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I STILL think Big Country were shit.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

07:03 / 18.12.01

So... Stuart Adamson from Big Country has committed suicide. And the whole affair sounds kind of sad and tragic, as these things always are. But before all the music press start re-evaluating him as some kind of legendary cult figure just 'cos he's dead... let me be the first to say...
BIG COUNTRY WERE SHIT. (Actually, I'm so not the first person to say that.)
No disrespect to him as a person, or anything (otherwise I'd have used the word "mullet" by now) I'm sure he was a very nice man, kind to animals, was going through hell, all that stuff, and let's face it, hearing about someone offing themselves is always sad. He presumably had relatives, friends, etc, as well as his own head to live in.
But I'm not gonna be a part of any posthumous reappraisal of his "work". (Not that I'm suggesting any of you are fans, but desperate not to cause offence, I float the idea anyway.)
Yes... sad for the man.
No... not sad for the band. They were poo.

Ganesh

07:36 / 18.12.01

Unlike their somewhat repetitive singles, we will not see his like again...

Ganesh

07:38 / 18.12.01

(Until the tribute band.)

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

07:44 / 18.12.01

quote:Originally posted by Ganesh v4.2:
(Until the tribute band.)
You bastard. I have to go to bed soon. If I have nightmares, they're ALL YOUR FAULT!

Jack Fear

14:14 / 18.12.01

Feh.

You're entitled.

If I found their early output uplifting, it's most probably because I was of an age to do so. And even I harbor no illusions about the quality of the band's output for the last, oh, twelve years.

The band became much less interesting once Bruce and Stuart learned to play their guitars "properly," when competence was substituted for inspiration and the tunes became more generic rawk, increasingly content to recycle "classic rock" riffs.

So the legacy, in sum: Two-and-a-half solid albums, an EP, and then the long slide--with the occasional gem (like the piano-and-strings version of "Ships") buried in yet another set of mediocre rave-ups.

I am unapologetic. It was what I needed at a time when I needed it.

Let's talk about Marillion some more.

Haus about we all give each other a big lovely huggle?

14:29 / 18.12.01

I sort of felt something like this was going on when George Harrison died. All of a sudden we were mourning the loss of a musical genius who....erm....hadn't done anything worthwhile for - what? - three decades. Very sad, warning against smoking, shame his unselfish work bankrolling the British film industry was never rewarded, all that, but I'm not exactly rending my garments crying "My God! Now the Travelling Wilburys will never fulfil their true potential!"

Shortfatdyke

16:10 / 18.12.01

the death of princess diana is a good example of the sudden godhood status handed out to the dead: she went from publicity mad, well, mad woman, to the people's princess overnight.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

11:45 / 20.12.01

No, have to disagree with you on the George Harrison thing... precisely what I LIKED about him was that he didn't really do anything post-Beatles of any significance (and the same goes for Ringo- or Sir Thomas as he should be known were there any justice)- they were quite happy to rest on their laurels. Unlike Sir Paul, who seems obliged to bung his fucking oar in at any moment without polite warning!
(and anyone who claims that "Day In the Life" wouldn't be better without Paul's bits can come 'ere and say that.)
Sorry. I'm a bit pissed.
Although the whole Diana thing... yes, with you on that totally. I'm sure she was a nice lady an' all, but so was my gran, and she never got London closed down so a bunch of Tories could cry at some flowers.
Sorry. I'm still a bit pissed. I'll shut up now.

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