― Tom (Groke), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 11:34 (twenty-one years ago) link
Do you like Bernard Sumner too?
― sundar subramanian (sundar), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 11:40 (twenty-one years ago) link
― DV (dirtyvicar), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 18:01 (twenty-one years ago) link
Or: the pinefox is to B&S as Roy Hattersley is to 'socialism'.
― the pinefox, Wednesday, 26 March 2003 18:08 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Nicole (Nicole), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 18:14 (twenty-one years ago) link
I first heard it at THE VICAR'S HOUSE. (The Old Vicarage - it's just inside THE PHOENIX PARK.) It sounded surprising - as in: 'jeez, what's this - a new B&S record??'. It seemed to me to have arrived very suddenly.
It has some fine tunes. That comment looks blander than it should. It really does have one or two fine tunes.
Swearing should be banned from pop song titles, though.
― the pinefox, Wednesday, 26 March 2003 18:29 (twenty-one years ago) link
it also has samples of dialogue from the film. They are great, particularly the one about how great New Jersey is. Having heard these snippets of dialogue I feel that the best of the film has been extracted for me. Thanks B&S!
― DV (dirtyvicar), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 20:17 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Nicole (Nicole), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 20:19 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Philip Alderman (Phil A), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 20:33 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Daniel (dancity), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 20:42 (twenty-one years ago) link
tigermilk = the first oneif you're feeling sinister = the 5000 spirits....arab strap = hangman's beautiful daughter
and after that will come a bunch more, none that are actually TERRIBLE but nothing essential or particularly inspired.
― j fail (cenotaph), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 20:45 (twenty-one years ago) link
― alex in mainhattan (alex63), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 21:12 (twenty-one years ago) link
― mike a (mike a), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 21:20 (twenty-one years ago) link
B & S have become an easy target now that they are no longer making the same kind of music and having the impact that they had a few years ago, when they were as loved as deeply and pointlessly as any schmindie band had been for years.
They are what they are - an oasis of mostly gorgeous sweet, inoffensive and occasionally beautiful well-crafted pop at a time when there is little like it around, and they should be cherished for it.
ps: I think Stuart Murdoch ought to give up trying to combine management duties at Wimbledon with leading B & S - it's affecting his workload !
― darren (darren), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 21:50 (twenty-one years ago) link
this is worth emphasising - they have become such a kickarse big fun live band it's almost hard to believe, especially if you saw ye liveliest awfulnesse that was their gig in Dublin's Olympia (looooong gaps between songs, manifestly bad vibes onstage, Stuart smashing his guitar, etc.).
that said, Isobel leaving loses the band an air of entertaining onstage mentalism.
― DV (dirtyvicar), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 21:54 (twenty-one years ago) link
― James Mitchell (James Mitchell), Saturday, 30 August 2003 00:19 (twenty years ago) link
― N. (nickdastoor), Saturday, 30 August 2003 00:21 (twenty years ago) link
A bit of 'Ashes To Ashes' at the beginning, too.
― James Mitchell (James Mitchell), Saturday, 30 August 2003 00:36 (twenty years ago) link
― N. (nickdastoor), Saturday, 30 August 2003 00:38 (twenty years ago) link
― brandon, Saturday, 30 August 2003 00:49 (twenty years ago) link
bastards! i just ripped off that same bassline. back to the drawing board.
― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Saturday, 30 August 2003 05:04 (twenty years ago) link
― RJG (RJG), Saturday, 30 August 2003 05:06 (twenty years ago) link
― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Monday, 1 September 2003 07:36 (twenty years ago) link
― DV (dirtyvicar), Monday, 1 September 2003 08:42 (twenty years ago) link
― Momus (Momus), Monday, 1 September 2003 09:00 (twenty years ago) link
ah well, time will tell.
― DV (dirtyvicar), Monday, 1 September 2003 09:20 (twenty years ago) link
― jed_e_3 (jed_e_3), Monday, 1 September 2003 09:30 (twenty years ago) link
― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Monday, 1 September 2003 09:39 (twenty years ago) link
― Andrew Thames (Andrew Thames), Monday, 1 September 2003 09:58 (twenty years ago) link
― Cozen (Cozen), Monday, 1 September 2003 10:23 (twenty years ago) link
Me and Stuart both read that, as does anybody with a keen interest in ecclesiastical ephemera.
― Momus (Momus), Monday, 1 September 2003 10:25 (twenty years ago) link
― Andrew Thames (Andrew Thames), Monday, 1 September 2003 10:32 (twenty years ago) link
― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Monday, 1 September 2003 12:43 (twenty years ago) link
― Mooro (Mooro), Monday, 1 September 2003 18:34 (twenty years ago) link
― Cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 10:20 (twenty years ago) link
― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 10:21 (twenty years ago) link
Maybe I'll *start* to get interested now.
― Dr. C (Dr. C), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 11:25 (twenty years ago) link
― Cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 11:53 (twenty years ago) link
― toby (tsg20), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 11:55 (twenty years ago) link
― Dr. C (Dr. C), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 11:56 (twenty years ago) link
― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 11:57 (twenty years ago) link
I think this may be the the best B&S song. Memory is an elusive wriggly character.
― Cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 11:59 (twenty years ago) link
― Larcole (Nicole), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 12:03 (twenty years ago) link
― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 12:05 (twenty years ago) link
― Tim (Tim), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 12:08 (twenty years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 13:47 (twenty years ago) link
― Bence Inkei, Sunday, 14 September 2003 17:07 (twenty years ago) link
― Douglas (Douglas), Sunday, 14 September 2003 19:41 (twenty years ago) link
― DV (dirtyvicar), Sunday, 14 September 2003 21:24 (twenty years ago) link