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     XY765 Member Username: Judge Post Number: 578 Registered: 01-2006 |
Think we did this for the Go-Betweens but not off-topic.. 'In 1984 I was hospitalized for approaching perfection, slowly screwing my way across Europe, they had to make an exception' - Random Rules, Silver Jews. 'You can never give the finger to the blind' - The Slide Song, Luna. | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 271 Registered: 10-2008 |
"got me a movie i want you to know slicing up eyeballs i want you to know girlie so groovy i want you to know" - pixies, debaser "Blind date with the chancer we had oysters and dry lancers and the check when it arrived we went dutch, dutch, dutch, dutch a redder shade of neck on a whiter shade of trash And this emory board is giving me a rash" - pavement, shady lane "Looking at your watch a third time waiting in the station for a bus Going to a place that's far, so far away and if that's not enough Going where nobody says hello, they don't talk to anybody they don't know" - REM, Dont Go Back To Rockville "Stained glass windows keep the cold outside While the hypocrites hide inside With the lies of statues in their minds Where the Christian religion made them blind Where they hide And prey to the God of a bitch spelled backwards is dog Not for one race, one creed, one world But for money Effective Absurd" - PIL, Religion "Well my mama she didn't 'low me, just to stay out all night long, oh Lord Well my mama didn't 'low me, just to stay out all night long I didn't care what she didn't 'low, I would boogie-woogie anyhow" - John Lee Hooker, Boogie Chillun | ||
| joe Member Username: Dogmansuede Post Number: 644 Registered: 07-2006 |
i first saw you you had on blue jeans your eyes couldn't hide anything big star/this mortail coil/whomever else - kangaroo. a lyric i could never conceivably tire of. | ||
| joe Member Username: Dogmansuede Post Number: 645 Registered: 07-2006 |
also, on topic i guess, but bachelor kisses gets to me each and every time. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 3208 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Clientele - Losing Haringey: "In those days, there was a kind of fever that pushed me out of the front door, into the pale, exhaust-fumed park by Broadwater Farm or the grubby road that eventually leads to Enfield: turkish supermarket after chicken restaurant after spare car part shop. Everything in my life felt like it was coming to a mysterious close: I could hardly walk to the end of a street without feeling there was no way to go except back. The dates I’d had that summer had come to nothing, my job was a dead end and the rent cheque was killing me a little more each month. It seemed unlikely that anything could hold much longer. The only question left to ask was what would happen after everything familiar collapsed, but for now the summer stretched between me and that moment. Blue Aeroplanes - Jacket hangs: Pick a card, any card - wrong! House of love - Girl with the lonliest eyes: The girl with the lonliest eyes, is coming down the road, and I'm nevr coming back, oh no, oh no. Aztec Camera - Just like gold: Over field and hills waits a train for us, but we're here beacause, and I'm counting, up to 9 again, up to 9 gain, that;s how long it lasts... Bowie - Heroes: I I will be king And you You will be queen Though nothing will Drive them away We can beat them Just for one day We can be Heroes Just for one day The Monkees - What am i doing hanging round? : Just a loud mouth Yankee I went down to Mexico. I didn't have much time to spend, about a week or so. There I lightly took advantage of a girl who loved me so. But I found myself a-thinkin' when the time had come to go... The Winnebago orchestra - What does your heart say? Now the water has run dry, and we've said our goodbyes, do you know what happened, why? What does your heart say? | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 3209 Registered: 05-2005 |
Kev, I always love listening to the opening lines on Debaser too! | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 2037 Registered: 03-2005 |
I hate to beat Jeff to this because, after all, he's the one who introduced me to it but I don't know if there will EVER be another opening line to beat out "I drink gin like a 1960s wino . . . ." | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 2906 Registered: 05-2005 |
Kev, I always thought that line was: "Girl you're so groovy, I want you to know" It always will be in my head anyway. | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 278 Registered: 10-2008 |
I thought so too Padraig, and until a few years ago I always thought it was "slicing up bibles" which is just as good as "slicing up eyeballs". | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 3212 Registered: 05-2005 |
Randy, perfect choice! trust you to hit hard with a simple, classic one linber, whilst the likes of me, print paragraph intros! Wire - map ref: An unseen ruler defines with geometry An unrulable expanse of geography An aerial photographer over-exposed To the cartologist's 2D images knows The areas where the water flowed So petrified, the landscape grows Straining eyes try to understand The works, incessantly in hand The carving and paring of the land The quarter square, the graph divides Beneath the rule a country hides | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 279 Registered: 10-2008 |
spence, seeing your reference to map ref reminded me that the bold alfredo did a retrospective review of 154 by Wire in Stylus. the review included such gems as "In essence, 154 is not entertaining. Plenty of its songs are awful, or worse.", and sums up in the final paragraph by concluding "So: three good songs, lots of Kabuki." 154 was possibly the best album in the golden year of 1979 imo, the year that is without doubt my favourite ever year for music. You're at the wind up Alfredo arent you? | ||
| XY765 Member Username: Judge Post Number: 582 Registered: 01-2006 |
I have MBV doing a cover of Wire's Map Ref on the computer. Don't know the original so can't say if it's interecting or not. I like 'slicing up bibles'.. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 3213 Registered: 05-2005 |
KEV i like all the Wire albums, there's something fro everyone on all of em, Pink Flag still fires me up, Chairs Missing and 154 intrigue me. 1979, cool, it even looks cool when typed eh? 1 9 7 9 ! | ||
| David Gagen Member Username: David_g Post Number: 252 Registered: 02-2007 |
Couple from Bob! Once upon a time you dressed so fine Threw the bums a dime, didnt you? I married Isis on the 5th day of May But I could not hold on to her very long Seen the arrow on the doorpost Saying this land is condemned | ||
| andreas Member Username: Andreas Post Number: 745 Registered: 04-2006 |
you can call at least the first three wire albums three perfect strokes of genius. 154 is one of the great albums. that shows - with reference to alfredo- taste differs, taste overlaps, individuals as we are are. | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 280 Registered: 10-2008 |
Agreed Andreas, but what stumped me was reading the review it seemed Alfredo was a Wire fan, so to not like 154 seemed strange, a bit like a Go-Bs fan not liking 16LL oh, hang on.. - i see what you mean ;-) | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 3217 Registered: 05-2005 |
I don't particularly like 16ll as a whole. Even at the time, as shsllow as this sounds, the cover said it all, too slick, trying to project this band in such a way was wrong, even before vinyl toucdown of 16LL i knew, save for streets which i already knew and adored, thst it would br my least fave album, my gut told me then and its kinda tells me so now too. I like a few of the tunes, but its initial showing left me in a state of disrepair! | ||
| joe Member Username: Dogmansuede Post Number: 651 Registered: 07-2006 |
i've always thought all of their covers were a bit 'eh. i mean fine and interesting, especially for fans, but not going to elicit the same level of immediate/new attention as a born sandy devotional, or something. send me a lullaby is pretty neat, but 16LL is my favourite gbs sleeve. | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 281 Registered: 10-2008 |
funny how tastes differ spence. streets of our town is my least favourite song on my least favourite go-bs album. | ||
| joe Member Username: Dogmansuede Post Number: 652 Registered: 07-2006 |
it's my least favourite song off kev's least favourite gbs album too. never quite got it. the song, that is. kev seems like good people. clouds or you can't say no forever or dive for your memory in a heartbeat! | ||
| joe Member Username: Dogmansuede Post Number: 653 Registered: 07-2006 |
actually, another nice mid-8. and again, the song. | ||
| Geoff Holmes Member Username: Geoff Post Number: 515 Registered: 05-2005 |
The debaser line is reference to the movie Salvador Dali made, Un Chien Andalou, where he looked like he was going to slice up someones eye. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 3218 Registered: 05-2005 |
The songs from 16ll that have been represented in all their forms (since the album was released) by mssrs Forster and McLennan have gone down very well with me like the live versions etc. Clouds at the tivoli were lovely etc. kev, streets was the first thing I heard from 16ll in its single release format, it was summer, or nearly and it was slick yes, but i loved it. i don;t feel they ever recreated the magic of SOYT live. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 3219 Registered: 05-2005 |
I have mellowed a lot over the years, disgusting ain;t it! But I've never melklowed enough to embrace 16LL. Joe, the covers to GB's album back in the day, as a massive fan, for me were hugely important, as important as the music on the vinyl, the cover held. They had to be cool, and I think they were. They are now classic pieces of art i would gladly mount and frame upion my wall. Remember these were the days where you'd slaver over the cover and all its details whilst lying on your bed listening to the greatness that came out of the speakers! Covers mean much less now, but that's another story. the covers, they were all cool up to 16LL IMHO. Esp Liberty cover, the way they looked on that sleeve, was at the time what me and my friends wanted to look like, we wanted to be that cool, like television on the cobver of Marquee moon, however, there was no way I was gonna wear leather trousers in knee length motorcycle boots like ol grant could carry off! I thought the 4 albums prior to 16 including the Metal import, I mean they looked the business on that one and all the others, the imagery suited the music on each and every one of those albums. Re triffids covers, say Born, I think that sorta sums up the triffids doesn;t it, wghere as a treeless plain wouldn't do it on a GB's album sleeve, not for me anyway. | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 282 Registered: 10-2008 |
speaking as we were of the pixies, and album covers, the cover for surfer rosa is amazing. erotic,classy - never smutty or crude, which of course was at odds with the contents of the lyrics on the album. | ||
| XY765 Member Username: Judge Post Number: 585 Registered: 01-2006 |
Lord, help me out I’d take my life, but I'm in doubt Just where my soul will lie Deep in the Earth or way up in the sky - Lord, Can You Hear Me - Spacemen 3 | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 3221 Registered: 05-2005 |
Surfer Rosa cover Kev, it is very stylish, never distasteful and full of mystery, though I thik is related quite strongly with the theme throughout the album I think, like the Spanish lyrics here and there, the woman looks like Spanish, the dress indicates Spanish flamenco or similar, the fact she's semi naked, connects with the voyeuristic lyrics, the backgroind is quite disturbing which goes with a lot of Black's subject matter, it looks like a backroom bar/brothel in a small church. IMHO!  | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 283 Registered: 10-2008 |
Bending the lyrics theme just slightly, i heard a song by the killers on the radio there. dont know the name of the song but its the one that has what are potentially the most mind numbing lyrics in an age - "Ive got soul, but Im not a soldier". Give me strength, and this band are headlining major festivals in the UK this month and last, well they say you get what you deserve :-). And whats with the name? The Killers implies a certain amount of danger, well not with this shower of poseurs. In a way bands like this annoy me more than James Blunt, Phil Collins, Crowded House etc and thats saying something!! | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 1655 Registered: 10-2004 |
"Pink Press Rats!" | ||
| joe Member Username: Dogmansuede Post Number: 654 Registered: 07-2006 |
i get that spence, they do look amazing on the LB cover (and the inserts/other shots from the same shoot), but it seems a bit more studied - appealing to fans who are able to easily make the link between the contents, aesthetic and visual representation. the tallulah cover i find particularly compelling in terms of the goings on in the band, etc. my friends and i feel the same way about elastica. i maintain the best looking band i've ever laid eyes upon. who still sound pretty great too. speaking of which... no need to whine, boy, like a wind-up toy you stutter at my feet, and it's never the time, boy, you've had too much wine to stumble up my street. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 2913 Registered: 05-2005 |
Friends of mine who are brothers had to turn the cover of their Surfer Rosa cassette inside out so their mother didn't accidentally see it. She would have freaked and cast them out as pervy demons! (Sounds like a lyric from the album there...) | ||
| XY765 Member Username: Judge Post Number: 593 Registered: 01-2006 |
The cover of Surfer Rosa is fantastic, that one was always better on 12" :-) Favourite cover of the GBs always was 78-90. Got this on vinyl when it was released and for me is the epitome of the GBs. Back on topic, the almighty scream at the start of The Sonic's Pscycho...these guys never seem to get the praise they deserved. Never heard of the Wipers but they're from the same area of the US as the Sonics, The Sonic's time though was the early to mid 60s I think... | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 3231 Registered: 05-2005 |
joe, really elastica the best looking band!? that would make a good thread... | ||
| joe Member Username: Dogmansuede Post Number: 657 Registered: 07-2006 |
seriously. anyone with any taste either wanted to be or do donna. me, more of a justine fella. i mean her choice of blokes alone... | ||
| Jerry Clark Member Username: Jerry Post Number: 945 Registered: 08-2004 |
Inspired by the lack of love for The Doors & LK's distinct love of LA Woman. How about this beauty. "Well I've been down so god damn long/that it looks looks up to me" | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 1528 Registered: 01-2005 |
From the other end of the lyric sheet: "I'll let you be in my dreams if I can be in yours," I said that | ||
| Jerry Clark Member Username: Jerry Post Number: 948 Registered: 08-2004 |
You didn't say that, MB. | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 1531 Registered: 01-2005 |
Says Who? |