ok I did it artists who plausibly appear to be good people
don't have anything to contribute tho. feel like I only know the bad stories.
― gospodin simmel, Tuesday, 14 November 2017 19:42 (six years ago) link
I do slightly worry that anyone mentioned in that thread will shortly turn out to have rubbed unmentionable parts of his or her body on an underage puppy or something. Maybe that's superstitious but I am nervous about jinxing someone.
(Still, Janet Weiss is way cool.)
― piezoelectric landlord (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 14 November 2017 19:53 (six years ago) link
Street songs is a classic album, shite reputation aside
― Week of Wonders (Ross), Tuesday, 14 November 2017 20:24 (six years ago) link
Not comparing it to Rick James or anything - well, maybe a bit - but Boy George handcuffing someone, keeping them prisoner and beating them with a metal chain doesn't get mentioned too often these days.
Just read about this. I don't think I heard of it before.
― No purposes. Sounds. (Sund4r), Wednesday, 15 November 2017 02:50 (six years ago) link
He got sentenced to 15 months in prison for it
― groovypanda, Wednesday, 15 November 2017 09:30 (six years ago) link
Carlsen told the jury he only escaped after wrenching the fixture free, but was beaten with a chain by the singer as he fled into the street in Shoreditch, east London. In an apparently accidental allusion to Culture Club's 1982 No 1 hit Heather Norton, for the prosecution, asked the jury during the trial: "Did he really have to hurt him?"
― groovypanda, Wednesday, 15 November 2017 09:31 (six years ago) link
Only on ILM could Rick James be dismissed by a bunch of dudes who listen to Ariel Pink and the fucking Swans
― JB, Wednesday, 15 November 2017 11:56 (six years ago) link
in my experience ILM is the only place where does fuckers get called out :D
― gospodin simmel, Wednesday, 15 November 2017 12:11 (six years ago) link
ILM plausibly appears to be good people.
― how's life, Wednesday, 15 November 2017 12:13 (six years ago) link
Which is why Nick S got Embrace to write that anthem about ILM...
― Mark G, Wednesday, 15 November 2017 12:21 (six years ago) link
seems comparable
― treeship 2, Wednesday, 15 November 2017 12:27 (six years ago) link
does = those
― gospodin simmel, Wednesday, 15 November 2017 12:59 (six years ago) link
Astonishing the disparity between Rick James's popularity in the US and the Uk. He never had a single Top 40 hit over here, even Superfreak did nothing in the days when funk/soul/(early 80s) Disco was still massive. Years later I remember being blown away by just how much of U Can't Touch This was based on Superfreak.
― piscesx, Wednesday, 15 November 2017 14:30 (six years ago) link
He regularly filled 12,000-18,000 capacity arenas in the states in the early '80s.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Wednesday, 15 November 2017 14:36 (six years ago) link
As long as there are wedding DJs, there will be "Superfreak."
So it is written, and so it will be.
― piezoelectric landlord (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 15 November 2017 15:06 (six years ago) link
Do Quietus readers know that John Doran is a Gary Glitter apologist?
― JB, Wednesday, 15 November 2017 15:10 (six years ago) link
ilx posters who turned out to be 51'd almost immediately
― imago, Wednesday, 15 November 2017 15:11 (six years ago) link
Rick James' albums after 1983 are depressing, as in "I can't believe the drugs were so terrible as to turn his common sense and imagination into hot mush."
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 15 November 2017 15:14 (six years ago) link
(and I find James overall overrated, even Street Songs).
you probably listen to nothing but ariel pink and swans though.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 15 November 2017 15:19 (six years ago) link
― piezoelectric landlord (Ye Mad Puffin)
speaking as someone who has DJ'd weddings, this is otm
― sleeve, Wednesday, 15 November 2017 15:33 (six years ago) link
The Dream and Chris Brown are recent examples. Hardly even had time to get Chris Brown records, but hated selling back my Dream records at the time.
― matt2, Wednesday, 15 November 2017 15:36 (six years ago) link
I should have expanded: as long as there are *weddings*, there will be wedding DJs, and as long as there are wedding DJs, there will be "Superfreak."
Esprit de l'escalier and all that
― piezoelectric landlord (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 15 November 2017 15:48 (six years ago) link
The Dream?
https://www.gannett-cdn.com/-mm-/d4b8808e57a1de207d62c6fb0b4a9a8e72cd65be/c=0-467-3273-4831&r=537&c=0-0-534-712/local/-/media/2017/06/21/Phoenix/Phoenix/636336450933664319-be8c32d1-e1c6-4ec2-9fe0-cfb3aae3296e.jpg
He's bad.
― how's life, Wednesday, 15 November 2017 16:02 (six years ago) link
Astonishing the disparity between Rick James's popularity in the US and the Uk. He never had a single Top 40 hit over here.
That said, "You And I" was a massive club tune in 1978. It spent four weeks at #2 in the Record Mirror disco chart (only kept off the top by "Boogie Oogie Oogie"), and had 26 consecutive weeks on the chart in total. And yet, it's never revived.
― mike t-diva, Wednesday, 15 November 2017 17:55 (six years ago) link
If this is a joke, it's not particularly funny.
If you're being serious, let me draw your attention to what I said: "What Gary Glitter did was unforgivable". And just to clarify (what doesn't really need clarifying tbh)I don't think Glitter was 'unlucky' or 'caught a tough break'; rather the opposite, that ideally everyone guilty of these crimes should suffer the same punishment.
― Doran, Wednesday, 15 November 2017 19:08 (six years ago) link
don't feed the moron :)
― imago, Wednesday, 15 November 2017 19:11 (six years ago) link
My laptop side bellend census isn't up to date, apologies for the oversight...
― Doran, Wednesday, 15 November 2017 19:15 (six years ago) link
Nah, I totally get what Doran was saying. Like this is what has rendered R. Kelly totally unlistenable to me, when he's singing about all that freak sex stuff you now know exactly what sort of person he's doing it to. His music is inseparable from the person. There's a reason why Michael Jackson's "Childhood" creeped people out where his other music didn't. Gary Glitter wrote a sports anthem with no real lyrics and had virtually no hits otherwise. When I hear it I don't really think "Oh no, Gary Glitter..."
― frogbs, Wednesday, 15 November 2017 19:21 (six years ago) link
Gary Glitter wrote a sports anthem with no real lyrics and had virtually no hits otherwise.
LOL Americans
― Terry Micawber (Tom D.), Wednesday, 15 November 2017 19:23 (six years ago) link
https://genius.com/Gary-glitter-rock-and-roll-part-2-lyrics
this is killing me
― the Hannah Montana of the Korean War (DJP), Wednesday, 15 November 2017 19:23 (six years ago) link
Cageian.
― Terry Micawber (Tom D.), Wednesday, 15 November 2017 19:24 (six years ago) link
Yeah, what Tom D said - Glitter had several huge hits here, including the one where he repeatedly asked if you (the listener) wanted to be in his "gang" ...
― Gholdfish Killah (Turrican), Wednesday, 15 November 2017 19:26 (six years ago) link
Let's not forget the one where he asked if you wanted touch him. Where? There.
― Terry Micawber (Tom D.), Wednesday, 15 November 2017 19:27 (six years ago) link
yeesh
― the Hannah Montana of the Korean War (DJP), Wednesday, 15 November 2017 19:27 (six years ago) link
You should hear his albums.
― Terry Micawber (Tom D.), Wednesday, 15 November 2017 19:28 (six years ago) link
I'm gonna pass on that one
― the Hannah Montana of the Korean War (DJP), Wednesday, 15 November 2017 19:29 (six years ago) link
i only listen to the version by philadelphia industrial rock legends executive slacks.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgTHmlVmP78
― scott seward, Wednesday, 15 November 2017 19:29 (six years ago) link
as you Tom already said, the Glitter Band was way better
― the intentional phallusy (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 15 November 2017 19:30 (six years ago) link
re Gary Glitter - would suggest avoiding "Happy Birthday"
― Colonel Poo, Wednesday, 15 November 2017 19:30 (six years ago) link
"I wouldn't buy any of Glitter's records new because of the financial implications but I'll still listen to them on YouTube, buy them from a second hand record shop or download them for free."
John Doran, honourary member of Gary Glitter's gang
― JB, Wednesday, 15 November 2017 19:31 (six years ago) link
what the fuck is your problem you shit wannabe wight dorke
― imago, Wednesday, 15 November 2017 19:32 (six years ago) link
don't feed the raccoon.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 15 November 2017 19:34 (six years ago) link
hahaha that must be the quickest I've ever disregarded my own advice
― imago, Wednesday, 15 November 2017 19:36 (six years ago) link
I actually don't own any Gary Glitter albums but, in theory I wouldn't have a problem in buying them second hand. I listened to Rock And Roll part one a load of times when I was reading Simon Reynolds' glam book and researching an interview with him. It's an astonishing record.
― Doran, Wednesday, 15 November 2017 20:22 (six years ago) link
Wasn't the Glitter sound mainly down to Mike Leander anyway?
― Gholdfish Killah (Turrican), Wednesday, 15 November 2017 20:32 (six years ago) link
Yeah, sure absolutely. That's absolutely what my fascination is about.
― Doran, Wednesday, 15 November 2017 20:35 (six years ago) link
I think Mike Leander played most of the instruments on those early Gary Glitter records too.
― Terry Micawber (Tom D.), Wednesday, 15 November 2017 21:29 (six years ago) link
glitter so lazy; probably also had other people molest children for him too
― akm, Wednesday, 15 November 2017 22:02 (six years ago) link
i used to really like rock'n'roll christmas when i was a kid
― -_- (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 15 November 2017 22:03 (six years ago) link