What are you listening to, right now................
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@Crucial said in What are you listening to, right now................:
Back in my early teens my mates and I used to love thrashing Ian Dury and the Blockheads 'New Boots and Panties'. It was considered a rather 'rude' and naughty record in those days, quite subversive and (rightly) we concentrated on the lyrics - Sex and Drugs and Rock'n'Roll - Wake up and make love to me - Plaistow Patricia - Billericky Dicky. While the songs were fucken brilliant lyrically, I seem to have totally missed just how good the Blockheads were in backing them up.
This clip is the one off Tv special in '99 about 9 months before Ian died (notice him being helped on stage).
Norman Watt-Roy is an awesome bassist and Chaz Jankel plays top funk-punk guitar. "Spasticus Autisicus" is a great funk track behind (what I now understand as) very ground breaking lyrics -Anyway, I know you 90s bogans out there probably won't get it but I'm glad I rediscovered this and as the thread title goes it is 'what I'm listening to right now'
Fucking great band, I've mentioned it on here before but I grew up listening to that album. Dad thrashed the shit out of it
Knew the words to Sex and Drugs and Rock n Roll before I knew what sex and drugs were.
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@Crucial said in What are you listening to, right now................:
Back in my early teens my mates and I used to love thrashing Ian Dury and the Blockheads 'New Boots and Panties'. It was considered a rather 'rude' and naughty record in those days, quite subversive and (rightly) we concentrated on the lyrics - Sex and Drugs and Rock'n'Roll - Wake up and make love to me - Plaistow Patricia - Billericky Dicky. While the songs were fucken brilliant lyrically, I seem to have totally missed just how good the Blockheads were in backing them up.
This clip is the one off Tv special in '99 about 9 months before Ian died (notice him being helped on stage).
Norman Watt-Roy is an awesome bassist and Chaz Jankel plays top funk-punk guitar. "Spasticus Autisicus" is a great funk track behind (what I now understand as) very ground breaking lyrics -Anyway, I know you 90s bogans out there probably won't get it but I'm glad I rediscovered this and as the thread title goes it is 'what I'm listening to right now'
If you've got a spare couple of hours this is well worth a listen mate....Soho radio 2 hour special on the career Norman Watt-Roy (bassist for the blockheads). A great musician
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The stones are just totally amazing guys - the fact they are still going, still moving, still playing and putting on great shows, is incredible.
Ronnie Wood is looking pretty tired these days, But Keith, Charlie & Mick just keep going with the same mojo they've always had (in Charlies' case that is somewhat less than the other two).
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@SammyC said in What are you listening to, right now................:
@Crucial said in What are you listening to, right now................:
Back in my early teens my mates and I used to love thrashing Ian Dury and the Blockheads 'New Boots and Panties'. It was considered a rather 'rude' and naughty record in those days, quite subversive and (rightly) we concentrated on the lyrics - Sex and Drugs and Rock'n'Roll - Wake up and make love to me - Plaistow Patricia - Billericky Dicky. While the songs were fucken brilliant lyrically, I seem to have totally missed just how good the Blockheads were in backing them up.
This clip is the one off Tv special in '99 about 9 months before Ian died (notice him being helped on stage).
Norman Watt-Roy is an awesome bassist and Chaz Jankel plays top funk-punk guitar. "Spasticus Autisicus" is a great funk track behind (what I now understand as) very ground breaking lyrics -Anyway, I know you 90s bogans out there probably won't get it but I'm glad I rediscovered this and as the thread title goes it is 'what I'm listening to right now'
Fucking great band, I've mentioned it on here before but I grew up listening to that album. Dad thrashed the shit out of it
Knew the words to Sex and Drugs and Rock n Roll before I knew what sex and drugs were.
Hope you went to school singing the opening to Plaistow Patricia
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Ian Dury and the Blockheads were just magnificent.
Like a lot of you fellas I jumped around singing along to "Spasticus Autisticus" without knowing what the fuck I was singing about which must have amused Dad and his mates to no end.
Much like my boys belting out lyrics to Faith no More and NER*D ( those are our staples ) on car rides. Any other Dads on here will confirm there is nothing funnier ( in the wrong way ) than kids swearing in songs.
Stones ? some good songs but they've never, ever been close to one of my favourite bands. They've just been going for about 50,000 year which I'll confess is a hell of an effort.
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so following on from an earlier discussion, it appears Helmet released another album 2 weeks ago.
I have only heard the first single, and it's a bit shit. Ok, maybe not shit, but it's not Helmet. A preview of the others shows more promise, but i'm waiting to hear a youtube copy before i purchase.
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Well, Fuck!
Leonard Cohen Dead at 82
Leonard Cohen, the hugely influential singer and songwriter whose work spanned five decades, died at the age of 82.
The next link is not an obit, just an article (long read)
Leonard Cohen Makes It Darker
At eighty-two, the troubadour had another album coming. Like him, it was obsessed with mortality, God-infused, and funny.
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@Stockcar86 been sick for a while
2016 really sucks for music legends passing away
So glad I saw him last time he was in Akl
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@dogmeat said in What are you listening to, right now................:
@Stockcar86 been sick for a while
2016 really sucks for music legends passing away
So glad I saw him last time he was in Akl
I saw him in 2008 and 2010. Regretting now I did not make the 2013 concert.
Can someone please wrap Tom Waits in bubble-wrap until the end of the year
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I love this recording live in Dublin - it really shows his humour and good grace
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Ah the man she wanted all her life was hanging by a thread
"I never even knew how much I wanted you," she said.
His muscles they were numbered and his style was obsolete.
"O baby, I have come too late." She knelt beside his feet.
"I'll never see a face like yours in years of men to come
I'll never see such arms again in wrestling or in love."
And all his virtues burning in the smoky Holocaust
She took unto herself most everything her lover lost
Now the master of this landscape he was standing at the view
with a sparrow of St. Francis that he was preaching to
She beckoned to the sentry of his high religious mood
She said, "I'll make a place between my legs,
I'll show you solitude."
He offered her an orgy in a many mirrored room
He promised her protection for the issue of her womb
She moved her body hard against a sharpened metal spoon
She stopped the bloody rituals of passage to the moon
She took his much admired oriental frame of mind
and the heart-of-darkness alibi his money hides behind
She took his blonde madonna and his monastery wine --
"This mental space is occupied and everything is mine."
He tried to make a final stand beside the railway track
She said, "The art of longing's over and it's never coming back."
She took his tavern parliament, his cap, his cocky dance,
she mocked his female fashions and his working-class moustache.
The last time that I saw him he was trying hard to get
a woman's education but he's not a woman yet
And the last time that I saw her she was living with some boy
who gives her soul an empty room and gives her body joy.
So the great affair is over but whoever would have guessed
it would leave us all so vacant and so deeply unimpressed
It's like our visit to the moon or to that other star
I guess you go for nothing if you really want to go that far.
It's like our visit to the moon or to that other star
I guess you go for nothing if you really want to go that far.
It's like our visit to the moon or to that other star
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