Urban's Journal Of Half Assed Ideas

The Batlord · 07-20-2013, 10:59 AM

Yeah.

Urban Hat€monger ? · 07-20-2013, 11:26 AM

And?

The Batlord · 07-20-2013, 11:40 AM

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Originally Posted by Urban Hat€monger ?

And?

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Originally Posted by Urban Hat€monger ?

Non Regular Posters On MusicBanter Who Get On My Tits

No 1 - The Lazy Poster

Irony | What is the Definition of Irony? | Dictionary.com

Urban Hat€monger ? · 07-20-2013, 11:50 AM

What's ironic about it?
It's a series of posts making fun of non regular members who sign up & leave one stupid post and leave.

The Batlord · 07-20-2013, 11:56 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Urban Hat€monger ?

What's ironic about it?
It's a series of posts making fun of non regular members who sign up & leave one stupid post and leave.

Well, since I've been on this site regularly for two or three years I'm sort of reduced to just leaving a vapid, one-word post to create irony. I guess I could leave the site and go to some other music forum to get two outta three.

Mojo · 07-22-2013, 07:50 AM

It isn't the oversized artwork of a mystery album that annoys me the most in those kinds of threads, although it is annoying. What bugs me is about 95% of the content of What You're Listening To.

Does anyone actually look through all of those posts of just a Youtube video and either a description so brief it doesn't actually begin to explain what the album sounds like, or no description at all, and click on it? With so much music out there to listen to, I am never going to do that unless theres a description, or on some rare occasion, some incredible artwork, to catch my interest and give me a reason to give a toss what that person is listening to.

Urban Hat€monger ? · 07-22-2013, 03:04 PM

Oh cheers Mojo you just reminded of another

And to answer your question I can't even remember the last time I went into 'What You're Listening To' thread, let alone listened to a song in it.

Urban Hat€monger ? · 07-23-2013, 08:54 PM

Great Moments In Rock History

No. 853252 - Adam Buxton's Moby Game On Never Mind The Buzzcocks

How many Mobys can you spot?

Urban Hat€monger ? · 08-02-2013, 10:54 AM

100 singles 100 memories

In this series I shall try to recount 100 singles with 100 memories in my life that they remind me of. Or however many I manage until I get bored.

No1

Artist: The Rolling Stones
Single: Get Off My Cloud
Released: October 1965

This was my first introduction to Rock n Roll. I remember being at home at sometime during the school holidays. I couldn't have been more than 6 or 7 years old, maybe a little older when this very same video appeared on TV.
I can't remember the exact reason this was on TV although I think it was something to do with Top Of The Pops. I think it may have been something to do with that show making it's 20th anniversary or something which would fit in perfectly in the time frame.
I'd heard Rock n Roll before, my Dad was a Buddy Holly fanatic. I'd even heard the Rolling Stones before but only a handful of singles on the radio in the late 70s early 80s so nothing really for the young me to get excited about. But this was different.

I think this was the first time I had SEEN what Rock n Roll was, as in people performing it rather than it just being a piece of plastic with a colourful label on it in my parents cupboard.
I remember vividly that the bands before the Stones were shown were pleasant enough, including The Beatles. They would play along to all these short poppy songs and would all smile at the camera with lots of flashy lights & cute girls dancing along. Then when this clip was played seeing the Stones all looking mean & moody in almost total darkness really got my attention.
Jagger was dancing like a spazz but that didn't really bother me, it was that riff that made all the hairs on the back of my neck stand up, and the lyrics too. This wasn't some sappy love song, this was basically some guy telling someone to fuck off. Even at that young age I got it and loved it that this song was so different to what I was used to at that stage of my life.

This song is where music first revealed it's dark side to me, and did I enjoy it.

Urban Hat€monger ? · 08-02-2013, 12:16 PM

100 singles 100 memories

They won't all be this long, honest.

No2

Artist: Suede
Single: Metal Mickey
Released: September 1992

In the spring/summer of 1992 the indie music press decided that Suede were going to be the biggest band in the UK. Both the NME & Melody Maker had put them on the cover before they had even recorded a note of music.

Was I aware of any of this?

Fuck no, back then I was still some metal kid who didn't even read those publications and was trying to convince himself that I enjoyed death metal and that those Morbid Angel & Cannibal Corpse albums I had bought were really wise investments.
(2013 Urban calling 1992 Urban ...."You f*cking idiot")

In the end I thought 'fuck it' threw them on the shelf never to be played again and decided to go down the MC5, The Stooges, New York Dolls, David Bowie, T. Rex, Roxy Music line of things. Which ironically primed me ready for the emergence of Suede.

I was up late one weekend night watching one of those late night music shows ITV had in the early 90s back then and they played this song. My jaw hit the floor. It was everything that I liked about all the bands I had just discovered, only Suede were MINE, not something from the 60s or 70s because they were classic records. This was my discovery.

I didn't buy the single, It never broke the top 40 and was on an indie label which meant it was virtually impossible for me to get hold of on my little out of touch rock in the middle of the ocean. When I heard the next single later on (Animal Nitrate) I knew I wanted that album as soon as physically possible which I did get in the spring of 1993.

I bought the album but for those first few months I was only interested in the 4 singles on it (The Drowners, Metal Mickey, Animal Nitrate & So Young). For the next few months I would play those songs over and over and over again.

During these months was a very important event i my life. My first trip away without adult supervision, to London for a shopping spree I had been saving up months for and then up to Milton Keynes for my first ever outdoor gig (Guns n Roses, The Cult, Soul Asylum & Blind Melon). I remember arriving at Gatwick Airport late Friday evening, going on the train and pulling into London just as it was getting dark with the sunset and the towerblocks looming over me this song playing on my Walkman buzzing in my ears, both the music and the image burned into my brain to this very day like a photograph. Hell I can even remember the other passengers it's that vivid. I also remember what I was thinking at the time too, that I was entering Suede territory.

I didn't even give a flying fuck about Guns n Roses anymore by this point and wasn't all that bothered about seeing them. It didn't help that they were atrocious as well and I never listened to them again until I dug out Appetite For Destruction over a decade later for that Urban 100 thing I did here. The Cult were awesome though. I had a new 2nd favourite band.

I spend the following Sunday morning going on a mad musical shopping spree buying all sorts of Non metal stuff mostly independent American stuff from the time period (Urge Overkill, Redd Kross, Breeders... you get the idea). I also came away a couple of videos on that trip of a relatively unknown comic in the UK at the time called Bill Hicks and a collection of novels by Bret Easton Ellis other than American Psycho which I had already.

Those 4 days in London was one of the best breaks I ever had and I learned more about music, art & pop culture in those 4 days than any other time in my life I can remember.

07-20-2013, 11:26 AM	#272 (permalink)
Urban Hat€monger ? The Sexual Intellectual Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Somewhere cooler than you Posts: 18,605	And? __________________ Urb's RYM Stuff Most people sell their soul to the devil, but the devil sells his soul to Nick Cave.

07-20-2013, 11:50 AM	#274 (permalink)
Urban Hat€monger ? The Sexual Intellectual Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Somewhere cooler than you Posts: 18,605	What's ironic about it? It's a series of posts making fun of non regular members who sign up & leave one stupid post and leave. __________________ Urb's RYM Stuff Most people sell their soul to the devil, but the devil sells his soul to Nick Cave.

07-22-2013, 07:50 AM	#276 (permalink)
Mojo Melancholia Eternally Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: England Posts: 5,018	It isn't the oversized artwork of a mystery album that annoys me the most in those kinds of threads, although it is annoying. What bugs me is about 95% of the content of What You're Listening To. Does anyone actually look through all of those posts of just a Youtube video and either a description so brief it doesn't actually begin to explain what the album sounds like, or no description at all, and click on it? With so much music out there to listen to, I am never going to do that unless theres a description, or on some rare occasion, some incredible artwork, to catch my interest and give me a reason to give a toss what that person is listening to. __________________ Last.FM \| Echoes and Dust

07-22-2013, 03:04 PM	#277 (permalink)
Urban Hat€monger ? The Sexual Intellectual Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Somewhere cooler than you Posts: 18,605	Oh cheers Mojo you just reminded of another And to answer your question I can't even remember the last time I went into 'What You're Listening To' thread, let alone listened to a song in it. __________________ Urb's RYM Stuff Most people sell their soul to the devil, but the devil sells his soul to Nick Cave.

07-23-2013, 08:54 PM	#278 (permalink)
Urban Hat€monger ? The Sexual Intellectual Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Somewhere cooler than you Posts: 18,605	Great Moments In Rock History No. 853252 - Adam Buxton's Moby Game On Never Mind The Buzzcocks How many Mobys can you spot? __________________ Urb's RYM Stuff Most people sell their soul to the devil, but the devil sells his soul to Nick Cave.

08-02-2013, 10:54 AM	#279 (permalink)
Urban Hat€monger ? The Sexual Intellectual Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Somewhere cooler than you Posts: 18,605	100 singles 100 memories In this series I shall try to recount 100 singles with 100 memories in my life that they remind me of. Or however many I manage until I get bored. No1 Artist: The Rolling Stones Single: Get Off My Cloud Released: October 1965 This was my first introduction to Rock n Roll. I remember being at home at sometime during the school holidays. I couldn't have been more than 6 or 7 years old, maybe a little older when this very same video appeared on TV. I can't remember the exact reason this was on TV although I think it was something to do with Top Of The Pops. I think it may have been something to do with that show making it's 20th anniversary or something which would fit in perfectly in the time frame. I'd heard Rock n Roll before, my Dad was a Buddy Holly fanatic. I'd even heard the Rolling Stones before but only a handful of singles on the radio in the late 70s early 80s so nothing really for the young me to get excited about. But this was different. I think this was the first time I had SEEN what Rock n Roll was, as in people performing it rather than it just being a piece of plastic with a colourful label on it in my parents cupboard. I remember vividly that the bands before the Stones were shown were pleasant enough, including The Beatles. They would play along to all these short poppy songs and would all smile at the camera with lots of flashy lights & cute girls dancing along. Then when this clip was played seeing the Stones all looking mean & moody in almost total darkness really got my attention. Jagger was dancing like a spazz but that didn't really bother me, it was that riff that made all the hairs on the back of my neck stand up, and the lyrics too. This wasn't some sappy love song, this was basically some guy telling someone to fuck off. Even at that young age I got it and loved it that this song was so different to what I was used to at that stage of my life. This song is where music first revealed it's dark side to me, and did I enjoy it. __________________ Urb's RYM Stuff Most people sell their soul to the devil, but the devil sells his soul to Nick Cave.

08-02-2013, 12:16 PM	#280 (permalink)
Urban Hat€monger ? The Sexual Intellectual Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Somewhere cooler than you Posts: 18,605	100 singles 100 memories They won't all be this long, honest. No2 Artist: Suede Single: Metal Mickey Released: September 1992 In the spring/summer of 1992 the indie music press decided that Suede were going to be the biggest band in the UK. Both the NME & Melody Maker had put them on the cover before they had even recorded a note of music. Was I aware of any of this? Fuck no, back then I was still some metal kid who didn't even read those publications and was trying to convince himself that I enjoyed death metal and that those Morbid Angel & Cannibal Corpse albums I had bought were really wise investments. (2013 Urban calling 1992 Urban ...."You fcking idiot")* In the end I thought 'fuck it' threw them on the shelf never to be played again and decided to go down the MC5, The Stooges, New York Dolls, David Bowie, T. Rex, Roxy Music line of things. Which ironically primed me ready for the emergence of Suede. I was up late one weekend night watching one of those late night music shows ITV had in the early 90s back then and they played this song. My jaw hit the floor. It was everything that I liked about all the bands I had just discovered, only Suede were MINE, not something from the 60s or 70s because they were classic records. This was my discovery. I didn't buy the single, It never broke the top 40 and was on an indie label which meant it was virtually impossible for me to get hold of on my little out of touch rock in the middle of the ocean. When I heard the next single later on (Animal Nitrate) I knew I wanted that album as soon as physically possible which I did get in the spring of 1993. I bought the album but for those first few months I was only interested in the 4 singles on it (The Drowners, Metal Mickey, Animal Nitrate & So Young). For the next few months I would play those songs over and over and over again. During these months was a very important event i my life. My first trip away without adult supervision, to London for a shopping spree I had been saving up months for and then up to Milton Keynes for my first ever outdoor gig (Guns n Roses, The Cult, Soul Asylum & Blind Melon). I remember arriving at Gatwick Airport late Friday evening, going on the train and pulling into London just as it was getting dark with the sunset and the towerblocks looming over me this song playing on my Walkman buzzing in my ears, both the music and the image burned into my brain to this very day like a photograph. Hell I can even remember the other passengers it's that vivid. I also remember what I was thinking at the time too, that I was entering Suede territory. I didn't even give a flying fuck about Guns n Roses anymore by this point and wasn't all that bothered about seeing them. It didn't help that they were atrocious as well and I never listened to them again until I dug out Appetite For Destruction over a decade later for that Urban 100 thing I did here. The Cult were awesome though. I had a new 2nd favourite band. I spend the following Sunday morning going on a mad musical shopping spree buying all sorts of Non metal stuff mostly independent American stuff from the time period (Urge Overkill, Redd Kross, Breeders... you get the idea). I also came away a couple of videos on that trip of a relatively unknown comic in the UK at the time called Bill Hicks and a collection of novels by Bret Easton Ellis other than American Psycho which I had already. Those 4 days in London was one of the best breaks I ever had and I learned more about music, art & pop culture in those 4 days than any other time in my life I can remember. __________________ Urb's RYM Stuff Most people sell their soul to the devil, but the devil sells his soul to Nick Cave.