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Post by uǝɥʇɐǝɥ on Feb 18, 2016 14:04:58 GMT -5
Not quite Royal Blood, eh  That is a tragic haircut though. |
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Post by Elie De Beaufour 🐴 on Feb 19, 2016 10:43:38 GMT -5
How long would it take Hansi Kursch to set the world on fire, if he was NOT singing the line in the Rage song at Wacken figuratively?
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Post by mystoryisgory on Feb 19, 2016 16:21:29 GMT -5
Like a Rolling Stone is a fucking masterpiece.
And the above sentence is a fucking understatement.
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Post by glider on Feb 19, 2016 23:00:31 GMT -5
This song.
Thank you.
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Post by mkoasis on Feb 20, 2016 1:40:06 GMT -5
Adventures in Bowie Back Catalogue - Scary Monsters and Super Creeps (1980)
Just heard this one and here are my impressions of it after 2 listens. This is the one with Fashion and Ashes to Ashes on it, so those are the obvious big tracks on it but I also really enjoy the opener It's No Game (Part 1) with the Japanese voice over element and the rather epic Teenage Wildlife, which IMO should have closed the album rather than open its second half.
The album is better than I expected, partly because I inadvertently judged its musical merits by its cover art. It's a consistent, decent album, fairly upbeat and moderately rocky, some good riffs in there (not quite like The Man Who Sold the World album, with is 95% good riffs). It's about as good as Lodger I'd say, which means its a decent to good album, worth checking out if you're looking to explore beyond the major albums or just like Fashion and Ashes to Ashes.
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Post by mkoasis on Feb 20, 2016 1:42:22 GMT -5
Oh and I forgot the biggest news: finally going to see The Buzzcocks!! After years and years of having no opportunity (I missed my only chance 6 years ago I thought), I have just bought my ticket. Will have to travel a bit but this is their 40th anniversary tour. Not likely to be a 50th so I'm really, really, really excited. It's honestly a dream come true.
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Post by Elie De Beaufour 🐴 on Feb 20, 2016 2:30:07 GMT -5
Geoff Tate's best chorus ever:
And I raise my head and stare
Into the eyes of a stranger
I've always known that the mirror never lies
People always turn away
From the eyes of a stranger
Afraid to know what
Lies behind the stare
How true is that at the moment.
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Post by The Escapist on Feb 20, 2016 5:26:26 GMT -5
This duet:
You're welcome.
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Post by theyknowwhatimean on Feb 20, 2016 6:18:00 GMT -5
Adventures in Bowie Back Catalogue - Scary Monsters and Super Creeps (1980) Just heard this one and here are my impressions of it after 2 listens. This is the one with Fashion and Ashes to Ashes on it, so those are the obvious big tracks on it but I also really enjoy the opener It's No Game (Part 1) with the Japanese voice over element and the rather epic Teenage Wildlife, which IMO should have closed the album rather than open its second half. The album is better than I expected, partly because I inadvertently judged its musical merits by its cover art. It's a consistent, decent album, fairly upbeat and moderately rocky, some good riffs in there (not quite like The Man Who Sold the World album, with is 95% good riffs). It's about as good as Lodger I'd say, which means its a decent to good album, worth checking out if you're looking to explore beyond the major albums or just like Fashion and Ashes to Ashes. Scary Monsters is actually widely considered to be one of his best offerings, up there with Hunky Dory, Ziggy, and Low. Like all his best stuff though, it takes some time for it to sink in. I'm not even sure where I stand on it yet, and I've had the record well over a year. |
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Post by theyknowwhatimean on Feb 20, 2016 6:21:03 GMT -5
Only heard a couple of songs so far, but this band, CAN, sound pretty awesome.
Have Noely G to thank for this discovery...
And yes, Noel's mate, Buick Mackane IS a tune.
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Post by theyknowwhatimean on Feb 20, 2016 6:22:22 GMT -5
Gorgeous song. Blew my mind first time I heard it (two weeks ago). |
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Post by matt on Feb 20, 2016 9:05:27 GMT -5
This has got to be one of the most dreadful and fucking awful songs ever recorded by anyone, let alone Paul McCartney. Thank fuck that this never progressed further than a demo, and remained in the vault for over 40 years. To be fair on Macca, these types of tune derive from his love of music hall genre - which was massively popular in the north of England (see also The Smiths, Frankly Mr Shankly etc). They're novelty songs which were always intended to be as such. The thing I love about McCartney is that he has no filter. Which is great in that everything he thinks up he records, and some stick and others do not. Macca's solo career is more experimental than Lennon's, see The Fireman and McCartney II, the latter of which is just bizarre...... Of course, if latte supping, beanie wearing bearded Pitchfork reading hipsters actually were of independent mind as opposed to following the crowd (the irony of hipsters), they'd probably be wearing t-shirts displaying McCartney II's album cover. McCarney II isn't for me though - it's intriguing though to hear a mainstream artist like him dabble in electronic loops at a relatively early stage for the genre but it's too sketchy for me. Even more bizarre than some of the left field music he released around this time, then he goes off and writes The Frog Chorus for a kids film! I mean, who does that! He's insane - and only towards the latter 90s and the turn of the millennium has he opted to be a bit too safe and too sane for my liking. There are still genuine gems like the multilayered The Fireman's Electric Arguments from 2008 which is criminally underrated but his other studio albums aren't quite as memorable. Cosy and nice but forgettable. I think it's because he became more self conscious of his stature and national treasure status. It's been a straitjacket for him ever since. I think the belief he only wrote 'granny music' is lazy lazy thinking. And this comes also from so called Beatles 'fans' too (folk who degrade Paul's songwriting compared to Lennon's are degrading about 50% of The Beatles). Such sheep like mentality couldn't be further from the truth. McCartney was by far the weirdest Beatle in his solo career, with a few great albums along the way. Many see the Beatles solo careers as footnotes to the band themselves, and that's fair enough, but seeing them from an individual perspective does give a greater understanding of their individual talents I feel. |
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Post by madferitusa2025 on Feb 20, 2016 9:41:58 GMT -5
This has got to be one of the most dreadful and fucking awful songs ever recorded by anyone, let alone Paul McCartney. Thank fuck that this never progressed further than a demo, and remained in the vault for over 40 years. To be fair on Macca, these types of tune derive from his love of music hall genre - which was massively popular in the north of England. They're novelty songs which were always intended to be as such. The thing I love about McCartney is that he has no filter. Which is great in that everything he thinks up he records, and some stick and others do not. Macca's solo career is more experimental than Lennon's, see The Fireman and McCartney II, the latter of which is just bizarre...... Of course, if latte supping, beanie wearing bearded Pitchfork reading hipsters actually were of independent mind as opposed to following the crowd (the irony of hipsters), they'd probably be wearing t-shirts displaying McCartney II's album cover. McCarney II isn't for me though - it's intriguing though to hear a mainstream artist like him dabble in electronic loops at a relatively early stage for the genre but it's too sketchy for me. Even more bizarre than some of the left field music he released around this time, then he goes off and writes The Frog Chorus for a kids film! I mean, who does that! He's insane - and only towards the latter 90s and the turn of the millennium has he opted to be a bit too safe and too sane for my liking. There are still genuine gems like the multilayered The Fireman's Electric Arguments from 2008 which is criminally underrated but his other studio albums aren't quite as memorable. Cosy and nice but forgettable. I think it's because he became more self conscious of his stature and national treasure status. It's been a straitjacket for him ever since. I think the belief he only wrote 'granny music' is lazy lazy thinking. And this comes also from so called Beatles 'fans' too (folk who degrade Paul's songwriting compared to Lennon's are degrading about 50% of The Beatles). Such sheep like mentality couldn't be further from the truth. McCartney was by far the weirdest Beatle in his solo career, with a few great albums along the way. Many see the Beatles solo careers as footnotes to the band themselves, and that's fair enough, but seeing them from an individual perspective does give a greater understanding of their individual talents I feel. Great post. Seems like a drunken piss take to me. For dreadful and awful, I'd submit this: |
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Post by Mean Mrs. Mustard on Feb 20, 2016 11:24:59 GMT -5
This has got to be one of the most dreadful and fucking awful songs ever recorded by anyone, let alone Paul McCartney. Thank fuck that this never progressed further than a demo, and remained in the vault for over 40 years. To be fair on Macca, these types of tune derive from his love of music hall genre - which was massively popular in the north of England. They're novelty songs which were always intended to be as such. The thing I love about McCartney is that he has no filter. Which is great in that everything he thinks up he records, and some stick and others do not. Macca's solo career is more experimental than Lennon's, see The Fireman and McCartney II, the latter of which is just bizarre...... Of course, if latte supping, beanie wearing bearded Pitchfork reading hipsters actually were of independent mind as opposed to following the crowd (the irony of hipsters), they'd probably be wearing t-shirts displaying McCartney II's album cover. McCarney II isn't for me though - it's intriguing though to hear a mainstream artist like him dabble in electronic loops at a relatively early stage for the genre but it's too sketchy for me. Even more bizarre than some of the left field music he released around this time, then he goes off and writes The Frog Chorus for a kids film! I mean, who does that! He's insane - and only towards the latter 90s and the turn of the millennium has he opted to be a bit too safe and too sane for my liking. There are still genuine gems like the multilayered The Fireman's Electric Arguments from 2008 which is criminally underrated but his other studio albums aren't quite as memorable. Cosy and nice but forgettable. I think it's because he became more self conscious of his stature and national treasure status. It's been a straitjacket for him ever since. I think the belief he only wrote 'granny music' is lazy lazy thinking. And this comes also from so called Beatles 'fans' too (folk who degrade Paul's songwriting compared to Lennon's are degrading about 50% of The Beatles). Such sheep like mentality couldn't be further from the truth. McCartney was by far the weirdest Beatle in his solo career, with a few great albums along the way. Many see the Beatles solo careers as footnotes to the band themselves, and that's fair enough, but seeing them from an individual perspective does give a greater understanding of their individual talents I feel. Fantastic post and couldn't agree more. I'm fortunate enough to be a member of a Beatlesforum where the fans don't see it that way though. There isn't really a Paul vs. John thing going on on there. |
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Post by The Escapist on Feb 20, 2016 11:33:44 GMT -5
Still one of my favourite choruses going. In my head so much.
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Post by matt on Feb 20, 2016 12:14:26 GMT -5
To be fair on Macca, these types of tune derive from his love of music hall genre - which was massively popular in the north of England. They're novelty songs which were always intended to be as such. The thing I love about McCartney is that he has no filter. Which is great in that everything he thinks up he records, and some stick and others do not. Macca's solo career is more experimental than Lennon's, see The Fireman and McCartney II, the latter of which is just bizarre...... Of course, if latte supping, beanie wearing bearded Pitchfork reading hipsters actually were of independent mind as opposed to following the crowd (the irony of hipsters), they'd probably be wearing t-shirts displaying McCartney II's album cover. McCarney II isn't for me though - it's intriguing though to hear a mainstream artist like him dabble in electronic loops at a relatively early stage for the genre but it's too sketchy for me. Even more bizarre than some of the left field music he released around this time, then he goes off and writes The Frog Chorus for a kids film! I mean, who does that! He's insane - and only towards the latter 90s and the turn of the millennium has he opted to be a bit too safe and too sane for my liking. There are still genuine gems like the multilayered The Fireman's Electric Arguments from 2008 which is criminally underrated but his other studio albums aren't quite as memorable. Cosy and nice but forgettable. I think it's because he became more self conscious of his stature and national treasure status. It's been a straitjacket for him ever since. I think the belief he only wrote 'granny music' is lazy lazy thinking. And this comes also from so called Beatles 'fans' too (folk who degrade Paul's songwriting compared to Lennon's are degrading about 50% of The Beatles). Such sheep like mentality couldn't be further from the truth. McCartney was by far the weirdest Beatle in his solo career, with a few great albums along the way. Many see the Beatles solo careers as footnotes to the band themselves, and that's fair enough, but seeing them from an individual perspective does give a greater understanding of their individual talents I feel. Fantastic post and couldn't agree more. I'm fortunate enough to be a member of a Beatlesforum where the fans don't see it that way though. There isn't really a Paul vs. John thing going on on there. And that is the way it should be. Do people really think The Beatles would be considered the greatest musical act of all time if there was one leader in the group? That just wouldn't be possible. |
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Post by mystoryisgory on Feb 20, 2016 12:26:01 GMT -5
This has got to be one of the most dreadful and fucking awful songs ever recorded by anyone, let alone Paul McCartney. Thank fuck that this never progressed further than a demo, and remained in the vault for over 40 years. To be fair on Macca, these types of tune derive from his love of music hall genre - which was massively popular in the north of England (see also The Smiths, Frankly Mr Shankly etc). They're novelty songs which were always intended to be as such. The thing I love about McCartney is that he has no filter. Which is great in that everything he thinks up he records, and some stick and others do not. Macca's solo career is more experimental than Lennon's, see The Fireman and McCartney II, the latter of which is just bizarre...... Of course, if latte supping, beanie wearing bearded Pitchfork reading hipsters actually were of independent mind as opposed to following the crowd (the irony of hipsters), they'd probably be wearing t-shirts displaying McCartney II's album cover. McCarney II isn't for me though - it's intriguing though to hear a mainstream artist like him dabble in electronic loops at a relatively early stage for the genre but it's too sketchy for me. Even more bizarre than some of the left field music he released around this time, then he goes off and writes The Frog Chorus for a kids film! I mean, who does that! He's insane - and only towards the latter 90s and the turn of the millennium has he opted to be a bit too safe and too sane for my liking. There are still genuine gems like the multilayered The Fireman's Electric Arguments from 2008 which is criminally underrated but his other studio albums aren't quite as memorable. Cosy and nice but forgettable. I think it's because he became more self conscious of his stature and national treasure status. It's been a straitjacket for him ever since. I think the belief he only wrote 'granny music' is lazy lazy thinking. And this comes also from so called Beatles 'fans' too (folk who degrade Paul's songwriting compared to Lennon's are degrading about 50% of The Beatles). Such sheep like mentality couldn't be further from the truth. McCartney was by far the weirdest Beatle in his solo career, with a few great albums along the way. Many see the Beatles solo careers as footnotes to the band themselves, and that's fair enough, but seeing them from an individual perspective does give a greater understanding of their individual talents I feel. Well said! Going through Macca's solo albums has always been like listening to the White album. There's such a diverse and eclectic blend of stuff in his career: everything from straight rock, blues, music hall, funk, electronica, and even avant garde! And even when you found something that wasn't that great, it was at least charming and interesting. McCartney II has got to be one of my favorite things he's done. I think I just picked on that demo of his because I was a bit frustrated because I'd just discovered some really great stuff by him, and then that came on ha ha!! Also I'd like to submit this song for weirdest thing ever done by an ex-Beatle: |
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Post by uǝɥʇɐǝɥ on Feb 20, 2016 13:56:03 GMT -5
Fat WhiteFamily are a horrible disgrace for the current music scene and should be boycotted. Their morbid sense of humor doesn't work in music.
Mark E. Smith is a D-ck!
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Post by theyknowwhatimean on Feb 20, 2016 14:07:27 GMT -5
Oh and I forgot the biggest news: finally going to see The Buzzcocks!! After years and years of having no opportunity (I missed my only chance 6 years ago I thought), I have just bought my ticket. Will have to travel a bit but this is their 40th anniversary tour. Not likely to be a 50th so I'm really, really, really excited. It's honestly a dream come true. Came across The Buzzcocks on Allmusic the other day - was surprised to learn that they're from Bolton, the little old grey town where I was born, grew up, and still live. If you could see just how dour Bolton is, you'd know why I was so surprised. Never have heard any of their music though. What would you recommend? |
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Post by Mean Mrs. Mustard on Feb 20, 2016 17:48:05 GMT -5
The Grammy's are on and I just got to the channel right before Adele started singing.
It really WAS awful.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 20, 2016 18:23:02 GMT -5
This has got to be one of the most dreadful and fucking awful songs ever recorded by anyone, let alone Paul McCartney. Thank fuck that this never progressed further than a demo, and remained in the vault for over 40 years. To be fair on Macca, these types of tune derive from his love of music hall genre - which was massively popular in the north of England (see also The Smiths, Frankly Mr Shankly etc). They're novelty songs which were always intended to be as such. The thing I love about McCartney is that he has no filter. Which is great in that everything he thinks up he records, and some stick and others do not. Macca's solo career is more experimental than Lennon's, see The Fireman and McCartney II, the latter of which is just bizarre...... Of course, if latte supping, beanie wearing bearded Pitchfork reading hipsters actually were of independent mind as opposed to following the crowd (the irony of hipsters), they'd probably be wearing t-shirts displaying McCartney II's album cover. McCarney II isn't for me though - it's intriguing though to hear a mainstream artist like him dabble in electronic loops at a relatively early stage for the genre but it's too sketchy for me. Even more bizarre than some of the left field music he released around this time, then he goes off and writes The Frog Chorus for a kids film! I mean, who does that! He's insane - and only towards the latter 90s and the turn of the millennium has he opted to be a bit too safe and too sane for my liking. There are still genuine gems like the multilayered The Fireman's Electric Arguments from 2008 which is criminally underrated but his other studio albums aren't quite as memorable. Cosy and nice but forgettable. I think it's because he became more self conscious of his stature and national treasure status. It's been a straitjacket for him ever since. I think the belief he only wrote 'granny music' is lazy lazy thinking. And this comes also from so called Beatles 'fans' too (folk who degrade Paul's songwriting compared to Lennon's are degrading about 50% of The Beatles). Such sheep like mentality couldn't be further from the truth. McCartney was by far the weirdest Beatle in his solo career, with a few great albums along the way. Many see the Beatles solo careers as footnotes to the band themselves, and that's fair enough, but seeing them from an individual perspective does give a greater understanding of their individual talents I feel. Macca's wrote what is maybe the most brilliant solo album any Beatles ever wrote: Ram. " I guess you never knew, dear boy, what you had found ". |
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Post by mkoasis on Feb 20, 2016 18:59:03 GMT -5
Came across The Buzzcocks on Allmusic the other day - was surprised to learn that they're from Bolton, the little old grey town where I was born, grew up, and still live. If you could see just how dour Bolton is, you'd know why I was so surprised. Never have heard any of their music though. What would you recommend? Definitely the Singles Going Steady album, compiling all their Asides and (equally strong) Bsides from 1977-1982. That's the one to get. If you want one single song, start at the 'beginning' with Orgasm Addict. For something new, try Reconciliation. The 3 albums from the original punk years are all amazing, the 3 albums from the 90s after they reformed are decent to pretty good but their 00s output has been almost as good as their punk years. Flat Pack Philosophy (2006) is my favourite after the classics. |
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Post by mkoasis on Feb 20, 2016 19:54:26 GMT -5
Best Stone Roses bsides? I want to hear your opinions  |
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Post by glider on Feb 20, 2016 22:20:49 GMT -5
Best Stone Roses bsides? I want to hear your opinions Not in any order: Standing Here Mersey Paradise Going Down Something's Burning Where Angels Play Ride On Moses |
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Post by Mean Mrs. Mustard on Feb 21, 2016 4:59:20 GMT -5
The 1975-Love Me = David Bowie-Fame
And the singer wants to be Michael Hutchence (late leadsinger of INXS), so it seems.
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That is a tragic haircut though. 
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