Favorite music?
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Born 'n bred Massachusetts, circa 1984
I like a range of music mostly rock- Classic rock like the Allman Brothers, Bob Seger, all projects associated with jerry Garcia, The band, Stones, Beatles, Billy Joel. i like a lot of jam bands, whether it be phish, widespread panic, lettuce, Moe, Railroad Earth, Neil young, Modest Mouse, my morning jacket
Some more country type stuff like Willy Nelson, Johnny Cash, John Prine, Gram Nash, NRPS, Waxahatchee , Old Crow Medicine Show, Chris Stapleton, little big town
Most hiphop associated with Dre or Nas
Bach, Mozart, Wagner
weird stuff like 2 chellos
just don't like most hip hop, pop country and electronic or metal
I like a range of music mostly rock- Classic rock like the Allman Brothers, Bob Seger, all projects associated with jerry Garcia, The band, Stones, Beatles, Billy Joel. i like a lot of jam bands, whether it be phish, widespread panic, lettuce, Moe, Railroad Earth, Neil young, Modest Mouse, my morning jacket
Some more country type stuff like Willy Nelson, Johnny Cash, John Prine, Gram Nash, NRPS, Waxahatchee , Old Crow Medicine Show, Chris Stapleton, little big town
Most hiphop associated with Dre or Nas
Bach, Mozart, Wagner
weird stuff like 2 chellos
just don't like most hip hop, pop country and electronic or metal
I remember this song from some weird english TV show where someone would dress as a snail and slowly crawl across the road and hold up the traffic.
I have spent all day trying to remember what it was called, do you remember it?
Back to music, I have been really getting into the clash lately. I never really liked them and only really Knew rock the casbah and should i stay or should i go which i didnt mind. I just thought they were very over rated but have now discovered how diverse their songs were and have been listening to a lot more of them, especially the combat rock album and a song called Bankrobber. Now i can sort of see what all the fuss is about.
I have no idea about the TV show you refer too, sounds a bit weird to me, lol.
The clash were a brilliant band. Many people, as with most bands releases, just hear their singles releases, the commercial stuff, and most of it is drivel. Should I stay or should I go, bankrobber, rock the casbah and London calling were mainstream clash hits. They weren't bad, but no where near as good as the album tracks stuff. That's where the real gold is. Check out "white man in Hammersmith Palais" and "lost in the supermarket" for example, particular favourites of mine.
My favourite band ever are The Jam. Anybody of a certain age will remember their string of hits in the late 70's to early 80's such as going underground, start, town called malice, beat surrender etc etc, which were pure commercial crap, but some of their earlier albums such as "all mod cons" and "setting sons" were sublime. Real purists stuff.
It's the same with any band, their best work needs searching for, you need to scratch under the surface of their mainstream work.
I cant remeber the TV show either but when i heard that song it gave me a flashback. All i remember is it was a sketch comedy show in the early 2000s and the snail man obviously.
I think you are right about any bands singles to a degree, maybe though they arent bad songs as such but they just become so overplayed that everyone gets sick of them and they lose whatever novelty or power they once had.. 2 examples from my generation are nirvanas smells like teen spirit and red hot chilli peppers under the bridge. When they first came out i was in the final year of high school and both songs were huge and so different to what was around at the time, they were constantly on the radio and if they werent we were playing them on cd. Now i cant stand either song and will even change radio stations if they come on,.
Its funny but constant repetition for 30 years has killed any enjoyment or edge the songs once had. What was so new at the time has become so worn out and tired but as you said if you dig a bit deeper into the bands whole catalogue there is some good stuff there.
Its funny as the chilli peppers are touring here now and didnt play under the bridge and upset a lot of fans, i imagine the band is probably sick of it too.
Another thing ive noticed while exploring The Clash albums is how many songs of theirs have been sampled over the years, its quite interesting to see what other musicians can do with the songs. One in particular is Straight to hell by the clash being sampled by MIA for paper planes.
Here you go
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, it was bothering me so i had to track it down.
Its from a TV show called "Trigger Happy TV", the guy would slowly crawl as "if you could read my mind" played and would normally get througgh most of the song before he got to the other side.
Mystery solved, i thougght i had been smoking too many Jazz cigarettes while in the UK!
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esoxlucius
, it was bothering me so i had to track it down.Its from a TV show called "Trigger Happy TV", the guy would slowly crawl as "if you could read my mind" played and would normally get througgh most of the song before he got to the other side.
Mystery solved, i thougght i had been smoking too many Jazz cigarettes while in the UK!
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How pissed off would you be if you were in the traffic waiting for that sketch to finish, lol. I imagine that black cab driver was especially miffed. Loads of fares to pick up and he's stuck watching some plonker belly crawl across the road, lol.Here you go
Its from a TV show called "Trigger Happy TV", the guy would slowly crawl as "if you could read my mind" played and would normally get througgh most of the song before he got to the other side.
Mystery solved, i thougght i had been smoking too many Jazz cigarettes while in the UK!
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Incidently, I do vaguely remember trigger happy TV, very vaguely though, I may have to you tube some sketches to jog my memory.
Here it is, though I think you may have got the song wrong!
On reflection, after watching a few clips, I do remember this show now. It was fronted by Dom Joly, who went onto bigger things. It was quite good as I remember. His most famous sketches were the ones where he had his huge mobile phone and when he was talking on it he would shout and ball at the top of his voice. Remember?
On reflection, after watching a few clips, I do remember this show now. It was fronted by Dom Joly, who went onto bigger things. It was quite good as I remember. His most famous sketches were the ones where he had his huge mobile phone and when he was talking on it he would shout and ball at the top of his voice. Remember?
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Been listening to No.4 by Stone temple pilots recently. All the songs are bangers. The first six are amazing.
Stone temple pilots and Alice in chains 85% of their songs are just incredible.
Stone temple pilots and Alice in chains 85% of their songs are just incredible.
That’s bizzare, I haven’t thought about this TV show in years. I basically forgot it existed but when I listened to the Gordon Lighttfoot song you posted an image of the snail man instantly popped into my head with the song playing in the background. I wonder if they changed the song or my memory is flawed (most likely)
I can remember the show more now, the phone guy was funny and they also used to wait until someone went into a porn shop to buy a dirty magazine and when they came out blow some trumpets and set off some small explosions and hold up a sign saying “congratulations to our 1000th customer” then watch the guys run off all embarrassed.
The annoying thing is I will probably spend the rest of the night trying to figure out if the song is from another TV show now.
