if i worried about how bands looked then i'd like none of the music i do
― Minga Frump (Jimmy Riddle), Monday, 12 December 2011 14:32 (twelve years ago) link
This is a big reason why you like such terrible music!
― rekeningopnemer (Fotherington Thomas), Monday, 12 December 2011 14:33 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.motorhead.ru/imagespress/artcalvertband.jpg
― Minga Frump (Jimmy Riddle), Monday, 12 December 2011 14:34 (twelve years ago) link
vs
http://www.pyromag.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/Ed-Sheeran-+1-600x300.jpg
― Minga Frump (Jimmy Riddle), Monday, 12 December 2011 14:35 (twelve years ago) link
who do you most want to punch?
"Punch" is not what I think when I look at either of those men.
― rekeningopnemer (Fotherington Thomas), Monday, 12 December 2011 14:37 (twelve years ago) link
Unless ILX has moved from "smash" to "punch" in slang in the past 6 months.
Lemmy was so cuet back in the 70s. What happened? I know, drugs. But still.
Your next thread should be sensitive boys with guitars vs sensitive boys with synths : a kate pictorial.
― Minga Frump (Jimmy Riddle), Monday, 12 December 2011 14:40 (twelve years ago) link
Dudes who abruptly grow bowl cuts and pose with Jazzmasters
http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ksw8l4lDxq1qzjvpto1_400.jpg
before realising I'd actually rather smang RDJ and consequently sprouting a ginger ponytail and a set of decks?
https://p.twimg.com/AgA0iDhCEAIhWHT.jpg
It's all too much for my poor head.
― rekeningopnemer (Fotherington Thomas), Monday, 12 December 2011 14:43 (twelve years ago) link
I sort of like Ed Shee, because he did a song about prostitutes and hard drugs and nobody the majority of his listeners don't seem to have noticed.
― Jilted John and Marsha (MarkG oo la showaddywaddy), Monday, 12 December 2011 14:48 (twelve years ago) link
I thought that was his "selling point" - look, he is so real he does songs about prostitutes and hard drugs, he's gritty and authentic and down home and in no way a posh boy in a hoodie. Or something. I dunno. I wasn't really paying attention.
― rekeningopnemer (Fotherington Thomas), Monday, 12 December 2011 14:58 (twelve years ago) link
Oh, it seems all poetic/flowers to me. I wasn't really watching.
I sort of noticed him because he has a name very like a drummer I usedterno.
― Jilted John and Marsha (MarkG oo la showaddywaddy), Monday, 12 December 2011 15:03 (twelve years ago) link
yes, the 'realness' is a thing with him - my gf's daughter (13-y-o) seems to like sheeran for that reason. He's also got that other song where he explains how real he is. 'you need me I don't need you'. That's it. It's unusually atrocious.
― woof, Monday, 12 December 2011 15:22 (twelve years ago) link
a modern day ocean colour scene/cast/real people then
― Minga Frump (Jimmy Riddle), Monday, 12 December 2011 16:41 (twelve years ago) link
So is this discussion done, then? Can I just turn this into a picture thread full of winsome sensitive boys?
http://data6.nightparty.ru/albums/npofficial/00000-000-5096272-696.jpg
― rekeningopnemer (Fotherington Thomas), Tuesday, 13 December 2011 10:37 (twelve years ago) link
You've disappointed me here, Kate. Ed Sheeran? Your taste is usually a lot better than that.
― Derek Pringles (Deep in the Tony Hart land), Tuesday, 13 December 2011 10:45 (twelve years ago) link
He's ginger, I can't help myself, and don't call me Kate, Tom.
― rekeningopnemer (Fotherington Thomas), Tuesday, 13 December 2011 10:46 (twelve years ago) link
I am powerless in the presence of ginger.
http://data6.nightparty.ru/albums/npofficial/00000-000-5096270-992.jpg
― rekeningopnemer (Fotherington Thomas), Tuesday, 13 December 2011 10:49 (twelve years ago) link
However, you know what is so NAGL? I'm trying to read that article that Chewy posted, and this dude keeps staring me in the face and distracting me:
http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/imgad?id=CICAgMDO7e_QjgEQrAIY-gEyCOEbo30oh7sn
That is just the RONGest thing I've seen in ages. I don't even know where to start. The scarf. The beard. The topknot. The inscrutably smug look on his face. Sometimes you can just look at someone and know instinctively that you will hate their music.
― rekeningopnemer (Fotherington Thomas), Tuesday, 13 December 2011 10:51 (twelve years ago) link
i do not think I have more to say. i mean I am horrified that these etiolated heirs of jamie t are popular at the mo, but my rage has been tempered by talking to aforementioned daughter of gf - hard to spew old-man cynic bile when chatting with amiable early teen.
― woof, Tuesday, 13 December 2011 10:52 (twelve years ago) link
In the long run, it often turns out that amiable 13 y.o. girls are right, and cynical old men are wrong when it comes to music.
― rekeningopnemer (Fotherington Thomas), Tuesday, 13 December 2011 10:53 (twelve years ago) link
xpost but he is Offerman! He will offer you things!
Possibly money-off coupons, maybe not.
― Jilted John and Marsha (MarkG oo la showaddywaddy), Tuesday, 13 December 2011 10:55 (twelve years ago) link
xpost I have two 13 yr old girls, (although one is 11), and I not a c.o.m.
Will he offer me rekening op? I need an auditor in here bigtime.
I don't know what it is about him, I just experience irrational hatred. So I suppose I understand the punching reflex WRT Sheerham.
― rekeningopnemer (Fotherington Thomas), Tuesday, 13 December 2011 10:56 (twelve years ago) link
See? Mark speaks from experience. If you want to know if a music is of good quality, you would do far better to play it to two early teen girls than to play it to a cynical post-40 man.
― rekeningopnemer (Fotherington Thomas), Tuesday, 13 December 2011 10:58 (twelve years ago) link
One other annoying thing about that pic, the angle he's standing at
― Derek Pringles (Deep in the Tony Hart land), Tuesday, 13 December 2011 10:58 (twelve years ago) link
Oh yeah, that's the big fail.
― Jilted John and Marsha (MarkG oo la showaddywaddy), Tuesday, 13 December 2011 10:59 (twelve years ago) link
Angela: I just like how he's always leaning. Against stuff. He leans great. Either sex or a conversation -- ideally both.
― rekeningopnemer (Fotherington Thomas), Tuesday, 13 December 2011 11:01 (twelve years ago) link
I just like it best when Thom gives in to his inner ginger.
http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/_/5597764/Thom+Yorke+thothototm.jpg
I know that his early hennae and bleach abuse is probably responsible for his current bald patch (that or genes) but compare and contrast this smug punchability with Sheerhan above and it becomes evident.
http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/_/44030729/Thom+Yorke+thomsquint.jpg
― rekeningopnemer (Fotherington Thomas), Tuesday, 13 December 2011 11:04 (twelve years ago) link
At least he's facing it with less dignity and more raging against the dying of the light than Mark Gardener's follicular experiments. Sigh.
http://i.fanpix.net/images/orig/k/z/kz8e99sa72lt27t9.jpg
Guess none of you are My So-Called Life fans, then?
― rekeningopnemer (Fotherington Thomas), Tuesday, 13 December 2011 11:09 (twelve years ago) link
i am with the 13-y-o on many things, but I am p comfortable in opposition on sheeran.
(rage/bile might be a bit strong - i def don't find sheeran punchable; he seems a decent enough sort. It's just the music bores me)
― woof, Tuesday, 13 December 2011 11:11 (twelve years ago) link
One of these days I will actually listen to Sheerhan. I admit the only thing of his I've heard was that video with Rupert Grint in it, which I was too busy marvelling at how funny the video was to pay much attention to the music, which I suppose is evidence of exactly how unmemorable it was (something Dan was complaining about on another thread - even something objectively bad is at least memorable, but I struggle to recall even how the tune of Sheeran's song went.)
Still, I'm with the 13 y.o. because the tickle of irritation at punchability is a precursor to the itch of lust.
This is just obscene.
http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/_/13835011/Thom+Yorke+p.png
And I like it!
Right, enough procrasturbating, I have business plans to write. Me, writing business plans. This is why private healthcare in this country will fail. Because I don't even understand why I get given these jobs. But at least there's a new Sonic Cathedral mix-cast thing today. Tra la la.
― rekeningopnemer (Fotherington Thomas), Tuesday, 13 December 2011 11:20 (twelve years ago) link
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_IeVEawIpC_k/S7Gzvko_JzI/AAAAAAAAKGw/JnS3dLuYft4/s1600/NoelGallagher01.jpg
― Minga Frump (Jimmy Riddle), Wednesday, 14 December 2011 20:51 (twelve years ago) link
EW.
― Thomosexual II (Fotherington Thomas), Wednesday, 14 December 2011 21:04 (twelve years ago) link
I've spent the past 24 hours pretty much on a solid cheesecake binge and you harsh-buzz me with that? Without even The Traitor Andy Bell to make up for it?
― Thomosexual II (Fotherington Thomas), Wednesday, 14 December 2011 21:05 (twelve years ago) link
andy bell is in liam's band i think, not noel's.
― Minga Frump (Jimmy Riddle), Thursday, 15 December 2011 09:38 (twelve years ago) link
Is Liam's band any better than Noel's? Or is that like asking if cat shit smells better than dog shit? ;-)
― Thomosexual II (Fotherington Thomas), Thursday, 15 December 2011 10:01 (twelve years ago) link
Well, I think Liam's band is better than Noel's.
I was in a shop and "If I had a gun" Noel came on. He has this habit of having half a decent idea for a song, but never getting round to replacing his placeholder lines or even finishing writing it.
― Jilted John and Marsha (MarkG oo la showaddywaddy), Thursday, 15 December 2011 10:03 (twelve years ago) link
Ha ha, maybe I'll look them up on YouTube because there's no way I'm getting either of them on my Spotify/last.fm stats heh.
Yes, I have standards. I don't care how much Cher Lloyd gets on my last.fm stats but I draw the line at Gallaghers.
(My colleague is trying to annoy the shit out of me by singing glam rock christmas singles at me, but at least he's moved on from Wizzard to Slade. God I wish I'd had more than 5 hours of sleep last night, I am completely slap happy and laughing my head off at everything.)
― Thomosexual II (Fotherington Thomas), Thursday, 15 December 2011 10:05 (twelve years ago) link
Is five hours a "good" amount?
My normal amount is six thesedays...
― Jilted John and Marsha (MarkG oo la showaddywaddy), Thursday, 15 December 2011 10:17 (twelve years ago) link
the noel song i heard was a lot better than liam's. but im not sure id give it any higher praise than "it was ok and i didnt turn the radio off"
― Minga Frump (Jimmy Riddle), Thursday, 15 December 2011 10:20 (twelve years ago) link
OMG no, I need at least 8 hours or I go seriously crazy. Me not getting enough sleep for several nights in a row is like manic episode on a stick.
But it's OK, we're bouncing around the office to Ballroom Blitz now and he's threatening to torrent the Velvet Goldmine soundtrack. (This may be my fault bcuz he was laughing at me making crush with eyeliner my new wallpaper.)
Need more bubbleglam in my life. Are you ready Steve? uh-huh. Andy? YEAH.
― Thomosexual II (Fotherington Thomas), Thursday, 15 December 2011 10:21 (twelve years ago) link
TS: Ballroom Blitz vs Blitzkrieg Bop
(let's ask Amber and Alice)
― Thomosexual II (Fotherington Thomas), Thursday, 15 December 2011 10:22 (twelve years ago) link
they will choose 1 each
― Minga Frump (Jimmy Riddle), Thursday, 15 December 2011 10:23 (twelve years ago) link
Now that's a tough one!
Obviously they have emotional attachment to BzBop (Amber rewrote it for herself as "5th Street Pop" in honour of their NY visit)
But I know they'd love Ballroom Blitz.
xpost dunno about that.
― Jilted John and Marsha (MarkG oo la showaddywaddy), Thursday, 15 December 2011 10:25 (twelve years ago) link
you must let them decide during the school run tomorrow by playing both
― Minga Frump (Jimmy Riddle), Thursday, 15 December 2011 10:49 (twelve years ago) link
ah, school run is a thing of the past, they both Secondary School now.
Which involves walking up and meeting friends on the way.
I know, where does the time go, etc.
― Jilted John and Marsha (MarkG oo la showaddywaddy), Thursday, 15 December 2011 10:56 (twelve years ago) link
the end of the grout school run saddens me. It was truly one of the earths great wonders.
― Minga Frump (Jimmy Riddle), Thursday, 15 December 2011 11:05 (twelve years ago) link
oh and just for fotherington thomas Doom Folk S/D (mumford and sons to make a 'doom folk album')
― Minga Frump (Jimmy Riddle), Thursday, 15 December 2011 11:06 (twelve years ago) link
Bleurgh. Do not want.
― Thomosexual II (Fotherington Thomas), Thursday, 15 December 2011 11:07 (twelve years ago) link
you were complaining sandbox was down yesterday so you couldnt post about it!
― Minga Frump (Jimmy Riddle), Thursday, 15 December 2011 11:14 (twelve years ago) link
I wanted to see you get really sputtery about how awful it was, I didn't want the actual album made!
― Thomosexual II (Fotherington Thomas), Thursday, 15 December 2011 11:17 (twelve years ago) link
well that thread is for posting good doom folk
― Minga Frump (Jimmy Riddle), Thursday, 15 December 2011 11:28 (twelve years ago) link
I just wanted to say that this
I have two 13 yr old girls, (although one is 11)
Is beautiful
― oPal, Thursday, 15 December 2011 13:38 (twelve years ago) link
Is the truth! (thx)
― Y.O. Mini (MarkG oo la showaddywaddy), Thursday, 15 December 2011 13:39 (twelve years ago) link
Was it in Select or Melody Maker, back in the 90s, where they ran an article which asked a bunch of schoolchildren their opinions of the Records Of Today with predictable results (they hate Suede! and Oasis! they love the Smiths! and Blur!)...
...until the inevitable punchline that the schoolchildren were actually Stephen Street's kids and a couple of their classmates.
― Thomosexual II (Fotherington Thomas), Thursday, 15 December 2011 13:47 (twelve years ago) link
Oh, Tom. You had to piss on our chips.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/musicblog/2011/dec/15/drake-bon-iver-james-blake
― Polemicist Who Slashed All, Freely (Fotherington Thomas), Friday, 16 December 2011 14:12 (twelve years ago) link
tom likes that stuff?
― Anyone need a (Jimmy Riddle), Monday, 19 December 2011 00:08 (twelve years ago) link