This is partly what's wrong with this country. Look how these people are dressed, I mean FFS, do they have no respect for themselves? They look an absolute mess.
It has identified one key thing... unlike his others. That is, that a large proportion of the users on this forum have **** taste in music.
Wow someone that knows porcupine tree. Voyage 34 is my fav from around 1994. LSD music at its best. Mostly into electronic music, but fav bands include Underworld, Fat Freddys Drop (best live band), Elbow, Kraftwerk, Chilli Peppers, Faith No more and Orbital. Music is on a par with football in my life. Dam important and essentrial to living. Also like Jazz, down tempo hip hop and classical when in the mood. Off to see Jesus Jones on Saturday which will be a blast from tha past. After Milwall of course.
This is absolute bliss. You won't regret listening (apart from Joey B) [video=youtube;xd4XDoVQRbE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xd4XDoVQRbE[/video]
What an eclectic bunch of fans we've got - and Joey B! I find most people I speak to hate XTC, and feel the same way they do about one of my other favourite bands, Ween. They really seem to polarise people - they're bands who need to be lived with for a bit, I'll admit, but what a reward you get for your time! Love a lot of the same stuff - though particular penchants for Beach Boys, Gene Clark ('No Other' probably my favourite album of all time), Cheap Trick, Tangerine Dream, The Fall (most of what MES touched turned to gold, even if it took a few years to get there), all solo Beatles, in particular George (find The Beatles, Stones, and Dylan themselves pretty much go without saying in these discussions), Neil Young, Yes, King Crimson, Fairport Convention, Richard (and Linda) Thompson, John Cale, Fleetwood Mac. And got to get The Kinks, Small Faces, The Move, Bowie, Roxy/Eno, and T-Rex in there - love glam (this country needs a rocking glam band, and has done for ages: Muse have touched a bit on the rhythms, but they're too professional; we need a proper bunch of amateurs at it - Earl Brutus did it well for a while); and finally the great Todd Rundgren. Who - bringing us full circle - in producing XTC's Skylarking embodied a musical wet dream of a team up. I definitely like less and less new bands - comes a point where you've seen it all before and can see who they're ripping off (nothing wrong with stealing - I wish Saints would rip off Barcelona more often), but just harder to get excited by it. Only few I've really gone for in the last few years are Cass McCombs (check out 'County Line') and Ariel Pink. Certainly Cass McCombs will be taking his place with the above mentioned at some point in the next 20 years, I'd say. Oh, and the other unmissable "new" act, who has actually been going since the late-60s, which I feel pretty safe guaranteeing that any fan of XTC will like (and arguably could well have influenced them, had there been the internet in the 1970s) is R. Stevie Moore - check out 'I Like To Stay Home', or 'Benefit of the Doubt' for starters - probably thousands of his songs and videos on youtube. Like most Beatles obsessives, his songs are flawed attempts at writing songs as good as theirs - and its in the flaws where a different kind of genius comes out. I'm reminded of this because I saw recently he'd recorded a track with XTC's Dave Gregory, called 'Dates' (also on youtube, I think). Support the guy - his career has finally started at the age of 60! One things this thread confirms (though it was never in doubt) - men love to compile lists. Any Saints-supporting bands/singers? I was always under the impression that Craig David and some of Coldplay were.
My favourite band has to be Tool. Recently though I've been listening to a lot of The Mars Volta and stuff like that. None of you probably have a clue what I'm talking about.
[video=youtube;CAdAuGvjY1o]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAdAuGvjY1o[/video] These, but they're **** [video=youtube;UySaTkixqbk]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UySaTkixqbk[/video] These, but again, **** [video=youtube;_4SWSaJ3hn4]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4SWSaJ3hn4[/video] This guy is pretty good, well worth going to see him live.
Tool have their moments - AEnima is a very decent album, but think Lateralus is quite over-hyped (love the groove in Reflection though). Could never get into Mars Volta though
That's true everyone knows that Ladies Love Cool James anyway.......... Too many favourites to list here, but Bloc Party one of my favourites along with Two Door Cinema Club and Cajun Dance Party being current excellent listens.
[/QUOTE]Any Saints-supporting bands/singers? I was always under the impression that Craig David and some of Coldplay were.[/QUOTE] Reef! Kenwyn House (guitarist) is a Saints fan [video=youtube;2--ersHZzto]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2--ersHZzto[/video]
