Funny, not long ago I had a conversation with eumaas sort of about that. Being Scandi and living on the prairies means spending your days waiting for bad news and never complaining about cold weather (because it's only just). "I can't see what all fuss is about" is a reaction that can be applied to, oh, around 100% of situations.
So, Scandis are just like Jews except we don't live on plains and we DO complain about the cold?
Jews are also known for having a sense of humour. Scandis … not so much.
Ali’s father has a Scandinavian sense of humor mixed with Jewish patience.
OY VEY.
Yeah. It’s...something.
My Iowa-raised, mostly German father is more of a jokester.
”INDER LOCK THE THE KISS THREAD IVE REALISED IM A PRZE IDOOT” - Thomas Jefferson
Funny, not long ago I had a conversation with eumaas sort of about that. Being Scandi and living on the prairies means spending your days waiting for bad news and never complaining about cold weather (because it's only just). "I can't see what all fuss is about" is a reaction that can be applied to, oh, around 100% of situations.
So, Scandis are just like Jews except we don't live on plains and we DO complain about the cold?
Jews are also known for having a sense of humour. Scandis … not so much.
Ali’s father has a Scandinavian sense of humor mixed with Jewish patience.
OY VEY.
Uff da!
"Ain't no party like an S Club party!'" - Richard Nixon, Checkers Speech, abandoned early draft
Moby and the Void Pacific Choir, These Systems Are Failing. Kind of an electronic post-punk, surprisingly aggressive. Also pretty good. Far better than I would have expected.
Hello,
I was just listening to the follow-up, More Fast Songs about the Apocalypse. It's similar to what you've described - fast, aggressive, more electronic than guitar. Pretty good.
Holy crap, listening now and digging it a lot. I'd like Moby a lot more if he did more of this.
"Ain't no party like an S Club party!'" - Richard Nixon, Checkers Speech, abandoned early draft
Even if you don't dig Rod Stewart's singing, how can you deny the greatness of some of Wood's songwriting collaborations with him and Ronnie Lane?
Rod Stewart sings on them. Therefore they can never be as good as Say Those Magic Words by the Birds. Worthless, basically.
And eleven albums with the Stones and loads of solo albums still don't rate a tune or two? Have you actually listened or is this just lazy doctrinaire jive?
I've heard all the Stones albums apart from a Bigger Bang. Some good stuff dotted about but I've never heard anything as strong as Say Those Magic Words. I'm no expert on his solo stuff, but you know, I was just really pointing out how much I love the above tune. So yeah, maybe I'm jiving with the old lazy doctrine a little bit.
Hope you know I'm just having fun with you, mate. Anyway, I'll leave you with Wood's first track from his first solo album, featuring Keef on guitar and bv's, Mac from Small/Faces on keys, Willie Weeks bass and Andy Newmark (Sly & the Family Stone) drums. Oh, and Jagger on co-vox. I think you might dig it.
I do quite like that, it's like a very loose version of Ska.
There's a tiny, tiny hopeful part of me that says you guys are running a Kaufmanesque long con on the board
All this talk of female armpit hair and nuclear war and such drove me to listen to this. Great album.
Nena, 'Nena' (original all-German language album), 1983.
Strong shoes is what we got and when they're hot they're hot!
- Marky Dread and his fabulous Screaming Blue Messiahs
Rod Stewart sings on them. Therefore they can never be as good as Say Those Magic Words by the Birds. Worthless, basically.
And eleven albums with the Stones and loads of solo albums still don't rate a tune or two? Have you actually listened or is this just lazy doctrinaire jive?
I've heard all the Stones albums apart from a Bigger Bang. Some good stuff dotted about but I've never heard anything as strong as Say Those Magic Words. I'm no expert on his solo stuff, but you know, I was just really pointing out how much I love the above tune. So yeah, maybe I'm jiving with the old lazy doctrine a little bit.
Hope you know I'm just having fun with you, mate. Anyway, I'll leave you with Wood's first track from his first solo album, featuring Keef on guitar and bv's, Mac from Small/Faces on keys, Willie Weeks bass and Andy Newmark (Sly & the Family Stone) drums. Oh, and Jagger on co-vox. I think you might dig it.
I do quite like that, it's like a very loose version of Ska.
I liked it too. It'd do well for the closing credits of a feelgood independent film, where the main character has learnt a lesson and is leaning happily against a car down the docks as the sun sets.
a lifetime serving one machine
Is ten times worse than prison
And eleven albums with the Stones and loads of solo albums still don't rate a tune or two? Have you actually listened or is this just lazy doctrinaire jive?
I've heard all the Stones albums apart from a Bigger Bang. Some good stuff dotted about but I've never heard anything as strong as Say Those Magic Words. I'm no expert on his solo stuff, but you know, I was just really pointing out how much I love the above tune. So yeah, maybe I'm jiving with the old lazy doctrine a little bit.
Hope you know I'm just having fun with you, mate. Anyway, I'll leave you with Wood's first track from his first solo album, featuring Keef on guitar and bv's, Mac from Small/Faces on keys, Willie Weeks bass and Andy Newmark (Sly & the Family Stone) drums. Oh, and Jagger on co-vox. I think you might dig it.
I do quite like that, it's like a very loose version of Ska.
I liked it too. It'd do well for the closing credits of a feelgood independent film, where the main character has learnt a lesson and is leaning happily against a car down the docks as the sun sets.
Ha! Nice set up. You aren't by any chance Irish, are you Murph? I reckon Hollywood's looking for your like.
Strong shoes is what we got and when they're hot they're hot!
- Marky Dread and his fabulous Screaming Blue Messiahs
Marketed, back in the day, as Canada's Nirvana. *sigh* The only song of theirs that ever stuck out for me was "Underwhelmed," which, yeah, fit in with a lot of grunge.
"Ain't no party like an S Club party!'" - Richard Nixon, Checkers Speech, abandoned early draft
Marketed, back in the day, as Canada's Nirvana. *sigh* The only song of theirs that ever stuck out for me was "Underwhelmed," which, yeah, fit in with a lot of grunge.
Yeah poorly and lazily lumped in with grunge. They are so much more than that with power pop Beatles/Big Star style harmonies etc. A 25 year career and 12 albums behind them they have a very strong back catalog.
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.
I reckon Hollywood's looking for your like. 
