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So what you're saying is "I created a very simple scenario to try and demonstrate that I'm right, but in the real world that very simple scenario doesn't actually exist, and so I'm coming up with a new one now".

Until you lose it......

I was just going to get an uber / taxi up there, probably only be £50 or so

The question was " bands that have influenced and even changed history, culture, fashion etc" Chart position is not a barometer of that.

Time didn't seem to move particularly fast until I had my daughter, who will be 3 in a couple of months - that's what gets me, as it doesn't seem like yesterday we were in the hospital having her. I'm sure I'll blink again and she'll be going to school, Uni, leaving home etc

But it's failing to account that it's not centrally held, and is in fact held in multiple places and with full back ups at each location, meaning the likelihood of the bank being unable to see what holdings you have is absolutely minimal (close to 0). Of course a bank can go bust, but there's...

But without any of the 3 mentioned there, there would be no Sugarhill Gang, no Beasties etc. Someone like Grandmaster Flash had a massive influence, and The Message is regularly cited as one of the most influential songs of all time.

Apart from perhaps Buffalo Girls by Malcom Mcclaren and The Worlds Famous Supreme Team (who were black admittedly)

If you're going to look at the birth of hip hop then it's got to be DJ Kool Herc, Afrika Bambaattaa and Grandmaster Flash who were running the original block parties and started to mix and scratch, as well as paving the way for the B-boys who helped define hip hop culture, which in turn paved...

I've no skin in the game here, but that statement re HSBC is ridiculous - you honestly think there's a risk that they lose details of all their account holdings? "Nobody outside of HSBC has a copy of that database", you obviously dont understand disaster recovery and data centre resilience, let...

Bliney haven't heard that in years, completely forgot about it. Have you read, See you in the bathroom? It's a great book chronicling the NY punk scene of that time - a decent read.

But you claimed that Blur did it before Oasis, my point (and I much prefer Blur to Oasis BTW) is that they both followed a parallel track, and it was only the media battle that really amplified them both and really made them really appeal to "the mainstream". Both bands in much of 1994 were...

Nah, Suede's debut album was released in March 1993 and could probably lay claim to that. I'd also ague that until Parklife Suede would have been far more recognisable than Blur, especially given the MM cover that proclaimed them "The best new band in Britain".

But you're looking at it from a musos perspective - that's not what you said, you claimed Blur were instrumental in getting people to move away from dance music / boys bands as they'd impacted on popular culture before Oasis. I can guarantee that I was one of probably 3 people in the 5th year...

Not really, Modern Life is Rubbish was hardly a game changer, it was only once they released Parklife and the subsequent media "battle" started to play out that they both gained popularity alongside their "rivals" and can really started to appeal to people beyond those indie fans who'd been...

I like MF Doom, but can you really say he "changed history, culture, fashion etc" ?? For me it's probably The Beatles, Bowie and the Pistols.

For me, the difference between cycling and say football is that you know exactly what the riders are feeling and how hard it is. You can climb the same mountains as they are, sometimes hours apart, (its just you'll be going at less than half their speed and havent done 200km before it), whereas...

I have 4 standing tickets for sale, and would be happy with £250 for the lot of them - listed them on Twickets but no luck so far as I dont even think it's sold out yet.

Duran Duran in 6 goes

Is the craze that's swept our office today. Absolutely brilliant, it's like Wordle but with recording artists (top 1000 on Spotify) Whilst it has a daily puzzle to solve, it also has the ability to set ones for your mates to solve, which we've spent most of today doing. Be prepared to lose...