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Post by PC on May 20, 2004 16:18:34 GMT -5
Sorry I was confused.
~PunkChick
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Post by bowiglou on May 20, 2004 19:20:41 GMT -5
phil..wonderful 60s list..I would like to say I was hip enough to be into VU in the 60s, but I really didn't get into Lou Reed till about 1974 and Vu not until the 80s, when some really cool VU releases occurred......
Thorny..you are rather diverse...kinda glam to metal and back again..so what did you think about King Crimsons' efforts in the 80s that were somewhat of a hybrid of the punk movement with prog?..........
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Post by Dr. Drum on May 20, 2004 19:47:30 GMT -5
I liked those 80's Crimson albums. Discipline is best but they all have their high-points.
Discipline - 4½ stars
Beat - 4 stars
Three of a Perfect Pair - 3½ stars
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achn2b
Struggling Artist
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Post by achn2b on May 20, 2004 20:37:37 GMT -5
Discipline is the album that changed my entire musical outlook. saw tehm doing a couple siongs on an old ABC show called Fridays, went, "what the hell was that?", bought the album, and the rest is history.
my tastes had been evolving somewhat from my '70's rock upbringing, which included lots of BOC, Steve Miller, Steely Dan, Kansas, Journey, Kiss, Foreignor and the lot. before i got out of high school i had bought a couple Elvis Costello albums, and bought London calling when it first came out my freshman year in college, but my tastes were still pretty mainstream white country boy.
Discipline was the catalyst that changed all that, and from then on, discovered U2 and delved deeper into Bowie, got into the Pretenders, Peter Gabriel, Echo and the Bunnymen, the Psychedelic Furs, XTC, and a bunch of other stuff i'd never heard before. in short, Discipline spurred me to search out stuff thgat wasn't played on the radio, to take a chance with bands i'd never heard of. Basically, to broaden the scope of what i listened to
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andrew
Streetcorner Musician
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Post by andrew on May 21, 2004 1:57:56 GMT -5
Wellitsy, wellitsy, wellitsy... looks like my board lives on in the bizarre otherworld of RS.com. Excellent!
For those who don't know, this is Yorkeshirepudding. (Thank the lord for this new change from that awful moniker.)
I have been meaning to post on this board for a while. This past few months I have been getting more into various punk bands... or at least punkish music. Xiu Xiu is a nice modern take on New Wave and punk music with jarring cacophonous noises and falsetto singing. Bizarrely catchy shit. And I think Refused's The Shape of Punk to Come should be an essential for any somewhat punk fan. Although they could be classified a hardcore band, their message is definitely punk. The music actually incorporates jazz, classical, dance, rock, amongst other genres. I finally got around to buying Tom Waits' Alice, Tom Waits being a punk at heart (his record label doesn't hurt in classifying him either). I think I love this album more than Blood Money. The Title Track is one of the best songs I have ever heard from him, and the lyrics are some of the best ever penned on paper. Local band The WPP are a great punk band if I ever heard one. Blood Brothers, Lightning Bolt, etc. - all of these great bands. Basically I have become a punk fan through these more abstract versions of the originals, or at least through bands carrying on the punk ethics in new forms of music. I love the sound of instruments bursting at the seams and the urgency of the vocals as if nothing else beyond the music matters. Love love love it!
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Post by maarts on May 21, 2004 7:18:14 GMT -5
Yorke...ehhh, Andrew! Good to see you mate! Is Niamh on her merry way too? Forgive me for hijacking your board-idea but as you know, business is business. I finally had a chance to listen to the new 3-and-a-bit-disc Pan Sonic...cripes, what an album! The first 'electronic overload'-disc is scorching my brain again as we speak...the more mellow parts are good too but I have to conquer my neighbours' stereo at the moment (Michael Buble?  ) |
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Post by Dr. Drum on May 21, 2004 7:19:38 GMT -5
That post on Discipline is great, achn, thanks for sharing that.
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Post by PC on May 21, 2004 11:36:33 GMT -5
Hi Andrew! It's PunkChick, the reason I have a different user name is that I tried signing up as PunkChick, but I never got the email w/the password needed to log in. So I tried signing up again using my other email address and with a different name, and I actually got the email this time.
~PunkChick
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niamh
Streetcorner Musician
aka sunnygirl
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Post by niamh on May 21, 2004 13:19:41 GMT -5
Hey maart!
I have Pan Sonic's "Aaltopiri" (sp) but it has remained pretty much unplayed. I've heard a bit about their latest release and it definitely sounds....ambitious. Any more comments to add??
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Post by bowiglou on May 21, 2004 13:32:51 GMT -5
well hello progenitor of INfluential music (i.,e yorke/andrew)..great to see you..funny Andrew, I've been somewhat gravitating away from punk of late, except for the basic standbys (Clash, Ramones, etc.)........I know absolutely nothing about any of the recent punk groups, rather the newer groups I enjoy such as Beta Band or Modest Mouse would have been comfortably clumped in with the "new wave" bands in the late 70s/early 80s...............but new wave could encompass such acts as Talking Heads to Police to Costello to Toni Basil to Flock of Seagullls!!........so go figur!!!
interesting achn and drum.....I adored Discipline and the follow up album..in fact didnt' they have some hot female bassist (sara lee?) ..and wasn't Adrian Belew a fellow guitarist?.....and was Tony Levin part of that group?..............but what I find interesting is how you commented that Discipline was chiefly responsible for your entre into more adventurous music...interesting....for you know Fripp is quite the egghead!!!!!!!
Right now I'm totally into tommy by the Who..dont ask me why..but I am having constant visions of Ann Margaret!!!! (only if you saw the movie do you know what I'm alluding to...can you say: "baked beans"?!!!)
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achn2b
Struggling Artist
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Post by achn2b on May 21, 2004 14:04:31 GMT -5
you want to roll around with ann-margret in a vat of baked beans? yeesh, you're a sick puppy.
not for the ann-margret thing, but the baked beans fixation.
i tell ya, i saw Bye Bye Birdie for the first time about five or six years ago, and absolutely fell head over teakettle for the young ann-margret. all cheekbones and gleaming white teeth.
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Post by Kensterberg on May 21, 2004 14:10:59 GMT -5
Ann-Margaret was indeed a fine looking woman ... still is, I imagine ... she's one of the high points of my favorite Elvis movie: Viva Las Vegas!
bright light city gonna set my soul on fire ...
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Post by bowiglou on May 21, 2004 14:21:56 GMT -5
woah..ken and achn2b..I thought my references would be much too arcane!!...I did see Bye Bye Birdie as a kid and had the album...in fact, I think Dick van Dyke was her cohort....she was absolutely stunning........ but I know you're gonna think I"m off my rocker, but Mary Tyle Moore during the Dick Van Dyke show was extremely attractive....and I think only about 20 years old!..but no one rivaled, yes you get it, the Catwomen (Julie Newmar) on Batman!....oy vey..........us little kids got some ya-yas off that one!!!!
Well, as the wedding in 8 days approaches I tell ya there are some interesting family dynamics...I'm actually a very nice and warm guy but my fiancee's daughter (12 years old) absolutley loathes me....seriously, I think she would be thrilled if I never existed...I am well aware of the convergence of puberty/hormones, preteen, lingering sadness/resentment over parents divorce, etc.........and I am most sensitive to that....I have extended myself to her, been complimentary etc...but seriously, I have never had a feeling of being so detested........her brother, on the other hand (9 years old) loves me...........I tell you, there are definitely some challenges entering a blended family............it is so offputting to be in a room with someone and be intentionally ignored/reviled....however , as the adult I will continue to minimially be kind and civil...................
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Post by Thorngrub on May 21, 2004 16:58:11 GMT -5
[glow=pink,2,300]Thorny..you are rather diverse...kinda glam to metal and back again..so what did you think about King Crimsons' efforts in the 80s that were somewhat of a hybrid of the punk movement with prog?.......... [/glow] ~bowiglou Yeah, I'm all over the friggin place. Like I mentioned on another board to you just a bit ago, BOWIE is a friggin GOD to me. I honestly believe he sits on THE THRONE OF ROCK'N'ROLL, David Bowie and none other. Everyone else kneels before him. *yikes, gotta run, at work, be back when I can*  |
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Post by bowiglou on May 21, 2004 17:09:11 GMT -5
[glow=pink,2,300]Yeah, I'm all over the friggin place. Like I mentioned on another board to you just a bit ago, BOWIE is a friggin GOD to me. I honestly believe he sits on THE THRONE OF ROCK'N'ROLL, David Bowie and none other. Everyone else kneels before him. [/glow]
Thorny.. I knew you had exemplary taste!!!.............
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