It's super good.Silent Majority wrote: ↑13 Feb 2019, 4:58pmI agree, You Got It is a classic.
The Mighty Musical Observations Thread
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You guys reminded me of this:
One of my earliest music memories. Still have the VHS.
One of my earliest music memories. Still have the VHS.
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PBS still plays that goddamn 3-decade-old concert like eight times a year during pledge week(s). It's the only thing I associate that show with: the pledge hosts offering the DVD of Dead Guy + a bunch of other dead guys + non-geriatric Brooose and Elvis Costello...all with a free station tote bag.
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A musical observation: people like to look askance at cassette revivalist people - who indeed are lunatics - but they're overlooking the even more bizarre creature: the laserdisc partisan
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Further to this, there have to be 8-track boosters out there, right? People who laud the experience of a massive KA-CHUNK in the middle of, say, "Strawberry Fields Forever." I'm grateful that I'm a neanderthal on these matters and privilege convenience over everything else.
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"I used to bullseye womp rats in my T-16 back in Whittier, they're not much bigger than two meters.'" - Richard Nixon, Checkers Speech, abandoned early draft
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Just read that one-time Cure drummer Andy Anderson has terminal cancer. Played drums on The Love Cats single and The Top LP.
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I've been playing The The's Infected over and over the past day. It really is one of the essential 1980s documents, and the subject matter—neoliberal alienation, Western imperialism, and basic disillusionment—is horribly current. If you've somehow never heard it, dial it up. If you haven't heard it in awhile, remedy that.
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I love The Top.WestwayKid wrote: ↑21 Feb 2019, 12:31pmJust read that one-time Cure drummer Andy Anderson has terminal cancer. Played drums on The Love Cats single and The Top LP.
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I like it when it's playing, but other than "The Caterpillar," I can never remember anything about it within, like, an hour.Kory wrote: ↑21 Feb 2019, 7:09pmI love The Top.WestwayKid wrote: ↑21 Feb 2019, 12:31pmJust read that one-time Cure drummer Andy Anderson has terminal cancer. Played drums on The Love Cats single and The Top LP.
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"Shake Dog Shake" and "Give Me It" are boss tracks, and "Bananafishbones" is wonderfully weird.Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑21 Feb 2019, 7:53pmI like it when it's playing, but other than "The Caterpillar," I can never remember anything about it within, like, an hour.Kory wrote: ↑21 Feb 2019, 7:09pmI love The Top.WestwayKid wrote: ↑21 Feb 2019, 12:31pmJust read that one-time Cure drummer Andy Anderson has terminal cancer. Played drums on The Love Cats single and The Top LP.
The Top is a rough fit in the Cure catalog because it's basically a Smith solo project with Anderson the only other player on every track and Lol Tolhurst primarily assigned to buying booze and drugs for his and Smith's then-raging vices. But the psychedelic feel is very similar to the Banshees' Hyaena, so it's almost like a companion piece to that album.
Anderson was a real beast of a player. Brought big bottom to the sound, and struck great balance between playing it straight-ahead and being sly with the nuance. Concert is probably my favorite overall official release. As much as lightning-wristed Boris Williams is seen as 'the' Cure drummer, he could occasionally get a little cutesy. I think they rocked harder with Anderson.
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I've always liked The Top. I think it gets overlooked because it comes from a murky point in their history. The original band had blown up after Pornography and the next version was still a year or two off - so what we got was a mixed up Robert Smith creating this loud, dense very psychedelic release and Anderson's drumming really fit the bill.Rat Patrol wrote: ↑22 Feb 2019, 1:01am"Shake Dog Shake" and "Give Me It" are boss tracks, and "Bananafishbones" is wonderfully weird.Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑21 Feb 2019, 7:53pmI like it when it's playing, but other than "The Caterpillar," I can never remember anything about it within, like, an hour.Kory wrote: ↑21 Feb 2019, 7:09pmI love The Top.WestwayKid wrote: ↑21 Feb 2019, 12:31pmJust read that one-time Cure drummer Andy Anderson has terminal cancer. Played drums on The Love Cats single and The Top LP.
The Top is a rough fit in the Cure catalog because it's basically a Smith solo project with Anderson the only other player on every track and Lol Tolhurst primarily assigned to buying booze and drugs for his and Smith's then-raging vices. But the psychedelic feel is very similar to the Banshees' Hyaena, so it's almost like a companion piece to that album.
Anderson was a real beast of a player. Brought big bottom to the sound, and struck great balance between playing it straight-ahead and being sly with the nuance. Concert is probably my favorite overall official release. As much as lightning-wristed Boris Williams is seen as 'the' Cure drummer, he could occasionally get a little cutesy. I think they rocked harder with Anderson.
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Mike Peters was just awarded the MBE for the work he's done around cancer care. He's always seemed like a pretty decent guy so good for him.
What do you all think? Would Joe have ever been nominated (is that how it even works?) for something like the MBE and if so - would he have accepted?
What do you all think? Would Joe have ever been nominated (is that how it even works?) for something like the MBE and if so - would he have accepted?
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I imagine he wouldn't have been nominated for the same reasons he wouldn't have accepted: a life's work of beautifully raising class consciousness. The establishment recognise their allies.WestwayKid wrote: ↑22 Feb 2019, 11:26amMike Peters was just awarded the MBE for the work he's done around cancer care. He's always seemed like a pretty decent guy so good for him.
What do you all think? Would Joe have ever been nominated (is that how it even works?) for something like the MBE and if so - would he have accepted?
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Good for Mike a lovely guy.WestwayKid wrote: ↑22 Feb 2019, 11:26amMike Peters was just awarded the MBE for the work he's done around cancer care. He's always seemed like a pretty decent guy so good for him.
What do you all think? Would Joe have ever been nominated (is that how it even works?) for something like the MBE and if so - would he have accepted?
Regards Joe: A very principled man who struggled with the notion of these things. I'm not sure what Joe would've been nominated for (Music I guess) and just like one of his heroes John Lennon he might've accepted it then handed it back in order to make his point. Although I doubt Joe would've waited two years before returning it and certainly not via his chauffeur.
Lennon's letter to her Majesty is kinda fun though.
Your Majesty,
I am returning my MBE as a protest against Britain's involvement in the Nigeria-Biafra thing, against our support of America in Vietnam and against 'Cold Turkey' slipping down the charts.
With love. John Lennon of Bag
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My humanity
Curfews have been curbing
The end of liberty
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