(using other superlatives than "relaxing", I loved Rome, I loved Venice, I loved Barcelona, and - in spite of the weather - I always love London and Copenhagen. Hard to pick, really)
― You're Twistin' My Melody Man! (Geir Hongro), Wednesday, 23 March 2011 15:54 (thirteen years ago) link
do you like the sound of birdsong or other natural 'non-musical' sounds?
― colby, Wednesday, 23 March 2011 16:07 (thirteen years ago) link
Ever fancied visiting Scotland, Geir? If so, what would you most like to see?
― Algerian Goalkeeper, Wednesday, 23 March 2011 16:09 (thirteen years ago) link
are you a side sleeper? back sleeper? stomach??
― diamonddave85, Wednesday, 23 March 2011 16:19 (thirteen years ago) link
tmi
― ilxor you've listened to one odd future album once (ilxor), Wednesday, 23 March 2011 16:20 (thirteen years ago) link
How big is your 'record collection'? The exact size in inches.
― glumdalclitch, Wednesday, 23 March 2011 16:32 (thirteen years ago) link
Geir, have you heard Ron Sexsmith? I get the impression he may be better known in Europe than here in America. I saw him the other night and thought his voice and songwriting (somewhere between McCartney and Costello) would be right up your alley.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4X_l8PIobc&feature=related
― Partyin', partyin', fun fun fun fun (Dan Peterson), Wednesday, 23 March 2011 17:15 (thirteen years ago) link
I am a city guy, and I am sure Glasgow, Dundee or Edinburgh would all be nice. In spite of the weather. :)
― You're Twistin' My Melody Man! (Geir Hongro), Wednesday, 23 March 2011 23:09 (thirteen years ago) link
Actually not too familiar with Ron Sexsmith other than the name. The cut above there sounds OK, but something about it sounds a lot more obviously American than McCartney/MacManus.
― You're Twistin' My Melody Man! (Geir Hongro), Wednesday, 23 March 2011 23:10 (thirteen years ago) link
I love birdsong this time of year because it means spring or summer. Otherwise not thinking so much of it. :)
― You're Twistin' My Melody Man! (Geir Hongro), Wednesday, 23 March 2011 23:12 (thirteen years ago) link
geir are you single?
― B1ll C4ll4h4n (symsymsym), Wednesday, 23 March 2011 23:15 (thirteen years ago) link
when did Elton John get off the bus?
― administratieve blunder (unregistered), Wednesday, 23 March 2011 23:39 (thirteen years ago) link
No idea, but his last touch of greatness was the "Too Low For Zero" album in 1983.
― You're Twistin' My Melody Man! (Geir Hongro), Thursday, 24 March 2011 00:16 (thirteen years ago) link
Ron Sexsmith is Canadian. And right up Geir's alley.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 24 March 2011 00:24 (thirteen years ago) link
Yeah, Ron's definitely "melodic" above all else.
― Partyin', partyin', fun fun fun fun (Dan Peterson), Thursday, 24 March 2011 15:26 (thirteen years ago) link
Escargot my hongro
― Get me two meatball sandwiches Utah, TWO! (chrisv2010), Thursday, 24 March 2011 16:42 (thirteen years ago) link
Geir, have you seen this movie?:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/9a/Lasse_og_Geir.jpg
― Kevin John Bozelka, Sunday, 11 September 2011 21:05 (thirteen years ago) link
should he have?
― diouf est le papa du foot galsen merde lè haters (nakhchivan), Sunday, 11 September 2011 21:06 (thirteen years ago) link
Geir, what is the earliest song or album that you would classify as Britpop?
― giant glittering joyful returning elephant (unregistered), Sunday, 11 September 2011 21:16 (thirteen years ago) link
Geir, which part of "Good Vibrations" do you prefer: choruses or verses?
― giant glittering joyful returning elephant (unregistered), Sunday, 11 September 2011 21:22 (thirteen years ago) link
geir you're in a large courtyard. to your left is a castle surrounded by a moat. a path leads north towards mountains. a fountain in the centre of the courtyard contains a skeleton. what do you do?
― LocalGarda, Sunday, 11 September 2011 21:23 (thirteen years ago) link
need to get geir on hard talk w/ stephen sackur
― diouf est le papa du foot galsen merde lè haters (nakhchivan), Sunday, 11 September 2011 21:40 (thirteen years ago) link
s sackur cracks me up
― zvookster, Sunday, 11 September 2011 21:48 (thirteen years ago) link
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/8f/Hardtalkstudio.jpg
― diouf est le papa du foot galsen merde lè haters (nakhchivan), Sunday, 11 September 2011 21:50 (thirteen years ago) link
Geir, how do you pronounce gyros?
― Chewshabadoo, Sunday, 11 September 2011 22:22 (thirteen years ago) link
hongroes
― mh, Sunday, 11 September 2011 22:25 (thirteen years ago) link
Feeling very hongroes.
― Chewshabadoo, Sunday, 11 September 2011 22:27 (thirteen years ago) link
Geir Do you think this band would interest you?
Swedish band Ginger Trees is influenced by Porcupine Tree to Uriah Heep, Kula Shaker and Pink Floyd. Great melodies, especially in the vocals
― Armand Schaubroeck Ratfucker, Tuesday, 11 October 2011 00:53 (twelve years ago) link
Geir, why don't you like the more avant-garde end of prog like King Crimson, Van der Graaf Generator and Henry Cow?
― ban this sick stunt (anagram), Tuesday, 11 October 2011 08:46 (twelve years ago) link
when are you coming back?
― Bee OK, Tuesday, 10 January 2012 06:43 (twelve years ago) link
http://abcnotation.com/getResource/downloads/image/will-ye-no-come-back-again.png?a=membres.multimania.fr/corneymusers/dl/ABCTUNES.zip/WILLYENO.ABC/0000
― Tom D (Tom D.), Tuesday, 10 January 2012 11:51 (twelve years ago) link
hah? and i just had a question for geir. well, almost.
― t**t, Tuesday, 10 January 2012 21:24 (twelve years ago) link
best poster
― hegel-lacan girl (nakhchivan), Tuesday, 10 January 2012 21:28 (twelve years ago) link
Geir, what is your favorite situational comedy (sitcom) theme song?
― tao lin wolf (unregistered), Wednesday, 30 April 2014 00:48 (ten years ago) link
geir not being around anymore is one of the best lings about nu-nu-nu-nu-nu-nu-nu-nu-nu-nu-nu-nu-nu-nu-nu-ILM. don't bait him.
― espring (amateurist), Wednesday, 30 April 2014 00:55 (ten years ago) link
he still posts her occasionally, and he's way more chill than he was in 2003
― tao lin wolf (unregistered), Wednesday, 30 April 2014 01:23 (ten years ago) link
*here
He hasn't posted in over a year. Sorry, but he's gone.
― Josefa, Wednesday, 30 April 2014 06:12 (ten years ago) link
he posted a few days ago!
― fit and working again, Wednesday, 30 April 2014 06:17 (ten years ago) link
Where? I missed that!
― Josefa, Wednesday, 30 April 2014 07:08 (ten years ago) link
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The GeirBot (Geir Hongro) wrote this on thread Britpop : Time For Reevaluation? on board I Love Music on Apr 26, 2014
― fit and working again, Wednesday, 30 April 2014 07:11 (ten years ago) link
Ah, the Britpop thread. No wonder I didn't see it. Wasn't there any fanfare about his sudden return?
― Josefa, Wednesday, 30 April 2014 07:12 (ten years ago) link
what are your favorite US/UK hit songs of the past 3 (or so) years? in your opinion, is the chartpop of 2010-2015 better or worse than the chartpop of 2005-2009?
― scarlett bohansson (unregistered), Monday, 12 October 2015 18:53 (eight years ago) link
are there a lot of 9/11 truthers in Norway?
― scarlett bohansson (unregistered), Monday, 12 October 2015 18:54 (eight years ago) link
I stopped posting on ILX for like five years, and within days of coming back I see this. It's almost touching!
― J, Monday, 12 October 2015 19:05 (eight years ago) link
The last first, I probably prefer 2005-2009 chartpop. Preferring electropop to that annoying put-your-hands-in-the-air-EDM
Been checking out chartpop way too little the past years, except noticing very much all that Avicii etc. stuff. The easy option would be "Where Are We Now?" by Bowie which was very, very, very good and also became a hit of sorts, but I guess picking old Bowie would almost be cheating. :)That Daft Punk song is of course hard not to like, Lorde's "Royals" is sort of sticking. I always like whatever Coldplay put out, but they were still better in the 00s. Stretching it back to 2012 would also include Adele's "Skyfall". But kinda hard.
Would have been easier had "Flying in the Face of Love" by Neil Finn or "The Best Jewel Thief in the World" by Prefab Sprout had been chart hits. Which of course they weren't. :P
Obviously not the most famous Norwegian ones. The Nico & Vinz one was OK, I guess, but Kygo is quite annoying.
<i>are there a lot of 9/11 truthers in Norway?</i>
Probably not, but they are on the Net 24/7 discussing on Facebook whenever they are not "studiying" watching 4 hour-long home made videos on YouTube which "prove" Queen Elizabeth is secrectly a Jewish Catholic alien reptile from Naboo's Freemason society. Annoying people.
<i>Geir, why don't you like the more avant-garde end of prog like King Crimson, Van der Graaf Generator and Henry Cow?</i>
Too dissonant, you know.
<i>Swedish band Ginger Trees is influenced by Porcupine Tree to Uriah Heep, Kula Shaker and Pink Floyd. Great melodies, especially in the vocals</i>
Could be. I largely use the "related acts" feature on Spotify to discover new music these days.
<i>geir you're in a large courtyard. to your left is a castle surrounded by a moat. a path leads north towards mountains. a fountain in the centre of the courtyard contains a skeleton. what do you do?</i>
Kill the goblin
<i>Geir, which part of "Good Vibrations" do you prefer: choruses or verses?</i>
Chorus and bridge.
<i>Geir, have you seen this movie?:</i>
No. Probably horrible like all movies directed by Wam & Vennerød. :P
<i>Geir, what is the earliest song or album that you would classify as Britpop?</i>
Probably the La's, give that The Stone Roses were really not, not entirely.
As for earliest proto-Britpop song, "Please Please Me"
― The GeirBot (Geir Hongro), Tuesday, 13 October 2015 00:06 (eight years ago) link
good to see you back, geir
― Rainham area Rilke (nakhchivan), Tuesday, 13 October 2015 00:25 (eight years ago) link
Been a while. Didn't remember the formatting even. :P
― The GeirBot (Geir Hongro), Tuesday, 13 October 2015 00:26 (eight years ago) link
do conspiracy theorists in norway have any theories related to anders breivik?
― Rainham area Rilke (nakhchivan), Tuesday, 13 October 2015 00:27 (eight years ago) link
There are a few who tend to believe that Mossad was behind. One needs to be an extreme mentalist to actually blame the Labour Party, but there are a few crackpost there as well.
Those people who believe there was no camp at all I think don't exist at all in Norway. I know they exist in the US (I mean, I used to spend every summer at that exact camp for the entire 90s)
― The GeirBot (Geir Hongro), Tuesday, 13 October 2015 00:36 (eight years ago) link