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Pete Shelley
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Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a bowl of soup
Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a rolling hoop
Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a ton of lead
Wiggle - you can raise the dead
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Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a rolling hoop
Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a ton of lead
Wiggle - you can raise the dead
Pex Lives!
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I like Walking in the Sun, everything else I've heard by them is awful.
There's a tiny, tiny hopeful part of me that says you guys are running a Kaufmanesque long con on the board
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To be fair I said if you “sang” them the song from Shrek they would know it. My point being people who don’t know who the Buzzcocks are wont know the name of the song but if you sang the song they would recognise it as the ‘song from Shrek’!!Wolter wrote: ↑14 Dec 2018, 1:14pmThis is...technically correct. The best kind of correct.
(Walking on the Sun is the only Smashmouth song I don’t despise. I don’t particularly like it, but I don’t despise it)
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There are two songs from Shrek:
Look, you have to establish context for these things. And I maintain that unless you appreciate the Fall of Constantinople, the Great Fire of London, and Mickey Mantle's fatalist alcoholism, live Freddy makes no sense. If you want to half-ass it, fine, go call Simon Schama to do the appendix.
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Think you've just proven there is only one.
Forces have been looting
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The end of liberty
We're the flowers in the dustbin...
No fuchsias for you.
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Bernard Rhodes, Revolutionary, Visionary, Font Master wrote:Why is nothing happening Shrekwise?
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To be fair, I can't think of anybody in their right mind in the UK at that time who liked Starship or Kiss.Wolter wrote: ↑13 Dec 2018, 12:35amYeah. I’m always amazed at what charted in the UK in the late 70s/early 80s that literally no one but me and maybe a handful of other people listened to in college in the 90s.revbob wrote: ↑12 Dec 2018, 11:19pmAs good as they are/were they didn't really make a big impact here in the US. People like all of us here are very much in the minority. I'm pretty sure I could ask every person I meet/work with etc tomorrow and nobody would know a thing about the Buzzcocks. I somehow got into a discussion about them with a woman in a bar in Texas and we were both amazed that the other was a Buzzcocks fan.WestwayKid wrote: ↑11 Dec 2018, 10:43amMe too. Sad - but not surprising - how is passing came and went in the US without much of a blip.
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That phrase couldn't get more operative.dave202 wrote: ↑15 Dec 2018, 1:47pmTo be fair, I can't think of anybody in their right mind in the UK at that time who liked Starship or Kiss.Wolter wrote: ↑13 Dec 2018, 12:35amYeah. I’m always amazed at what charted in the UK in the late 70s/early 80s that literally no one but me and maybe a handful of other people listened to in college in the 90s.revbob wrote: ↑12 Dec 2018, 11:19pmAs good as they are/were they didn't really make a big impact here in the US. People like all of us here are very much in the minority. I'm pretty sure I could ask every person I meet/work with etc tomorrow and nobody would know a thing about the Buzzcocks. I somehow got into a discussion about them with a woman in a bar in Texas and we were both amazed that the other was a Buzzcocks fan.WestwayKid wrote: ↑11 Dec 2018, 10:43amMe too. Sad - but not surprising - how is passing came and went in the US without much of a blip.
"Grab some wood, bub.'" - Richard Nixon, Checkers Speech, abandoned early draft
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Crying laughing.Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑15 Dec 2018, 2:19pmThat phrase couldn't get more operative.dave202 wrote: ↑15 Dec 2018, 1:47pmTo be fair, I can't think of anybody in their right mind in the UK at that time who liked Starship or Kiss.Wolter wrote: ↑13 Dec 2018, 12:35amYeah. I’m always amazed at what charted in the UK in the late 70s/early 80s that literally no one but me and maybe a handful of other people listened to in college in the 90s.revbob wrote: ↑12 Dec 2018, 11:19pmAs good as they are/were they didn't really make a big impact here in the US. People like all of us here are very much in the minority. I'm pretty sure I could ask every person I meet/work with etc tomorrow and nobody would know a thing about the Buzzcocks. I somehow got into a discussion about them with a woman in a bar in Texas and we were both amazed that the other was a Buzzcocks fan.WestwayKid wrote: ↑11 Dec 2018, 10:43am
Me too. Sad - but not surprising - how is passing came and went in the US without much of a blip.
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Sorry to be pedantic but Starship never formed til 1984. And also, KISS were one of the first punk bands.dave202 wrote: ↑15 Dec 2018, 1:47pmTo be fair, I can't think of anybody in their right mind in the UK at that time who liked Starship or Kiss.Wolter wrote: ↑13 Dec 2018, 12:35amYeah. I’m always amazed at what charted in the UK in the late 70s/early 80s that literally no one but me and maybe a handful of other people listened to in college in the 90s.revbob wrote: ↑12 Dec 2018, 11:19pmAs good as they are/were they didn't really make a big impact here in the US. People like all of us here are very much in the minority. I'm pretty sure I could ask every person I meet/work with etc tomorrow and nobody would know a thing about the Buzzcocks. I somehow got into a discussion about them with a woman in a bar in Texas and we were both amazed that the other was a Buzzcocks fan.WestwayKid wrote: ↑11 Dec 2018, 10:43amMe too. Sad - but not surprising - how is passing came and went in the US without much of a blip.
There's a tiny, tiny hopeful part of me that says you guys are running a Kaufmanesque long con on the board
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Kids, eating condom pastrami causes brain rot.
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Heston wrote: ↑15 Dec 2018, 10:52pmSorry to be pedantic but Starship were never formed they were given away free with breakfast cereal in 1984. And also, KISS were one of the first bands to copy Slade.dave202 wrote: ↑15 Dec 2018, 1:47pmTo be fair, I can't think of anybody in their right mind in the UK at that time who liked Starship or Kiss.Wolter wrote: ↑13 Dec 2018, 12:35amYeah. I’m always amazed at what charted in the UK in the late 70s/early 80s that literally no one but me and maybe a handful of other people listened to in college in the 90s.revbob wrote: ↑12 Dec 2018, 11:19pmAs good as they are/were they didn't really make a big impact here in the US. People like all of us here are very much in the minority. I'm pretty sure I could ask every person I meet/work with etc tomorrow and nobody would know a thing about the Buzzcocks. I somehow got into a discussion about them with a woman in a bar in Texas and we were both amazed that the other was a Buzzcocks fan.WestwayKid wrote: ↑11 Dec 2018, 10:43am
Me too. Sad - but not surprising - how is passing came and went in the US without much of a blip.
Forces have been looting
My humanity
Curfews have been curbing
The end of liberty
We're the flowers in the dustbin...
No fuchsias for you.
"Without the common people you're nothing"
Nos Sumus Una Familia
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Nirvana were metal but KISS aren’t is a hell of a take.
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In a brain where Starship is subversive, the laws of the normal universe are clearly suspended.
"Grab some wood, bub.'" - Richard Nixon, Checkers Speech, abandoned early draft