Rolling Lolling Indie Schmindie Quiet Day At Office ILM Zing Thread

I dont know where Im going
But, I sure know where Ive been
Hanging on the promises
In songs of yesterday
An Ive made up my mind,
I aint wasting no more time
But, here I go again
Here I go again

Tho I keep searching for an answer,
I never seem to find what Im looking for
Oh lord, I pray
You give me strength to carry on,
cos I know what it means
To walk along the lonely street of dreams

An here I go again on my own
Goin down the only road Ive ever known,
Like a hobo* I was born to walk alone
An Ive made up my mind
I aint wasting no more time

Im just another heart in need of rescue,
Waiting on loves sweet charity
An Im gonna hold on
For the rest of my days,
cos I know what it means
To walk along the lonely street of dreams

An here I go again on my own
Goin down the only road Ive ever known,
Like a hobo* I was born to walk alone
An Ive made up my mind
I aint wasting no more time

But, here I go again,
Here I go again,
Here I go again,
Here I go...

An Ive made up my mind,
I aint wasting no more time

An here I go again on my own
Goin down the only road Ive ever known,
Like a hobo I was born to walk alone
cos I know what it means
To walk along the lonely street of dreams

An here I go again on my own
Goin down the only road Ive ever known,
Like a hobo I was born to walk alone
An Ive made up my mind
I aint wasting no more time...

But, here I go again,
Here I go again,
Here I go again,
Here I go,
Here I go again...

textbook opener from the D-man

hobo*
?

Why haven't Ocean Colour Scene done a cover version yet?

Whitesnaked later changed "hobo" to "drifter", because Coverdale was worried it sounded like "homo".

xpost

Because they are fucking shit.

Let's guess the OCS single that Louis secretly likes.

My guess: "100 Mile High City"

I'd venture "The Day We Caught The Train" for its downhome Chris de Burgh feel.

That one that goes DURRRRR DU DU DU DU DUUUUH DUUUUUUUR DU DU DU DU DUUUH

all 3 wrong. even the riverboat song bores me nowadays.

"Profit In Peace"?

alas I have removed OCS from my computer (that's right kiddos, it was there at some point), so i no longer know which one was my favourite single.

oh wait, 'july' had a decent riff. that one wins.

Did Chris Evans die in vain?

now you must guess at my favourite a) Gay Dad b) Kula Shaker and c) Gomez songs

"Joy", "Mystical Machine Gun", "R&B Alibi"

b) Sound of Drums
c) the one that sounds a bit like Radiohead's "the National Anthem"
a) !

'Oh Jim', the one that rhymes lizard with blizzard and 'Whippin' Piccadilly'.

In return I'll venture that the new Kula Shaker album is nowhere near as bad as I was expecting

Joy is my 2nd favourite (by virtue of being the only other one that doesn't totally suck), I haven't heard MMG (or the second album), and R&B Alibi is kinda meh. Whippin' Piccadilly I no longer like so much. Oh Jim is blood-curdling.

actual answers:

1) Black Ghost
2) Hollow Man
3) Miles End (Here Comes The Breeze would also be acceptable)

apologies for choosing 4 album tracks

now, just for you dom, you must guess my favourite a) Belle & Sebastian and b) Eels songs

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now, just for you dom, you must guess my favourite a) Belle & Sebastian and b) Eels songs

Is the Ash album out today REALLY going to be their last?

Also, Louis would like the opening track on the Queens Of The Stone Age album. I know they're Yanks, but... oh well.

xpost: hopefully. although 'free all angels' was a staple of my (misspent) early youth :-/

i just youtubed 'mystical machine gun' and it sounds like Kula Shaker attempting to be Urban Hymns-era Verve. UGH

Is the Ash album out today REALLY going to be their last?

-- Scik Mouthy, Monday, July 2, 2007

hooray!!

ok, now listening to opening QOTSA track

it's ok, needs a fuller sound/better explosion though. the midsection builds up nicely. not overly exciting.

dom, i am about to reveal my answers...

"Stars of Track and Field" and "Bus Stop Boxer"

ooh, close with the first one!

answers: "Seeing Other People" (brilliant, brilliant song) and "My Descent Into Madness"

Guess my favourite Bluetones song.

ARGH FFS NO

i only know one bluetones song, and that is the one everyone knows ("marblehead johnson")

i'm willing to guess that it isn't that one

Best thread ever.

Guess my favourite Verve b-side.

Guess my favourite member of Scarfo.

the expected fireworks have merely fizzled

i'm going camping in france for 8 days starting this evening, might as well say something outrageous, pep things up a bit

fave verve b-side = 'feel'?

I'll start mild.

All of you have a favourite Sigur Ros song. No matter how much you 'hate' them, you definitely have a favourite. Mine's "Viðrar Vel Til Loftárása". What's yours?

Either that one or Olsen Olsen, cos it's about the twins.

But the Verve b-side is, um, Let The damage Begin, or perhaps that long acoustic one on the back of History.

WHAT DOES LOUIS THINK OF GUILLEMOTS?

xpost: it's not about twins, it's a football chant employed by turn-of-the-century wimbledon fans, concerning their be-wellingtonned (and fairly inept) manager

Well no, the Bluetones one everyone knows is "Slight Return (To Aztec Camera Circa 1981)," a number two Pop hit in the golden year of 1996.

GUILLEMOTS R GOOD ESPECIALLY WHEN THERE SONGS B ELEVEN MINNITS LONG

My favourite Bluetoens tune is actually the b-side to that - Don't Stand Me Down, which sounds nowt like Dexys.

i knew it would be a b-side *rolleyes*

OK, here's one. Everyone's heard of LFO. But has everyone heard of L.F.O. aka 'Lyte Funky Ones'? This lesser-known act has one questionable 'hit', the infamous 'Summer Girls', replete with some of the worst rap couplets known to man.

Who else has heard their entire ALBUM? :-D

Shit, apparently I like "If You're Thinking of Me" by Dodgy. I always thought that was a Bluetones song.

Is that the "girls girls that I adore / on the floor" bunch?

LJ, there are threads about Lyte Funky Ones on here. Honest to god, threads.

xxpost to 'if you're thinking of me': that's a good one! i once started singing it in the dorm-room at school and my friend joined in. it was a real moment of connection.

I did "Summer Girls" at karaoke the other week with a Jagger-esque American who was morose over his inability to pull English girls.

The only other song of theirs I remember is "Veronica", which was to my recollection superior to SG.

jaggeresque? how so? be as zingy as you want.

i'm guessing "spoke with posh voice and unnecessary vocabulary, vaguely showy"

my favourite dodgy song is 'U.K.R.I.P.'

do any of you have a favourite mansun song, out of interest?

I bloomin' strongly dislike most of the material on <i>Free Peace Sweet</i>.

free peace sweet (and dodgy) aren't helped by the fact that their lead single ('good enough') is an absolute crock of dogshite

S Rowley has also revived that tune for incorporation into the Guilty Pleasures TM manifesto.

Guilty Pleasures manifesto:

http://www.threeworldwars.com/world-war-images/gen/protocols-book.gif

I have approx. nine million dodgy DANCE ZONE INSERT NINETIES YEAR OF CHOICE HERE compilations which between them probably assemble the complete Lyte Funky Ones oeuvre.

My favourite Mansun song is the original version of Drastic Sturgeon (not the rerecorded one on the Two EP). In fact, that's about the only song I like by them.

Manson?

I bought that "Take it easy" single after having heard it on the radio.

The b-side "Chicken" struck me as being quite similar, however.

I liked Take It Easy Chicken when it came out

LJ, what is your favourite Echobelly song?

Isn't one Super Furry Animals, one Boo Radleys and one "OMGZ too much compression... wait that's just right! OMGZ GOOD!" thread on the front page EVERY FUCKING DAY OF 2007 enough U GUYZ?

ILM 2007 = zzzzzzzzz & depressment

My work here is done.

Right! Break out the Capt Beefheart threads!

King Of The Flipping Kerb, most likely.

Enabler: Family member or significant person in an alcoholic's or drug addict's life that contributes to the afflicted person's continued use and abuse of the substance.
Examples of enabling include making excuses for the afflicted person and/or supplying the person with the alcohol or drug.

Let's start another Indie analysis thread!

never heard an echobelly track

echoboy, OTOH, is awesome

Can the same be said of John "Worzel Gummidge" Harris favourites 18 Wheeler?

it can

(the bit about having never heard, rather than the bit about being awesome)

They had a couple more good tunes than, say, Tiny Monroe, who had none.

Heigh everyone! I have the two first Space albums.

So do I. First markedly better than second.

I also have the Magic Fly album by Space, and the Space album by Jimmy Cauty a.k.a. Space.

First markedly better than second.

I once borrowed 'Tin Planet' for a while. It was rubbish, with the exception of 'Piggies', which was by far the most texturally/structurally interesting thing on there, not to mention the best-written song.

I then learned that it was the only song on the album written by their keyboardist, or something. Maybe he should have written all of their songs.

I have a Tiny Monroe single, I think. I tried to sell it on EBay but strangely no-one wanted to buy it. It sucks, anyway.

The song "Piggies" written by
George Harrison
EX-BEATLES GUITARIST
for the Fab Four in the Swinging Sixties was widely believed to have inspired
Charles Manson
SWINGING SIXTIES MASS MURDERER
to embark upon his bloody spree.

Did the song "Piggies" written by
*Confirmation Of Name Required*
KEYBOARD PLAYER WITH SPACE
inspire the brutal brutality of this week's foiled car bomb attacks?

FEARGAL KEANE PRESENTS THIS SPECIAL REPORT

LYRICS TO SONG "PIGGIES" WRITTEN BY KEYBOARD PLAYER WITH SPACE

I'm the fucked up driver of a stolen tank,
Making my withdrawals from your local bank.
Armor-piercing bullets never cramp my style.
They only make me smile.

I can hear them calling I can hear them calling

Put me in a cockpit of a fighter plane,
I will shoot you down,
Give you no time to explain.
Parachute's essential, cos I never miss.
You wish, you wish, you wish.

I can hear them calling I can hear them calling
It's nothing personal, you see.
But your life means nothing to me.
I'll stick around so I can see
Your name in the obituaries.

I can hear them calling I can hear them calling
Piggies Piggies Piggies Piggies.

I am the sniper from across the way,
Get you in my sights then put an end to your day.
I know assassination goes against the grain,
But Carlos the Jackal's got nothing on me.

I can hear them calling I can hear them calling
I can hear them calling I can hear them calling
(Piggies) It's nothing personal, you see.
(Piggies) but your life means nothing to me.
(Piggies) I'll stick around so I can see
(Piggies) Your name in the obituaries.

THE INVESTIGATION CONTINUES

ITN BRINGS YOU THIS EXCLUSIVE REPORT FROM TOM BRATBY, STANDING ON A HILL IN COWLEY, MIDDX.

"Where were Space at the time of the Jill Dando assassination?"

BREAKING NEWS: SONG NOT WRITTEN BY KEYBOARDIST BUT BY GUITARIST

Nicky Campbell sent on exploratory fact-finding mission to Space's Liverpool studio.

Can only find unreleased demo tapes of scrapped 4th album, declares them to be 'genius', 7th track adopted as new FiveLive jingle.

Can we send Nicky Campbell on an exploratory fact-finding mission of southern Afghanistan pleez?

Space in "can't get arrested" shockah!

gomez in "get myself arrested" shockah

Not one word of this thread makes any sense.

Not sure that the Lightning Seeds count as indie.

Great thread.

Sublime Revive

sad to have missed it

Why did the Harry Potter lookalike in Gomez insist on singing in Peter Lorre's voice?

Boy howdy, this thread has been a trainwreck!!

-- King Boy Pato, Wednesday, 11 July 2007 08:44 (3 months ago) Bookmark Link

Better than Cats

"Slight Return (To Aztec Camera Circa 1981),"

More like pre-rave Stone Roses circa 1989. Not that there's anything wrong with that though.

The Dead 60s have split up.

http://i234.photobucket.com/albums/ee196/Gotterdun59/Rob_4.jpg

The Departure today announced their split.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/graphics/2006/12/10/nqueen10a.jpg

http://www.findingyourmarbles.com/images/soldiers.JPG

A message from the band:

It may not come as a great surprise to many of you but unfortunately after much consideration we’ve decided that Milburn has run it's course.

There’s been no malice or falling out between us and we still remain friends and supporters of each other as we move on and explore new musical horizons.

Not everyone in the music media understood us but you the fans did and over the last 2-3 years we’ve shared some amazing experiences that we’ll never forget and we feel very privileged to have done so.

We want to sincerely thank everyone of you that supported us along the way. It's been overwhelming.

For this reason we’d like to play one last gig. There’s also a few songs left over from the second album that we’re going to make available. The songs are "The District Line" and "Stay At Home". Details will be up as soon as possible.

The gig will take place on 24th May at Sheffield Academy.

Thanks again,
Love as always

Tom, Joe, Greeny and Louis

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