they knew that you haven't really made it until you're in this thread
― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Friday, 25 June 2021 15:55 (four years ago)
it also positions itself quite awesomely literally as a follow-up to MJ’s Off the Wall...https://media.s-bol.com/k2xPMDGL7Z4N/550x554.jpg...which is a prime example of the thread premise itself (and may or may not have been posted here before)
― ten man poland chasing this means hamsik feasts (breastcrawl), Friday, 25 June 2021 16:13 (four years ago)
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/6c/Worlds_in_Collision_%28album%29.jpg
Pere Ubu - Worlds in Collision
― Kim Kimberly, Wednesday, 7 July 2021 13:49 (three years ago)
Gentle Giant - The Missing Piece
https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/71%2BG3i1DcuL._AC_SX355_.jpg
― SPaDs (Matt #2), Wednesday, 7 July 2021 14:01 (three years ago)
That Pere Ubu cover might be the worst cover I've ever seen
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Wednesday, 7 July 2021 14:47 (three years ago)
I originally posted this in the metal thread. Defacement, s/t:
https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a1502519686_10.jpg
― but also fuck you (unperson), Wednesday, 7 July 2021 15:01 (three years ago)
Literally yawnsome (sort of)
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Wednesday, 7 July 2021 15:57 (three years ago)
Michael Henderson - Slingshothttps://img.discogs.com/2SHNGY3DIM6qdG--SFP6VS9_sZo=/fit-in/600x591/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-546162-1550431823-6592.jpeg.jpg
― enochroot, Monday, 19 July 2021 00:02 (three years ago)
Because THE MAN wouldn't let it be called Banana Hammock.
― “Heroin” (ft. Bobby Gillespie) (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 19 July 2021 00:26 (three years ago)
before my eyes focused, i read the towel and the dangling jacket sleeves as being his arms... like he was some Aphex Twin monster man or something
― I honk along darkened Bobo-doors (Doctor Casino), Monday, 19 July 2021 01:53 (three years ago)
XP - I actually think "Slingshot" is just subtle enough to tip it from yawnsome to hilarious.
― enochroot, Monday, 19 July 2021 02:16 (three years ago)
What could be holstered around his thigh?
...a slingshot, perhaps?
― Hans Holbein (Chinchilla Volapük), Monday, 19 July 2021 07:58 (three years ago)
Diving knife?
― peace, man, Monday, 19 July 2021 10:52 (three years ago)
Yep, it's a diving knife. You can see it clearly on the back cover.
― enochroot, Monday, 19 July 2021 11:41 (three years ago)
https://img.discogs.com/lyCGkfdHNnDvkLt6dk6h65odJ7I=/fit-in/600x587/filters:strip_icc():format(webp):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-5092900-1504286245-2511.jpeg.jpg
Bonnie Raitt – Home Plate
― visiting, Tuesday, 20 July 2021 01:03 (three years ago)
wtf kind of slide is that?!
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Tuesday, 20 July 2021 02:10 (three years ago)
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/dd/DancerandtheMoon.jpg
Blackmore's Night - Dancer and the Moon
― visiting, Monday, 2 August 2021 05:33 (three years ago)
Paul McCartney, 'Pipes Of Peace'https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/58/PaulMcCartneyalbum_-_Pipesofpeace.jpg
― Being cheap is expensive (snoball), Sunday, 8 August 2021 15:39 (three years ago)
so close to actually making the peace sign out of woodwinds. ideal would be peace sign made out of plumbing, with macca in coveralls, gripping a wrench to tighten up the last leaky pipe.
― I honk along darkened Bobo-doors (Doctor Casino), Sunday, 8 August 2021 15:48 (three years ago)
I'm fixing a hole...in this drainpipe!
― “Heroin” (ft. Bobby Gillespie) (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 8 August 2021 18:27 (three years ago)
hahaha
― I honk along darkened Bobo-doors (Doctor Casino), Sunday, 8 August 2021 18:28 (three years ago)
http://www.website.com/image.jpeg
mick moloney strings attached
― no lime tangier, Monday, 9 August 2021 01:23 (three years ago)
https://img.discogs.com/nODC9JLi4nRtfDpsA_PaOtGeltY=/fit-in/600x598/filters:strip_icc():format(webp):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-5440056-1509891705-1668.jpeg.jpg
― no lime tangier, Monday, 9 August 2021 01:24 (three years ago)
https://img.discogs.com/bfJl7T162WIk4HN06UTBf6tt6Rc=/fit-in/600x600/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-1399361-1527702103-6787.jpeg.jpgWishbone Ash - There's the Rub
― I have no couch and I must stream (NotEnough), Wednesday, 8 September 2021 21:37 (three years ago)
I would opine that is playing on two meanings of the phrase, or illustrating a different meaning than Shakespeare intended. Great album in any event.
― Three Rings for the Elven Bishop (Dan Peterson), Wednesday, 8 September 2021 21:52 (three years ago)
For our American friends. Bowlers in cricket will routinely keep one side of the cricket ball shiny by rubbing it on their trousers - it helps the bowler to swing the ball through the air - hence the red mark on this fellow's trousrs.
― How does Spock's brain come into this? (Tom D.), Wednesday, 8 September 2021 22:16 (three years ago)
Thanks for that – I was assuming it was something scandalously dirty, good to know it's cricket.
― tumblin’ dice outro (morrisp), Wednesday, 8 September 2021 22:26 (three years ago)
Apparently Wishbone Ash had a penchant for literal cover art / visual puns.
Their self-titled debuthttps://img.discogs.com/qp7LLcV7Szm674gBXX6EMcL19Fg=/fit-in/600x600/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-1689482-1237135711.jpeg.jpg
"Live Dates"https://img.discogs.com/QBF9AWP_DeXGTcJfs5nHRIFDqMc=/fit-in/600x612/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-14651473-1629802726-5495.jpeg.jpg
"Locked In"https://img.discogs.com/iSzN5gmFufYYnR22I9HU0zRfNqc=/fit-in/567x600/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-1515738-1332861855.jpeg.jpg
― enochroot, Thursday, 9 September 2021 01:32 (three years ago)
Don’t forget Argus (“a watchful guardian”):https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/0d/Wishbone_Ash_-_Argus.jpg
― tumblin’ dice outro (morrisp), Thursday, 9 September 2021 01:48 (three years ago)
I didn't know what an argus was until now, so to me that's not "yawnsomely" literal.
― nickn, Thursday, 9 September 2021 02:26 (three years ago)
Well, it’s literal cover art (per preceding post)
― tumblin’ dice outro (morrisp), Thursday, 9 September 2021 02:27 (three years ago)
(all these Wishbone covers have a certain non-yawnsome degree of creativity to my eyes)
― tumblin’ dice outro (morrisp), Thursday, 9 September 2021 02:28 (three years ago)
That's because they're mostly hipgnosis covers. Agree that they're a cut above the usual fare in this thread.
― enochroot, Thursday, 9 September 2021 02:46 (three years ago)
Had genuinely never spotted the 'dates' pun before
― john landis as man being smashed into window (uncredited) (Matt #2), Thursday, 9 September 2021 21:10 (three years ago)
A non-global-sport-specific semipun playing on a quote from a famous play... There's the Rub doesn't belong anywhere near this thread.
The self-titled I'd allow.
Hipgnosis covers are generally vile and horrendous.
― anatol_merklich, Thursday, 9 September 2021 22:27 (three years ago)
Apologies if this has been mentioned upthread (I couldn't find it) but force it/faucet:
https://img.discogs.com/UuLMNK913NlBciJKnMJnO-CJXxU=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-12143606-1529173933-2984.jpeg.jpg
― giraffe, Friday, 10 September 2021 09:28 (three years ago)
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/2c/BelaFleck_Drive.jpg
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Monday, 13 September 2021 03:27 (three years ago)
"Force It" doesn't work very well in the U.S., where in most inflections "force it" and "faucet" don't sound at all alike
― Lee626, Monday, 13 September 2021 04:03 (three years ago)
yes, that one took me a really long time to understand
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Monday, 13 September 2021 05:13 (three years ago)
https://img.discogs.com/NQyHIklwoEMwnJLB2gNErunIKrE=/fit-in/600x598/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-1675565-1507913453-3014.jpeg.jpghttps://img.discogs.com/fImWKQOn11EBc7nWQWFz_Ocy5jo=/fit-in/599x594/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-8598881-1464822541-2749.jpeg.jpghttps://img.discogs.com/UMjS_Yq4cb4PFzgbBEcICRjWD4c=/fit-in/600x598/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-2767045-1501452915-6518.jpeg.jpghttps://img.discogs.com/FR0WjdoDr72JE8U7zfkfu8mhIgU=/fit-in/600x603/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-6123023-1411638631-3923.jpeg.jpghttps://img.discogs.com/wksWv9ay6g3BfMJEL6lGcL_iZa0=/fit-in/600x591/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-8558822-1464022453-8836.jpeg.jpg
― swim, Monday, 13 September 2021 05:41 (three years ago)
And of course:
https://img.discogs.com/gCVGzRcpRCfKtI7NdecXSRFc8KY=/fit-in/600x600/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-2756628-1529784127-9401.jpeg.jpg
― swim, Monday, 13 September 2021 05:44 (three years ago)
It doesn't work in the UK either where no-one uses the word faucet.
― How does Spock's brain come into this? (Tom D.), Monday, 13 September 2021 07:18 (three years ago)
Hold on, how do Americans pronounce faucet? Fowse-it? Or force-ay?
― john landis as man being smashed into window (uncredited) (Matt #2), Monday, 13 September 2021 08:35 (three years ago)
I imagine the point is Force It and Faucet don't sound the same... unless you're from Boston.
― How does Spock's brain come into this? (Tom D.), Monday, 13 September 2021 08:48 (three years ago)
Not sure what accent they would sound the same in, tbh. The vowel sounds are different, for a start.
― How does Spock's brain come into this? (Tom D.), Monday, 13 September 2021 08:56 (three years ago)
Maybe they sound the same in a posh Cambridge accent like the Hipgnosis chaps had.
― How does Spock's brain come into this? (Tom D.), Monday, 13 September 2021 08:57 (three years ago)
'British pronunciation' at the top here sounds a) like i would say it and ii) exactly like 'force it':
https://www.google.com/search?q=pronounce+faucet&oq=pronounce+faucet
― ledge, Monday, 13 September 2021 09:14 (three years ago)
LOL British pronunciation
― How does Spock's brain come into this? (Tom D.), Monday, 13 September 2021 09:25 (three years ago)
I'm in the UK and have also always assumed it's pronounced force it (well, force ett but still very similar)
― groovypanda, Monday, 13 September 2021 09:42 (three years ago)
fossit
― aegis philbin (crüt), Monday, 13 September 2021 09:57 (three years ago)