for Bimble wherever you are

RIP Mark

I believe it was Bimble whom told me that he was looking for a good glam rock compilation (outside of the one I mentioned Starbucks selling at my local Kroger). I would like you all to help me make this mix for him - wherever he may be now, rest his soul.

1. Roxy Music - Pyjamarama

2. Mick Ronson - Billy Porter

3. Sweet - Love is Like Oxygen

4. Sweet - Blockbuster

5. Mott the Hoople - Hymn For the Dudes

6. The Glitter Band - Let's Get Together Again

7. Mott the Hoople - Crash Street Kids (I can totally imagine him ecstatic about the fadeout in the middle)

8. Brian Eno - Seven Deadly Finns

9. "Twentieth Century Boy" by T.Rex

10. "Thank God its Not Christmas" - Sparks

11. "Vicious" - Lou Reed

12. Sparks - Here in Heaven

13. "Metal Guru" - T. Rex

14. something from the first Be Bop Deluxe album

15. "My Only Vice (Is The Fantastic Prices I Charge For Being Eaten Alive)" - Cockney Rebel

"But how can I lay, when all I do is play ... the spaceball ricochet"

17. La Dusseldorf - Viva/White Overalls

18. kate bush - cloudbusting

19. Sister Sledge - Lost In Music

sorry i missed the glam rock designation -- feel free to delete -- I was just thinking about how much he love chic

Sister Sledge are still pretty glam.

20. Suzi Quatro - "Can The Can"

Someone should probably post some Suzi Quatro too

21. Sensational Alex Harvey Band - The Faith Healer

Sweet - Love is Like Oxygen

Glad Matt got this.

22. Stevie Nicks, "If Anyone Falls"

See, you can call me a blasphemer, but to me that's one step above even Edge of Seventeen. I know, take me out to the stockades right?

― Bimble Is Still More Goth Than You, Saturday, December 6, 2008

23. Bowie - Moonage Daydream (... natch)

sorry i missed the glam rock designation -- feel free to delete -- I was just thinking about how much he love chic

― m coleman, Thursday, August 6, 2009 5:58 PM (16 minutes ago) Bookmark

^^ also missed this, sorry :(

24 - Gary Glitter - Cleveland rocks

25. Hall & Oates - "One On One"

26. Peter Hammill - Nadir's Big Chance

24 is obv Ian Hunter and not Gary Glitter

25 - Slade - Gudbuy T'Jane

26. Peter Hammill - Nadir's Big Chance

Oh yes

28. Wings - Jet

29. Kate Bush -- All The Love.

m@rk once asked me what the lyrics to this song meant. i told him it was about friends who you always want to reach out to, but then life gets in the way and it becomes too late.

the lyrics:
The first time I died
Was in the arms of good friends of mine.
They kiss me with tears.
They hadn't been near me for years.
Say, why do it now
When I won't be around, I'm going out?

"We needed you
To love us too.
We wait for your move."

Only tragedy allows the release
Of love and grief never normally seen.
I didn't want to let them see me weep,
I didn't want to let them see me weak,
But I know I have shown
That I stand at the gates alone.

"I needed you
To love me too.
I wait for your move."

All the love, all the love,
All the love we should have given.

^^ also missed this, sorry :(

same, though it's certainly glamorous rock

30. Status Quo - "Paper Plane"

31. The Suburbs - 'Ghoul of goodwill'

There should be a Gary Glitter track, though.

32. Gary Glitter - Hello, Hello, I'm Back Again

This thread is making me cry...good idea lorax (for reals, not sarcasm)

... but basically, take your pick from a dozen or so (xp)

hey guys remember bimble was loose with his definitions. He probably would have a track by stevie nicks or whatever that he thought was glam (or goth for that matter)

33. "Virginia Plain" Roxy Music

He told me this was his favorite Stevie song ever:

34. Stevie Nicks - "Outside the Rain"

35. Cluster "Hollywood"

glam on the basis of the back cover of 'Zuckerzeit' & because bimble started both the Cluster AND the Roedelius thread

36. Sparks - "Bon Voyage"

Clouds forming on the gospel sky, trouble is about to brew on us
It didn't matter that we tried, they can only take a few of us
The fins and the paws and hooves and feet

Saunter up the gangway
The randomest sampling is complete
God, could there be some way
That I could
wear a hood
or by the
way I stood
Sneak aboard with you
Imitate,
Imitate,
Imitate,
Imitate,
they still know its you

Bon voyage, bon voyage, bon voyage, peace be with all of you
I wish that I, I wish that I, were one of you

Tears falling on the sloping sand, they're about to leave and we will stay
All governed by the rules of chance, they're about to leave and we will stay
Goodbye to my lucky friends and foes, glad that we could know you
Everyone sends their last hello, I wish that we could join you
Two of you
Two of them
Two of those
Two of them
Safety for the few
Two of you
Two of them
Two of those
Two of them
They will start anew

Bon voyage, bon voyage, bon voyage peace be with all of you
I wish that I, I wish that I, I wish that I?

Bickering,
Dickering,
Bickering,
Dickering,
Everything that moves
Bickering,
Dickering,
Bickering,
Dickering,
Final, futile moves
Bon voyage, bon voyage, bon voyage, peace be with all of you
I wish that I, I wish that I, I wish that I?

Crispy Ambulance is my second fave band ever ...

― Bimble, Sunday, March 6, 2005 6:54 AM (4 years ago)

37. Crispy Ambulance, "Are You Ready?"

38. Dif Juz - No Motion

(his last post on the Dif Juz thread - listening to it now from his link)

CHIC RULE, discuss. Dr. C to Thread

...Sister Sledge "Pretty Baby". Better than the Beatles?
― bimble (bimble), Wednesday, April 21, 2004 2:18 AM (5 years ago)

39. Sister Sledge - Pretty Baby

Fuck this was something we'd talk about all the time :(

Kerr picked the one song I'd dedicate to him, so I'll go with 48 Crash by Suzi Quatro

I think his favourite Sonic Youth album was mine too (Bad Moon Rising, the most goth iirc)

Couple more for Bimble wherever he is. I'll miss chatting with him about these...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UW_VlaWDEYM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bva3-FS1Dsw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zrc-PiXP-I

31. The Suburbs - 'Ghoul of goodwill'

Michael B., thanks for this. Bimble and I first started corresponding at the time he had changed his screen name to "There's A Tipsy Ghost On The Edge Of My Couch" (a lyric from this song.)

40. Prince – If I was Your Girlfriend

41. Sade – Paradise

42. Book of Love - "Book of Love"

I write down
Everything they say
So I don't get lonely
When you are away

I've got a book of love
I've got a book of love

Pages from my book of love
Pages from my book of love
Pages from my book of love
Pages from my book of love

If you should
Ever happen to leave
I'll add your book to my
Lovelorn library

I know you'd never try to leave me
'Cause I've got a chain
Around your heart
And you'll never be free

I stuck as many of these as I could find on a Spotify playlist so I can give it a wee listen later. I've made it collaborative so people can add anything else they think of.

http://open.spotify.com/user/onimo/playlist/6ck9dSju1UNi3XGMDRv5UG

spotify:user:onimo:playlist:6ck9dSju1UNi3XGMDRv5UG

Might do a 'Less Goth Than Bimble' one too at some point.

pushing the definition of glam rock, my last suggestion for our bimble compilation is
43. Wreckless Eric - "I Wish It Would Rain"

Maybe someone more familiar with VU, Lou Reed, and/or John Cale can find something for Bimble

And also maybe there's a good Adam Ant bonus track, demo or b-side out there. There was one I loved at one time but I forgot what it's called. (a lot of Adam Ant just sounds annoying after a while but this song was really good)

I'm also going to listen to all these songs back-2-back later. Maybe I'll upload them all as one or two DJ sets.

so what VU related song/s did Bimble say he loves the most?

Right now I'm trying to restrict myself to playing the Cale song "Where There's A Will There's A Way" over and over on repeat as many times as I can stand it because this song has BEWITCHED me for the last 2 weeks and I need to get it out of my system in some final way if I can so it will finally LEAVE ME ALONE at last. I declare, it is THE most perfect song Cale has ever done in his life, and I really need to close up shop with it, else it will haunt me every waking hour for the next three weeks at least.

Other than that, I decided that if Eno had ever even ENTERED THE ROOM while Cale & Reed were doing "Trouble With Classicists" for the Songs For Drella album then the entire universe would have exploded and I might have had three orgasms at one time.

― Prodigal Son of the Gay ILX threads (Bimble), Saturday, March 28, 2009 10:44 AM (4 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

On the ACR thread, he said Wild Party was probably his favourite song of theirs ever. Granted, he probably said that at some point about every ACR song. Or every song by every band he loves. But still.

I've just listened to it. Really, dude, it was never one of their best. And right now I fucking wish you were around so we could argue about that.

Vinegar and Artichoke Hearts (Bimble...) wrote this on thread nico vs nico on board I Love Music on Dec 4, 2005

I also really loved the Cale version of "Frozen Warnings" on that documentary, probably more than I've loved anything by Cale, and it's actually very easy to find...if I can just remember how or where. Which I can't right now. I'll have to give it some thought.

44: http://www.youtube.com/v/AkNIQ24QxPI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eosXmjCZI60

sorry i missed the glam rock designation -- feel free to delete -- I was just thinking about how much he love chic
― m coleman, Thursday, August 6, 2009 5:58 PM (16 minutes ago) Bookmark

^^ also missed this, sorry :(
― ian, Thursday, 6 August 2009 18:15 (Yesterday)

I'm downloading tons of songs and even the people who missed the glam rock designation have great songs that would fit on this Mix anyways...

SO PLEASE, ANYONE CONTRIBUTE ANYTHING
I am going to make these songs into one or two dj sets - a requiem of music that either Bimble said he liked or you think he would like. He was looking for a glam rock compilation (of new music he hasn't heard) but from what I've learned over the past couple days is that M@ark has a strong passion for all sorts of music that would mesh well on this mix.

just found out 'bout this. shit feels unreal. only know him through his postings but this is for him. he once said he'd play it for me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4OZPUyN8Vg

this is my favourite song of the durutti column, one of bimble's fave bands. it is originally about ian curtis. but now it is about bimble, too:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NgiyOxY2a8

The great thing about Bimble, as well as obviously having solid A+++ taste in post-punk etc, is that he would find truth and beauty and excitement and joy in what seemed to me to be the most incongruous of things, and that to me is the epitome of what I really love about ILM.

Kate Bush ~ Feel It

The great thing about Bimble, as well as obviously having solid A+++ taste in post-punk etc, is that he would find truth and beauty and excitement and joy in what seemed to me to be the most incongruous of things, and that to me is the epitome of what I really love about ILM.

― Joerg Hi Dere (NickB), Friday, August 7, 2009 9:17 PM (21 minutes ago) Bookmark

YES! He really was ILX's very own Neil Cassady, so alive, so absolutely bursting with passion and excitement! I miss him.

If it isn't already, Cloudbursting absolutely needs to be on it.

Do The Du by A Certain Ratio came on my Ipod on shuffle on my way home tonight and all I could think was I hope somehow he can hear me listening to this.

xp its sort of on there?

not a song to add to this mix, not even sure of his thoughts on this band but a kind of tribute. i'm having a harder time with this than i ever thought possible. all because of ILM's crazy passion for music.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mhk_ZjAv7DQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7t-8cRYpFE

i finally found that song:

I wish that we could talk about it,
But there, that's the problem.
With someone new I could have started,
Too late, for beginnings.
The little things that made me harassed,
Are gone, in a moment.
I miss the way we used to argue,
Locked, in your basement.

I wake up and the phone is ringing,
Surprised, as it's early.
And that should be the perfect warning,
That something's, a problem.
To tell the truth I saw it coming,
The way, you were breathing.
But nothing can prepare you for it,
The voice, on the other, end.

The worst is all the lovely weather,
I'm sad, it's not raining.
The coffee isn't even bitter,
Because, what's the difference?
There's all the work that needs to be done,
It's late, for revision.
There's all the time and all the planning,
And songs, to be finished.

And it keeps coming,
And it keeps coming,
And it keeps coming,
Till the day it stops
(Repeat x3)
And it keeps coming,
(Repeat x7)
Till the day it stops.

I wish that we could talk about it,
But there, that's the problem.
With someone new I could have started,
Too late, for beginnings.
You're smaller than my wife imagined,
Surprised, you were human.
There shouldn't be this ring of silence,
But what, are the options?

When someone great is gone...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pypMuMKGQuM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DX8BeqhCLic

RIP

Wherever he is I hope he has access to youtube

This is what I'm looking at right now. I'm still adding tracks (might end up removing some). Then I'm going to put the songs into 2,3, or 4 mixes probably (ie, one long DJ track). One mix for all glam suggestions. One for songs that Bimble loves. One might be songs dedicated to Bimble. Maybe one that is just for really long songs that Bimble loves (I don't know. I haven't got to a point where I'm organizing songs yet) E-Mail me if you have comments or suggestions

Hey CL: My Sparks track was just a suggestion based on the initial glam parameters of the endeavor, but if we're going all wild card here, I'd really rather add a Pale Saints track as my contribution. I'll get back to you shortly on which one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fd1CALKdQTM

Oh sorry, I didn't realize this was a glam rock compilation. I just posted that because our shared admiration for that song.

there is now both a glam rock tribute and an 'any track' track tribute... so suggesting either is fine

Link to something I wrote about Bimble

http://pitchfork.com/features/guest-lists/7698-guest-list-2000s-edition/3/

It seems like every few days, a thread comes up where Bimble was the last commenter, or where it’s some topic that he didn’t comment on but would have loved.

Drew, that is very beautiful and tender....

After reading Drew's entry, the 'back to the music' write-ups somehow don't seem so interesting...it's a great piece of writing from start to finish, not just the Bimble entry.

Quite right.

I really loved reading that.

Nice tribute Drew. Very heartfelt, i think he would appreciate it (whilst falling about laughing that he got mentioned on "FUCKING PITCHFORK") :)

That's a lovely piece.

damn.

i was offline at the time, so needless to say this thread has come as a bit of a shock.

It's still a bit of a shock to see it a second time around tbh.

beautiful piece, Drew.

Very nice, Drew.

Drew, thank you for writing that. I miss Bimble and every time he pops up on an old thread it's this shocking sensation from having and not having him here at once.

great piece, drew.

Nicely done, Drew.

So nice. So sad.

ilu drew

very nice drew.

i actually thought of bimble this weekend when i got the 13th Chime collected singles reissue...their jumped up goth/post-punk/batcave funk seemed like something he would have loved, but i couldn't find any posts about them on ILM.

it sort of made me sad because i bet he would have loved this record.

Thank you so much Drew for your warm and moving tribute to Bimble, Drew. Long live preposterously enthusiastic ranting about songs!

that is a great tribute and thanks for pointing it out Drew.

i still miss Bimble, RIP.

Can someone link me to his blog? The dj sets wont be done til before new years, so yall can keep suggesting any songs you want... specifically glam rock, remembering you (tribute songs), and music he absolutely loved.

Fuck...I don't really keep track of who's who here for the most part, but I was unaware of this until just now and it really knocked the breath out of me.

(xpost) is it too late to suggest tracks? Because if not I'd like to rep hard for Fox's "S-S-S-Single Bed". It was mentioned by Sandy Blair on the glam thread.

it's not to late at all!

i was thinking about bimble today b/c i wanted to make fun of some music videos i was watching.

bimble was all-time. sealtest vs carvel, except not even.

i got my eric clapton tattoo retouched today btw

still haven't deleted his number from my cell phone

yeah, mark gave me more than i can give back, but most people in my life do? i just aspire to give back, karmic circumstances allowing. factory records. yarg. loureed

And we don't know what happened after he died? Where he's buried, etc?

yeah, i have no idea.

no clue.

i don't think i had ever read that thing drew wrote on pitchfork about him?

...Bimble's departure from the discussion boards and subsequent suicide enforces a painful sense of limitation.

yeah, i realize he got on people's nerves here at times, but i loved him. i love raw people.

i'm glad that other people loved him. i love that quote from him upthread: "crispy ambulancee is my second favorite band". he's in my hall of fame for that if for nothing else.

Wherever he is I hope he has access to youtube

― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Sunday, August 9, 2009 11:50 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark

this is on the mother fucking money

miss you, bimbs, on the regular.

<3

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0osXhtzF3tU

that's awesome, thanks. i think of mark when i listen to adrian borland. or most music. he covered a lot of ground.

Was just dozing off to match of the day and came across this.

I didn't even know.

Not that I knew Bimble either- only from the posts I read on here and he seemed like such a lovely warm bloke. I even bookmarked his lovely blog.
Stopped me in my pathetic tracks this has, sobered me up Speechless.

Sorry that I'm way too late in paying my respects.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cy2lOjr5J7E&feature=related

these threads still make me sad