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515. <100% headbanging Mrs Tilto - 2010-02-09 23:46:10 |
| Yes, well, Therapy? aren’t really as who should say dødsmetal, I’ll give you that. But I’ve never shied away from a bit of poppiness; who’d want to live on an all-Cannibal Corpse diet? And I quite liked Fyfe’s drumming, when he was still with them. Come to think of it, I still like it now he’s not. |
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514. des von bladet - 2010-02-09 15:02:55 |
No kidding. Honourable exceptions for the Pet Shop Boys and (I think) the Mary Chain, though.
And then there’s the guilty pleasure of checking what the recently-reformed Swervedriver have accomplished in the last decade or so. |
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513. Richard J - 2010-02-09 14:50:00 |
| Oh, Youtube is also good for the terrifying realisation that you are now older than most of the impossibly mature looking stars of your youth were at the time. |
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512. des von bladet - 2010-02-09 11:29:02 |
I’ll see your Skunk Anansie and raise you everything Björk ever did after "Birthday". But I was always a Melody Maker person anyway.
The good news is that les bruits d’antan are mostly on YouTube. It is fantastic for all the stuff I didn’t get to hear first time around. |
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511. Richard J - 2010-02-09 11:06:22 |
First gig I ever went to was Therapy?, you know, supported by Skunk Anansie. Buying the latter’s album was the first time I knew true disappointment, even before I started reading the NME.
Ou sont les bruits d’antan &c.? |
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510. des von bladet - 2010-02-09 08:05:56 |
The great thing about 80s metal bands is that they’re (individually) renewable resources. There are metal bands still touring, only with none of their original members. So if you want to take a few down sometime, feel free.
I never got around to listening to Therapy? when they were topical, and getting them up on the ’Tube suggests they have too much of an indie-pop sensibility for my metal tastes, without really suiting my indie-pop tastes either. |
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509. Headbangin’ Mrs Tilton - 2010-02-09 00:27:51 |
Dead / Baroque / "Italo"; two out of three ain’t bad.
Many, many years ago, I stumbled upon Iron Maiden walking about in Spain (some place up north -- Pamplona? S. Sebastian?). They hadn’t yet become really famous by that point, nor (apparently) rich enough to buy personal trainers and other things that help one pomp oneself op. Indeed they were weedy specimens altogether. I idly toyed with the notion of beating the shit out of them, because they were stupid long-haired wastrels with a stupid zombie as their mascot. In the end, though, civility prevailed. Even unto today I am gripped by the occasional pang of regret at my reserve; but my regret dissipates swiftly when I think of the hours of enjoyment their music has provided to generations of young people.
If one absolutely must hear metallish stuff, BTW, one could do worse than Therapy?. |
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508. Richard J - 2010-02-04 16:01:46 |
If fits; ’one carrot to rule them all, and in the darkness bind them all’.
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" target=_blank> 507. AJP Crown - 2010-02-04 13:04:45 |
| Do they have referenda? Are you sure there isn’t just one ruling carrot? |
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506. des von bladet - 2010-02-02 15:36:51 |
| Not at all; it was the carrots’ idea! |
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