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Discussion in 'Southampton' started by TheSecondStain, Jul 15, 2014.

  1. SaintinSerbia

    SaintinSerbia Annoying Twat

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    It's ok Fran, I don't want street cred, I want sooooo comfortable footwear! which Skechers?
     
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  2. SaintinSerbia

    SaintinSerbia Annoying Twat

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    Hotter? is that a brand of footwear?
     
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  3. TheSecondStain

    TheSecondStain Needs an early night

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    Yep.

    please log in to view this image
     
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  4. SaintinSerbia

    SaintinSerbia Annoying Twat

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    not sure they've got to Serbia yet!
     
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  5. TheSecondStain

    TheSecondStain Needs an early night

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    Ah. Look it up. Shoes for the maturer woman.
     
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  6. SaintinSerbia

    SaintinSerbia Annoying Twat

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    not sure I'm in the market for old ladies shoes though! but thanks!
     
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  7. SaintinSerbia

    SaintinSerbia Annoying Twat

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    unless they do a size 12
     
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  8. TheSecondStain

    TheSecondStain Needs an early night

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    Tbh, I'm a little disappointed that my joke in post #32394 got passed over. Took a bit of effort and imagination. :)
     
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    I've stuck with it! I think I know what's going on now (to an extent) :redface: even reading the episode blurbs on amazon has helped. I'm enjoying it more and more! Might have to add the book to my reading list if it's recommended?
     
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  10. thereisonlyoneno7

    thereisonlyoneno7 Well-Known Member

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    SS, remember, people always told me be careful of what you do...I suppose that is the same with posting ;)
     
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  11. Le Tissier's Laces

    Le Tissier's Laces Well-Known Member

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    The book is amazing. Seriously though, run with the episode blog in The Guardian website, it'll help you out big time without spoilers.
     
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  12. Ian Thumwood

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    Don't know much about Neil Young but for the fans on this thread, here is a version of his "Harvest Moon" sung by Cassandra Wilson. The whole album is a gem.

     
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  13. ChilcoSaint

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    That's a very nice version but sorry, not a patch on Neil Young:
     
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  14. Ian Thumwood

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    Chilco

    Not heard the original before. Thanks for posting the link.

    Cassandra Wilson has ben around since the late 1980's when she arrived to great fanfare as part of the M-base scene but it took me a while to get into her music. The album was one of three she did where she used guitars in a mixture of country / blues / jazz influences whilst covering a lot of popular material including Joni Mitchell, U2, Monkees , etc as well as country blues artists. What was good about what she was doing in the mid 1990s was subverting material by white artists and giving them a more strident , Black identity so that material that most jazz musicians would consider to be corny was totally reimagined. I like the fact that the harmonies were made darker and more austere than the simple, triad harmonies you get in folk.

    If you are not used to jazz, even something like this can be a bit of a challenge but I like the idea of black artists using material by unlikely white artists and reinterpreting it. There is a history of this going back right in to the 1920s but I suppose the most famous exponent was John Coltrane who transformed "My favourite things" from the Mary Poppins original by reducing the tune down to a couple of scale . I think Wilson's is actually more sophisticated from a musical point of view and Young hits a few too many clinkers with his singing but it is a really, really good tune in my opinion.
     
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  15. ChilcoSaint

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    Not sure what you mean by "clinkers" but I agree with your general point. Coltrane's "Favourite Things" is a masterpiece. I'll look into Cassandra Wilson a bit more. By the way, "Harvest Moon" is a very untypical piece from Neil Young, whose music generally has much more of an edge, but it's still a beautiful song.
     
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  16. Le Tissier's Laces

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    I haaaaaaaaaate the current trend of detuning and slowing down classic tracks in a John Lewis style. There is so much of it about, and it's a massive nod to the lack of original creativity/trust in originality that we're faced with.
     
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  17. Le Tissier's Laces

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    (Sorry Ian, to me that's just an early example of that trend).
     
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  18. ChilcoSaint

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    Good point Laces.
     
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  19. Le Tissier's Laces

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    Here's an example, and a person the 'industry' love right now because of this.

    KILL KILL KILL!!!!

     
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  20. ChilcoSaint

    ChilcoSaint What a disgrace
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    Not "liking" that but you know what I mean!
     
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