My favourite Viz strip was "Vidal Baboon"
― It was a Thursday night. I was working late... (dog latin), Thursday, 8 September 2011 09:39 (twelve years ago) link
Luke Haines otm
― placeholder for weak pun (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 8 September 2011 09:40 (twelve years ago) link
The Auteurs had already nailed it with The Upper Classes.
Did Luke Haines have a strand of uncertainty with regard his position in the social strata in the lyrics? Or was it pure invective?
I mean, I also wrote a version of a similar scenario, way back in the day. It was called "Lichtenstein". It wasn't great, but.
― Mark G, Thursday, 8 September 2011 09:41 (twelve years ago) link
I voted for Different Class, by the way, risking the opprobrium of various people on here.
― Daniel Giraffe, Thursday, 8 September 2011 09:42 (twelve years ago) link
xxxpost Vidal Baboon LOL
― Daniel Giraffe, Thursday, 8 September 2011 09:43 (twelve years ago) link
i gots no problem with people repping for pedestrian indie as long as they don't mind a little banter in return
― placeholder for weak pun (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 8 September 2011 09:44 (twelve years ago) link
god pulp really are the fucking worst band ever though. i literally want to punch jarvis DICKHEAD cocker in the face
so otm
― seasoning sauce all over me (tpp), Thursday, 8 September 2011 09:45 (twelve years ago) link
mum emailed me to tell me "dj harvey that dj you and your father like won the mercury music prize" haha
― Crackle Box, Thursday, 8 September 2011 09:46 (twelve years ago) link
if that's where you're setting the bar i'm not sure what in the way of indie wouldn't fall under it.
― Upt0eleven, Thursday, 8 September 2011 09:47 (twelve years ago) link
indie music is just the worst.
― It was a Thursday night. I was working late... (dog latin), Thursday, 8 September 2011 09:48 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah, that King Creosote, for one
― Euripides Trousers (Tom D.), Thursday, 8 September 2011 09:52 (twelve years ago) link
it's just rubbish innit? just blokes meowling in stupid accents about how the quality of the rain was better in the '60s.
― It was a Thursday night. I was working late... (dog latin), Thursday, 8 September 2011 09:55 (twelve years ago) link
xxxxp preferred him when he played for AFC Wimbledon.
― James Mitchell, Thursday, 8 September 2011 09:56 (twelve years ago) link
Who? Glenn Mulcaire?
― Euripides Trousers (Tom D.), Thursday, 8 September 2011 09:57 (twelve years ago) link
and don't get me started on the grebos...
― It was a Thursday night. I was working late... (dog latin), Thursday, 8 September 2011 09:58 (twelve years ago) link
Was MC Harvey, not DJ Harvey, sorry.
― James Mitchell, Thursday, 8 September 2011 10:04 (twelve years ago) link
and don't get me started on gomez. i would like to PUNCH all of them in the DICK extremely HARD
― missingNO, Thursday, 8 September 2011 10:06 (twelve years ago) link
with my FIST
― missingNO, Thursday, 8 September 2011 10:08 (twelve years ago) link
DICK...HARD...FIST...
o_O
― placeholder for weak pun (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 8 September 2011 10:08 (twelve years ago) link
Its no good taking the piss out of Michael Jackson when your legacy is a load of landfill brit-pop shite and a decades worth of Peel session debris. Pulp were truly dreadful, just pumped up chancers who got lucky. The fifth form doggerel of JC on Common People is the apex of absolute shiteness.
otmfm. had an argument in the pub about that last night - everyone lionises cocker for that dickhead stunt but it's like, c'mon son stack MJ's music up against JC's and there's only one possible winner, and it's not the man peddling trite ~social commentary~ that only seems smart cuz it was concurrent with fucking neanderthals like oasis
― lex pretend, Thursday, 8 September 2011 10:09 (twelve years ago) link
god franz ferdinand are a bunch of CUNTS aren't they? they deserve to get KICKED in the HEAD very HARD by FEET
― missingNO, Thursday, 8 September 2011 10:10 (twelve years ago) link
SO HARD... literally!
― It was a Thursday night. I was working late... (dog latin), Thursday, 8 September 2011 10:10 (twelve years ago) link
ehhh -- MJ rules but the spectacle of wiry uncertain Cocker destroying Jackson's well-choreographed display of kitch was great television.
― Anakin Ska Walker (AKA Skarth Vader) (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 8 September 2011 10:13 (twelve years ago) link
"wiry, uncertain" = ripped to the tits on coke
― placeholder for weak pun (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 8 September 2011 10:14 (twelve years ago) link
nb nowt wrong with being ripped to the tits on coke but let's not buy this "David vs Super-Goliath" version eh?
― placeholder for weak pun (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 8 September 2011 10:15 (twelve years ago) link
cos it was much more like "hype toddler shows off in front of mates" imo
OTM, still MJ deserved it, no matter how good he was
― Euripides Trousers (Tom D.), Thursday, 8 September 2011 10:16 (twelve years ago) link
i often think that if MJ had beaten the crap out of him there and then his career wd have never dipped
― placeholder for weak pun (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 8 September 2011 10:17 (twelve years ago) link
He's a lover, not a fighter
― Geirge Hongriot (NickB), Thursday, 8 September 2011 10:17 (twelve years ago) link
and really "oddball reclusive black guy pretends to be Jesus in concert performance" is much more subversive and funny than "aging student doesn't like pop music"
― placeholder for weak pun (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 8 September 2011 10:18 (twelve years ago) link
tbh give me a pop star throwing jesus poses any day over a pop star trying cluelessly to be an Important Social Commentator
― lex pretend, Thursday, 8 September 2011 10:18 (twelve years ago) link
What's that Oasis song again, Heal The World?
― It was a Thursday night. I was working late... (dog latin), Thursday, 8 September 2011 10:19 (twelve years ago) link
though i guess MJ was trying to be both, lol
― lex pretend, Thursday, 8 September 2011 10:19 (twelve years ago) link
Isn't that what Jacko was doing tho? Albeit in messianic megalomaniac mode?
― Euripides Trousers (Tom D.), Thursday, 8 September 2011 10:20 (twelve years ago) link
oops (xp)
and really "oddball reclusive black guy pretends to be Jesus in concert performance" is much more subversive and funny
Maybe, if it actually had been subversive or funny
― Euripides Trousers (Tom D.), Thursday, 8 September 2011 10:21 (twelve years ago) link
rephrase: if you're a pop star trying to be an Important Social Commentator, you damn well better accompany it with some jesus poses
― lex pretend, Thursday, 8 September 2011 10:22 (twelve years ago) link
Thing is, JCock was 'hero' to many for that stunt for years, but after MJackson died, the whole thing seems, um, I dunno, churlish?
― Mark G, Thursday, 8 September 2011 10:24 (twelve years ago) link
Enjoying doglatin’s finessed irony here. Where’s ex-ILMer and “Toploder” fan Andy Paltridge when you need him?
― Here he is with the classic "Poème Électronique." Good track (Marcello Carlin), Thursday, 8 September 2011 10:24 (twelve years ago) link
xxpost jesus was famous for his flappy flappy arse wave
― Upt0eleven, Thursday, 8 September 2011 10:24 (twelve years ago) link
Romans didn't like that shit AT ALL
― Geirge Hongriot (NickB), Thursday, 8 September 2011 10:26 (twelve years ago) link
From Wikipedia
Pulp (band)History (1978 - 2011):Jarvis Cockhead spent 30 years striking ridiculous poses round the common room wearing the same knock-off Che t-shirt and quoting The Communist Manifesto at anyone who would bother listening to him. Then one day he decided to punch Michael Jackson. Then he grew a beard. Jarvis Cocker is gay.
History (1978 - 2011):
Jarvis Cockhead spent 30 years striking ridiculous poses round the common room wearing the same knock-off Che t-shirt and quoting The Communist Manifesto at anyone who would bother listening to him. Then one day he decided to punch Michael Jackson. Then he grew a beard. Jarvis Cocker is gay.
― It was a Thursday night. I was working late... (dog latin), Thursday, 8 September 2011 10:27 (twelve years ago) link
jesus poses > important social commentary >>>>>>>> ~self-important lex commentary~
― Come and get it with King (G'Day) Boy (G'Day) Pato (King Boy Pato), Thursday, 8 September 2011 10:28 (twelve years ago) link
Different Class? Shitferent Class you mean...
― It was a Thursday night. I was working late... (dog latin), Thursday, 8 September 2011 10:29 (twelve years ago) link
xp It wasn't Jarvis v pop (which he loves) or Jarvis v Michael Jackson's back catalogue, it was Jarvis v creepy, messianic hubris. Not his finest hour by any means but balls to pro-Earth Song revisionism.
― Science, you guys. Science. (DL), Thursday, 8 September 2011 10:49 (twelve years ago) link
Still a prick after all these years, DL, I see.
― Here he is with the classic "Poème Électronique." Good track (Marcello Carlin), Thursday, 8 September 2011 10:55 (twelve years ago) link
Glad you got that off your chest.
― Science, you guys. Science. (DL), Thursday, 8 September 2011 11:00 (twelve years ago) link
It's amazing what you can do with duct tape and Onken strawberry mousse.
― Here he is with the classic "Poème Électronique." Good track (Marcello Carlin), Thursday, 8 September 2011 11:02 (twelve years ago) link
OMG I understood that.
― Mark G, Thursday, 8 September 2011 11:03 (twelve years ago) link
Elegant Slumming, easily. Most of the other stuff I've heard is either bland (Portishead, Roni Size, Talving Singh), irritating (Dizzee, Pulp, Primal Scream) or shite. The Ms. Dynamite album has few good tunes, but it's wildly uneven.
― Tuomas, Thursday, 8 September 2011 11:06 (twelve years ago) link
Speech Débile
― Yo wait a minute man, you better think about the world (dog latin), Friday, 23 September 2011 15:01 (twelve years ago) link
@campbellclaret Alastair Campbell met Speech Debelle at a Labour/arts do last night. Really nice, and she didn't laugh when I showed her the song I wrote about Elvis5 minutes ago via web
― lex pretend, Friday, 23 September 2011 15:31 (twelve years ago) link
Never before have I seen so much irrelevence in one tweet.
― Matt DC, Friday, 23 September 2011 15:35 (twelve years ago) link
would love to hear that tbh
― good luck in your pyramid (Neil S), Friday, 23 September 2011 15:36 (twelve years ago) link
He later had a discussion about Avatar and vuvuzelas with Hull City manager Phil Brown.
― Matt DC, Friday, 23 September 2011 15:40 (twelve years ago) link
See, i have no idea if you're joking about that or not
― pandemic, Friday, 23 September 2011 16:00 (twelve years ago) link