AdamN wrote: Sun Aug 17, 2025 2:32 pm

enframed wrote: Sun Aug 17, 2025 12:12 pm

rsmurphy wrote:

Alas, I am somewhat unfamiliar with the musical stylings of Pulp - the fabulous pairing on "Capitol" with Daniel Knox notwithstanding. What kinda sex and demographic are we talkin' 'bout?

When I worked at a record store in the early 2000s we would sometimes play Pulp and every time we did an older woman (then, I was 25), I'm talking late 30s/early 40s would ask who it was we were playing; the theory being that Jarvis Cocker was seducing these women. YMMV.

You really haven't heard Common People?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxhQiiNJG74

Another example:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPGepgWupTw

So women that are the same age as Jarvis? *checks his wikipedia and sees he's married to someone 20 years younger than him

Pulp sucks!

Richard Hawley was the best part of that stupid band.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=k9KAeod9Le8

major wrote: I sold that shirt for $300 about a decade later.

Faith No More still sucks.

To reference some fun upthread, at least the band's name was presumably spelled correctly on it. (I miss the pre-internet era, hahahahah!)

gotdamn wrote: Zorn is about as cheesy and terrible as Mr. Bungle.

Thank you! We'll be taking questions during the post-game press conference, everyone have fun out there.

I don't love much of Zorn's stuff either. (Ok, the early-'80s records that sound like birdcalls are fine, but I never want to hear them. As are the Blind Idiot God and Ruins collaborations.)

penningtron wrote: Man if you thought shorts on stage were bad, what is the consensus of neon lycra..

They probably had quite the stylist. B/c I'm guessing those guys weren't walking around the East Village wearing orange Body Glove wetsuits or whatever circa 1987.

OrthodoxEaster wrote: Sun Aug 17, 2025 2:44 pm

major wrote: I sold that shirt for $300 about a decade later.

Faith No More still sucks.

To reference some fun upthread, at least the band's name was presumably spelled correctly on it. (I miss the pre-internet

One of my regrets in life is going to see the Beastie Boys in 1998 with $20 to my name and I didn’t spend it on a bootleg shirt outside the venue in San Antonio. It was that ABA-style logo on a ringer tee that read “Beasty Boys”.

I fucked up!

DrAwkward wrote: Sat Aug 16, 2025 11:38 pm Man, if anyone here has a problem with Living Colour, they're fuckin' idiots

Again, I love it when dyed in the wool funk metal fans make their very… specific taste everyone else’s problem. Blast Culture of Personality or Nuno Bettencourt or whatever, who cares. Do it at a Guitar Center for all I care, no one is going to make fun of you. Just own it man.

Vibracobra wrote: Sun Aug 17, 2025 10:18 amC'mon, 14 songs on that album and you put one of the few that has SOME piano/keyboards (for good use methinks, decent song) and the only one that has some funkyness to it and it is clearly not representative of any funkmetal trendiness, in fact it has more of a 70's flavor.

They were the first few songs on the album and I couldn’t go any further.

OrthodoxEaster wrote: Sun Aug 17, 2025 12:43 pm
Admittedly, Melvin Gibbs sounds cool w/Harriet Tubman or Arto Lindsay's noisier solo material.

Oh yeah, haha. Somebody posted Arto Lindsay’s Aggregates on here decades ago and it completely wrecked me. Love that album and I wrote Melvin Gibbs asking about it at some point.

I think it was the great Blogspot thread, also where I heard Fushitsusha the first time. Lotta good stuff.

Do you guys like Spin Doctors?

major wrote: Sun Aug 17, 2025 3:26 pm Do you guys like Spin Doctors?

Two Spin Doctors stories:

1. At Club 950 I was mistaken for bassist Mark White because we both chemically straightened our hair and looked alike or something. The enamored fan brought me a drink. It wasn't as thrilling as being mistaken for Bernard Georges at T&G25 but I didn't get a drink out of that one.

2. I used to find Chris Barron incredibly dorky-looking but now he's super cute. Would. Doesn't have to serenade me or nothing because eesh.

llllllllllllllllllll wrote: Sun Aug 17, 2025 3:12 pm

DrAwkward wrote: Sat Aug 16, 2025 11:38 pm Man, if anyone here has a problem with Living Colour, they're fuckin' idiots

Again, I love it when dyed in the wool funk metal fans make their very… specific taste everyone else’s problem. Blast Culture of Personality or Nuno Bettencourt or whatever, who cares. Do it at a Guitar Center for all I care, no one is going to make fun of you. Just own it man.

Hey man, I didn't start this thread. I'm also too fucking old to be ashamed for liking what I like, so I'm not sure how you're reading my posts.

I guess ultimately it's on me for even looking at this thread in the first place, but like I said early on, one thing that I really love about FNM is how polarizing they are. Some real dopes like FNM, sure, but some REAL dopes dismiss them for some incredibly bullshit reasons.

Anyway, whatever. "Like what you like and don't be a dick" isn't really in the spirit of C/NC, so I'm done here.

major wrote:

OrthodoxEaster wrote: Sun Aug 17, 2025 2:44 pm

major wrote: I sold that shirt for $300 about a decade later.

Faith No More still sucks.

To reference some fun upthread, at least the band's name was presumably spelled correctly on it. (I miss the pre-internet

One of my regrets in life is going to see the Beastie Boys in 1998 with $20 to my name and I didn’t spend it on a bootleg shirt outside the venue in San Antonio. It was that ABA-style logo on a ringer tee that read “Beasty Boys”.

I fucked up!

Can't believe I'm even thinking about this in 2025, but MrsEaster, while traveling thru Thailand during the '90s, encountered bootleg cassettes w/colorful Xerox covers credited to the Red Hot Chili Papers. She should have bought one just for kicks. We could have kept the artwork and taped over the thing.

llllllllllllllllllll wrote:

OrthodoxEaster wrote: Sun Aug 17, 2025 12:43 pm
Admittedly, Melvin Gibbs sounds cool w/Harriet Tubman or Arto Lindsay's noisier solo material.

Oh yeah, haha. Somebody posted Arto Lindsay’s Aggregates on here decades ago and it completely wrecked me. Love that album and I wrote Melvin Gibbs asking about it at some point.

I think it was the great Blogspot thread, also where I heard Fushitsusha the first time. Lotta good stuff.

I had completely written Arto off as smooth loverman synthy tropicalia when that record came out. But, holy shit! So good! Best thing the guy had done since the DNA EP, or at least the Don King record he played percussion on.

Gibbs seems like an interesting guy. Late-period Rollins Band stint notwithstanding, he's probably got the best résumé of the more-famous Black Rock Coalition
people (to clarify his link to Living Colour; I don't think Gibbs ever actually played w/them).

Music aside, LC always seemed like such a biz band to me. The heavy-hitting management, Mick Jagger-"produced" demos, calculatedly outrageous fashion sense, and fancy lighting rigs... all before even releasing a record. (To be fair, rock and blues purists probably sneered at Zeppelin for being similarly ambitious.) But still, so much of it seemed to be about overt commercial/corporate courtship. Like they were gunning more for Bon Jovi fans than Bad Brains lovers.

rsmurphy wrote: Sun Aug 17, 2025 4:24 pm

major wrote: Sun Aug 17, 2025 3:26 pm Do you guys like Spin Doctors?

Two Spin Doctors stories:

1. At Club 950 I was mistaken for bassist Mark White because we both chemically straightened our hair and looked alike or something. The enamored fan brought me a drink. It wasn't as thrilling as being mistaken for Bernard Georges at T&G25 but I didn't get a drink out of that one.

2. I used to find Chris Barron incredibly dorky-looking but now he's super cute. Would. Doesn't have to serenade me or nothing because eesh.

A friend of mine took bass lessons from Mark White in Houston. During his first lesson, he asked Mark if he was the bassist in Spin Doctors. He confirmed. He said he was somewhat embarrassed to be in Spin Doctors, but it was the most money he ever made as a professional musician, so there's that.

My friend said Mr. White was a very good bass teacher and it was helpful being that he was a lefty because it was a mirror image thing.

DrAwkward wrote: Sun Aug 17, 2025 6:02 pm

llllllllllllllllllll wrote: Sun Aug 17, 2025 3:12 pm

DrAwkward wrote: Sat Aug 16, 2025 11:38 pm Man, if anyone here has a problem with Living Colour, they're fuckin' idiots

Again, I love it when dyed in the wool funk metal fans make their very… specific taste everyone else’s problem. Blast Culture of Personality or Nuno Bettencourt or whatever, who cares. Do it at a Guitar Center for all I care, no one is going to make fun of you. Just own it man.

Hey man, I didn't start this thread. I'm also too fucking old to be ashamed for liking what I like, so I'm not sure how you're reading my posts.

I guess ultimately it's on me for even looking at this thread in the first place, but like I said early on, one thing that I really love about FNM is how polarizing they are. Some real dopes like FNM, sure, but some REAL dopes dismiss them for some incredibly bullshit reasons.

Anyway, whatever. "Like what you like and don't be a dick" isn't really in the spirit of C/NC, so I'm done here.

major wrote: Sun Aug 17, 2025 3:26 pm Do you guys like Spin Doctors?

Answer the question.

goddamnit I still cany decide on my vote.

I cannot listen to this band any more but I cannot vote "crap" on my #1 fave band from when I was 19 years old!