Quoteineedadrink hopefully it'll be good. i haven't read any of them but i've heard some are good and others aren't, depending on the author. They're hit and miss. Some are exceptional - Bowie's Low, Born in the USA, Pink Flag, Paul's Boutique, Illmatic, Swordfishtrombones. Perhaps the best one of all is ... wait for it - Celine Dion's Let's T
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QuoteLunaMorphine What is the best Bowie biography book? The Pegg book is essential. The Buckley bio is about as thorough as you can get, without interviewing the man himself. I'd also recommend the book on Low written as part of the 33 1/3 series of books on seminal/notable albums.
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QuoteMassimo68 Are you sure for 2012 ? I've heard 2013 (done deal !) I've heard 2013 as well - the "Forty Years of Goats Head Soup" tour.
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QuoteBig Al Sister Ray is the pick of those to bne found along Berick Street and the Soho area, IMO. They're currently selling vinyl by the crate - a set price for 20-30 albums. Worth checking out.
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QuoteKeefan QuoteNikolai QuoteTitle5Take1 I love the Sex Pistols, and if it weren't for them maybe SOME GIRLS (my favorite Stones album) wouldn't have be what it is. From Barbara Charone's Keith biography p. 175. "Jagger has kept a watchful eye on the British punk scene, imitating them in song and gesture in the studio." The Ramones were American punk and Mick was o
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QuoteTitle5Take1 I love the Sex Pistols, and if it weren't for them maybe SOME GIRLS (my favorite Stones album) wouldn't have be what it is. From Barbara Charone's Keith biography p. 175. "Jagger has kept a watchful eye on the British punk scene, imitating them in song and gesture in the studio." The Ramones were American punk and Mick was obviously inspired to writ
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QuoteStoneage Please, cool down gentlemen! Agree to disagree and call it quits. By the way, please accept my apologies for my first post in this thread. Americans do understand punk. You got the Ramones! I forgot about them. 1-2-3, let's go! You made a good point there - contentious as it was. Accepted wisdom has it that 'punk' was a term the UK media coined in the wake of the
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QuoteRobberBride Will be going to London tomorrow (daytime only). Does anybody have recommendations on any good record shops that sell Stones vinyls? RB Sister Ray and Reckless Records in Berwick Street have Stones vinyl. Be careful with Sister Ray though, because they sell pirates as well as official pressings.
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Joe Jackson - Night And Day - written about and recorded in New York, after he'd moved there. Billy Joel - 52nd Street. The Clash - Sandinista & Combat Rock. Ok, not explicitly about The Big Apple, but several songs reference/are about the city.
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Quotelsbz QuoteNikolai Also there were Morrissey and Mick Hucknall of Simply Red. And Duran Duran too - yup, they started out as a punk band. Simon LeBon cited Pretty Vacant as one of his favourite records. Maybe, but those and others you mention are pretty minor bands too. I'd say that generally any good Hollies track is more influential on good bands than everything the Sex Pistols
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Quotelsbz QuoteDoxa Quotelsbz I'd say that generally any good Hollies track is more influential on good bands than everything the Sex Pistols did combined. Well, if that sentence has any truthfulness or even sense in it, I think you need to have very idiosyncratic, subjective - and very thin - account what makes a band "good". You probably mean "agressive" instead of
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Quotelsbz Quotehumanriff77 The guy who says the Pistols were of "minor relevance" as a band you have to be kidding, you may not like the music but they are certainly one of the most influential bands in rock... The Sex Pistols probably would not be in my personal top 50 of favorite bands, and then they are of minor relevance to me. I think they were a fairly good band though, but the
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Quotestones78 I don't think the Sex Pistols' influence musically speaking is that huge. The social and marketing impact is a completely different thing. You don't think The Pistols musical influence is huge? Try The Jam and The Clash (both Paul Weller and Joe Strummer realised what they were doing was musically and lyrically obsolete after seeing The Pistols play) - not to menti
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RIP. I wasn't a big fan, but I loved the stuff he did with Thin Lizzy and Phil Lynott. They complimented each other perfectly.
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Quotesteffiestones Quotelsbz QuoteNikolai Quotelsbz Quotesteffiestones QuoteMKjan A fantastic natural air guitarist who accidently picked up a real guitar. A good definition Wikipedia says: "By the time of the last Sex Pistols gig at the Winterland in San Francisco Sid was a reasonably competent bass player which is evident in the footage of this gig.". I tend to agree with that, co
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Quotelsbz Quotesteffiestones QuoteMKjan A fantastic natural air guitarist who accidently picked up a real guitar. A good definition Wikipedia says: "By the time of the last Sex Pistols gig at the Winterland in San Francisco Sid was a reasonably competent bass player which is evident in the footage of this gig.". I tend to agree with that, competent enough to play in the Sex Pistols
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QuoteTitle5Take1 If nothing else, the GOODFELLAS closing credits with Sid Vicious singing My Way over them was contribution enough from him. (Obviously the song was out long before GOODFELLAS, but that song fit that ending so great. Maybe the Beatles' Baby You're a Rich Man playing during the closing credits of THE SOCIAL NETWORK is the only equal regarding a song-at-closing-credits.)
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QuoteTitle5Take1 QuoteKeefan I don't idolize Sid by any means, but there's a strong argument to be made that Sid wasn't the one who killed Nancy. There's even a movie about this. The recent special Rolling Stones edition of UNCUT MAGAZINE had a bunch of old Rolling Stones interviews, and the following is from a 1979 interview with keith. KEITH: "Sid - yeah. He'
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Great, if it happens. I hope they put out a box set, like Pet Sounds.
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QuoteSilver Dagger QuoteNikolai QuoteSilver Dagger QuoteNikolai QuoteSilver Dagger QuoteNikolai QuoteSilver Dagger QuoteNikolai Quotelettingitbleed Yes, great image and attitude, but zero talent as a bass player. Big Sex Pistols fan, but dude could not play. McClaren hired him because he looked the part. Johnny Rotten brought him into the group after they cleverly fired their main songwriter
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RIP. She was brilliant in Antonioni's The Passenger, with Jack Nicholson. She died of cancer.
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QuoteSilver Dagger QuoteNikolai QuoteSilver Dagger QuoteNikolai QuoteSilver Dagger QuoteNikolai Quotelettingitbleed Yes, great image and attitude, but zero talent as a bass player. Big Sex Pistols fan, but dude could not play. McClaren hired him because he looked the part. Johnny Rotten brought him into the group after they cleverly fired their main songwriter and bassist, Glen Matlock. Sid
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Quoteparislocksmith Love the Pistols as a band and a phenomenon but any sympathy I may have felt for Sid Vicious vanished when I saw the part of Who Killed Nancy where (I think) Matlock's friend recounted how Vicious used his belt to strangle a cat. Not quite right in the head, obviously. Also, Lydon's account of his 'food preparation' in his autobiography is a bit hard to sto
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QuoteSquiggle I like some of the Sex Pistols' songs but I'm one of those who think they were finished as soon as they dumped Matlock and hired Sid Vicious. Not only was Matlock the main musical songwriter, which would have made the change bad enough, but Sid was a bad cartoon of a punk. And has since - and at the time - been accepted as a good cartoon of a punk. That said, I do feel
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QuoteSilver Dagger QuoteNikolai QuoteSilver Dagger QuoteNikolai Quotelettingitbleed Yes, great image and attitude, but zero talent as a bass player. Big Sex Pistols fan, but dude could not play. McClaren hired him because he looked the part. Johnny Rotten brought him into the group after they cleverly fired their main songwriter and bassist, Glen Matlock. Sid then fell in love with his image
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QuoteHavo just heard "the boys are back in town"--and I like it. is there a really good compilation of the band? Good to hear you're interested in Lizzy. I'd recommend these compilations: Rockers - possibly deleted on CD, but it remains the best introduction to the group. It was compiled while they were still a working band, and came out before they started hitti
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QuoteSilver Dagger QuoteEdith Grove QuoteSilver DaggerI actually knew the guy and went to college with him in Kings Cross, north London from 74/76. We were mates for about 2 years and used to bunk into shows (crash them) until he joined the Sex Pistols and his head went up his arse. During this time I witnessed a goof ball but generally fun guy to be around degenerate into a nasty, violent and
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QuoteSilver Dagger QuoteNikolai Quotelettingitbleed Yes, great image and attitude, but zero talent as a bass player. Big Sex Pistols fan, but dude could not play. McClaren hired him because he looked the part. Johnny Rotten brought him into the group after they cleverly fired their main songwriter and bassist, Glen Matlock. Sid then fell in love with his image, Nancy Spungen and heroin in th
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Quotelettingitbleed Yes, great image and attitude, but zero talent as a bass player. Big Sex Pistols fan, but dude could not play. McClaren hired him because he looked the part. Johnny Rotten brought him into the group after they cleverly fired their main songwriter and bassist, Glen Matlock. Sid then fell in love with his image, Nancy Spungen and heroin in that order. Opinions are mixed
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QuoteGlam Descendant Wow, that set-list looks fantastic! "Bitter-Sweet", "Prairie Rose", nice chunk of STRANDED ... I hope they had some Southeastern US dates. What's up with those winery dates down under? Sounds very intriguing! Not sure if this Roxy tour will extend beyond these shores. Ferry is playing solo dates in the summer.
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