If Music Could Talk

Happy birthday, Ratty — wherever you are!

Happy birthday!!

That’s bands for ya.

Happy birthday!!

OK, this is just WRONG https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCYHSh_rr_U Fucking hell, it hurts when it's close to home. I can't take part in a culture that thinks this is clever or cute. God I hate everything about all of this. Just wait until someone marries this with the hologram stuff and we get the ...

TIBAD has Mick's best lyrics. Medicine Show, E=MC and Sony are particularly very sharp lyrics. Wasn't E=MC2 Don's lyric? Dunno about the rest but from what I read that was his major contribution along with samples. Yes, Don said they were his. I always thought the “Powis Sq / pop star dyed his hair...

I mean I listen to Cut the Crap more than TIBAD because it's such a mess and blasting it at max volume always reveals some weird thing you've never heard before or marimbas where you least expect them, but TIBAD is an actually good, competent, album. I used to wonder why Bernie didn't record the alb...

At the risk of incurring an "I don't read this thread"... has anyone seen From? A friend's been recommending it for a while, but I haven't yet tucked in.

Oh wow, nice spot.

I would like to add that for all the six-strings-or-none talk, Joe was probably a much better guitar player than he let on.

I was thinking about that recently — how would you describe what Joe’s doing on Casbah? Not quite “singing”, more of a vocalizing thing, maybe?

Adam Ant's Vive le Rock just came on and I was thinking that this is basically the same template as CtC, big dumb fuzzed out "punk" guitars, 80s style drum sound (dunno if it's a drum machine, but it might as well be), but a key difference is that it was produced by Tony Visconti and not a herd of w...

I always thought Lover's Rock sounds like the Stones (not a criticism!).