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Just swallow the pill  Think of me no longer.  Just let go  And take yourself out Right out before I kill you too These are the first few lines of Atreyu's poweful ' Corsetting ', if you haven't heard it, listen to this on loud! Clearly this song has some adult themes and should probably not be listened to by those younger than their mid-teens (although it's a damn sight better than the dub-step rubbish that teenagers listen to now).  So when listening to this song on Spotify I was surprised to hear that the swear-y words (*snigger - they're naughty*) had been censored out. This is not just annoying but also completely pointless. The band wrote those words for a reason and censoring them destroys some of the creation that went into the song. It also completely ruins the flow and feel of the music - it sounds like a vinyl record slipping and made me think the stream was broken.  What starts as a raw, hard song about a sadistic and obsessive lover t...

In Brave New World , Huxley presents a possible utopian/dystopian future in which humans are cloned into different classes of people. These various classes are not only genetically conditioned to fulfil their role within society – they are also psychologically conditioned to feel that their position in society makes them happy. In short, the people living in Brave New World are kept constantly happy while consuming products. I was filled with dread while reading this book. It trickled in off the page, through my eyes. It collected in pools in my brain before flowing down to my gut. This book represents my gut feeling about society as it is at the moment. Just after I started reading the book, I put the following post on my facebook page: My friends seem to like the society in Brave New World ! And actually, what’s not to like? Everyone, and I mean everyone in this society is happy. There is very little civil unrest, people do not celebrate the death of a politici...

I first heard “The Quiet Things That No One Knows” when I was a hormonal 16 year old, and boy did I love it! At that stage I had no idea how this album would change my life, I just thought the guitar in the chorus sounded really cool! “Okay, I Believe You, But My Tommy Gun Don’t” was the second song I heard from this album that day and I was blown away. I thought both songs were really cool, but back then I thought LOTS of songs were pretty cool and the plethora of bands I should listen to was so massive that to buy every single promising album would have cost me roughly a year’s worth of EMA payments (I worked it out). So it was luck that made me buy this album with the strange picture of an astronaut on the front cover. On first play, I didn’t know what to think. The first track, “Tautou”, was quiet and a little bit spacey and I initially thought the lyrics were repetitive and way too weird. So I was worried. I thought I had bought a dodgy album. And then I heard “Sic Transit Glori...