[staringclown]

Malcolm McLaren RIP - Double Dutch

[tor]

staringclown, on 10 April 2010 - 09:40 AM, said:

I think I like boy slightly better than war. But nowadays I see Unforgettable fire as the more classic of all their albums. Looking back the mullet on bono is a bit of a worry. U2 were good till that Joshua tree album and then they got popular in america and I dropped them like a hot stone.

Joshua tree had the jangle jangle jangle guitar (which sucked but wasn't massive in the states from memory)
Watchtower had the "let's rip off BB King" (which sucked and was massive in the states)

Unfortunately they both have a couple of okay songs which makes the delineation hard to stand by outside of the idea that they have become "any other band".

It is like they sound like someone trying to rip their sound off.

[staringclown]

tor, on 10 April 2010 - 09:50 AM, said:

Joshua tree had the jangle jangle jangle guitar (which sucked but wasn't massive in the states from memory)
Watchtower had the "let's rip off BB King" (which sucked and was massive in the states)

Unfortunately they both have a couple of okay songs which makes the delineation hard to stand by outside of the idea that they have become "any other band".

It is like they sound like someone trying to rip their sound off.

True. A couple of later albums have found their way to my pod. But you always hate yourself for enjoying them. You may be right, the Joshua tree album might have since become popular in the states (as well as the earlier albums I liked) It was perhaps the first album aimed squarely at the American market. The gospel overtones must be irresistible to the yanks. If you haven't seen "Star Stories" episode "How I became Jesus" with "bono" it's a hoot.

[staringclown]

MIA A bit of now

[Sean]

Just saw Roger Hodgson (Supertramp) tonight, (and 10CC ho ho) and Buddy Guy last week (and Taj Mahal), both at the Enmore Theatre. Of course if you went to the Byron Blues 'n' everything else festival you would have seen a lot of things. Roger Hodgson was last in Australia in 1976, and he signed my Crime of the Century LP and sheet music playbook. Buddy Guy played Voodoo Chile just like Hendrix to prove how easy it was.

Play: blues harp, keys, some guitar.

Listen: eclectic, tastes broadened as I got older...

This post has been edited by Sean: 10 April 2010 - 03:38 PM

[staringclown]

Sean, on 10 April 2010 - 03:35 PM, said:

Just saw Roger Hodgson (Supertramp) tonight, (and 10CC ho ho) and Buddy Guy last week (and Taj Mahal), both at the Enmore Theatre. Of course if you went to the Byron Blues 'n' everything else festival you would have seen a lot of things. Roger Hodgson was last in Australia in 1976, and he signed my Crime of the Century LP and sheet music playbook. Buddy Guy played Voodoo Chile just like Hendrix to prove how easy it was.

Play: blues harp, keys, some guitar.

Listen: eclectic, tastes broadened as I got older...

You may like this then. Chris Wilson -hard heartland

[staringclown]

An RE song. Little Boxes - Pete Seeger Those (GenX I suppose) who ever sung along to the ABC songbook in primary school will know the tune.

[tux]

R.I.P. Guru (1966 - 2010)

Jazzy Ways

Love Sick

[staringclown]

David Holmes - Jackson Johnson

David Holmes - 165 million plus interest

[Bernard L. Madoff]

staringclown, on 22 April 2010 - 12:44 PM, said:

An RE song. Little Boxes - Pete Seeger Those (GenX I suppose) who ever sung along to the ABC songbook in primary school will know the tune.

I remember it well. I listened to it the other day in a solemn moment, god we are suckers. Little boxes (on the hillside, little boxes made of ticky tacky) that we give half our weekly life for (bank interest allowing for a city person to get to and from work) so the bank can make a quid.

[staringclown]

Tinpusher, on 22 April 2010 - 02:27 PM, said:

I remember it well. I listened to it the other day in a solemn moment, god we are suckers. Little boxes (on the hillside, little boxes made of ticky tacky) that we give half our weekly life for (bank interest allowing for a city person to get to and from work) so the bank can make a quid.

Always strikes me as odd that I spend all day staring at a screen for my crust only to come home to my little box and in my spare time do the same thing.

Time for sleep - perchance to dream. I think I'll dream of owning a garden the size of the one I saw on "Italian food safari" tonight. And with as rich a harvest.

[staringclown]

Another ABC song book choice - bear with me, it's regression therapy and it's working well so far.

Dusty Springfield - windmills of your mind

Edit: get it? bear with me? eh? eh?

one more for auld lang syne. ABC song book rocks.

The beatles - penny lane

This post has been edited by staringclown: 23 April 2010 - 11:50 AM

[staringclown]

The carnival is over (for property) It's gonna be a tough nut to crack.

[staringclown]

It must be the bourbon in me.

The black crows - hard to handle
The black crows - jealous again
The black crows - she talks to angels
Lynard skynard - Sweet home alabama

The south will rise again.

[staringclown]

Song for the times
World party- ships of fools

[staringclown]

Acid jazz

Mother Earth - Apple green

Mother Earth - Stoned woman

Paul Weller - That spiritual feeling

Older Weller.

The Style Council - My ever changing moods

Best Weller.

Paul Weller - Kosmos

[staringclown]

This is an absolute cracker but must be watched with the video (a bit of 2001)

Orbital - Halcyon

[Bernard L. Madoff]

1982

Little Heroes - One Perfect Day

Flock of Seagulls - I ran

Human League - Don't You Want Me

Steve Miller - Abracadabra

J Geils - Centrefold

The Cars - Shake it Up

Joan Jett - I love Rock n Roll

Go gos - we got the beat

J Geils - Freeze Frame

Ray Parker - The other woman (This guy WAS cool).

Toto - Rosanna

John Cougar - Hurts So Good

Survivor - Eye of the tiger

Soft Cell - tainted love

McCartney - take it away (with Ringo and George)

John Cougar - Jack and Diane

America- you can do magic

Alam parsons - Eye in the Sky

Cocker/Warnes - up where we belong

Laura Branigan - Gloria

Toni Basil - Mickey

Hall/Oates- maneater

Marvin Gaye - Sexual healing

Spertramp - its raining again

Phew...that ain't half of the songs.

Good year 1982, good to be 17, great nusic, nice girls and not a care in the world.

[staringclown]

Bernard L. Madoff, on 14 May 2010 - 02:01 PM, said:

1982

Little Heroes - One Perfect Day

Flock of Seagulls - I ran

Human League - Don't You Want Me

Steve Miller - Abracadabra

J Geils - Centrefold

The Cars - Shake it Up

Joan Jett - I love Rock n Roll

Go gos - we got the beat

J Geils - Freeze Frame

Ray Parker - The other woman (This guy WAS cool).

Toto - Rosanna

John Cougar - Hurts So Good

Survivor - Eye of the tiger

Soft Cell - tainted love

McCartney - take it away (with Ringo and George)

John Cougar - Jack and Diane

America- you can do magic

Alam parsons - Eye in the Sky

Cocker/Warnes - up where we belong

Laura Branigan - Gloria

Toni Basil - Mickey

Hall/Oates- maneater

Marvin Gaye - Sexual healing

Spertramp - its raining again

Phew...that ain't half of the.

Good year 1982, good to be 17, great nusic, nice girls and not a care in the world.

Not sure we would have got on in 82 Bernie. I was 16. Into punk and alternate. Might explain why I had no girlfriend and was very worried about nuclear war. I know each and every one of these songs though. Listening to Supertramp at the mo and thinking of transitioning to a flock of seagulls. Cheers mate. Time heals old wounds eh?*

*Except for that Toni Basil song - It's still sh*te.

[Bernard L. Madoff]

I forgot...

Divinyls - boys in town

Divinyls - Science Fiction

Icehouse - we can get together

Rose tattoo - we can't be beaten

Chisel - Forever Now

Chisel - War is Over

Split Enz - History never repeats

Split Enz - 6 months in a leaky boat

Goanna - Solid Rock

Oils - Armistice day

Lou Reed - Women

Lou Reed - Blue Mask

Oils - Only the strong

Oils - Scream in Blue


Heaps more oils from this album:
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