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Hamiet Bluiett Quartet We Have Come To Save You From Yourselves (BOM 3501~2) At last I found a mint copy from a reliable seller. I have been wanting this one for a long time now.

Goal! Netherlands 2 - 1 Canada

Goal! Netherlands 1 - 0 Canada

MFSL CD with original Teo Macero mix.

Ok, don't argue with the experts. You're only here to fix the cable.

I never connected emotionally with Decoy. Perhaps that one could be worth revisiting again.

I am not a musician and am not prepared to spend two weeks locked in a room with Miles' 80s output and then report back here before quickly dialling the suicide hotline. This is as nuanced as I'm going to get.

Those people are mistaken. I have been listening to these 80s albums at least since Miles' passing in 1992. There was a cover story in Dutch rock magazine Oor, and at that time these albums were available for loan from the local library. (If only they had had some of the second great quintet albums.) Since 2009 I own all of the Columbia albums as part of The Complete Columbia Album Collection. I have given these albums chance after chance, and they aren't very good IMO. And as with Sonny Rollins post 60s, you do seem to have a high tolerance for seeking out nuggets of gold in a pile of dung.

That you are more forgiving than I am?

Apart from this alarming finishing of uncompleted/abandoned studio material by Warner, Sony still has too much high quality live recordings from Europe & Japan to choose from for the bootleg series for that analogy to be appropriate. I don't lump them together musically. For me, what unites all 80s efforts is that they suck quite heavily.

Next up:

A recent arrival.

Very true.

Perhaps. If there are hidden post 60s gems, they are not from the studio sessions. That's for sure.

If you have the Silver City 2CD compilation, you have, with those two tunes, all you need from that album. If anything else recorded reached that level, why include the dross?

Of course!

Yes, the Colombian pushed Messi aside before even going for the ball. That could be a penalty.

The Copa America is behind a Fox Sports paywall here, so I don't watch it. Premier League, La Liga, Serie A games and Formula 1 are behind the Ziggo Sports paywall. Ziggo is also one of the main cable operators, and they have a free channel that shows all Formula 1 races and most top Premier League and La Liga games live for their subscribers. Only when events overlap do you miss out on having the complete Ziggo Sports package. So I have access to most of these events for 'free'. Admittedly, I'm not enough of a fan to pay extra.