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"Mother played by Peter Beardsley, father by John Cleese"
2002-05-12 17:37:38
EK: I must have listened to Choke a million times in the summer of 1991.
Man, that was a long time ago... I was twelve and it was the first time I was really getting many albums of my own. I got Choke and then a week later went and bought Welcome the the Beautiful South on cassette. By the end of that summer I knew those 2 albums back to front - it was one or the other in my walkman.
I stopped listening to them after 0898, really, and I've never really liked them that much since they changed the female lead. I still have a place for the early stuff, though.
Oh, and yes, you are indeed correct that the lead singer of The Beautiful South is Paul Heaton of The Housemartins fame.
When the housemartins split up at the end of the 80's, both Paul and Dave Hemmingway went on to The Beautiful South... Dave Hemmingway was the proiminent co-singer in the early albums and features on such songs as Song for Whoever and had the starring role (so to speak) in A Little Time.
The major surprise following the breakup was the career created by the Housemartins bassist who went on to record the hit single "Just Be Good To Me" in 1990 with Beats International (it was a dance cover of the SOS song). He then went on to be the first man to make a substantial career in pop stardom by being a DJ. That man was Norman Cook, aka Fatboy Slim.
There you go, today's pop trivia ^_^
And next week on "Where are they now?": MC Hammer - from Superstar to penniless preacher. -
"And she hopes and we hope/ The the words that she said won't provoke/ A smile is removed and a petal is crushed/ What once was a laugh has turned into a joke"
2002-05-12 03:57:31
*tickles EK* -
"I'm so beautiful and clean and so very very young to be standing in the street///"
2002-05-11 19:31:45
hehe, funny chat today:
[00:08] otakuflend: I watched Otaku no Video today.
[00:09] otakuflend: The residing memory is of the rather bittersweet ending.
[00:10] otakuflend: The fact that the ending was so clearly fantasy shows that anime will not keep you a college student and young for ever and you will not have a happy ending blasting off into space on in a giant robot
[00:10] ZettaiUnmeiAnime: yeah... lets quit this anime lark now and get real lives
[00:10] otakuflend: before our former girlfriends become the wifes of evil bankers!
[00:10] ZettaiUnmeiAnime: lol -
"We're trash, you and me, we're the litter on the breeze, we're the lovers on the street"
2002-05-11 12:10:30
What a classic.
Dispite not being a fan of the indie movement when it happened there were some great tracks that came out of it, and Suede's "Trash" is a great pop song. I think I like it because it has a certain Bowie-ness to it.
Been talking recently with Marco of Turboneko Studios about collaborations. We came up with a nice idea for a video... but I'm a little worried that the idea at the moment may suffer from "style over substance".
We'll see I guess... I can imagine it being a cool idea but I think more thought is required - possibly an extra bit of music to inspire some more ideas that would fit this visual style we've been thinking about.
Anyway, I'm gonig to listen to a lot of stuff of a similar style and see what I can come up with. -
2002-05-10 15:58:30
OK, stuff the comedy links (below)... this is SOOO much better!!!!!
http://www.cdjapan.co.jp/detailview.html?KEY=VWDZ-8036
<yubaba>
saaa, oide!
</yubaba>
I
Can't
Wait!!!!!!!
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