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Most Obsessive Fan's Message Board

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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...

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Slick | 22 September 2011 - 1:56pm

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.

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Steve Turner | 22 September 2011 - 2:26pm

"Is there something wrong with listening

to lots of live recordings?"

Nope

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DogFacedBoy | 22 September 2011 - 2:42pm

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?

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Steve Turner | 22 September 2011 - 2:47pm

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

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DogFacedBoy | 22 September 2011 - 3:00pm

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.

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dai | 22 September 2011 - 5:09pm

I'd certainly do it with

the best version of Tambourine Man from the 66 tour. Sheffield I'm saying

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DogFacedBoy | 22 September 2011 - 5:54pm

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".

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Cadabra | 22 September 2011 - 5:25pm

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"

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Slotbadger | 22 September 2011 - 5:28pm

but then,

the people are so different,
the Barcelonians and the Madridniks.

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Runcible | 22 September 2011 - 5:48pm

Welcome

Now, what's the question?

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Count Grassi | 22 September 2011 - 5:49pm

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

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DogFacedBoy | 22 September 2011 - 5:58pm
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