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This is a band that had great promise, but most of their good tracks recorded before they hit the big time. Then they split, and David Sylvian had more success but that great Japan sound was no more.

This is a side project of Ministry frontman Al Jourgensen teaming up with Jello Biafra of The Dead Kennedys . You have been warned.

A band who have had massive hits and some wonderful songs. Formed by former Waterboys member Karl Wallinger, who penned She's The One that Robbie Williams covered. Wallinger wasn't too pleased I remember by the fact that it bombed when he released it under the World Party name. However he's had...

Anthology comedy series that was and occasionally is still brilliant. Channel 4's big showcase comedy series with a great regular cast including Adrian Edmondson, Dawn French, Jennifer Saunders, Rick Mayall, Robbie Coltrane and Nigel Planer. It's now made on an occasional one off specials basis...

A controversial band that released album " The Politics of Dancing" in the early 80's. The follow up was deemed too political and withdrawn as was the third album. All were remixed and released in 2010. Members Phil Gould and Mark King after the band's splitting up but not officially disbanding...

How did the general public rate this band at the time? I've been pondering this and I can't remember. Possibly as a jokey novelty band, or a vehicle for Sir Bob, or a punky racket. But listening to their work now, there's a lot of nice tracks to be found.

A band that formed out of The Undertones after Fergal Sharkey left to pursue his solo career.

A synth band perhaps, but they did have a bit of originality about them.

Scottish band who release albums about once every 8 years , which is a pity because their stuff is very good.

Wonderful group, sort of easy listening, with a talented songwriter in Paddy McAloon.

May be unfashionable to admit it ,but I've always liked Numan's stuff from the early hits like Cars and Warriors, and these days he is still producing good albums. The style nowadays is rather dark fairly uncommercial material.

One of my favourite bands of the eighties. Massively successful of course , but the album they released in 2004 long after their heyday was IMO their best.

These boys didn't hang around too long, but they had some incredible songs and five near to perfection albums.

This is a fascinating topic, and here is a real cool video dealing with the famously thought provoking McTaggert's paradox about the concept of time. For what it's worth, I'm edging toward the view of McTaggert that time is unreal as a concept, Space-time' okay but time as a separate property...

One of the wackiest books I've read is 'The Plurality Of Worlds' by David Lewis. Or more accurately ,...tried to read it. It's bizarre, and is not about the science fiction concept of alternative universes or parallel ones, but it's about the philosophical concept of postulating possible worlds...

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Metaphysics is a subject I've had an interest in for many years. It's a complicated subject with lots of sub categories, one of which is Identity. Before I proceed, I must point out that the best reading material is the classical titles,i.e. Metaphysics a study of etc. rather than pseudo...

Watching this show for the first time. It's original and fun and wacky with interesting science concepts in almost every episode. Eureka is a town housing a community of geniuses, everyone a top scientist in his or her field all working for the mysterious Global Dynamics, a state funded...

Apart from Sci fi and non fiction books, Asimov wrote a wonderful series of detective fiction books, the Black Widower series of short stories featuring the detective genius of Henry the waiter. I'll explain. In real life Asimov belonged to a group called the Trap Door Spiders, a group of his...

I like to think I have an eclectic taste in music encompassing all styles, but I admit I do like my weird stuff. Uncommercial, strange, offbeat. So this thread is for the unusual, no chance of commercial success stuff, which I'll put here rather than clogging up the mainstream threads. Feel free...