Agreed. Whenever I see the great walls of Quality Street, Celebrations, Roses and Heroes lining the supermarket foyers from now until Christmas, it sometimes triggers the thought about where those containers all end up. Peter Kay's auntie can only store a certain amount of buttons.

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Well, Bearsville Studios. Reputedly haunted. That'll be it!

There's just a bad feel to this album. I'm not sure if it's where the band's heads were at or where mine was at the time. Maybe a combination of the two for me but I never feel the inclination to play it anymore. Thinking about it, it's probably more to do with the band. I find Queen's Innuendo a difficult listen but that's for personal reasons and not down to the music which is excellent. Snakes & Arrows is their other low mood effort for me, but I listen to it occasionally. I must have a look at where TFE was recorded to figure out if it's a studio thing.

Junior Senior - Move Your Feet

Like to listen to this occasionally as Junior's voice in the chorus reminds me of a young Geddy. There's a kind of rasp in his attack which always triggers that connection for me.

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A colleague once visited Ghana and brought back the local chocolate. I can't find the correct adjectives to describe its texture. Brittle yet unyielding initially is the best I can come up with. Presumably it is manufactured that way due to the climate.

Yes, I prefer anything coated to be of the dark variety too, but I have to watch out for the higher caffeine content in solid bars. I quite miss a really high cocoa content chocolate these days but not worth the worry. I've not tried anything from Tunnocks with a plain chocolate coating yet. Their caramel wafers  must be good. I deliberately don't buy dark chocolate digestives anymore as a whole pack just disappears in no time. Memories of Tesco deliveries of too much alcohol and plain chocolate digestives take me back to the darkest days of lockdown.

I love most forms of the stuff, but there must be a scientific reason why a Flake is so much better than a straightforward bar of Cadbury's milk chocolate. Also, why does the centre of Lindor chocolate feel cooler in the mouth than the outer coating?

Quote from: pxr5 on October 04, 2022, 12:03:53 PMMine is probably hearing A Farewell to Kings for the first time.

One of my life mysteries is buying this, not liking it particularly, swapping it for Rainbow - Down To Earth and then just a few months later, falling in love with it and everything else Rush.

Yeah, I think if Geddy and Alex ever perform together again it would have to be along the lines of an acoustic set, featuring songs like the softer material from Feedback. Neil always said the band could only last as long as Geddy's voice held out. Wise words as always.

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It was a three phase thing for me really;

Pre-teens
T:Rex - Slider (their next album Tanx left me a bit cold).

Teens
Queen - A Night At The Opera: I became fanatical about the band for several years.

Adulthood
Rush - Permanent Waves. Obsessive consumption of their back catalogue and desperation for new releases thereafter. There's nothing that will ever come close to my love for this band.

This talk of singles has made me realise what threw the music switch for me. A pal gave me Jeepster by T.Rex, I think because he was fed up playing it. I remember really liking the B Side too, Life's A Gas. I still love that song. Another friend advised me to buy Slider and that was that. Into music for life via Queen and then Rush.