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Post by lunatic96 on May 24, 2004 2:12:43 GMT -5
* Which song/piece of music do you recollect very vividly from your youth? Los Lobos - Will the Wolf Survive
* Which song always puts you in a good mood when you hear it? The Ballad of El Goodo - Big Star
* Which song brings you closest to tears? Sigur Ros - Vidrar vel til loftarasa
* What song you don't want to hear ever again? pretty much any good charlotte song
* Which song do you associate with the ultimate summer feeling? Grandaddy - Summer Here Kids
* Favourite airguitar-song? something by Zepplin probably
* What song/album which generally is being lauded on the RS-Boards is in your view highly overrated? Wilco - Being There
* William Hung's in the final of American Idol- She's Lost Control - Joy Division
* What song do you always sing in the bathroom? usually whatever song is stuck in my head
* The song that should be played when you are being buried/cremated and represents your life completely.... Velvet Underground - Beginning to see the Light
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Post by Mary on May 25, 2004 13:21:01 GMT -5
Well in response to strawman's claim that some of us have been hoodwinked by the press received by London Calling and aren't really evaluating it objectively.... the first time I ever heard London Calling was at a party when I was 13. I had no idea what the album was, no idea who the band was, and pretty much no idea what punk rock was. Somewhere in the middle of Spanish Bombs, I had become completely transfixed and had to hunt down the owner of the record collection to figure out what the hell we were listening to and why it sounded so bloody perfect.
I'll grant that I'm not famliar with the Members' music, though I'd also note that the Clash had been doing punk/reggae style songs from the very beginning, it didn't just appear out of nowhere on London Calling. For that matter, the Slits were recording dub-punk all along as well, so I don't really know that I'd give any one band credit for that.
And it's surely not only reggae that makes London Calling transcend ordinary punk rock - what about stuff like Lost in the Supermarket, The Card Cheat, and Train in Vain? Anyway, I guess I was never really much of a punk rocker, insofar as my favorite punk albums were almost never the classic snarling three-chord raging debuts, but always the third or fourth albums when the band started to expand their stylistic palette and leave behind what a certain mr. iglou has occasionally called "punk by numbers".... so I'll take Chairs Missing and 154 over Pink Flag, and I'll take Under the Big Black Sun over any other X album, and I Against I over Bad Brains, etc etc etc...
Cheers,
M
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Post by Thorngrub on May 25, 2004 13:26:49 GMT -5
[glow=orange,2,300]* The song that should be played when you are being buried/cremated and represents your life completely.... Velvet Underground - Beginning to see the Light
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Very nice.
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Post by strawman on May 25, 2004 16:12:52 GMT -5
Mary....firstly I like London Calling, but I wonder if it would get the same degree of adulation around here if everybody was convinced to buy The Clash and Rope first. This is how I came to hear London Calling and really as good as it was, to me it was not overly special..(remember this would have been in 1980 when a flood of New Wave was hitting the streets)
In fact I probably rate the first three Jam albums ahead of it....Setting Sons not being too punk but there is a pile of good tracks there..
As for The slits...yeah I have Cut, ...three women and Budgie (later to Souxsie), who did play a sort of off beat twisted reggae....maybe the photo of the band nude mudwrestling on the sleeve got me to buy this LP?
I suppose what I am saying, is that in relation to all the great punk albums out there, London Calling gets held up as the one "must have"...sorry but I think not. There are many other punk albums you should own prior to this LP and for that reason I say its been over rated...
Oh I also think most of REM is over rated too, so really you shouldn't take me too seriously!!
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Post by samplestiltskin on May 25, 2004 18:04:31 GMT -5
I've always thought REM were remarkably unremarkable. Bland. I listen to them... and.. feel nothing. Blah.
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Post by RocDoc on May 25, 2004 19:40:24 GMT -5
*Which song/piece of music do you recollect very vividly from your youth?
Of course the Beatles! The entire Meet The Beatles disc probably enjoying 'It Won't Be Long' the most...
*Which song always puts you in a good mood when you hear it?
Strangely, I STILL get a great near-Pavlovian reaction with U2's Beautiful Day...tho there's LOTS of others. The Rock & Roll Animal versions of the majestic 'Sweet Jane'(OH, that intro!) AND then 'Rock And Roll' simply sweeps me up....
* Which song brings you closest to tears?
Many...2 that guarantee it, Pavarotti singing Puccini....Nessun d'Orma will do just fine. Then the Lithuanian National anthem, for which my perception now is TOTALLY different than when I was a kid singing it...I can't get through it even. Imagine THAT.
* What song you don't want to hear ever again?
Off the top ofmy head, Ryan Adam's 'Photogra-a-aph'-song and how about The Thrills 'One-Horse Town' irritation-fest
* Which song do you associate with the ultimate summer feeling?
Generally, for a dose of a summertime at the beach as a kid - Mungo Jerry's 'In The Summertime'
For a 'healthy' wholesome summer - Walking On Sunshine - Katrina & The Waves.
THEN...for a get down, seriously stoned but still having wild fun summer, Aerosmith's 'Back In The Saddle' worked VERY well in 1976!
* Favourite airguitar-song?
UFO - Rock Bottom
AC / DC - Riff Raff
* What song/album which generally is being lauded on the RS-Boards is in your view highly overrated?
Anything by the Replacements....
* William Hung's in the final of American Idol- which song would you want him to sing?
The 'Sounds Of Silence'....while very tightly bound and gagged
* What song do you always sing in the bathroom?
The very last thing I've heard before getting in...this morning it was the The Connells' What Do All The People Know...
* The ultimate song to have sex to is....?
Song? No....try albums. Memorable ones, Abbey Road....then Little Feat's Waiting For Columbus done give us de funk AND plenty of time to enjoy...
* The song that should be played when you are being buried/cremated and represents your life completely....
'Tripe Face Boogie' seeing as I've got the Feat on my mind....and FUN is what I'll wish to have represent me...
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Post by rockysigman on May 26, 2004 0:58:40 GMT -5
This probably isn't the most appropriate board to post this on, but I wanted to make sure that roc doc saw it, since I know he likes Skeleton Key (and is probably the only one here who has heard them--or at least the only one I can remember).
I might, might, be getting my band booked at a show with Skeleton Key. The booking guy wouldn't give the opening slot to us for sure, but said to check back in with him in a week. No, they're not a huge band, but they'd be, by far, the biggest band we've played with, and I really like them, so it would be really great on a personal level for me.
Really excited about the possibility of this happening.
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Post by Meursault on May 26, 2004 1:06:05 GMT -5
got any recordings on the net?
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Post by Mary on May 26, 2004 1:12:57 GMT -5
No worries on the R.E.M. thing strawman, as I'm with you and samples all the way - I find them quite bland. They're fine, and inoffensive, and pleasant, but I don't understand the kind of adulation they inspire. They just seem pretty unremarkable.
But while I totally respect your take on London Calling, and really appreciate your knowledge of so many forgotten punk gems (still gotta check out the Members and the Ruts, I do!) we'll just have to agree to disagree! Much as I love the very first Clash album (Rope is too inconsistent for me, and I really hate Cheapskates... we've been down this road before!) it just doesn't have the same kind of grand, sweeping breadth that impresses me so much with LC... I don't think it's just cause I heard LC first, I really think it's becaue my musical preferences never really lay with straightforward punk rock to begin with. I was attracted to the scene, I liked the youthful energy, the confrontationalism, the aggression, the rebellion, all of that, but three chords just doesn't do it for me for very long. I think that's why I've ultimately settled on post-punk - and the years 1979 and 1980 - as my absolute favorite moment in music. I like to see bands take the energy and anger of punk and channel it in unpredictable directions, infuse it with unpredictable genres, etc etc. LC does that, but honestly lately I've been much more inclined to throw something like Wire or Gang of Four or James Chance on the stereo than even the Clash...
Cheers,
M
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Post by rockysigman on May 26, 2004 1:36:01 GMT -5
Nope, Shane, nothing recorded yet, but that's something we're planning to work on soon.
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Post by Meursault on May 26, 2004 1:54:58 GMT -5
Well good luck with all that. I'll be rocking myself this fall.
U sing, play just guitar, write lyrics, share any lyrics with us here (if they are the kind that should be read)?
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Post by RocDoc on May 26, 2004 11:16:26 GMT -5
God, I haven't listened to that one Skeleton Key disc in quite awhile and it's definitely a very cool disc...I know the band just recently came through town 2nd-billed to someone pretty prominent at a small-er venue.
Of course I haven't been able to get to see too much of anything lately...busier than hell on the home and work fronts...
SK's disc was one I found in a used disc store in Lithuania, a promo copy with a totally different cover than the one I later saw popping up in used stores here...I thought it was a great find which I grabbed strictly through hearing about it here, most likely through Rocky.
My take was that what made it so cool was it's use of 'junkyard percussion' in a very musical(albeit usually assymetrically)way, sorta like Tom Waits' Bone Machine disc did...
Hope you guys get the gig, Rocky!
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Post by riley on May 26, 2004 11:52:14 GMT -5
Rocky. Do you guys play any Whitesnake,Winger Warrant, or White Lion covers?
Hair bands playing tunes by groups starting with "W" seem to largely under represented in live music venues all over these days.
I think you guys should work towards filling that void.
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Post by rockysigman on May 26, 2004 12:17:19 GMT -5
Shane, for the most part I just play guitar, although I do occassionally play bass. Most of the singing and lyric writing is done by my friend Brad, although I've dabbled in both. He's much better at both though, so I don't usually bother. I write most of the music though.
No Whitesnake covers yet, but I've been pressuring the other two to work on one for quite a well.
Okay, that was a lie.
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Post by strawman on May 26, 2004 14:55:03 GMT -5
Mary...I have often labeled The Ruts as a band that never got the credit they deserved. They made some great music...and they really could play. They certainly were not a pop band...they blended reggae with furious punk...and of course the classic rage of Babylons Burning.
I suppose heres a reggae punk album, I had yet again before London Calling....maybe, just maybe that sound wasn't so new anymore...dunno, but I still remember being ho hum about London Calling LP on release.....or maybe I just wanted another Rope...
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