Noah Fence. If Killing Joke had made as much money as Paul Weller maybe they would have joined Red Wedge to safeguard their investments. We'll never know.
Jun 12 2016 08:38
Jun 12 2016 09:35
Schmoopie wrote:
Noah Fence. If Killing Joke had made as much money as Paul Weller maybe they would have joined Red Wedge to safeguard their investments. We'll never know.
Well, I doubt it but I only posted it as some interesting and energising music of the eighties to compare with the beige drudge of Comrade Weller.
I've worked in the studio of the extremely wealthy Youth(the bass player). As a pop producer the guy was a a fucking wizard. As a person he was a stoner hippy woo woo merchant of the worst type. I don't supposed that's changed now. Anyway, he is hardly the type to join Red Wedge. I would also suggest that he is considerably richer than Weller. He's an incredibly successful songwriter and producer as well as an astute businessman. He masterminded the career of Bananarama and has a very successful record label.
God knows why I'm telling you all this. None of it alters the fact that Weller is the most boring cunt to ever catch the focus of the Noah eye.
Jun 12 2016 09:42
Btw Scmoopie, I'm not sure why exactly but I like the cut of your gib. Let's be friends eh? Would t that be lovely? xxx
Jun 12 2016 12:08
Leftfield - Chant of a Poor Man.
Jun 12 2016 21:33
Jun 13 2016 03:17
Thanks Noah Fence. I don't think I have any friendship on this forum so yours would be very much appreciated. I like Killing Joke. I saw them at the Hammersmith Palais. I think it was the first (and only) time I inhaled tear gas – the bouncers let some off in the lobby.
I think one day you will have a change of heart about the songwriting of Paul Weller. Stranger things have happened.
Strange Things, by Sugar 'Booga-Woogah' Minott
Jun 13 2016 04:09
Hmmm, I could also become a Labour voter or start enjoying sticking pins in my eyes but I doubt it. I could even become a Billy Bragg fan! Ah stop it Noah, now your just being silly!
BTW, embedded videos won't play on my fancy new phone so I've no idea what that song is like. I do remember though that Sugar Minot had a spring instead of a neck resulting in a very wobbly head!
Jun 13 2016 04:33
Also, I used to have a non sexual crush on Youth when I was young. I thought he looked so cool and glamorous and then later on I met him a number of times it was very disappointing to find he was a smelly hippy with a similar conversational style to Neil from The Young Ones. Never meet your idols, they'll let you down. Unless they don't - David Icke was fucking great!
Jun 13 2016 05:32
I met Mick Jones. He met my expectations. I still love him.
Strange Things is an excellent tune. Type the artist name and title into youtube.
Jun 13 2016 06:29
Hmmm, the horribly trendy Clash are another one of my pet hates. Love Complete Control though. The second best 70s punk record.
Jun 15 2016 20:17
Venetian Snares, Who Wants Cake? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3hy11bgVRk
Theres so much music I like, guess at the moment my guilty pleasure would have to be Vaporwave and the brilliant trend of mixing Vaporwave with The Simpsons https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTfa-9aCTYg
Jun 13 2016 12:09
My favourite are the Mick Jones compositions: Lost in the Supermarket and Train in Vain. You beg the question, what was your favourite punk song of the 70`s? Or you could let us guess. You may have mentioned it. Was it by The Damned?
Jun 13 2016 20:08
Here it is again.
Truly. captures the spirit of 70s punk. Shallow but full of energy.
Jun 13 2016 21:15
Just learned that Guy Clark died, May 2016. Great Texas songsmith.
‘If I can just get off of this L.A. freeway, without getting killed or caught . . .’
Jun 13 2016 21:26
Blimey, this new fashion craze for dying amongst musicians is getting out of hand. That said, ideally hope the Annie Lennox and Billy Bragg get radio able real soon.
Jun 13 2016 23:42
Annie Lennox I agree with but Billy Bragg should stick around long enough to have a nervous breakdown. The Damned are alright but sound more US than UK and I don't think it was called punk until it reached the shores of Britain.
Auld-bold's selection was good and it is sad that the man has passed away. Potrokin's tunes are good too. Roots Reggae is king:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tZcuE0ZyJms
Jun 14 2016 03:53
I don't actually care too much about 70s punk. It was 40 years ago and was very much a thing of the moment. What bores me on this thread is the lack of pop music, like commission are too cool for that shit. Duh. That said, I may be wrong coz I haven't clicked on every link. If so then my bad.
Jun 14 2016 03:59
I know, let's set that shit straight!
Jun 14 2016 04:10
This will no doubt ruffle a few feathers
Jun 14 2016 04:11
Jun 14 2016 04:15
This is the best though. The spirit of communism in a pop video
Jun 14 2016 07:09
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Jun 14 2016 07:13
One of the UK’s best songwriters, Nick Lowe.
His pop side – I Love The Sound of Breaking Glass
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SURKvkjVjaY
The dark side - written for his father-in-law, Johnny Cash.
The Beast in Me
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uA0d0-0Cvnc
Jun 14 2016 07:44
This one has had 700,000,000 hits. Popular enough for the Contentious One?
Justin Bieber (JB) — Love Yourself:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=oyEuk8j8imI
We are Justified and Ancient . I bet those royalties weren't divided equitably: no business, no show baby!
Jun 14 2016 08:38
Thanks you guys, I really appreciate the effort but I'm afraid those 2 pop tracks don't count. Why, I hear you ask? It's simple really, they don't count coz I don't like them.
Jun 14 2016 09:14
Jun 14 2016 11:03
Schmoopie #267: Justin Bieber (JB) — Love Yourself
I liked this, good lyrics and the video’s choreography is excellent (in a smarty-pants sorta way).
Re Noah’s dismissal of same – Noah, yer bum’s oot the windae.
Jun 14 2016 11:34
Shit, what's a man gotta do to get a down vote around here theses days? It's just not fair.
Talking of bums oot the windae, did you see the poem I posted about Old King Cole, written by my innebriate, octergenarian, inventor neighbour for my kids when they were little?
Jun 14 2016 13:13
Noah #271
Yes, I enjoyed it. Bums and gardyloo - you cannie go wrong.
Matt McGinn wrote a verse something like this:
Who farted?
Wee Annie.
Do it again,
I cannie.
God bless Wee Annie's bum.
Gregg Rolie - Too late, too late.
Some interesting references to imagery of Hell, etc., to characterise temptation, entrapment and so on. Slightly mild, but nonetheless does seem to be aiming for something more pronounced and less conventional with its imagery.