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Post by Wyvern on Sept 21, 2008 1:56:58 GMT
Interesting... I wonder if he's been watching Logan's Run recently? Personally, I plan to die when I'm at least into my 90s, and preferably in as bizarre and inconvenient a way as possible   |
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Post by maureen on Sept 21, 2008 7:37:35 GMT
I read that last night. Morbid, but very interesting. I'd prefer to die painlessly and peacefully in my sleep, but who knows. I try not to think of any other ways. I've seen alot of what coud happen on "Faces of Death". The horse one was pretty nasty and disturbing. I remember reading the article about the Korean guy when I lived in that area of the world and wondered how he could ignore the urge to eat, sleep, go to the bathroom, etc. Things most people can't ignore, certainly not me.
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Post by stigalicious on Sept 21, 2008 16:59:22 GMT
That was sick but hilarious!!!!! I hope to go quietly before I get so old that my body stops working properly!
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Post by TheDaisy on Sept 22, 2008 7:48:26 GMT
I hope to go quietly before I get so old that my body stops working properly! LOL! I'm not so old, but my body's already saying 'I can't make it......' Sadly, my greatest wish is never going to come true now - I wanted to fly on Concorde, and unless they bring it back (which they won't) I never will now. *sigh* |
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Post by lymaze on Oct 4, 2008 21:22:12 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Oct 4, 2008 21:27:19 GMT
He is soo right. Hole in the Wall is madness  |
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Post by Wyvern on Oct 4, 2008 22:11:20 GMT
I love the way Jeremy can get away with saying stuff I want to  And he liked the Corvette (with certain qualifications). I like the Corvette. It's Kismet, I tell you |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 11, 2008 21:26:48 GMT
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Post by Wyvern on Oct 11, 2008 23:38:45 GMT
I was in a shop yesterday and I thought, to my very great surprise, that the hip young DJ was apparently playing Breakfast in America by Supertramp in the middle of the afternoon, and I was happily singing along... until it turned into some random bloke wittering on . Is nothing sacred?! More oddly, why do my musical tastes in very large part belong to someone considerably older than I am? I mean, I know I can blame dad for some of it, but even so... But joking aside, I'm not sure where Gym Class Heroes mangling of a song I really like fits in with Jeremy's idea. On the one hand, they're putting a different slant on it, but on the other, they've just sampled and mucked about with it... and that's not the same thing at all. Then again, a couple of weeks ago I saw a very talented lady called Dilana performing Zombie, originally by The Cranberries, at the Ace Café. She did something different with it, and it worked really well. Maybe Jezza has a point. |
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Post by glam on Oct 12, 2008 8:28:14 GMT
I was listening to Radcliffe and Maconie the other night and they were talking about some band who's name I can't remember who reformed and invited the lead singer of one of their tribute bands to be their lead singer - a quick google informs me that it was Yes.
Interesting to see someone reccomend Muse to Jezza. I really like Muse I do.
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Post by lymaze on Oct 12, 2008 8:36:46 GMT
I do think it's a bit sad that he seems so closed minded to new music and I hope I never get like that. There are still great new bands coming through every year after all. There was probably 80% rubbish in every decade since the 50s but the true talent can always be found. Maybe I'm lucky that the music of my youth was the 80s and I don't find myself longing for the return of Duran Duran and Spandau Ballet so much but I was more interested in 60s and 70s music then. ;D
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Post by inky on Oct 12, 2008 11:36:10 GMT
The RHCPs should have got a mention in the section about deceased band members. Lead guitar in the Peppers has always been a 'dangerous' place to be. Two dead and one almost (John Frusciante nearly finished himself off :  |
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Post by Wyvern on Oct 12, 2008 14:02:02 GMT
The problem for me is that I've never listened to chart music and have yet to be persuaded that it isn't mostly horrible. Unlike Jezza, it seems, I can appreciate that some of the people I hear on the radio when I'm out and about seem to have at least a modicum of talent (which is more than can be said for me), but most of what they're doing leaves me cold - the exception being bands that to be honest make the kind of music people have been making since the 60s-ish. I like rock music and there were some indie bands in the 80s and early 90s I quite liked. These days you will actually find the Kaiser Chiefs, Green Day and Billy Talent lurking alongside ELO, Pink Floyd and Led Zep in my CD collection. Duran Duran are entertaining (especially to a child who did a lot of her growing up in the 80s, but I never wanted to cover the walls in posters of Simon Le Bon or throw my knickers at John Taylor), and The Smiths are depressing in a deliciously ironic way. And The Cure are my most favourite band ever. But I do feel there's an ongoing theme there - people with guitars making lot of noise and none of it involving the word "yo".
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Post by inky on Oct 12, 2008 14:38:43 GMT
I'm like you wy. I hear the odd chart thing and think 'that's a pleasant noise' but I have no desire to buy the album and listen to the rest. The only 'chart' band I used to adore was Slade but if you saw them live, they were hardly the Bay City Rollers. Much swearing and drinking at most of their gigs (the band could be a bit naughty too ) My record collection stretches from my fave psychadelic, hippy trippy bands like The Lips, Sparklehorse and Mercury Rev through the likes of Rufus Wainwright, Harry Nilsson (a much missed and under-rated talent), Ed Harcourt on to The Foo Fighters, 30 Seconds to Mars, Guns'n'Roses and then the more melodic The Delays, Cosmic Rough Riders etc. The oldies include Pink Floyd, Roxy Music, Abba, The Cure (I agree wy, one of the best), Dennis Wilson, the Beach Boys and the Velvet Underground. If I like it, I'll listen to it but I draw the line at Coldplay, Keane and Dire Straits (has ever a band been so well-named) |
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Post by Wyvern on Oct 12, 2008 14:54:58 GMT
I was wandering around singing I'm Sticking With You at work the other day As usual, my much younger colleagues looked at me as if I was barmy. I like Slade too - I bet their gigs were a good laugh (the drinking and swearing sounds fabulous). Actually, I think I've realised where my aversion to chart music comes from. During my mid-to-late teens, when allegedly the foundations of our lifelong musical tastes are laid, Stock, Aitken and Waterman dominated the charts. I think that explains a lot |
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Post by glam on Oct 12, 2008 14:56:53 GMT
The RHCPs should have got a mention in the section about deceased band members. Lead guitar in the Peppers has always been a 'dangerous' place to be. Two dead and one almost (John Frusciante nearly finished himself off : kind of like being a drummer for Spinal Tap? |
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Post by inky on Oct 12, 2008 16:41:48 GMT
The RHCPs should have got a mention in the section about deceased band members. Lead guitar in the Peppers has always been a 'dangerous' place to be. Two dead and one almost (John Frusciante nearly finished himself off : kind of like being a drummer for Spinal Tap? As a music lover of the first order, I shall now confess - I have never seen Spinal Tap  I take it their drummer had a similar life expectancy as the lead guitarist in RHCP ;D |
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Post by glam on Oct 12, 2008 20:25:16 GMT
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Post by ulstermayniac on Oct 13, 2008 3:12:22 GMT
Well I can totally agree with the gorgeous Mr C on that one, all moderm music is sh*te beyond words. Just my opinion though. Should also say that I am a heavy metal/classic/prog rock fan, bands like Motorhead (the one who started off my obsession), Alice Cooper, Camel, Pink Floyd, Focus, ACDC, Saxon, Ozzy Osbourne. Megadeth, all the greats. Supertramp are ok too, and Rick Wakeman and the band I am listening to at the moment, Status Quo! \\m// Bands can lose members and still go on. Ozzy lost his guitarist, Rrandy Rhodes in a terrible accident and now he has Zakk Wilde and those two go so well together it is like they were always destined to be on stage together. If a band loses their frontman then the band isn't quite the same anymore. That is why I am more of (in a big way) an Ozzy fan rather than a Black Sabbath fan, it just isn't the same without him, likewise with Queen, it isn't the same without Freddie. Sorry for rambling, but I could go on about this topic forever. I will just end by saying that Jeremy's taste in music is impecable. |
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Post by lymaze on Oct 18, 2008 20:48:26 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Oct 18, 2008 20:52:38 GMT
All is clear |
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Post by lymaze on Oct 18, 2008 21:10:45 GMT
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Post by inky on Oct 18, 2008 21:30:31 GMT
He's a star. Only Jezzer could put it sso succinctly ;D
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Post by ulstermayniac on Oct 18, 2008 22:59:37 GMT
He has a point as ever.
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Post by Wyvern on Oct 18, 2008 23:17:52 GMT
Got it again. Businesses would do well to heed his advice |
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Post by ulstermayniac on Oct 18, 2008 23:20:09 GMT
And if you read his motoring column, all will be revealed about the scooter.
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Post by ulstermayniac on Oct 19, 2008 15:52:22 GMT
Yes, completely!
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Post by maytastic on Oct 19, 2008 22:36:12 GMT
And if you read his motoring column, all will be revealed about the scooter. 'Interesting' comment on that article written by 'James, London, UK'!!!
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Post by lymaze on Oct 25, 2008 21:00:47 GMT
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Post by glam on Oct 25, 2008 21:10:43 GMT
 at the most read story advertised at the side of Jezza's page
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I held you, you felt me, I touched you, you kissed me.......
"Complete, ridiculous, conceited....fatuous bubbly rubbish."
at the most read story advertised at the side of Jezza's page