JC's Godlike Genius #1
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Not at all, no!
I bought the special edition earlier this year and it's mostly rubbish - almost as bad as The Damned.
It's certainly not good enough to hold its own with the other albums in Yomp's list.
I bought the special edition earlier this year and it's mostly rubbish - almost as bad as The Damned.
It's certainly not good enough to hold its own with the other albums in Yomp's list.
Matt 'interesting' Wilson wrote:So I went from looking at the "I'm a Man" riff, to showing how the rave up was popular for awhile.
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You don't like the Damned either?!
Damn!
Damn!
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oh GO BACK TO BED
Matt 'interesting' Wilson wrote:So I went from looking at the "I'm a Man" riff, to showing how the rave up was popular for awhile.
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It's 11:30 AM!
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Exactly.
Matt 'interesting' Wilson wrote:So I went from looking at the "I'm a Man" riff, to showing how the rave up was popular for awhile.
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I can't wait for The Godlike Genius of JC #2!
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Do your own!
Matt 'interesting' Wilson wrote:So I went from looking at the "I'm a Man" riff, to showing how the rave up was popular for awhile.
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joels344 wrote:That’s a brilliant track. I love those first two albums with my favorite being Dub Housing (don’t hate me).
I, too, prefer the follow-up.
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Matt Wilson wrote:Michael, how come you give the Americans a pass with all that punk stuff, yet condemn the Clash and Pistols?
The pistols were shit. I don't like heavy metal.
The Clash sold out. All the joy of that first album followed by fuzz guitars and heavy rock riffing. A disgrace.
And I don't really give the Americans a pass, but there was some great things happening in New York in 1975/6/7. A lot of which gets very little respect.
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Here's something I learned from John: "It's all good!"
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It's brilliant.
What I love about it - and I know I've said this before - is how aggressively weird and playful the keyboards are. Considering everyone else was either being artsy or cold and robotic with them - and the latter would get much, much worse soon thereafter - the fact that they treated the synth as basically as punky an instrument as slashy guitars is, imo, some kind of accomplishment. Plus Thomas's voice - despite having the standard resolute unmelodicness - was not really like anyone else's. They really were a one-of-a-kind band.
What I love about it - and I know I've said this before - is how aggressively weird and playful the keyboards are. Considering everyone else was either being artsy or cold and robotic with them - and the latter would get much, much worse soon thereafter - the fact that they treated the synth as basically as punky an instrument as slashy guitars is, imo, some kind of accomplishment. Plus Thomas's voice - despite having the standard resolute unmelodicness - was not really like anyone else's. They really were a one-of-a-kind band.
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uh huh well actually I...uh...
*tosses hair to one side, looks up to ceiling*
actually uh prefer the second album, Dub Housing
uh yeah
*tosses hair to one side, looks up to ceiling*
actually uh prefer the second album, Dub Housing
uh yeah
Matt 'interesting' Wilson wrote:So I went from looking at the "I'm a Man" riff, to showing how the rave up was popular for awhile.
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What can I say? I heard the second album before the first and it holds a special place for me.
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Only joking, Chris!
Matt 'interesting' Wilson wrote:So I went from looking at the "I'm a Man" riff, to showing how the rave up was popular for awhile.
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(I love the album too - don't think there's anything that quite compares to 'Pact' tho')
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Re: JC's Godlike Genius #1
Was reluctant to vote 'Amazeballs' due to the stupidity of the phrase, but nevertheless...
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HEN wrote:Only joking, Chris!
But... how did you know about the hair tossing?
*closes curtains*
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Matt 'interesting' Wilson wrote:So I went from looking at the "I'm a Man" riff, to showing how the rave up was popular for awhile.
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toomanyhatz wrote:Plus Thomas's voice - despite having the standard resolute unmelodicness - was not really like anyone else's.
He's one of my favourite vocalists. Wyatt's another (I think you feel the same way).
I'd hate to sound calculatedly idiosyncratic but I really do prefer those kinds of singers to the likes of Otis, Aretha, Smokey et al.
Matt 'interesting' Wilson wrote:So I went from looking at the "I'm a Man" riff, to showing how the rave up was popular for awhile.
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Re: JC's Godlike Genius #1
or 'iconoclastic'
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