@haroldvs
I used to write about music in Terrorizer (UK) and Extreme Noise (Oz), but that was a long time ago. Now I guess I'm just an amateur opinion-haver. Metal, drone, minimalism, maximalism, bit of industrial, etc.
"Sinks to the bottom like a fucked-up boat"
One of my favourite things about working in an office is when a male colleague you've met in the morning goes out for a haircut at lunch and then you see them again in the afternoon and have to double-take
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Haha I read this just as the exact same line was rattling through my skull. Nice bit of Merry Prankster intersubjectivity there.
Awesome Keith, congrats
Not sure who it was who pointed it out on here last time I posted this song but they’re absolutely right -‘….the body of Venus… *with arms*’ is surely- surely- the most absurd rock lyric of all time.
youtu.be/JGftIcp2SC0?...
Can I get an AMEN
Is 'stoked' the right word?
Maybe more 'wistfully melancholic'?
Simply cannot mentally separate Jeff Mills and Jeff Wayne in my mind. "Oh it's cool that the War of the Worlds guy went on to have a second career as a DJ", etc. Irrevocably merged forever in my remaining shreds of brain, inseparable, sorry.
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Idly scrolled past this post without noticing the author when my lizard hindbrain went "hang on, old magazine + 'eldritch' + 'Smithy', was that Jimmy Martin?" and yes it was. Have we been online too long, dja think
#nowplaying Phantom Spell 'Heather & Hearth' - superb and wildly eccentric new LP from the utterly mental prog/NWOBHM leaning Seven Sisters side project. My favourite album of the year *thus* far *by* far.
Bandcamp link here:
phantomspell.bandcamp.com/album/heathe...
This post has resulted in about 4-5 album sales from my buddies and a possible future Manchester gig attendance. Who says the good guys can't monetise social media? May I also offer this: Queen II + Alan Parsons Project + 80s Helloween?
The whole album's brilliant and bananas, you'll love it. All on YouTube of course now.
I *always* immediately think of this (bought on LP for £2 at an impressionable age) - if you don't know it, it's an almost unbeatable example of a song not going in the direction you expected: youtu.be/MBmJLUsUa_8?...
Absolute banger
Christ
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Dave Matthews Band's tour bus stopping at the Kinzie Street Bridge to empty its blackwater tank
On August 8, 2004, a tour bus belonging to Dave Matthews Band dumped an estimated 800 pounds (360 kg) of human waste from the bus's blackwater tank through the Kinzie Street Bridge in Chicago onto
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Dave Matthews Band bus incident Article Talk Dave Matthews Band's tour bus stopping at the Kinzie Street Bridge to empty its blackwater tank On August 8, 2004, a tour bus belonging to Dave Matthews Band dumped an estimated 800 pounds (360 kg) of human waste from the bus's blackwater tank through the Kinzie Street Bridge in Chicago onto an open-top passenger sightseeing boat sailing in the Chicago River below. The incident became popularly known as the Dave Matthews Band incident! or Poopgate. 2]
Happy 21st anniversary to the Dave Matthews Band poop incident en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Ma...
Don't start up with your white zone shit again
Sorry, is nobody going to mention the *goose*?
For many years I was a bit ashamed of how much I liked 'Sabotage', but since I eventually stopped caring about what other people think I'm and out and proud 'Sabotage'-lover. It's *brilliant*. The opening *rinsing* of 'Hole in the Sky'. Casually inventing thrash on 'Symptom'. Fucking *Supertzar*
Five skulls / radiation symbols / other transgressive imagery, no half marks, plus the option to use '666 fucking skulls' twice a year. A perfect system, easily generalisable to, for example, rating one's Toyota service.
They have been persuaded to adopt Net Promoter by a consultant, and the punishment for this is having to endlessly explain Net Promoter to people over and over again until the heat death of the universe.
*taps mic*
*short squeal of feedback*
*clears throat*
"I can't believe the Doors are on first. Jim Morrison must be fuming."
*applause*
In the early 90s I was getting off a tube carriage just as Bobby Gillespie was getting on. I said, 'Oh, Bobby Gillespie'. He nodded and said 'All right?'
This is the best one 🤣
Heard about this on t'news. Very very awesome. Next step: Solar Lander? 🤔
Years ago I was sent a demo by a Scottish metal band called, er, The Crab, obsessed with crustaceans. 'Fabulous Crabulous' it was called. They'd really gone all in on the crab stuff. Awful, obviously, but if they'd put the effort spent on crab puns into learning to play they could've been great.
