― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 3 November 2005 17:27 (eighteen years ago) link
― kyle (akmonday), Thursday, 3 November 2005 17:29 (eighteen years ago) link
― kyle (akmonday), Thursday, 3 November 2005 17:30 (eighteen years ago) link
― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Thursday, 3 November 2005 17:33 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 3 November 2005 17:34 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Thursday, 3 November 2005 17:38 (eighteen years ago) link
― kyle (akmonday), Thursday, 3 November 2005 17:39 (eighteen years ago) link
xpost...well, that too.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 3 November 2005 17:40 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 3 November 2005 17:40 (eighteen years ago) link
― kyle (akmonday), Thursday, 3 November 2005 17:41 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Thursday, 3 November 2005 17:42 (eighteen years ago) link
It sounds like an approrpriate song for such a title, which really can't be a good thing.
― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Thursday, 3 November 2005 17:45 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 3 November 2005 17:46 (eighteen years ago) link
― We might force K8 to change her name to Marie. (kate), Thursday, 3 November 2005 17:46 (eighteen years ago) link
-- Alex in NYC (vassife...), November 3rd, 2005.
so alive has the worst opening lyrics of any song ever
-- kyle (akmonda...), November 3rd, 2005.
damn, am I glad to be on my side of the generation gap about this one.
― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Thursday, 3 November 2005 17:48 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 3 November 2005 17:49 (eighteen years ago) link
― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Thursday, 3 November 2005 18:02 (eighteen years ago) link
― We might force K8 to change her name to Marie. (kate), Thursday, 3 November 2005 18:04 (eighteen years ago) link
Anyone with sense is going to pick "????" off that album.
Daniel Ash in a heartbeat. Peter Murphy has never really interested me away from Bauhaus.
― Dan (Motorcycle: The Worst L&R Song Ever Recorded) Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 3 November 2005 18:51 (eighteen years ago) link
I dare say that "Cry Me A River" by same is also a quadrillion times better than "So Alive".
It's not that the lyrics of "Motorcyle" are anything great -- it's simply THAT huge fucking guitar sound. So unweildy and massive and great -- that you can't appreciate it only underscores your (typical) failure to understand that which rocks.
Do you mean "Jungle Law"? It's fucking brilliant.
I like quite a bit of Murphy's solo stuff, but sort've lost interest circa Holy Smoke.
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 3 November 2005 18:57 (eighteen years ago) link
That which rocks is usually synonymous with that which sucks.
― Dan (For Reals) Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 3 November 2005 19:10 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Thursday, 3 November 2005 19:11 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dan (Just Say No) Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 3 November 2005 19:13 (eighteen years ago) link
I disagree with Dan on the worth of "Motorcycle" but I like me the big riffs, as Alex notes. But I do highly agree with Dan on the worth of "So Alive."
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 3 November 2005 19:22 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 3 November 2005 19:31 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 3 November 2005 19:38 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Thursday, 3 November 2005 19:43 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 3 November 2005 19:45 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dan (Truth In Advertising) Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 3 November 2005 19:45 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Thursday, 3 November 2005 19:57 (eighteen years ago) link
Not NEARLY as overrated as "So Alive".
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 3 November 2005 21:39 (eighteen years ago) link
""Slender Fungus" is completely goddamn brilliant!"
Heed Ned well - for he speaks with great wisdom and perceptiveness.
"You'd describe Tom Petty as a shining ball of meat?"
Well, maybe not: but I've long had my suspicions that he sucks the toes that linger round your feet - and indeed, I wouldn't be at all surprised to hear that has kissed a fish inside a stolen jeep on at least one occasion. Possibly even more often than that.
― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Thursday, 3 November 2005 22:39 (eighteen years ago) link
Thank you, blessed acolyte.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 3 November 2005 22:41 (eighteen years ago) link
― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Thursday, 3 November 2005 22:43 (eighteen years ago) link
*notes explosion in NYC area*
Huh, odd. Anyway.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 3 November 2005 22:45 (eighteen years ago) link
― martin m. (mushrush), Thursday, 3 November 2005 22:47 (eighteen years ago) link
― martin m. (mushrush), Thursday, 3 November 2005 22:48 (eighteen years ago) link
Sounds like a cue for a new thread....
― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Thursday, 3 November 2005 22:49 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 3 November 2005 22:52 (eighteen years ago) link
TS: Bauhaus vs. Killing Joke
.... and retire immediately
― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Thursday, 3 November 2005 22:53 (eighteen years ago) link
Owen, you must stop taking these drugs.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 3 November 2005 22:55 (eighteen years ago) link
― sleeve (sleeve), Thursday, 3 November 2005 23:44 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 3 November 2005 23:46 (eighteen years ago) link
― kyle (akmonday), Thursday, 3 November 2005 23:50 (eighteen years ago) link
http://www.knifton.com/images/yoda/yoda.h1.jpg"That is why you fail!"
― Yoda in Dagobah (vassifer), Thursday, 3 November 2005 23:58 (eighteen years ago) link
Funnily enough, this very statement came up when I did a Google search with the following words: "stack", "crap", "stack of crap".
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 4 November 2005 00:00 (eighteen years ago) link
AFAIK all of Love And Rockets backed Mr Fish up on numerous tracks.
― sleeve (sleeve), Friday, 4 November 2005 00:05 (eighteen years ago) link
Still, Ash wins.
― sleeve (sleeve), Friday, 4 November 2005 00:08 (eighteen years ago) link
-- The Good Dr. Bill (fadeout9...), November 3rd, 2005 11:41 AM. (The Good Dr. Bill)
Dr. Bill how do you survive in a world so completely opposite from reality?
― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Friday, 4 November 2005 00:16 (eighteen years ago) link
― j blount (papa la bas), Friday, 4 November 2005 00:20 (eighteen years ago) link
― when something smacks of something (dave225.3), Friday, 4 November 2005 13:03 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 4 November 2005 13:04 (eighteen years ago) link
― when something smacks of something (dave225.3), Friday, 4 November 2005 13:05 (eighteen years ago) link
Any deeper thoughts on the Daniel Ash solo discography? I mean, Coming Down sounds alright enough (if not a patch on anything Love and Rockets released before their last couple), but I can't find much use for Ash's next two solo albums. And it's not for lack of trying, either -- I'm a pretty big fan of Bauhaus (obv.), L&R, Tones on Tail, Dali's Car, Peter solo... just can't get into the Ash solo stuff very much.
― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Thursday, 25 February 2010 19:00 (fourteen years ago) link
peter solo = give me Love Hysteria and Deep and that's all I'll ever really need
Tones on Tail > Bauhaus and I think I appreciate daniel ash's role in bauhaus more than peter murphy's so I have to go with daniel ash here.
― MY RUSTIC CHURCHWARDEN PIPE TOBACCOS; WITH RED T-SHIRT OF SURF (Curt1s Stephens), Thursday, 25 February 2010 19:14 (fourteen years ago) link
i kinda couldn't take any of ash's solo stuff. so much of it was sooooo lazy in that bad later L&R way. lazy rhymes, lazy guitar playing. nothing songs.
i never posted on this thread? then ASH for me! cuz he was in three bands that i love and murphy only in one.
― scott seward, Thursday, 25 February 2010 19:32 (fourteen years ago) link
plus, he's one of my fave guitarists. and i dig him as a vocalist way more than murphy too.
― scott seward, Thursday, 25 February 2010 19:33 (fourteen years ago) link
I got my public radio member card the other day and the name of the enrollment management guy in charge of writing thank you letters was named Daniel Ash. I thought of this DA and loled to myself thinking of him having a day job like that.
"We really appreciate everything you do for public radio!"http://chicagoist.com/attachments/chicagoist_tankboy/2007_09_daniel_ash.gif
― ergonomically chromium plated fish slice (La Lechera), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 15:53 (thirteen years ago) link
My favorite Ash moment:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jP5S4l1zEc
― Gus Van Sotosyn (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 16:11 (thirteen years ago) link
At least Daniel Ash was not in a Twilight movie.
― not the sort of person who would wind up in a landfill (Nicole), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 16:26 (thirteen years ago) link
like he'd say no
― da croupier, Wednesday, 5 January 2011 03:53 (thirteen years ago) link
Depends on whether or not they'd let him wear leather onscreen.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 5 January 2011 03:55 (thirteen years ago) link
Depends on whether he proves a nefarious sartorial influence on young Pattinson.
― Gus Van Sotosyn (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 03:59 (thirteen years ago) link
Imagining him with Ash's pineapple hair and seizing up.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 5 January 2011 04:01 (thirteen years ago) link
Dust and Hot Trip to Heaven are both completely underrated.
― Stockhausen's Ekranoplan Quartet (Elvis Telecom), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 04:06 (thirteen years ago) link
Daniel is 55 today.
― EZ Snappin, Tuesday, 31 July 2012 14:16 (eleven years ago) link
That...is strange to hear.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 31 July 2012 22:36 (eleven years ago) link
Tones on Tail FTW.
― Nate Carson, Wednesday, 1 August 2012 02:49 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=scUbXATC70w
it is very good advice to believe only what an artist does
― mississippi joan hart (crüt), Wednesday, 1 August 2012 22:58 (eleven years ago) link
lol https://soundcloud.com/daniel-ash-383422151
― bern b bag (crüt), Wednesday, 3 February 2016 13:02 (eight years ago) link