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Posted - 02/06/2005 : 00:36:59
To continue Kathryn's thread, what was the best concert that you've been, but without mentioning the Pixies and Frank Black.
Mine was Nick Cave, back in 1989...
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| Cheeseman1000 |
Posted - 02/10/2005 : 14:46:31
That ASMZ was pretty good, but there were a couple of guyd in front of me who kept laughing and shouting through the whole show. That sort of thing really ticks me off, you'd have thought at that sort of show...
Let me get this straight: you love Ms B because she inflicts damage upon your ears? OK then, we do have different opinions. I just love her in general.
And she loves me.
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| shineoftheever |
Posted - 02/10/2005 : 13:50:20
quote:
Originally posted by stymie
Seems that some of you have gotten off the topic, but i naven't forgotten and this is a question that I've thought abouth for years. My first show was Billy Joel late '80s. It made me love the live music experience. Although a few of my favorite shows ever were:
The Dead Milkmen 1990 The Ritz, Indianapolis ,IN
B.A.D., P.i.L, Live, Blind Melon 04/03/92 Salt Palace, SLC, UT
They Might be Giants / Frank Black 1994 Agora Theatre, Cleveland, OH
Phish 08/06/93 The Zoo Amp. Cinncinatti, Oh
hey stymie,
i saw those first two shows when they came through vancouver. TMBG and Frank came through seperately for the same tours though and i caught both. phish? phish? i don't think johnny would like you for putting PIL in the same paragraph as phish unless there was a rules and a sucks in there. 
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| benji |
Posted - 02/10/2005 : 11:44:28
quote:
Well, 'Benji', I was going to say good to see you here again, but maybe I won't now...
I was listening to Nicole's CD today and thinking how I really don't listen to much proper rock anymore. It's a shame in some ways, but I'm awkward and prefer more complicated music now (he says, rooting around to find the Killers album...). Thats sounds pretty snobby doesn't it? I don't know, I'm just not in that much of a phase so much at the moment.
There is a school of thought which says to be a man listening to music you should listen to whatever you want, regardless of other peoples' opinions. Hence, the general Natasha Bedingfield fixation.
Damn I'd loved to have been at that Mogwai show though, Isaac. was that SMZ show the one I saw?
well i dare say that some people do ascribe by that rule mccheese, but i'm not one of them.
the more damage to my ear drums i can inflict the better.
see, thats why i too love ms bedingfield, but for slightly different reasons than you.
the bedingfields all the way i say.
but yes, that was th asmz show you were at, and yeah, the mogwai show was the best...i guy i know got a line off the soundboard to tape it, but e never got the discs to work...i was gutted.
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| Surfer Rosa |
Posted - 02/10/2005 : 10:12:49
If you find some error in Party In Simon's Pants Lyrics,
would you please submit your corrections to me? Thank You.
An open invitation I tell you. Btw that's copied and pasted from the website - please dear god don't email me with your quibbles.
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| starmekitten |
Posted - 02/10/2005 : 10:07:37
oh dear oh dear
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| Cheeseman1000 |
Posted - 02/10/2005 : 10:01:23
http://www.sing365.com/music/lyric.nsf/Party-In-Simon's-Pants-lyrics-Toto/257C3D07E5A1BF7B48256918001661CE#
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| starmekitten |
Posted - 02/10/2005 : 09:55:28
rita if you can make it you can come!
i cooked a red thai curry last night and my stomach today is telling me i went a little heavy on the chillis
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| n/a |
Posted - 02/10/2005 : 09:43:12
I would love to go, can I?
You know that I can cook delicious meals, maybe some curry!
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And this is for when you're feeling sad
And this is for when you feel...
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| starmekitten |
Posted - 02/10/2005 : 09:41:39
rita there's a party at miney this weekend
no one's coming mind, it'll be me and a bottle of tequila
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| Homers_pet_monkey |
Posted - 02/10/2005 : 09:36:45
You didn't have a party 'cos I achieved it in a week, so that 'aint much to celebrate.
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| n/a |
Posted - 02/10/2005 : 09:35:18
Homer, just to go completly out off the topic, how did you got 7000 posts and we didn't had a party?
So this is for when you're feeling happy again
And this is for when you're feeling sad
And this is for when you feel...
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| Homers_pet_monkey |
Posted - 02/10/2005 : 09:31:56
quote:
Originally posted by stymie
Seems that some of you have gotten off the topic,
You're new around here aren't you?
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| stymie |
Posted - 02/10/2005 : 09:23:51
Seems that some of you have gotten off the topic, but i naven't forgotten and this is a question that I've thought abouth for years. My first show was Billy Joel late '80s. It made me love the live music experience. Although a few of my favorite shows ever were:
The Dead Milkmen 1990 The Ritz, Indianapolis ,IN
B.A.D., P.i.L, Live, Blind Melon 04/03/92 Salt Palace, SLC, UT
They Might be Giants / Frank Black 1994 Agora Theatre, Cleveland, OH
Phish 08/06/93 The Zoo Amp. Cinncinatti, Oh |
| Cheeseman1000 |
Posted - 02/10/2005 : 09:02:47
quote:
Originally posted by benji
well it is pretty loud and mean-sounding.
he's just a bit of a girls blouse i think.....give him some real MAN music to listen to and he goes away and cries in the corner........
cheeseman never checks the forum anymore does he?
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Well, 'Benji', I was going to say good to see you here again, but maybe I won't now...
I was listening to Nicole's CD today and thinking how I really don't listen to much proper rock anymore. It's a shame in some ways, but I'm awkward and prefer more complicated music now (he says, rooting around to find the Killers album...). Thats sounds pretty snobby doesn't it? I don't know, I'm just not in that much of a phase so much at the moment.
There is a school of thought which says to be a man listening to music you should listen to whatever you want, regardless of other peoples' opinions. Hence, the general Natasha Bedingfield fixation.
Damn I'd loved to have been at that Mogwai show though, Isaac. was that SMZ show the one I saw?
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| starmekitten |
Posted - 02/10/2005 : 08:14:41
you'll love it...
*cough*
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| Homers_pet_monkey |
Posted - 02/10/2005 : 08:13:00
Oh no, I dread to think.
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| starmekitten |
Posted - 02/10/2005 : 08:01:10
ACINTA.. sorry... BEHDA..you'll... BHEDA.... have... TATTVA... to... ACINTA... speak.... BHEDA.... up BHEDA.... music's loud ....TATTVA ... don't you know.....
ach lighten up,. I've just made you and cheesoid a present each.
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| Homers_pet_monkey |
Posted - 02/10/2005 : 07:42:00
quote:
Originally posted by starmekitten
yay shiney!
nsringadev jaya nsringadev.. NSRINGADEV
one in the eye for the music snobs there, KS were also pretty good when I saw them, one of the toughest moshes I've ever seen though which is odd
I've put my copy of K on now and tattva is booming round the room, sometimes I miss the nineties
Music snobs? Kitty, they were just shit!
Is anyone who doesn't like something musical, a music snob?
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| starmekitten |
Posted - 02/10/2005 : 06:47:31
O HO HO HO!
I've just scoured my attic and found my box of CD singles from circa 95-97... ooooooooooooh this is good.......
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| starmekitten |
Posted - 02/10/2005 : 06:29:25
yay shiney!
nsringadev jaya nsringadev.. NSRINGADEV
one in the eye for the music snobs there, KS were also pretty good when I saw them, one of the toughest moshes I've ever seen though which is odd
I've put my copy of K on now and tattva is booming round the room, sometimes I miss the nineties
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| Homers_pet_monkey |
Posted - 02/10/2005 : 04:05:12
quote:
Originally posted by shineoftheever
ps. whenever i hear govinda i think in my head "go into her vagina, go in to her vagina"
People like you need to be watched. I bet you hear Gigantic lyrics as 'Hey shine, hey shine, hey shine, let's kill them all' don't ya?
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| benji |
Posted - 02/10/2005 : 02:26:45
well it is pretty loud and mean-sounding.
he's just a bit of a girls blouse i think.....give him some real MAN music to listen to and he goes away and cries in the corner........
cheeseman never checks the forum anymore does he?
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| shineoftheever |
Posted - 02/10/2005 : 02:22:18
govinda jaia, jaia, go pala jaia jaia....
i saw KS in a small venue and they were great, and I don't care what anybody (read: cheesey and HPM) thinks.
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| Surfer Rosa |
Posted - 02/10/2005 : 02:21:09
He did say it scared the hell out of him or something like that.
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| benji |
Posted - 02/10/2005 : 02:15:34
but cheeseman told me he didn't like it!
he said he wasn't angry enough to listen to it.....or something.
myself, i abslutely love the stuff. Panopticon being my record of 2004, with Oceanic my record of 2002. so very good.
but they're playing in australia in a few weeks but not where i'll be by then. damn them!
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| Surfer Rosa |
Posted - 02/10/2005 : 02:08:28
Ooh and it's a tiny tiny venue - just to try make you jealous! So weird Cheeseman was telling me about the time you made him listen to Isis and in a mere matter of seconds there was an email in my inbox from one of my mates telling me to book my ticket immediately as the UK tour had just been announce to the press.
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| benji |
Posted - 02/10/2005 : 02:05:09
great choice!
i wish i too could see them again. twice is NOT enough.
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| Surfer Rosa |
Posted - 02/10/2005 : 00:59:32
quote:
Originally posted by benji
third would probly be ISIS at the All Tomorrow's Parties festival in Camber Sands, UK in March 2004. had seen them the week before in london and they were obviously very rusty, but for the the ATP crowd they turned it on. even a 10 minute delay for when they blew up the PA mid-set failed to dampen their spirits.
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Thank you for helping me make up my mind Benji - I'm selling my Hives ticket, the husband can go on his own - I'm off to see Isis! Whoohooo!
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| benji |
Posted - 02/09/2005 : 18:37:09
the best concert i've been to ful stop was Mogwai at the Astoria in London in October 2003. They had played the previous night as well, and i was kinda disappointed as i had expexted so much. but on the next night they just blew me away. i was on a high for about a week after the gig, with my ears still ringing from the 10mins of feedback at the end of my father my king. the band also said is was their best gig in a few years, and i'd hate (well like) to think of how they could have improved it.
2nd best is Mono at the Water Rat Theate in Kings Cross, London a few weeks after the Mogwai one. i had heard of the obsure japanese band but never actually heard anything from them. they went on first in the tiny, and i mean tiny as in would hold 40 people max, room at about 8pm playing to 4 people including myself. what they then did was play the loudest music i have ever heard in my life. the venue had this decible reader thingy on the wall and it was over the pemitted level for the entire 40 minutes that they played. pure genius.
third would probly be ISIS at the All Tomorrow's Parties festival in Camber Sands, UK in March 2004. had seen them the week before in london and they were obviously very rusty, but for the the ATP crowd they turned it on. even a 10 minute delay for when they blew up the PA mid-set failed to dampen their spirits.
honourable mentions include: A Slver Mount Zion at the Scala in 2003 and Ben Harper in Christchurch, New Zealand in 1998.
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| Homers_pet_monkey |
Posted - 02/09/2005 : 14:41:59
The one that I chose, I chose because it was a band who are at the peak of their powers right now. They overcame the supposed 'difficult second album' by producing one of the years very best, to back up a fantastic debut album. So it boded well for the concert. I had never seen them outside of a festival before, and was very much looking forward to it.
Their was (cliche time), something in the air that night, I had all my friends there too, every one of them really looking forward to the gig (they are one of the few bands that everyone in the group seems to really like), and there was definitely a buzz in the air. Manchester crowds are not always the best but they really do pay attention to bands who are compared to their own greats. In Interpol's case it is Joy Division, one of our greats that we will sadly never see again (and pretty much everyone in the crowd would never have seen at all).
So yeah, there was definitely some expectation from the crowd. They came on and just played their songs, not feeling any pressure, pretty much note for note. Interpol are the kind of live band that need to do that. They don't really have any of the punk that Joy Division had, they are very much a 'mood' band, and so recreating their recorded music is very important for them. I guess like it would be for Pink Floyd or someone like that. So yeah, they're playing was impeccible, they created an atmosphere with their amazing atmospheric songs, that just had everyone enthralled. You don't jump around to Interpol songs, so it's harder for bands like that to keep an audiences attention, but they did that from first note to the last.
It was all pretty emotional for me too, for personal reasons involving one of their songs, and I guess that only helped to make it memorable for me, but the whole crowd were just captivated by them, and I have NEVER seen a Manchester crowd that receptive to a band before. I was stood at the back so I really got the full effect of the atmosphere from the crowd, as well as the band.
So all in all an amazing gig from a band that had some pressure to deliver, and managed to deliver more than anyone could have expected.
A real 'made the hairs on the back of your neck stand up' kind of gig.
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| kathryn |
Posted - 02/09/2005 : 11:44:52
I've been thinking about an excellent comment that someone made
somewhere on this thread. Were we listing the best concerts we'd
seen or the ones that would make us seem the cool for having seen them? This is a valid and good point and it begs several questions, among them:
What are the qualities that make a concert experience "the best"? How you were feeling? Where the band was at (a rare reunion show
or were they up-and-coming?)?
For example, I saw 10,000 Maniacs at the Channel in Boston in 1987. Some might ooh and ahh at that and, while it was a good show, I wouldn't say it was the best because there was too much self-congratulating going on...both the people on the stage and in the audience were palpably full of themselves for being present at An Important Moment In Time. I saw them a
few more times and the show that most stands out for me was '92 at the Arlington in Santa Barbara but I would only say that that was the best Maniacs
show because I was there with someone I adore.
Or I could have said that among the best concerts attended was Joe Jackson
under the Brooklyn Bridge when "Look Sharp" first came out. But I was in a
hideous mood that day plus he had an air of do-or-die desperation about him, the way a lot of musicians understandably do at that point in their careers and place (NYC, baby!).
I guess what I am trying to say here but rambling instead is that there are an awful lot of subjective variables that go into making such a supposedly
objective statement.
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| starmekitten |
Posted - 02/09/2005 : 09:34:57
i can't explain it but if you like i could sing you the whole of govinda (including the extended live version)
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| Cheeseman1000 |
Posted - 02/09/2005 : 06:10:12
I blame the band, but that's certainly feasible.
Actually, I blame the Beatles.
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| Surfer Rosa |
Posted - 02/09/2005 : 05:32:02
The designer got hammered over lunch, had nothing prepared and then bullshitted a utterly ridiculous concept to a bunch of coked up record execs who thought it was a genius idea?
I'd be safe and warm if I was in L.A
California Dreamin' on such a winter's day
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| Cheeseman1000 |
Posted - 02/09/2005 : 05:29:29
Please don't.
In fact, feel free if you can explain to me why King Kong, Richard Nixon and Lord Kitchener are all on the front cover.
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