Biggest waste of Vinyl, Tape or CDs

Subject: RE: Biggest waste of Vinyl, Tape or CDs
From: AlistairUK
Date: 29 Mar 99 - 03:51 PM

Doc.- he got on my tits 'sometimes' is the operative word here. He particularly got on my tits wjhen he spent interminable lengths of time tuning up when nobody but him could tell the difference.

Amateur Gospel: right there in the HH Guide between Anal probes of Uranus and Ashholes: the detritus of the universe.

Subject: RE: Biggest waste of Vinyl, Tape or CDs
From: Ronn
Date: 29 Mar 99 - 11:52 PM

Lessons learned:

1)In all matters of opinion, our adversaries are insane-- Mark Twain

2)Sacred cows make the tastiest burgers if you cook 'em just right-- Reverend Billy C Wirtz

3)For every ill-informed opinion there is an equal and opposite ill-informed opinion (including my own)-- Ronn Gilbert

Subject: RE: Biggest waste of Vinyl, Tape or CDs
From: catspaw49
Date: 30 Mar 99 - 01:17 AM

Well my word Ronn...talk about your sacred cow potshots!!! I've been saying for years that there are no new "famous quotes" since the Peter Principle...and I just love reading quotes!!! So many that speak to the point in a far better way than I ever could, so why reinvent the wheel? But there are so few new ones. I am humbled at your genius and I have every intent of using yours, with your name attached.

Seriously, well stroked!!!

catspaw

Subject: RE: Biggest waste of Vinyl, Tape or CDs
From: ddw in windsor
Date: 30 Mar 99 - 01:26 AM

I can't believe I've made it all the way through this thread and nobody has mentioned Janis Joplin. I always said you could get the same degree of musicality by poking a pig in the ass with a hatpin.

Or Gordon Lightfoot, who has written god knows how many lyrics, but only two tunes; you can tell them apart because one is fast and one is slow.

I won't even go into the list of pop screamers, whiners and heavy breathers who run me up a wall.....

Oh, one other. Billy Bragg. I heard him interviewed on CBC a while back because he had been chosen to do a retrospective on Woody Guthrie << by WG's family, no less. Couldn't believe it. The guy is awful; can't sing, can't play and has the social attitudes of a truly wingeing moron. I think choosing a warmed-over Marxist-Leninist to present the works of WG is insulting both to WG's memory and talent AND to the intelligence of his fans and fans-to-be.

cheers, everybody

ddw

Subject: RE: Biggest waste of Vinyl, Tape or CDs
From: The Shambles
Date: 30 Mar 99 - 01:53 AM

Ronn I liked the quotes, especially the sacred cow burger idea.

ddw

I think what you say about Billy Bragg is all true, he has been incredibly over-rated, but I think we should bear in mind that for his generation, he was a lone voice and their only real hope. I think his heart is in the right place and I have a lot of affection for him, as long as I don't have to listen to him singing.

Subject: RE: Biggest waste of Vinyl, Tape or CDs
From: Sean MacRuaraidh
Date: 30 Mar 99 - 05:01 AM

AlistairUK,

you are right and I am wrong.

Dave Swarbick was in fact playing for the Ian Campbell Folk Band and not Pentangle.

Please forgive me (to err is human).

Sean MacRuaraidh

Subject: RE: Biggest waste of Vinyl, Tape or CDs
From: AlistairUK
Date: 30 Mar 99 - 06:11 AM

aaargh !!! ah say...ah say...aaaaaargh!!!

Oh Billy thy genius is still intact in my eyes. Oh these heretics shall surely roast over a bit of burning banjos.

Subject: RE: Biggest waste of Vinyl, Tape or CDs
From: The Shambles
Date: 30 Mar 99 - 09:43 AM

Give me a pint of Youngs, please barman. *smiles*

Subject: RE: Biggest waste of Vinyl, Tape or CDs
From: AlistairUK
Date: 30 Mar 99 - 10:53 AM

aaaaargh is no thread sacred!!???

and that should've read "... a pit of burning banjos"

Subject: RE: Biggest waste of Vinyl, Tape or CDs
From: John Galt
Date: 30 Mar 99 - 11:21 AM

Having waded through this thread in it's entirety I would like to declare that I would savor giving ear to James Taylor and Neil Young on loop for sempiternity just to avoid one more tune by Steely Dan or Hall & Oats.

Subject: RE: Biggest waste of Vinyl, Tape or CDs
From: Dr John
Date: 30 Mar 99 - 11:59 AM

ddw of Winsor, Yes I agree with every point about Billy Bragg, truely awful love-me-I'm-a-liberal attitude and sings like a yob. Great pity he did the Woody Guthrie stuff; pity it wasn't ... new thread needed here. For a UK singer I'd vote Jez Lowe, excellent singer, instrumentalist and song writer - socialist in the broad sense without stupidity or winging.

Subject: RE: Biggest waste of Vinyl, Tape or CDs
From: Pete M
Date: 30 Mar 99 - 05:23 PM

I think you are all truly truly horrible to some wonderful artists especially those lovely new age celtic singer songwriters who share their innermost torment with us. To make amends I am proposing a new award ceremony where everyone gets to win just to show how loving, caring, and just, just, together we all are.

Can't make up my mind if the prize should be front row tickets to a Disaster Area concert, or an evening of Vogon poetry.

Pete M

Subject: RE: Biggest waste of Vinyl, Tape or CDs
From: The Shambles
Date: 30 Mar 99 - 06:25 PM

Or how about a night designing those fiddly bits around the fiords with Slartibartfast?

Subject: RE: Biggest waste of Vinyl, Tape or CDs
From: catspaw49
Date: 30 Mar 99 - 07:22 PM

My ether coagulator just picked up a message from a Vogon fleet currently laying waste to a small planet in the crab nebula. Message is as follows:

"This is Prostetnic Vogon Jeltz and I am ordering you to set up an evening of poetry. We destoyed your planet once and we can do it AGAIN."

catspaw

Subject: RE: Biggest waste of Vinyl, Tape or CDs
From:
Date: 30 Mar 99 - 09:10 PM

I do not know who Billy Bragg is, But if he is a Marxist-Leninist as someone wrote, or (heaven help us!) a liberal, then I see no problem with him recording thw works of Woody Guthrie who was for at least part of his life a member of the American Communist Party. I mean this from an ideological standpoint, as I can make no judgement on performance.

When I began this thread to rag [that's not PC is it?] on James Taylor, I had no idea it woul catch on as it did. I really had "folk" singers in mind, but it spread wildly. I also had in mind artists widely known, and here have found some obscure ones...but that's OK, it's part of the fun.

Thank you all for your participation. I officially declare this thread closed. **sound of gavel banging**--John (not jon)

Subject: RE: Biggest waste of Vinyl, Tape or CDs
From: Sandy Paton
Date: 30 Mar 99 - 10:51 PM

Jeez! I didn't even get a chance to vote, and now the polls are closed! Story of my life.

Sandy