Posts by Tom Beard
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Hard News: One man’s Meat Puppets is…, in reply to Lilith __,
I’d put Bowie’s Heroes (particularly side 2) in the same basically-ambient New Wave category.
Wow. Berlin-era Bowie is definitely a shameful lacuna in my music education.
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Hard News: One man’s Meat Puppets is…, in reply to Will de Cleene,
How can people hate the theme music to nature docos?
I'd say that that brought back memories, but the truth is I've never stopped listening to it. When punk hit, I was listening to Jean-Michel Jarre, Kraftwerk and Tangerine Dream and coaxing blippy square waves out of anything with a chip. It's fair to say that authenticity, "heart", rawness and emotiveness have never been high on my list of criteria for good music.
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Sheesh, I leave the thread for a while, and now it's approximately 50% bum sex?
Jones just said "I don’t think it’s necessarily about that". And I suppose that Perfect Day isn't "necessarily" about heroin, either. Even if Jones didn't specifically intend it, it's hardly an outrageous twisting of the lyrics, especially given the bump & grind in the music itself. As one of the YouTube commenters says, "It's about as subtle as a Dick Emery sketch".
Not that I actually read that into it when it came out: I was far too young and innocent. Another song that I loved back then, without realising just how astonishingly dodgy the lyrics were, was this:
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Hard News: One man’s Meat Puppets is…, in reply to George Darroch,
Let me know what you think of this.
I used to think of it as genius, but unlistenable genius. But now I can't stop listening to it.
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Hard News: One man’s Meat Puppets is…, in reply to Hebe,
Heaven on the other hand will have Grace:
Do you expect much anal sex in Heaven? Makes sense, I guess.
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Hard News: One man’s Meat Puppets is…, in reply to TracyMac,
....but nothing surpasses AUTOTUNE! I cannot even stay in the room with that effect on. This includes Peter Framptom's effort from the late 70s or whenever it was.
You may be conflating autotune with vocoders. Autotune bad (with an exception for Daft Punk), Vocoder good:
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Up Front: Hitting That, in reply to Islander,
So, what've you got against the hair-colours black, grey or white?
I include black hair in the general category "brunette", and my longest relationship was with someone with grey/white hair, though usually dyed blonde.
On reflection, one hot auburn would go a long, long way.
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Up Front: Hitting That, in reply to Emma Hart,
Hair colour, for instance, seems to be more important to me than gender presentation. I have a strong male and female "type" and they're both brunette.
Which reminds me of another stereotype of bisexuals: that if you're attracted to both sexes, then you'll be incapable of monogamy because you need one of each, right? Which means that because I'm attracted to women of all hair colours, I need to have one blonde, one redhead and one brunette, right?
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I don't like Country & Western.
I don't like rock music.
Ehm, I don't like, I don't like Rockabilly.
- Rock'n'roll in particular -
I don't like much, really, do I?
But what I do like, I love passionately.From a song I actually do like.
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Up Front: Hitting That, in reply to nzlemming,
Like her, it's about the person, not the peripherals.
I wonder about that. I've known some bisexual people who say the same, that they're attracted to the whole person rather than to physical attributes, and if they fall in love then the gender of the beloved doesn't matter. But might that not be closer to demisexuality (not experiencing sexual attraction until forming a strong emotional connection with someone) than bisexuality?
Which sounds like quibbling about labelling, but it does seem that there are other people who are attracted to both genders, not because they're blind to sexual differences, but because they can find both sets of physical attributes sexy. In other words, it's not that "it's not about the peripherals": they like ALL the peripherals.