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Another “I don’t care” post but it’s fucking obvious you do.
Dumb fucker. You REALLY don’t get this website, do you.
[QUOTE=Rock Ape;2767282]Anyone else get this via PM?
Another “I don’t care” post but it’s fucking obvious you do.
Dumb fucker. You REALLY don’t get this website, do you.[/QUOTE]
Especially as the thread is now about Phil Collins.
Misunderstanding was a fucking awesome album.
[QUOTE=Bezmond;2767218]Dear Vieux Normand, Let me try to explain myself.[/QUOTE]
No need. I’m sure you are readily explicable.
I can hardly listen to “Huey Lewis and the News” without wanting to stuff a live rat into a whores chest cavity, or cut the nose off a vagrant.
We agree on that, at least.
Instead of giving in to my violent urges…
Thereby depriving the rest of us of some mild entertainment.
Only the well read and erudite itwasn’tme seemed to get this joke.
That’s because no such person exists, even in Sarcasmistan.
To which doofaloofa responded, quite rightly, with rage.
Quite the clamping-clenching power-bottom, isn’t he?
Suddenly, you appear
Stealthy, wasn’t it?
with unrivaled knowledge of Genesis
Fiat Lex Lutheran
a chip on your mighty shoulder
An whole order of them…and an XL order of onion rings on the other.
Now there’s no way I want to fall out with Bullshido’s foremost Aryan
What do IIF, Q-dawt and erezb have to do with this?
but neither do I wish to go through the rest of my life with the stigma of being thought of as a fan of Phil Collins.
Too late. From now on, “Mama” is your personal anthem. Resume fantasy-breastfeeding at your leisure.
I would also never willingly listen to any sound generated by Phil Collins unless they were cries of pain and anguish.
Did he ever record anything else?
Just for the record, where do you stand on Clapton?
Hmmm…well, Slowhand had his moments. Sunshine Of Your Love was a plodding morass of hippy dreck, but White Room (also hippy, but listenable) might have sort-of made up for it. Post-Creme, the Clap had his best moments when doing his patented imitation-suthun schtick.
Unfortunately, Laila (however it’s spelled) was so overplayed that (though not a bad song) it causes the gorge to rise in anyone old enough to remember its radio-saturation. I call that the Stairway-To-Heaven effect, after another otherwise-decent song that I just can’t listen to, even to this day.
Beyond that, Eric has played the comfy-baby-boomer thing out. Cushy-seat concert-hall nostalgia tours are the very reason why we should cull the human population ASAP.
Zep, Clapton and other Brit acts of that time seemed to spend a fair bit of effort imitating American musical styles. Sometimes they did it well: I’ll listen to the bottleneck-slide of Zep’s In My Time Of Dying anytime, as well as the similar guitar-work on Yes’s Closer To The One .
However, what I liked about early Genesis was that–rather than imitate sounds from overseas–they crafted songs that were culturally and recognizably English…so much so that you’d sometimes wonder if these songs were used in Monty Python movies. When their members went on to do their world-music or R&B schtick, they seemingly abandoned what was culturally theirs. Now I have nothing against the whole many-cultures thing properly done, but when some have abandoned their own traditions and are merely aping others, then what has been gained?
As much as I’ll listen to Zep and Yes dupe suthun, I’d still rather hear the real article. In my books, that’s Skynard. Most of their followers cleave to Sweet Home Alabama, but for me, their musical pinnacle occurred eight bars after the tempo change near the end of Free Bird, when we are treated to that melodically-simple but awesomely-unforgettable first eight measures of guitar solo.
Makes you want to sit on a porch, down battery-acid hooch and swat skeeters—until you just gotta git on your hog and slam through some muddy potholes.
[QUOTE=doofaloofa;2767319]Fuck you Bezmond[/QUOTE]
If you pay for me to come to Ireland, put me up in your house and get your wife to cook me breakfast I’ll come over there and kick your feckin arse.
Vieux - the only bit of Clapton I really like since I stopped being an art college stoner is the outro to Layla. Zep I will love forever.
I’ve always avoided genesis because of the stench of phil collins - what album would you recommend as an intro?
On the subject of skynryd, for hooch drinking I like the ballad of curtis lowe. Or some chooglin from creedence.
[QUOTE=Bezmond;2767519]If you pay for me to come to Ireland[/QUOTE]Would this be Southern or Northern Ireland?
Not that it really matters, both are shite. Just for different reasons.
[QUOTE=Rock Ape;2767525]Would this be Southern or Northern Ireland?
Not that it really matters, both are shite. Just for different reasons.[/QUOTE]
The only time I went to Ireland I almost drowned. Sharing a tent with an ex Royal Engineers manic depressive. Worst birthday ever.
This time I’m going to stay on doofaloofa’s farm. Then kick his ass.
The 70-80’s era music discussion and mention of kicking Doof’s butt on his own farm has improved this thread immeasurably.
The Battle of Evermore, Robert Plant and Sandy Denny singing a duet about Middle Earth, possibly my favorite Led Zeppelin ever.
Also, the Ballad of Curtis Loew kicks all kinds of ass.
Hi mate, I’m Doofaloofa, welcome to my farDOWNBLOCK WITH A CHAINSAW, BITCH!
[QUOTE=Bezmond;2767519]I’ve always avoided genesis because of the stench of phil collins - what album would you recommend as an intro?[/QUOTE]
Early Genesis was a product of their time. Whether that music has at all aged well, given a number of factors including the recording technology of their day, is a matter of opinion. They were accomplished musicians, and the era was one where it seemed that patience, among real musicians, with formulaic british-invasion moptop-pop had worn thin. (Even the foremost moptops had started breaking the formula with their Sgt. Pepper album.)
Most of Genesis’ pre-pop-era fans enjoy albums from Foxtrot to Trick Of The Tail, their first post-Gabriel effort. For that, the band auditioned a number of candidates for vocalist, since Collins had not wanted to be anything but the band’s drummer (and he was an accomplished drummer). However, it was eventually decided that Collins ought to go from backing vocals to lead vocal. Even Gabriel, hearing his efforts on Trick Of The Tail and Wind And The Wuthering –the band’s last two prog-rock offerings–commented that Phil Collins sounded “more like Peter Gabriel than Peter Gabriel”.
Things went downhill (in my opinion) when Collins took more and more control of the creative side of the band’s music, as opposed to just the singing and the drumming. That’s when the pop and pseudo-motown sensibility took over the band’s sound.
I enjoyed early Genesis at the time because it was so different from much of the formulaic pop of the era. Lots of harmonic and melodic complexity (compared to most pop of the time), tempo-changes, classical sensibility and real sense of Englishness. Don’t much listen to it nowadays, but that’s merely because time has gone by…
…creedence.
Men? With bangs?
Dude, seriously.
That only works in conjunction with pointed ears.
[QUOTE=doofaloofa;2767640]Finally I get a challenge
But it’s only Bezmond so it doesn’t realy count
Ho hum[/QUOTE]I challenged you to the easiest gong sau ever and you still fucking pussied out.
No. You didn’t.
You just failed at doing what I challenged you to do.
Even for just a day
…And you failed to meet the shittiest gong sau ever standard.
You can’t win this unless you accept the terms of my challenge, which are:
STFU for 1 month.
= No posts what so ever from a date that we mutually agree for one full calendar month.
What say you?
[QUOTE=doofaloofa;2767650]That is the shitest gong sau ever
Shame on you[/QUOTE]
Ties with your constant goal of being the shittiest poster ever.
[QUOTE=doofaloofa;2767640]Finally I get a challenge
But it’s only Bezmond so it doesn’t realy count
Ho hum[/QUOTE]
Yeah laugh it up. All I’m interested in hearing from you are:
Flight times.
What your wife’s cooking for breakfast
Which room I’m staying in. Don’t put me on a sofa bed.
I propose Barenkucklee out of respect for your culture.
[QUOTE=Vieux Normand;2767584]Men? With bangs?
Dude, seriously.
That only works in conjunction with pointed ears.[/QUOTE]
Look, the 70’s was a dark time in Western history. All those plaid pants, droopy mustaches and yes, men with bangs indicated that Sauron had indeed assumed control. Led Zeppelin practically shouted it from the top of the Mountain Song.
Pre-disco era music was one of the only bright spots in that decade. Don’t judge the music based on the appearance of the musicians.
[QUOTE=Bezmond;2767663]I propose Barenkucklee out of respect for your culture.[/QUOTE]
Wise choice. I don’t think you’d survive a chainsaw or shotgun kata round.
[QUOTE=Rock Ape;2767651]STFU for 1 month. What say you?[/QUOTE]
Welcome to the land of unexpected koans.
Early Zep yes. Loved Physical Graffiti minus Boggie with Stu. Ted Nugent-Strangle Hold only. Phil Collins nothing except he was a pretty decent drummer, (Bill Bruford) one of the all-time best. Finally, Free Bird will always rock. Oh! I can’t forget Stevie Ray Vaughn. BB King once called him: The blackest white man I have ever known.
[QUOTE=doofaloofa;2767700]You are deluded[/QUOTE]So that means no then.
All you had to say was…
I can’t uphold even the most basic of challenge standards.
You asked:
I wish someone would challenge me
I retorted with:
I challenge you to STFU
You pussied out.
Doofa … 