Your top 3: "They've done what ?" moments... — Forum Archive

29 Jan 2006, 07:24

Inspired by today's bizarre "The Passion of Manchester" news story, what's your top 3 things NO-related that put your jaw on the floor and took a while to sink in and come to terms with.

Off the top of my head...

New Order going acid house for come back single "Fine Time". Hated it for a fortnight, then heard it in a club and it all made sense.
That metal video for "Touched By The Hand Of God". WTF!?! Watched through my fingers until I saw the funny side 4 years later.
"They've done a song with the England football team? With a football rap? Yeah, right!"

If I was older I guess my number 1 would be "Ian's done what?" but I didn't get into them until 1983. Victim of circumstances.

29 Jan 2006, 08:20

1 World In Fucking Motion. 2 Supporting Robbie Williams!?! 3 Mimed for the first time on TOTP (Crystal)

Still love the buggers though!

29 Jan 2006, 08:26

Releasing Blue Monday
Barney teaming up with Neil Tennant
Barney off the Pernod

29 Jan 2006, 08:29

Shug wrote: 1 World In Fucking Motion. 2 Supporting Robbie Williams!?! 3 Mimed for the first time on TOTP (Crystal)

Still love the buggers though!

Didn't know about 2 and 3. But this is probably my answer too.

29 Jan 2006, 08:41

Breaking up the first time (after technique)
Breaking up the second time (after republic)
The hacienda club. Money guzzling SOB

29 Jan 2006, 08:54

released an old b side as a single - 1963
tbthog video
fine time

29 Jan 2006, 10:25

Barney rapping (especially for "Times Change)
Let the 60MPH video focus on a bear catcher
A Baywatch video of Regret

29 Jan 2006, 10:38

Mimed for the first time on TOTP Baywatch video World in Motion

29 Jan 2006, 12:18

Releasing LowLife Supporting Robbie Williams and RHCP Breaking up

29 Jan 2006, 12:20

1.Releasing GIAUE on digital only and then kicking the UK fans in the teeth by not putting it on UK I-Tunes....

The baywatch moment... surreal...
News of the original World in Motion release... although quite relieved when I heard it.

29 Jan 2006, 12:46

.they've released a football song?

.they've "broken up"

.they've gotten back together. who would have believed this one

29 Jan 2006, 12:46

Supporting R.Williams
Baywatch and Sunkist (tie)
Signed to Qwest in the US; A nice surprise as to being able to find their records easily; I had no idea who might've been interested in them back then, but then if Motown had designs about The Fall......

29 Jan 2006, 13:01

Whats the problem with supporting people like Williams and the Chili's? They probably got paid a lot more money from doing a big support slot than playing the usual venues, didnt have to organise anything and could get away with doing a 11 song set and clearly not giving a fuck.

Would anyone else on here do different if they got a similar offer? I thought not.

29 Jan 2006, 13:34

playing the usual venues

What is a usual No Venue?

29 Jan 2006, 13:37

WIFM :scratch: the godawful live performance of BM on TOTP 1983 :nonono: the pantomine horse at glasto :shrug:

29 Jan 2006, 13:38

Uncle Liam wrote: Whats the problem with supporting people like Williams and the Chili's? They probably got paid a lot more money from doing a big support slot than playing the usual venues, didnt have to organise anything and could get away with doing a 11 song set and clearly not giving a fuck.

I know, I don't see what the problem is. I was at the Williams gig, fcuking great day out. Great bunch of people there, amazing weather and Cologne is a fantastic city. Thought the whole thing was a great experience all round, and Robbie is actually a fantastic entertainer.

Chilli Peppers though, couldn't get out of Lansdowne quick enough.. .

29 Jan 2006, 17:35

delilah wrote:

the godawful live performance of BM on TOTP 1983

i never paid attention to the song. every time i see the video i'm far too shocked by barney's M1 to notice anything else.

29 Jan 2006, 19:41

Uncle Liam wrote: Whats the problem with supporting people like Williams and the Chili's? They probably got paid a lot more money from doing a big support slot than playing the usual venues, didnt have to organise anything and could get away with doing a 11 song set and clearly not giving a fuck.

Would anyone else on here do different if they got a similar offer? I thought not.

True on those points, and count me as one of those who enjoys that gig for those reasons, it was just the news that they would be support that made me go :scratch: , something I wouldn't have imagined them doing in the past.

30 Jan 2006, 00:27

1.Heavy Metal parody video for "Touched by the Hand of God" 2."Rock the Shack" 3.Sing with Ana Matronic from the Scissor Sisters (I love the idea of it, but I hate the song.)

30 Jan 2006, 03:04

Al Jarvis wrote:

Uncle Liam wrote: Whats the problem with supporting people like Williams and the Chili's? They probably got paid a lot more money from doing a big support slot than playing the usual venues, didnt have to organise anything and could get away with doing a 11 song set and clearly not giving a fuck.

I know, I don't see what the problem is. I was at the Williams gig, fcuking great day out. Great bunch of people there, amazing weather and Cologne is a fantastic city. Thought the whole thing was a great experience all round, and Robbie is actually a fantastic entertainer.

Chilli Peppers though, couldn't get out of Lansdowne quick enough.. .

:scratch:

You's two are a pair of tubes :lol: Never thought I'd see the day that people on here would be sticking up for the fat dancer from Take That :D The day and gig itself might have been good, but I still cannae believe that they would do a support slot for someone like him. Perverse at best. At least the Chili's are kinda credible.

30 Jan 2006, 03:11

Good coin though Shug, and a chance to play to what was it, 100k people? Plus they got to play a shorter set :evil4:

30 Jan 2006, 03:23

Non-NO projects, such as the Hacienda, Dry etc. Given the fact that Factory was an indie label without the clout of the majors, even if they had a string of No.1 records and played to vast stadiums all over the world, they still wouldn’t have had the financial clout to pull off some of the schemes that Rob dreamt up and used their money on. The Hacienda was a huge risk even in 1982, they hadn’t come that far down the road to success, PC&L was only just out, they weren’t rich by any means. Sure, Manchester needed a real good venue, the way in which it was financed probably wasn’t the answer though.
The demise of Factory and the subsequent rancour. Inevitable I suppose, given Wilson’s unshakeable belief that the Mondays were the best thing since sliced bread (give him one thing, he’s loyal!!) and the way in which bands were given carte blanche to fritter cash away without delivering a product. While Factory would still have been in trouble (as in 1 above), advances to Revenge etc and failures to pay Electronic etc caused frictions between Hooky and Bernard that meant that so much of the band’s creativity throughout the 90s ended up as side project material rather than NO product. Just think how good an album would have been that contained the best of Electronic and Monaco, with Steve and Gillian on it…….
Bringing in guest musicians on Get Ready. A sales pitch, hiring “names” to see if that shifted a few units? A Warner ploy to see if the Order still had the popularity? Either way, they contributed nothing of merit to the record, yet still loomed very large in the publicity that surrounded its release. Thank God they dropped TMW and RTS pretty quickly from the gigs!

30 Jan 2006, 03:37

oldmonkey wrote: Good coin though Shug, and a chance to play to what was it, 100k people? Plus they got to play a shorter set

Filthy Lucre.

They deserve a big pay day here and there, BUT Robbie Williams? :nuts: :D

30 Jan 2006, 04:55

Shug wrote: You's two are a pair of tubes. Never thought I'd see the day that people on here would be sticking up for the fat dancer from Take That :D The day and gig itself might have been good, but I still cannae believe that they would do a support slot for someone like him. Perverse at best. At least the Chili's are kinda credible.

I really don't give a fcuk. And don't see why anyone else should. People should develop a backbone. What's the worst that could happen, someone's gonna take the piss out of me for [ahem] 'my band' supporting Robbie Williams?! I think not. That's playground stuff. I thought it was a pretty cool thing to do. Supporting the likes of Garbage was a more 'embarrassing' decision cos Garbage ain't in the same league as the Order, whereas we all at least know Robbie isn't an infinitely better selling artist.

Robbie's an infinitely better artist than Coldplay, and I note than no-one's mentioned them yet.

30 Jan 2006, 05:07

I know what yer saying, but we all fucked off when Garbage came on. Are the rumours about you gyrating along to Robbie not true then?

:evil4: :D

30 Jan 2006, 05:19

Shug wrote: I know what yer saying, but we all fucked off when Garbage came on. Are the rumours about you gyrating along to Robbie not true then?

I was on Alex's shoulders, waving me Union Jack bra in the air like a good 'un.

Anyone who can sing "She's the HUN!" to 70,000 Germans is okay by me.

30 Jan 2006, 05:23

:lol:

I see my bait isnae working today!

30 Jan 2006, 09:28

Shug wrote:

I see my bait isnae working today!

Two words, Shug.

Dion.

Dublin.

:laugh:

30 Jan 2006, 09:42

Sunkist commercial
Armand van Crap Helden mix of BLT (not knowing who exactly was responsible for that one, BUT the artist has to approve the remix in order for it to be released...)
Performed a set at that school (ah, to be a kid again...)

30 Jan 2006, 11:49

Al Jarvis wrote:

Shug wrote:

I see my bait isnae working today!

Two words, Shug.

Dion.

Dublin.

And as Uncly John put in his text to me earlier :

For we're all off to Dublin in the green....:D

30 Jan 2006, 15:59

tbh nothing they have ever done has ever shocked or suprised me,they have been a bunch of contrary twats from the get go. i could go on for ever with examples but ill give one. back in the early day "no joy division stuff" no songs,dont like talking about it,ian who? now its all jd,to the point that i would be suprised if hooky carried a pic in his wallet of ian or a figurine on his dash board. you all know the crack. but as shug says i still love em,in fact its probally that defiance and bloody daftness that still makes me smile and say ,aawww bless em to this day.

31 Jan 2006, 13:32

Sunkist (I still don't believe they've done that)
Crystal (I was convinced they were over at that point)
the Sirens 3x7" single getting into UK top 40

31 Jan 2006, 13:53

Mortified with Jetstream... with Jetstream Live, and Jetstream related positivity rounding out the top 3

Also, I'm sure Dion Dublin will bring grit, determination and no small amount of length and Girth to the Celtic dressing room..At Man U Fergie's alledged comments on Dion's Donger were"Its Magnificant,outstanding!" :laugh:

1 Feb 2006, 16:18

Carried on playing for so long. Touched by the HAnd of GOD video!CLASS Didn't rebuild THE HACIENDA!:D

2 Feb 2006, 00:42

mysilentface wrote:

Sunkist commercial

Armand van Crap Helden mix of BLT (not knowing who exactly was responsible for that one, BUT the artist has to approve the remix in order for it to be released...)

JEEZ, that was bad. Noise torture.

2 Feb 2006, 05:31

Playing JD songs at Reading '98
Getting back together so long after Republic
Sly & Robie mix of Ruined in a Day

2 Feb 2006, 08:37

coming back after republic jonathon ross performance WIM

2 Feb 2006, 11:09

miming on tv
miming in videos 3 miming on STAGE to a TAPE!

3 Feb 2006, 04:35

awwww no way man

the chili peppers are amazing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

3 Feb 2006, 05:20

Jack_H wrote: awwww no way man

the chili peppers are amazing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hey Jack - welcome back!

Been busy writing that MvC review have you?! :nod:

3 Feb 2006, 05:54

Steve Lea wrote:

Jack_H wrote: awwww no way man

the chili peppers are amazing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hey Jack - welcome back!

Been busy writing that MvC review have you?!

Busy drinkin meths by the looks of it...RHCP...what? :D (this is probably more to with my own brain damage than Jack's ) ;)

3 Feb 2006, 06:24

Jack_H wrote: awwww no way man

the chili peppers are amazing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

They're good live i'll grant them that. No need for so many exclamation marks though!

3 Feb 2006, 08:26

well they are class

and here are some more:

! :evil4:

:nono:

4 Feb 2006, 17:18

Playing JD songs
Sunkist ad
Boring me with "Rock the Shack"