Yeah, and the extra hour of sunlight burns the paint off my house faster.
I mean, why would we want more daylight in the evening, when we can have it early in the morning when we're too asleep to appreciate it? Why isn't the bloody Labour Government doing something about all this sun? The sun should be outlawed so that goths can hang out in graveyards all the time without fear of tanning. I vote for not just abolishing daylight savings, but abolishing daylight! Let's erect a statue of Lucifer Sam that blocks out all sunlight!
Who needs barbecues in the summer? Who needs lovely, long, warm summer evenings? Get that shit over and done with as soon as possible so we can bask in electric light for as long as possible! The inconvenience of a day or so of getting used to the time being slightly different just isn't worth it!
Etc.
NiceGuyEddie: I agree. You don't catch drug addiction through air conditioning, nor by merely being in the same room as a drug addict. With most drugs, you need to take a fair amount of them over a prolonged period of time before you're addicted. Everyone who knows anything about drugs knows that they are addictive. If you decide that you think it's a good idea to use heroin every day for a couple of months, you'd have to be a complete idiot to expect to get away with it scott free. I don't understand why someone who knowingly fills themselves to the brim with addictive substances deserves sympathy when it inevitably makes them sick.
Let me put it this way: if someone breaks their leg by slipping on wet stairs, I'll feel sorry for them - it could happen to anyone. If they break their leg by hitting it repeatedly with a brick, I won't - it could only happen to a dickhead. Feel free to disagree, but if I see you with that brick, I'll feel free to laugh at you.
Crumb, I was being sarcy. I always hated the term "alternative" - it's always seemed like a lame-ass marketing term to me. Any band that's actually an "alternative band" is probably just manufactured hype. At least noone talks about grunge anymore. Fuck labels - good music is good music. Many of the best bands in the world would never fit into the highly restrictive "rock, metal or alternative" categories. Were the Sex Pistols rock? Were they alternative? Most people would probably say they were punk. How about Parliament, or Talking Heads, or Fela Kuti's band?
Cheers for the Iron Maiden heads up - it's on my list for payday. Brave New World fucking rocked; I love the current lineup - the classic members plus Janick Gers!
It's got to be better than the Dawn of the Dead remake that just got made from a script by the guy who wrote the Scooby Doo movie.
Rock: The Jimi Hendrix Experience
Metal: Iron Maiden
Alternative: Pixies
NZ: Straightjacket Fits
OVERALL BEST BAND OF ALL TIME:
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious 5 (fuck music with instruments)
I don't think Avril's Sid Vicious comment was so far off. After all, Sid couldn't sing or play an instrument to save his life. He also very clearly didn't have a brain in his head, and generally came across as a complete dick.
I'm keen. As Billie Holiday sang, "I've got my drugs to keep me warm."
And if she didn't sing that... she should have.
Because is one of the most boring of all the Beatles' songs.
The theme to the '70s Italian horror movie Suspiria is Jesus Loves Me played backwards. A while ago I found a Christian website that featured audio of little kids singing religious songs. Mysteriously, the version of Jesus Loves You was also available played backwards. The sound of little kids singing backwards is truly as creepy as a motherfucker.
Isn't the whole idea of using songs on ads to make you think of the product whenever you hear the song? "Wouldn't it be nice... to have a Cadbury chocolate bar?"
Tom Waits has said that every time a song is used in an ad, the song dies. (Kind of like kids saying they don't believe in fairies I guess.) He took a lawsuit against someone for copying his voice & one of his songs (Step Right Up) in an ad - and won, fortunately.
//Yeah, including Beethoven... one of his songs is basically Moonlight Sonata inverted :P
Yeah? Cool. Which one?
Don't stress it. John Lennon claimed once that he stole a lot of his songs from other people, then changed them around at the last minute so noone would know.
Aren't Uncle Dad playing at Valve on Friday October 3 with Tree Ninja Collective and Kamahi?
That should be good.
In no particular order:
Iron Maiden - Brave New World
Tom Waits - The Dime Store Novels Vol. 1 (old material, but better than his newest 2 albums)
Johnny Cash - American III: Solitary Man
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Nocturama
Cloudboy - Down At the End of the Garden
LSG - Goddess
Dimmer - I Believe You Are A Star
Nurse With Wound - Man With the Woman Face
The Gathering - Black Light District (EP, but better than most albums)
Kristin Hersh - Sunny Border Blue
To date, the '00s are no better or worse than any other decade. As I told Nice Guy Eddy the other day, "90% of everything is crap," which some of you might recognise as Sturgeon's law, the flipside of which is, 10% of everything is not crap.
I rate David Lynch because I find his movies incredibly entertaining. I love the look and feel of them, I really love his peculiar sense of humour, I dig the dreamlike atmosphere of most of his movies. He follows the rule that Scottish writer Grant Morrison laid down several years ago with regards to heavy conceptual material: Make if funny, because that way if the heavy stuff fucks up, there's still something worth looking at.
I wouldn't regard Peter Greenaway as being Lynch's UK counterpart, for several reasons. First of all, Lynch's films are clearly instinctual, while Greenaway's films are clearly intellectual. You wouldn't see Lynch making an avant-garde adaption of The Tempest or The Divine Comedy, or getting his audience to count to 100 as part of watching the movie.
The main distinction, though, is that Greenaway is boring and Lynch is not. Pure value judgement I know, but it's still the truth.
Thoroughly enjoyed Batrider. Great stuff.
As for the other bands being "aging cheese" and a need for a "new" or "unique" sound... I wanted a good, solid band with a choice attitude who know how to rock. Saturday night's gig gave me three. Accelerants got bonus points for covering "Strychnine" - what a great song. A band who covers a song that The Cramps have already done (on their first album in fact) aren't likely to be that interested in pushing the boundaries of a new sound.
When I go to an action movie, I want action. When I go to a rock band, I want rock. Simple pleasures for a simple guy. Attitude is more important to me than innovation and Two Lane Blacktop in particular have attitude to burn.
Innovation is all very well and good. But not one band in a hundred creates a distinctive new sound, and not one in a hundred of THEM is worth listening to. Obviously I made those statistics up, but I stand by the sentiment, if not the numbers.
I saw TLBT for the first time on Saturday night because Tim & Daryl said I had to.
Kick ass, man. Best pit I've been in for probably a couple of years. Great band - good trashy fun.
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I'd want to be Xorn, from New X-Men. How can you beat a Buddhist healer with a dwarf star for a head?
Otherwise, I wouldn't mind being Plastic Man, for completely different reasons.
These things can get really complex. Frank Sinatra, for example, is credited as co-songwriter on a few tunes (forget which ones, sorry) that were already in existence before he got his hands on them, but which he added his own spin to by changing a couple of lines here & there.
I gather (possibly only rumour) that Queen started crediting all songs as "written by Queen" instead of the actual songwriting credits to stop Roger Taylor from locking himself in the toilet and demanding 50% of all royalties on singles he'd written the B-side of.
The Sex Pistols credited most of their songs to the band, apparently so as "not to be mean." This meant that Sid Vicious has co-songwriting credit on a couple of songs the rest of the band wrote while he was in hospital with hepatitis.
It can be interesting to find out how it breaks down, though. For example, I was intersted to find out that most of Anthrax's lyrics are written by the band, but pretty much all their music is written by the drummer.
I'm new to nzmusic.com (kudos to Nice Guy Eddie for introducing me) and I've gotta say I love this thread. It reminds me of the old VUW BBS, or any other number of other online forums: some troll pops up and says something designed to piss everyone else off, then sits back and watches the scramble.
The best thing about it is that - as Lena O has consistently demonstrated - you don't even have to say anything even vaguely intelligent or original, so long as it's insulting.
I look forward to many more moronic posts containing those aren't-I-clever upside-down question marks, which will inevitably steam up a lot of people who are smart enough that they should know better.
Bravo, Lena O - helping to keep the true spirit of trolling alive.
I just wanted to chime in & say that I missed the gig, but on the recording Billy's voice sounded better than ever.
Love,
Exterminator
Seth Green was seen hanging out in Lower Hutt. Not surprising really.