Off Topic

They don't make music like they used to

449 replies · 45,122 views
almost 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
lol you really don't wish so ... if we were at the ROF tonight we'd all be getting pneumonia

good ole kiwi bands - whatever happened to Supergroove or Che Fu
Permalink Permalink
almost 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
did they play in Welly? suppose theres only San Fran or Bodega or maybe Happy big enough but can't remember seeing them advertised in recent times
Permalink Permalink
almost 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
I think they played at Homegrown.

I caught them at the Big Day Out 2008 as part of my 'flashback' BDO.  Them, The Clean, Paul Kelly, Billy Bragg, Bjork and co...

How's my driving? - Whine here

Permalink Permalink
almost 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
ahh ok I haven't been to a BDO since the Beastie Boys, System of a down, The Streets one

lol I'm happy to go raving most weekends but the BDO us the one place I feel ancient

more Supergroove can't get enough

& some push push
Permalink Permalink
almost 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
BDO is awful. I'm over it.

Laneways is the future.

Hopefully they will bring it to Wellington next year but was well worth going to Auckland anyway.


Permalink Permalink
almost 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
I heard about Laneways but I'm don't even go to Homegrown. I'd rather do Phat or my no 1 lotto wish wd be Sensation Black in Amsetrdam or the Love Parade in Berlin but wd settle for Sensation White in Melbourne tho last year they sold out Telstra Stadium 60,000 in a day stealthkiwi2010-05-19 20:20:58
Permalink Permalink
almost 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
stealthkiwi wrote:
ahh ok I haven't been to a BDO since the Beastie Boys, System of a down, The Streets one

lol I'm happy to go raving most weekends but the BDO us the one place I feel ancient

more Supergroove can't get enough

& some push push
 
 
Funny you mention Push Push - I used to work with the Steve, the bass player and he ended up playing in our football team -top bloke he was too!
Permalink Permalink
almost 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
Ahh Michael Hutchence so much better than the new guy..

INXS - Need you tonight

We will never fully decide who has won the football.

Permalink Permalink
almost 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
I'm not sure who the current singer is but I know Jon Stevens had a brief appearance and I know he was in Noiseworks

I know him better frm Jesus Christ Superstar this track of which I loved (which was ironic as I was already an athiest back then) and remember this being on the charts for a while - and damm Kate Cebrano was fine
stealthkiwi2010-05-22 18:36:51
Permalink Permalink
almost 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
Those crazy Germans.

Kraftwerk - The Robots

Prefer my modern day MoS and Gatecrasher, but hey, this is slightly calming..

We will never fully decide who has won the football.

Permalink Permalink
almost 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
Tried listening to some Dubstep for the first time on DI.fm tonight.

Hardly MOS Anthems is it.

Not my cuppa tea I really

When Hibs, went up, to win the Scottish Cup - I wisnae there - furfuxake!

Permalink Permalink
almost 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
ginger_eejit wrote:

Azevo wrote:
Those crazy Germans.

Kraftwerk - The Robots

Prefer my modern day MoS and Gatecrasher, but hey, this is slightly calming..

I like this Bill Bailey take on the genreDas Hokey Kokeyhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tD5P7RsC9TI



I loved that product information thing he did.

isn't he in welly sometime soon or something?

We will never fully decide who has won the football.

Permalink Permalink
almost 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
Am guessing Duran Duran woulda been mentioned somewhere in this thread.. heh.

Anwyay, Tom Petty!

Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - Freefallin

We will never fully decide who has won the football.

Permalink Permalink
almost 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
This song just makes me lol and happy.

Aha - Take on me
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_EXxMlIExpo


Have noticed the hyperlink tool changes from firefox to google... Hmm

We will never fully decide who has won the football.

Permalink Permalink
almost 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
lol as a young girl back in the day I admitted here my likingfor  Aha but I didn't put up any duran duran in here cause already get hassled enough nabout being into roller blading lol.

That Jefferson Airplane vid is pretty trippy
The End - The Doors

I saw this very trippy movie with Jack Nicholson on tv recently
Psych Out
Permalink Permalink
almost 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
The End by the doors.. Love that song. Duran Duran are sweet as.

liked how it was used in apocalypse now; my favourite family movie!

Couldn't find recorded version, but this will do:

Talking Heads - Drugs

We will never fully decide who has won the football.

Permalink Permalink
almost 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
Not one of my fave talking heads one that one. One we havent much touched on is David Bowie. And I'd never heard this or seen the vid till someone shared it with me last year
The Heart's Filthy Lesson
Permalink Permalink
almost 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
Wow, that is silly, thought he woulda been mentioned somewhere.. Got all his stuff almost.. Few bits missing. And I am frecken cold right now, so this seemed appropriate.

Foreigner - Hot blooded

And.. Loverboy - Turn me loose Because of those pants..

We will never fully decide who has won the football.

Permalink Permalink
almost 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
not just the pants but the whole hairband and pouffy hair combo... looks like he mugged Olivia Newton John in Physical

anyway my fave Bowie era is def Labyrinth. man i loved that movie tho in retrospect was kinda seedy with the young nubile teenage girl lusting after old man Bowie along with the audiences fan base of very young girls  As the world falls


stealthkiwi2010-05-31 22:29:05
Permalink Permalink
almost 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
stealthkiwi wrote:
not just the pants but the whole hairband and pouffy hair combo... looks like he mugged Olivia Newton John in Physical

anyway my fave Bowie era is def Labyrinth. man i loved that movie tho in retrospect was kinda seedy with the young nubile teenage girl lusting after old man Bowie along with the audiences fan base of very young girls  As the world falls




Love that movie, some of my earliest childhood memories are from watching that on VHS. I've now got it on DVD and the soundtrack on CD. Bowie + Jim Henson, two of my favourite things in the entire world.
Permalink Permalink
almost 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
Robb wrote:
stealthkiwi wrote:

anyway my fave Bowie era is def Labyrinth. man i loved that movie tho in retrospect was kinda seedy with the young nubile teenage girl lusting after old man Bowie along with the audiences fan base of very young girls  As the world falls




Love that movie, some of my earliest childhood memories are from watching that on VHS. I've now got it on DVD and the soundtrack on CD. Bowie + Jim Henson, two of my favourite things in the entire world.


Yep I've got it on dvd and the cd soundtrack which is ripped to my mp3 player. kind of surreal when Dance Magic pops up in the middle of all my techno

Jim Henson dying had way more of an affect on me than Elvis or Princess Di

one of my fave Muppet vids. neva seen Johnny Cash looking like he wants to giggle in anything but this
Permalink Permalink
almost 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
more of that lateral surfing and total crackup. the original italian version of this is one of my fave pieces of music and always told my mates I wanted it played at my funeral. lol I will now forver see it differently after seeing Andrea Bocelli singing it here to  Elmo
Permalink Permalink
almost 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
  the guy in the classroom looks like Sacha Baron Cohen - loving the jumpsuits

hehe but that points out we've skipped the entire Broadway genre. how surprising that football fans might not appreciate that particular arena. I idolised Bob Fosse growing up and this is actualy from the last movie he made about his own life All That Jazz - you might be surprised at how sexy it is  Air Rotica  - but watch it all the way through as it gets down and dirty half way through
Permalink Permalink
almost 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
this track brings back memories but for the life of me I don't understand why there is a wookie in the vid   Real Life - Send me an angel

Permalink Permalink
almost 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

Send Me An Angel - ugh, the horror! So much ghastly minor key synthpop polluting young minds back then. Way down there with Michael Sembello's Maniac and Donna Summers She Works Hard For Her Money. And they all came out in 1983! Not a good year....

Back to Bowie for a mo: I'm surprised you didn't mention the Dame's finest hour, this inspirational early duet http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZyQxTWDLZ8o
 
It chokes me up every time I hear it.
Permalink Permalink
almost 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
Some of it was brilliant at the time and now I look back I ain't always so sure....
 
 
Profile pic. Should you be interested. Lakhsen, on the right, lost touch with him.
Mohammed, on the left, I'm still in touch with. He's now living in Agadez, Niger. More focused on his animals now as tourism has dried up. Is active with a co-op promoting local goods, leather work and bijouterie, into Europe. 
20/5/20

Permalink Permalink
almost 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
StopOut wrote:
Back to Bowie for a mo: I'm surprised you didn't mention the Dame's finest hour, this inspirational early duet http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZyQxTWDLZ8o
 
It chokes me up every time I hear it.


lol I didn't mention it cause was before my time. I'm def of the Labyrinth Bowie era and of course China Girl

speaking of Maniac... I loved that but even more was glued to the tv every week for the tv show from the movie Fame - but holy crap this vid is dire

& of course I also loved Footloose

& yes i danced away to both of these happily for hundreds of hours... even wearing leg warmers
Permalink Permalink
almost 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
Blondie and The Pretenders in a vineyard, in December. I must be old, I'm actually thinking of going. It's just the thought of being surrounded by all that Rodd & Gunn gear!

It's got to be said though: Clem Burke is the BEST DRUMMER EVER.

Permalink Permalink
almost 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
terminator_x wrote:


Remember Crass? They're kind of hard to forget!



Another hard to forget is Diamanda Galas http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W803o5_r1mE

EEK!!

This is recent. My first encounter was an album called "wild women with steak knives"...
dairyflat2010-06-04 18:28:16
Profile pic. Should you be interested. Lakhsen, on the right, lost touch with him.
Mohammed, on the left, I'm still in touch with. He's now living in Agadez, Niger. More focused on his animals now as tourism has dried up. Is active with a co-op promoting local goods, leather work and bijouterie, into Europe. 
20/5/20

Permalink Permalink
almost 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25iIePOTORc

New Model Army. Live, these guys were *(^*&^ superb!!
Profile pic. Should you be interested. Lakhsen, on the right, lost touch with him.
Mohammed, on the left, I'm still in touch with. He's now living in Agadez, Niger. More focused on his animals now as tourism has dried up. Is active with a co-op promoting local goods, leather work and bijouterie, into Europe. 
20/5/20

Permalink Permalink
almost 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
dairyflat wrote:


Another hard to forget is Diamanda Galas http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W803o5_r1mE

EEK!!

This is recent. My first encounter was an album called "wild women with steak knives"...


umm in the case of this and going with my thread title I have to say I'm glad they don't always make music like they used to lol
Permalink Permalink