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btw it appears calz was attempting to post a url with a whole bunch of extra stuff on the end of it
there are plenty of reasons to read yr posts before clicking submit, folks
― erratic wolf angular guitarist (sic), Friday, 2 October 2020 05:49 (three years ago) link
Calz, it was absolutely fine - you could click through to see the video just perfectly? (I have images switched off anyway, which changes all youtubes to links.)
It's weird how stark the split is between the two eras. Like, post-E Shamen is so much more appealing to my big shiny pop aesthetics - but comparing their 'crystals and UFOs' latter-period lyrics to Jesus Loves Amerika and Shitting On Britain, it is genuinely like it is two different bands. With each passing decade, Jesus Loves Amerika seems to get *more* relevant, politically - but it's bizarre there's only 10 years between "these are the men who put the Right in righteous" of Jesus Loves Amerika and "Mercury UFO, the messenger, from the Lord of Zion / Transcending space to seminate the crystal."
Like, he genuinely seemed like a much happier, calmer, more at peace with himself, less angry and depressed and more well-balanced person after the E, but ... is there something *necessary* about all that anger and rage and pain, to stimulate political awareness and calls to action? (Or was it more, that after a string of successful pop singles, he was a very wealthy man, and didn't *need* to care about politics? That is also a thing that happens.)
((The other funny thing is, 30 years ago, I struggled occasionally with understanding Scottish accents, but now, decades after returning to Britain, I can understand Colin - and even Will - perfectly, but really struggle to understand what on earth the American evangalists are saying in the video? The one at the start, the really fist-pumping bible-banging one, who seems to say 'wibble Tommy!' - what on earth is he *saying*?))
― Branwell with an N, Friday, 2 October 2020 07:14 (three years ago) link
Calz, it was absolutely fine - you could click through to see the video just perfectly? (I have images switched off anyway, which changes all youtubes to links.)
(this was not the case if you have not switched images off btw)
― erratic wolf angular guitarist (sic), Friday, 2 October 2020 07:43 (three years ago) link
I remember someone saying the early Shamen were either influenced by, or were 'like' The Jam.
I really can't imagine that being true...
― Mark G, Friday, 2 October 2020 08:21 (three years ago) link
Did the person saying this have any experience of, or understanding of 60s / mod / psych music beyond The Jam, because that is... weird.
― Branwell with an N, Friday, 2 October 2020 08:31 (three years ago) link
Well, I doubted it at the time to the point of not investigating. (Not that I wanted it if it had been true...)
― Mark G, Friday, 2 October 2020 12:25 (three years ago) link
two years pass...
i didn't realise Michael Horowitz was still with us.
this sounds like he might have made it in 1991 and had been sitting on it ever since.
― stirmonster, Wednesday, 26 April 2023 21:00 (one year ago) link
eight months pass...