Entertainment For Lively Minds
Likes & Dislikes
Posted by SimonL on 21 July 2011 - 3:21pm.
Imagine this thread is your old school notebooks, or sportsbag or lapel covered in badges. List the bands and singers/songwriters/guitarists/albums that you love. Lets avoid the things we don't like, or snippy arguments if we can.
Mine in the comments...
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'Long Gone Before Daylight' by the Cardigans
Talk Talk
Ryan Adams
My Morning Jacket
Johnny Marr
the Go-Go's
Long Gone Before Daylight
Excellent call.
Mine
The Jam. Loved them since my early teens - and The Style Council and Weller's works since. There's nothing better sometimes than putting The Jam on loud and feeling The Thump (tm SimonL) of Buckler's drums.
Motown, Northern Soul, Stax, Volt etc etc etc. My dad was a big soul fan and there are days when that is all I listen to. If I need an uplift that's what does it.
The Clash: I wanted to be Joe Strummer when I grew up. I haven't grown up yet. I'm 42. I still practice rebel rocker poses with my old Tele.
Drum machines, synths, sequencers. The other side of me. There's the me that my best friend from school describes as the punky Mod boy and then there's the Pop kid that likes shiny slick records from the early 80s, which also fed into getting into dance music later on. My 90s were mostly about dance music. And Pulp, who also descend in my mind from the likes of Bowie, Human League, Soft Cell etc etc. I love those things, all those shiny surfaces and alien sounds. I was 12 when Dare came out and I still think it sounds amazing today.
ABC and the Lexicon Of Love album: My all time favourite album.
Aztec Camera and Walk Out To Winter (the single version) my all time favourite single.
Dexys Midnight Runners. The other person I wanted to be, Kevin Rowland, all that fire and passion and 3 distinctive sounding albums, with the brass and stomping drums. Love Love Love.
My favourite album in the last few years, Jamie T's Kings And Queens album, a great take on the old last gang in town schtick, very Clash, but with tender acoustic moments and hip hop influences. Guttersnipe music, and there's a possibility that at 42 I'm not the target audience. But I find it hits me right *here* and gets the blood pumping like I was 16 again. If I was 16 it would probably make me explode or at least form a band.
There's lots more, there's always more, but I've run out of covers on the notebook to scrawl the band logos on.
Jamie T
I love Sticks & Stones - not sure I'd describe him as a guttersnipe though. He was privately educated. Again, very Clash.
The Jam
didn't every boy have this on their school bag in the late 70's? I know I did
*Sigh* Cast in the role of the pedant again..
How come you've called the thread 'Likes and Dislikes' and then forbidden people to display their dislikes?
Because I Can
And because Ive asked people not to list their dislikes. Start with a title and make it up from there. Worked for every essay I've ever written!
Excellent answer. Okay, I'm in.
If I was the same knob I used to be back then but adorning my schoolbag in the here and now I'd have
Art Brut
Stereolab
Ballboy
The Go! Team
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
The National
Euros Childs
Metric
eels (written with a small 'e')
The Decemberists
Edwyn Collins
Allo Darlin'
and because I'd be afraid all my mates would know all of these I'd add
Dub Colossus and Lali Puna.
Incidentally, when I was at school a girl I fancied came in with 'Kajagoogoo' on her bag even though 'Too Shy' had only just come out. At the time I thought this was sooo cool but, as I said, I did fancy her. A lot.
If we were at school together
I'd definitely have tried to be friends with you (and failed, probably). I love Stereolab and The Decemberists, and The Go! Team's first album is fantastic. Plus, I've been seriously hammering the Allo Darlin' album for the past few weeks.
Want to skip double science and have a ciggy outside the art block?
Because
he's cool and edgy - haven't you seen what band names he's got on his satchel ?
If I were at school today
I'd have the following written in Tipp-Ex on my satchel:
Belle and Sebastian
Tindersticks
Suede
Pulp
Lambchop
The Beatles
Joanna Newsom
The Smith
SLOW CLUB
I'd then be taken round the back of the science block by the bigger boys and beaten up.
I did...
...have Pulp, Suede and The Beatles scribbled on my school bag! I know it's a typo, but I think The Smith is what Moz should've called himself when he went solo.
Laura Marling
Would be written all over my exercise books. Can't believe I was such a late adopter.
BPLLMAWDFE xx
Thank goodness this isn't my old school notebook
What with its slavish devotion to Oasis and the countdown to 21st August 1997. Because if a seven minute single consisting of Morse code, walls of guitar and a video that made Apocalypse Now look like it was shot on a HandyCam doesn't get you excited for the new album, nothing will.
The back of my Latin exercise book, early 1972...
I Like A Bit Of A Cavort
First thing I wrote on the front cover of every homework diary I had from early 1986 until I left school. (In homage to BAD, not Performance)
My mate Andy, when we were at school
Spent quite some time writing "PINK FLOD" on his bag. When his error was pointed out, to much hilarity, he was mortified. His mum refused to buy him another bag. Pink Flod they have remained to us all ever since.
I had KRAFTWERK written on my bag. And a poorly-rendered Walt Jabsco.
Nowadays, It'd be Matthew Sweet, Turin Brakes, Midlake and Steely Dan.
Feel the positivity
How nice to have a non- "snippy" thread! I applaud you. My exercise book would (and in some cases did) have in no particular order
a-ha
The Smiths
Elbow
Carter the unstoppable sex machine
Nirvana
Villagers
Blur
Oasis
Oh and another thing..
My friend had a perfectly painted Neds Atomic Dustbin logo on his bag. I was most jealous at the time.
Sister's Other Half
was the Ned's Tour Manager...he and my sis have a silver disc for God Fodder hanging in their toilet!
Due to the unique way..
my brain works I have now had "Happy" by Ned's giving me the full earworm treatment all afternoon. Can't remember any of their other songs off the top of my head though. Must be a potential new thread here "cool band logo's" or maybe "bands with more striking logo's than music"
Funnily enough...
I'm working on a "band button badges" nostalgia fest for my Retro Man Blog (all contributions of scanned badges - with a bit of back story if possible - greatly received..!)
Unfortunately I wasn't a collecting anorak when I were young and I sold a big bag of badges to my local record shop...ah well, me and Mrs Retro did did cobble together a few, here's a taster...
Of all my childhood heroes
there remains only one who is still alive and whose music still continues to fascinate me to this day. And that is David Sylvian.
The Beatles
When I went to AHDN in '64 I got a b and w photo with THEIR SIGNATURES! (probably actually signed by Wilfred Brambell).
Being the particular sort of nerd I was I spent a lot of time trying to write their signatures myself. I was best at George Harrison's flourish, since you asked.
My Obsessions
there is a funny little list of bands that I either have or will eventually acquire every recorded sound they have made. Most other bands I can take it or leave it but these...I want *everything*!
I can pass on a lot of 90s/early 00s Fall, not desparate to hear The Beach Boys 80s stuff or Brian Wilsons Disney covers album, but the following I must have EVERYTHING by!
Wire
XTC
Stereolab
Cabaret Voltaire
Autechre
SND
Pendle Coven/Demdike Stare/Miles/MLZ (the spooky sound of Lancashire)
A hint.
I have Cabaret Voltaire's exceptionally humdrum Doublevision video tape, which I won in an NME competition. It's pants, and it's on a VHS cassette, so if I were you I'd scratch it from the list!
If love is measured in shelf inches...
...then clearly I'm deeply enamoured of:
XTC
Robyn Hitchcock
Frank Zappa
Miles Davis
Pat Metheny
Shostakovich
Mahler
Bach
Beethoven
Orbital
Belle & Sebastian
Blur
David Bowie
Nick Cave
Chumbawamba
Ella Fitzgerald
Dexter Gordon
Half Man Half Biscuit
Herbie Hancock
The Magnetic Fields
...and my "70s Prog" corner which I'll lump all together as one hybrid artist YesGentleGiantELPGenesisGongPinkFLoyd.
According to Last.fm
XTC
ELO
The Beatles
The Nines
Crowded House
ABBA
Squeeze
Everything Everything
The Divine Comedy
Billy Joel
Field Music
The Beach Boys
Gilbert O'Sullivan
Pet Shop Boys
Paul McCartney
Supertramp
Andy Partridge
Prefab Sprout
The Go-Betweens
10cc
The canvas green plumbers bag I used as a school bag...
...was excellent for displaying black marker pen...
Back in the mid 80's it had scrawled across it, some with logo's some without...
The Jam and The Who (standard mod arrows)
The Smiths
Echo and the Bunnymen
Simple Minds
QPR
It Bites
Brooooooooooooooce (written like that)
I'm now noting the absence of girls
If I could nick and graffiti my son's school bag this morning I'd decorate it with
The Go-Go's
Blondie
Suede
The Clash
The Wonder Stuff
QPR
Public Enemy (cool logo)
and
Vampire Weekend
The most magnificent effort I ever saw
was that of a lad cycling through Bristol city centre in about 1980 who had laboriously stencilled the following across the entire width of his army-surplus haversack in huge black type:
ORCHESTRAL MANOEUVRES IN The dark
except for the last few letters, which were only just crammed in, in a "Think Ahead" style.