I blame myself. I got confused about how many days were in November and gave this poll only one day instead of the two I had originally planned.
― ruth m4rcus is a mor4n (henrietta lacks), Thursday, 1 December 2011 14:44 (twelve years ago) link
Bah, finally got my new system up and running and look what I missed? This is sort of a classic career-breadth vs career high-points, and in my view The Clean wins the former and The Chills win the latter. I would've voted Chills regardless.
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Thursday, 1 December 2011 16:35 (twelve years ago) link
oh god so close. new bats record sounds great btw.
― tylerw_sandbox, Thursday, 1 December 2011 16:51 (twelve years ago) link
haven't heard any bats apart from daddy's highway (block of wood!!!) - maybe i should
most underrated flying nun band are the gordons but they're a totally different kettle of kakapos i guess
― domish gassambino (pomplamau5), Thursday, 1 December 2011 17:00 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WA4ViMA2fKs
― domish gassambino (pomplamau5), Thursday, 1 December 2011 17:02 (twelve years ago) link
iirc gordons begat bailter space & that is certainly a good thing indeed!
― Pollbix, Thursday, 1 December 2011 20:47 (twelve years ago) link
Wow y'know all this time I thought Bailter Space was formed by Hamish Kilgour or that he was a prominent member, but reading their wiki it seems he was only in the band for a couple of years and yes the line up for most of the time was in fact the same as the Gordons! (who were fucking awesome, you can still get the CD of their first album pretty cheaply iirc)
TheMoreYouKnow.jpg
― Fake Eyeball, Thursday, 1 December 2011 23:56 (twelve years ago) link
Also where is Daddy's Highway reissue formed?
one band that never seems to get mentioned when NZ bands are discussed are Snapper, started by Peter Gutteridge who was an ex-member of ... The Clean and The Chills!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhyIV-XLgPohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOtO2DzHNGc
― zappi, Friday, 2 December 2011 12:36 (twelve years ago) link
never seen that first snapper video before, such a neat band!
― the gas-cramp dilla (pomplamau5), Friday, 2 December 2011 13:37 (twelve years ago) link
Snapper is awesome! Bailter Space too!
Different kettle of fish, but I really like Dadamah as well...
― iagree (henrietta lacks), Friday, 2 December 2011 14:44 (twelve years ago) link
someone talk to me about guns in flying nun songs
iirc there are guns in "anything could happen", "wheatfields", "pink frost" and probably a bunch of songs i don't know/don't remember
don't point that thing at mewhat's up with the gun imagery?
― recently deposed application inspector for the (league of women voters), Monday, 5 December 2011 20:02 (twelve years ago) link
you'll only end up like Rimbaud/get shot by Verlaine
― CharlieS, Monday, 5 December 2011 21:48 (twelve years ago) link
God, that's what he's saying? Good to know.
― Mr. Farmer, Monday, 5 December 2011 21:58 (twelve years ago) link
i thought about wheatfields the other day because a student gave her final speech about van gogh/wheat fields/absinthe/potassium bromide... ok it was a little confusing, but long story short it made me think about flying nun gun imagery.
― recently deposed application inspector for the (league of women voters), Monday, 5 December 2011 22:03 (twelve years ago) link
why dont you do yourself in?
― synthpop of the Gnostics (henrietta lacks), Tuesday, 6 December 2011 15:37 (twelve years ago) link
that's what i'm saying ^^
is there some nz cultural or political thing i'm missing here?
― recently deposed application inspector for the (league of women voters), Tuesday, 6 December 2011 15:41 (twelve years ago) link
didn't snapper have an album called 'shotgun blossom' or something?
― los krampusinos! (pomplamau5), Tuesday, 6 December 2011 15:42 (twelve years ago) link
^yeah, they did/do.
― Mr. Farmer, Tuesday, 6 December 2011 15:44 (twelve years ago) link
excellent record
― synthpop of the Gnostics (henrietta lacks), Tuesday, 6 December 2011 15:45 (twelve years ago) link
has anyone read this? Positively George Street: A Personal History of the Sneaky Feelings and the Dunedin Sound
― recently deposed application inspector for the (league of women voters), Tuesday, 6 December 2011 15:47 (twelve years ago) link
well surely SOMEONE has, i meant anyone who reads the above post
um also since i am reading the flying nun wiki
tracklist on this sdtk is O_O WHAT is this MOVIE?!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topless_Women_Talk_About_Their_Lives_%28soundtrack%29
― recently deposed application inspector for the (league of women voters), Tuesday, 6 December 2011 15:49 (twelve years ago) link
somebody plz give me that sdtrk for my birthday!
xp no I haven't read that! I should!
― synthpop of the Gnostics (henrietta lacks), Tuesday, 6 December 2011 15:56 (twelve years ago) link
how can I get it?
― synthpop of the Gnostics (henrietta lacks), Tuesday, 6 December 2011 15:57 (twelve years ago) link
"I Love My Leather Jacket". But not that much, eh ladies?
― Tony Hart land (Deep in the Tony Hart land), Tuesday, 6 December 2011 15:58 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.nzvideos.org/topwomenCD.JPG
― recently deposed application inspector for the (league of women voters), Tuesday, 6 December 2011 16:01 (twelve years ago) link
i guess this answers my question
Liz has missed an appointment to have an abortion. She has to keep her child, and neither her boyfriend Geoff nor child's father Neil are too happy about it. She can not decide which partner is better for her, and Neil makes a proposal to her when they attend the wedding of her best friend Prue and Mike. She probably prefers Geoff, but he is preoccupied with his girlfriend Bryony, who returned from abroad. Another friend, Ant, has written a script for documentary film, which is directed by a German and in which topless women, well, talk about their lives.
― recently deposed application inspector for the (league of women voters), Tuesday, 6 December 2011 16:02 (twelve years ago) link
apparently copies of the soundtrack can be had for less than $10, or it could be assembled -- probably without too much trouble too._____________________________back to gunswhy are there so many guns?!
― recently deposed application inspector for the (league of women voters), Tuesday, 6 December 2011 16:04 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.imdb.com/reviews/109/10908.html
― synthpop of the Gnostics (henrietta lacks), Tuesday, 6 December 2011 16:06 (twelve years ago) link
movie sounds pretty boring tbh
― recently deposed application inspector for the (league of women voters), Tuesday, 6 December 2011 16:07 (twelve years ago) link
idk i kinda like slice of life indie when its done well
― synthpop of the Gnostics (henrietta lacks), Tuesday, 6 December 2011 16:09 (twelve years ago) link
anyways an undertone of mordant dark humor I think helps offset the chipper cheerful guitar pop that Kiwis specialize in. They are punk rockers after all
― synthpop of the Gnostics (henrietta lacks), Tuesday, 6 December 2011 16:10 (twelve years ago) link
slice of life and a cup of ammo
― los krampusinos! (pomplamau5), Tuesday, 6 December 2011 16:10 (twelve years ago) link
what is there to do in dunedin but watch scorsese movies?
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 6 December 2011 16:11 (twelve years ago) link
pomplamau5 on fire today
― synthpop of the Gnostics (henrietta lacks), Tuesday, 6 December 2011 16:11 (twelve years ago) link
mordant dark humor doesn't really explain the tons of guns enough for me
― recently deposed application inspector for the (league of women voters), Tuesday, 6 December 2011 16:22 (twelve years ago) link
check out the prices on this book!! http://www.amazon.com/Positively-George-Street-Matthew-Bannister/dp/0790007045/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1323200018&sr=8-1
― recently deposed application inspector for the (league of women voters), Tuesday, 6 December 2011 19:35 (twelve years ago) link
Woah at prices! Glad I bought it when it came out. So yes, I read it a few years back. Good stuff. Nice personal take on the histories of loads of bands and people whose lives/tours crossed paths.
― andrew m., Tuesday, 6 December 2011 19:45 (twelve years ago) link
To this day I don't think I've knowingly heard a Sneaky Feelings song though.
― andrew m., Tuesday, 6 December 2011 19:49 (twelve years ago) link
here's onehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVCHn7-qBB8
― recently deposed application inspector for the (league of women voters), Tuesday, 6 December 2011 19:49 (twelve years ago) link
That book looks amazing! Too bad it's so expensive and it doesn't appear to be in any north american libraries either.
No idea about the gun thing -- I've never pictured NZ as a place with lots of guns, but, then again, a lot of it is rural....
― well in (advance johnson), Tuesday, 6 December 2011 20:28 (twelve years ago) link
Do you really think the gun imagery is disproportionate, though?I mean, have we considered the number of gun songs during roughly the same period elsewhere in the world?
― Mr. Farmer, Tuesday, 6 December 2011 20:32 (twelve years ago) link
Somebody should do some research and then write a book about it
― well in (advance johnson), Tuesday, 6 December 2011 20:35 (twelve years ago) link
i nominate nabisco
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 6 December 2011 20:37 (twelve years ago) link
apparently copies of the soundtrack can be had for less than $10, or it could be assembled -- probably without too much trouble too.
I have that CD, is there a Sandbox Leonardo or such like?
― Fake Eyeball, Tuesday, 6 December 2011 20:41 (twelve years ago) link
goooood question -- why don't you make one
you guys i have to tell you somethingi bought a copy of that book for $24 this morning and i have confirmation that it is on its way from dunedin(willing to loan within the midwest, mrs advance and henriettalinita)
still would like to discuss the gun imageryI mean, have we considered the number of gun songs during roughly the same period elsewhere in the world?is there a way to search this? any librarians know the answer to this question?
― league of women voters, Tuesday, 6 December 2011 20:42 (twelve years ago) link
I think that would be complicated. I mean, I do feel like in a period/scene where the archetypal band is the sex pistols, gun imagery might not be too rare?
I will definitely take you up on the offer to borrow that book at some point!
― well in (advance johnson), Tuesday, 6 December 2011 20:51 (twelve years ago) link
Only database I can think of with searchable song titles is Spotify. I don't know if you can combine with searching by year. Ah ha http://www.spotify.com/us/blog/archives/2008/01/22/searching-spotify/
― Mr. Farmer, Tuesday, 6 December 2011 20:52 (twelve years ago) link
you can search by song title on allmusic, but I'm not sure how far that'd get you
― well in (advance johnson), Tuesday, 6 December 2011 20:53 (twelve years ago) link