― David A. (Davant), Sunday, 7 August 2005 04:44 (eighteen years ago) link
― I'm Hi, Jared Fogle (ex machina), Sunday, 7 August 2005 04:47 (eighteen years ago) link
― nicholas de jong (nicholas de jong), Sunday, 7 August 2005 06:08 (eighteen years ago) link
― David A. (Davant), Sunday, 7 August 2005 06:10 (eighteen years ago) link
― etc, Sunday, 7 August 2005 06:14 (eighteen years ago) link
― Hop Frog, Sunday, 7 August 2005 06:19 (eighteen years ago) link
― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Sunday, 7 August 2005 06:55 (eighteen years ago) link
― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Sunday, 7 August 2005 08:05 (eighteen years ago) link
― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Sunday, 7 August 2005 12:14 (eighteen years ago) link
-- Ally (lilbabynothin...), April 5th, 2001.i agree - i put it on in the background as i surf ge net but can't whistle or hum or sing anything except "love will tear us apart".i can't hear the verse in that song.
― sernard bummer, Sunday, 7 August 2005 12:21 (eighteen years ago) link
― sernard bummer, Sunday, 7 August 2005 12:33 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Sunday, 7 August 2005 15:44 (eighteen years ago) link
― I'm Hi, Jared Fogle (ex machina), Sunday, 7 August 2005 16:28 (eighteen years ago) link
― you will be shot (you will be shot), Sunday, 7 August 2005 17:58 (eighteen years ago) link
hahahahah, that's superb. i mean, totally wrong and everything, but superb all the same.
― grimly fiendish the unspoken-word bronze-medallist (grimlord), Sunday, 7 August 2005 18:02 (eighteen years ago) link
― David A. (Davant), Sunday, 7 August 2005 18:12 (eighteen years ago) link
sure, sing all you want. but don't make it the meat of the song.
― you will be shot (you will be shot), Sunday, 7 August 2005 18:26 (eighteen years ago) link
er: but surely that's the listener's choice, to choose what's the "meat of the song"? i can understand curtis's voice grating slightly, but it's no higher in the mix than 99 per cent of other vocalists. christ, i love a whole load of bands with appalling lyrics, but ... i don't get offended by them. (except morrissey, natch.)
as discussed at length elsewhere on ILM, lyrics usually only work in conjunction with the rest of the song, as part of the whole - out of context they can seem jejune. i'm not trying to claim ian curtis is a great poet or seer, but for me he certainly hits a chord of pure disaffection, of worldly horror, that still resonates today as much as it did when i first heard joy division's songs.
[considers mounting a gratuitious attack on bob dylan, just for the fuck of it; decides against it.]
― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Sunday, 7 August 2005 19:51 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 7 August 2005 19:54 (eighteen years ago) link
(Dylan is my one -- inexplicable -- exception where lyrics are as much a part of my enjoyment of him as the music.)
― David A. (Davant), Sunday, 7 August 2005 20:19 (eighteen years ago) link
i have a deep, deep-rooted loathing of bob dylan. but a lot of it is based not so much on his music as on the way in which he's deified. indeed, i've occasionally found myself listening to his music and enjoying it. for that reason, i now have to avoid him at all costs :)
irrational? me? perish the thought.
― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Sunday, 7 August 2005 20:24 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 7 August 2005 20:25 (eighteen years ago) link
― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Sunday, 7 August 2005 20:39 (eighteen years ago) link
― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Sunday, 7 August 2005 21:15 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 7 August 2005 21:17 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Sunday, 7 August 2005 21:19 (eighteen years ago) link
Yes, but that is YOUR experience. My experience is otherwise, and thus we move into the wonderful realm of difference.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 7 August 2005 21:33 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Sunday, 7 August 2005 22:07 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 7 August 2005 22:08 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Sunday, 7 August 2005 22:25 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 7 August 2005 22:28 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Sunday, 7 August 2005 22:32 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 7 August 2005 22:33 (eighteen years ago) link
― I Supersize Disaster (noodle vague), Monday, 4 September 2006 19:56 (seventeen years ago) link
― gekoppel (Gekoppel), Monday, 4 September 2006 21:19 (seventeen years ago) link
― stevo-r, Monday, 16 April 2007 10:17 (seventeen years ago) link
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― akm, Monday, 16 April 2007 14:38 (seventeen years ago) link
I understand Corbijn - who has invested his lifesavings in the project
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 16 April 2007 14:40 (seventeen years ago) link
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― Ned Raggett, Friday, 27 April 2007 14:28 (seventeen years ago) link
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― baaderonixx, Friday, 27 April 2007 14:50 (seventeen years ago) link
― cw, Friday, 27 April 2007 15:05 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 27 April 2007 15:13 (seventeen years ago) link
― cw, Friday, 27 April 2007 15:35 (seventeen years ago) link