Bittersweet Symphony
- Dr. Medulla
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Re: Bittersweet Symphony
In his honour, I'll try to write a mopey and boring song today.
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- Heston
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Re: Bittersweet Symphony
Happy Birthday Richard. The rest of your material might be iffy, but you wrote one bona fide classic.
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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Re: Bittersweet Symphony
He did? Then why don't they play that instead of BS?Heston wrote:Happy Birthday Richard. The rest of your material might be iffy, but you wrote one bona fide classic.
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Re: Bittersweet Symphony
I like 'The Drugs Don't Work' as well.
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Re: Bittersweet Symphony
Justice at last...
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainmen ... j3vvtyI_hE
Mick and Keef were breadhead wankers over this.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainmen ... j3vvtyI_hE
Mick and Keef were breadhead wankers over this.
There's a tiny, tiny hopeful part of me that says you guys are running a Kaufmanesque long con on the board
- Flex
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Re: Bittersweet Symphony
If I were Mick and keef, I would simply not take credit for that crappy song.Heston wrote: ↑23 May 2019, 3:11pmJustice at last...
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainmen ... j3vvtyI_hE
Mick and Keef were breadhead wankers over this.
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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
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Re: Bittersweet Symphony
It's not awful but it's nowhere near as good as it thinks it is. Pretty much how I feel about The Verve.
Re: Bittersweet Symphony
Our decade, our rules!Flex wrote: ↑23 May 2019, 3:18pmIf I were Mick and keef, I would simply not take credit for that crappy song.Heston wrote: ↑23 May 2019, 3:11pmJustice at last...
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainmen ... j3vvtyI_hE
Mick and Keef were breadhead wankers over this.
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.
- Heston
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Re: Bittersweet Symphony
I'm not that keen on the Verve outside of this song.
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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Re: Bittersweet Symphony
Lucky Man and Drugs Don't Work are great.
Re: Bittersweet Symphony
Overrated twoddle from what I've heard, which isn't a great deal but hasn't tempted me to seek more which says volumes as far as I'm concerned.
Re: Bittersweet Symphony
Never understood the hype for DDW, dull whining is all I heard.
- Heston
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Re: Bittersweet Symphony
They're ok. Not on the level of BS.
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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Re: Bittersweet Symphony
Well, none of them are as good as a Replacements song.Heston wrote: ↑23 May 2019, 4:03pmThey're ok. Not on the level of BS.
- Heston
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Re: Bittersweet Symphony
Decent bar band but can't imagine them slaying Glastonbury like the Verve did with BS.Silent Majority wrote: ↑23 May 2019, 4:06pmWell, none of them are as good as a Replacements song.Heston wrote: ↑23 May 2019, 4:03pmThey're ok. Not on the level of BS.
There's a tiny, tiny hopeful part of me that says you guys are running a Kaufmanesque long con on the board