Hard News: One man’s Meat Puppets is another man’s Poison
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Simon Grigg, in reply to
probably the first punk-influenced track I remember.
Which grew out of:
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Hebe, in reply to
Jeez, my bestest friend in the world since them days is a gay man and we never even discussed it; and we discuss everything, all the time. And we danced to Grace for years.
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Hebe, in reply to
She was such a babe.
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Scott Chris, in reply to
I was ringing people and asking them around to hear it. It gobsmacked.
Simon, as someone said earlier in the thread the impact an artist has on an individual is an intensely personal and visceral experience which is unique to the individual and is dictated by that individual’s life experience and place in time.
So I guess you were primed for that moment like so many others apparently were. Perhaps it simply went over my head as I was too young to understand it as it happened and by the time I was old enough to understand the revolution I had become desensitized to its power.
Like you say, each to their own. (“but why can’t I see it, it’s so fucking obvious” I hear you say)
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Jackie Clark, in reply to
Well, Tom did say anal sex, to be fair.
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Hebe, in reply to
And led on to
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Sacha, in reply to
not that you are at all partisan about that..
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Hebe, in reply to
not that you are at all partisan about that
Meow. I always thought this was far far better than Counting the Beat, which was pure pop. Although, given the trouble I've already caused tonight with Grace Jones, I probably should shut up now I look at these lyrics.
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Sacha, in reply to
and the search engine rankings for this post continue to rocket..
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Jackie Clark, in reply to
I was there. I danced to the bloody thing. Nobody cared what she was referring to, to be honest. It was great club music. End of.
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Sacha, in reply to
might have meant something different to the gay men you were dancing alongside in those clubs, I suspect.
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Hebe, in reply to
I was there. I danced to the bloody thing. Nobody cared what she was referring to, to be honest. It was great club music. End of.
Exactly. Love you back Jackie.
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Jackie Clark, in reply to
Harrumph.
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Hebe, in reply to
Yeah. Bloody men.
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Simon Grigg, in reply to
Like you say, each to their own. (“but why can’t I see it, it’s so fucking obvious” I hear you say)
No, not all. You probably did have to be there to understand how utterly stagnant it all (and I mean 'all' in that it also transformed design, fashion, cinema, writing and wider attitudes to much more) had become.
And how much it changed it 'all'.
If you've not seen it, Don Letts fantastic Punk: Attitude says it so much better than I'm perhaps doing:
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Simon Grigg, in reply to
Meow. I always thought this was far far better than Counting the Beat, which was pure pop
+1
not that you are at all partisan about that..
I'm gonna get my whole back-catalogue onto this thread if it kills me
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Sacha, in reply to
Meow
it was a play on nom de plumes. Simon knows..
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Sacha, in reply to
now I look at these lyrics
hell of a night :)
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Lilith __, in reply to
I think there can be no possible debate what that song is about.
Well that’s a relief, frankly: I can stop straining my brain trying to work out how it could actually be about cars. ;-)
I worked in a place where this got a lot of plays on the jukebox by straightlaced-looking people who made me wonder what they thought it was about….
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Just to return to Snoopy's Xmas if I may. The Royal Guardsmen and "Snoopy v the Red Baron" had a significant part to play in NZ Radio. It was banned by the NZBC purely for the word "bloody". IKYN.
It came out just as Hauraki were starting up and it was the number one anthem on Hauraki for months as they stuck it to the corporation.
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Sacha, in reply to
made me wonder what they thought it was about
same with this ditty
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Chris Waugh, in reply to
Prefacing any genre with the world "Christian" just seems to not work out.
I seem to remember a Cliff Richard song (I was a fan at a certain stage of my life) entitled Why does the Devil have all the good music?. It's a good question.
But as plenty of others, including yourself, have pointed out, an awful lot of Church music actually is really good. It's just the modern pop, rock, etc forms that fall short.
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Hebe, in reply to
I'm gonna get my whole back-catalogue onto this thread if it kills me
Just don't tell the competition about this thread...
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Danielle, in reply to
Ohhhhhh, 'One Good Reason'! I always liked it better than 'Counting the Beat' too. (Am I crazy, or are there two versions of it? Is the one on AK79 different?)
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Lilith __, in reply to
Suddenly strikes me how much she looks like Helena Bonham-Carter….
But yeah, great song. :-)
Original video, with better sound quality:
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