― thee music mole, Tuesday, 1 February 2005 11:35 (nineteen years ago) link
-- mike t-diva (mikejl...) (webmail), February 1st, 2005 10:57 AM. (link)
Heh. "Look ma, I'm jumping a shark!!!"
But my pick is....
the final song of "Do they know" specifically Bono "Springtime is coming". Don't ask me why, it just is.
― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 11:41 (nineteen years ago) link
http://perso.wanadoo.fr/jeremie.bacon.u2force/image007.jpg
No contest.
― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 12:55 (nineteen years ago) link
― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 12:57 (nineteen years ago) link
― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 12:59 (nineteen years ago) link
― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 13:01 (nineteen years ago) link
― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 13:06 (nineteen years ago) link
Because not only was that an annoying TV moment, it's also when I started really hating U2.
― dave225 (Dave225), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 13:10 (nineteen years ago) link
Oh come on I was only 15.
― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 13:12 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 13:24 (nineteen years ago) link
― Pashmina (Pashmina), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 13:28 (nineteen years ago) link
― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 14:12 (nineteen years ago) link
― dave q (listerine), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 17:59 (nineteen years ago) link
― Snowy Mann (rdmanston), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 19:01 (nineteen years ago) link
http://www.nypress.com/18/3/pagetwo/crimeblotter.cfm
― dave q (listerine), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 19:03 (nineteen years ago) link
I'd also nominate Simon Le bon's dancing as most grisly moment.
― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 19:07 (nineteen years ago) link
Phil Collins is a pinnacle of taste in comparison.
― The Mad Puffin, Tuesday, 1 February 2005 19:40 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 20:14 (nineteen years ago) link
― piscesboy, Tuesday, 1 February 2005 20:17 (nineteen years ago) link
The reformed Sabbath and Zep made complete and utter asses of themselves. I actually felt bad for Page.
I don't remember the "this is your Woodstock thing" but that's got to take the prize.The arrogance of some of those 60's vets is just mindblowing. This attitude is epitomized by those Dennis Hopper commercials for some investment firm that is apparently marketing to boomers as their retirement years set in. Something about how they "changed the world" when they were young so now they deserve the good life. What a load of crap.
― Bill Magill, Friday, 8 June 2007 18:09 (sixteen years ago) link
well they did change the world - they changed it into a polluted shithole run by corporate oligarchs. good job guys!
― Shakey Mo Collier, Friday, 8 June 2007 18:32 (sixteen years ago) link
http://liveaid.free.fr/
― pisces, Friday, 8 June 2007 18:46 (sixteen years ago) link
Boy, too bad I missed that Sting/Phil Collins duo. I bet that was a doozy.
― Bill Magill, Friday, 8 June 2007 18:50 (sixteen years ago) link
I hate those Dennis Hopper commercials. I swear, one of those has the audacity to say something like "You were the generation that knew what 'family' meant..." HA. YOU WERE THE FUCKING GENERATION THAT CAME UP WITH KEY PARTIES AND WEEKEND VISITATIONS.
I don't know how to put my opinion of this in words, but seeing stadiums full of white people tokin' up and digging on Status Quo while a huge television screen shows images of starving black people never has made me altogether comfortable.
― Pleasant Plains, Friday, 8 June 2007 19:10 (sixteen years ago) link
Yeah, but dude, come on, it was their Woodstock. And we all know what a change for the good that particular gathering brought about.
― Bill Magill, Friday, 8 June 2007 19:25 (sixteen years ago) link
guys Africa is all better now, didn't you hear?
― Shakey Mo Collier, Friday, 8 June 2007 19:29 (sixteen years ago) link
heads-down boogie ended hunger
― M@tt He1ges0n, Friday, 8 June 2007 19:39 (sixteen years ago) link
My new favorite worst moment: Joan Baez in Philadelphia – "Children of the sixties...this is your Woodstock [horrible smug grin]. And it's about time."
Best hair: Bryan Ferry's. God, has he ever looked terrible?
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Friday, 8 June 2007 19:55 (sixteen years ago) link
Just now I had to check on something in the stacks and found, to my delight, the official Live Aid book, with plenty of photos and horribleness. Geldof's introduction is amazing in its...well, to give you a sample:
"Remember the day you wanted to help.
Remember the dying who were allowed to live.
Remember on the day you die, there is someone alive in Africa 'cos one day you watched a pop concert."
Yeah I can see how...WHAT?
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 8 June 2007 20:12 (sixteen years ago) link
Geldof is such a douchebag
― Shakey Mo Collier, Friday, 8 June 2007 20:14 (sixteen years ago) link
But I'll say there's a shot of Bryan Ferry in here that's one of the best ever photographs I've seen of the man.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 8 June 2007 20:18 (sixteen years ago) link
"allowed" to live makes him sounds like the roman emperor in gladiator giving someone the thumbs up
― M@tt He1ges0n, Friday, 8 June 2007 20:19 (sixteen years ago) link
Hahah, I love the credit in the back:
"This book was written, designed, typeset and made ready for printing in 13 days. Printing and binding 100,000 copies took less than a week."
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 8 June 2007 20:23 (sixteen years ago) link
But I'll say there's a shot of Bryan Ferry in here that's one of the best ever photographs I've seen of the man
PLEASE TO POST.
(he wore these white dungarees and a navy blue sportscoat that showed up Howard Jones and the Spands something awful)
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Friday, 8 June 2007 20:25 (sixteen years ago) link
Oh believe me there's plenty to scan and post here. I'll do more of that after finals are over next week and it's calmer all around but let's see what I can do right now...
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 8 June 2007 20:27 (sixteen years ago) link
Okay, here ya go:
http://a87.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/15/l_82563afda832e50d05294f9cc37996b6.jpg
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 8 June 2007 20:41 (sixteen years ago) link
such perfect teeth
― Shakey Mo Collier, Friday, 8 June 2007 20:49 (sixteen years ago) link
And something else. With appropriate caption:
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1201/536313156_5dcbe6c200.jpg
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 8 June 2007 20:51 (sixteen years ago) link
...Remember on the day you die, there is someone alive in Africa 'cos one day you watched a pop concert."
wow!...OH MY WORD.
― pisces, Friday, 8 June 2007 21:08 (sixteen years ago) link
I just watched the DVD for the first time since the original Live Aid.
Moments of terror:
1. Daltrey can't remember the words in one verse of "Won't Get Fooled Again," skips verse entirely, Townshend glares at him.
2. Bono's hair. xpost. Especially the way it clung to his neck all sweaty-like. Also Bono's boots and shiny black leather pants.
3. The entire first several hours of poorly dressed and totally forgettable British hair-wave bands.
4. Madonna's set. Sang poorly. Seemed embarrassed.
5. Tom Petty miming "What? What?" during an otherwise OK version of American Girl.
6. Confused crowd response to Run-DMC.
7. Shocking lack of emphasis of David Ruffin and Eddie Kendricks as backup singers for Mick/Tina (with Hall & Oates no less!).
8. Frighteningly horrible teeth: David Bowie, Bryan Ferry, Tom Petty, Neil Young.
9. Who picked all the waistcoats? Did nobody realize it was going to be hot in July? Midge Ure looks like he's about to step into The Matrix.
10. Mike Love's outfit -- yellow Hawaiian shirt, purple pants and flat black old-man's cap. Otherwise, the Beach Boys were actually good.
11. DVD reissue skips about 85 songs, including all of Led Zeppelin.
12. Mark Knopfler's headband.
― Jake Brown, Friday, 8 June 2007 21:09 (sixteen years ago) link
More Ferry to offset the worsts.
http://img9.imagepile.net/img9/384liveaid4.jpg
― Pleasant Plains, Friday, 8 June 2007 21:24 (sixteen years ago) link
Did anyone else do themselves proud? Honestly, all I can remember are the traumatic bits.
― Jon Lewis, Friday, 8 June 2007 21:26 (sixteen years ago) link
i remember zeppelin being good, didn't they do wearing and tearing?
― M@tt He1ges0n, Friday, 8 June 2007 21:27 (sixteen years ago) link
Bowie was excellent! His version of "Heroes" has not been surpassed.
The Pretenders, Paul Young, and Hall & Oates were very solid (Daryl Hall, looking coked to the gills, also doubled as Mick Jagger's keyboardist).
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Friday, 8 June 2007 21:37 (sixteen years ago) link
IIRC Bowie's backup group included Thomas Dolby and Matthew (Soft Boys) Seligman. Definitely the latter, I may be imagining the former.
Did Paul Young have Pino Palladino in tow?
― Jon Lewis, Friday, 8 June 2007 21:44 (sixteen years ago) link
"On keyboard and synthesizers, Mr. Thomas DOLBY!" Bowie shouted.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Friday, 8 June 2007 22:02 (sixteen years ago) link
keyboard AND synthesizers
― Shakey Mo Collier, Friday, 8 June 2007 22:03 (sixteen years ago) link
This WAS the eighties.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Friday, 8 June 2007 22:10 (sixteen years ago) link
Yeah Bowie was awesome, Queen were fantastic too and theyre about the only two acts I recall being any good at all.
― Trayce, Friday, 8 June 2007 23:16 (sixteen years ago) link
Beach Boys?!? I don't remember that at all - was Brian there?
― Shakey Mo Collier, Friday, 8 June 2007 23:18 (sixteen years ago) link
And more mullets, too. Groan. I think even Nick Rhodes has one. I can't look.
― Bimble, Sunday, 10 June 2007 12:05 (sixteen years ago) link
Okay I can take a lot of things, but I can't take Nick Rhodes with a mullet. That's where I draw the line.
― Bimble, Sunday, 10 June 2007 12:08 (sixteen years ago) link
INXS was an example of a band that were still on a creative roll in 1985. Wikipedia tells me Listen Like Theives came out in 1985. But I thought it was 1984. I'm shocked.
Oh my god now they're doing "Don't Change" I'm going to die.
― Bimble, Sunday, 10 June 2007 12:16 (sixteen years ago) link
And Michael Hutchence avoided a mullet! He has Princess Di hair, but no mullet.
― Bimble, Sunday, 10 June 2007 12:17 (sixteen years ago) link
It's very subtle, though. He gives the impression of a mullet without actually having one.
― Bimble, Sunday, 10 June 2007 12:18 (sixteen years ago) link
The Bob Dylan performance is fantastic, but something in my brain says "he should not be wearing that sparkly earring".
― Bimble, Sunday, 10 June 2007 13:07 (sixteen years ago) link
Much as I love her, Chrissie Hynde's outfit was just trying too hard.
― Bimble, Sunday, 10 June 2007 13:16 (sixteen years ago) link
I don't buy the Who-were-regular-guys-not-rock-Gods defense. Townshend tried to salvage the thing with jumps and windmills and a good haircut and falling down but Daltrey was just intent on showing off his chest muscles. A couple times he didn't even seem interested in, y'know, singing the song.
i never said the who were regular guys. i said they were the who, flaws and all. big difference.
― Lawrence the Looter, Sunday, 10 June 2007 15:23 (sixteen years ago) link
Hahah. Amen to that!
― Bimble, Sunday, 10 June 2007 15:25 (sixteen years ago) link
Roger = Flaw.
― Jake Brown, Sunday, 10 June 2007 17:35 (sixteen years ago) link
zing!
― Lawrence the Looter, Sunday, 10 June 2007 18:17 (sixteen years ago) link
If there's something better in the world than Madonna's performance at this thing, then please let me know.
― Bimble, Tuesday, 12 June 2007 02:16 (sixteen years ago) link
Simple Minds' "Don't You Forget About Me" was a new record in 1985.
― Bimble, Tuesday, 12 June 2007 02:25 (sixteen years ago) link
Pete Townshend had the only haircut of the entire festival that still holds up today.
That's because he didn't need to use a Goodyear blimp's worth of hairspray!
― Lostandfound, Tuesday, 12 June 2007 02:52 (sixteen years ago) link
This thing was one of those inexplicable events that when you see it you kind of love it, and yet you know on some secret limbic level how bizarrely and awkwardly of-its-time it will always appear. Of course, we never thought there'd be an extant record of it as Geldof explicitly requested it be left for subjective-memory playback only.
― Lostandfound, Tuesday, 12 June 2007 02:58 (sixteen years ago) link
And Bimble's right -- Madonna was magnificent. I remember that being true at the time and I wasn't disappointed when I saw it again for the first time this weekend. Originally, I watched it with people who were ridiculing her -- "what were they thinking of, allowing teen dance music onstage at such an important event?" -- and I was the lone voice in the room defending her at the time. She fucking knew this would launch her skywards: "People of the world, now I know you're mine"! Awesome.
― Lostandfound, Tuesday, 12 June 2007 03:02 (sixteen years ago) link
Sting, Branford Marsalis and Phil Collins were surprisingly good.
Oh, but worst moment: I'll agree with that Thompson Twins abomination. And Elton was pretty lost and coked up, doing his strange old befuddled uncle impersonation.
― Lostandfound, Tuesday, 12 June 2007 03:06 (sixteen years ago) link
I remember being disappointed, though not surprised I guess, that they did their "American hit"; I was really hoping for something like "Someone Somewhere in Summertime". But yeah, how did Simple Minds avoid U2's fate -- they seemed destined to be massive at the time? In some ways, they really dodged a bullet there.
― Lostandfound, Tuesday, 12 June 2007 03:10 (sixteen years ago) link
Victim of timing, I think. Remember, Once Upon a Time came out in either late 1985 or early 1986, I forget which, and "Alive and Kicking" was huge and all, as were some follow-up singles. But U2 were kinda perfectly positioned in 1987 to conquer the world PRwise (and did), and more than that had a further follow-up album and film next year. Constant MTV rotation didn't hurt, and by the time Simple Minds came back, they did so with Street Fighting Years. Death knell right there!
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 12 June 2007 03:21 (sixteen years ago) link
I've rented the Breakfast Club. It's all over.
― Bimble, Tuesday, 12 June 2007 03:58 (sixteen years ago) link
I WANNA
BE AN AIR FORCE MAJOR
― Bimble, Tuesday, 12 June 2007 04:23 (sixteen years ago) link
I'm going to try Once Upon a Time for the first time...
"Are we going to be like our parents?"
"no...it just happens, your heart dies"
"no one cares"
"I CARE"
― Bimble, Tuesday, 12 June 2007 04:54 (sixteen years ago) link
Dear Mr. Vernon: We accept the fact that we had to sacrifice a whole Saturday in detention for whatever it was we did wrong. What we did was wrong, but we think you're crazy to make us write an essay, telling you who we think we are. What do you care? You see us as you want to see us, in the simplest terms, in the most convenient definitions. You see us as: a brain, an athlete, a basket case, princess, and a criminal. Correct? That's the way we saw each other at 7 o'clock this morning. We were brainwashed.
― Bimble, Tuesday, 12 June 2007 05:11 (sixteen years ago) link
OK dude can you srsly not recite the entire breakfast club script on here? Come on man.
― Trayce, Tuesday, 12 June 2007 05:11 (sixteen years ago) link
Wasn't he interesting. --Og re: Napoleon.
― Lie Bot, Tuesday, 12 June 2007 05:23 (sixteen years ago) link
Ned is wise. But I still don't think -- necessarily -- that it was a bad thing for Simple Minds to avoid their "destiny". I mean, we'll still have New Gold Dream.
(</ Bogart >)
― Lostandfound, Tuesday, 12 June 2007 05:57 (sixteen years ago) link
I was thinking about the artists who weren't featured and why. Michael Jackson, Prince, hell, even Boy George. Anyone know why they weren't there?
― Lostandfound, Tuesday, 12 June 2007 06:11 (sixteen years ago) link
prince said he didn't want to be on the USA for AFRICA single. so he wasn't invited for this.
also Depeche Mode offered their sercvices only to be told to stick it.
― pisces, Tuesday, 12 June 2007 09:08 (sixteen years ago) link
Yeah, Simple Minds just jumped the shark on their own. They didn't need anyone's help.
― Bimble, Tuesday, 12 June 2007 11:03 (sixteen years ago) link
IIRC Bruce Springsteen had just gotten married and was on his honeymoon, and Michael Jackson was on tour with the Jacksons.
― 2for25, Tuesday, 12 June 2007 11:35 (sixteen years ago) link
ALL of this stuff is now on you tube. so many lols.
― piscesx, Saturday, 16 August 2008 01:25 (fifteen years ago) link
Bryan Ferry = still the best dressed and moussed.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Saturday, 16 August 2008 01:33 (fifteen years ago) link
I vaguely remember Bryan Adams being pretty awful
― J0hn D., Saturday, 16 August 2008 02:28 (fifteen years ago) link
In 1985, Michael Jackson was probably sitting in his oxygene tent, playing with his monkeys and snakes and wondering about how to be able to buy the remains of the Elephant Man. I was pretty much surprised when he made "Bad" and it appeared the guy was able to make music at all. For a while, he acted like Syd Barrett there.
― Geir Hongro, Saturday, 16 August 2008 08:59 (fifteen years ago) link
Bahahaha. Damnit I could swear I heard the reason about Prince once but I can't remember what it was now. Is it just in this thread already and I'm too lazy to search for it?
Hell, I don't care either. I could talk about Live Aid all day. I could watch my favourite parts of Live Aid a good 300 more times before I could possibly get tired of them, if I even would at that many. I had just scored the job I'd long dreamt of when I last posted a zillion messages to this thread at once last year. I had a perfectly good reason to go nuts at the time, you see. I was very happy and very, very scared.
― Bimble Is Still More Goth Than You, Saturday, 16 August 2008 09:09 (fifteen years ago) link
35 years ago today. It probably isn't fair to single out Elton but the first couple of minutes plus of his performance are hilarious.
0.56 incoherent slurring1:01 nose pinch!1:04 incredible 'shreds' video style guitar howl2:04 appalling whining for a few seconds
He gives it his best go but as the comments underneath attest it sounds mostly bloody awful
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vy371rkUCr4
― piscesx, Monday, 13 July 2020 12:46 (three years ago) link
Cat Stevens turning up with his guitar to resume being Cat Stevens after years of reclusivity.
He made it to the forward running order. But not to the actual show.
He went back to "not being cat stevens" for another 20 years or so.
― Mark G, Monday, 13 July 2020 13:39 (three years ago) link
All I remember is Simon Le Bon way flubbing a high note in that James Bond song, and the control-room guy quickly cutting to a shot of the bass player wincing. I rewound that part a few times.
― Lie Bot, Saturday, June 9, 2007 3:37 AM (thirteen years ago) bookmarkflaglink
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2K0jE-Nr5Io
― Scampidocio (Le Bateau Ivre), Monday, 13 July 2020 13:41 (three years ago) link