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Post by Craig Herbertson on Dec 21, 2011 0:45:12 GMT
That made me laugh. I remember in the heady days of punk (for me 1979 - 1981) a girl came up to me in a club and said 'you're trying to look like Les Mckeown' (of the Bay City Rollers). I bore a very faint resemblance to the pop idol which as a punk rocker you can probably imagine was an image I was trying desperately to avoid. Only time I've been rendered utterly speechless at a gig.
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Post by valdemar on May 5, 2012 10:09:30 GMT
I'm definitely on the right forum here! Not many that would mention 'Coil' and 'Red Lorry Yellow Lorry' within a few entries of each other. At this precise moment, I'm listening to 'Procession' by New Order. I only wanted to listen to their track 'In A Lonely Place' [possibly the saddest song ever committed to vinyl], but realised that 'Hurt' was on the compilation, and couldn't be arsed to dig about for it. NO's old stuff is great. I'm a man of simple tastes, and so, over the years, my tolerant neighbours have had to tolerate [in no particular order]:
The Sex Pistols; Buzzcocks; The Damned; Magazine; Human League [mks 1&2]; Gary Numan; Bauhaus; Devo; Throbbing Gristle; A Certain Ratio; Section 25; Joy Division; Japan; Depeche Mode; Associates; The Cure [up to 'Pornography']; Soft Cell; Test Department; Virgin Prunes; Siouxsie & the Banshees; King Crimson; The Fugs; King Tubby; Lee 'Scratch' Perry [lots]; Fad Gadget; Einsturzende Neubauten; The The; Les Rita Mitsouko; Early Electro & Hip Hop; Roxy Music [first 2 albums only]; Orange Juice; John Foxx; Early Simple Minds; Danielle Dax; Yargo; Propaganda; Colourbox; Eric B & Rakim; Public Enemy; The Beastie Boys [Adam Yauch, AKA MCA; RIP, Respect]; Billy Bragg; Was [Not Was]; Rammstein; Foetus [any incarnation, he's a f**k**g genius]. And thousands more. I grew up at the right time - too late for the sixties, but just in time to appreciate punk's arrival in 1976. And the great noise that came from the 1980's - seventh heaven. Oh, and I once met the late Jhon Balance of Coil in a club, and he was a really nice bloke [saying that, I once stood next to the great Richard H Kirk of Cabaret Voltaire at a urinal before a CV gig - I thought it indelicate to ask for an autograph...]. Coil's 'Hellraiser' 10" album is great - better than the 'official' soundtrack.
This week, I are mostly bin listnin' to: Foetus - Sick Man Rammstein - Sonne Chakk - Out Of The Flesh Nouvelle Vague - Too Drunk To Fuck Tackhead - Mind At The End Of It's Tether Associates - Message Oblique Speech Claudia Brucken - Surprise Kosheen - Avalanche This Mortal Coil - I Come And Stand At Every Door Thomas Dolby - Cloudburst At Shingle Street Moon Wiring Club - Frosty Reception Prince & The NPG - Sexy MF OMD - Women III The Fall - Industrial Estate Magazine - Permafrost Lana Del Rey - Dark Paradise Strawberry Switchblade - Go Away [Album Version] NON - Out Out Out Garbage - Thirteen Zeke Manyika - Bible Belt Eric B And Rakim - Follow The Leader The Blue Nile - A Walk Across The Rooftops Test Department - Kick To Kill Psychic TV - Just Drifting Einsturzende Neubauten - Tanz Debil Orbital - Wonky
I'm 49 and want new eardrums for Christmas
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Post by jamesdoig on May 6, 2012 8:48:53 GMT
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Post by Dr Strange on May 7, 2012 9:50:47 GMT
Brilliant band - Wait Long By The River & The Bodies of Your Enemies Will Float By is one of my favourite albums of all time.
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Post by valdemar on Jun 29, 2012 9:03:46 GMT
Has anyone had the misfortune to hear 'Survival', the offical song for the forthcoming London embarrassment, sorry, olympics? It's by the normally wonderful band Muse, who obviously had an off day when they wrote it. It starts off more than a bit like John Cale's superb 'Paris 1919', then throws in an ABBA chord change, and goes off into a tune that the late, very great Freddie Mercury just might have been able to carry off, ending with some ugly falsetto screeching, leading me to wonder if the singer was having a pineapple forced up his fundament. I didn't much care for it, as you can tell, but a certain BBC Radio 2 female DJ, whose name appears here cunningly disguised [J* W**l*y], played the bastard thing TWICE. Later the same evening, however, Mark Radcliffe played a track by a group called 'Public Service Broadcasting', entitled 'London Can Take It', which utilizes the dialogue from films in the BFI collection, put to quite superb music, and the whole is sublime. I have searched out some of their other tracks, and some of their best are: Spitfire, which uses material from the film 'The First Of The Few'; 'Protect And Survive, from the films of the same name, and 'Lit Up', which features the notorious BBC Radio broadcast of the 1937 Spithead Naval Review, the commentary of which was given by a 'heavily refreshed' RN Commander, to hilarious effect. If you do look for these tracks, try to get the short films that accompany them. I have found that the music on it's own is great, but with the video, it's something else entirely. I'm not ashamed to say that 'London Can Take It' moved me to tears. And I don't quite know why. As I watched it, the thought did cross my mind that somewhere, in that nightly chaos, were my maternal grandparents - Granddad sitting on the roof of a building in Fleet Street, fire-watching, and Gran in the vicinity of Alexandra Palace, doing her duty as an ARP Warden. Whatever, this music is worth searching out. The Muse one... isn't.
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Post by Dr Strange on Jul 2, 2012 12:38:56 GMT
Has anyone had the misfortune to hear 'Survival'Not me... I will be filtering out everything even remotely connected to the Olympics. (Except the brilliant BBC comedy Twenty Twelve.)
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Post by dem bones on Jul 2, 2012 22:41:10 GMT
Has anyone had the misfortune to hear 'Survival'Not me... I will be filtering out everything even remotely connected to the Olympics. We're four miles from the Stadium but i've yet to meet anyone who has, or particularly wants a ticket. Mercifully, whitechapel was deemed too hideous to expose to the eyes of the world so at least we've been spared the compulsory bunting, though it can only be a matter of days before we're all dragged in to pledge an oath of allegiance, promise not to stray out of Tower Hamlets, wear F*** the oly*p*css badges or otherwise do anything to "spoil it for everybody".
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Post by valdemar on Jul 3, 2012 3:18:49 GMT
Unfortunately, I was working when the Muse noise was played - I certainly wouldn't have listened to it twice out of choice. I'm glad I'm not alone in my detestation of all things olympic. Furthermore, I now really want a 'F**k The O******s badge. One needs to be produced, and sharpish! [solely for the olympics]
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Post by pulphack on Jul 3, 2012 7:00:01 GMT
They've put bunting on the library in Woodford... which is a few stops on the tube from Stratford but well outside any real catchment area. I had to go to Stratford last Monday and the station was heaving - this was in the middle of the day, and with very little to draw in extra punters (even Westfield was relatively quiet). It will be chaos...
Uncle Boris (no, not the nice one, but that fool Johnson) is even advising people who live here to plan their journeys and try to avoid using public transport unless necessary - also, could you work from home while the Olympics are on? Though not if you live in Fred Wigg Tower as you might just get a missile on your roof. As it goes, I know someone who used to live there and if they DO put missiles there they might just find them liberated...
My mate who works for Kensington & Chelsea as an exterminator has been told he'll have to do most of his route by foot during the Olympics because of expected transport delays and overcrowding (Earls Court and Horseguards Parade have some events, apparently). So there'll probably be a plague of rats and cockroaches for those that live in London.
Did we have all this crap when we hosted the Euros in '96? Did we hell. That's why it's relevant here - it'll be horrific to be a Londoner as it's poorly planned and executed (the security will be shite - I was working for the Jobcentre last year and I saw how they recruited their security guards...) . It's also too fucking expensive and has nothing to do with sport.
But don't get me started...
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Post by Craig Herbertson on Jul 3, 2012 9:23:58 GMT
I couldn't agree more. It's all too much, too commercialized and seems now to be generating exactly the thing its invented to stop - conflict.
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Post by valdemar on Jul 3, 2012 9:55:04 GMT
Hit the nail right on the head there. All sporting events leave resentful losers, and none more so than the olympics, simply because people train for years for it, and if they fail, there is the distinct possibility that they'll never get another go. And when did this fiasco become for professional athletes? I was always under the impression it was for amateurs. Likewise, the bloody London marathon [or Snickers]. Started out as a bit of fun, a charity event, then, all of a sudden, these professional runners started taking part, and it suddenly becomes a try-out for the commonwealth and olympic fiascos, in one fell swoop making all those thousands who are taking part just to say they've done it, or to raise money for their favourite charities, look like nutters who are just getting in the way of the 'genuine' athletes. If an athlete wants to run a marathon, he should do so with other athletes, and leave the big city marathons to those who have no intention of doing it to be famous or line their pockets. Hm. Seem to have gone off on one there. Sorry. Wonder if those missiles could take out a pole-vaulter? I'll get off my high horse now, and go into town to see what time Quatermass And The Pit [brand-new print, with 5.1 sound] is showing at my local cinema.
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Post by Knygathin on Apr 20, 2013 20:02:51 GMT
Disgusting horror with The Residents.
Decay.
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Post by valdemar on Apr 22, 2013 6:30:01 GMT
Oh, you've got to love The Residents, haven't you? Still producing way-out there material to simultaneously appeal and appal. I'm particularly fond of an old track of theirs, based, I believe, on an old Hank Williams song, entitled :'Kaw-Liga'. The Residents version has as it's basis, the bassline from Michael Jackson's 'Billie Jean'. It chugs along with this just long enough to get the Jackson fans on the dancefloor, then changes tack with a tinny brass riff, and a superb growled vocal. Weirdly, most people would stay on the dancefloor, despite it not being Michael Jackson. I know this, as I used to DJ. It's also one of those tracks that sounds rubbish unless it's given loads, high up on dial.[really bloody loud].
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Post by Knygathin on Apr 22, 2013 12:32:25 GMT
I never heard The Residents on the dancefloor! For the most part it would be rather difficult to dance to. "Diskomo" works, if you have a very agile footwork. "Kaw-Liga" is perfect! "Kaw-Liga" is fun, but I do prefer the Hank Williams original. Their music can get very groovy, sometimes. It gets under your skin, crawls in your ears like worms. It's comparable to the pleasure of a wound crust you can't resist picking at.
The Residents classic, "Sinister Exaggerator".
"Blue Rosebuds"
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Post by Knygathin on Apr 26, 2013 21:36:45 GMT
The Residents started out 40 years ago, as multimedia artists, unable to play instruments. And ended up fully accomplished musicians!
Late Residents. Jazzy!
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