Posts by Lilith __
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Hard News: One man’s Meat Puppets is…, in reply to Simon Grigg,
Arrrgh, Tin Machine!!! Back in the day I bought that album but I had blocked out the memory. Hard to believe, but there were actually worse tracks than that one.
I remember hearing a 45 of Marilyn Waring singing Working Class Hero . Now that was cool.
Can’t bring myself to listen to the Lou Reed/Metallica, I don’t think I’ve heard it and plan to preserve my innocence.
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Hard News: One man’s Meat Puppets is…, in reply to Russell Brown,
listening to (and taping) Casey Kasem's American Top 40
Far out. I used to listen to that on my Dad's old valve radio. And tape the songs I liked by holding a mic up to the (embroidered) speaker. I still remember the clunk between tracks caused by pressing stop on the tape deck.
Compact they aren't, but valve radios do have a lovely tone. And the sense of anticipation while you wait the 30 secs or so for it to warm up! I remember listening in the dark watching the glowing buttons and that weird green light with a bird on it.
I used to listen to the SW bands, too, BBC world service and who-knows-what in languages I couldn't even identify.
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OK, the mention of Miami Wine Cooler finally broke down the last of my inhibitions in sharing this piece of full-strength early-80s nostalgia:
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Hard News: One man’s Meat Puppets is…, in reply to Emma Hart,
Hey Lilith, d'you ever watch a Billy Idol video and feel vaguely surprised he doesn't look more like James Marsters?
In a word, yes. :-)
(Where's the coat??)
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Tom Cruise in his undies never did it for me.
But this ….
cf. James Marsters.
[it recently occurred to me that an ex of mine looks A LOT like the young R D Anderson! I note the correlation without drawing any conclusions….]
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+1 to all the Jarre-loving!! I still listen to Oxygene.
And Tangerine Dream…wow, that takes me back.
I’d put Bowie’s Heroes (particularly side 2) in the same basically-ambient New Wave category.Edit: gotta love the über-pretentious video!
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Hard News: One man’s Meat Puppets is…, in reply to JacksonP,
I'm not convinced it's still RickRolling if you tell people it is. ;-)
I could do the hand movements almost perfectly.
I think I've said too much.
Different Rick, but I still want to dance to this one (just like in the video!):
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Hard News: One man’s Meat Puppets is…, in reply to Sacha,
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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Hard News: One man’s Meat Puppets is…, in reply to Russell Brown,
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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Hard News: One man’s Meat Puppets is…, in reply to Jackie Clark,
the pull up to the bumper thing - which may be overanalysing it somewhat, since Jones herself says that wasn't what it was about.
It's a pity she doesn't offer an explanation of what she did mean!