Taking Dark Sides: Peter Murphy Vs. Daniel Ash

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(Why do I *know* these things? OK, sayeth the girl who once wrote an illustrated novel called "301 Reasons Why I Like David J")

Streatham's Paisley Princess (kate), Friday, 4 November 2005 08:53 (eighteen years ago) link

More talk about the stupendously fantastic Max Eider, who shits all over everyone mentioned so far.

when something smacks of something (dave225.3), Friday, 4 November 2005 12:39 (eighteen years ago) link

I wouldn't go THAT far.

However, Max Eider does rule, and "Drink" is the best song ever about the joys of sweet alcohol.

"Falling apart in bars
I like to suffer for my art
Just one more before we part..."

(For the uninitiated, imagine this being delivered and sung in the kind of light-hearted, breezy 30s jazz that Eric Idle specializes in for his Monty Python songs.)

Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 4 November 2005 12:55 (eighteen years ago) link

Soul Happy Hour is the best song ever about drink.

when something smacks of something (dave225.3), Friday, 4 November 2005 13:03 (eighteen years ago) link

Clearly the only way to settle this is to have a FAP where we play nothing but drinking songs and then proceed to get drunk.

Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 4 November 2005 13:04 (eighteen years ago) link

As long as it isn't at your house in Boston! (see ILX dreams)

when something smacks of something (dave225.3), Friday, 4 November 2005 13:05 (eighteen years ago) link

four years pass...

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

ten months pass...

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

one year passes...

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

three years pass...

lol https://soundcloud.com/daniel-ash-383422151

bern b bag (crüt), Wednesday, 3 February 2016 13:02 (eight years ago) link


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