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Cheeseman1000
>> Denizen of the Citizens Band <<
Iceland
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 Posted - 02/08/2005 : 16:22:41
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Go drown yourself in all those Cast albums you dug out of the bargain bin, Our Michael. While you're there you can take your posturing, inane plod-rock revisionists, and your fey southern fop indie-boys and stick them back in 1996. Then, you move away and get up to date. Try Snow Patrol or something, you bedwetting baldy.
"What sounds to you like a big load of trashy noise, is in fact the brilliant music of a genius" |
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Homers_pet_monkey
= Official forum monkey =
United Kingdom
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Posted - 02/08/2005 : 16:26:06
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Cheeseman, are we ataking this personally now? Is this 'cos you have never gotten laid? Like REALLY never gotten laid?
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Cheeseman1000
>> Denizen of the Citizens Band <<
Iceland
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Posted - 02/08/2005 : 16:28:19
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Well Mike, I'd like to get personal, but I've got to get to bed. Some of us have to get up for work in the morning.
"What sounds to you like a big load of trashy noise, is in fact the brilliant music of a genius" |
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Homers_pet_monkey
= Official forum monkey =
United Kingdom
17125 Posts |
Posted - 02/08/2005 : 16:28:48
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Not me.
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Daisy Girl
~ Abstract Brain ~
Belize
5305 Posts |
Posted - 02/08/2005 : 18:23:03
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Hi Every one ... group hug xooxoxoxox
Well I haven't seen FB or the Martini's and unfortunately don't remember seeing the Breeders.
I would say Fugazi. I was in the front row and it got crowded, so the band told us to sit on the stage and then they threw water on us cuz it was hot.  |
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Daisy Girl
~ Abstract Brain ~
Belize
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Posted - 02/08/2005 : 18:23:34
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Hi Every one ... group hug xooxoxoxox
Well I haven't seen FB or the Martini's and unfortunately don't remember seeing the Breeders.
I would say Fugazi. I was in the front row and it got crowded, so the band told us to sit on the stage and then they threw water on us cuz it was hot. |
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Homers_pet_monkey
= Official forum monkey =
United Kingdom
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Posted - 02/08/2005 : 18:28:52
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Coooool. Fugazi are goooood.
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Daisy Girl
~ Abstract Brain ~
Belize
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Posted - 02/08/2005 : 18:44:56
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yeah :)
The Other big one that stands out was the Greatful Dead. It was about their third or fourth last shows before Jerry passed into a more beautiful world. I was walking in the parking lot and had to go around the ampitheater to get in to the front.
I saw these people sitting on the top of the fence and watching the show. Then, One board broke, a guy fell in and then there was a hole in the fence.
I looked back behind me and was like crap... there was a dust cloud and all these people running towards me.
So I realized I could either run into the fence with the flow of the sampede or possibly get trampled by going the way around to get in.
So I went up the hill and got in... I had a ticket but got plenty of dirty looks... but I eventually found my friends (pre cell phone days) didn't get tear gassed and enjoyed the show.
The light show was awesome... it was freaky because they had these effects and they seemed like a space craft... and the song they were playing went long with it... and then these police helicopters came in...so it was freaky.
But the cool thing is that I remember that show pretty well...I think all that craziness helps me to remember.
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Homers_pet_monkey
= Official forum monkey =
United Kingdom
17125 Posts |
Posted - 02/08/2005 : 18:48:57
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Sounds like a good night to me.
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Daisy Girl
~ Abstract Brain ~
Belize
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Posted - 02/08/2005 : 18:59:11
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 It would have been better if you were there HPM!!!! Hugs!!!!    |
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Homers_pet_monkey
= Official forum monkey =
United Kingdom
17125 Posts |
Posted - 02/08/2005 : 19:04:16
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Awww!! Hugs right back at ya!!
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Domestiques
= Cult of Ray =
United Kingdom
503 Posts |
Posted - 02/08/2005 : 22:42:05
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You don't know how good it is to find a fellow Delgados fan on here.
I can't believe you would doubt why anyone would put Nirvana on there. I don't think Nirvana are considered a cool band at all, not anymore. For the most part, if you saw them, you were impressed. Unless you already disliked them but then that goes with every band for the most part.
Love, love, my season
I do love the delgados, I didnt rate hate, I was thoroughly disappointed with hate if the truth be known but the new album is as good as domestiques or peloton, perhaps better. They are an amazing band live aswell.
edit. I really despise nirvana though, I was bitter that a band like that could become so absolutely huge when there were better, far deserving bands of that ilk that went unnoticed. imho.
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They said, “You’re overqualified.
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Newo
~ Abstract Brain ~
Spain
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Posted - 02/09/2005 : 03:52:50
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I like Gomez too - wait Simon, Gomez are unacceptable but Scissor Sisters are in good taste? Hmm...
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Homers_pet_monkey
= Official forum monkey =
United Kingdom
17125 Posts |
Posted - 02/09/2005 : 04:53:13
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You did't rate Hate? I like it, I like them all. The Great Eastern is my favourite I think at the moment, but yeah the new one is excellent also (one of the tracks features on my latest mix CD).
And yeah, they are excellent live. She is cute, like a little Pixie.
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Cheeseman1000
>> Denizen of the Citizens Band <<
Iceland
8201 Posts |
Posted - 02/09/2005 : 04:56:11
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Scissor Sisters are in bad taste, but that's the point.
Really, none of you are in any position to question my music taste, what with me being 100% right about everything, all the time. You need to keep this sort of thing in mind.
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starmekitten
-= Forum Pistolera =-
United Kingdom
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Posted - 02/09/2005 : 05:12:54
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you know you want to...
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Cheeseman1000
>> Denizen of the Citizens Band <<
Iceland
8201 Posts |
Posted - 02/09/2005 : 05:29:29
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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.
"What sounds to you like a big load of trashy noise, is in fact the brilliant music of a genius" |
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Surfer Rosa
> Teenager of the Year <
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Posted - 02/09/2005 : 05:32:02
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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
>> Denizen of the Citizens Band <<
Iceland
8201 Posts |
Posted - 02/09/2005 : 06:10:12
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I blame the band, but that's certainly feasible.
Actually, I blame the Beatles.
"What sounds to you like a big load of trashy noise, is in fact the brilliant music of a genius" |
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starmekitten
-= Forum Pistolera =-
United Kingdom
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Posted - 02/09/2005 : 09:34:57
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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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kathryn
~ Selkie Bride ~
Belgium
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Posted - 02/09/2005 : 11:44:52
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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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Homers_pet_monkey
= Official forum monkey =
United Kingdom
17125 Posts |
Posted - 02/09/2005 : 14:41:59
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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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benji
> Teenager of the Year <
New Zealand
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Posted - 02/09/2005 : 18:37:09
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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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Surfer Rosa
> Teenager of the Year <
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Posted - 02/10/2005 : 00:59:32
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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!
I'd be safe and warm if I was in L.A
California Dreamin' on such a winter's day
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benji
> Teenager of the Year <
New Zealand
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Posted - 02/10/2005 : 02:05:09
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great choice!
i wish i too could see them again. twice is NOT enough.
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Surfer Rosa
> Teenager of the Year <
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Posted - 02/10/2005 : 02:08:28
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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.
I'd be safe and warm if I was in L.A
California Dreamin' on such a winter's day
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benji
> Teenager of the Year <
New Zealand
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Posted - 02/10/2005 : 02:15:34
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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
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Posted - 02/10/2005 : 02:21:09
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He did say it scared the hell out of him or something like that.
I'd be safe and warm if I was in L.A
California Dreamin' on such a winter's day
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shineoftheever
> Teenager of the Year <
Canada
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Posted - 02/10/2005 : 02:22:18
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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.
ps. whenever i hear govinda i think in my head "go into her vagina, go in to her vagina" |
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benji
> Teenager of the Year <
New Zealand
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Posted - 02/10/2005 : 02:26:45
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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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Homers_pet_monkey
= Official forum monkey =
United Kingdom
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Posted - 02/10/2005 : 04:05:12
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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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starmekitten
-= Forum Pistolera =-
United Kingdom
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Posted - 02/10/2005 : 06:29:25
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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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starmekitten
-= Forum Pistolera =-
United Kingdom
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Posted - 02/10/2005 : 06:47:31
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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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Homers_pet_monkey
= Official forum monkey =
United Kingdom
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Posted - 02/10/2005 : 07:42:00
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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
-= Forum Pistolera =-
United Kingdom
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Posted - 02/10/2005 : 08:01:10
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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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