Seriously. Chacaron.
There is nothing wrong with Chaka Khan, Ace!!!
Oh god - Talking Heads' "Once in a Lifetime".
Not sure why that just popepd into my head, but it's good, for the purposes of this thread, that it did.
Of course now I've got the stupid song on my internal jukebox. See the sacrifices I'll make for a good list, eh?
Not sure why that just popepd into my head, but it's good, for the purposes of this thread, that it did.
Of course now I've got the stupid song on my internal jukebox. See the sacrifices I'll make for a good list, eh?
Mr Chris wrote:
Oh god - Talking Heads' "Once in a Lifetime".
You get to fucking fuck!
Ah, gladness that you've enlightened me to the song and artist what did that. I only knew it from this.
CUS wrote:
Mr Chris wrote:
Oh god - Talking Heads' "Once in a Lifetime".
You get to fucking fuck!
No, I will not pay you £2.
Talking Heads = ace kings.
Not for that song, they don't.
Wh-what? What's gone wrong with you Mr Chris? We were agreeing so well, too. 
Talking Heads are awesome, and that song is one of their awesome songs. Please explain your avid dislike.
Not even any points for the top video?
Bluce_Ree, I am incredibly jealous of your Tori Amos live experience. I always wanted to see her in the 90's, though now I'm not so fussed. Would like to see Regina a lot though, and Martha Wainwright. My live highlight so far has either been Patti Smith or Joanna Newsome, so that's okay then.
Talking Heads are awesome, and that song is one of their awesome songs. Please explain your avid dislike.
Not even any points for the top video?
Bluce_Ree, I am incredibly jealous of your Tori Amos live experience. I always wanted to see her in the 90's, though now I'm not so fussed. Would like to see Regina a lot though, and Martha Wainwright. My live highlight so far has either been Patti Smith or Joanna Newsome, so that's okay then.
nervouspete wrote:
My fave James song is Sometimes. Go and listen to it and revise opinions accordingly.
Sometimes is lovely stuff - one of my favourite songs ever, in fact. Indeed, most of that Best of... album they released in the mid 90's is surprisingly tolerable.
Furthermore, I am about to set myself up for a major slagging by saying that Shiny Happy People is ONE OF THE FINEST POP SONGS EVER. Seriously. It's just because the band started sniffing and saying how horrible it was that everyone pretends they don't like it and that they'd rather listen to shite like Country Feedback (nngh!) instead.
And I consider myself a pretty hardcore REM fan (although, yes, they have been pretty shite for the past decade). Don't listen to what that tosser Stipey says, SHP is brilliant.
*awaits volley of abuse*
Malc74 wrote:
nervouspete wrote:
My fave James song is Sometimes. Go and listen to it and revise opinions accordingly.
Sometimes is lovely stuff - one of my favourite songs ever, in fact. Indeed, most of that Best of... album they released in the mid 90's is surprisingly tolerable.
Furthermore, I am about to set myself up for a major slagging by saying that Shiny Happy People is ONE OF THE FINEST POP SONGS EVER. Seriously. It's just because the band started sniffing and saying how horrible it was that everyone pretends they don't like it and that they'd rather listen to shite like Country Feedback (nngh!) instead.
And I consider myself a pretty hardcore REM fan (although, yes, they have been pretty shite for the past decade). Don't listen to what that tosser Stipey says, SHP is brilliant.
*awaits volley of abuse*
It's no "Me In Honey" or "Near Wild Heaven".
OMG Curiosity is here - someone mention Muse!
not a fan of REM. only like one song 'E-bow the Letter' or something. but Shiny Happy People features one of the ladies from the B52s. now sure, Love Shack and everything since is balls but early B52s (Rock Lobster, Private Idaho, Dirty Back Road, Give Me Back My Man) = superb lovelies.
myoptika wrote:
OMG Curiosity is here - someone mention Muse!
I probably like REM more than Muse...
nervouspete wrote:
Tsk, I massively edited my previous post to recategorise James as merely 'good' due to my recollection that I really hated 'She's A Star' too, with lots of other things, but the post didn't go throw. Bah.
So - deep breath - I love Pulp including We Love Life, think REM have indeed been terrible for the last ten years, think that whilst Vauxhall & I is one of the bestest albums of the 90's that Morrissey has been also mostly ever since, that the only Suede album I like is Dog Man Star and that everything since has been unfathomably shite and that I must also say my first love was Tori Amos, though she has now been sort of eclipsed by Regina Spector in my affections, due to Tori being completely UNABLE TO SELF EDIT. But I still love you Tori, despite you being clearly bonkers and not as good as you were.
Also: My fave Sonic Youth song is Tunic. Man, that's an amazing song.
So - deep breath - I love Pulp including We Love Life, think REM have indeed been terrible for the last ten years, think that whilst Vauxhall & I is one of the bestest albums of the 90's that Morrissey has been also mostly ever since, that the only Suede album I like is Dog Man Star and that everything since has been unfathomably shite and that I must also say my first love was Tori Amos, though she has now been sort of eclipsed by Regina Spector in my affections, due to Tori being completely UNABLE TO SELF EDIT. But I still love you Tori, despite you being clearly bonkers and not as good as you were.
Also: My fave Sonic Youth song is Tunic. Man, that's an amazing song.
You are me, and I claim my £5.
Curiosity wrote:
"Near Wild Heaven".
I haven't heard that in years. Now I have to, it's absolutely wonderful.
Curiosity wrote:
I probably like REM more than Muse...
I like anything before 'New Adventures in Hi-Fi', especially 'Monster' and 'Automatic...'.
I like them up to and inc. New Adventures... but they've always been one of those bands where I really like about half of their album, but am not so bothered by the other half. That's not a terrible thing, they're just not a favourite. But their albums since, they can contain so very little of worth.
Even 'Bad Day', their biggest hit in years, is an acknowledged early demo of an earlier, popular song from when they were good, that they just polished up. That's not a good sign.
Even 'Bad Day', their biggest hit in years, is an acknowledged early demo of an earlier, popular song from when they were good, that they just polished up. That's not a good sign.
nervouspete wrote:
Wh-what? What's gone wrong with you Mr Chris? We were agreeing so well, too.
Talking Heads are awesome, and that song is one of their awesome songs. Please explain your avid dislike.
Talking Heads are awesome, and that song is one of their awesome songs. Please explain your avid dislike.
It's just so... silly. And horribly repetitious. And silly. Did I mention silly?
Anyway.
Near Wild Heaven is excellentness, as is the instrumental track after it - Endgame, I think? I love Early REM's instrumental tracks, such as New Orleans Instrumental No1.
Late REM is of course poo.
By the way, Bluce_ree - we conclusively proved in a poll on WoS that Love Shack is one of the bestest songs ever. Yes yes yes their later stuff was much better and more intelligent, but it's still ace. Democracy in action, there. Stu was most aggrieved.
As for Tori Amos - I quite liked some of her stuff, but she did seem to get terribly pretentious and silly. I liked the one with her in a box, though.
I like Reveal.
I like Reveal.
I like Reveal.
You like Gorefest.
REM albums assorted in descending order of me likeyness.
Please note, this is terribly subjective and if I did this list even tomorrow it would be dramatically different.
Out of Time
Document
New Adventures in Hi-Fi
Automatic for the People
Monster
Life's Rich Pageant
Green
Up
Murmur
Reckoning
Reveal
Fables of the Reconstruction
Around the Sun
Dead Letter Office
I don't include Accelerate as I haven't heard it. I also think that I've been a little harsh on Green. Anything from Green upwards is an album I love dearly (though Life's RIch Pageant is patchy, it contains possibly my favourite REM song - "Fall on Me"). Up and Murmur are decent... the rest I am not so keen on.
I'm going to listen to 'green' at some point today, and it will probably be third in the list by the end of the day.
*le sigh*
Please note, this is terribly subjective and if I did this list even tomorrow it would be dramatically different.
Out of Time
Document
New Adventures in Hi-Fi
Automatic for the People
Monster
Life's Rich Pageant
Green
Up
Murmur
Reckoning
Reveal
Fables of the Reconstruction
Around the Sun
Dead Letter Office
I don't include Accelerate as I haven't heard it. I also think that I've been a little harsh on Green. Anything from Green upwards is an album I love dearly (though Life's RIch Pageant is patchy, it contains possibly my favourite REM song - "Fall on Me"). Up and Murmur are decent... the rest I am not so keen on.
I'm going to listen to 'green' at some point today, and it will probably be third in the list by the end of the day.
*le sigh*
MURMUR BELOW MONSTER?
Curiosity, you truly are the worst kind of human being there is.
Curiosity, you truly are the worst kind of human being there is.
What do we think of U2? IMO they're almost universally rubbish, but apparently a few people rate them highly.
CUS wrote:
MURMUR BELOW MONSTER?
Curiosity, you truly are the worst kind of human being there is.
Curiosity, you truly are the worst kind of human being there is.
I have very little recollection of Murmur beyond the divine 'Perfect Circle' and 'Radio Free Europe'.
Monster was big during some of my more formative years and left a big impression. Plus I can name loads of songs I love from it... "Bang and Blame", "Star69", "Circus Envy", "What's the Frequency..." etc.
One of the high points of my sorry little life was being at the front of the crowd for their first Glastonbury headline performance. I managed to get a chant going for "It's the end of the world as we know it", and it got loud enough that Mister Stipe himself acknowledged it and acted as a conductor for us.
kalmar wrote:
What do we think of U2? IMO they're almost universally rubbish, but apparently a few people rate them highly.
+ 
U2 are awful. I like bits of 'Boy'. They have made one semi-decent indie album, altogether.
CUS wrote:
I like bits of 'Boy'.
Cock & Arse?
Undescended balls & scrotal sack?
A couple of dance ones.
Ian Van Dahl Castles in the sky. This is the reason why I hate trance.
So tell me why, is there castles in the sky so tell me why. repeat for ever + ever.
CJ Bolland Sugar is sweeter, of all the decent stuff he did on R+S he had to ruin it, with this piece of crap on Internal. Bad, bad, big beat that is mercifully forgotten.
Vengaboys: anything by them really, but we're going to Ibiza with is fake reggae is especially pukesome.
Ian Van Dahl Castles in the sky. This is the reason why I hate trance.
So tell me why, is there castles in the sky so tell me why. repeat for ever + ever.
CJ Bolland Sugar is sweeter, of all the decent stuff he did on R+S he had to ruin it, with this piece of crap on Internal. Bad, bad, big beat that is mercifully forgotten.
Vengaboys: anything by them really, but we're going to Ibiza with is fake reggae is especially pukesome.
Bear or Bust wrote:
CJ Bolland Sugar is sweeter, of all the decent stuff he did on R+S he had to ruin it, with this piece of crap on Internal. Bad, bad, big beat that is mercifully forgotten.
Is that the one that totally rips off Poison by The Prodigy (or so I have heard)?
Bear or Bust wrote:
CJ Bolland Sugar is sweeter, of all the decent stuff he did on R+S he had to ruin it, with this piece of crap on Internal. Bad, bad, big beat that is mercifully forgotten.
I bought that. Oops.
Grim...'s list on page 1 is still noticeably lacking in Chris de Burgh-ness. Surely no-one can defend Lady in Red?
And while we're at it, that scrotum-shrivellingly awful fucking song by Daniel Bedingfield needs to be on there as well. You know the one - "Is there any way that I can staaaaaaaaaaay, in your aaaaaaaeeeeeee*squeal*aaaaarrmmmmmmsssssss".
Please. Kthxbye.
And while we're at it, that scrotum-shrivellingly awful fucking song by Daniel Bedingfield needs to be on there as well. You know the one - "Is there any way that I can staaaaaaaaaaay, in your aaaaaaaeeeeeee*squeal*aaaaarrmmmmmmsssssss".
Please. Kthxbye.
Ronan (The Barbarian) Keating's cover of Iris by Goo Goo Dolls is fucking shit, stick that on there.
Goatboy wrote:
Ronan (The Barbarian) Keating's cover of Iris by Goo Goo Dolls is fucking shit, stick that on there.
kalmar wrote:
What do we think of U2?
I find them listen-able to, but I wouldn't pay money for any of their songs.
Grim... wrote:
kalmar wrote:
What do we think of U2?
I find them listen-able to, but I wouldn't pay money for any of their songs.
I quite like some of their earlier stuff, although it tends towards pretentious on the War album. But "Boy", "War" and "Joshua Tree" are good albums. Rattle and Hum was on the pretentious side, and not very good. "Achtung Baby" was rather good. "Zooropa" was very bad. The "Passengers" album was another bit of Brian Eno folly, and very bad. Pop had some good stuff on it (the underrated and BOOM!-enriched "Discotheque", for instance), but was mostly rubbish. "All That You Can't Leave Behind" and "How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb" were dire collections of music fit only to be played over the clips on Match of the Day or whatever (and lo and behold, they were), together with loads of "I'm going to save the world" Bono ego nonsense.
They did some good B-Sides in the Achtung Baby era, too.
Early U2 - 6/10
Mid U2 - 5/10
Late U2 - 0/10
Overall - 3.5/10.
I am rapidly falling out of love with this "Mr Chris" person.
Sorry, should I like them completely or hate them completely? I apologise for my ambivalence.
Also: You're all a bunch of frightening music Nazis. It's like I'm trapped in a forum with my mate Chris*.
*You don't know him, obviously, but he's a big music Nazi.
Also: You're all a bunch of frightening music Nazis. It's like I'm trapped in a forum with my mate Chris*.
*You don't know him, obviously, but he's a big music Nazi.
Either. I've found a photo of you and you're not as hawt as Craster lead me to believe.
Thanks, love.
And: My very own bearded stalker! Yay!
And: My very own bearded stalker! Yay!
Mr Chris wrote:
Sorry, should I like them completely or hate them completely? I apologise for my ambivalence.
Sir, to your honour you should most fully exhibit that which opinion is truest, within thine own self. It is only that here ye shall find those within whom music inspires such fervent passion - as much as is brought to some by Sport, which surely is a most similar form of the Arts, but I believest we have indeed quaffed ale and bantered of this in recent times past, hey - and this passion drives the words of resolute young men to many extremes. So indeed, good sir, hold whatever opinion is truly within you, but be prepared to defend it without you - aye, then shall we see how stout is your heart!
Because U2 are shite. Hairy clag.
I thought you said that they had made one semi decent indie album altoghether? Ha! Hoisted, as they say, by your own petard.
Here it is, CUS's petard:
That could do some hoisting, eh?
I'd agree with your petard, there, but I'd collect enough songs together to fill a follow up album that was marginally less semi decent.
They're not entirely devoid of decent tunes in their horribly extensive discography. The hit to miss ratio is a fright, though.
Here it is, CUS's petard:
That could do some hoisting, eh?
I'd agree with your petard, there, but I'd collect enough songs together to fill a follow up album that was marginally less semi decent.
They're not entirely devoid of decent tunes in their horribly extensive discography. The hit to miss ratio is a fright, though.
I hoisted my Picard last night.
I shook hands with Kojack.
Mr Chris wrote:
I thought you said that they had made one semi decent indie album altoghether? Ha! Hoisted, as they say, by your own petard.
You seem to be misunderstanding my statement for some kind of compliment, sir, and therein likes the crux of your confusion.
U2 are the musical equivalent of a Youth Club leader getting everyone to sit still and listen carefully while he sings you a song on acoustic guitar, about why famine in Africa is bad. Then he tells you how much he donates each month. With his big twatty sunglasses on.
CUS wrote:
Mr Chris wrote:
I thought you said that they had made one semi decent indie album altogether? Ha! Hoisted, as they say, by your own petard.
You seem to be misunderstanding my statement for some kind of compliment, sir, and therein likes the crux of your confusion.
"Semi-decent" isn't exactly the most cutting of insults, if that was the intention. Clarity, sir. Clarity of expression is all.
Quote:
U2 are the musical equivalent of a Youth Club leader getting everyone to sit still and listen carefully while he sings you a song on acoustic guitar, about why famine in Africa is bad. Then he tells you how much he donates each month. With his big twatty sunglasses on.
U2 since the late 90s, yes. Old U2 were more concerned with girls, I think.
Didn't the bassist have some sort of breakdown with a bunch of hookers and drugs in a hotel room after Naomi Campbell dumped him? Comedy stuff.
Dimrill wrote:
I shook hands with Kojack.
I played Sega Rally.
Wait, that doesn't work at all.
