Some people who know about music find this funny.
Tom and Mark miss the point entirely and think those people must be laughing because they love the man with the reputation for wild and unpredictable live performances and hate the nice little pop group.
― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Monday, 13 January 2003 20:57 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 13 January 2003 21:01 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Monday, 13 January 2003 21:02 (twenty-one years ago) link
― mark s (mark s), Monday, 13 January 2003 21:03 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Monday, 13 January 2003 21:07 (twenty-one years ago) link
http://www.bomp.com/Images/Iggy/Ig20.gif
― Ungentlemanly Jim Osterburg (vassifer), Monday, 13 January 2003 21:10 (twenty-one years ago) link
― mark s (mark s), Monday, 13 January 2003 21:11 (twenty-one years ago) link
Good point Julio - I'd like to make it crystal clear that I am prepared to revise my stance comprehensively, take back everything horrid I've said about The Corrs and condemn that nasty Pop man immediately if it means I've got a chance with Andrea.
Or Caroline.
Or Sharon.
I draw the line at Jim 'though.
― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Monday, 13 January 2003 21:14 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 13 January 2003 21:14 (twenty-one years ago) link
caroline is mine!
― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Monday, 13 January 2003 21:18 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 13 January 2003 21:20 (twenty-one years ago) link
my ans: now, by far
― mark s (mark s), Monday, 13 January 2003 21:20 (twenty-one years ago) link
''Maybe I'm just bitter that four people can be earning obscene amounts of money working in the music industry without having sufficient interest in their profession to have bothered to assimilate even the most basic background information about one of the most significant figures in that industry of the last 3 decades?
If I knew that little about the industry I worked in I'd confidently expect be sacked - and quite right too.''
he's not seen as a significant figure in the 'industry' really. and again, they sing songs, they don't do research.
― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Monday, 13 January 2003 21:23 (twenty-one years ago) link
http://www.bomp.com/Images/Iggy/Ig9.jpg
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 13 January 2003 21:24 (twenty-one years ago) link
I'm only prepered to show my "Appropriate Breathless Reverence for Great Wild Man of Rock Like It Clearly Says in the Careful Rockfan's Manual of Recieved Opinion" just so far and that is waaaaaay to far for me.
You knew that, didn't you Mark? That's why you only gave me 9/10, isn't it?
― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Monday, 13 January 2003 21:26 (twenty-one years ago) link
"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."
― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Monday, 13 January 2003 21:28 (twenty-one years ago) link
― mark s (mark s), Monday, 13 January 2003 21:29 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Monday, 13 January 2003 21:31 (twenty-one years ago) link
Most do. Some, however, don't.
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 13 January 2003 21:33 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 13 January 2003 21:33 (twenty-one years ago) link
''Most do. Some, however, don't.''
how is spitting 'wild' alex? he's got fuck all (had fuck all in the first place actually)
― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Monday, 13 January 2003 21:36 (twenty-one years ago) link
Maybe they don't leave their wildness behind them if they think they still need to maintain that rep. to keep the crowds and therefore the money coming in?
I bet Iggy made more money out of his 1969 - 1977 catalogue than his 1978 - 2002 catalogue last year....
― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Monday, 13 January 2003 21:38 (twenty-one years ago) link
not knowing abt the industry is one of the roolz of punk stewart. breaking away from history and all.
― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Monday, 13 January 2003 21:40 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 13 January 2003 21:40 (twenty-one years ago) link
What do you reckon Alex? Should we let him in or not?
― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Monday, 13 January 2003 21:40 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Monday, 13 January 2003 21:42 (twenty-one years ago) link
Claiming to not know about the industry was one of the more fatuous and easily refuted claims of a vociferous handful of punk bands, certainly.....
Are you saying The Corrs are the new Sex Pistols?
― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Monday, 13 January 2003 21:43 (twenty-one years ago) link
I'm really fit as mark s will testify. caroline is mine.
''Are you saying The Corrs are the new Sex Pistols?''
the pistols were a one off.
― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Monday, 13 January 2003 21:46 (twenty-one years ago) link
If that's true - and if it is I have to agree with you - did it succeed in getting any coverage anywhere?
I haven't heard about it anywhere other than here (and no-one I've mentioned it too has seemed to have heard about it); but then I do make a very specific point of NOT reading the entertainment columns....
If it was a publicity stunt, were The Corrs in on it?
― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Monday, 13 January 2003 21:47 (twenty-one years ago) link
Very true - but a one off who were heavily influenced by The Stooges of course.
― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Monday, 13 January 2003 21:48 (twenty-one years ago) link
Weren't some of the Corrs Corps zealoulsy alledging that he didn't, in fact, know it was them?
When has Iggy *EVER* cared about headlines? It's not like he's ever had a squeaky clean image nor high-selling track record to defend.
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 13 January 2003 21:50 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 13 January 2003 21:52 (twenty-one years ago) link
I don't read the entertainment columns either so i wouldn't know. the show was in dublin so it might have got coverage there.
''Very true - but a one off who were heavily influenced by The Stooges of course.''
no it was early rock n'roll with lydon on vocals (which is why they were 'acceptable' to these ears).
― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Monday, 13 January 2003 21:53 (twenty-one years ago) link
I think he cares about it. if he's stops selling he gets dropped by the rec company.
― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Monday, 13 January 2003 21:55 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Monday, 13 January 2003 21:56 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 13 January 2003 21:57 (twenty-one years ago) link
I think the point is / was / would have been that it [would have] promoted precisely the opposite image - which is, of course, the one he trades on.
"[The 'Pistols were] early rock n'roll with lydon on vocals.
Even when The 'Pistols were busily denying any links with "that necrophiliac rock 'n' roll", The Stooges were one of the few bands that they were prepared to cite as a major influence - they even even covered "No Fun"....
Actually, from what I know of your musical tastes, I am genuinely surprised that you don't rate Fun House, Julio.
― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Monday, 13 January 2003 22:03 (twenty-one years ago) link
― gaz (gaz), Monday, 13 January 2003 22:18 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Shakey Mo Collier, Monday, 13 January 2003 22:30 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Ronan (Ronan), Tuesday, 14 January 2003 08:56 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Justyn Dillingham (Justyn Dillingham), Tuesday, 14 January 2003 09:10 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Rachel, Tuesday, 14 January 2003 10:53 (twenty-one years ago) link
who knew!!??
― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 14 January 2003 10:55 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Andrea Corr, Tuesday, 14 January 2003 10:59 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Ronan (Ronan), Tuesday, 14 January 2003 11:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
No, thought not.
― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Tuesday, 14 January 2003 11:14 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Tuesday, 14 January 2003 11:59 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Tom (Groke), Tuesday, 14 January 2003 12:01 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Tuesday, 14 January 2003 12:20 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 14 January 2003 13:37 (twenty-one years ago) link