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Wednesday, Aug 13, 2025 - Posted by Rich Miller * Whatever anyone else has told you, this is not primitive music. Drummer Paul Cook amplifies the anarchic chaos but somehow holds it all together with his loud and swingy syncopation using every surface within his reach. Cookie’s masterful, pounding, crashing triplets as the song builds to its ultimate crescendo always blow. my. mind… No future How’s life by you?
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- Jr. Neef - Wednesday, Aug 13, 25 @ 7:37 am:
Steve Jones also plays a fairly mean guitar on most of the tracks.
Pretty Foggy here in downstate Illinoisi
- Friendly Bob Adams - Wednesday, Aug 13, 25 @ 8:01 am:
The White Sox kicked the Tigers in the keister last night, so that’s good. The season is in the dumpster but it always feels good to beat the first place team.
That Montgomery kid is really something. Getting my hopes up for him.
- @misterjayem - Wednesday, Aug 13, 25 @ 8:06 am:
May I humbly offer this recent Tiny Desk recording by another UK band from the class of 1977?
(Their drummer is very much not a primitive — but the guitarists?)
https://youtu.be/iSwIW7UKjCw?si=0ttqQhOy5×3sDBK5
– MrJM
- JS Mill - Wednesday, Aug 13, 25 @ 9:54 am:
As I have watched the ICE drama unfold nationally I have wondered why the “agents” feel the need to dress up in full military garb? I don’t get it. Kevlar vest? Sure. But the helmet and full tac gear, doesn’t make sense to me unless they missed out on a military career and now need to play army man. They are not banging it out with the cartels as they round up immigrants picking tomatoes on a farm or trying to find day work at home depot.
How many actually armed felons have they arrested? I get if they know they are raiding a known violent felon but really, how many have there been.
Seems like more weird cosplay. Or, is someone trying to develop their own paramilitary force for use later?
- don the legend - Wednesday, Aug 13, 25 @ 11:12 am:
JS Mill. I agree and will add the militarization of even the smallest police force is the norm today. If we were serious about treating addiction and mental health we could easily fund it from inflated police and the corrections industrial complex.
- Pundent - Wednesday, Aug 13, 25 @ 12:46 pm:
=As I have watched the ICE drama unfold nationally I have wondered why the “agents” feel the need to dress up in full military garb?=
Makes for good tv. And since we’ve demonized immigrants, even those that have no criminal history, it helps add to the illusion that these are truly bad people.