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Bryan Ferry: Aesthetics and Ideology

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penitentvandal

08:28 / 26.04.07

You can make out the lyrics in Avalon? It just sounds like drunken mumbling to me.

'Seeeya wiffa dancin outtanoooowair,
zeeeeni wibble anson, wattta moooohair...'

miss wonderstarr

19:01 / 26.04.07

[still off-topic] Maybe I dreamed that, because I can't, now I've got the books here, see the line anywhere as a Halo Jones chapter heading.

miss wonderstarr

19:16 / 26.04.07

Oh! it's in Book One, "When the Music's Over". I haven't read it for over ten years so I suppose the patchy memory can be forgiven.

ONLY NICE THINGS

21:34 / 26.04.07

I think that's from "When the Music's Over" by the Doors, rather than "Now the party's over", which is the first line of "Avalon"...

This Sunday

21:48 / 26.04.07

Wouldn't be the only time Moore had used a Door's quote for an opener. There's at least one at the front of an issue/chapter of 'Watchmen'.

ONLY NICE THINGS

21:51 / 26.04.07

Mind you, I'd take Bryan Ferry's oeuvre over that of Obvious Morrison and his Secret Beard any day. At least he had some decent songs, albeit thanks to Brian Eno.

ONLY NICE THINGS

21:52 / 26.04.07

That's Jim, obviously.

_Boboss

21:55 / 26.04.07

alan moore, axe wielding maniac with fly's eyes

phil manzanera, wears magic rings and stuff, worries about his hair

ONLY NICE THINGS

22:03 / 26.04.07

They'll be duetting for us... later.

The Natural Way

09:11 / 27.04.07

I know this has nothing to do with nazism, etc., but I fucking LOVE 70's Roxy and I just won't have all this hate. This is the man who sang with insane passion:

'I would put roses round your door/ Sit in the GaaardeeeEEn/ Growing PotatoooooOOOes by the scoOOoOooOre.'

Somehow, somewhere, something in him still rocks.

Janean Patience

09:22 / 27.04.07

Wouldn't be the only time Moore had used a Door's quote for an opener. There's at least one at the front of an issue/chapter of 'Watchmen'.

You don't need to know that I sometimes remember the chapter titles and quotes of Watchmen as a little catechism on occasions when I can't sleep. So I'm just gonna say there that there is no Doors quote and you're wrong.

_Boboss

10:58 / 27.04.07

phil manzanera really does seem to worry a lot about his hair. if you look at this archive clip of him being interviewed by gaz 'gaz top' top, he seems to be forever gently sweeping it out of his eyes, as if terrified lest it should tangle in his beard.

come on! give me your bloody money!

miss wonderstarr

12:09 / 27.04.07

I think that's from "When the Music's Over" by the Doors, rather than "Now the party's over", which is the first line of "Avalon"...

Yes, sorry I should have made clear that I realised I'd not only misremembered the volume of Halo Jones, but also slightly misremembered the chapter title. Still, good intentions!

This Sunday

15:17 / 27.04.07

I'd replaced All Along the Watchtower with Riders on the Storm to excise Bryan Ferry. Funny, the little things our brains do, sometimes.

Eloi Tsabaoth

16:01 / 27.04.07

What would Alan Moore like with short hair and a baldy chin? Could someone photoshop that for me, please.

This Sunday

16:13 / 27.04.07

There's a photo-compare shot somebody posted in comics, awhile back, of Moore and Morrison, as a contribution to the theory that there's only one writer from that whole region, and they play dress-up as Moore, Morrison, Milligan, and probably Mills and Ennis, for to swindle innocent Americans.

Eloi Tsabaoth

16:30 / 27.04.07

Peter Capaldi?

Spaniel

16:56 / 27.04.07

I think there's a lot of love for ye olde Roxy and Avalon (yes, MW, it's still earning interest with me too), Marryapige.

tickspeak

17:33 / 27.04.07

Y'know, every time I put on Avalon I think "God, this just sounds like overproduced schlocky wedding band music." And then I start crooning into the mirror. I always feel guilty after, though.

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