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Ah, the Sputniks. I was about 14, uber-skinny, cool hair, boho girlfriend, a saturday job at a trendy clothes shop and a massive great SSK poster on my wall. "I coulda been a contender, Johnny. Now look at me. I'm a bum"
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I remember liking Depeche Mode's The Singles 81>85 in early high school.
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I don't regret anything that I used to listen to. I remember the day I run to the shop to buy Da Sputniks' Love Missile 12'' and then ordering the album. Those were good days, me and my sister spent a month listening to nothing else.
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nah, don't blame yrself man, Depeche Mode still are a great band !!! I like listening to their old stuff from time to time and last year I even attended their concert :) . |
Anyone remember Longpigs? used to love them as a kid.
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I think that the moment that any rock vocalist starts to develop a Messiah complex, he or she should be shot. (Obviously, I don't actually think that, but hopefully you get my meaning). |
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Oh yes, them! I can't remember any of their songs, though. I loved that 'Drink The Sunshine' song by Symposium, but the rest are awful. I used to listen to Silver Sun as well. |
If we're talking crap bands that we loved as a kid, I used to be a huge Danse Society fan. Looking back they had one good song (Heaven is Waiting), but the rest was fairly poor.
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and the prodigy? what the fuck! still pure genius!! but some rubbish bands i like... how about captain jack? |
phil collins too, only he's not a band.
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Exactly. The Sputniks have always reminded me of a really great summer. Flaunt It was my Blonde on Blonde...and probably still is. |
Phil Collins ? No!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Yes, and the singer used to go out with Justine Frischmann. |
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Haha! 'Flaunt It' is my 'Toy Nevermind The Bollocks' and 'Atari Baby' my 'Candle In The Wind'. Those adverts inbetween songs are priceless. |
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I bet she's running an art gallery in Hoxton, now. Do you remember when she played with Band Of Susans and someone else whose name I can't remember? |
People are too hard on Elastica. Line Up was a great single. And anyone who says "ah yeah but ... Wire...blah blah...rip off..,blah-di-blah" is a cock.
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Elastica's singles were great, but they didn't really have enough strong songs for their debut album to stand up as anything more than the singles + filler.
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I really like that album, and My Sex (on their second one) is a brilliant song.
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Listening to the album right now. Let's just say that it hasn't aged very well at all.
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Isn't there some terrible cod-Indian track on there though, that just does not belong?
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Yeah, I think you mean 'Indian Song', lol. Flippin awful. Listening to the whole album now it's weird how much of a Blur influence there is. I know Jiustine was going out with Damon and that he features on a couple of the tracks, but still. I never really noticed it at the time.
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Check out this that I just found in a maths text book:
(The Primitives x Bikini Kill) / Blondie = Elastica (Darling Buds x Huggy Bear) / Blondie = Sleeper Amazing, huh? |
Darling Buds and Huggy Bear didn't sound anything like Sleeper, buddy.
Bikini Kill/ Elastica? Are you ok? How can an album that borrowed heavily from the past age badly? |
A Top of the Pops video of a childhood fave of mine, Dubstar were great pop music i thought!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2s8aBj57mE |
Ah, proof that the value of a proper education cannot be underestimated.
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Listen to the Elastica album and all will be revealed. |
I listen to it, every now and then. It sounded from the past even when it came out, but I still like it.
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Okay, the suggestion that I'm trying to make is that Sleeper and Elastica are post-riot grrrl versions of The Primitives and The Darling Buds, whereby the pop songs of the latter are laced with the feminist attitudes of Huggy Bear and Bikini Kill. The Blondie reference is a red herring inserted into the equation because it's illegal to create such equations without any reference to their overall influence on post-1981 girl-fronted pop groups.
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sonicl + Cowboy Junkies = Tori Amos.
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You bastard Porky!! You've just made me spit coffee all over my monitor!! :) |
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I'm sorry, but where did you detect the feminist attitude in Elastica? Sleeper's Louise Wener was a little more that way inclined, on certain interviews, but far from having the sort of militant attidude of Bikini Kill or Huggy Bear. The Blondie bit is totally spot on, though. |
I used to like The Vines... im sorry.
But im just glad noone has said Moby yet. |
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Dumptruck...because dumptrucks sometimes haul rubbish.
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I like Moby, with the exception of Play and the one that came after it. Oh, and the second Voodoo Child album is rubbish too.
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I like a few Shriekback albums quite a bit.
I know there is a Gang Of Four/XTC pedigree here and all, but there is still the presence of Linn drum and some occasional slap bass, which is the definition of rubbish. Still, I like some of their stuff; "Care" especially, but also "Jam Science" and "Oil and Gold." Sometimes their backup singers make me want to shove icepicks in my ears though. |
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