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Punk makes me happy.

One of the worst concerts I've ever been to was one that I was really excited to get a ticket for. It wasn't the music, it was the people in the crowd. Some were what we refer to as "plastic Paddies" and others acted like they were in a bar. I'll paste what I wrote about it into an email. You'll get a chuckle or two.

Jamie, Turn, Turn, Turn was done by The Byrds. I like their version better than the original, but I'm not a fan of Pete Seeger.

Don't worry about not commenting, Jamie. That will be me next month. 3D life take precedence over cyber life.

I have a love/hate relationship with digital download. I love that I can get hard to find classics and quality games not otherwise available, but I hate the impermanence of the whole thing.

Oh, and you can do pretty much everything we used to have to code ourselves with the blogging tool bar.

My first Nintendo console was a GBA SP and then a Game Cube, so I missed out on the Metroid games. My first experience with them was with Metroid Prime (that I haven't spent much time with, but liked what I did), and that gave me a taste of what I was missing. I've since tracked down the GBA classic remake of Metroid, but playing on that tiny screen leaves a lot to be desired. I'll dig out my GC and Game Boy Player one of these day and get to it.

Shanties are much, much, much later than Vikings. Shanties are work songs, I'll be doing a separate entry for them later. I love them, especially when you have a really good shantyman who knows what he (and more rarely, she) is doing. The problem is that you get a lot of people who haven't got a clue about what the song was for and they sing way too frigging fast. My take on the stuff sung in bars is that people sing it because they like to sing. Nothing fake about that. Some is very good, some, well, let's just say at least the people singing are having fun and leave it at that.

I checked out your links. Based on what I heard, I'd recommend Steeleye Span, Fairport Convention, and Clannad. Check out Clannad's soundtrack to the Robin of Sherwood BBC TV series. There's a top 100 list on YouTube for them here. The other thing I recommend is getting a Last FM account and just plug in the artist's name that you like and see what happens. I've found a lot of music that way.

A lot of the members of Steeleye Span have gone on to amazing solo careers. And I knew you'd like the Corries! A lot of their albums have been re-released on CD and Amazon carries them.

I was incredibly late to the PS1 and happened upon both Lunar Silver Star Story Complete and Lunar 2 Eternal Blue Complete in the used sections of a couple of local stores in 2004. Being used, they were both mostly complete, and I instantly fell in love with both the games and the packaging.

Much as I hate to say this, I really think this is one franchise that needs to be left alone.

Hey there, fellow refugee!