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Started by Gonk, 01 February, 2012, 09:53:17 PM

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Dandontdare

oh, we've all got uncool songs we really love  - it's ten times worse when they're right at the beginning of the alphabet though, so when anyone scrolls though your i-pod list it's the first thing they see.

Okay, It's Ace of Bass ... All that she Wants. love it.  :-[

Frank

Quote from: Dandontdare on 18 August, 2012, 01:17:39 AM
oh, we've all got uncool songs we really love  - it's ten times worse when they're right at the beginning of the alphabet though, so when anyone scrolls though your i-pod list it's the first thing they see.

Okay, It's Ace of Bass ... All that she Wants. love it.  :-[

This deserves its own thread. The first song on mine is ABC- Jackson Five. Set in the context of that first screen, which goes: Abdulmajid- David Bowie, Abolish Goverment/Superficial Love- Slayer, About A Girl- Nirvana, Absorber- Bomb The Bass- the Jackson Five is excusable.

You'd have to keep scolling down to Addicted To Love- Robert Palmer before I start getting flustered and making excuses. I got that one from the same charity shop Driving Hits For Dads That ROCK!!! CD that included She Sells Sanctuary and the Rocky theme.

NapalmKev

I'm a big fan of metal (as well as other genres) and most of the music snobbery I've encountered comes from the younger generation (I'm 34). Dubsteppers and the like who think they're music is some kind of cultural revolution. (I used to think the same thing about Metal).But I think the actual truth is; "as you get older you learn to actually listen more to the music and not just the style/attitude that goes with it.

My top 5 albums:
Enemy of the music business-Napalm Death
Kings of the Wild Frontier-Adam & the Ants
O.K Computer-Radiohead
Utilitarian-Napalm Death
Simon & Garfunkle-Greatest Hits

"Where once you fought to stop the trap from closing...Now you lay the bait!"

Keef Monkey

First track on my mp3 player (alphabetically) is '(-)Ions' by Tool. Not really a song as such mind you, but if we move to the next thing down it's '24' by Insane Clown Posse, and that should win me the least-fashionable music award ;)

Third down is Oceansize, so I'm still all hip and that, honest.

I, Cosh

I'm a massive music snob but you wouldn't have to look very hard to find some dreadful 90s cheesy chart rave in my record collection.

The concept of people who don't like Simon & Garfunkel is quite chilling. I shared a university flat with five other people and the only records we could all agree on was The Essential Simon & Garfunkel and Blondie's Greatest Hits (although really it was just Atomic over and over again.)

First on my mp3 player is Accelerate by Drugstore. If numbers come first it's either 28 Oldham Street by The Durutti Column or Feist's 1234, depending on how you file them.
We never really die.

Charlie boy

The Best of - Simon and Garfunkel (and I too feel no shame of listening to this! Maybe I sometimes sing along a little too loud to "At the Zoo" but it's a fun but very well produced track!)
To The Cosh- were Drugstore the ones who did El President (if that's what it was called) with Thom York some years back? I remember having the single of that.
As for liking songs you think you shouldn't, I admit to Will Young's "Who am I" track. I'm a sucker for the heartfelt lyrics, okay?!

Colin YNWA

So we all seem to have greatest hits compilations of Simon and Garfunkel songs, does anyone have any of their actual studio albums and which are the best? I'm thinking 'Bridge Over Troubled Water' has a number of the 'big' songs but what would people recommend? Or does everyone only have the compilations?

JOE SOAP

Quote from: bikini kill on 18 August, 2012, 09:55:18 AM
Quote from: Dandontdare on 18 August, 2012, 01:17:39 AM
oh, we've all got uncool songs we really love  - it's ten times worse when they're right at the beginning of the alphabet though, so when anyone scrolls though your i-pod list it's the first thing they see.

Okay, It's Ace of Bass ... All that she Wants. love it.  :-[

This deserves its own thread. The first song on mine is ABC- Jackson Five. Set in the context of that first screen, which goes: Abdulmajid- David Bowie, Abolish Goverment/Superficial Love- Slayer, About A Girl- Nirvana, Absorber- Bomb The Bass- the Jackson Five is excusable.

You'd have to keep scolling down to Addicted To Love- Robert Palmer before I start getting flustered and making excuses. I got that one from the same charity shop Driving Hits For Dads That ROCK!!! CD that included She Sells Sanctuary and the Rocky theme.


After about 50 songs into the As, the first one that caused mild blushing was Africa - Toto, the next was At Seventeen - Janis Ian.

Hidden amongst Coroner, Magazine, Godflesh, The Associates, VoiVod, Yo La Tengo, Marvin Gaye, The Revolting Cocks et al. they just make me look more eclectic.


It would be wrong of me to delete anything.

Mudcrab

Quote from: NapalmKev on 18 August, 2012, 10:01:50 AM
I'm a big fan of metal (as well as other genres) and most of the music snobbery I've encountered comes from the younger generation (I'm 34). Dubsteppers and the like who think they're music is some kind of cultural revolution. (I used to think the same thing about Metal).But I think the actual truth is; "as you get older you learn to actually listen more to the music and not just the style/attitude that goes with it.

My top 5 albums:
Enemy of the music business-Napalm Death
Kings of the Wild Frontier-Adam & the Ants
O.K Computer-Radiohead
Utilitarian-Napalm Death
Simon & Garfunkle-Greatest Hits

Aha, been waiting to find you here ( don't freak out, no deals no deals, want some zizz?)

Love Napaln Death (listening to them on and off since Scum), Enemy of the Music Business was the one I "came back to" a while back, just before I saw them in Aberdeen, been superb ever since, particularly the new one, which is ace. Adam and the Antz were my first official "favourite band" and still love Frontier to this day (as well as Dirk Wears White Sox). S&G, Radiohead (saw then in Aberdeen in a wee place in 92 or so) are old faves so we shall got on well in this thread at least  :D

Missed a good band tonight in the local but never mind,socialising took precedence  :D
NEGOTIATION'S OVER!

Mudcrab

And yes, I am a musical snob sometimes, especially now, listening to Isis on vinyl with quality headphones, everything else is pish and them and Old Man Gloom beat anyone is the music business for production quality  :D

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWjhxnVcmgg
NEGOTIATION'S OVER!

I, Cosh

Quote from: Charlie boy on 18 August, 2012, 06:21:16 PM
To The Cosh- were Drugstore the ones who did El President (if that's what it was called) with Thom York some years back? I remember having the single of that.
The very same. There was a long-running connection between the two which stemmed from Drugstore's regular cover of Black Star.

Quote from: Colin_YNWA on 18 August, 2012, 07:20:52 PM
So we all seem to have greatest hits compilations of Simon and Garfunkel songs, does anyone have any of their actual studio albums and which are the best? I'm thinking 'Bridge Over Troubled Water' has a number of the 'big' songs but what would people recommend? Or does everyone only have the compilations?
My own favourite is Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme. I am aware that this is tied into it being the one most played in our house when I was growing up so you may not be able to capture this same attachment. One of the things I like most about it is that the arrangements are quite spare in comparison to some of their others. If you do get it, be aware that it's supposed to finish after Silent Night so the addition of various extra tracks in newer editions is quite irritating.
We never really die.

NapalmKev

Quote from: Mudcrab on 19 August, 2012, 12:13:10 AM
Quote from: NapalmKev on 18 August, 2012, 10:01:50 AM
Aha, been waiting to find you here ( don't freak out, no deals no deals, want some zizz?)

Love Napaln Death (listening to them on and off since Scum), Enemy of the Music Business was the one I "came back to" a while back, just before I saw them in Aberdeen, been superb ever since, particularly the new one, which is ace. Adam and the Antz were my first official "favourite band" and still love Frontier to this day (as well as Dirk Wears White Sox). S&G, Radiohead (saw then in Aberdeen in a wee place in 92 or so) are old faves so we shall got on well in this thread at least  :D

Missed a good band tonight in the local but never mind,socialising took precedence  :D


Always good to hear from a fellow Napalm fan, they're few and far between where I live.

Quote from from my friends: "sum of their choons are ok, but do they really need to shout?"-yes they need to shout. I've tried miming/whispering to their songs and it doesn't have the same impact.

Strong arms for Bleak times!!!   ;)
"Where once you fought to stop the trap from closing...Now you lay the bait!"

NapalmKev

I haven't quite got the hang of the quote function on here yet.
"Where once you fought to stop the trap from closing...Now you lay the bait!"

klute

Quote from: Mudcrab on 19 August, 2012, 12:13:10 AM
Quote from: NapalmKev on 18 August, 2012, 10:01:50 AM
I'm a big fan of metal (as well as other genres) and most of the music snobbery I've encountered comes from the younger generation (I'm 34). Dubsteppers and the like who think they're music is some kind of cultural revolution. (I used to think the same thing about Metal).But I think the actual truth is; "as you get older you learn to actually listen more to the music and not just the style/attitude that goes with it.

My top 5 albums:
Enemy of the music business-Napalm Death
Kings of the Wild Frontier-Adam & the Ants
O.K Computer-Radiohead
Utilitarian-Napalm Death
Simon & Garfunkle-Greatest Hits

Aha, been waiting to find you here ( don't freak out, no deals no deals, want some zizz?)

Love Napaln Death (listening to them on and off since Scum), Enemy of the Music Business was the one I "came back to" a while back, just before I saw them in Aberdeen, been superb ever since, particularly the new one, which is ace. Adam and the Antz were my first official "favourite band" and still love Frontier to this day (as well as Dirk Wears White Sox). S&G, Radiohead (saw then in Aberdeen in a wee place in 92 or so) are old faves so we shall got on well in this thread at least  :D

Missed a good band tonight in the local but never mind,socialising took precedence  :D

For me nothing will ever beat Utopia Banished,Harmony Corruption and possibly Diatribes by Napalm Death

I also liked World Demise by Obituary in fact if i'm honest back then their was a decent group of death metal band's half of the music today classed as death metal is pure shite.

As for listening i've been chasing all sort of music up off bandcamp.com quite a lot of decent "unkown bands" amongst the crap.
loveforstitch - Does he fall in love? I like a little romance in all my movies.

Rekaert - Yes, he demonstrates it with bullets, punches and sentencing.

He's Mega City 1's own Don Juan.

Charlie boy

Danger Mouse and Sparklehorse- Dark Night of the Soul