Barking Spiders

I'm gonna have to start talking to the people I live in a house with 🤯

if we take the meaning of 'ultimate' to mean last or final then good-oh!

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Skimming through my large collection of electronic there are loads of great covers e.g

15 hours ago, Cosmo Valdemar said:

This is still the one to beat for me... the genre and taste defying mixture of Emo, Screamo, Black Metal, Nu-Metal, Djent and Europop. With generous lashings of autotune.

 

 

I find it difficult to single this one for criticism out as it sounds like a zillion other emo type bands. A very formulaic sound coming out of the US in the 00s

16 hours ago, uk_lefty said:

I don't believe anything can be worse than this...

 

That was cringe-making and woeful but then no worse than the rest of Deacon Blue's back catalogue especially the dire Real Gone Kid which still gets played on Radio2

One of my fave post punk toons evah 

27 minutes ago, Doctor J said:

The hired goons got new masks. They must have received a Cease & Desist letter from Ghost 😂

 

This is the first one I heard. The amazing thing about it all is that nobody appears to have said "Lads, this is shite, don't throw your money away on this. Buy a Lambo or a mountain of coke, just don't waste it like this."

 

oh well, the US police's loss  = music's loss

Man alive, there's a whole lotta shyte in the metal genre but this is the cream of the crop kinda.  Got to 1.21 and started losing the will to live. Looks to me all their effort went into their costumes rather than the music.

I guess REM were pretty much at the forefront of US based alt-rock, the antidote to the ghastliness of Journey, Boston, Styx, Kansas, Heart etc. Mind you IMO they started on a great high with Murmur, which they never matched. For me this is the best song they ever made

1 hour ago, 4000 said:

I guess one question raised by this would be how many of your favourite covers are on albums by your favourite artists? 

True in my case but then I'm not familiar with great album covers by bands etc I'm not interested in. Just quickly Google imaged some to remind me. These are the two best covers of albums I don't own

On 18/07/2021 at 13:36, Frank Blank said:

 

Blimey I forgot all about them. Used to have the attractively packaged Earth Song EP. I bought it on the strength of the reviews comparing them to Joy Division, or was it Killing Joke. For some reason I didn't check em out further

Like the venomous spines on a Lionfish, the great thing about Roger Dean album art is it acts as a warning to only approach with great caution

29 minutes ago, Judo Chop said:

 

He's a cross between Max Zorin (View To a Kill) and Pavarotti

May I introduce you to Ken Snyder (no relation to Dee as far as I know but you may know better) known to his south of the Mason Dixon line christian fanbase as Ken, man of several fringes. Enjoy and add your faves

What's not to like eh ladies and lads (? )😁😉

I mainly like computer art. Probably my #1 is 

front pic of Lemon Jelly's Lost Horizons

My current partner lets me hang four of my basses and guitars on her living room wall as she think's they're lovely to look at ☺️. She'd support me if I was playing in a band but as she thinks my taste in music is largely pantastic whether she'd come and watch me would depend on what the band played. My previous ex was also supportive to an extent but thought the band I was in at the time made a godawful racket 😁. My second wife was highly strung, jealous and didn't trust me. She thought the singer was a player and would've led me down the wrong path. He was and I did, but it was a self-fullfilling prophecy. I thought as I was being accused of dirty shenanigans I might as well do something to be guilty of.

3 minutes ago, Cat Burrito said:

By comparison my mother in law hated the fact that her husband played bass in a band and music was something of a taboo subject in their home. 

Out of interest, why was that? Would she have preferred him to play violin in a string quartet or was music just a big no-no for her?

While I'm a big fan of Joy Division I never really got into New Order, their output deteriorating with each album having started on a high with the 1981-82 EP , which contains

and

7 hours ago, BreadBin said:

That's pretty much my point of view too. I still get incredulous looks from my mates as my eyes glaze over when they start chatting about Maiden.

Make that 3 here. IM headlined the Saturday at the 2014 Sonisphere fest. Me and the good lady went back to our tent just before they came on. I'm not a fan of any Brit metal bands TBH and that includes Sabbath and Priest. There are lot of bands whose music I don't care for but who seem likeable and easy going, IM included.

On 11/07/2021 at 21:01, ProfJames said:

Have to agree with @The fasting showman well @Barking Spiders an excellent thread to create..........

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This isn't the usual post-punk fare although the band emerged from the Fire Engines in the early 80s. 

Driving back down to my boat in Gloucestershire it's been Scientist Meets The Space Invaders, one of the best albums by the King Tubby prodigy and former Peel fave. 

11 minutes ago, bertbass said:

When I were a lad, You only had pop, ie, chart hits and pop groups.  From about 1967 things started to change and music became heavier and we started to get rock bands so we became bands and not pop groups.  Just the two categories.  Where the rest came from I've no idea.

or pop and underground

The only time music categorisation has any point is for when you're having a shufty through the CDs in HMV. I'm ok with top level categories i.e. rock, pop, country etc but the rest is futile. Mind you it's nowhere as irritating an issue as fkin tired, worn out 'greatest' lists / debates.