fall/early winter that precedes Christmas?  What about Boxer's Day?  I've never really understood that.  What got me thinking about it is that next week is Thanksgiving and I noticed that the board seems to be tailing off some but, then, realized (Duh!) it's not U.S.-based so it doesn't seem likely that Thanksgiving is having much of an affect.  Though it seems to be becoming a commercial mania time (which I totally ignore), it is a wonderful time of the year when a lot of U.S. citizens will take the whole week off and, most are guaranteed to have Thursday and Friday off.  It used to be amazing.  You could drive around on Thursday and not a single shop was open anywhere!  So much for that.

I have a question... You know teeth? And that apparently they're already 'made' when you're born? How do they come up out of your gum? What force is acting upon them to make them do that? There's no muscles there is there?

ping said:

I have a question... You know teeth? And that apparently they're already 'made' when you're born? How do they come up out of your gum? What force is acting upon them to make them do that? There's no muscles there is there?

My obsession= Teeth.     But i do not know the answer to your question.

whisperit said:

Boxer's Day is the 29th November, and celebrates the long tradition of giving cardboard containers as presents in place of actual gifts.
It is celebrated mainly in poorer, working class homes such as my own.

I have many happy childhood memories of family Boxer's Days; the seventeen children gathered round to share the warmth of a candle and the unforgettable taste of twig and dust bunny cake. The day culminates when my dear old Dad brought out the Boxes. I'd open mine carefully and then POW! he'd punch me in the mouth. Ah, how we laughed....   

Fascinating and enllightening!  Thanks, Whisperit.  I would never have guessed.  I always thought in terms of the sport of boxing but it just didn't sound right.  So, in a lot of ways it correlates to Thanksgiving Day - friends and family oriented.  The punch in the mouth sounds more like the sport...

Reminds me vaguely of the tradition that is never followed in Japan.  They celebrate New Year much differently from the West.  It's not a big party day, like in the West but is for family and friends.  The part that is pretty clearly never followed is that you are supposed to go to your local temple and throw in all of the money you had left at the end of the year - credit cards, checkbooks everything.  I must say, their religion is pretty savvy.  The other thing you are supposed to do anytime you visit the temple, if you wan to talk to the gods, is bring a bag full of coins to throw into a bucket hanging there.  It's to wake up the gods so you can talk to them.  They don't pay a lot of attention to humanity, otherwise.  Who can blame them?