its been a while but i need to know this.
research and stuff you know.

i was listening to teenage wasteland by the who on the way home last night and the intro is so amazing that it got me thinking of others.

tell me now

rysie wrote:i was listening to teenage wasteland

Do you mean "Baba O'Riley"?

If so then I would agree that this is a great intro.

i wasnt talking about that but another great song.

i love dont look back into the sun by the libertines intro as well

rysie,

Did you see your boy on Stalking Pete Doherty last night? what a dignity-free car crash hour of television that was. My poor toes are broken from curling.

cjh wrote:rysie,

Did you see your boy on Stalking Pete Doherty last night? what a dignity-free car crash hour of television that was. My poor toes are broken from curling.

Fuck I missed it. I was dying to see it but was out watching Fennesz at the ICA.

i was out.
but have it recorded.

i probably wont watch it though. everyone told me the guy was a nutter.

was it really shit

Favourite intros:

Stooges 'I Wanna Be Your Dog'

Husker Du 'Ice Cold Ice'

Sonic Youth 'Silver Rocket'

Bitch Magnet 'Navajo Ace'

Metallica 'Orion'

I really wish i'd watched that show about the smack-head guy; the reviews in the paper gave the impression that it was hilarious.

i heard it wasnt realy about pete.

just some prick with a camera.


i love the start of private hell by the jam

rysie wrote:i heard it wasnt realy about pete.

just some prick with a camera.


i love the start of private hell by the jam

Yeah, there were some pure Alan Partridge-type quotes from the film-maker.

Obvious one:

Pixies 'Gigantic'

>was it really shit


Well, as a fan of the Libertines I doubt you'll get much out of it although there is quite a bit of backstage footage however, it was astonishing television. I'd strongly encourage you to watch it. The short review from today's Guardian hardly does it justice but gives you an impression of what to expect:

I found Stalking Pete Doherty (Channel 4) more problematic. Max Carlish was that "film-maker" who was making a documentary about the ex-Libertines front man. But they fell out and Carlish ended up selling pictures of Doherty taking heroin to a tabloid newspaper, for which he got £20,000 and a well-publicised black-eye. So this was a documentary about the documentary that never happened. Some of it was Carlish's own footage, and he was also interviewed for the film. Doherty unsurprisingly stayed clear of the whole thing.

My problem with it is that Carlish clearly may have mental-health problems. He admits to being bipolar, and there were a couple of scenes - his manic dancing to Electric Dreams while miming injecting drugs into his arm for example - that, if he was well, he may not have felt comfortable about putting on the telly. The whole thing felt a bit dirty.

I'm not really sure about Carlish's mental state during filming but he seems to have contrived a presentation style somewhere between Alan Partridge ('This is rock and roll...It's like the Teddy boys'), Avid Merrion ('Fighting is like fucking really...We'll always have that connection') and the obsessional bus-stop loon (most of it). He's written for the Idler before now and seems to make a virtue of self-vilification. That said, some scenes were really beyond excruciating - blubbing into the camera mid-breakdown singing along to Jerusalem, presenting a nonplussed Doherty with a tiny guitar shaped key ring in an attempt to win back his affection. Lawks! I could go on..

Cranioose - if you're comfortable downloading torrents I think it will be 'up' at UkNova shortly.