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7794. Macnas - 6/10/2005 8:16:12 AM Wabbit & Ms.No,
I never knew that tune was on the soundtrack, but it seems entirely appropriate!
Well done the both of you, and yes, it is a cracking song.
All together now: "People just ain't no good...." 7795. Macnas - 6/10/2005 3:45:46 PM Try these for size:
1. "In the time of chimpanzees, I was a monkey"
2. "The money feels good, and your life you like it well, but surely your time will come, as in heaven, as in hell"
3. "Last night I felt, real arms around me, no hope, no harm
just another false alarm" 7796. PelleNilsson - 6/23/2005 5:18:59 PM Jean-Paul Sartre would gave been 100 this year. I saw a short article about him. There is an interesting little discussion of Sartre's views on structuralism versus individualism (or, if you want, social determinism versus free will), but what caught my eye was the author's claim that "Sartre became [...] the most hated man in France. Can that really be true? Do the French, not some French, but the French in general really hate a philosopher? In particular a Nobel laureate who stuck by his principles and told the Swedish Academians to shove their prize up their collective ass? In find that hard to believe. He passed away in 1980, well before the -68 winds had died down. 7797. alistairConnor - 6/23/2005 11:19:23 PM It's an odd thing, Pelle : he is deeply unfashionable, especially on the left.
Who is the major French philosopher of the last 50 years? The answer, almost unanimous : Foucault. (I think I agree)
There is a certain amount of re-evaluation going on. I think he suffered a great deal (somewhat unfairly) from the backlash against Communism in the 90s.
7798. alistairconnor - 7/7/2005 11:29:25 AM Quite a cultural summer so far.
Working backwards :
Last night : Blues night at the Vienne Jazz festival. The lineup:
Big James Montgomery and the Chicago Playboys
Taj Mahal Trio
BB King
Big James : I like Chicago blues, but these guys are showmen. It was a good show, but didn't quite connect with me.
 Taj Mahal : I've been meaning to catch up with this guy for at least a decade. It was worth the wait. You can't fake the blues in a trio format... From a strictly blues point of view, he was the hero of the evening. I'll be buying some records.
 BB King : For thirty years, I've recognised him as the elder statesman of the blues... I feared he might be in a twilight zone, but no, he is master of his guitar, his band, his music. He wouldn't be doing this at his age (79, he claims, but only his mother knows for sure) unless he enjoyed it... well so did we. Excellent tight, creative eight-piece band.
7799. alistairconnor - 7/7/2005 11:30:04 AM ah feck. Looked OK in preview... 7800. anomie - 7/23/2005 10:09:13 PM Where else to ask this...
Anyone hear of the Rasmus? 7801. anomie - 7/23/2005 10:12:59 PM ..Anyway, I thought they were a teenybopper Swedish group taking the Danish teens by storm...
They're really good. 7802. arkymalarky - 7/23/2005 10:47:35 PM I really like what little I've seen of them. Aren't they Finns? 7803. judithathome - 8/11/2005 5:23:11 PM I heard an interview on NPR yesterday with a German jazz group called Quadro Nuevo and I went straight to Amazon and ordered their CD. They play all sorts of instruments and a demo on the program played a tango and the theme from Pulp Fiction...very slow "Wipeout" with odd instruments, very jazzy sounds.
I misread the price and ended up paying almost $20 with shipping...I hope I like the damned thing. 7804. Ulgine Barrows - 8/13/2005 8:16:53 AM Are you happy with your purchase? 7805. judithathome - 8/13/2005 11:59:18 PM I won't know til it arrives. 7806. Ms. No - 8/15/2005 5:13:33 PM Goot Gott! Sorry to have dropped off so completely there, Mac. I've no idea what happened.
#1's a blank, #2's the Clash, I think, but I couldn't tell you the title. #3 sounds like The Smiths/Morrissey but I wouldn't bet big money on it.
I've discovered a lovely little internet radio station for all things 80's without the American Hair Bands. Most of the 80's stations here play way too much Madonna and Go-Go's and you'd think Depeche Mode and the Human League were the only British bands they'd ever heard of.
Anyway, Radio Nigel has quite a good little selection of "tunes I like to listen to". I'd post a link, but I can't figure out how to extract it from my WinAmp queue.
7807. Macnas - 8/15/2005 5:17:42 PM I was looking at your post for a few seconds before I remembered what it was about!
1. Beck, Loser
2. The Clash, Guns Of Brixton
3. The Smiths, Last Night I dreamt Somebody Loved Me.
Well done you, they were tough. 7808. Ms. No - 8/15/2005 5:25:08 PM I picked up the new Coldplay album this weekend after having avoided it. Silly I know, but I've been very resistent to this band for some odd reason and when I finally picked up the first album after similarly holding out I think I listened to it continuously for about a week straight. I'll still put it in the player for a road trip and let it cycle through two or three times and now I'm pretty convinced that the new album will get the same treatment from me.
I think perhaps some of it is the hype around them and some of it is my perception of Martin himself, but I enjoy the music so I'll just have to toss any pretentious music principals I might have pretended to and listen to what I like regardless.
Hell, I still love Styx and god knows that earns me some scornful looks. ;->
7809. Ms. No - 8/15/2005 5:29:57 PM I also picked up the latest Hot Hot Heat album which I haven't yet listened to. I've been hearing them in various out of the way places for a few years now but they're finally getting some major radio play. I'd never bought any of their previous albums out of sheer laziness.
They're definitely an 80's influenced band. When I first heard them I thought of Duran Duran but their latest hit is more Ray Davies/Kinks inspired and I've heard various other influences in them in the few times I've managed to catch them in radio play the last couple years.
7810. Ms. No - 8/15/2005 5:32:04 PM The third purchase was to replace an album I'd lost somewhere along the way --- Peter Murphy Love Hysteria.
I've been trying to get a copy of this on CD for years and either couldn't find it or mistook which album it was and passed it by. Oddly enough I may not even like it anymore, I just have fond memories of really liking it when I first owned it. We'll see how it holds up after 15 years of absence.
7811. Macnas - 8/16/2005 9:13:05 AM Hmm Coldplay, they have some growers, do doubt. I have to say I don't like the latest song "Fix You", but doubtless the rest of the album will have some good stuff.
Hot Hot Heat. I've yet to hear of them, but they sound interesting.
Pete Murphy eh? his solo stuff is just to sparse for my taste, his more recent stuff in anycase. I cannot remember listening to his first album, so it might be better. 7812. Ms. No - 8/17/2005 5:09:17 PM Yeah, Fix You is not my favorite cut on the album and Speed of Sound is too similar to their last megahit, but White Shadows is great and the album as a whole gives me a good vibe with a couple of stand-outs that I don't know the names of since I've been listening mainly in my car where I can't read the liner notes.
Murphy's stuff did get really sparse when he went solo, but he also had some more pop-friendly tunes. Love Hysteria's got All Night Long and Indigo Eyes which both got a lot of radio play. Dragnet Drag are Blind Sublime are solid but some of the other tunes can get tedious. It's hard for me to overlook the melodrama of some of his lyrics when they're all I can hear except for a vague drum kit in the back and some mystic bell-ringing.
None of his solo stuff touches Telegram Sam or The Passion of Lovers and his ballads have gotten kind of sappy. My Last Two Weeks doesn't compare to Crowds or All We Ever Wanted Was Everything, but he still gets me with some of his tunes and I'm a sucker for his voice.
7813. Macnas - 8/18/2005 9:08:11 AM Ms.No, have you heard of Gavin Friday? You might like him.
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