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Shameful Musical Confessions

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I'm Rick Jones, bitch

20:47 / 08.02.05

I also like Linkin Park. This shames me beacuse at my age I should be beyond cheap teen-angst histrionics. But I'm not, and I don't care what you think! You're just trying to keep me down! You don't know what it's like being Me! Nobody Loves me!

Joe Hain, the DJ of Linkin Park, is seriously fucking good at what he does, seems to have better taste in music than the entire band put togeter (if the time they VJ'd MT2 was anything to go by) and needs to get out. Fast. I caught a little of "Breaking the Habit" on one of the tossy digital TV channels a while back and was gobsmacked by the understated electroness of it all and utterly appauled by all the horrid Johan Vasquez-style angsty shit it was wrapped up in.

DEAR JOE: PLEASE RELEASE INSTRUMENTAL CUTS OF YOUR BAND'S ALBUMS KTHX

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

00:52 / 17.12.05

I bought the new Fields Of The Nephilim album this week.

God help me, I really like it.

All Acting Regiment

12:16 / 18.12.05

I used to think that name was a reference to the cat folk from the Exile series of videogames. Until I learned about the biblical monster giants.

14:57 / 18.12.05

Dire Straits

I said it, happy now?

i could say it was due to them being the first ever gig i went to with my Dad(at 5), it could be the headbands, or the twinkly polish of the whole thing. Or it could be because they fucking rule.

The last, definitely the last.

Oh, and Sting. he's done some decent tunes...

I'll get my coat.

23:20 / 18.12.05

Jimmy Eat World.

Amazingly, I got past the name and the apparent radioactive emo and found myself amidst the acoustic version of 'if you don't, you don't', which conjures up images that reminds me of all the good things about America.

23:34 / 18.12.05

Kelly Clarkson. She's got a pretty good voice and she seems to be branching out into fields that seem more her personality. She's becoming less of a corporation shill now, I think, and more of her own person.

23:43 / 18.12.05

I didn't really like Kelly Clarkson very much until I saw Since You've Been Gone performed in a drag show. It brought it all together for me somehow. Good show-Good song.

I'll always love Placebo too despite dodgy rhyming lyrics although very much without shame. (I'm quite blatant about it really.)

Thaddeus "B." Glands

23:47 / 18.12.05

Dire Straits

Oh man. I really love Dire Straits. Thing is, I'm really not ashamed of liking them. I'm sure plenty of people would have me believe that I should be, but all I have to do is listen to Private Investigations, and all that goes out the window.

But I am ashamed of the fact that I seem to like Wires by Athlete. I heard it just now, and I don't appear to dislike it nearly as much as I keep feeling I should. I think it's the strings in the chorus. They just seem right.

19:14 / 20.12.05

Romeo and Juliet... what's not to like?

Dark side of the Moonfrog1

17:58 / 30.12.05

I'm really ashamed of this but....

I like Robbie William's new single. (Advertising Space)

I think it's actually rather good. In fact, I just looked up the guitar tab for it on a site before coming here.

And you know what the worst thing is? The first time I heard it, I found myself knowingly knodding to the line 'we let our profits go to waste.' Normally that's the sort of behaviour I only reserve for terribly brutal pieces of verse written by the likes of Bob or the Mozzer, not fat dancers from Stoke On Trent.

*sob* I used to be cool...

02:53 / 31.12.05

So I have a Robbie Williams question then. I once heard on television that Robbie's label was going to drop him if he didn't crack the US charts, and that success in the UK wasn't good enough. Here's my question: in the UK, is Robbie Williams as much of a wanker as he is in N. America?
P.S. Robbie Williams is a wanker anywhere. I was just kidding.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

11:09 / 31.12.05

Stop me if you've heard this one before...

...but I've met Mr Williams twice. And, to a degree, wahat you're about to read may surprise you.

Many years ago, I used to work in a large comic shop, and had dreadlocks down to my arse. One day, just before closing, Robbie Williams (who at that point had just been booted from Take That and had no career whatsoever) came in to buy some comics. He was quite pleasant, really, even to the point where he pointed at my hair and told me I looked like TT's Howard. Of course, my instinctive response was to exclaim "you fucking CUNT!!!"... then I saw our manager standing behind him, looking rather displeased. Bugger, I thought, I've just lost my job.
Mr Williams paused for a moment, then said "actually, yeah, sorry, that was quite cunty. But think about it this way- you've been told that ONCE... I'm gonna be the stupid one from Take That for the rest of my life".
"Well, when you put it like that..." I responded, and it was all quite pleasant after that. "What a nice man", I thought as he was leaving.

A few months later, having "made it" as a solo star, he came in, evidently coked off his face. And he was a right wanker. Though that could have just been the drugs. But he was a right wanker.

Make of that what you will...

and back to the topic...

thanks to the joys of BitTorrent, I now have the ENTIRE Nightwish discography. Yes, even their covers of Walking In The Air and that bloody Lloyd Webber Phantom Of The Opera (although to be fair I do admit that those are bollocks).

12:13 / 31.12.05

Alex, there is no way that Killdozer is shameful. Pseudo-ironic leftism aside they have a song called 'Knuckles the dog who helps people'. The liner notes say its about a dog fighting for the good of teh proletariat, although to my mind it was prolly just an excuse for Michael Gerald to write about the one person in the world who actually loved him.*

I too have a soft spot for bad 80s hardcore, mostly when perpetrated by Ray Cappo, both Youth of Today and Shelter are cringe inducing in their earnestness but somehow completely stuck in my brain. Sing it with me:

"Break. Down. The Walls/We're gonna break down the walls!"

*Possibly not true. I once worked in a bookshop with a huge Killdozer fan and when I asked him if he thought they were entirely serious about the whole radical marxism thing he got very irate and told me how after the band's last show he had given Gerald an engraved watch as a token of appreciation. My bad.

17:13 / 01.01.06

The only time I can recall feeling actual shame at a music purchase (shame so profound that I actually bought a few extra cds to balance out my purchase) was last week when I bought Robert Palmer's "Riptide" and "The Hardline According to Terence Trent D'Arby" from a particularly indie-rockish little shop. Paying $3.99 for them didn't help alleviate my embarrassment, and I avoided making eye contact with the clerk. It turns out the TTD album is still pretty good! The Robert Palmer, on the other hand, is so full of cheese I have to keep a cat in the jewel case to fend off hungry mice. At least "I didn't mean to turn you on" is still a good single.

18:41 / 01.01.06

The Robert Palmer, on the other hand, is so full of cheese I have to keep a cat in the jewel case to fend off hungry mice

Another reason why message boards in general need a drummer for rimshots. Wait. What?

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