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What *is* the matter with you lot?
Posted by Sheev on 14 September 2010 - 8:38pm.
Duckworth Lewis Method? The sort of idea that even Ben Elton wrote off as a bad idea.
The Hold Steady? Fuck me they're bad,
Janelle Monaie? In what way is this good?
John Grant? There may come a time when I want to listen to the over-wordy caterwaulings of the love-child of Elvis Costello and Rufus Wainwright. That time ain't anytime soon,
Cripes that's torn it. Runs away.
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I know nothing of
the last three acts you mention but the DLM album has been played to death in our house. It's fantastic, and I'm hoping for a volume 2 to coincide with Ashes 2013!
Sheev a troll?
Say it ain't so!
wait til
I get started on those turnips - sorry swedes - Abburgh
We only like what the stylemakers at 'The' Word
tell us to like, Sheev.
It ain't our fault.
subliminal
and overt - they are always present and invisible
And those bloody Beatles..
.. don't get me started.
I don't like any of em
despite being a Div Com fan
Can I join the Sheev posse?
Podcast
I quite like the LDM track on the CD but that podcast with NH was ghastly. Do all his songs sound the same?
Fuck
and cripes in the same post, I love this place. I also have my imaginary band name sorted.
The new single from Fuck and Cripes "What Is The Matter With You Lot?"
Fuck and Cripes
"Two more from them later.."
this is STILL
my favourite running gag on this blog...
Little Feat
Hoary old blues-rock shi....
Arghhhh gerroff, not the face, not the face!
And fookin Steely
bloody Dan.
The Dan? Oh man
I'm a big fan
*pats indulgently on head*
Smiles benevolently. Thinks "perhaps you should actually listen to the wonderful Feat as you clearly have not". Moves on...
Maybe...
it's time I took my cobwebs, black clothes, flangers and distortion pedals and sidled off quietly.
I have been considering it.
oh BTW I fuckin' hate The Flaming Lips!
It is your duty to be the keeper
of all things Goth on this here blog, JB.
Stick with it.
I love the Flaming Lips, though.
"I am not mad." :)
hmmmm yeah but
I hold no reverence for Mr. Radio Times either.
Thanks, but you sure I belong here?
The broadest of churches, this place.
Took me a minute to get RT.
For a minute I thought you meant the cover star if this week's Radio Times... Stephen Fry.
I mean, everyone reveres him, surely?
Do not see me rabbit
Of course you do. If nothing else, with a lot more correspondents here, we could revive the Thick As A Brick discussion from years back and see where it goes.
Then we could
have a game of fennel afterwards 8-}
Thankee!
Adman, Brer Carl and The Beanster a game of fennel sounds ideal
'You lot'?
DLM - Whatever, Trevor
Hold Steady - meh, but people haven't been going on about them that much unless I've missed something
Janelle Monaie - sounds quite interesting. Especially for a first album.
John Grant - You've got it back to front. He's a smoother Rufus, non-caterwaul-version and therefore infinitely preferable.
Anyhow, I've now decided to only play The Runaways or Joan Jett for the rest of my life so...
I wondered
why someone was taking my online name in vain for a moment there, then I recalled the album cover. Messrs Hannon and Walsh never consulted me about it beforehand ... (flounces away)
Excellent post
Your argumunt is most persuasive. I would like to say that your discussion is very interesting. The topics raised are good and your writing is funny.
www.kittenlego.com
Where do you stand on Phil Collins then?
*ducks*
DLM - you are just wrong. Besides, Ben Elton would have dancers on roller skates and disco tunes.
I would imagine
the best place is on his throat, just around the windpipe.
I saw him being interviewed
for the umpteenth time today about his new album and he was so listless and bored.
Really Phil, the world wasn't waiting for another album from you so you don't have to go through the publicity malarky if you don't want to.
Richard Thompson?
Oi shit 'im...
Word Massive? Word Massive?! Rubbish!
he's right
- especially about Take That.
I'm with you on the John Grant thing
With all the adulation on here, and in the printed Word, I thought I'd better check him out on Spotify.
First track - some nonsense about Yogi Bear, I think.
Second track seemed to have lyrics written by my nephew Angus, about his latest trip to the cinema.
I didn't bother with the rest.
Sorry
Don't see the John Grant/Elvis Costello+Rufus thing at all - he's nothing like either of them!
Hold Steady I agree with though. Haven't really listened to the others enough to comment.
I've not heard...
...the DLM album, but all the other three are entirely, entirely cherishable (although I can't help feeling the Hold Steady's best work is two albums ago). I try not to evangelise too much about what I like, though, because I can't help feeling that if people just get on and listen to what they love, everyone's happy. Flipside of that is that I try not to shit on other people's tastes, even when I don't see it. Don't always succeed, of course (cf. Libertines, The, previous posts about).
Never heard DLM as I know nothing about cricket.
The Hold Steady- never heard either
Janelle Monae - seems pretty cool, raids the dress up box, digs sci fi, what's not to like? Muse + Funk = Janelle
John Grant - also never heard.
May be I should subscribe to another mag. What with owning no Richard Thompson, Elvis Costello, Yes, Jethro Tull, Roxy Music and only having a Best Of David Bowie (which actually belongs to the FPO) and needing El Hombre Malo and Retroman to introduce me to the Feelgoods and Wilco (thanks guys! They really are brilliant!) I seem to be hanging with the wrong demographic...
Nah.
I sometimes wonder that myself, gs. I do own some EC and I like Bowie in moderation, but had never heard OF Richard Thompson before coming on this blog, and have still never heard a lick of his music. I can't bear prog, by and large, and the only Roxy Music song I would recognise is probably Avalon. That's by them, right? Oh, and that Virginia Plain thing.
If I had a complaint about this blog, it would be that I find all the obsessing about past glories a bit much. There is TONS of really, really exciting music being produced right now, and the sixties really isn't the pinnacle of everything that everyone makes out. Nostalgia's an iffy thing.
But then I read a really great post, or go to a Massive drinks do, and know all is right and that all the above is a tiny wrinkle on a site that's just about perfect in terms of friendliness, erudition and manners. Love this place.
Dear idiotganglebearsprocket
"...and needing El Hombre Malo and Retroman to introduce me to the Feelgoods and Wilco" - that is exactly why we are here. Like-minded chaps and chappesses that can throw us a muddy buddy curve ball that sometimes sticks with a recounding YES! (not the group Yes obv.). Most music is best discovered, somtimes slowly and accidentlly on purpose. Telling someone they WILL LIKE IT is the definite way to kill a future love affair.
"I find all the obsessing about past glories a bit much." - sometimes they are better than our present glories and often best taken with a pinch of salt, as, in my current state, they are generally given with a tongue planted firmly in cheek.
Aye, when I were lad it were all prog around these parts...
Nostalgia ain't what it used to be...
I must admit as a long time fan of Bowie and admirer of Messrs Costello and Lowe, not to mention the HJH, I still have to get my "fix" occasionally to remind myself how great they are, whether that's listening to them or someone else enthusing about them whether that's in the Word or on this blog.
Like you say, there's so much new stuff out there that seems to be being ignored.
I love Jools Holland's "open door" policy on music, without his championing of new music the music scene would be much poorer.
As usual
I agree with alot of what Mr Sheev says. Although Janelle sounds quite good from what little I've heard
Investigate!
If you like what you've heard of Janelle, I really recommend giving her album a proper listen. The main criticism of her is that she's doing nothing that hasn't been done before, but she draws from so many influences that I think it injects some excitement and freshness into it.
I should say as well...
DRAKEYGIRL! Are you there???
You drunkenly pressed a CD on me with no tracklisting at all. The only tune I recognize is Hello by Frazier Chorus. Any way you could send me a list of what is on it? I know that Lloyd Cole is there as well, but there's a pile of stuff which I've never heard at all...
Mr Sprocket
Yes, and yes. I should have done a tracklisting, shouldn't I. Doh! I'll send one through to you.
Thanks Mrs!
x
PS It's a fine collection of stuff, I just have no idea what's on it...