Van Gogh we still hold dear, although he slice-d off his ear, Picasso was an artist too, trabooooo trabooooo....
Tears of LOL at Buckley/Mandela.
― Donald Trump eats people of all races and religions (Dan Peterson), Wednesday, 31 August 2016 15:05 (seven years ago) link
Pablo Picasso seemed as though he suffered with his mental health (citation needed)/ though the exact religious reasons are a subject of debate for historians, the Egyptian lord or prince or whatever Tutankhamun was buried with his wealth
xpost yeah probably
― Bein' Sean Bean (LocalGarda), Wednesday, 31 August 2016 15:05 (seven years ago) link
> Tears of LOL at Buckley/Mandela.
here too
― juggulo for the complete klvtz (bendy), Wednesday, 31 August 2016 15:10 (seven years ago) link
Brought up on the occasional weird bill thread, but in 1993 I saw the Cranberries open for Frank Black opening for The The. Easy to forget, but at the beginning people tossed the Cranberries in with bands like the Sundays as sort of Smiths-y, but of course only one of those bands went on to repeatedly embarrass themselves.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 31 August 2016 15:14 (seven years ago) link
Crantastic fact: 'I Shot John Lennon' was originally going to be titled 'I Shot J.R.'
― nashwan, Wednesday, 31 August 2016 15:28 (seven years ago) link
Smiths/Sundays/Cranberries an interesting trifecta, as I loved and championed all three album debuts, and then pretty much lost interest in following releases. xp
― Donald Trump eats people of all races and religions (Dan Peterson), Wednesday, 31 August 2016 15:43 (seven years ago) link
it's impressive to think that my own internal rewrite of "Linger" as "Do you fancy a fish finger?" still wouldn't make top 10 here
― wan bobolink (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 31 August 2016 17:05 (seven years ago) link
Can I vote for all of this pls -
It was the fearful night of December 8th.He was returning home from the studio late.He had perceptively known that it wouldn't be nice.Because in 1980, he paid the price.John Lennon died. [X6]With a Smith & Wesson 38,John Lennon's life was no longer a debate.He should have stayed at home,He should have never cared,And the man who took his life declared,He said I just shot John Lennon.He said I just shot John Lennon.What a sad and sorry and sickening sight.What a sad and sorry and sickening night.What a sad and sorry and sickening sight.What a sad and sorry and sickening night.Ah, ah ah ah, ah...
John Lennon died. [X6]
With a Smith & Wesson 38,John Lennon's life was no longer a debate.He should have stayed at home,He should have never cared,And the man who took his life declared,
He said I just shot John Lennon.He said I just shot John Lennon.What a sad and sorry and sickening sight.What a sad and sorry and sickening night.What a sad and sorry and sickening sight.What a sad and sorry and sickening night.
Ah, ah ah ah, ah...
― Camaraderie at Arms Length, Wednesday, 31 August 2016 21:28 (seven years ago) link
I think that one stings more than the others because it really, really conveys all the sins and shames of teenage poetry. I wrote a LOT of stuff with basically that rhythm and the same kind of forced rhymes and awkward constructions.
― Silence, followed by unintelligible stammering. (Doctor Casino), Wednesday, 31 August 2016 21:40 (seven years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Thursday, 1 September 2016 00:01 (seven years ago) link
no longer a debate
― Silence, followed by unintelligible stammering. (Doctor Casino), Thursday, 1 September 2016 00:51 (seven years ago) link
good thread
― mookieproof, Thursday, 1 September 2016 01:10 (seven years ago) link
You cut me down a treeAnd brought it back to meAnd that's what made me see
what the hell is this
That doesn't rhyme with tree/me/see! (Also discussed on this fine thread: Lyrical Cliches You Can't Stand )
― sbahnhof, Saturday, 3 September 2016 20:30 (seven years ago) link
"Inject your soul with liberty, it's free" sadly underrated, but no surprise given such an embarrassment of riches
― one way street, Saturday, 3 September 2016 21:45 (seven years ago) link
...they're BACK!
https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/something-else/id1211820803?app=itunes
But, sadly, no rework of "Sarajevo" or "I Just Shot John Lennon" on this.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 16 March 2017 18:15 (seven years ago) link
And the PR is happy to tell you re the album cover:
Shot by Andy Earl, the photographer for The Cranberries' Everybody Else Is Doing It cover
I hope it was the same couch.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 16 March 2017 18:16 (seven years ago) link
...as Gear's.
― tales of a scorched-earth nothing (Doctor Casino), Thursday, 16 March 2017 18:17 (seven years ago) link
Fun fact: the next album that Bruce Fairbairn produced after this was Elegantly Wasted by INXS. Both Hutchence and Fairbarn would be dead within a couple of years, the latter being found dead by Jon Anderson while working on a Yes project.
― Coolio Iglesias (Turrican), Thursday, 16 March 2017 19:12 (seven years ago) link
And his last full production was for some shitty swing revival band, I guess
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torch_This_Place
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 16 March 2017 19:35 (seven years ago) link
Curious definition of fun there (xp)
― Ongar Is An Energy (Tom D.), Thursday, 16 March 2017 19:39 (seven years ago) link
x-post:
...and of course Fairbairn produced New Jersey, for those that didn't know.
At the time he passed away he apparently was going to team up with Bob Rock for another Bon Jovi production. I'm assuming this would have been the LP that became Crush?
― Coolio Iglesias (Turrican), Thursday, 16 March 2017 19:48 (seven years ago) link