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I liked the cool guitar lead lines in Song for the Lovers, they're really accomplished and well executed. And scarily enough I think it was Ashcroft that played them. Yeah, it's definitely the fade-out of that tune that made me suspicious. The runs are impeccably timed and pretty intricate. Now, an...

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Cool. Keep 'em coming. MUFCSPACEMAN? Also: Marvin Gaye - I Want You . Despite all the brazen padding (there are only six or so actual songs here), and the fact that it's also looser, lighter, and tackier than Let's Get It On , less moored to old-fashioned deep-soul three-beat than any of his other w...

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Time to pull a reverse sacred cow. This is not a thread to plug obscuro releases that you think deserve more attention. This is a thread for famous albums that are almost universally regarded as terrible that you think have (preferably considerable) merit. Let's begin. My #1 and obvious choice: Byrd...

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In a severe fit of Verve-are-reforming intoxication, this evening I put on Alone With Everybody for the first time in, oh, four or five years. It's still lousy, by the way, so at least I remembered that part clearly enough. One thing that did catch my attention as I was perusing the liner notes (bes...

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Zenchan wrote:I've always found a great sadness in Sloop John B.

This is the worst trip...I've ever been on.

All attempts to read Pet Sounds as a narrative (and I admit none of them satisfy me) see that one the same way.

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I'm a huge fan. Excellent in stews and stirfries.

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"Disco 2000" again. Virtually any uptempo Gene Clark/Byrds - "I'll Feel a Whole Lot Better", the entirely dissimilar "Think I'm Gonna Feel Better", "The World Turns All Around Her", "Tried So Hard", "The Reason Why", "Changing Heart&qu...

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I don't have any problem with them (there are some devout fans here), but they certainly don't excite me. Sticky Fingers is the one album of theirs that I return to on an occasional basis. Their catalogue is big and amazingly consistent and they've earned their right to rock out well into the twenty...

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$26, what other kinds of borscht are there? I thought beets defined borscht. Cabbage borscht! In essence it's a thick unsweetened tomato soup spiced variously (mostly with onions) and with rings of green cabbage for roughage. Mennonites call all soup borscht so it might be that the concoction I've ...

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Of the Two Kinds of Borscht, they're my least favorite, but if they were the only kind of borscht I would think more of them (though less of borscht).

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If I remember correctly, the real Nancy (that is, the Montreal bobbysoxer by whom Cohen's song was inspired) was coerced into having an abortion by her much older politician lover and family, and soon afterwards shot herself. But no matter. I suppose we've all had a friend who wore green stockings a...

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OK somebody's already put "Spider Pig, Spider Pig, does whatever a Spider Pig does" but they forgot the next bit - "Can he hang from a lamp? No he can't, cos he's a pig" I'm quite certain it's "can he swing/from a web?/No he can't - he's a pig." That would actually mak...

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Brilliant suggestion. Seconded. It was actually your suggestion that reminded me. "Disco 2000" is a similar notion, expressed at least as eloquently. An exquisitely poignant, bitterly funny ("De-bor-ah, De-bor-ah"), musically irresistible song. "Deborah, do you recall - you...

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"Disco 2000"

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eleKtroniK:musiK wrote: "Space is the Place" originally from Veiko

Actually, I'm quite certain it's from Sun Ra!

John Coltrane - Interstellar Space

Quite possibly the greatest free-jazz recording ever made.

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ekewebb wrote:Pretty much anything by Suicide.

Again, mostly two or three chords.

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If we start quoting the show, we're never getting out of this thread.

On last night: "Alright, I'll just take a six pack and couple of bags of Skittles."

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MUFCSPACEMAN wrote: or "I'm Bugged At My Ol' Man"

Key point, though - that's a real song, which the skit in front of TM is not.

I think you might be imputing too much deliberate design to Brian for SD&SN.

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drones wrote:chords are usually played from memory that subconcious part of the memory...like when i'm jamming and suddenly it just turns into George Michael' Faith.
Righteous. And "Faith" is a great album.

OK, but on the whole I prefer "Fade Away".

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I agree that "Just Once In My Life" (with that malevolent synth ostinato) beats the Righteous Brothers hands down. But I can't help finding them compelling, for the undercurrents and the paradoxes there. I guess the only paradox I hear is that they're singing these jolly teen pop hits and ...

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runcible wrote:Feel Good Hit Of The Summer - Queens of the Stone Age

That's at least two chords!

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Lot to take in here. I admire your passion for Brian's work and on a certain, rather more subdued middle-aged level, share it. 15 Big Ones consists mostly of covers that are worse than the originals . Sometimes that's fine - a cover can be less 'good' but interesting - but to me, "Talk To Me&qu...

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bunnyben wrote: velvets- heroin

Come on, that's definitely and obviously two chords.

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angelsighs wrote:How many chords has Sister Ray got?

Three!

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Really surprised to see Big City on there. It may be the one (1) Spacemen 3 song I fully dislike. Otherwise #1-5 are, as most people here would surely agree, to be expected, although I did expect TMTTOS to come in at #3 as opposed to #4. I'm also surprised to see the 12" version of Rollercoaste...

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Come on, mojo, read my opening post. You just named four two-chord songs!

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I'm sure there are many. Some (arbitrary) rules: 1> Modal folk tunes don't count 2> Must have lyrics 3> State the chord if you can. 4> "Let Me Down Gently", which is mostly A, strongly implies at least one other chord (D). So does "Cop Shoot Cop" (Am or A5, C). So does "Tomo...

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The edition I bought was the single-disc version. I've just put it on now - final bit of music to soothe me into Monday morning. I'm glad the one-disc version is available now and fairly inexpensive, since In the Beginning is so scarce, and some people are loath to shell out $30 for a 2-disc set wi...

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I'd have thought being a Byrds nut you'd definitely have this? I'd have thought so too! - but it's never been a top priority for some reason. I guess there are just too many albums with some tangential (if crucial) relation to the Byrds and presumably I hedged my bets on David Hemmings Happens! . P...

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Fuzzhead wrote: Sounds Of Goodbye - The Gosdin Brothers

Really? Even I don't have that one!

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As per MUFCSPACEMAN's suggestion, I've split off Simpsons etc. discussion and moved it here:

http://www.spiritualized.com/message2/v ... php?t=6202

I don't think I have the power to merge threads, so at the moment it is separate from the Simpsons Movie quotes thread.

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King Of The Hill is hugely underrated. I rate that show almost as much as The Simpsons. King of the Hill is (or was) wonderful. It has begun to run out of steam, but the fact that it stayed at the level it did, basically under the radar, for so many years is astonishing. But lately it's suffered fr...

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It just gets funnier and funnier whereas the Simpsons has gone to pot a bit of late. Not true. This past season has been as consistently funny as ever, with the notable exception of the leaden episode parodying 24. What's happened in the last few seasons is that the show has gotten denser and more ...

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Oh, come on. Family Guy isn't even comedy. There's no comedy writing in it at all. It's just a series of lame (usually scatological and/or misogynistic) jokes and anti-jokes. Like a standup specializing in bawdy knock-knocks. Or Neil Hamburger. The Simpsons is, above all, beautiful writing. Trust th...

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My issue with Senns was never out-of-the-box performance. It was with durability. (Although for some reason most Sennheisers do need to 'mature' for a few days before they sound their best.) In terms of sound quality , the Grados are only marginally 'better' - they're really more 'different' than be...

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Sometime in 2005 I declared on these very pages: "I've always been a headphone person and I've always been a Sennheiser person." Well fuck that. I must have jinxed myself. Since late 2005, every Sennheiser I've purchased has turned out to be defective and has broken down inside of three mo...

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is wrote:KID'S FILM! /\ /\ /\

And what's wrong with a kids' film? Yellow Submarine is a kids' film.

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Watched it again last night. Better on second viewing but still feel disappointed. "There's something strange about that sop sign" Me, I was weaned on 80s comedies, and though my (and everyone's) interest in them waned in, I dunno, the late 80s, they still hold strong nostalgic appeal - a...

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natty wrote:Am I the only one who found this movie really disappointing?

Yes.

"Thank you, Lord, for this wonderful penis."

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eleKtroniK:musiK wrote:I know from reading/contributing to threads on here that a lot of you like eleCtroniC:musiC

Actually, I find "eleCtroniC:musiC" pretty nauseous. I'm partial to good ol' fashioned electronic music, myself.

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BTW-- The vinyl and even the CD are pretty rare. I've seen the cd go for $50 on ebay. SpaceAge was intending to rerelease but those guys have better things to do (not). The CD of Mesmerised? It's still in print! http://www.amazon.com/Mesmerised-Experimental-Audio-Research/dp/B000003KY4/ In fact it ...

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"I like men now."

Your turn.

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McGee sounds super bitter. Perhaps, in the wake of Lost In Translation, he thought Shields would at least kick him some unreleased stuff to put out.

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Pity, though, that the spinners probably won't be powered by rubber wire in the new cut!

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http://www.thedigitalbits.com/articles/br2007/announce.html It'll be tough for me (or anyone else with any responsibilities to anyone but himself) to rationalize shelling out for the five-disc version, but what I wouldn't give to have the workprint in my collection. At any rate, they might as well t...

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It's like all the seasons have moved forward. April used to be the wet month, and in the winter it doesn;t get really cold until well into January these days. I've been saying that for at least five years, and everybody looks at me like I'm crazy! But it becomes really apparent to me when my wife a...

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Glad to hear you've been listening, mojo! I don't think I've heard 'Live in Stockholm '67'. Obviously it's a Crosby-era bootleg. I haven't heard too many of those. You make it sound interesting - 'a weird one'? The live versions of "Hey Joe" from this era are astonishing and they are in fa...

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You are most welcome!

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I like Ruffin a lot - I'm not trying to use the songwriting or production thing as a stick to beat him. Marvin wrote virtually none of his sixties hits and even in the 70s relied heavily on cowriters. (I think "Mercy Mercy Me" and "Got to Give It Up" were his only seventies hits ...

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Detroiters: I dunno. There's no denying the Tempts (I mean, no denying them ), but Ruffin's solo material is mostly really weak, and the 70s were surpassing unkind to him. But again, everybody loves the Tempts, so aside from the fact that he's not quite a household name I can't see how anyone could ...

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I've seen Mesmerised on vinyl, even recently, though not often, and less so since about 2000. Not sure how rare it is. Probably not very as far as Kember vinyl goes. I have a budget (possibly bootleg) vinyl version of Coltrane's Lush Life probably from the 70s that says, in bold print on the back, &...

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Mmm, Marvin wasn't much of a live performer. He could be a decent one but he was never one of the greats - stage fright and paranoia, etc., made him an inconsistent-at-best performer. In no way do I think that diminishes his talent. That was anyway the only area of his professional career in which h...

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But that was hardly a satisfying or brilliantly thought out collection. No kidding. For some reason they included the long version of Gravity Grave, even though the No Come Down & Verve EP versions are both widely available, and yet the long version of She's a Superstar was inexplicably omitted...

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I agree that it's sort of silly to pit them against one another, since their work is so different. I only started this because, over the years I've spent listening to both of them (obviously more to Marvin), I've noticed that there's almost no-one who can praise one without doing so at the expense o...

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As far as I know, Virgin/EMI doesn't do deluxe editions (Sony/Universal does), but I might be wrong, and it's an interesting thought, and there are, as you say, albums' worth of b-sides for both ANS and UH - anyway that's what I was getting at - the Verve being back together make the Verve a viable ...

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Seems to me that "Guitar Feedback Manipulation" might be Peter's greatest recording in that genre. Strange that it was a bonus track!

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Well somebody voted for Al! I don't get it. I find his work relentlessly monotonous - apparently deliberately so with that unwavering Al Jackson three-beat.

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I finally bought this on a record excursion the other week. It's nice! - surprisingly intricate and melodic. Who knew? Hats off to Mr Kember.

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Well let's have it then. You know where I stand.

Seems almost like there's no-one who doesn't prefer one to the other, no one who feels strongly one way about one that doesn't feel the opposite about the other.

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Another (possibly inconsequential) Verve augury: I'm starting to find the US singles on Virgin in more and more stores. I'm speaking specifically of the ~1998 "Bitter Sweet Symphony" single, in a standard jewel box, similar to the UK CD2 except with the standard version of BSS and the addi...

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Your studio choices look excellent, although there are several different versions of Preflyte, all of which are missing some extraordinary acoustic material that's only on The Preflyte Sessions. (There is also a more complete bootleg version, but what you get there is mostly trivially different alte...

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(cracks knuckles magisterially) The Byrds officially recorded eleven studio albums and one reunion album. There is also one officially-released live album (from '69) and a 'bonus disc' that was added to their ninth album, a double-LP set (half live, half studio). There also exist 'deluxe' editions o...

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I should note that Infamous Angel is a disappointment to me as well. She had yet to develop a full command of her extraordinary voice at that point (at least in the studio) and her singing lacks nuance. (So, by the way, does her writing.) The difference between Iris in 1993 and Iris in 1994 beggars ...

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Ahem. Bump!

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The amazing thing about your rather dull post is that you place such empahsis on music knowledge. Rock n roll should be felt and loved not pigeon holed by tedious and dull anoraks. Surely as a Spz fan you can understand this!!!! I totally agree. Knowledge sucks. Nobody ever had any reason to know a...

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The most underrated albums...EVER!

Richard Ashcroft's guitar playing

Re: "Space is the Place" - Synth Heavy Thread

Great one-chord songs

Headphones

Re: Soul Music from Machines : electronic show and tell

Re: Mesmerised

Insert your favorite Simpsons Movie quotes.

Ho-lee-shit (BLADE RUNNER: FINAL CUT)

Mesmerised

Marvin Gaye versus Al Green