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Cor!

Not that I am casting doubt on his swordsmanship, but are you sure that's why they called him that?

No, genuinely I'm a big fan. Got all their albums and seen them live a few times. They're brilliant. I think one or more of them are some sort of entomologist or other animal scientist. Hence all the lyrics about weevils, ants hiding in peaches, kitties, bug cities, monkey rivers, electric spiders, fleas versus mites (fighting with bites), slow slow flies, ladybugs, troglobites, butterflies, salamanders, frogs, etc.. That's my morning's iPod playlist sorted though! *puts on headphones to try and pretend I'm not stuck in an office*

I have long loved PUSA, but they're always banging on about insects and other animals. In nearly every song. Lots of great tunes and good entertainment value though.

That's quite an interesting theory. She should still be made to smell the glove though!

I think metal music is mostly angsty, angry, stuff written by and for reasonably intelligent misfit nerdy types and/or people who may be going through a teenage identity crisis. People who think about existential stuff, possibly channelling this through heretical ideas about religions and the occult or escapism through fantasy novels/films. So certain buzzwords about Satan, mouldy old Babylonian (or wherever) gods, Dungeons and Dragons type creatures, being sad or angry and being able to pull through a phase of being sad and angry is all easily marketable stuff. As it's at least in the right ball park. If you believe anyone in the music industry could be so cynical. Before anyone gets upset at my stereotyping, I say this as misfit nerd with a mid-life identity crisis who has listened mostly to various types rock and metal music for the past twenty years. 😀 Like everything, if you filter out the dross there's some thoughtful and intelligent stuff. Also some stuff that's just plain old good daft fun. Speaking of which, @Leonard Smalls I loved the image of the heavy metal goblins in shrouds. If you felt up to reproducing the lyrics of "Sex Feeling" I imagine it would surely brighten up a tedious Tuesday afternoon!

There's loads I don't think I will ever tire of, but there's only a few that, when they appear on my iPod, I'll almost always rewind because I want to listen to it again. Weirdly none of them are from bands I'm particularly into either: Close to Me by The Cure Undone (The Sweater Song) by Weezer Battle of Who Could Care Less by Ben Folds Five Ballroom Blitz by The Sweet The first two are so very nicely put together and the other two are just great fun and they all make me smile to listen to.

The band I joined this year are playing there the week after you guys. What's it like as a venue? It'll be my first gig in London so looking forward to it. Hope you enjoy your gigs!

That looks lovely.

Maybe the reduced load of 40 gigs next year will feel like much less of a hassle? Do you know what you'd do with all the time you'd free up without all those gigs? A change can be as good as a rest, so perhaps changing to a different band doing a different style of music? Or if you're on the cabaret circuit then maybe try joining an originals band or even writing some songs and starting your own?

The CCR version somehow manages to be even worse to my ears than the Tina Turner version, which is awful in itself. The Tina Turner version is the one we do and as soon as it changes from slow to the faster bit suddenly the dancefloor is full of women rolling their arms down the imaginary river.

Yeah, it's all subjective. I'm not saying it's a bad song per se and I know it's held in high regard. They're a good band and I love "Just" and a few other of their tunes, but I just can't abide slow, quiet music. Maybe it's because I'm a pretty laid back* guy or from the MTV generation or something, but I need stuff that's fast and dynamic with lots of changes to get my blood up a bit. If it's slow and sticks on the same section for too long I get wound up by it and lose interest. *lazy You can say that again! 😃

Cor!

Don't Look Back in Anger by Oasis - BORING! Plus the bass is so tedious to play. I can't decide if the bass player out of Oasis has the cushiest or the most soul destroying gig in musicdom. Champagne Supernova is another one by them that winds me up as soon as it comes on. Summer of '69 by Brian Adams - Unfortunately this is my covers band's set. *uncurls toes* Proud Mary is another contender from the set but for some reason people go mental for it, which has made me hate it less but I still can't listen to it. Street Spirit by Radiohead - Stop whining for goodness sake! After about 20 seconds of it I want to scream "This is so boring and taking forever!" If I ever got imprisoned by the US war machine in Gitmo or another of their torture sites like Belmarsh or wherever, then they'd just need to play that song through once and I'd be psychologically broken before the chorus that I presume there must be somewhere in there.

Heretic!! All my favourite tunes and albums were knocked around then. Lots of really good stuff. Now the late naughties/early 10s... That was all rubbish!

I think these posts pretty much sum it up. Amazing album really. Some great bass playing on it too.

Had a quick listen to those and on early impressions I like them both. Cheers!

I think the swear filter has probably changed this. If I'm right then the post as it should have been is good advice!

I'd be interested in that but no idea how I'd get into it.

Congratulations! I think a few low end sounds would be perfect. The womb is a noisy place full of the sounds of the outside world, blood rushing around and digestive gurgling noises and they manage to sleep in utero, so a bit of bass would probably soothe the little one. As long as you aren't rattling the windows with it obviously! It's definitely scary the first time round, but you'll do great as long as you give the little one lots of attention. Keep talking to them and carry them round as much as possible. You can spoil them with stuff but you can't spoil them with love. All the best for the three of you!

Mine are 11, 9 & 4. Congratulations on the new arrival! Enjoy them before they get too lippy and while you can still pick them up for a hug without doing your back in! 😀

Yeah this is what I'd like to do. I'm happy to compromise for the right band. I don't mind what the set list is for a covers band as long as they've been chosen to get punters enjoying themselves. They're far too young but believe me I'd love to get them interested in playing instruments. I keep trying to suggest it in a non-pushy way. I've offered to teach them, to let them have lessons or to buy them a book so they could learn in their own time. They just look at me like a smell of gas and decline. Like the episode of South Park where the kids are all excited about getting high scores on Guitar Hero and Stan's dad comes in to play along on an actual guitar. Suggestions for how to remedy that are welcome also!

You live and learn! *James Naughtie likes this*

The BL in the covers band is pretty good at getting gigs so I've stopped trying as after a year of going round to pubs handing out cards and trying to chat people up for it with zero success I gave up! The problem with that band isn't getting gigs, it's getting the other two to be available to play them. I've done all the running for gigs for Originals band #1 with only one hit and about twenty misses. The one hit was excited to have us back and asked us for dates, but I couldn't get any answer about availability out of the other members. It would help if we had some photos or a video of us playing. Which I've mentioned several times and is filed under "good idea, let's do that some time" but we don't get together enough to sort it.

Thanks for the considered response. You're right and I've been speaking to the BL about this for a while and I think we're on broadly the same page with what we want from the band. We did agree to try out new people for both positions and he's supposedly been in talks with a few potential new members and we even auditioned one new guy, who was just awful - which happens. It's just that after a couple of months of dissatisfaction with it we aren't getting anywhere. I messaged him for an update yesterday after a week or two of no contact and he told me he wasn't sure what was happening but that he'd been depping for the other covers band of the band member I think is the problem. A band I thought had already folded. So I think that is what made up my mind that the band is probably unfortunately beyond rescuing. I think this is the way I'll proceed with Originals band #1, thanks!