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Music Shit / Re: Best book about the Ramones

« on: December 28, 2013, 09:58:23 PM »

Dee Dee book I'm referring to is called Lobotomy.

Same co-author as Poison Heart - I assume it's just a different edition.

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Music Shit / Re: Best book about the Ramones

« on: December 28, 2013, 03:26:21 PM »

If you are looking for an intellectual retrospective of the Ramones...

Definitely didn't go in looking for that.

But where I found the fucked up junkie hijinx in something like Please Kill Me wildly entertaining, Dee Dee's book just seemed tedious and sad.

Like I said, maybe I should revisit - could be I caught it at the wrong time.

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Music Shit / Re: Best book about the Ramones

« on: December 28, 2013, 03:04:54 PM »

Dee Dee's book is fucking stellar! That is one of the best reads of my life. Absolutely hilarious. So many great stories in there. The story which he talks about grabbing the girl boarder guard's gun and punching her out and then shooting and killing the other two guards and describes the scene as a bloodbath, is some grade A story tellin'!

Huh.

Don't think I even got through it.

2nd worst rock autobio I've ever read, after one of Eric Burdon's mid-period attempts wherein he writes 300 pages about dropping tons and tons of acid and running trains on young hippie women.

Wait.  That sounds like a pretty good book.

Oh shit, maybe the problem is me.

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Music Shit / Re: Best book about the Ramones

« on: December 28, 2013, 02:39:36 PM »

Dunno.

Can tell you that Dee Dee's book is fucking awful.

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Non-Music Shit / Re: NHL 2013/2014 THREAD

« on: December 28, 2013, 11:10:38 AM »

Brutal.

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Non-Music Shit / Re: NHL 2013/2014 THREAD

« on: December 28, 2013, 08:22:41 AM »

McDavid.

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Music Shit / Re: Best thing you heard in 2013 that's not from 2013

« on: December 27, 2013, 09:16:08 AM »

Tons and tons of stuff, but 10 that come immediately to mind:

1.  Speed - "Speed Speed Speed ... Is Really All We Need" 7".
2.  Novak - "Oh Farrah !" 7".
3.  Marcell Strong - "Mumble In My Ear" 7".
4.  Yves & Serge & Victor - Cagibi LP.
5.  The Boston Boppers - "Did You Get What You Wanted ?" 7".
6.  Guelewar – "Sama Yaye Demma N'Darr", track from Touki Ba Banjul : Acid Trip From Banjul To Dakar.
7.  The Girls - "Jeffrey I Hear You" 7".
8.  Canned Heat - "Poor Moon" 7".
9.  Repulse - Habershon Ways EP.
10.  The Scenics - "Bubbles", track from Underneath The Window LP.

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Used Records For Sale/Auctions/Wantlists / Re: CollectorScum presents Buy-It-Nows of note

« on: December 26, 2013, 05:52:06 PM »

Jealous.

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Non-Music Shit / Re: NHL 2013/2014 THREAD

« on: December 26, 2013, 04:38:59 AM »

Canada/Germany, here we go.

Not feeling very confident this year.

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Music Shit / Re: What Are You Listening To And What Do You Have To Say About it? PART VI

« on: December 24, 2013, 02:20:48 PM »

WL/WH 45th Anniversary thing.

Dunno why I keep buying these.

Maybe the "Gymnasium" stuff will sound better than the boots I've got.

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Used Records For Sale/Auctions/Wantlists / Re: CollectorScum presents Buy-It-Nows of note

« on: December 22, 2013, 11:02:12 AM »

It'll be a good nostalgia piece for all those days spent paging through it and the TP Guide at the school library.

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Music Shit / Re: 1991

« on: December 15, 2013, 04:25:01 PM »

Always thought Copper Blue was '91 but hey look, nope.

How about the Discords record.

Spector box set ?

Aw, fuggit.

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Used Records For Sale/Auctions/Wantlists / Re: CollectorScum presents Buy-It-Nows of note

« on: December 14, 2013, 02:00:11 AM »

40 Euros.

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Music Shit / Re: What Are You Listening To And What Do You Have To Say About it? PART VI

« on: December 10, 2013, 04:50:28 PM »

The Girls - Reunion LP.

Way better than I thought it would be.

Really need to get the Hearthan single.

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Music Shit / Re: What Are You Listening To And What Do You Have To Say About it? PART VI

« on: December 09, 2013, 06:31:59 PM »

The verlaines are OK at best to me.  The smartypants self awareness is annoying...I'm not into the kiwi pop much so go figure

Loved "Death & The Maiden" right off but otherwise never rated them at all compared to their NZ contemporaries.

Slowly found myself coming around on them in the last couple years. 

Seems to be a resigned sort of depth that just didn't sink in back when I was a younger fella.

Also, Jane's inability to contain her grin during her bass part in the bridge on the "Doomsday" video.