Barking Spiders

Metallica can only wish they were as good as Coldplay 😊

1 hour ago, Hellzero said:

This is not an opinion, this is a fact!

 

 

 In my OP I did say terrible covers of GREAT or GOOD songs though!

Just been scrolling the DAB channels to see what's on and landed on Planet Rock while a truly awful song was on. I stayed to listen to it as it's just criminally bad. Now I'm not the world's biggest Beatles fan but one of their tunes I do really like is I Am the Walrus. However, the song I'm talking about happens to be a cover of this by something called Spooky Tooth. It has nothing in it that makes the original a classic but adds in loads of Keith Moon style drumming, overly loud sustained chords on a Hammond organ and a singist who sounds like Ozzy on an off day. Anyone else heard this and can you think of another cover that really mullers the original. 

On 09/04/2023 at 15:46, MothMan said:

UNKLE - Lonely Soul

 

 

Good to find other peeps on BC that share my taste. Big fave this one  though I tend to think of it mostly as a DJ Shadow album

Listen to the first two New Model Army albums  when Stuart Morrow was on bass and in particular a track like this one. Such as great tone!

At the moment Exai by Autechre is playing in the foreground.  Plenty here to irk those that think music should only be made with 'real instruments' 😊

I've left many bands entirely due to dull and predictable set lists, drawn up to appeal to the lowest common denominator to whit several tunes mentioned - Cocaine, SHA, Rockin in The Free World, anything by Oasis, Mustang Sally plus Valerie, Brown Eyed Girl, Living on A Prayer, Sex on Fire, Mr Brightside, Caroline, Sweet Caroline and Alright Now. If I never hear any of these again it'll be too soon.

On 26/03/2023 at 19:34, Rayman said:

I’m wondering if the current crazy upwardly directional prices of bass guitars is disproportionate to the increase of the cost of living and manufacturing?

 

 I mean, not that long ago you could pick up a Stingray for 6/700 quid? And an MIT Yamaha BB1100 for example, might have been 3/400 tops…. Now you can double those prices. I’ve had a bunch of BBs, inc a couple of 1100s…. they’re alright? Decent like? But a grand for a Made in Taiwan model? Nah mate.

 

So why are basses commanding such high premiums now? The used market, especially on here, used to be full of bargains! Now, you need a couple of grand in your back pocket while searching the ads?

 I've been selling off much of my collection of basses and guitars so have been very pleased to have been able to sell at much higher prices this year than say 2 years ago. Fr'instance I sold a 4-year old Sub Ray 4 for pretty much the same price I bought it for. The higher prices are pretty much entirely due to the hangover  from Covid impacting on shipping costs and the much longer lead times UK retailers have been reporting. Guy at my local store told me he's been experiencing lead times up from 3-4 weeks to 6 months plus at least a quadrupling in container costs.

2 hours ago, BigRedX said:

 

Due to the rise of and influence of The Smiths and other tuneless guitar bands IMO.

Yup, give me SAW any day over Morrissey and other miserable indie mopers. Think the UK generally had it better than the US in the 80s. We never had to really put up with hair metal, stadium AOR and all that anodyne c@ck.

There are several highly rated albums  (by the NME etc anyway) that went over my head when I heard them around the time they were released. I'm giving them another chance to see if age has mellowed by opinion of them

Loveless by My Bloody Valentine - nope it's no better, still sounds like an anaemic version of Psychocandy 

The Queen is Dead by The Smiths - the title track and Bigmouth are ok but the other tracks are pretty unremarkable.

The Bends by Radiohead - Just is ok but the rest? erm...no

Funeral by Arcade Fire - I tried, honest but I still don't get their appeal

The 80s were my formative years, music wise and things of a more personal nature. Back then, the bass was right in your face, from indie lefty ranters  New Model  Army via alt-funkers such as A Certain Ratio and Shriekback  to Sade and Wham. 

Some good examples given so far esp The Pasadenas debut.  Other 80s great bass albums  I'd recommend...

side 1 of Penthouse & Pavement by Heaven 17

Lexicon of Love by ABC esp tunes like 4 ever 2 gether,  Valentine's Day and Many Happy Returns.

Care by Shriekback

Sister feelings call by Simple Minds

Welcome to the pleasuredome -FGTH

Will be going up to Bluedot for a day just to see Leftfield pretty much. Then that'll almost definitely be the last gig I ever go to. I've now seen all my faves and most are now defunct or close to calling it a day.

Not heard this in a good while. Love the bassline

3 hours ago, Lord Summerisle said:

Never too sure about this.

Punk was once about youth and surprising everyone with new ideas. Everything I’ve seen of Rebellion Festival seems to be male pattern balding, beer bellies and 4 barre chord songs where the chorus is just the title of the song shouted 4 times. Pretty much every emotion punk generated in 1976/77 has been lost to a well-worn formulaic approach.

 what's more punk than ageing baldies with beer bellies playing 'youth' music?

Recently came across this gem from Fluke that never appeared on any of their albums or EPs in CD format but did  show up on LP. It's mildly bugging when albums track selections can vary a bit by format or country of release.

On 12/02/2023 at 22:26, Rusty Spanner said:

The only other band in contention at the moment are Half Man Half Biscuit, but I can still go and see them and they release a superb new album every couple of years. 

HMHB are the band the Beatles could only have dreamed of being. Neither Lennon, McCartney nor Harrison have come up with anything as great as Joy Division Oven Gloves, All I Want for Christmas is a Dukla Prague Away Kit, I Left My Heart in Papworth General, Deep House Victims Minibus Appeal and 13 Eurogoths Floating in The Dead Sea. I rest my case m'lud.

1 hour ago, Rayman said:

Money can’t buy everything, and it certainly can’t buy love, but it can pay for an expensive hooker that you couldn’t afford.

Love's just for people who can't afford expensive hookers/gigolos

Blasting out the wax from my ears with...

As I work I'm going through  excellent Underworld's Drift box , one of my fave tracks being pretty untypical of the duo and reminiscent of their Freur days

Between the age of 6 and 11 I mostly listened to my dad's eclectic collection of 45s and 78s. Fave platters were an EP by the Red Army Ensemble which had tunes The Brave Don Cossacks and Song of the Plains, Guantanamera by The Sandpipers and Going Home by Ken Colyer's Jazzmen. When around 12 I  tried some of my oldest brother's metal/hard rock and prog albums from the late 70s/early 80s hated them from the off, much preferring my older sister's 70s collection of mostly 45s' which, included Sparks, Hello, Glitter Band ...A year or so later I half inched my other sister's collection of punk 45s and then that nailed it for me. Still listen to my own  collection of first wave punk albums and singles and they still sound fresher than 99% of contemporary stuff today

I've had three fretlesses over the last 20 years - Dean, Vintage and Cort - and have sold all 3. I really only bought them because of the 'mwah' sounds of Mick Karn in Japan and Pino Palladino on No Parlez but you can't just play like that on every song. Other than the 'mwah' sound  I don't see much point in them. Might as well stick with fretted. Unlined fretlesses look cool admittedly, while lined ones are a bit like trainer wheels on bicycles.

On 14/11/2022 at 09:45, tegs07 said:

The problem with this stuff is it’s all subjective. My daughter is going to see Pixies live. I wouldn’t bother seeing them live anymore as I saw them several times during the Surfer Rosa and Doolittle years and for me that is what they look and sound like.

 Another generation just get to enjoy the current line up warts n all and don’t have the same expectations.

Pixies are arguably my fave rock band, based on their original four albums. I've had several chances to see them in the reformed line-up but haven't as I don't want to risk tarnishing my memory of seeing them live in their heyday

Recently got myself remasters of The Chameleons first two brilliant albums. By my reckoning they were the best of the 80s post punk bands, alongside House of Love. Here's a corking tune from What Does Anything Mean Basically...

Oh I dunno, makes sense to me if you were a newbie stringing for the first time. Kind of has a logic to it

12 hours ago, Bassassin said:

There's got to be a death metal band called Imperforate Anus!

 You'd think so but the computer say no!. The metal community is most definitely missing a trick here