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balkan tiger said:
Talking Heads

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i bought psychokiller many lifetimes ago and thought it was great, but thereafter their stuff failed to move me and my wallet. there was a hit with words in the titles such as once in a lifetime, or similar, that i thought was pretty awful, so i'd all but given up on them. for last week's fnmt i wanted a track with swamp in the title and came across a talking heads one that fitted the bill and thought it was pretty decent. first one since psychokiller!
 
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i bought psychokiller many lifetimes ago and thought it was great, but thereafter their stuff failed to move me and my wallet. there was a hit with words in the titles such as once in a lifetime, or similar, that i thought was pretty awful, so i'd all but given up on them. for last week's fnmt i wanted a track with swamp in the title and came across a talking heads one that fitted the bill and thought it was pretty decent. first one since psychokiller!
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Once in a Lifetime? Awful? Blasphemer.


Watch Stop Making Sense.

If you still don't like them after that... there's no hope for you.

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originalminority said:
Joy Division & The Clash.
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i saw both. sometimes one sees bands at the wrong time, or fails to see them when one should.

the clash had produced a number of rather good early singles and i thought they made a pretty good rock band. i thought they made a pretty ****e reggae band, however, but they persisted with that wrong turning for reasons that still aren't clear. i saw them because the opportunity was there, rather than because i was into them. caught a cold queueing for hours for tickets in damp weather.

joy division were support to the buzzcocks, who i really did want to see. i listened to more joy division in the next few years and appreciated their music more, and could have enjoyed seeing them then. but, of course, ian curtis had checked out already, so that was a non-starter. as it was, the highlight of their set was the bit where peter hook broke a string on his bass guitar.

i passed up at least three opportunities to see the teardrop explodes and subsequently decided they were good.

i saw the jam and the boomtown rats because they were there. i decided weller was a twat very early in their career (before i saw them) and decided the same about geldof very late in his career. bought less than a handful by both. they were okay live. the style council were dross. weller's career peak was the album notes for the ultimate action album by the action.
 
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Quill said:
Once in a Lifetime? Awful? Blasphemer.


Watch Stop Making Sense.

If you still don't like them after that... there's no hope for you.

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it's a bit long, but i'll try and fit it in when i can. i did find a splendid costello track long after i'd stopped buying his stuff*, so you never know.


* first five albums and countless early 45s. a best of cd happened too.
 
after a bit of thought, i'd've liked to see johnny kidd & the pirates (i did see the pirates years later) and the shadows, but not the cabaret version.

i was going to say arthur alexander and roy orbison, but, strictly speaking, neither were bands.
 
Queen.
Would be interesting to see how they would have evolved. Hopefully back toward their earlier stuff (I and II)
 
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I'm always a bit on the fence with bands reforming. From a selfish point of view, I was glad that The Stone Roses gave it another bash because I got to see them, but ultimately things were still too raw from the previous break up.

Of the sizeable bands, the one I'd literally kill people to see reform is Pulp. Again though, I'm not sure that the wounds would ever heal for it to happen.
 
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Godrevy Buoy said:
The original Fleetwood Mac. Young Peter Green, Jeremy Spencer, Danny Kirwin on guitars. A drink in both hands and long hair. Bring it on.
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My favourite band ever in all it's incarnations. Just a very minor point - the original line-up was composed of Fleetwood, McVie (fleetingly Bob Brunning filled in for McVie until he finally decided to leave the Bluesbreakers a couple of months-at most- later), Pete Green and Spencer.
 
Godrevy Buoy said:
Thanks Barc. My favourite line up of all time but I would be at your Sam and Dave concert too !
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My favourite line up too. Would have liked to have been at this concert.
My youngest lad is a big Metallica fan. Kirk Hammett now owns Peter Green's famous Gibson Les Paul. I said to him listen to this to hear how it should be played.<laugh>

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Barchullona said:
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And of course these would have to reform to back them.

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At our wedding 'do' we gave the DJ a list of 10 or 15 songs that we wanted playing over the course of the night, including our designated fairly soppy first dance, as you do. We had explained to him in advance that within our circle of friends and family many people would definitely dance and that all of the songs we'd given him would fill the dancefloor.

He obviously thought he knew better so speeches over, but while people are still having plates cleared etc 3 or 4 songs in he plays one of 'our' songs.

So up me and the new missus get and our rescheduled first dance, to the abject horror of the silly twat behind his DJ decks, becomes 'Hold on, I'm coming'.

It got a decent laugh, even if it wasn't quite what we'd planned.

Absolutely 100% FACTafuckingmundo true story...
 
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tigerscanada said:
My favourite band ever in all it's incarnations. Just a very minor point - the original line-up was composed of Fleetwood, McVie (fleetingly Bob Brunning filled in for McVie until he finally decided to leave the Bluesbreakers a couple of months-at most- later), Pete Green and Spencer.
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True. The line up which included Danny Kirwan could be described as the definitive, and, in my opinion, the best one.
 
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Help! said:
At our wedding 'do' we gave the DJ a list of 10 or 15 songs that we wanted playing over the course of the night, including our designated fairly soppy first dance, as you do. We had explained to him in advance that within our circle of friends and family many people would definitely dance and that all of the songs we'd given him would fill the dancefloor.

He obviously thought he knew better so speeches over, but while people are still having plates cleared etc 3 or 4 songs in he plays one of 'our' songs.

So up me and the new missus get and our rescheduled first dance, to the abject horror of the silly twat behind his DJ decks, becomes 'Hold on, I'm coming'.

It got a decent laugh, even if it wasn't quite what we'd planned.

Absolutely 100% FACTafuckingmundo true story...
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It was renamed Hold On, I'm A Coming in the USA because of puritanical radio stations.
 
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Barchullona said:
It was renamed Hold On, I'm A Coming in the USA because of puritanical radio stations.
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I can believe that, though it seems like just the same statement but in a southern American accent! It’s a work of genius however you write it down.
 
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