SLOW JAM

...it would be the concept band of the 21st century! and rather than intimating we were just a bunch of lazy, sad bastards who couldn't be arsed to do proper recordings or play out or what have you, we could explain it all away by saying that we were making a statement on the current sad state of music and journalism and the general public and how no one gives a toss about the music anymore anyway, so why should we bother making any when we could better spend our time providing juicy soundbites?

heh. you could be onto something...

...and lookie, lookie! as of this post, i am no longer saddled down with being a member of the Republic! granted, it's not nearly as impressive as hitting 1000, but still. 'tis an accomplishment...and proof (as though anyone needed it) that i can blab just as much as anyone.

Originally posted by Gnu Odor Thank you, thank you. My soul may now rest in peace, no longer doomed to wander the sidewalks of Cleveland at night in a sheet. You get looks that way, man.I've got a great idea for a band. Janaki on guitar and vocals, me on bass and vocals, and Look, Here Comes the Laughing Martian on drums. We don't write, record, or play out because we're always posting here, but we give insightful interviews and our record collection kicks your record collection's shiny vinyl ass.We rule. Order T-shirts from our Web site.

Well, are we going to get our Kev to do the producing and extra guitar or will we simply invite him along into the studio on a false premise then proceed to tie him up in chair and force feed him stale dog biscuits (and record his groans and yelps for our own songs) for depriving us of the fourth My Bloody Valentine album....?

:D :D :D

Originally posted by Oh Look! There Goes The Laughing Martian Again!! > Originally posted by Gnu Odor> Thank you, thank you. My soul may now rest in peace, no longer doomed to wander the sidewalks of Cleveland at night in a sheet. You get looks that way, man.> > I've got a great idea for a band. Janaki on guitar and vocals, me on bass and vocals, and Look, Here Comes the Laughing Martian on drums. We don't write, record, or play out because we're always posting here, but we give insightful interviews and our record collection kicks your record collection's shiny vinyl ass.> > We rule. Order T-shirts from our Web site.

Well, are we going to get our Kev to do the producing and extra guitar or will we simply invite him along into the studio on a false premise then proceed to tie him up in chair and force feed him stale dog biscuits (and record his groans and yelps for our own songs) for depriving us of the fourth My Bloody Valentine album....?

:D :D :D

...your hair was long, your eyes was blue...guess what i'm gonna DO TO YOU...

err, uh...nevermind.

:evil2: false pretences are a beautiful thing.

was on the way to work this morning, listening to Gerrrrrrrrready again. hadn't listened in probably a couple of weeks at most.

and i came to a realisation! i DO like "Slow Jam"...but perhaps not quite as an NO song!

especially around the chorus, this really makes me think Jesus and Mary Chain c. Honey's Dead. which isn't a bad thing to me, cos i really do like them and rate that album particularly highly.

though perhaps this means i should run and hide, not only from the rest of the board but from the band as well...

its funny

Originally posted by Grigori Rasputin, the mad mystic of Petrograd can I just tell you about my biggest scar???runs from my sternum to my navel, and was the glorious result of the family cattle ranch...

"Can we just call you G.R.?" he asked, quietly humming the theme from "Dallas."

I like it OK 1.Best Bit-how the song grows on you after time 2.Worst bit-Cheesy lyrics 3.It is kinda catchy dont love it or hate it really 4.75% 5.Biggest scar-I have so many-The little ones I have were from getting my gall bladder removed laproscopically!

Shite, didn't realise you snuck this one out a while ago whilst I wasnt looking Major Wonderboy.... but then it's not one of my favourites anyway...

1: The guitars at the intro. 2: The excruciating lyrics from Barney.....yuk.
3: Don't really like it at all - it's a little on the naff side ("I can't get enough of this..." - indeed!) 4: 25% 5: Scars? Where do I begin? Biggest one I got was right down the back of my head when I was about 15 - always having rucks with the commoners on our old patch in Gateshead - Skinheads versus Rockers versus Mods and Scooterers versus Punks versus Casuals - I've had them all! Every other day was like that scene from fooking Quadrophenia for chrissakes! Thank fook I've left all that behind now....

The best New Order song since TBTHOG.

1. Best bit: the chorus
2. Worst bit: dodgy verses
3. Why I don't like it as much as I could: see #2
4. Percentage: 59%
5. Biggest scar and how I got it: A raised bit of skin on my left elbow (you can only see it when my arm's straight) that I got from a fall on jagged concrete when I was nine. I had a hole in that elbow and one in my right knee (the scar from that's pretty much gone now)

1. the chorus is okay
2. what the fuck is with the lyrics....stupid Barney
3. i was taking a college math class when the album came out, so i'd pop it in while doing homework and that "it beats arithmetic" line always made me smile. goddamn i hate math.
4. 68%
5. scar above my right eye from falling down some stairs and onto a metal stove guard when i was a toddler.

1. Would've been ok as an instrumental, more uptempo a la Let's Go
2. Lyrics, lyrics, lyrics
3. If this is the new direction of New Order, no thank you
4. 5%
5. Scars? Not even one my whole life, no broken bones, no hospital visit. Benefits of being shy and sheltered I guess :\peek:

1. Best bit: erm.....
2. Worst bit: The farty synth noises (if that's what it is) and the terrible, terrible, TERRIBLE lyrics.
3. Love it/hate it? I dislike it less each time I hear it actually, but that's from a starting position of abject disgust, so it's got a long way to go. Almost as bad as "Liar".
4. 40% (and it's only getting that because it's New Order).
5. 6 stitches in the back of my head after a freak "sledging" accident aged 13. Actually, sledge is making it sound a bit grand - it was an old fertilizer sack (we had to make do in the wilds of Herefordshire you know) and I went down a hill backwards headfirst into a dried up stream bed full of rocks that only appeared at the last minute. I've never been the same since. :)

I actually like the opening verse...:D

Could do without this one

6/10