A question in the sequence round of today's Only Connect: what is the fourth in the sequence Gabriel Collins Wilson. Neither team knew it. One guessed 'Moore', the other guessed 'Gabriel'.
Posts by Backdrifter
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The endless tyranny of the blueberry.
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Not quite sure how Grace passed me by at the time.
Very nice album.
No NYC redaction eh? I wonder if that was an error or it means 'shit' is now ok on BBC radio.
EDIT: Just reminded myself there's no BBC official list of banned words. Their language guide advises that use of potentially offensive words is at the programme maker's discretion.
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Tom Robinson on BBC Radio 6 Music has just played Back In NYC as part of his two-hour Jeff Buckley special. (His weekly themed "Now Playing" show.)
Now, I wonder who could possibly have prompted him to do so...
Well done.
Was it the original he played, not JB's rather overpraised cover? Either way, did they bleep out the 'shit'?
Not the first time he's played a Lamb track. A few years back he did a concept album theme show and played Anyway.
TR is of course a former PG collaborator.
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Not bad. Efficiently does what it sets out to do, ie satirise TV evangelists, achieving it in a workmanlike but lively way.
At the time of its release, someone I knew expressed disdain that they'd "gone all evangelistic" having zeroed in on the chorus/title phrase without realising its true intent or paying attention to the song as a whole. Tee, not to mention hee.
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I scored 78% on this Seinfeld quiz. Have a go Seinfeld fans and see how you get on.
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Rice vermicelli noodle, beansprouts, spring onion, carrot, garlic, chicken, chilli, soy sauce, fish sauce, agave, all in the wok with beaten egg, garnish with extra slices of spring onion and coriander leaf, serve with sweet chilli sauce and smooth peanut butter stirred together.
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Bruce Dickinson's a great fencer. I once saw a really sturdy closeboard fence he'd put up, very well constructed and with a lovely even paint job and weather protection. Very impressive all round.
He's a shit novelist though.
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Give it a rest you two, what are you, 14? I'm no Oasis/NG fan but it's about business, not who you think is best. And like them or not, Oasis are big business. Strictly speaking nobody "needs" any band's reunion but it's clearly one a lot of people WANT.
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I'm hearing that Mike Rutherford is co-commentating at Wimbledon next year.
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If you go back the same amount of time from its release, it was only 3 months since the D-Day operation. And John Lennon was 3 years old.
And had Lennon lived to hear Til We Have Faces, there's no doubt he'd hail it as (etc etc etc)
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an inevitably dull tribute album from the usual bunch of prog also rans
I was just thanking Henry Hamilton-Smythe for providing me with a good old chuckle in the Test Match thread and now I must thank you too for the same reason. Excellent stuff!
👆 What you said there, that should be the catch-all title for all such albums from now until the end of time.
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And thank you for giving me a good belly laugh there 👍
And do you know who else enjoys a good laugh?
Phil.
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Thanks for getting a Phil mention in there.
And thank you for giving me a good belly laugh there 👍
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Now you are asking...start of so called britpop and alcohol fuelled...possibly the 100 club or a pub in Islington..forgot its name.
saw a lot of the Camden mov around this time...blur, elastica. Echobelly, Pele (remember them! ).oasis a few times...once when liam had a fight with someone in the crowd😄.good fun although was always likely to self combust, as it did!
Well they did play the 100 and - Powerhaus? I think the Islington one was called.
Pele! Bloody hell, forgot about them...
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This is absolutely not what the magazine was alluding to. Something more will be announced soon.
It'd better be. I'm not too excited about what it might be but better it's focused on the actual album itself and not the above dose of Prog Will Eat Itself.
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Could this be what the magazine was alluding to?
https://sonicelements.bandcamp…y-deluxe-edition-3-cd-set
Ordered mine today
Christ. If it is then this comment comes into sharp focus 👇
i can't help but feel this news may be slightly underwhelming..but hopefully i will be proved wrong!
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echobelly
Oh I liked them. King Of The Kerb and On Turn On are still really nice tunes. Can you remember the venue where they were supported by Oasis?
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Speaking about those nice songs, apart from the obvious (Don't look back in anger, Wonderwall), "All Around The World" was a really good one!
Oooh no I found that to be Oasis arm-swaying stadium anthem singalong by numbers, like it had been generated by some piece of Oasis software (and it goes on forever, AND has a reprise). From that same terrible album, Fade In Out is by far the best one. In my view.
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If this stuff is in "the vaults" I have to say Tony's claim that said vaults are empty is off the mark. They may have no interest in releasing it but that doesn't mean it doesn't exist!
It was Bankspeak. He meant there was nothing he/they considered worthy of release, no properly recorded fully finished unreleased tracks.
I first heard the HG stuff a while ago and loved how dirty some of it is. There's a slow heavy thing with quite vicious fuzz bass that had me near salivating. It gives a glimpse into a possible dark, filthy Genesis that frustratingly never fully emerged
