The Best Of 2005 (and Merry Christmas)

God how I miss this forum... it's just I don't even have the time to think I don't have any time in this period... BUT I wanted to come back for Christmas at least, hoping life will get a bit less frenzy and I'll be able to get back to normal businness... Here's my festive 15:

01 NEW ORDER : Singles 02 NEW ORDER : Waiting For The Sirens' Call 03 REVENGE : No Pain No Gain - Live 1991 04 MARLENE KUNTZ : Bianco Sporco 05 OFFLAGA DISCO PAX : Socialismo Tascabile 06 TSUJI GIRI : Tsuji Giri 07 SANTO NIENTE : Il Fiore Dell'Agave 08 MORRISSEY : Live At Earls Court 09 PLANET FUNK : The Illogical Consequence 10 ULAN BATOR : Rodeo Massacre

11 MADONNA : Confessions On A Dance Floor 12 DEPECHE MODE : Playing The Angel 13 COLDPLAY : X & Y 14 DIAFRAMMA : Passato, Presente 15 FRANK BLACK : Honeycomb

Other good albums bubbling under came from Jovanotti (Buon Sangue), Bjork (Music From Drawing Restraint 9) and The Darkness (One Way Ticket To Hell). Excellent singles came from New Order (Waiting For The Sirens' Call), Gabrielles Wish (Here From The Neck Down EP) and Opium (Clarisse). For the first time in quite a long while we have the best new bands: check out Tsuji Giri in England and Offlaga Disco Pax in Italy.

Merry Christmas and a Happy 2006, waiting for some more releases from New Order, Gabrielles Wish and La Skarnemurta...

Happy XMAS to you mate. Best thing about XMAS is feeling part of a COMMUNITY

happy Xmas mick, where have you been so long

Rocket's REVENGE wrote: Happy XMAS to you mate. Best thing about XMAS is feeling part of a COMMUNITY

Care in the COMMUNITY

arek p. wrote: happy Xmas mick, where have you been so long

In trouble, mate. ;) I don't know, I guess having two grandparents in hospital at once (right, what else can go wrong now, don't even dare to ask) explains something, also since it's only me and my mother taking care of everything. Also I'm not so good at managing my spare time as I was. I've just made not enough updates on the sites and stored 1146 E Mail messages to read. No, really. That's why usually logging in here is a luxury I can't afford, I just have to shut down the computer by then... some days I just have five minutes to stay in front of this monitor... Uh, also had some major problems with software. Had the very bad idea of installing Real Player 10 on Windows 98SE. It should be compatible, but my PC does not agree. Took a long time to remove every bit of that infectious monster which invades the system way too much, worse than a virus. RP8 was OK, but this is horrible. I thought I'd have had to format, but I've been able to avoid that extreme measure. Luckily I discovered Media Player Classic as Real Alternative. Small program with no bullshit which plays just every audio and video file. Looks a lot like WMP 6. Refreshing, after the useless heavy players released in the recent years. I know I'll come back as before. But it'll take time, it really will.