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Music Shit / Re: What are you listening to and what do you have to say about it? Part IV

« on: June 13, 2010, 08:21:18 AM »

2nd Gen - Against Nature EP
Duplo Remote/Cato - Split
Churchill's - Churchill's
Jericho Jones - Junkies Monkeys and Donkeys
Atlon Inc. - Main Things
Toby Damnit - Top Dollar
1000 Fehler - 1000 Fehler
Various - Fuzzy Boombox Vol. 1

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Non-Music Shit / Re: raul

« on: June 13, 2010, 03:38:56 AM »

I'm not a fan of musicals either. I like a certain type of play, particularly stuff like Sarah Kane's Blasted, which makes Swans' lyrics read like like a page of Hello! magazine. Or stuff like Mark Ravenhill's Shopping and Fucking. In general I see more people threatened by the cops at some outsider performance artist's show  than gigs. Up the movie. What's it about?

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Non-Music Shit / Re: raul

« on: June 13, 2010, 03:18:52 AM »

Why do you not write a musical about you getting on the internet for the first time and chatting to him?

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Pop Punk / Re: MP3s in 2010

« on: June 13, 2010, 01:34:51 AM »

Soriano'S Rectum
Up for grabs

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Non-Music Shit / Re: Reading the newspaper

« on: June 12, 2010, 01:52:21 PM »

I'm off to print this thread out and decide which of the two I like better.

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Music Shit / Re: Fake Punk

« on: June 12, 2010, 10:31:33 AM »

Sigue Sigue Sputnik, even tho I like 'em.

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Pop Punk / Re: MP3s in 2010

« on: June 12, 2010, 10:27:24 AM »

Who are those two?

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Non-Music Shit / Re: Radiohead frontman: Music industry on verge of collapse

« on: June 12, 2010, 01:04:51 AM »

Radiohead make vegetarian music for people who feel ashamed about not being able to share their feta cheese salads with an African family
living with AIDS. It's no wonder he's so prone to make the odd hysterical comment or two. And his face looks like that of a chicken born prematurely.

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Pop Punk / Re: MP3s in 2010

« on: June 12, 2010, 12:35:29 AM »

You make me warm inside Officer Brad. You really do.
Anywayz, yeah I agree about all the quality stuff to an extent blah blah, and I much prefer the real deal blah blah myself. Mp3s are here to stay, though.

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Pop Punk / MP3s in 2010

« on: June 11, 2010, 11:26:15 PM »

Do you think that 8/10 of all these online (or not) debates on how downloading has changed the way we listen to music and has decreased our attention span as listeners is not simply an excuse for a lot of people not to pay closer attention to the music because they're really just chronically bored with it and want to pontificate so they'll feel that bit more self- important?

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Music Shit / Re: standard books about music/bands

« on: June 11, 2010, 11:07:57 PM »

James Young - Songs They Never Play On The Radio

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Music Shit / Re: Fake Punk

« on: June 11, 2010, 01:48:44 PM »

I'm feeling too lazy to google it, but in the mid-90s, after a brief revival brought in by britpop, the papers reported that Adam Ant went loopy in a pub and threatened to shoot someone, or something like that. Perhaps the false pirates' deserved punishment requires eternal  confinement in a sanitarium.

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Music Shit / Re: the records of your life

« on: June 11, 2010, 01:29:45 PM »

My favourite song off it for what I remember of the album right now is 'It's Alright (Baby's Coming Back) because it still   retains some of the eerie qualities of their earlier albums. The thing is that by then they were trying hard to appeal to a much bigger slice of the American market that they had reached before, and that resulted in all the cliched gospel choirs, wild (but not really wild, thanks) rockisms etc that your token big British pop band has in mind when it comes to a successful marketing strategy aimed at the States. Look at the way their appeareance, for instance, was toned down for the promo videos.  I was  really let down when I found out about none of the cuts off the 1984 soundtrack making it into the movie, mainly because it was too much for my then very naive mind to comprehend composing music for a film that will feature none of it.

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Music Shit / Re: the records of your life

« on: June 11, 2010, 12:41:26 PM »

Funny thing you mentioned Eurythmics, because this thread reminded me of getting ''Revenge'' for xmas and I was going to ask what you make of it.

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Music Shit / Re: the records of your life

« on: June 11, 2010, 12:30:58 PM »

That's one of the songs on that record that used to push me to seek out for more ''extreme'' stuff, as it happens. Pretty much all pop that had a certain edge to it (and Tears For Fears or even the poppier version of Scritti Politti that did the rounds at that point certainly had one) made me want to see what it was like on the other side. Probably even more than, say, Depeche Mode, which I always liked but found a little too graphical and obvious in their lyrical, musical and sartorial darkness.