Comments on: It’s The Style Error Open Thread

By: Refresh

Refresh — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 01:37:24 +0000

Sunny, putting that list together saw me through Johnny Mnemonic, thankfully. It also allowed me to re-trace my steps. My soundtrack if you like.

ZZ-Top weren’t too bad, they did what they went out to do – entertain. I guess their biggest selling point were the sharply dressed women. A bit like Robert Palmer.

Others that didn’t quite make the list were the Undertones’ Teenage Kicks and The Beat’s Mirror in the Bathroom.

As for the Sex Pistols I nearly managed to book them for our end of term school disco. Not sure if I am glad that I didn’t – there’d have been blood on the dancefloor.

I remember being with Talking Heads in their dressing room when Tina Weymouth refused to come out for an encore because of some revolting creatures making disgusting gestures when they had been on stage. She finally did, but they still insisted on harrassing her.

By: Sunny

Sunny — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 14:47:09 +0000

Refresh that list is formidable

By: Chairwoman

Chairwoman — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 10:47:18 +0000

If we’re going for mottos, I’ll go for my favourite 60s/70s one from the Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers ‘Dope will get you through times of no money, better than money will get you through times of no dope’. When I grew up, I discovered this was a lie.

By: William

William — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 09:47:07 +0000

Nowadays I just ask for a haircut at a regular barbers, no fancy styling. I usually get what could be called a short back and berserk, but it’s cheap.

By: William

William — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 09:43:16 +0000

Kismet

Fields of the Nephalim were great I saw them

By: William

William — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 09:42:26 +0000

ZZ top were good stuff.

Believe it or not Status Quo were once a cred band.

By: Refresh

Refresh — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 01:37:19 +0000

“Commodores”

Should have been Communards.

By: Refresh

Refresh — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 01:22:08 +0000

Without embarassment:

Very long hair
Very long permed hair
Oxford Bags 34″ Flares
Platform shoes
Tom Baker Dr Who scarf
Furry coat
Grey/green check suit with olive army-surplus shirt and basketball pumps (no such thing as trainers)

Wanted but didn’t have

Loons
Kaftan

as advertised on the back pages of NME

With embarassment

Very short hair
(at the hands of the local barber with the only cut in his repertoire, and the only one trusted to do the job, without mercy, by my parents)

By: Refresh

Refresh — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 00:44:56 +0000

Oh good. Johnny Mnemonic just finished.

By: Refresh

Refresh — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 00:43:57 +0000

Just sat through I,Robot. Should I risk it with Johnny Mnemonic?

Miles Davis? Sonny Rollins maybe.

Proclaimers
Pretenders
The Jam
Style Council
Paul Weller
Talking Heads
David Byrne
Tom Robinson
Clash
Heart
Steve Miller Band
Al Stewart
Outkast
Peter Frampton
M – Pop Muzik
Thompson Twins
Asia
Santana
Rush – Farewell to Kings
Pink Floyd
The Who
Squeeze
Sex Pistols
Public Image Ltd
Soft Cell
Jimmy Somerville
Commodores
Beautiful South
Paul Heaton
Manic Street Preachers
Supertramp
Fleetwood Mac
Free
Led Zeppelin
Cat Stevens
The Faces
Rod Stewart
Eagles
Lynard Skynard
Allman Brothers
Steely Dan
Average White Band
Peter Frampton
Rolling Stones
Public Enemy
Disposable Heroes of Hiphopracy
10CC
Paul Simon
Marvyn Gaye
Stevie Wonder
Tracy Chapman
Sly and Family
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
xxxxxx – Mera Jhoota heh Japaani
Tubular Bells
Cyndi Lauper
Nena
George Michael
Frankie Goes to Hollywood
Grateful Dead
Guns & Roses
Billy Joel
Donny Osmond – Puppy Love
The Skids
Big Country
Nirvana
REM
Seal
Cranberries
Everlast
Savage Garden

Scratched
Cliff Richard (South Africa & Tony Blair)

Redeemed
Paul Simon (South Africa)

Rising Star
Dixie Chicks

NOT
Survivor – Eye Of The Tiger
Tony! Toni! Tone! – Feels Good

That’s a shortlist. If I think of any more..

By: Leon

Leon — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 00:43:28 +0000

The killers aint all that but the KC aint too bad. I try not to get into the derivative argument because it’s futile. There is no original music; everything is influenced by or rips off another era…

By: Sid

Sid — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 00:37:35 +0000

The Killers and Kaiser Chiefs are simply derivative shit. And bad derivative shit, at that.

By: Leon

Leon — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 00:35:44 +0000

One of the first tapes I bought to listen was ZZ Top! Beat that!

WHAT?! There aint nothing wrong with ZZ Top dammit!

*wonders if he’s really hanging out with the right crowd*

By: William

William — Sun, 04 Mar 2007 23:57:03 +0000

Kulvinder

Kate Bush is great

“Iâ€™m sooo tempted to list some of my favorite non-mainstream movies from around the world but youâ€™d all think im even more nuts!! ”

Please tell me….please

By: Sid

Sid — Sun, 04 Mar 2007 23:54:51 +0000

replace your memory (RAM) chip(s).

By: William

William — Sun, 04 Mar 2007 23:54:10 +0000

I have only recently aquired an mp3 player and discovered the selectivity involved in putting stuff on it and was wondering what that says about people.

My folders so far are

Hard Rock
Deep Purple, Hendrix, Free, New Order Zep, The Cult

Soft Acoustic
Indigo Girls, Dylan, Crosby Stills and Nash, Donovan

Late Junction
World music recorded off the radio 4 programme

Classical
Vaughan Williams, some Mahler, Debussy

Hildegard
Hildegard Von Bingen

Gregorian Chants
Some Gregorian Chants

Rag
Nikhil Bannerjee, sitar rag

Lata
Selection of lata Mangeshkar songs

Podcasts
For podcasts

By: Kulvinder

Kulvinder — Sun, 04 Mar 2007 23:42:10 +0000

oh and ive spent my weekend constantly on the point of smashing my computer because of an ‘NMI: Parity Check / Memory Parity Error’ BSOD problem. Something ive never ever seen before.

By: Kulvinder

Kulvinder — Sun, 04 Mar 2007 23:37:35 +0000

Kulvinder – Kate Bush
Maybe I should have added a bit of hard core techno and early Pick Floyd to Kulvy.

Are you stalking me! have you seen my playlist. Seriously?!

To round things off this isn’t a definitive DIDs type list, because i can’t really pin anything down but what ive been listening to over the past few months and that comes to mind right now,

The Clash (bit everything they did),
Bernstein’s Ode to freedom (not the technically best version but the most evocative),
Black box recorder (England made me and Facts of life in particular),
Blondie (Union City Blues),
New pornographers (Twin Cinema, Sing me spanish techno in particular),
Rabbi Sergill (Bulla Ki Jan)
Amy Winehouse’s rendition of valerie
NOFX (terrible singing though heh)
Christina Aguilera Hurt(snowflakes remix)

The Kate Bush one is the most interesting, im associated with her on more occasions than anyone else whenever these types of questions come up. Obviously i like her, but you’re basically saying im a little nuts…right

I’m sooo tempted to list some of my favorite non-mainstream movies from around the world but you’d all think im even more nuts!!

By: Sunny

Sunny — Sun, 04 Mar 2007 22:46:10 +0000

I canâ€™t believe no-one has taken the piss over my confession that I downloaded Eye of the Tiger (for my marathon training see). Still, talk about an open goal!

Because I suspect we’re all hiding worse. One of the first tapes I bought to listen was ZZ Top! Beat that!

Oh, and I remember wearing super-baggy jeans at school. In my defence, everyone did it at the time

By: El Cid

El Cid — Sun, 04 Mar 2007 22:10:05 +0000

I can’t believe no-one has taken the piss over my confession that I downloaded Eye of the Tiger (for my marathon training see). Still, talk about an open goal!

Anyway, I thought long and hard about this while running today, and here’s a first stab at 8 revealing Desert Island Discs. It’s not definitive.

1) Money in my pocket — Dennis Brown
2) I know you got soul — Bobby Byrd
3) Going underground – The Jam
4) Ghost Town — The Specials
5) Still Dre — Dr Dre
6) You’ve got the love — Candi Staton
7) As – Stevie Wonder
Dancing in outer space — Atmosfear
9) Joy and pain – Maze
10) Shine on you crazy diamond — Pink Floyd
11) Under the bridge – Red Hot Chili Peppers
12) Tears — Frankie Knuckles
13) Shit, I can’t stop. This is impossible