markie
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Re: The board is dead, long live the board.
May 28, 2003 at 08:41 PM UTC
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remind me in future never to attempt to quote anyone….
I'll just claim them as mine own. But I have heard that quote a lot of times and it is always attributed to Elvis. Not that that proves anything of course.
bags
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Re: The board is dead, long live the board.
May 28, 2003 at 08:51 PM UTC
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Originally posted by mankie:
I've often wondered why should anyone give a rats arse about what a "critic" thinks, wether it be music, book or movie. Isn't it only just a matter of opinion when we get down to "hey lads hey"
I don't care what the critics think, but am using the 'zines to find out about bands I don't know. So that, if there's an album described as indie power pop (or either Cheap Trick or Big Star are listed as influences), I wanna check it out! There are very few people in my circle with vasts knowledge (or even minimal knowledge) of music, especially anything new. So that's what I'm after from the magazines (I find I have a bit of ADD reading whole articles on the internet – I print 'em then never read 'em).
It can become a glorious game of "follow the reference" to find more and more bands you dig.
And, just throwing this out there, I watch 120 Minutes on MTV2 (tape it so I can fast forward through the crap). It's now called "Subterranean," but I found Soundtrack of our Lives, Hot Hot Heat, Arlo, Ok Go, etc. by watching that show. A lot of the bands that open at 9:30 have videos show up just before or after their show….
bags
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Re: The board is dead, long live the board.
May 28, 2003 at 08:52 PM UTC
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Okay, rip me a new one now….
;)
jadetree
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Re: The board is dead, long live the board.
May 28, 2003 at 08:54 PM UTC
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Originally posted by bags:
Okay, rip me a new one now….
;)
okgo?
mankie
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Re: The board is dead, long live the board.
May 28, 2003 at 08:58 PM UTC
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MTV show music videos???? I thought they'd gone to all Real World and Road Rules all day, all night, all the time.
bags
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Re: The board is dead, long live the board.
May 28, 2003 at 09:02 PM UTC
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MTV2, MTV2!!
There are NO videos on MTV as far as I can tell. But MTV2 is alright – they were amazing 5, 6 years ago, and now are just alright. They carry Headbangers Ball as well now.
Yup, Ok Go. I like the indie pop Also like the Get Up Kids, an "emo" band, whatever the hell that is, but am still a fan of Superchunk.
markie
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Re: The board is dead, long live the board.
May 28, 2003 at 09:17 PM UTC
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MTV2 is alright, but its getting worse. 120 minutes is a fine way of seeing new music.
Soundtrack of our Lives, Hot Hot Heat, Arlo, Ok Go have all been the topic of conversation on the board. All played in the last 12 months.
I wish I had seen Soundtrack and not Okgo. . Arlo had a fight in front of us and hot hot heat are way too camp on stage.
kosmo
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May 28, 2003 at 09:18 PM UTC
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m2 used to good before they started carrying loads of ads…. their month long a to z countdown of every video ever played on mtv/m2 was very amusing to watch. i checkout vh1 classic if there is absolutely nothing else worth watching on tv.
kosmo
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May 28, 2003 at 09:21 PM UTC
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my favorite magazine for new music coverage is cmj new music report… the reviews are usually spot on, especially the RIYL (recommend if you like) comparisions. the cd's been a bit dodgy of late.
jadetree
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Re: The board is dead, long live the board.
May 28, 2003 at 09:25 PM UTC
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Originally posted by kosmo:
the cd's been a bit dodgy of late.
Yeah it has, mine came cracked in two last issue.
lily1
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Re: The board is dead, long live the board.
May 29, 2003 at 12:41 PM UTC
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www.mhznetworks.org. you can go the tapings of the music shows. most are generally during the week though.
i highly recommend the martin beck series show on their too. its a swedish mystery series.
in dc, its channel 56 without cable and channel 4 with cable. they sometimes show muchmusic, the canadian version of mtv, on htere too, but not lately.
Originally posted by mankie:
You are missing MHz which is pretty entertaining. In the last week I saw a performance by "The Clarks" and "The Planets" and a little while ago "The Young Dubliners" all at some small place in N VA. They also have European detective shows dubbed in yanklish. Not to mention the news programs from all over the world. Then there's the sports from all over the world, even Scottish footie, but nobody's perfect! ;) [/QB]
lily1
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Re: The board is dead, long live the board.
May 29, 2003 at 12:42 PM UTC
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oh, and poorlulu's store did the furnishings in their offices.
Jaguär
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Re: The board is dead, long live the board.
May 29, 2003 at 06:18 PM UTC
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Screwed again! That station is not available in the Baltimore area, with or without cable.