when was BCB last great?

in reality, all of this has been a total load of old bollocks

??

it's STILL great!
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33%
about a year ago
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about two years ago
1
3%
about five years ago
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28%
about ten years ago
7
18%
it was NEVER great!
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18%
 
Total votes: 39

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Re: when was BCB last great?

Postby Goat Boy » 19 Feb 2018, 18:41

Its highs were higher
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Re: when was BCB last great?

Postby The Prof » 19 Feb 2018, 18:54

take5_d_shorterer wrote:
Cosmic Thang wrote:Image


Can we find the attribution on this? It's listed as a stock Getty image on several sites. I want to know who the photographer is.



I was curious too because it looks like a Bert Hardy, but it's actually by a photographer called Haywood Magee

Don't know much about him other than there was a 'thing' going round facebook a while ago about a WW2 paratrooper that took 'selfies' as he jumped out of the plane.

https://mashable.com/2016/09/24/paratro ... GuqR2s4Oqo

That was he. He worked for Picture Post but doesn't have a Wikipedia page.

Here's a link to a Guardian article correctly crediting the image

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/ ... others-not

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Re: when was BCB last great?

Postby take5_d_shorterer » 19 Feb 2018, 20:32

Thanks.

Have not heard of Magee either.

Here's another image.

Image

It's not that Waterloo, but the one near Birmingham Cathedral.

The caption reads

A couple talking by the floodlit cathedral tower in Birmingham. Original Publication: Picture Post - 6979 - The Best And The Worst Of British Cities 4 - Birmingham - pub. 1954


You've got to wonder whether Davies knew this stuff.

Because the UK didn't appear as a major cultural force in pop music until the 1960s, I don't think most people in the States comprehend the role that 1950s played in the stuff that was produced in the 1960s, but the influence has got to be profound.


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Re: when was BCB last great?

Postby Dr Markus » 20 Feb 2018, 12:26

Probably the very early days with the original line up.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Cat_Bones
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Re: when was BCB last great?

Postby The Modernist » 05 Mar 2018, 20:19

It's sad what's happened to it. It feels very jaded, cynical and snipey these days. A lot of the warmth has gone from the board.

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Re: when was BCB last great?

Postby never/ever » 05 Mar 2018, 20:30

I'm fed up with the trolls and the in-fighting spilling over on different threads.
I'm not contemplating quitting but I am spending far less time here than I use to.
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Re: when was BCB last great?

Postby Quaco » 05 Mar 2018, 20:33

I'm fed up with non-Gentle Giant-related material. It's just gotten to be a drag.
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Re: when was BCB last great?

Postby Jumper K » 05 Mar 2018, 20:44

I think it’s a lot better these days. Just a few more wankers to get rid of then perfect!

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Re: when was BCB last great?

Postby harvey k-tel » 05 Mar 2018, 21:04

Yeah, come to think of it, I haven't seen Sloop in quite some time.
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Re: when was BCB last great?

Postby clive gash » 05 Mar 2018, 21:32

Sarcastic bastard
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Re: when was BCB last great?

Postby Darkness_Fish » 06 Mar 2018, 09:06

The Modernist wrote:A lot of the warmth has gone from the board.

That happened when it went digital. When we used to just chalk up messages on that blackboard near Oswaldtwistle, it had real feeling and depth.
Like fast-moving clouds casting shadows against a hillside, the melody-loop shuddered with a sense of the sublime, the awful unknowable majesty of the world.

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Re: when was BCB last great?

Postby Darkness_Fish » 06 Mar 2018, 09:07

But the obvious answer is: when we started pretending we knew what each picture of a spice or herb was.
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Re: when was BCB last great?

Postby Diamond Dog » 06 Mar 2018, 09:51

Saturday September 29, 2007 12:31 am.

Precisely.
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Re: when was BCB last great?

Postby clive gash » 06 Mar 2018, 10:27

Testiclegate.
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Re: when was BCB last great?

Postby ` » 06 Mar 2018, 11:20

On 11 December 2015 at 08:06

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Re: when was BCB last great?

Postby Dr Markus » 06 Mar 2018, 12:57

When people stopped posting about the greatness of Radiohead.
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Re: when was BCB last great?

Postby clive gash » 14 Feb 2019, 17:18

It takes a big man to cry, but it takes a bigger man to laugh at that man.

Diamond Dog wrote:...it quite clearly hit the target with you and your nonce...

...a multitude of innuendo and hearsay...

...I'm producing facts here...

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Re: when was BCB last great?

Postby toomanyhatz » 14 Feb 2019, 18:39

clive gash wrote:http://www.bcb-board.co.uk/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?f=59&t=127118&start=60#p3612414


Oh, that time you stole the round before from me?

Collusion. I blame Russia.
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Re: when was BCB last great?

Postby clive gash » 14 Feb 2019, 18:53

Ah, wonderful days - when all you needed was a couple of PMs to the right people at the right time.
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Re: when was BCB last great?

Postby Goat Boy » 14 Feb 2019, 18:58

I didn't know you had that many BCB friends, Gash!
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