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Re: Music of the Sad.
Aug 23, 2011, 15:44
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Me too, I think they were at their peak around 'Daydream Nation'. It's odd, I used to love Sonic Youth, now I feel really indifferent about the music. Think I glutted myself on them and started to feel sick!
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The Sea Cat
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Re: Music of the Sad.
Aug 23, 2011, 15:46
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keith a wrote: The Sea Cat wrote:
Daminxa wrote:
Genesis I never really got - posh lads from Charterhouse who were doubtless accomplished musicians but never really did it for me.
I know exactly what you mean. They got a lot more low down and meaner when Phil Collins brought his working class London grit and attitude to the proceedings.
Please tell me you're joking!
arf!
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The Sea Cat
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Re: Music of the Sad.
Aug 23, 2011, 15:48
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All that spitting and bad trousers.....
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The Sea Cat
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Re: Music of the Sad.
Aug 23, 2011, 15:50
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I nearly forgot....
A great big yawn for The Red Hot Chillie Peppers, the Wetherspoons Curry Night of modern rock.
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Lubin
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Re: Music of the Sad.
Aug 23, 2011, 15:51
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The Sea Cat wrote,
Steely Dan! Jeeezzz.....smart arsed yuppie slick coked up muso cocktail bollox.
Urgh.[/quote]
Exactly!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Moon Cat
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Edited Aug 23, 2011, 17:03
Re: Music of the Sad.
Aug 23, 2011, 17:00
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FifePsy wrote: .
Grateful Dead. Utterly uncomprehensible to me other than Oswald's plunderphonic cut up of Dark Star.
On my list also for similar reasons. My dad's ex-brother in law (it's complicated) was/is a HUGE Dead fan. One of those nutters that has crates and crates of bootlegs from every pico-second of every gig they ever played since the dawn of time. And, I just didn't get it! Sure, the playing was nice and the guitar was nice...but I just couldn't reconcile the amazing band name, the fab album art and the supposed cosmic-ness with what sounded all the world to me like...a bit countryish, bit more improvy...fairly benign soft-rock. Seemed disappointingly and incongruously normal, like if GWAR sounded like Air Supply or something.
Best thing is to look at an album sleeve and stick something trippier on.
Oh I should also like to add Bruce Springsteen to my list.
Again, there's the odd song I like - tends to be the more restrained stuff -but on the whole I have thus far avoided the charms of the supposed blue-collar AOR of a man that often sounds like he's SO sincere he's taking a massive dump in his working-man's Jeans.
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mingtp
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Re: Music of the Sad.
Aug 23, 2011, 17:03
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Moon Cat wrote: FifePsy wrote: Grateful Dead. Utterly uncomprehensible to me
On my list also for similar reasons.... And, I just didn't get it! Sure, the playing was nice and the guitar was nice...but I just couldn't reconcile the amazing band name, the fab album art and the supposed cosmic-ness with what sounded all the world to me like...a bit countryish, bit more improvy...fairly benign soft-rock. Seemed disappointingly and incongruously normal, like if GWAR sounded like Air Supply or something.
^What Moonie said! Once again you have summed up my thoughts on something far more eloquently than I could.
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riverman
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Re: Music of the Sad.
Aug 23, 2011, 17:19
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Anybody mentioned U2 yet?
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Moon Cat
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Re: Music of the Sad.
Aug 23, 2011, 17:21
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Heh!
As it happens, I like em (well, quite a lot of songs)
But then I don't think I've ever been overburdened with people telling me how 'great' they are ;^)
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dave clarkson
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Edited Aug 23, 2011, 19:26
Re: Music of the Sad.
Aug 23, 2011, 19:21
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though there's a certain amount of truth in that!
Without Buster you've got......well , Mike & the Mechanics?
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