outdoor miner
-
Tommy Martyn
- Mile High Club
- Posts: 887
- Joined: Mon May 19, 2003 8:01 am
- Location: a desk
outdoor miner
Perfect Marky. Perfect.
Well the reason I didn't hear your calls tonight (please be mindful that I am actually thinking in an English accent of some kind) is because I had to go out shopping, very boring I know. But I do my shopping all in one go so I don't have to be bothered for a month. Cause I hate doing it, right? Okay. Hey. Can we go into a pub and talk to guys about three times our age, please?
Never mind.
Outdoor Miner. Yes, a classic, as is 80% of what Wire put out.
I got that John Cooper Clarke piss-take record by Cathy Le Creme in the post today!!! I'm serious Mr. Clarke really does appear on this fucker!!!! I'm not lying, it's his voice you know it's him and I'll shut up about Martin Hannett for now.
Wire, right. Yes. Look, I went on a huge Wire trip about a month or two ago and then...I was suddenly off on some other artist entirely. But I will go back to them I promise.
Graham Lewis is just about the sexiest musician in history as far as I'm concerned, yes he is the bassist of Wire and I don't usually have things about male musicians, but he's a rare exception. He sings sometimes too - that's him on the low end at the end of "Kidney Bingoes" etc. etc. etc.
Anyway right now I have this John Lydon family album playing which includes members of Killing Joke, Bananarama, Lydon's brother Jimmy, Billy Idol and Tony James, (later of Sigue Sigue Sputnik, who were completely stupid as I recall).
Oh also...I found out that French record shop has agreed that the most OBSCURE MARTIN HANNETT PRODUCED RECORD IS GOING TO BE MAILED TO ME IN THE POST!!!! ARRRRRRGGGGH!H
WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Other than that I've listened to a bit of the New FADS and it strikes me how much they sound like the Happy Mondays and the Fall and how I liked the New FADS well enough but never really wanted to own any of their records. "Big" is a great song, though. And I am enjoying the Martin Hannett produced version of "Get Better". 1991, those were very different times.
Right, though, we were talking about Wire. I will pull out "Outdoor Miner" here in a minute, I'm serious. Didn't Elastica rip that song off or cover it or something? Hahaha.
Never mind.
Outdoor Miner. Yes, a classic, as is 80% of what Wire put out.
I got that John Cooper Clarke piss-take record by Cathy Le Creme in the post today!!! I'm serious Mr. Clarke really does appear on this fucker!!!! I'm not lying, it's his voice you know it's him and I'll shut up about Martin Hannett for now.
Wire, right. Yes. Look, I went on a huge Wire trip about a month or two ago and then...I was suddenly off on some other artist entirely. But I will go back to them I promise.
Graham Lewis is just about the sexiest musician in history as far as I'm concerned, yes he is the bassist of Wire and I don't usually have things about male musicians, but he's a rare exception. He sings sometimes too - that's him on the low end at the end of "Kidney Bingoes" etc. etc. etc.
Anyway right now I have this John Lydon family album playing which includes members of Killing Joke, Bananarama, Lydon's brother Jimmy, Billy Idol and Tony James, (later of Sigue Sigue Sputnik, who were completely stupid as I recall).
Oh also...I found out that French record shop has agreed that the most OBSCURE MARTIN HANNETT PRODUCED RECORD IS GOING TO BE MAILED TO ME IN THE POST!!!! ARRRRRRGGGGH!H
WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Other than that I've listened to a bit of the New FADS and it strikes me how much they sound like the Happy Mondays and the Fall and how I liked the New FADS well enough but never really wanted to own any of their records. "Big" is a great song, though. And I am enjoying the Martin Hannett produced version of "Get Better". 1991, those were very different times.
Right, though, we were talking about Wire. I will pull out "Outdoor Miner" here in a minute, I'm serious. Didn't Elastica rip that song off or cover it or something? Hahaha.
Last edited by marky on Sat Apr 15, 2006 7:49 am, edited 4 times in total.
It suddenly occurs to me I've entered Pub Talk without actually posting there. Right. Fucking take me on. I'll pound ya. Take me on.
Hey I'll buy you a beer, so shut the fuck up.
It's time to put on the Stooges,
even if I found out tonight, that...oh shit...I had a whole essay on Joy Division ready to go...wait. That's why I came here in the first place. Wait...
Hey I'll buy you a beer, so shut the fuck up.
It's time to put on the Stooges,
even if I found out tonight, that...oh shit...I had a whole essay on Joy Division ready to go...wait. That's why I came here in the first place. Wait...
Tommy if you're out there I want you to know I fully intended to call you today (or tonight) but I suffered the worst hangover I've had in years and slept through most of the day. At 8 pm I still had a headache.
Conventional wisdom of course would say that it's never a good idea to drink beer and wine on the same night or liquor and beer on the same night etc etc. but the problem was that after I drank some wine I forgot I was drinking wine and began drinking beer. So the quantity was probably over twice what it should have been and that little bit of brandy probably did not help. Thankfull no vomiting was involved, but that headache...and I even tried a little hair of the dog around 5 pm but half a beer just made it worse so I gave up and went back to bed.
Conventional wisdom of course would say that it's never a good idea to drink beer and wine on the same night or liquor and beer on the same night etc etc. but the problem was that after I drank some wine I forgot I was drinking wine and began drinking beer. So the quantity was probably over twice what it should have been and that little bit of brandy probably did not help. Thankfull no vomiting was involved, but that headache...and I even tried a little hair of the dog around 5 pm but half a beer just made it worse so I gave up and went back to bed.
Okay, I'm officially back into Wire again. But from a rather unexpected starting point: IBTABA (which stands for "It's Beginning To And Back Again") is an album they released of live versions of a lot of their late 80's stuff. There are now three incarnations of Wire, and this was the second. So they did these songs live and they changed, but remained perfect.
Some of them, like "German Shepherds" "The Offer" and "In Vivo" are unavailable on their other albums. This is exciting.
I already told how amazed I am about Graham Lewis. Although he did put out a crap album once.
Some of them, like "German Shepherds" "The Offer" and "In Vivo" are unavailable on their other albums. This is exciting.
I already told how amazed I am about Graham Lewis. Although he did put out a crap album once.
How's this for weird Wire lyrics, it's this song German Shepherds you can only get it on IBTABA and it has such an infectious melody and Colin Newman says:
"I saw drunk old lady, pissing in a bin, it was far too high, she couldn't stop"
WTF? Man they were arty bastards that's been well documented. God bless Wire. Pop songs with very weird lyrics.
Also you know I love Graham Lewis down to his toes. If I could just kiss his toes I'd be happy.
"I saw drunk old lady, pissing in a bin, it was far too high, she couldn't stop"
WTF? Man they were arty bastards that's been well documented. God bless Wire. Pop songs with very weird lyrics.
Also you know I love Graham Lewis down to his toes. If I could just kiss his toes I'd be happy.