What Can't You Find On The Internet?

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Notoriously a complete tracklisting for the British Now That's What I Call Music albums is not available on the 'net. (Or it might be but I've never found it). What can't YOU find online, and maybe WE can help?

Tom, Monday, 15 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Now that's what I call a website.
I can't seem to find websites that collect articles on art and philosophy. Maybe I haven't looked hard enough.

Helen Fordsdale, Monday, 15 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Ah, but that be the Amurrican NTWICM.

Richard Tunnicliffe, Monday, 15 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

I can't find the chords for Embassy Row by Pavement.

Sam, Monday, 15 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

A copy of 'Evening with Wild Man Fischer'

dave q, Monday, 15 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Sam - Embassy Row tabs

Nick, Monday, 15 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Nope, those are bass tabs. I've found those before.

Sam, Monday, 15 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

But thank you.

Sam, Monday, 15 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Dave Q - An Evening With Wild Man Fischer

Sam - sorry.

Nick, Monday, 15 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Dastoor = the new Google. As in "I Dastoored for transcripts of Eddie Murphy's Raw and came up with bugger-all."

Sam, Monday, 15 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

ok dammit, where can i find a list of pokemon so i can choose which one i want to be?

Menelaus Darcy, Monday, 15 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

ooooh, hoorah! i found something without having to wade through pictorials and flashing text!

Menelaus Darcy, Monday, 15 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Complete historical records for football league clubs. You'd think you'd be able to find out just how Derby County fared in the second half of the 75-76 season, or the details of Everton's thrilling winning sequence early in 80-81, but, somewhere between sites trying to cover everything (that Austrian site with its list of Andorran post-war Cup finals) and club sites maintained by fans (last update: 3-1-97), this info seems lost.

Michael Jones, Monday, 15 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

A site containing full transcripts of French movie screenplays (in French). There's hundreds of scripts on the web for American and British films but the only French one I've ever managed to find is Les Demoiselles de Rochefort.

scott, Monday, 15 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Love.

Which is a real bitch cos every other fucker does.

Pete, Monday, 15 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

I'm with Pete. I can't find love neither.

toraneko, Monday, 15 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Pokemon Data

toraneko, Monday, 15 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

but now you have found each other!!

(heh)

mark s, Monday, 15 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Some philosophy links for Helen (i don't know if this is the kind of thing you meant):

http://www.sosig.ac.uk/roads/subject-listing/World/philsys.html

http://link.bubl.ac.uk/ISC2365

scott, Monday, 15 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Thanks Mark. I don't think it works like that though.

toraneko, Monday, 15 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

A transcript of "The Troggs Tapes".

fritz, Monday, 15 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Nuclear Missiles Top Trumps

Nick, Monday, 15 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

B-but he even shaves his legs?!¡¿

mark s, Monday, 15 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Unless the Barnet Ape's reputation is such that even Australians regularly sacrifice small animals to huge statues of him in the Outback, I fear Toraneko will need to reserve judgment on him until later, dear Mark.

Ned Raggett, Monday, 15 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Mark, I do hope you are not suggesting that I have evah evah shaved my legs. They are apelike and hirsuite and will continue to be so. I think you is thinking of the Devil Dastoor - removeing the fur on his goatlike Pan cloven hoofie-woofies.

Pete, Monday, 15 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

I don't understand any of this. What's going on?

toraneko, Monday, 15 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

To Toraneko: Pete = Barnet Ape. Encounters with him directly prove this, usually when lubricated by drink.

Ned Raggett, Monday, 15 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Does that mean he's hairy?

toraneko, Monday, 15 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Barnet Ape is an anagram of Pete Baran.

Richard Tunnicliffe, Monday, 15 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

English language translations of Serge Gainsbourg songs.

Andrew L, Monday, 15 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Barnet Ape is an anagram of Pete Baran.

My God - I never realised this! And it seemed such an apt monker anyway (he is from Barnet, he is ape-like). How extraordinary!

Nick, Monday, 15 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

i thought i wouldn't be able to find a profile for swarm but there it was.

ethan, Monday, 15 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

A good frankenstein stencil for pumpkin carving.

Samantha, Monday, 15 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

I couldn't find proper information for my report on blacks in the first two decades of the twentieth century in relation to Coalhouse Walker in Ragtime, so I had to go use BOOKS. !

Maria, Monday, 15 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

I just can't find any pictures of Gunter Netzer when playing for Real Madrid. Although plenty from his Borussia Monchengladbach period. :( They should pass a law that every footie club on its official webpage has teamphoto's of every season, hell plus portraits of every player who ever played for them. Ah one can dream.

Also moving pictures (say Real Video) of Mazinger Z are unfindable.

Omar, Monday, 15 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Re Sam and his quest for Embassy Row tab: I'm fairly sure this was on the magnificent Through The Woods (Everything Paved) page which disappeared about a year ago and has recently returned at http://www.deerspotters.com/pavement/, but there seems to be a server problem there right now. Sigh. I hope it gets sorted, because it was a fine site.

In the meantime, it's part of the zip file of Pavement tabs you can get here (click on "All Pavement Tabs!!"), though it doesn't seem to be available separately. It's only an 84k zip file, so it won't take long to download, but if you'd rather not get the whole zip then let me know and I'll send you the individual file.

Rebecca, Monday, 15 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

The infamous library regulations at a very well-known private school once frequented by a certain contributor to this forum, which haven't been available for universal ridicule and worry about their implications for at least a year.

Also, from what I've seen, full details of exactly which seats changed hands in UK general elections up to 1970, though I might just not have looked hard enough.

Robin Carmody, Monday, 15 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Whilst it's not a transcript, you can hear a copy of the Troggs tapes at http://www2.bitstream.net/tgg/index.html

Stephen, Monday, 15 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

THe lyrics for "Miss Money Jane" by Kardinal Offishall. The second line in the chorus.

Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 16 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Oh yes. What I can't find on the internet = information about reggae artist Ras Ibuna, and what else he's done besides the magnificent Diverse Doctrine + version 7" on Grove records, which I already have. There's a handful of shops selling that and that's about it, as far as I can find. If anyone knows anything else about Ras Ibuna, get in touch, I'd be grateful for the info.

In fact, information on 60s-70s ska and reggae seems to be pretty sparse in general, sadly. I also can't find mp3s of a couple of dancehall tracks I'm looking for, but I should probably stop being a cheapskate and buy them, except I have no idea where I'd buy them.

I'm having one of my intermittent reggae obsessions, as you can probably tell...

Rebecca, Tuesday, 16 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

A website with info on Cartoon Sushi.

palpable, Wednesday, 17 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Do you mean the legendary Sushi Seals?

RickyT, Wednesday, 17 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Cos there's loads of stuff if you google for them

Richard Tunnicliffe, Wednesday, 17 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

pornography starring people I know.

hans, Wednesday, 17 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

I can't find the email addresses of several former friends who I'd like to try to contact, what is that about?

Ally, Wednesday, 17 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

I can't find loads of slanderous but humorous ancedotes about my guy's ex. What's up with that ?!?!?

Sam-at-home, Wednesday, 17 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Rebecca - there maybe info on Ras Ibuna on the sleeve for Rodigans Roots and Culture Vol 1 - will check tonight. he also did a track called 'Want to Know'. i imagine the rest of their work was under other names - pretty unlikely for any Jamaican artist to just record 2 sides

m jemmeson, Thursday, 18 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Rebecca (again) - if you're in London then i recommend Dub Vendor (branches in Ladbroke Grove and S.London, either Brixton or Clapham, I can't remember), Sounds of the Universe (Ingestre Place, nr Selectadisc), and Daddy Kool (downstairs from second hand shop, Berwick St). Daddy Kool aren't as helpful though, and won't play tracks for you, but have a big stock if you know what you want. you're talking Jamaican 7"s for dancehall (between 2.50 and 4.00 each), except for the occasional albums (e.g. Sizzla, Mr Vegas) or the Greensleeves 'riddim' albums (10 tracks all on the same rhythm)

downstairs at Ray's Jazz Shop (Covent Garden) has plenty of 7" represses of JA stuff, and a turntable to listen on

m jemmeson, Thursday, 18 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Steady Mike has a point. Lots of Euro info is there, but less League - I think. How about Manchester United's 10-ame run c. late 1985 - does the record stop at game 11?

I can't find a resolution for the www contradiction between Lloyd Cole, on the Lloyd site, saying he loves Robert Quine and they're going for NYC Chinese food next week, and Quine, on the Quine site, saying, "Lloyd Cole just wants to make MOR records for the commercial radio" etc.

Most importantly, I can't find 'Ask And He'll Answer' Nicky D answering my question of a while back, namely: why are there two different versions of the Magnetic Fields' GET LOST LP?

the pinefox, Thursday, 18 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Yay! Thank you m jemmeson. I am not in London but I'm just about close enough to go shopping there one afternoon (transport between nearest city and London = cheap, fast and easy, 24 hours a day; transport along the 18 miles of A-road from here to nearest city and back = overpriced, slow and complicated, and stops at 6pm, sigh). I'll try to get to some of the shops you mention at some point.

Do you have to go and buy tracks while they're still reasonably new, or is there a fair bit of back stock? And are the Greensleeves riddim compilations mixed or do they feature full-length tracks? I'm mainly looking for "Money To Burn" (don't know who this is by but it rocks) and Mr Easy's "Crazy", both of which are based on the Buy Out riddim, but I'd be interested in any other Buy Out tracks or, well, anything, really. (Cue lots of dancehall connoisseurs laughing at me - as you can see, I don't really know what I'm talking about at all. I feel far too white and middle-class to say "riddim", as well, but it seems fairly unavoidable.)

Anyway, thanks very much for your help, much appreciated, you rock. And an excuse for a record-shopping trip to the Berwick Street area is always appreciated, even if I haven't dared venture into the non- indie shops before :)

Rebecca, Thursday, 18 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

(ok that wasn't what you asked for but it may help?)

StanM, Friday, 6 October 2023 16:16 (six months ago) link

two weeks pass...

Osama thumbs up anyone?

Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Tuesday, 24 October 2023 21:27 (five months ago) link

quebecois band le volume etait aux maximum pulled their videos for "teenage gluesniffer" and "les princesses" for whatever reason, but I suspect they might still be floating around in some mandatory canadian music video archive.

Philip Nunez, Wednesday, 25 October 2023 02:57 (five months ago) link

please help me and Jimmy The Mod find legendary Subway ad starring Joe Torre and Willie Randolph that contains the immortal line “that’s alotta meat”

istr they have a playful tug of war with a footlong in the closing image

Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 25 October 2023 11:45 (five months ago) link

Playful tug of war with a footlong

Breakfast at Tiffani Amber Thiessen's (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 25 October 2023 12:02 (five months ago) link

Osama thumbs up anyone?

https://i.imgur.com/N1LzcVI.jpg

c u (crüt), Wednesday, 25 October 2023 12:16 (five months ago) link

https://i.imgur.com/EKiq9Pp.png

soref, Thursday, 26 October 2023 19:55 (five months ago) link

yes thank u

Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Thursday, 26 October 2023 19:58 (five months ago) link

three weeks pass...

There was an album cover I used to see posted on ILX sometimes with a picture of a weird-looking dude with a big red beard which covered a larger percentage of his face than a beard would normally cover. Any ideas?

― peace, man, Monday, January 31, 2022 2:53 PM (one year ago) bookmarkflaglink

― Karl Malone, Monday, January 31, 2022 2:58 PM (one year ago) bookmarkflaglink

maybe try https://www.reddit.com/r/tipofmytongue/

― Bill Kristol Meth (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, January 31, 2022 3:07 PM (one year ago) bookmarkflaglink

xp: Hatcat forever.

― peace, man, Monday, January 31, 2022 3:10 PM (one year ago) bookmarkflaglink

Gentle Giant debut perhaps?

― Dan Worsley, Monday, January 31, 2022 3:12 PM (one year ago) bookmarkflaglink

No, it was an actual photograph, but I do think that it was progressive rock of some kind.

― peace, man, Monday, January 31, 2022 3:13 PM (one year ago) bookmarkflaglink

probably the Simply Red album after Mick's head shrunk

― he's very big in the region of my butthole (Neanderthal), Monday, January 31, 2022 3:13 PM (one year ago) bookmarkflaglink

Julie's 16th Birthday? They Only Come Out at Night?

― adam t. (abanana), Monday, January 31, 2022 4:48 PM (one year ago) bookmarkflaglink

Gary Higgins Red Hash?

― Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Monday, January 31, 2022 5:03 PM (one year ago) bookmarkflaglink

https://www.discogs.com/release/3581939-Jonathon-Round-Jonathon-Round

― JacobSanders, Monday, January 31, 2022 6:20 PM (one year ago) bookmarkflaglink

Red Hash is what came to mind for me too!

― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, January 31, 2022 6:25 PM (one year ago) bookmarkflaglink

These were all good answers, by the way, even if none of them were what I was looking for. I was reminded of my problem this morning when I came across this picture of Roy Wood, which is the closest I've found, but is still not quite right.

https://i.imgur.com/PyaXHr3.png

I feel like the picture I'm looking for might also have been backlit, so you could see light coming through the subject's hair. In the picture I'm thinking of, the guy was definitely a ginger though. I'm wondering if he actually had a full beard, or if it was more like EXTREME 70s mutton chops (a la Ray Dorset, but definitely not Ray Dorset). He also did not have facepaint, but it's possible that he had eyeliner. The guy definitely looked more feral than Wood does here. That is to say that, despite his weird appearance, Wood has a serene look on his face. The guy I'm thinking of had a more wide-eyed intense look on his face, like he was surprised, or possibly peaking on acid.

There's also the chance that I'm not thinking of an album cover at all, and it was instead a promo shot.

peace, man, Monday, 20 November 2023 13:23 (five months ago) link

in glorious black & white, but ginger geezer viv stanshall?

https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/560x315_b/p03mbfps.jpg

no lime tangier, Monday, 20 November 2023 13:44 (five months ago) link

Feels like a slim chance, but: Leon Russell?

not the one who's tryin' to dub your anime (Doctor Casino), Monday, 20 November 2023 13:57 (five months ago) link

Possibly Jethro Tull circa War Child or the Nuge on Cat Scratch Fever?

henry s, Monday, 20 November 2023 14:24 (five months ago) link

Viv Stanshall is pretty darn close! Something familiar about the tufts of face fur climbing up his cheeks. Maybe I will try to track down some alternate pictures of him.

It's amazing that people are coming up with so many different possible answers.

peace, man, Monday, 20 November 2023 14:58 (five months ago) link

HOLY SHIT HIDEOUS LUMP! THAT'S IT!

peace, man, Monday, 20 November 2023 14:58 (five months ago) link

Thank you.

peace, man, Monday, 20 November 2023 14:59 (five months ago) link

looks like a Jack Mitchell photo lol

brimstead, Monday, 20 November 2023 15:54 (five months ago) link

this was a journey. made me think of this for some reason.

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Gw5nh3_rq6g/maxresdefault.jpg

budo jeru, Monday, 20 November 2023 17:11 (five months ago) link

Men used to be so much more fearless in their fashion.

peace, man, Monday, 20 November 2023 17:56 (five months ago) link

one month passes...

Hey all, so there is lurking in ILX somewhere a reference and YT link to a TV play originating from perhaps Poland or Germany, I'm guessing late 70s/Early 80s.

It was a futuristic society story, 1984/Brave New World kinda thing, very minimal low-budget stage set, lotsa perspex and chrome iirc and I'm fairly certain it had a one-word title.

MaresNest, Monday, 25 December 2023 00:07 (three months ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5T9qh4Z46FE

?

budo jeru, Monday, 25 December 2023 00:46 (three months ago) link

Amazing, thanks budo!

MaresNest, Monday, 25 December 2023 11:46 (three months ago) link

cheers! good thing i reorganized my bookmarks recently

budo jeru, Monday, 25 December 2023 16:58 (three months ago) link

I seem to remember sometime in the past year, someone posted (probably on ILM) about a website that archived liner notes, LP and CD booklet scans, etc. Anyone know the site? (I've already found albumlinernotes.com, not sure if there are any other such sites.)

that's when I reach for my copy of Revolver (WmC), Friday, 29 December 2023 02:02 (three months ago) link

This? The Liner Notes Project

Kim Kimberly, Friday, 29 December 2023 03:40 (three months ago) link

Pretty sure that was it, thanks!

that's when I reach for my copy of Revolver (WmC), Friday, 29 December 2023 03:49 (three months ago) link

two weeks pass...

Hey all, so there is lurking in ILX somewhere a reference and YT link to a TV play originating from perhaps Poland or Germany, I'm guessing late 70s/Early 80s.

It was a futuristic society story, 1984/Brave New World kinda thing, very minimal low-budget stage set, lotsa perspex and chrome iirc and I'm fairly certain it had a one-word title.

― MaresNest, Monday, 25 December 2023 00:07 bookmarkflaglink

Love the look of this - fwiw MN, this is an adaptation of the Yevgeny Zamyatin book 'We'.

Fizzles, Sunday, 14 January 2024 11:44 (three months ago) link

in fairness budo jeru had already got that one

lord of the rongs (anagram), Sunday, 14 January 2024 16:21 (three months ago) link

oh yeah, sure, i was just boosting the original novel as well, which is v good.

Fizzles, Tuesday, 16 January 2024 20:35 (three months ago) link

is there a particular translation into English that---we---should look for?

dow, Wednesday, 17 January 2024 00:51 (three months ago) link

I once caught an episode of German pop show Formel Eins. There was a ridiculously OTT new romantic group debuting their single, a protest song against the cold war. I remember there was a background with a cowboy and a cossack playing chess - not sure whether this was a music video or just how Formel Eins chose to illustrate the performance - and I strongly remember the line "why did the Russians invade Afghanistan?", for its literalness and out of placeness in a synth pop bop.

This was decades ago (at which point ofc it was already a decades old rerun) and I may have exaggerated some or all aspects in my mind since.

Daniel_Rf, Monday, 29 January 2024 12:35 (two months ago) link

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_songs_about_the_Cold_War

any help?

koogs, Monday, 29 January 2024 13:26 (two months ago) link

This it?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B77ZophoD-U

jaymc, Monday, 29 January 2024 13:44 (two months ago) link

that is it jaymc! great work.

Daniel_Rf, Tuesday, 30 January 2024 11:11 (two months ago) link

XP to Fizzles, a friend lent me his copy of the book!

MaresNest, Tuesday, 30 January 2024 11:13 (two months ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hoO53l0fUZ0

Daniel_Rf, Tuesday, 30 January 2024 11:14 (two months ago) link

XP to Fizzles, a friend lent me his copy of the book!


: )

Fizzles, Saturday, 3 February 2024 15:20 (two months ago) link

footage of larry king interviewing putin

corrs unplugged, Monday, 5 February 2024 08:43 (two months ago) link

damn! thanks!

corrs unplugged, Monday, 5 February 2024 09:34 (two months ago) link

transcript via kremlin in case anyone is interested
http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/transcripts/21558

corrs unplugged, Monday, 5 February 2024 09:42 (two months ago) link

seems ridiculous that you can have an isbn number but all that comes back in searches is 100 pages selling the same "ed mcbain omnibus" with the same "cover coming soon" and no information about what's in it. i swear the internet used to be more helpful.

978-0340623244

koogs, Thursday, 15 February 2024 17:36 (two months ago) link

The name of a book published around 1912 that contained offensive (for the time) songs and poems. I think the title started with an I. And it was available on Google Books.

― Mr. Snrub, Saturday, June 11, 2022 12:06 AM (one year ago) bookmarkflaglink

Still looking.

Mr. Snrub, Thursday, 29 February 2024 01:27 (one month ago) link

four weeks pass...

A gallery of all 9 original panels of "A Short History of America" exist online in a decent (or *gasp* high) resolution?

citation needed (Steve Shasta), Thursday, 28 March 2024 01:09 (three weeks ago) link

All I could find is this YT in reasonable quality -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRkq595NhD0

Maresn3st, Thursday, 28 March 2024 01:31 (three weeks ago) link

Nice, thank you!

citation needed (Steve Shasta), Thursday, 28 March 2024 16:21 (three weeks ago) link

video of New Pornographers "The Laws Have Changed" on Letterman circa 2003?

citation needed (Steve Shasta), Friday, 29 March 2024 17:06 (three weeks ago) link

It used to be here but was taken down: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zzyp3JC9-uU

citation needed (Steve Shasta), Friday, 29 March 2024 17:13 (three weeks ago) link

I just saw them on Letterman. They did "The Laws Have Changed," which was exactly what I wanted to hear, and the most obvious song to play. Neko looked really pretty, more beautiful than I remember her being from the two times that I've seen the band perform.

Carl looks more like Howdy Doody with each passing day.

― Matthew Perpetua (Matthew Perpetua), Tuesday, June 17, 2003 8:56 PM (twenty years ago)

...

citation needed (Steve Shasta), Friday, 29 March 2024 17:14 (three weeks ago) link

Andy Partridge once wrote a mini-essay (or post?) about songwriting in which he used an extended metaphor about going around a racetrack built by his forebears (the Beatles, the Move, the Kinks, etc.) This may have been a myspace post? Or maybe that's just where I originally saw it, in my memory. It's not in the Complicated Game book and I can't seem to find it on Chalkhills (it wasn't really "news" or "press").

Οὖτις, Friday, 29 March 2024 20:19 (three weeks ago) link


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