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Post by dubirl on Dec 1, 2008 18:29:59 GMT
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Post by fredperry on Dec 1, 2008 18:47:54 GMT
Watch out for Damon Albarn in the future I say! How many people from the 90s are experimenting with different music and writing musicals?!
Can't beat The Kinks (esp. circa Face To Face till P-Acts I & II). Saw Ray Davies recently in his musical.
I found Lou Reed an Rather Large Bottomhole in real life and he seems to mix with dull respectable middle aged / middle class ladies too! Far removed from the down to earth man of the street image he portrays. Though I really liked meeting VU guitarist Stirling Morrison (RIP). Prefer everyday people nowadays.
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Post by Hugh on Dec 1, 2008 19:35:47 GMT
Middle aged, middle class women can be the most fun and "down-to-earth" you can imagine. Even more so than working class ones like Maggie Thatcher. Unless you mean that you prefer a consistantly limited familiar experience. "Wotcher wanna do? I dunno, wotchu wanna do? I know, let's do sumpin'. Okay, wotcher wanna do?"
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Post by bazza on Dec 2, 2008 1:45:36 GMT
Still listen to the Kinks and there are not many bands that i still like from my early teens. Just been reading the review of The Kinks boxset 'Picture Book'. Might have to stick that on my Xmas list as it includes 'All Night Stand'. I love The Thoughts version from the Nuggets II boxset and also Manual Scan's cover but have yet to hear The Kinks original.
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Post by fredperry on Dec 2, 2008 19:27:43 GMT
These ladies didnt look or come across as anything remotely interesting or diverse. Warhol, Nico and thier Chelsea Hotel gang of crazies were diverse. Bit like friends Ive known. I dont know if I dislike working class or middle class people more? Anyone who fits into chicken Hong Kong Phoey categories.
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Post by roddy byers on Dec 3, 2008 12:33:45 GMT
Great song Chelsea Hotel* Went there once, but only to change for a video shoot in the 90,s.
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Post by fredperry on Dec 3, 2008 23:59:36 GMT
Chelsea Girl is another one. But (I Don't Want To Go To) Chelsea - gets me and my mate* everytime.
(*Alan Partridge)
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Post by roddy byers on Dec 4, 2008 9:39:27 GMT
Chelsea skinhead girl hair style*
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Post by fredperry on Dec 4, 2008 19:41:07 GMT
That Vivienne Westwood!
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Post by bilwit on Dec 7, 2008 10:49:27 GMT
Damon's said he was a 'Specials fan and ska was "his thing" at one point! It's a bit difficult to dig into those days especially being in America, but I find the responses/reactions from people who were actually there very interesting. I have to say, Blur has hit me really big recently and I first discovered them from a video recording of them doing Nite Klub with Terry on some French show. In my opinion they're one of the few bands that captured the same sort of dark and mystifying atmosphere of the likes of Man at C&A/Ghost Town with He Thought of Cars/Essex Dogs/Death of a Party/Battle -- which is astonishing since they have so many other songs that cover so many other kinds of music.
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Post by roddy byers on Dec 7, 2008 12:24:10 GMT
Never heard much of their stuff apart from the singles on the radio.
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Post by fredperry on Dec 7, 2008 14:41:44 GMT
Saw them at a festival in '91 - they were a joke then! Largely ignored the Britpop who-har. Oasis went downhill. Heard Blur (97), 13 and Think Tank and they shot right up into my books. They got better as they went on, away from the pop thing. Graham Coxon 'Happiness In Magazines' shows a person who believes in music. Bless!
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Post by roddy byers on Dec 7, 2008 16:24:46 GMT
NEVER UNDERSTOOD POP MUSIC MYSELF?
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Post by bazza on Dec 7, 2008 19:59:06 GMT
NEVER UNDERSTOOD POP MUSIC MYSELF? You should read the book 'Lost In Music' by Giles Smith. It's great read on pop music and I can see a lot of myself in that book although not sure if that's a good thing or bad.
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Post by fredperry on Dec 8, 2008 0:49:35 GMT
Blur went very leftfield.
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