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i don't understand this thread but i enjoy it
― lil waynes babymama (musically), Wednesday, 4 March 2009 19:45 (fifteen years ago) link
Still best thread ever
― sonofstan, Wednesday, 4 March 2009 19:51 (fifteen years ago) link
Roffle:
So this afternoon I have found out that Bobby Gillespie used to be Altered Images' roadie and that Clare Grogan used to call him "Bobo"
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 26 June 2012 14:33 (eleven years ago) link
Yes, but until that realisation, he is a spaced out dude, everything is art and nothing's going to touch his world. Your broken leg is beautiful to him. A wound on someone's head is a trancendant statement on the link between the life force in us all, and the galaxy in supernova. -- mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 21 September 2006 07:59 (7 months ago) I don't remember writing that at all. Must have been me though.― Mark G, Monday, 14 May 2007 09:39 (5 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
-- mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 21 September 2006 07:59 (7 months ago)
I don't remember writing that at all. Must have been me though.― Mark G, Monday, 14 May 2007 09:39 (5 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
.. which is odd, because today I *do* remember writing that.
― Mark G, Tuesday, 26 June 2012 15:18 (eleven years ago) link
Wow, Clare G appears in two unrelated threads today. Nice work.
― brotherlovesdub, Tuesday, 26 June 2012 15:23 (eleven years ago) link
Bobby Gillespie is always cooler than you. That's a maxim worth remembering, even as you mock him. For instance, you might be in the Sumatran jungle, taking DNA samples from an endangered tapir in order to save it from extinction. But Bobby Gillespie is cooler than you because he's found a way to mimic the way Johnny Thunders did his hair in 1976. Or you might be working in a mobile soup kitchen off the Commercial Road, making a real difference to the lives of the homeless. But Bobby Gillespie is cooler than you because he named his children Wolf and Lux. You might be in Islington risking assault by saving two kids (it turns out their names are Wolf and Lux) from being beaten up by bullies, but Bobby Gillespie is cooler than you because he once modeled for The Gap. You might shudder when you read about Mexican drug barons getting their henchmen to sew human faces on footballs, but Bobby Gillespie is cooler than you because he once read a book by Gilles de Rais, once saw a film by Dario Argento, and thinks faces on footballs are "beautiful".
In fact he's probably going to write a high-energy rock song about it, when he can muster any energy at all.
― Grampsy, Tuesday, 26 June 2012 20:35 (eleven years ago) link
Amazing.
― Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Tuesday, 26 June 2012 20:38 (eleven years ago) link
"You know, everybody was waiting for Rotten's new record after leaving the Pistols. What was it going to be like? And when he came back with the single, Public Image Ltd., it was just like.... Levene's smacked-out, burnt arpeggio guitar.... But more than that, right, it was rock music, but it wasn't rock music like the Pistols or the Clash. It wasn't traditional and that. It was like, it was like a departure. It was, like, a way into the future." --From BBCFour's "Punk Britannia"
"Smacked-out, burnt arpeggio guitar" has to be an all-time Gillespie-ism.
― late adopter, Saturday, 30 June 2012 04:15 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eY4ZXpsoOUg
― late adopter, Saturday, 30 June 2012 04:18 (eleven years ago) link
"You know, everybody was waiting for Gillespie's new record after giving up his role as Bobo the Roadie in Altered Images. What was it going to be like? And when he came back with Primal Scream., it was just like.... Big Jim Navajo's smacked-bottom, burnt tattie scone guitar.... But more than that, right, it was shite music, but it wasn't shite music like the Pastels or the BMX Bandits. It was traditional and that. It was like, it was like no departure. It was, like, a way into somebody else's past."-- From Grampian TV's "Twee Caledonia"
― Too Busy Thinking About Mr. Abie (Tom D.), Saturday, 30 June 2012 13:47 (eleven years ago) link
xpost *2 and yet when he said that, I was all,"that's not an arpeggio, he's thinking of "Poptones"!
― Mark G, Saturday, 30 June 2012 16:25 (eleven years ago) link
quality fake Boaby talking heads in that Serafinowiczy Stones Roses thingo
― the hat's filthy lesson (sic), Saturday, 30 June 2012 17:04 (eleven years ago) link
back Back BACK!!!http://www.spin.com/articles/primal-scream-kevin-shields-2013-more-love-class-warfare-video
― Neil S, Monday, 18 February 2013 16:38 (eleven years ago) link
Best part is definitely the Kevin Shields bits, and it's not enough.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 18 February 2013 16:56 (eleven years ago) link
Plenty more where that came from I reckon- I'm looking forward to the rest of 2013 being filled with glorious Bobby BS.
― Neil S, Monday, 18 February 2013 16:58 (eleven years ago) link
devendra channeling bobby:"I was playing soccer and someone had stepped on this locust. Its guts were all over the field and the sun was hitting them and they were shining. They were neon, almost. Radiant."
― sleepingsignal, Friday, 22 March 2013 23:17 (eleven years ago) link
I love Bobby Gillespie. He's a bit of a head-the-ball but he's a very intelligent man, and always has something interesting to say.
― Slash N Burn, Saturday, 23 March 2013 00:48 (eleven years ago) link
Aye, right
― Step not on a loose unforgiving stone on a pyramid to paradise (Tom D.), Saturday, 23 March 2013 09:49 (eleven years ago) link
I was like, “Man, this is the real happening scene.”
http://pitchfork.com/features/5-10-15-20/9204-primal-scream/
― Neil S, Monday, 2 September 2013 12:27 (ten years ago) link
Has Boaby's speech been Americanised so readers of Pitchfork can understand him?
my mom = ma mawhighway = a big fuck off road 'n 'at"I ain’t no fucking drummer" = "... ah'm no' a fuckin drummer, right? Gonny lee' us alane?"“Man, this is the real happening scene.” = "Ya fuckin' dancin' bear, this is fuckin' magic, know?""they gave us a check for £30,000" = "We goat a fuckin' cheque for 30 grand, wid ye credit it?""You’re like, “Whoa, here we go!”" = Yer lik', "Here we fuckin' go!"
― Tommy McTommy (Tom D.), Monday, 2 September 2013 13:17 (ten years ago) link
I wish I was a more dutiful & regular defender of Bobby Gillespie, here, because I am both fond of him & find the reflex ridicule he gets pretty lazy, but: this is the real happening scene is not a weird or terrible thing to say, not an embarrassing IRL Austin Powers moment.it's such a nice piece, too, to hear him talk about Glasgow, & how socially & personally woven music becomes.
― szarkasm (schlump), Monday, 2 September 2013 14:14 (ten years ago) link
yeah but
"I Wan'na Be Like You" is a great song, I can still remember where it is in the movie.
― click here to start exploding (ledge), Monday, 2 September 2013 14:17 (ten years ago) link
cool yeah that is also not bullshit. does the internet have to discharge its role as sage, better-knowing compressor of enthusiasm, here, or could we give the guy a pass.
― szarkasm (schlump), Monday, 2 September 2013 14:22 (ten years ago) link
Taking it a bit seriously aren't you? Pulling Boab's leg is fun, that's why we do it.
― Tommy McTommy (Tom D.), Monday, 2 September 2013 14:24 (ten years ago) link
done in a spirit of affection. I'd take wee Boaby doing his thing than bland "we just do what we do and if anyone else likes it it's a bonus" types any day, but I also reserve the right to take the piss out of rock stars talking nonsense.
― Neil S, Monday, 2 September 2013 14:48 (ten years ago) link
.it's such a nice piece, too, to hear him talk about Glasgow
You do realise that's possibly bullshit too? He's the boy who named his first son cried Wolf
― Tommy McTommy (Tom D.), Monday, 2 September 2013 14:55 (ten years ago) link
The man who is tired of Tom D. doing Boaby-speak is tired of ILX.
― ᕦ༼ຈل͜ຈ༽ᕤ (sic), Monday, 2 September 2013 16:15 (ten years ago) link
― Tommy McTommy (Tom D.), Monday, September 2, 2013 11:55 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
not really sure how deeply I'm meant to be interrogating his biography based on this
it is obviously okay if people want to get at Bobby Gillespie interviews; I can see how there are periodically quotes or postures that seem goofy. but ilx is as attentive to lazy, reflexive cultural targeting as it is compulsive in targeting things that go unexamined; it's valuable to recognise that hating comic sans is a weird, transmitted, second-hand prejudice, & that bacon & zombie humour has this sad, commodifiable quality that can fill a gap & be mindlessly syndicated. I am fond of Bobby Gillespie, so I am here in semi-defensive mode, but at the same time it kinda just reminds me of being at school & wanting to have somebody to hate, just as much as you wanted to have somebody to love; I feel like there should be some kind of check on one's appetite for cynicism, even if it's about, you know, Bono, or someone who provides a well from which you can draw & drink & which will never run dry. Bobby Gillespie called one of his kids Lux after Lux out of the Cramps; I am more convinced that he is writ by his love of music than that he is a guy pretentiously & ignorantly wearing it as a badge of pride.
― szarkasm (schlump), Monday, 2 September 2013 16:33 (ten years ago) link
I am more convinced that he is writ by his love of music than that he is a guy pretentiously & ignorantly wearing it as a badge of pride
I think it's probably a little from column a, a little from column b, though I don't think he's igorant.
Lazy Britpop zings are, well, lazy, but Bobby G comes up with such pricelessly entertaining boilerplate rock star silliness that it seems a shame not to make fun of it. And I LIKE Primal Scream!
― Neil S, Monday, 2 September 2013 17:03 (ten years ago) link