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I can't sleep; Add your own answers here or your own post, but if you're going to do your own post, it would only be fair to give masoo credit.
1. What's your favorite band?
Joy Division; It's all gloom and doom in my world.
2. Do you play an instrument?
No.
3. Sing?
Shout, badly
4. Write lyrics?
Do I look gay?
5. Have you ever slept with a drummer?
Not knowingly.
6. What's the coolest concert you've ever attended?
a) Seeing The Clash play 'White Man in Hammersmith Palais' in Hammersmith Palais.
b) Portishead in a tiny tent at Glastonbury just after they released the first album.
c) The Stones Roses in 2 pubs the month before they exploded on the scene.
.......and, oh yeah, Joy Division supporting The Stranglers at the Rainbow, London.
7. Who's the most skilled guitarist of all time?
My heroes are Bass players; Peter Hook, Jean Jacques Burnel & Jah Wobble.
8. Name a song that just makes you want to break stuff.
Killing in the Name by Rage Against the Machine
9. Name three musicians who died of drug overdoses.
Sell your soul to the devil, only one thing goin' to happen...
10. What's the best lyric ever written?
You were emotionally independent
But starved of affection
But now you've been trapped by tenderness
And been beaten into submission - The Twilight Hour by The The
11. If you could experience one band/artist perform live at any point in history, who?
Sex Pistols at Manchester Free Trade Hall 1976
12. If you could master any instrument, which would it be?
Not that intrested to be honest...
13. If you had the power to rid the world of one genre of music, what would be gone?
Jazz; Do-be-do-be-do....
14. What song do you have playing right now?
One Day Like This by Elbow.
15. Greatest album in the history of time?
Joy Division's Closer.
16. Is Elvis still The King?
Never, ever was....
17. What's your favourite musical?
I hate musicals.
18. When you hear the phrase "Rock 'N' Roll" what comes to mind?
The 1950's
19. Ever wanted to be a DJ?
Not really although I'm always telling people to 'listen to this'
20. If you could sleep with any famous musician, who would it be?
P.J.Harvey (please?)
You may have heard Barringtone frontman Barry Dobbin in his previous incarnation with quirky Parlophone underachievers Clor, whose debut Love And Pain was well received but failed to make any huge breakthroughs. Doubtless their rubbish name contributed.
OK, Barringtone isn’t much of an improvement on the name front, but the band’s first single certainly points to potential greatness. Heralded by a bizarre rock-opera intro and a thunderclap of guitar and drums (seemingly lifted from a completely different track), Snake In The Grass is a politely danceable urgent pop tune - until the band wilfully mess with the time signature every few moments, as though they are willing you to look awkward on the dancefloor.
The band’s debut single, produced by Simian Mobile Disco’s Jaz Shaw, also bravely attempts to redress the balance for the criminal underuse of the word ‘wahoo’ in modern pop. Q - Magazine
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No matter how many cool Indie Disco's you've been to, you are going to end up at a wedding reception with 3 glasses of champage and half a dozen beers inside you dancing around with the brides maid's to;
Inner City - Big Fun 12" (1988)
Paradise (renamed Big Fun in the U.S.) is the debut album by Detroit-based dance music duo Inner City, released in 1989. The album was a great success in the UK and in U.S. clubs and was one of the first house music albums to cross over to the mainstream charts, particularly in Europe. Group member Kevin Saunderson (along with Juan Atkins, who produced one track) is renowned as one of the originators the Detroit Techno sound. Lead vocals on Paradise were performed by Paris Grey.
The album was retitled Big Fun for its U.S. release, and the ballad "Power of Passion" was replaced with "Whatcha Gonna Do with My Lovin'" when that song became popular in the U.S. The original U.S. pressing, however, contains the former.
A top-three success in the UK, Paradise spun off four top-twenty singles (three of which hit the UK top ten). The first four singles released from the album topped the U.S. Hot Dance Club Play chart. A remix album featuring songs from Paradise was released in the UK later in 1989.
Good Life
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I definitely recall "Good Life", that is a great song. Hadn't heard 'Big Fun' before though. . . .
i've since banned myself from wedding parties due to my previous experiences mixing champagne, wine, rich food and dancing. it wasn't pretty.
love this "No matter how many cool Indie Disco's you've been to, you are going to end up at a wedding reception with 3 glasses of champage and half a dozen beers inside you dancing around with the brides maid's to;"
you crack me up
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Aside from question #8, "been there, done that" yesterday. (That question in the previous post ended with the phrase "break shit.")
This is what happens when you copy and paste from a good Morman boy like Dale...
LOL!!! Good stuff.