neverknows' Desert Island Discs - 28 November 2011

User avatar
Moleskin
Posts: 14607
Joined: 18 Feb 2004, 12:38
Location: We began to notice that we could be free, And we moved together to the West.

Re: neverknows' Desert Island Discs - 28 November 2011

Postby Moleskin » 28 Nov 2011, 20:16

That was really terrific! Nice selections.
@hewsim
-the artist formerly known as comrade moleskin-
-the unforgettable waldo jeffers-

Jug Band Music
my own music

User avatar
yomptepi
BCB thumbscrew of Justice
Posts: 36415
Joined: 16 Jul 2003, 17:57
Location: well

Re: neverknows' Desert Island Discs - 28 November 2011

Postby yomptepi » 28 Nov 2011, 20:30

A really great read Fred. Thanks for that!!
You don't like me...do you?

User avatar
Belle Lettre
Éminence grise
Posts: 16143
Joined: 09 Oct 2008, 07:16
Location: Antiterra

Re: neverknows' Desert Island Discs - 28 November 2011

Postby Belle Lettre » 28 Nov 2011, 20:37

Fantastic, Fred. Those soul biographies in story form take my fancy; wish I could read them.
Nikki Gradual wrote:
Get a fucking grip you narcissistic cretins.

User avatar
Jeff K
The Original K
Posts: 32699
Joined: 16 Jul 2003, 23:08
Location: Pennsylvania USA
Contact:

Re: neverknows' Desert Island Discs - 28 November 2011

Postby Jeff K » 28 Nov 2011, 20:42

That was fantastic. I knew I could count on you to bring up Get Yer Ya Ya's Out. It was my first Stones album too, received one Christmas. I don't remember why it was picked for me either because I hadn't asked for it but I'm glad it was!
the science eel experiment wrote:Jesus Christ can't save BCB, i believe i can.

User avatar
savoirefaire
Posts: 5159
Joined: 02 Oct 2007, 09:14
Location: formerly pore of sin...ga!, way of nor and currently pan of Ja!

Re: neverknows' Desert Island Discs - 28 November 2011

Postby savoirefaire » 28 Nov 2011, 20:44

hehe, you've written a novel! fascinating read, wish you had more tracks to go through.
Kid P wrote:*Deleted*
Should have quoted SF

Sneelock wrote:I'm never bored. I'm boring. I think of it as a lifestyle choice!

[img]//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/41/Fundraising_2009-horizontal-thanks-en.png[/img]

User avatar
John Mc
Posts: 14493
Joined: 22 Oct 2003, 17:25
Location: Wilde animal

Re: neverknows' Desert Island Discs - 28 November 2011

Postby John Mc » 28 Nov 2011, 20:51

A very good read, Fred, and very illuminating about your musical development!
quix wrote:If you want to really live then you have to open yourself up to love... some you'll win, some you'll lose... but what is the point if being human if you don't dare?

Molony

neverknows' Desert Island Discs - 28 November 2011

Postby Molony » 28 Nov 2011, 21:21

Nice one.

User avatar
Footy
Filler
Posts: 13694
Joined: 17 Jul 2003, 11:57
Location: Lost in the supermarket

Re: neverknows' Desert Island Discs - 28 November 2011

Postby Footy » 29 Nov 2011, 11:16

That was a fabulous read, Fred, thanks very much.

I know that, as fellow BCBers, there are always bound to be similarities in what we might select but your music choices are uncannily close to what mine would be.
I also identify what you mean about music being 'mine', free from the influence of others although in my case, in the absence of older siblings, I had to break free from my Dad's influence. Happily for me, this coincided, aged 11 or 12, with the arrival of the Beatles and the Stones and everything else that would unfold in the 60s.

We've spoken of it before but my book choice would also be the same as yours. I often refer to it as my favourite book but in truth, I've never yet got past the first 1500 pages despite reading it on and off in English and in French for over 30 years. Now just five years off retirement, I have a clear goal for those first few workless months.

And your English is humiliatingly good but that's long established.
Grab your coat sweetheart....I've got a knife.

Limpin' Jez McKenzie
Poptastic
Posts: 15389
Joined: 05 Jul 2004, 22:01

Re: neverknows' Desert Island Discs - 28 November 2011

Postby Limpin' Jez McKenzie » 29 Nov 2011, 11:29

Excellent stuff. A very interesting, beautifully written piece.
I kept thinking "swim as far as you can, swim as far as you can".

User avatar
Billybob Dylan
Bonehead
Posts: 31807
Joined: 16 Jul 2003, 18:51
Location: in front of the telly

Re: neverknows' Desert Island Discs - 28 November 2011

Postby Billybob Dylan » 29 Nov 2011, 15:18

You've made me late for work, Fred. I had to read the whole thing. Magnifique!
"I've been reduced to thruppence!"

User avatar
Count Machuki
BCB Cup Champion 2013
Posts: 39534
Joined: 11 Jun 2005, 15:28
Location: HAIL, ATLANTA!

Re: neverknows' Desert Island Discs - 28 November 2011

Postby Count Machuki » 29 Nov 2011, 15:26

Top notch!
Let U be the set of all united sets, K be the set of the kids and D be the set of things divided.
Then it follows that ∀ k ∈ K: K ∈ U ⇒ k ∉ D

User avatar
BlueMeanie
Posts: 5697
Joined: 22 Nov 2009, 11:41
Location: A place where no one says please
Contact:

Re: neverknows' Desert Island Discs - 28 November 2011

Postby BlueMeanie » 29 Nov 2011, 17:13

Thanks Fred, terrific read.
Betty Denim wrote:The first time I saw a strange man's cock was in a queue for a Belgian breakfast buffet.

GoogaMooga wrote:I do have standards.

User avatar
Leg of lamb
Jane Austen enthusiast
Posts: 9466
Joined: 19 Oct 2003, 11:33
Location: Crying in the chapel
Contact:

Re: neverknows' Desert Island Discs - 28 November 2011

Postby Leg of lamb » 29 Nov 2011, 19:07

How brilliant. How Proustian! Thanks Fred.

The thing that most stuck out for me reading this was the Springsteen fan who turned you on to Otis Redding. There are all these people in your story with defined aesthetics, ideas on musical history, ideas on how to look and dress that are derived from music. All these epiphanies! My musical journey has been a more fumbling and muted experience. It makes me sad for my generation.
Brother Spoon wrote:I would probably enjoy this record more if it came to me in a brown paper bag filled with manure, instead of this richly illustrated disgrace to my eyes.

User avatar
Thesiger
Posts: 20156
Joined: 08 Aug 2003, 17:12
Location: Old Meadow

Re: neverknows' Desert Island Discs - 28 November 2011

Postby Thesiger » 29 Nov 2011, 19:56

I really enjoyed that, Fred. I can see generations of future kids discovering the Beatles back catalogue in the same way. I liked your reference to Revolver being the 'missing link' in their development.

p.s. It was foam, rather than moss in the Stones video you mention.
BCB Cup - R.U. 2010: W 2012

User avatar
the masked man
Schadenfreude
Posts: 27074
Joined: 21 Jul 2003, 12:29
Location: Peterborough

Re: neverknows' Desert Island Discs - 28 November 2011

Postby the masked man » 29 Nov 2011, 21:17

I was expecting something good, and this didn't disappoint; another very fine account of a great musical journey, even if the tale is very different to mine, despite the similarity in our ages. Very uplifting, anyway, and beautifully written, by a man who writes in English as well as any native speaker on the board (and often quite a bit better).

Just one question. I was hoping for something by XTC to turn up; nothing doing, and that's not a problem, as they just missed the cut for me as well. That said, if you had have selected a single XTC song, what would you have picked?

User avatar
Corporate whore
Genuine and Authorised Pope
Posts: 16267
Joined: 16 Jul 2003, 16:36
Location: ,Location, Location

Re: neverknows' Desert Island Discs - 28 November 2011

Postby Corporate whore » 29 Nov 2011, 22:42

Fantastic read Fred - care to add another 2,000 words? I've finished andd shtill have the COltraine and Les Shades to listed to...

Really liked the Remains song, new to me....
Image

User avatar
John Mc
Posts: 14493
Joined: 22 Oct 2003, 17:25
Location: Wilde animal

Re: neverknows' Desert Island Discs - 28 November 2011

Postby John Mc » 29 Nov 2011, 23:08

neverknows wrote:
Thesiger wrote:p.s. It was foam, rather than moss in the Stones video you mention.

Damn! Of course. It was on the tip of my, er, tongue.


No mousse on a Rolling Stone... :)
quix wrote:If you want to really live then you have to open yourself up to love... some you'll win, some you'll lose... but what is the point if being human if you don't dare?

User avatar
harvey k-tel
Long Player
Posts: 40893
Joined: 16 Jul 2003, 23:20
Location: 1220 on your AM dial

Re: neverknows' Desert Island Discs - 28 November 2011

Postby harvey k-tel » 30 Nov 2011, 01:05

Great read, Fred!

neverknows wrote:Mainly Les Inrocks were (and still are) very anglophile though. Founded by a bunch of Smiths fans, to tell the truth, but it was not all bad, I remember an echo about the La’s in 1989, a long interview with the Stone Roses before the album was released… Nothing really clicked though, and the same went a few years later with the first signs of Britpop. I paid an unconvinced ear to Suede, I blew money on an Inspiral Carpets album for Christ’s sake, I was offered a Divine Comedy CD that the magazine had called “album of the year” in I guess 1993, I even bought the first Oasis album (and disliked it so much that I brought it back to the shop and convinced them that I had made a mistake, so they accepted to exchange it for the first Shed 7 album, after which I gave up).


Give me a hug, brother!
Tempora mutatur et nos mutamur in illis

User avatar
trans-chigley express
Posts: 19238
Joined: 11 Nov 2003, 01:50
Location: Asia's WC

Re: neverknows' Desert Island Discs - 28 November 2011

Postby trans-chigley express » 30 Nov 2011, 04:29

Great stuff except for:
neverknows wrote:or worse (Genesis, Yes, Pink Floyd…).
:evil:

Just for fun what are your other 7 Beatles Desert Island choices?

User avatar
Jimbly
Posts: 21957
Joined: 21 Jul 2003, 23:17
Location: ????

Re: neverknows' Desert Island Discs - 28 November 2011

Postby Jimbly » 30 Nov 2011, 08:38

good read, Fred
So Long Kid, Take A Bow.


Return to “BCB Desert Island Discs & BCB Interviews”