Stuff you really should love, but just don't...

I, Cosh · 24 October, 2012, 06:26:39 PM

Quote from: O Lucky Stevie! on 24 October, 2012, 02:27:27 AM
But not a single song that the Pixies' main songwriter has record outside of the band has done it for Stevie.

Really Stevie? I mean, I'm not a big fan myself but Headache is like Cannonball to the power of Tame.

Skullmo · 25 October, 2012, 11:51:07 AM

Quote from: The Cosh on 24 October, 2012, 06:26:39 PM
Quote from: O Lucky Stevie! on 24 October, 2012, 02:27:27 AM
But not a single song that the Pixies' main songwriter has record outside of the band has done it for Stevie.
Really Stevie? I mean, I'm not a big fan myself but Headache is like Cannonball to the power of Tame.

I like Honeycomb

Skullmo · 25 October, 2012, 11:56:17 AM

Quote from: Charlie boy on 20 October, 2012, 12:04:45 PM
Quote from: Dandontdare on 19 October, 2012, 10:57:37 PM
actually, I was unfair, cos I can appreciate why people don't like Dylan. His voice is ... um ... unique, he can be a cock in interviews, and he never gives the audience what they want live; BUT ... he's a poet, and a bloody genius one.
Saw him at the MEN arena a few years ago and it was shit - I could only tell which of the tiny figures on stage was Bob by the fact that he had a Big Hat. Every song was sung in the same rhythm/melody, so you had to try to grasp a word or phrase to work out what song you were listening to.
My brother is a huge Dylan fan and saw him at the MEN some years back; he said the show was pretty poor but one of his big grumbles was Dylan sat at a piano throughout the whole gig.

Didn't see if anyonw replied to this - but he sits at the piano as he has a bad back

zombemybabynow · 25 October, 2012, 01:12:58 PM

will change your ind re frank black

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qik7gjekizk

radiator · 25 October, 2012, 02:00:11 PM

Stewart Lee.

Like him as a personality, in interviews etc, don't like his stand up at all.

It's all just (extremely long winded) sneering at things.

exilewood · 25 October, 2012, 02:02:46 PM

I also grew up in Manchester hating The Smiths. Then I also hated The Stone Roses & The Happy Mondays.
Life could be tough with those opinions. Lucky I'd left by the time Oasis came out because I fucking hate them too.

Bob Dylan on the other hand is fantastic. Hearts of Fire is possibly the most hilarious film I've ever seen & all his 80's albums were great! I can't understand why anyone would think otherwise.
Live...yeah I saw him when I was 15 at the NEC in 86/87 too, he was quite drunk. Since then I've been to about 30 more shows. Most great, one or two fantastic, one or two pretty bad & ONE that was hands down the best show I've ever seen by anyone!

Skullmo · 25 October, 2012, 04:57:49 PM

Quote from: exilewood on 25 October, 2012, 02:02:46 PM
Most great, one or two fantastic, one or two pretty bad & ONE that was hands down the best show I've ever seen by anyone!

That can also be applied to his albums! Just replace 'shows' with 'albums' and 'seen' with 'heard'

Colin Zeal · 26 October, 2012, 12:22:22 PM

Beyond a Boudary by CLR James. As a socialist cricket fan a book combining the two topics should be right up my street and yet it's the dullest thing I've ever read and have never been able to get to the end of it.

Emp · 26 October, 2012, 11:49:13 PM

True Blood: the 2nd season had me wanting to cut my wrists so i never went further.
Fringe:Meh
Almost anything DC - mainstream DC that is.
99% of shows/tv that is subtitled....i don't need another level of thought involved with my viewing.

M.I.K. · 27 October, 2012, 12:15:36 AM

True Blood's for girls.

Charlie boy · 27 October, 2012, 11:21:30 AM

Quote from: exilewood on 25 October, 2012, 02:02:46 PM
Hearts of Fire is possibly the most hilarious film I've ever seen

Seriously- how has everybody managed to see this film but me?

Quote from: Emp on 26 October, 2012, 11:49:13 PM
True Blood: the 2nd season had me wanting to cut my wrists so i never went further.

First series was ok but then it just went too silly. Thanks to Jessica the vampire, it's simply added to my list of "TV Shows I'll Watch because there's an Attractive Cast Member".

Colin Zeal · 16 November, 2012, 04:47:26 PM

Star Trek and Dr Who. I really enjoy sci-fi but neither of these programmes have ever really interested me. Dr Who wasn't helped by it ending when I was around the age that may have got into it, but the episodes I saw before that (starring McCoy) were only alright and the few minutes of the new ones I've seen hasn't interested me at all.

As for ST I watched a bit of TNG when it started on the BBC but again lost interest very quickly, and I've had no interest in watching anything else of it. Of the films I enjoyed Khan when I saw it a few years back but the silly film with the whales in seemed to be on a permanant play on ITV during my early teens and just annoyed me. Seeing the crew in 80s America just seemed like a daft idea to me.

Dandontdare · 16 November, 2012, 05:05:33 PM

I think both Who and Trek require getting hooked at the right age - I hid behind the sofa for Pertwee when I was about 7 or 8, and then this developped into a total love of the Tom Baker period, by which time even Colin Baker couldn't dent my love of the characters. Similarly, I grew up on constant reruns of original trek, and I thought rebooted TNG was bad idea at first, but it grew on me. In both cases, i didn't really follow or understand the stories at first, just loved the monsters and spaceships.

Emp · 16 November, 2012, 10:49:55 PM

I agree with Dandontdare that both shows required getting hooked at an early age, but for me Colin Baker was the beginning of the end for WHO. As for Star Trek, I jumped in with both feet for TNG and now find it a bit "meh". Now DS9 is the only ST i would make an effort to catch if it was on. Never saw the appeal of Voyager as i found the characters unlikeable.