For all you Pixies-fans!!!

Originally posted by ageorge
The Old Grey Whistle Test ran a session with SLF for half an hour and U2 for half an hour – I don’t suppose you could ask one of your TV colleagues to find it for us !!!!!!!!!!!

If it ain’t in the BBC Scotland library then I can’t get at it unfortunately. The London archives get so many requests they’ve just stopped entertaining them. There was something in the staff paper about the archives being opened up to the public fairly soon though. I’ll see what happens.

Originally posted by Ren Frew
Nothing wrong with a bit of Ozzy ! He’s playing the SECC in October I think ? Might take a mosey down there.

I’ve seen him a few times starting with the Bark at the Moon Tour 1982 ?? ( still have the T-shirt must look up the date ) I was only 14 at the time, then Donington – that was good , pitch dark , total silence then the opening bars of Mr Crowley started , that made the hairs on the back of my head creep !!!. I might actually get tickets for the SECC to try to rejuvinate myself !!

Originally posted by Ren Frew
1984 was my first time at the Barrowland during the Unforgettable Fire Tour aged 14. (I was tall from an early age so I mangaged to sneak past the under 18 police ok.)

I ‘d love to see U2 again at that point in their career musically. They were still something else live and still making every show something unique. I’ve got a bootleg tape of the 84 show I attended and can’t believe just how alive that night was and how much they’ve changed since then.

I saw them again in 1987, 1992, and 1993. 1987 was the last time I saw them just play a gig on a bare stage without big lighting and stage gimmicks. That was possibly the best U2 gig I’ve ever been to. I’ve kind of lost interest in them as a live act since they became stadium rockers but I still listen to the music. 😎

The Old Grey Whistle Test ran a session with SLF for half an hour and U2 for half an hour – I don’t suppose you could ask one of your TV colleagues to find it for us !!!!!!!!!!!

Agreed about the older Cure being better, Arthur. Ive just brought the Trilogy DVD with Pornography, Disintergration and Bloodflowers live on it.

Killing Joke are good, I’ve got the CD with Sanity and Wintergardens, but I can’t remember what is called. It is one of my favourites.

I’ve been trying to get into some newer music. Apoptygma Bezerk and Flaming lips seem to be going down well..

Originally posted by ageorge
I watched U2 supporting Stiff Little Fingers at Nightmoves in Glasgow in 1981 at the grand age of 13 ( I think ) then I got a ticket to see U2 on the War tour and sold my ticket in the queue for £11 !! , regretted it ever since.

1984 was my first time at the Barrowland during the Unforgettable Fire Tour aged 14. (I was tall from an early age so I mangaged to sneak past the under 18 police ok.)

I ‘d love to see U2 again at that point in their career musically. They were still something else live and still making every show something unique. I’ve got a bootleg tape of the 84 show I attended and can’t believe just how alive that night was and how much they’ve changed since then.

I saw them again in 1987, 1992, and 1993. 1987 was the last time I saw them just play a gig on a bare stage without big lighting and stage gimmicks. That was possibly the best U2 gig I’ve ever been to. I’ve kind of lost interest in them as a live act since they became stadium rockers but I still listen to the music. 😎

Originally posted by ageorge
, numerous Ozzy stubs – I should be ashamed but I was a stupid young naive schoolboy at the time .:( 🙁

Nothing wrong with a bit of Ozzy ! He’s playing the SECC in October I think ? Might take a mosey down there.

I used to like the Manics until I met them at T- In The Park a few years back. I was working onstage and the singer wottsisname ? decided to take a dislike to one of my colleagues for no obvious reason.

He marched up mid “A Design For Life” still playing the guitar and head butted him in the chest, James Dean Bradfield being a small person, he couldn’t aim any higher. Turned out he has a history of disliking people being near him onstage, even though in this case they were paid to be there for a good reason.

He went right down in my estimations after that. The spotty little herbert !

The closest I got to meeting New Order was doing a TV show with Peter Hook’s project band “Monaco”. Unlike the Manics, they were a “Joy” to work with and Peter Hook wins my all time diamond geezer award. Outstanding bloke !!!
😀

**** THE DOORS —

Originally posted by Arthur
New Order is nice, but IMHO nowhere near as good as Joy Division. Interesting about Joy Division is, that Ian Curtis never reached the same level of moronic adoration which seems to have happened with Jim Morrison (yuk) or Kurt Koppijn.

The Cure – yes, but the older the better.
Smashing Pumpkins – If i’m in the mood for pompous bombast i think it’s great. But only then.
Cocteau Twins – OK, but not enough to warrant a tape of them somewhere in my car.

Why hasn’t anybody mentioned Killing Joke yet? Still alive and recording too.

I absolutely hate the Doors. A former housemate of mine totally adored them and had this strange fetish for Jim Morisson (“He was definately the greatest poet ever!”) which turned my attitude of not liking them into utter disgust. I tend to sing Modern Talking or something whenever a Doors song is playing.

You call the Smashing pumpkins pompous bombast? Try the Manic Street Preachers then. At first I liked their music, but now it seems to be too dramatic.

New Order is cool, can we maybe add Tears for Fears to this list too?

Nice to hear you also hate the Doors, Arthur! I’m not the only one 🙂 I though have personnal reasons to hate them, which I won’t explain here cause I don’t want to be laughed at for the rest of my time on this forum. Hearing the Doors makes me angry, really angry 😡 :mad:. A PM can explain the reason though 😉 I sometimes hate music through experiences, or can get very uncomfortabel, like when I hear GnR knockin’ on heavens door. Maybe that’s why I like the Pixies or Serge Gainsbourg that much.

Originally posted by Arthur
New Order is nice, but IMHO nowhere near as good as Joy Division. Interesting about Joy Division is, that Ian Curtis never reached the same level of moronic adoration which seems to have happened with Jim Morrison (yuk) or Kurt Koppijn.

The Cure – yes, but the older the better.
Smashing Pumpkins – If i’m in the mood for pompous bombast i think it’s great. But only then.
Cocteau Twins – OK, but not enough to warrant a tape of them somewhere in my car.

Why hasn’t anybody mentioned Killing Joke yet? Still alive and recording too.

I absolutely hate the Doors. A former housemate of mine totally adored them and had this strange fetish for Jim Morisson (“He was definately the greatest poet ever!”) which turned my attitude of not liking them into utter disgust. I tend to sing Modern Talking or something whenever a Doors song is playing.

Very good point about Ian Curtis – maybe he just wasn’t photogenic enough , every video I’ve seen of Joy Division he looks seriously stoned.

Killing Joke !!! ,

Red Sky in the Morning ,
Four Minute Warning,

Lets Go ( To the Fire Dances )

The new single “Loose Cannon ” is superb – the video is a bit bizarre – a Maori breakdancer body popping while singing along!!

I have a load of EP’s on Vinyl – must look them out , Jaz Coleman is a serious nutter , superb ( he went to live in Iceland as he thought the world was going to end ?? , then announced he was going to live in Colombia as the Coke was cheaper)

Anybody remember Xmal Deutschland ?? , what about Gary Numan – his new stuff is pretty good.

New Order is nice, but IMHO nowhere near as good as Joy Division. Interesting about Joy Division is, that Ian Curtis never reached the same level of moronic adoration which seems to have happened with Jim Morrison (yuk) or Kurt Koppijn.

The Cure – yes, but the older the better.
Smashing Pumpkins – If i’m in the mood for pompous bombast i think it’s great. But only then.
Cocteau Twins – OK, but not enough to warrant a tape of them somewhere in my car.

Why hasn’t anybody mentioned Killing Joke yet? Still alive and recording too.

I absolutely hate the Doors. A former housemate of mine totally adored them and had this strange fetish for Jim Morisson (“He was definately the greatest poet ever!”) which turned my attitude of not liking them into utter disgust. I tend to sing Modern Talking or something whenever a Doors song is playing.

Anyone into the following:

New Order, The Cure, Smashing Pumpkins, Cocteau Twins….

Yup , except The Smashing Pumpkins – I don’t like Billy Corgan for some reason – just can’t get into them .

Anybody ever listen to John Peel’s Festive 50 ?? , on a 1992 tape I have a song called “Commercial Rain ” , I think it’s an Inspiral Carpets track ?? , but can’t find it on any of their albums , anybody any ideas ???

Originally posted by Tempest
Great to see you’re a Sisters fan Alastair.

I ran into Wayne Hussey once, he asked what my favourite Mission song was, I said I preferred First Last and Always. He just stopped speaking to me there and then.

I never liked the Mission much , ok but not great . I met Andrew Eldridge from SOM once , down the Grassmarket in Edinburgh , they were playing that night in the Playhouse and he was well melted – I expected a disaster but they were excellent. Funnily enough I met Robin Zander and Rick Nielsen from Cheap Trick in the same boozer ( The White Hart ) the same day they were playing too – Rick Nielsen had a bizarre necklace on consisting of small plastic aeroplanes and plastic cutlery.

God’s own Medicine, Children and Grain of Sand are the three best Mission albums, by my judgement.

Hussey was the Sister’s guitarist on First Last and Always. He wrote many of the best Sisters songs as well, at that time.

Before that Hussey was in Dead or Alive (you spin me round like a record).

Anyone into the following:

New Order, The Cure, Smashing Pumpkins, Cocteau Twins….

Ren ,
I owe you a beer , got both CD’s in this morning Surfer Rosa/C’Mon Pilgrim and Doolittle for £15.07 – and that was including the VAT , bargain !!!!!

Ali

Originally posted by Tempest
Great to see you’re a Sisters fan Alastair.

I ran into Wayne Hussey once, he asked what my favourite Mission song was, I said I preferred First Last and Always. He just stopped speaking to me there and then.

Was never a huge Mission fan, I bought God’s Own Medicine on vinyl and that was it. I noticed some of their stuff for £5 on CD in my local branch of Fopp yesterday. Lot’s of Pixies stuff for the same price too, I might add.

I don’t know why the Doors are still so popular. Maybe I’m too young to understand, but I think there’s better music around. The Doors are becoming “cult”, art, which means nobody may question their music. Had a similar discussion a couple of days ago in the bar. Ho, don’t touch Nirvana, Metallica or the Doors! But never heard about the Pixies.

I would also like to see the Beach Boys again. Yeah, you may all laugh, but I’m a big fan of this group 😀 California dreaming! 😉

I do like the Velvet Underground (songs for drella = Andy Warhol :)), but not that I would give anything to see them live, unlike the Pixies or the Dandy Warhols.

For Belgium, Jacques Brel!

I’ve seen Ramstein in concert last year. Cool, especially the burning guitars and the *****. But not that I would go to their concert each year.

My top five personal festival would probably be as eclectic as…

(in no particular running order)

Super Furry Animals

The Doors

Rush

The Darkness

Brendan Benson

Foo Fighters

Great to see you’re a Sisters fan Alastair.

I ran into Wayne Hussey once, he asked what my favourite Mission song was, I said I preferred First Last and Always. He just stopped speaking to me there and then.

Originally posted by Geforce
Therapy is still popular.

Yup I’m still getting Therapy and the band ain’t bad too 😀

Wanna spend my whole life drunk
Never wanna give a fcuk
Wanna walk thru the gates of Hell with a backstage pass in hand
St Peter parked my car
Angels on my mind

Postcards to Hell

Therapy is still popular.