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I have no narcotic influence so I guess I'm scary. I used to enjoy some UB40 in my youth ('Sing Our Own Song, 'Don't Break My Heart'). The fact that you have responded and I have put my cards on the table shows why we are both here. Your 'record-collection-rocker snobbery' is at the fore and shown v...

Oh, and a complete failure, for a fourth time, to deal with my perfectly reasonable accusations of offputting and joyless record-collection-rocker snobbery. I'll press a point home for the umpteenth time. EVERYone here is guilty of 'record-collection-rocker snobbery'. We wouldn't be here otherwise....

The words 'stimulating' and 'debate' are used together for a very good reason. Personally I think $26's general tastes are not what I'd listen to and I find many of the opinions expressed pretty loopy. But they get a response from a great many posters here (myself included), and more stimulating res...

You blew it in the last bit about Man U. I respected your opinions til you said that. The irritating thing about 26 is his eagerness to put a band down when someone else says they're cool. When I read someone's post saying how great someone else is and I don't agree I generally ignore it - 26 can't ...

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They're fab.

quote] The Kids don't care about this shit....just a bunch of clueless hacks in IPC Towers. Oof! You got it in one. Brilliantly put my man. The title of Clinic's first single? 'IPC Subeditors Dictate Our Youth'. Right on. They're trying hard with The Strokes, a half decent band who'd be a lot bette...

stevie wrote: Spacemen 3 - live in Germany (Brilliant version of Transparent Radiation in particular) *casually enthusiastic nod in Runcible's direction*

I myself am forever indebted to one other on this site for this (who will know), so I take little credit. It is fab though, I'll grant you that.

In no particular order: Led Zeppelin DVD (OK you need to watch it too) Lee Perry - A Live Injection, Anthology 1968-1979 Monoshock - Walk to the Fire Dandy Warhols - 13 Tales from Urban Bohemia The Damned - Machine Gun Etiquette The Things - Coloured Heaven Simply Saucer - Cyborgs Revisited Mojo Tro...

I'm not that familiar with some of the Perry stuff you mention but I will try and check some out. His catalogue is ridiculously extensive... I agree on the lack of recognition of the vocal side, and in truth its not his best suit. But when he really applies himself, on such gems as 'Dreadlocks in th...

You're exactly right; I don't think there's anyone out there who has heard their records that could call them a lousy band, although Plant comes close; but my concern has always been that they were "good" in the same sense that Yes were good. Call me an unbeliever. I like some of their lo...

I was recently given the Led Zep DVD set for my birthday. There is much on it to suggest that they are the greatest rock band that's ever existed. John Paul Jones and John Bonham have to be the best rhythm section imaginable, and Bonham's drum sound is miles beyond any other rock drummer in history ...

Respect there. If it wasn't for the remarkable Stevie I'd still be blinkered about the Dandy Warhols, a band who I have been largely besotted by for several months. I think, in turn, he's discovered the delights of Kinski and Clinic through me. Always good to spread the word when its deserved.

Sorry Runcible, I know what a big R & B/Soul fan you are. :lol: Well... There are 3 Sugarbabes tracks I like: Hole in The Head, Freak Like Me and Down, Down. I also like Fantasy and Don't Worry by Appleton. All are shmaltzy chart style hits. I doubt they're soul - Sugarbabes are more r 'n' b. I...

This strange twist to the thread must bring the legendary Fleetwood Mac songstress Stevie Nicks into proceedings. Someone may have more on this but the story goes that she was doing so much coke her vocal chords were in serious danger of decay, so the next best way to take it was up her arse. Of cou...

Did you go today Runcible? You were all over them from what I briefly saw on the telly, although Sullivan saved your barse at the end. It was almost Jim Montgomery-esque (sorry, don't mean to bring up bad memories). Richardson looks a real find (and therefore will be sold in January) Nope. I was wo...

Aren't some messageboarders quite matey with the author Erik? Couldn't they ask him on our behalf? It must be getting on for a year since it was first announced. My suspicion is a legal squabble over who said/did/wrote/injected/sang what. Wembley Stadium will be built before this book comes out. I ...

Big congrats from me too. Good luck if its a girl - I have THREE of 'em! Seriously though - loads of fun will mixed in with those sleepless nights. Best thing that ever happened to me.

I did encourage Pete to contribute something to this thread - he simply said that what I'd said about Silvertone was pretty much what happened. Dunno about the rest.

Do you prefer Urban Hymns to A Storm In Heaven and Northern Soul???? Urban Hymns is pretty good, but Northern Soul is where itâ€™s at as far as the Verve are concerned. That album is straight up raw passion. Amen. First other person I've heard regard the second album is the best. Not only that, for...

You got it. It was meant to be in what was described as a 'stained glass window' sleeve. If the previous releases are anything to go by it would have been good.

I hold Silvertone in extremely low esteem for their relationship with Pete. To say they stopped supporting him as an act is more than an understatement. I recall the 'Highs, Lows' tour, and I went to a gig in New Cross where Spectrum ripped the place to shreds with both soft lulls and screeching psy...

I'll get in quick here and say what I think. $26 is one of the most infuriating and opiniated music fans I've come across. He has an opinion on everything. The trouble is a lot of his opinions (most of which I disagree with) are well thought out and have good evidence and knowledge backing them up. ...

It's not even a matter of erratic pitch control. Sometimes he's simply off-key, about a quartertone flat, for an entire tune. It's there on "Under My Thumb" (which is pretty appalling anyway), and a lot of other hits. I actually like the tone of his voice sometimes and it really frustrate...

The Stones I just don't like. The hits don't turn me on. Jagger never struck me as much of a singer. Point taken on Jagger. You either like him or you don't. My cousin is my music buddy who I have shared many of my greatest musical experiences. He loves the Stones but continually points out that Mi...

Getting back to the case in point... After the rave write up of PiL's Metal Box that the Observer Music Monthly recently gave it I have just listened to it again for the first time in well over a decade and I thought it was terrible. Apart from the irritation I felt at having to prise the dics out o...

(all ageworthy stuff) The Clash are a major point for me. The first album was an endless listening experience as I played it time after time after time for months. I even used to think that Lee Perry's 'Police and Thieves' was a cover of the Clash's version (I know I know, but I was young) and I hat...

Thomas Hardy - The Mayor of Casterbridge Matthew Stokoe - High Life Harper Lee - To Kill a Mockingbird 2 might seem pretentious but I loved them as a kid and they still read well now. Hardy's ability to portray genuine tragedy is untouched IMHO. Lee's way of telling a story through a child's eyes is...

I too believe the song 'Public Image' to be one of the finest ever produced in this country. I'll also add that when I bought the first album on its release (scary age reference here), having loved the single, I found 'Theme', the first song, to be completely horrible and always had to skip it as I ...

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By the way.......WHERE IS STEVIE????

stevie's contributions are sorely missed by many of us. He told me he got pissed off with the new format. If you're reading this we could do with a sprinkling of your cutting edge my man...

Only boot type recordings I know of are in the trading faculty. Hunt down the recording from Rose Club, Koln, from January 1988 (same tour as Performance) - that has some brutal moments. Videos don't exist as far as I know - or decent ones anyway. It remains a mystery why no one ever filmed them live.

Electric Wizard - We Live (which is terrible by the way - I normally love their psychedelic sludge metal but this latest offering is geuine doom metal, so therefore very dull indeed) Rockers DVD (does that count? Fantastic Jamaican film from about 1979, right in reggae's golden period, with a magnif...

Classic Dennis Leary synopsis of Jim Morrison's life:
'I'm drunk I'm no one, I'm drunk I'm famous, I'm drunk I'm dead.'

1. 'Things' is a Spacemen 3 song - from Perfect Prescription. Many other studio versions available. 2. Someone said the Elvis mix is on Complete Works 2 but I don't own either of those compilations. Available freely on the web, but the original promo CDs are pricey. 3. Ebay, or download it from some...

I'll stir the shit pot as little by adding every note ever played by the Manic Street Preachers. On a more humourous note check out the Enid's catalogue. I spent an evening once giggling hysterically with some friends at what is regarded as their classic 'Something Wicked This Way Comes'. Best comed...

Sadly I no longer trade or sell Spacemen stuff. Blame the bigger outlets. How can you compete when they offer new releases at a cheaper price than I could get them from a wholesaler for? It was a tough time. Send me a private message sometime Mr Gandt - be nice to catch up. I have made some very clo...

What instrument in Secret Machines do you think harmarman plays anyway? Or is he their manager/producer/publicist/record company owner? (delete where appropriate).

It's the bit about 'any good band' that gives it away.

I have seen no reports of this show.

Anyone got any light to shed?

You have to treat the live Spacemen and the studio Spacemen as two different concepts. Live they were an absolute barrage of noise, or they were at every gig I saw. Utterly devastating and brutally uncompromising. I never heard them play anything even vaguely laid back, but my last live experience c...

I also think that song walk on the wild side by Lou Reed is one of the top 10 most annoying pop hits of alltime. You'll know this, obviously, but the bass line from "Walk on the wildside" is played (written too?) by the co-author of the mega hit "Grandad" by Clive Dunn, and some...

...or even the 13th. Probably what you meant....

...only because I was busy last night and slept in this morning...

Well just make sure you announce it here when you do...

Ian's excellent site features everything you need - click on:
http://www.spacemen3.co.uk/pages/lyrics/lyricstpp.htm

Site could do with updating. Eh, Mr. E?

But my new target is Playing With Fire, which sounds extremely tedious nowadays, and has for a few years. Jason's songs are pleasant but insubstantial (for lack of Peter?) or just too few (though Come Down Softly and Lord Can You Hear Me obviously are among the group's best work), and Peter's, whic...

The point of others hostility to $26's post was it was completely dismissive, saying the record was never really very good, that neither contributor's songs are very good, and that its ageing potential isn't very good either. I disgaree with all that but part of the fun of $26 is that I have a healt...

Lee Perry - Arkology box set Lee Perry - Voodooism Keith Hudson - Brand Yabby You/Michael Prophet - Meets Scientist at Dub Station Electric Wizard - Supercoven Spacemen 3 - Dornbirn, Germany 20/5/89 (cheers Jason!) Spacemen 3 - Recurring Brain Donor - Love, Peace and Fuck (cheers Dave!) Dandy Warhol...

It's worth re-reading Pete's response above as I've added a few more answers he gave to another email, again with questions from Ian G. A little more detail although some of the ground has sort of been already covered. BTW I played Recurring last night after reading this thread again and enjoyed it ...

for my part Recurring is unforgivably lax since by this point Peter's songs didn't have much appeal at all and the only ones Jason tabled for the record were rehashes of So Hot, pretty readily explained by the fact that both had solo albums on the way. I think part of Recurring's inflated reputatio...

The answers. Not as detailed this time but I know Pete is busy at the mo. I think the nature of the (non) working relationship is pretty apparent in what he says here. 1. Why weren't 'The World is Dying' and the 7-minute + 'Just to See You Smile (Honey Part II)' (Both from the 'Hypnotized' EP) inclu...

Just to say the difference between the 2 Feelin' Just Fine(s) is the presence of some fine fuzzy reverb on the alternate version. It's a bit subtle I guess but it's definitely there. But what a song it is. One of the finest songs Jason made in my opinion. It is also the greatest thing I ever saw Spi...

It is indeed Frank, or it certainly was. A guy who actually phoned me in person to ensure he and Jason were part of an article I was putting together but who then resisted any further contact to contribute after his initial call despite endless attempts on the number he personally gave me. Like arti...

Just about any album you go to next is good. Give It Back is fabulous, Their Satanic Majesty's Second Request features some of my favourite BJM songs like Jesus and Anenome, Take It From The Man is possibly the most Stonesy. And so on...

Basically its all great.

No matter how tiny I bet your brain is half the size.

Its also on the Spacemen Are Go! live CD (also released as Live in Europe 1989).

Hey - lay off Caramac. I love those things or at least I used to as I haven't seen one around for a while. Even had a look for one today, but ended up with one of those little Kinder bars - delicious it was too.

You have a point about Milky Way, however, always thought they were overrated.

Toffee Crisp was bad - people used to shout out 'Toffee CRISP!' at Spiritualized gigs at that time. What about Luna being used to sell American Express? Or Manitoba being used to sell a mobile phone network? One I did enjoy was a slice of some nice Black Crowes accompanying a documentary on kagaroos...

I have a Spectrum poster for an American gig with Trans Am supporting. Can't tell you any more than that.

- Ladies and Gentlemen, we are Floating in Space (it's based on the D, A/C#, B, A, G, F#m, G, A cycle of Pachelbel's 'Canon', and the original â€˜Elvis versionâ€™ of the song obviously borrows the lyrics from '(Can't Help) Falling in Love with You' -This Little Life of Mine (borrows the lyrics from...

I reckon seeing as it was me that started all this, and added to the fact that I love the album, this link should be allowed to stay. Its not often someone from a band being discussed makes the effort to a) show up in the first place, and b) is grateful for what people say. I hope things get better ...

Over to Pete again. I wonder if the acoustic mentioned is the same one Charlie Pritchard tried to flog for Â£13k recently! It seems I was completely wrong about Suicide, but you can blame that on Ian G. It was his account that Jason brought in the two-note riff which I assumed constituted authorship...

Easier to let Pete put the record straight here... twentysixdollars orginally wrote: I'm also curious as to who picked which cover versions to use/steal. I generally suspect Peter chose most of them. First of all vocals. Jason sings all of Sound of Confusion - doesn't he? Runcible says it's Peter on...

With all due respect Paul Outer Limits was Pete's project and although those are excellent magazines and come accross as unbiased the majority of people Erik has spoken to aren't featured. Something tells me Mr Curruthers may have buzzed your ear on this project, yes? I have loads of respect for Wil...

I'd agree with the BJM stuff but I only have 2 gigs to go on, but I would say their albums are remarkably consistent and the last is as good as ever. And I'd agree with spzretent about Monster Magnet too. They played some of the best gigs I've ever seen in the earlyish 90s, then one time I went and ...

You're right on the bit about people hating Vega and Rev. At some show at the Forum (then Town and Country Club) a few years back I think they were supporting someone like Pop Will Eat Itself. People threw stuff at them such as lit fags, beer etc. At one point someone managed to get the whole of the...

All rather interesting. I'd agree with Orbital to a certain extent in that much of Suicide's appeal is as a reference point although I do like a lot of the 1st album. Without Suicide I can't imagine what Spacemen 3 would have sounded like. Their influence on Pete Kember is immense - the first time h...

Canada's finest purveyors of sublime Spiritualized/Spacemen-esque drone return with a full release on the newly formed Label High Fidelity Recordings. This time a double CD of recordings that I know will appeal to fans of this message board. Sure this is a blatant plug, but we've discussed these guy...

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