Current song you are listening to(or the Last song you listened to) - by Andarthiel
PigLick on 28/2/2020 at 16:04
[video=youtube;KcFy-lYmncE]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KcFy-lYmncE[/video]
these guys are great like ELO and Abba had an illegitimate child with Black Sabbath.
PigLick on 28/2/2020 at 16:10
[video=youtube;kgBKS4JCsec]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kgBKS4JCsec[/video]
also how in the hell did we miss out these guys?
Gray on 29/2/2020 at 01:59
Quote Posted by Tocky
I never got Autechre.
Some of it is just lovely.
[video=youtube;TztURwquY74]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TztURwquY74[/video]
Some takes a little bit more patience. And about a bottle of vodka to numb your senses. And probably earplugs.
[video=youtube;ev3vENli7wQ]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ev3vENli7wQ[/video]
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Yeah, I've mentioned it before, and every time I post, I can't stop myself from mentioning it again. I've got a ticket for
242!
Yes, yes, I know, they're old farts by now, remnants of the 1980s, but so am I. I'm nearly 50, and most of them are just over 60, so they're sort of pushing that Rolling Stones cliché I so did not want them to become 20 years ago, but now that I'm old, I don't care anymore. Young people can mock me, as they should, and I will promptly tell them how all their music is just whiny bland shit. Battle of the generations. That is not just a sarcastic comment, I hear very little anger in modern music, where there is so much need for it now. Young people of today, rise up and make noise, not just bland R&B X-Factor Pop Idol The Voice tedious pointless nonsense! Shout! Be angry! Be angrier! Your generation is fucked because mine fucked up your world! Shout about it! Go all Greta Thunberg on us with noise! Do it now!
:ahem:
My point was this. I've got a ticket. I'm old. They're old. But, even so, as I play this live show with poor sound recorded in my home country only a few months ago, it only took me two minutes to make me jump out of my bloody seat, old fat bastard that I am. Halfway through it now and I'm still headbanging. Even if we're just old farts, there's still some bloody energy in it. Now that's quite unusual.
Front 242: Live Sthlm 2019[video=youtube;Ht8LJk8ue9I]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ht8LJk8ue9I[/video]
Tocky on 29/2/2020 at 05:21
Yeah. Still don't get Autechre. Foxy Shazam is both kitschy and fun though.
Here is another Skunk Anansie I like. It's a great big monster fuck you song and will never see radio play. Enjoy fuckers.
[video=youtube_share;HJXjb2SbbSQ]https://youtu.be/HJXjb2SbbSQ[/video]
Sulphur on 29/2/2020 at 07:27
Skunk Anansie's vocalist up there has the thinnest wail. It's almost endearing when it's not annoying.
[video=youtube;6yQOLUZIbZU]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6yQOLUZIbZU[/video]
There's at least a little right with the world when a heavy metal band decides to do punk, and nails it so hard it's like the 70s swung right back around.
Gray on 29/2/2020 at 13:18
Sorry, Tocky, I completely ignored you as usual and just went rambling on about whatever nonsense I needed to vent. I do like Skunk Anansie to the point that I very nearly went to see them when they played here last year, but too much other stuff was happening at the time. I love the voice of Skin, she can believably project both anger and vulnerability.
And, as a side note, when I discovered them back in the day, I found it mildly amusing how similar we looked, with our shaved heads and cargo pants jumping around like idiots. I still look the same, only wrinklier and fatter, because I despise fashion and I refuse to change.
Tocky on 29/2/2020 at 16:45
Quote Posted by Sulphur
Skunk Anansie's vocalist up there has the thinnest wail. It's almost endearing when it's not annoying.
Soooooo always endearing then? It's not a ragged out punk voice but there is a place for opera quality voices recognized by Pavarotti in rock. Maybe not in the song you posted which was a better than expected blend of punk and metal and made me wonder why there isn't more of that.
However, this was the correct observation-
Quote Posted by Gray
I love the voice of Skin, she can believably project both anger and vulnerability.
But damn it Gray, stop calling yourself fat. Past a certain age it is either fight like a madman to stay trim or just enjoy life. The running gag with me is "wait till I suck my gut in" before pics. BTW I twisted my ankle hiking mt. Nebo and never really got back to my push ups. I do want to. I was improving. I always want to be able to do fifty. I just don't think I'm ever getting to a hundred.
Also I heard a very heavy Pink Floyd influence in some 242. Check out around 42:00 on and tell me "Run Like Hell" isn't in that. Then again, Floyd planted the seeds of industrial.
Gray on 29/2/2020 at 17:09
Hehe, I'm actually quite slim, only about the same 6-7 kilos overweight I've been for the last 20 years (that's a "stone" to UK people). It just sounds so much better when I'm trying to point out to younger people that I'm old, fat and slow. Even though I'm just, technically, old and slow. But I need three words to hammer home how pointless I am.
And bald. I usually say "old fat bald bastard", just to point out that I'm out of touch and should not be listened to. But old TTLG:ers might remember I've been shaving my head since 1993, so I don't even know if I've developed male pattern baldness yet. What I do know is that I can still grow out a fringe if I wanted to, but that would look ridiculous on its own.
Also, my parents were married, so I'm not technically a bastard either. So, um, yeah, I exaggerate a lot to make myself look worse. Much of which is sarcasm to make you take me less seriously. Says the big old fat bald bastard. Well, at least I'm actually quite tall. If you'd call 6ft tall.
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Yes, of course there's a Pink Floyd reference in 242, it's what they were trying to escape from, but also grew up with. Some chords are even the same, except it's much shorter, angrier, louder and shoutier. The whole point of EBM was to -not- refer to old American blues/rock roots, but come up with something new and European, but old influences would bleed in and some artists would either be better than others at hiding it, or completely disassociating them from it. But even Kraftwerk was influenced by James Brown and the Ramones. And Wagner. And Bach.
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Again with the fatness. I met up with Daxim in Berlin in, oh, 2002? He was very slim and athletic at the time, quite buff, even. Last year, we met up again. I wore the same clothes. He, um, I'm trying to find a way to phrase this in a way that won't piss him off more than necessary. Let's just say there was twice the Daxim to love. I guess that my point is, that by contrast, as a man pushing 50, I've remained the same miserable grumpy old bastard for the last 30 years, same poor fashion sense, same grumpy attitude, same weight, and same stupid hairstyle (give or take a few exceptions when I grew a ponytail from zero and then shaved it clean off again). I think what I'm getting at it that I'm tediously boring. I make jokes about me being fat, but I'm not really. Much. I'm just a sarcastic arsehole, and that probably won't ever change either.
Gray on 1/3/2020 at 08:08
I've always loved this song, but it's taken on a whole new meaning to me recently. I won't elaborate, apart from saying it was very memorable and surprising. I now associate it with something quite different than I used to. You wouldn't believe me if I told you.
Fleshquartet, Nåid, Stakka Bo and Titiyo
[video=youtube;4nB5jtZlCmY]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nB5jtZlCmY[/video]
Fleshquartet, aka Fläskkvartetten was a punk string quartet, undeniably the rockiest cellos you'd ever see. Is that a dist guitar solo I hear? No, it's a cello. The name "Fläskkvartetten" was a joke, referring to the classical string quartet Freskkvartetten. But with more fläsk.
Nåid was Martin Landquist, who made two really awesome techno/house/pop albums and also produced some brilliant artists like Mine and The Cardigans.
Stakka Bo was the stage name of Johan Renck, now more famous as a director of Chernobyl.
Titiyo Jah was a soul/pop singer, half sister of Neneh Cherry.
Sulphur on 1/3/2020 at 08:57
Quote Posted by Tocky
Soooooo always endearing then? It's not a ragged out punk voice but there is a place for opera quality voices recognized by Pavarotti in rock. Maybe not in the song you posted which was a better than expected blend of punk and metal and made me wonder why there isn't more of that.
She's got a voice that works for a range of songs; this one, though, in combination with the live setting, doesn't play to her strengths. Perhaps the studio version will refine it.