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Listening to Danzig's version of "Girl of My Best Friend" it struck me this would have been great for the Ramones.

Who pfaffed the pfaff? Who got pfaffed tonight?

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Olaf wrote:
08 Oct 2020, 4:10pm
Listening to Danzig's version of "Girl of My Best Friend" it struck me this would have been great for the Ramones.

Oh yeah I definitely hear them covering it.
It has that same feel as "I Remember You".
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Adolescents to release covers album

https://www.punknews.org/amp/73440/adol ... vers-album

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revbob wrote:
08 Oct 2020, 10:23pm
Adolescents to release covers album

https://www.punknews.org/amp/73440/adol ... vers-album
Damn, that's gonna be good.
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Goddammit, Limeys, you're asked for the best album of the 80s and your one-two punch is The Joshua Tree and Brothers in Arms? No more canvassing your opinions! :naughty:
https://www.nme.com/news/music/u2-the-j ... ll-2777950
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Dr. Medulla wrote:
09 Oct 2020, 6:31am
Goddammit, Limeys, you're asked for the best album of the 80s and your one-two punch is The Joshua Tree and Brothers in Arms? No more canvassing your opinions! :naughty:
https://www.nme.com/news/music/u2-the-j ... ll-2777950
Here's the thing I can list well over a thousand albums that are worse. Lots of great albums from the 80s that didn't reach the main stream.
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Marky Dread wrote:
09 Oct 2020, 6:44am
Dr. Medulla wrote:
09 Oct 2020, 6:31am
Goddammit, Limeys, you're asked for the best album of the 80s and your one-two punch is The Joshua Tree and Brothers in Arms? No more canvassing your opinions! :naughty:
https://www.nme.com/news/music/u2-the-j ... ll-2777950
Here's the thing I can list well over a thousand albums that are worse. Lots of great albums from the 80s that didn't reach the main stream.
Sure there's worse. But reminds me of one of the outtakes from The Office. An exasperated Tim is talking about Garreth, who has the entire range of rock n roll history to choose from, and yet his favourite band is Mike and the Mechanics. I may grant some plausibility for The Joshua Tree given U2's status and all, but how the hell do so many people settle on Dire Straits? It's walking into a bar that stocks beer from around the globe and asking for a Bud.
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Dr. Medulla wrote:
09 Oct 2020, 8:29am
Marky Dread wrote:
09 Oct 2020, 6:44am
Dr. Medulla wrote:
09 Oct 2020, 6:31am
Goddammit, Limeys, you're asked for the best album of the 80s and your one-two punch is The Joshua Tree and Brothers in Arms? No more canvassing your opinions! :naughty:
https://www.nme.com/news/music/u2-the-j ... ll-2777950
Here's the thing I can list well over a thousand albums that are worse. Lots of great albums from the 80s that didn't reach the main stream.
Sure there's worse. But reminds me of one of the outtakes from The Office. An exasperated Tim is talking about Garreth, who has the entire range of rock n roll history to choose from, and yet his favourite band is Mike and the Mechanics. I may grant some plausibility for The Joshua Tree given U2's status and all, but how the hell do so many people settle on Dire Straits? It's walking into a bar that stocks beer from around the globe and asking for a Bud.
Some people just enjoy a bud I guess. The truth is the fact that the NME's audience is very different now. Those of us who read the NME back during the punk days and early 80s simply wouldn't waste our time voting in a shitty poll.
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Marky Dread wrote:
09 Oct 2020, 8:35am
Dr. Medulla wrote:
09 Oct 2020, 8:29am
Marky Dread wrote:
09 Oct 2020, 6:44am
Dr. Medulla wrote:
09 Oct 2020, 6:31am
Goddammit, Limeys, you're asked for the best album of the 80s and your one-two punch is The Joshua Tree and Brothers in Arms? No more canvassing your opinions! :naughty:
https://www.nme.com/news/music/u2-the-j ... ll-2777950
Here's the thing I can list well over a thousand albums that are worse. Lots of great albums from the 80s that didn't reach the main stream.
Sure there's worse. But reminds me of one of the outtakes from The Office. An exasperated Tim is talking about Garreth, who has the entire range of rock n roll history to choose from, and yet his favourite band is Mike and the Mechanics. I may grant some plausibility for The Joshua Tree given U2's status and all, but how the hell do so many people settle on Dire Straits? It's walking into a bar that stocks beer from around the globe and asking for a Bud.
Some people just enjoy a bud I guess. The truth is the fact that the NME's audience is very different now. Those of us who read the NME back during the punk days and early 80s simply wouldn't waste our time voting in a shitty poll.
It was a BBC-2 poll, if that explains the "taste" better.
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Dr. Medulla wrote:
09 Oct 2020, 8:37am
Marky Dread wrote:
09 Oct 2020, 8:35am
Dr. Medulla wrote:
09 Oct 2020, 8:29am
Marky Dread wrote:
09 Oct 2020, 6:44am
Dr. Medulla wrote:
09 Oct 2020, 6:31am
Goddammit, Limeys, you're asked for the best album of the 80s and your one-two punch is The Joshua Tree and Brothers in Arms? No more canvassing your opinions! :naughty:
https://www.nme.com/news/music/u2-the-j ... ll-2777950
Here's the thing I can list well over a thousand albums that are worse. Lots of great albums from the 80s that didn't reach the main stream.
Sure there's worse. But reminds me of one of the outtakes from The Office. An exasperated Tim is talking about Garreth, who has the entire range of rock n roll history to choose from, and yet his favourite band is Mike and the Mechanics. I may grant some plausibility for The Joshua Tree given U2's status and all, but how the hell do so many people settle on Dire Straits? It's walking into a bar that stocks beer from around the globe and asking for a Bud.
Some people just enjoy a bud I guess. The truth is the fact that the NME's audience is very different now. Those of us who read the NME back during the punk days and early 80s simply wouldn't waste our time voting in a shitty poll.
It was a BBC-2 poll, if that explains the "taste" better.
I should've read a bit further down. Yeah whilst much better than BBC-1 we are definitely in Dire Straits territory here. I think it would be interesting to look at the ages of those that voted and just how many of those little rebels quickly settled into marriage a mortgage and some comfy slippers.
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Marky Dread wrote:
09 Oct 2020, 8:48am
Dr. Medulla wrote:
09 Oct 2020, 8:37am
Marky Dread wrote:
09 Oct 2020, 8:35am
Dr. Medulla wrote:
09 Oct 2020, 8:29am
Marky Dread wrote:
09 Oct 2020, 6:44am


Here's the thing I can list well over a thousand albums that are worse. Lots of great albums from the 80s that didn't reach the main stream.
Sure there's worse. But reminds me of one of the outtakes from The Office. An exasperated Tim is talking about Garreth, who has the entire range of rock n roll history to choose from, and yet his favourite band is Mike and the Mechanics. I may grant some plausibility for The Joshua Tree given U2's status and all, but how the hell do so many people settle on Dire Straits? It's walking into a bar that stocks beer from around the globe and asking for a Bud.
Some people just enjoy a bud I guess. The truth is the fact that the NME's audience is very different now. Those of us who read the NME back during the punk days and early 80s simply wouldn't waste our time voting in a shitty poll.
It was a BBC-2 poll, if that explains the "taste" better.
I should've read a bit further down. Yeah whilst much better than BBC-1 we are definitely in Dire Straits territory here. I think it would be interesting to look at the ages of those that voted and just how many of those little rebels quickly settled into marriage a mortgage and some comfy slippers.
Ah, Blairites.
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Dr. Medulla wrote:
09 Oct 2020, 8:29am
Marky Dread wrote:
09 Oct 2020, 6:44am
Dr. Medulla wrote:
09 Oct 2020, 6:31am
Goddammit, Limeys, you're asked for the best album of the 80s and your one-two punch is The Joshua Tree and Brothers in Arms? No more canvassing your opinions! :naughty:
https://www.nme.com/news/music/u2-the-j ... ll-2777950
Here's the thing I can list well over a thousand albums that are worse. Lots of great albums from the 80s that didn't reach the main stream.
Sure there's worse. But reminds me of one of the outtakes from The Office. An exasperated Tim is talking about Garreth, who has the entire range of rock n roll history to choose from, and yet his favourite band is Mike and the Mechanics. I may grant some plausibility for The Joshua Tree given U2's status and all, but how the hell do so many people settle on Dire Straits? It's walking into a bar that stocks beer from around the globe and asking for a Bud.
I can think of a lot of bands worse than Dire Straits. I will even argue that they were probably a better band than many people give them credit for, but there is no way they should ever be that high on a list of great albums.
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WestwayKid wrote:
09 Oct 2020, 9:36am
Dr. Medulla wrote:
09 Oct 2020, 8:29am
Marky Dread wrote:
09 Oct 2020, 6:44am
Dr. Medulla wrote:
09 Oct 2020, 6:31am
Goddammit, Limeys, you're asked for the best album of the 80s and your one-two punch is The Joshua Tree and Brothers in Arms? No more canvassing your opinions! :naughty:
https://www.nme.com/news/music/u2-the-j ... ll-2777950
Here's the thing I can list well over a thousand albums that are worse. Lots of great albums from the 80s that didn't reach the main stream.
Sure there's worse. But reminds me of one of the outtakes from The Office. An exasperated Tim is talking about Garreth, who has the entire range of rock n roll history to choose from, and yet his favourite band is Mike and the Mechanics. I may grant some plausibility for The Joshua Tree given U2's status and all, but how the hell do so many people settle on Dire Straits? It's walking into a bar that stocks beer from around the globe and asking for a Bud.
I can think of a lot of bands worse than Dire Straits. I will even argue that they were probably a better band than many people give them credit for, but there is no way they should ever be that high on a list of great albums.
I can't deny it any longer. I love Sultans of Swing. Brothers in Arms is so flat though it makes John Denver seem edgy.
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oliver wrote:
09 Oct 2020, 9:46am
WestwayKid wrote:
09 Oct 2020, 9:36am
Dr. Medulla wrote:
09 Oct 2020, 8:29am
Marky Dread wrote:
09 Oct 2020, 6:44am
Dr. Medulla wrote:
09 Oct 2020, 6:31am
Goddammit, Limeys, you're asked for the best album of the 80s and your one-two punch is The Joshua Tree and Brothers in Arms? No more canvassing your opinions! :naughty:
https://www.nme.com/news/music/u2-the-j ... ll-2777950
Here's the thing I can list well over a thousand albums that are worse. Lots of great albums from the 80s that didn't reach the main stream.
Sure there's worse. But reminds me of one of the outtakes from The Office. An exasperated Tim is talking about Garreth, who has the entire range of rock n roll history to choose from, and yet his favourite band is Mike and the Mechanics. I may grant some plausibility for The Joshua Tree given U2's status and all, but how the hell do so many people settle on Dire Straits? It's walking into a bar that stocks beer from around the globe and asking for a Bud.
I can think of a lot of bands worse than Dire Straits. I will even argue that they were probably a better band than many people give them credit for, but there is no way they should ever be that high on a list of great albums.
I can't deny it any longer. I love Sultans of Swing. Brothers in Arms is so flat though it makes John Denver seem edgy.
That is a really solid track. Mark Knopfler is one of my favorite guitarists.
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Maybe Heston was the only participant in the poll.

Dire Straits define boring music for me.

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