ATTENTION TIM FINNEY

best wishes tim :)

Thanks everyone - surgery tomorrow, will report back soon hopefully.

this dude brings it like few others - all the best

get well soon. you are one of my favourite music writers. :)

Best wishes, Tim!

get well soon, bro

shit tim, didn't see this til now - hope all goes well & best wishes!

Ditto, come back soon!

aw, shit, tim. good luck.

De-lurking to say best of luck. Take Care.

happy healing Tim

Tim - good luck & take care of yourself, hope to see you back here soon.

love to tim, hope the surgery goes well. x

Hi all - thanks again for the kind thoughts. I am back from surgery which went successfully (a brief and unpleasant chest infection notwithstanding) and now have a month off work in which to waste time on ILX! Kinda glad I missed these "Animal Collective Wars" though.

Haha too true. Welcome back, great to hear!

Anyway all the talk today was over here:

Past Critics' Darlings Re-evaluated as Duds?

Hi Tim!

http://www.nataliedee.com/030106/bears-are-pleased.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=um-SpxzLync

you tell that brain who's boss

http://www.cuhkacs.org/~scli/blog/img/krang.jpg

great to have you back Tim (been checking every day in hopes)!

Deej I have had two conversations about the TMNT brain this week!! Although not in connection with my surgery.

Paul I am about to unleash a massive post on Ill Blu written with you in mind.

nice -- im finally sending you that piece i told you i was writing awhile back -- should have it finished today

Excellent - I had been wondering what had happened to that.

re-Fantastic Four, I expect like me you share a certain Lex-envy.

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_HOUSz77IP_M/R63_xEw874I/AAAAAAAAAfg/H0TtYQUQ8Is/s400/New_Order_Power_Corruption_and_Lies.jpg

best wishes on a speedy recovery

Great news Tim, welcome back, very glad to hear it went well.

happy healing, tim!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bvXFP-ba7T0

Thank you for this, Tim.

http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/13606-how-to-be-a-lady-volume-1/

Damn, I just saw this. Good to hear you're all right Tim.

And that Electrik Red review is great.

I've introduced around 15 people I know to them in the last month thanks to you and the rest of the Rnb crew.

i remember when i first heard "welcome back" on the radio, it was so nice to have ma$eFINNEY back, i welcomed him

-- M@tt He1ges0n, Friday, January 18, 2008 1:26 PM (31 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_N1bZkiWLM

thought that was gonna be a shipley post

Congratulations Tim!

Have you heard this mix?

http://www.mixcloud.com/unbongo/unknown-soulja-un-bongo-mix-2-november-2009/

It's kind of my favorite thing in the world right now.. I don't even know what kind of music this is supposed to be. To my ears it sounds a lot like 2-step, a little like bassline, a bit like dubstep.. but what do I know?

Ot maybe this is the "UK funky" that everyone's been talking about

Whatever it is, i freaking love it

I mean there's also some rap in there

And some dancehall. Judging by the tracklisting that's a fairly wide-ranging FACT-esque mix with bits of everything you mention in there. There's probably some funky in there as well although there aren't any names I recognise.

that electrik red review is great!

Jesus, Mess + Noise is like an AU P4K skin. Scary.

Tim, I love the series and I'm sorry to hear you're dealing with medical issues. Good on you.

Tracer, yeah that mix looks very FACT-y - there's lots of mixes floating around the internet from people like Julio Bashmore, Bok Bok, Princess, Mosca, Dub Boy and the like that cover similar ground. I haven't listened to that yet but how amazing is Major Notes' "Holy Ghost" (which is UK funky - most of the rest isn't but in related territory)? The bit when the vocal comes in toward the end is just A++++.

Chris are you in Australia now? Or have you just seen the first season? I'm really looking forward to Season 2 becoming available on the internet as I (like to) think it's much better. Mess + Noise is a bit scary, yes! I like to think we won them over at least a little bit.

I'm curious what you would might have to say about this Japanese dance pop song (3,117,287 views):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZD4QeVlqHNM

does tim finney still do his that was the year that was bit on ilm?

possibly

When does Tim Finney's first book come out?

Is Tim Finney now a big shot lawyer? I was looking for recent music writeups and came up empty-handed. There is however a very well-to-do-looking fellow of his namesake listed as being director of a law firm in Melbourne. Nothing on music or on Pitchfork in years, though!

Yeah I don't write professionally any more, but still try to do year-end write ups here.

Tim Finney why haven’t you made a 2021 playlist on spotify?

There is however a very well-to-do-looking fellow

That's all you needed to say, really. Not only do I remember all of us on a.m.a. going "What the hell, he's younger than all of us by some years and still knows nearly everything" back in the late nineties, but when I finally met the good man in 2002 I then thought "This is ridiculous, he's also better looking than all of us too!"