Gary Numan was fúcking brilliant. There, I've said it. I toddles straight off and bought his new LP. Marvellous stuff.
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Gary Numan was fúcking brilliant. There, I've said it. I toddles straight off and bought his new LP. Marvellous stuff.
I watched some of it and gave up tbh. "And here's some auld fella with a rather dull acoustic number." repeat till fade. I missed Gary Numan though.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
I have it recorded, 2-3 different programmes. Wd Sky+.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
Was this old GN footage or new music?
I have a couple of progs on The Who recorded from the weekend.Quote:
Originally Posted by SWv2
Savin' 'em up, for Friday night.
There was some old footage but not enough - it was mainly studio stuff. Numan did an old one plus a new song called 'My Name Is Ruin' which I thought was fantastic. There was other good stuuf - Richard Thompson, Albert Lee and Peter Frampton, for example. Grand stuff. I was pretty pissed, mind.Quote:
Originally Posted by SWv2
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Originally Posted by Sir C
You must have still been pretty pissed yesterday if you thought that was a foul.
Sorry.
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I expect others to defend the indefensible, not you. PRSB will be along soon to argue the Sane offside one.
In respect of GN his better known efforts from “the day” were quite superb, the obvious solo and Tubeway Army singles. Simply brilliant.
A true pioneer, was Gary.Quote:
Originally Posted by SWv2
I used to see him regularly on the circuit when he displayed his Harvard. He was always shy but charming. I have a soft spot for Gary.
A pilot too, isn't he? Or is that what you mean?Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
I love his song about electric friends.
Coming true now. Sex robots.Quote:
Originally Posted by redgunamo
Yes, he was a very decent display pilot, actually. Tricky aeroplanbe to show well, the Harvard. wd gn.Quote:
Originally Posted by redgunamo
Always used to make me chuckle seeing him turned out in flying suit and RAF boots complete with eteliner. :hehe:
Oh, is that what he was on about. I didn't realise :homer:Quote:
Originally Posted by Ash
Fair enough, but is it sex robots or actually robotic sex he means? Hmm..
Ladies and gentlemen, the Eighties :hehe:Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
Well, late 90s / early 00s, really.Quote:
Originally Posted by redgunamo
Always accompanied by a glamourous lady, as well. Flying suit and 6" heels.
Phwoar!Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
The song is from '79; definitively slap-bang in the middle of the 80's.
Amazing when that song turned up on TOTP. Went out and bought it the next day.Quote:
Originally Posted by redgunamo
There was a B-side, 'Complex', that was on my local's juke box. I heard it when I was stoned on some old fashioned Red Leb and it went straight into the neural pathways and I listened to nothing else for about a week. I listened to it again recently and immediately felt that strange eeriness the song would trigger 40 years ago.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
Absolutely! And in other vintage pop news, Soft Cell are reforming for a one-off concert. Terrific.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ash
I saw it. There was nowhere near enough Little Feat for my liking.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
Oh, they're good. They did "Bonita Applebum."Quote:
Originally Posted by Peter
Never mind that. ‘Willin’ and ‘Dixie Chicken’Quote:
Originally Posted by redgunamo
Oh, I know. I was just pulling his chain.Quote:
Originally Posted by Burney
To be honest, anything’s better than everyone picking over the bones of yesterday’s sh*thousery.Quote:
Originally Posted by redgunamo
Fat Man in the Bathtub.Quote:
Originally Posted by redgunamo
Poor old Jim MorrisonQuote:
Originally Posted by Peter
I used to hate The Doors but I am quite fond of them now.Quote:
Originally Posted by Burney
Oddly enough, I’m the other way around. I don’t hate them, they’re just a bit ordinary.Quote:
Originally Posted by Peter
I think ordinary is the wrong word, although I take your point.Quote:
Originally Posted by Burney
I think we have arrived at the same destination from opposite ends.
I am still a little taken aback by your Roxy Music confession.
The point is that was my Whistle Test moment, seeing them for the first time. Admittedly it was a repeat in the early 90s but the effect is the same.Quote:
Originally Posted by redgunamo
Roxy Music appeal to my inner contrarian, p.Quote:
Originally Posted by Peter
I will bite. They are not ordinary. You spoke of Roxy Music as having a unique sound - only one band ever sounded like The Doors and they came from a decade later.Quote:
Originally Posted by Burney
(Apart from the Kinks doing All Day And All Of The Night which The Doors borrowed for Hello I Love You)
Ray Manzarek. :bow:
They go on a bit though, don't they? Jim never knew when to quit.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ash
Six albums? The last of which was arguably the best?Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
Or do you mean the songs? Some are long-ish but not excessively so, given some of the keyboardy goodness going on.
Yes, but those songs seem to go on forever, because, well, so many of them are a little bit dull, aren't they?Quote:
Originally Posted by Ash
Not to my ears.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
Pal.
I bow to your expertise in these matters, a.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ash
True. When listening to The End I can hardly think of anything else.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
I'll give you The End. The poetcùnt.Quote:
Originally Posted by Peter
I am still struggling with the notion that their lawyer was called Robert E Lee.....Quote:
Originally Posted by Burney
I like Five to One...Quote:
Originally Posted by Ash
:music: And in The End the love you take is equal to the love you make Arrr-harrrrr :music: