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Most Obsessive Fan's Message Board
Posted by dai on 22 September 2011 - 1:23pm.
In a slight follow up to the Queen podcast what are the most obsessive, disturbing fan's message boards, forums, blogs etc?
Here's a couple I have lurked on in the past:
Dylan : expectingrain.com, they will listen to 100s or even 1000s of live bootlegs to find the best versions of every song he ever released.
Springsteen : backstreets.com, on one thread they have been trying to decide the best song at one NYC show, that's fair enough, but the thread has lasted 2 yrs! No discussion just votes.
There must be many others ...
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I like
Expectingrain.
Is there something wrong with listening to lots of live recordings ?
Someone should tell these guys :
http://www.dead.net/features/news/europe-72-complete-recordings-all-musi...
I like Backstreets
It puts up the setlist of every show that Bruce plays. More artistys should do the same.
The Elvis Costello is exhaustively comprehensive and there was an excellent one 'Richard Thompson for completists' which is no longer around.
"Is there something wrong with listening
to lots of live recordings?"
Nope
Certainly not
Courtesy of someone on here who posts under an Eels related pseudonym I have recently been listening to Mr Costellos current tour and since the git won't play the UK on this tour who can blame me eh?
Mr T
I'm just sorting out some videos from the NYC run to produce a decent record of teh "Revolver" tour. i will pass it on to you in due course. And I'm still hopeful for UK dates for the tour
Nothing wrong ...
... with listening to live recordings. Something wrong with comparing 100s of them and discussing the best place for a certain song in the setlist.
I'd certainly do it with
the best version of Tambourine Man from the 66 tour. Sheffield I'm saying
My first thought was
morrissey-solo.com, founded in Mozzer's Wilderness Years, there's a fair argument to be made that his comeback might not have been so grand without this site's endless work keeping the flame alive. Every release, appearance, and utterance from his quiffness is reported, discussed and praised to the skies by a band of typically ebullient obsessives.
However, it's a proudly independent place, run by a fellow perhaps unusual in his willingness to allow news and comment critical of Moz to be published, and many contributors are unafraid to dish out a kicking when they feel it is deserved (the endless re-releases, some woeful new songs broadcast on Radio 2 recently).
As such relations between the site and it's object of affection have declined to the point where Moz and his band recently took to the stage clad in shirts bearing the legend "Fuck morrissey-solo.com".
On a related note
Does anyone have any recommendations for ultra geeky Beatle forums? I mean, where I can be really tragically sad and obsessive, safe in the knowledge that I am amongst friends. Most Beatle forums I've seen tend to be long threads repeatedly reading 'I LOVE YOU BEATLES, YOU ROCK, PEDRO, MADRID"
but then,
the people are so different,
the Barcelonians and the Madridniks.
Welcome
Now, what's the question?
Twitter
I identified a Beatles gig venue from a screencap from Anthology yesterday in a Q posted by Dr J. Beatles wig and anorak on