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no surprise there and quite right too bloody awful racket!

Theres nothing about Devo to ''get''....its just electronic pop ....and Kraftwerk are the same except more instrumental and erm.... German and totally guitarless and Sparks, Foxx, DAF and The Human League ETC all just total pop influential cos they were among the first to do it you can get most of it at woolworths probably - where all the 'elitist vinyl jockeys' hang out *chortle* seen em all hanging round the Big W at the weekend the fucking wanks

synths that sound like synths - yes synths that sound like trumpets/glockenspeils etc - no

dont forget the ''all metal fans are virgins'' theory either sir and the latent gayness of worshipping hairy old men in tight pants!

even if it's below par for Mozza (which I dont know that it is) it will still be total genius relative to the insipid river of stinking pointless shite thats coming out of the TV and the radio just now fucking keen, the thrills, coldplay, snow patrol, etc dont make me spew

says Metallica fan c/o Cornhill, Aberdeen

that one! I sometimes just put it on on loop-play for days

i kinda like some of their stuff but not all if you know what i mean they were good on the tele last week sometimes they sound like they are trying to hard to be .........urban (a swear word in this house) current single is wee peach though......jilted john meets parklife

ver good site danke

its way better than the thrills......a better song than those lot could muster and a fantastic piano which really sets it apart....can see the late 60s beatles/kinks vibe too does your other stuff have piano in it also?

tis very good indie pop (like the the thills but much less sickly) but i still reckon the best download on the exile site is le cuts like...it the only one that really gets stuck in me head Marky has been doing some good stuff lately the live parts of the real shocks album are getting done there and its sounding dead good so far. Certainly the best drum sound we've got anywhere (including several 'posh' studios down south)

exactly its probably the only reason Eric keeps him employed hes actually funding Drummonds single handedly with his chronic quiz machine addiction imagine if he spent as much time working that sound desk........maybe then he could be slightly better than 'adequate' *waits for the Christie to attack*

Re: Re: The Lemon Tree "Drinking in the Last Chance Saloon" dont beleive you it would all be plugged into a fruit machine within a week never to be seen again

how can they be skint with the price they charge for a fucking pint !

yes but only within the set parameters which to me are generally limiting but im not being specific about said units in question as I dont know them inside out...they might be fantastic so who knows its just that generally, Ive found the Boss/Roland/Yamaha ranges of gear to be quite 1 dimensional and kinda predictable sounding.....you will have invariably heard the same sounds before - usually in a crowded guitar shop on a saturday afternoon....but rarely on a decent record you could try this site for a few more sonic options www.musictoyz.com

i would avoid roland and boss gear unless you want to sound like lots of other people factory preset hell its like buying clothes from Debenhams

I sometimes use a Mooger Fooger Ring Modulator on my Guitar at gigs if I can be arsed......its not a synth but merely part of one....real anolog circuits, flashing lights and big knobs etc It sounds like a thousand pissed off alien skinheads kicking in your front door and usually sends the soundman running to the bogs for a huge poo Also used a Line 6 synth effect in a studio on the guitar and that was quite good too .. sometimes I use run a guitar signal into an old semi funkional Moog synth and squelch it beyond recognition or put moody little LFO effects on it......sounds psychedelic guitars that sound like synths and synths that sound like guitars....is all good

och, they're all bloody fantastic it goes without saying Man Machines got the best sleeve for sure and showroom dummies is a truly cool track (and quite scary) but what swings it for me is the extended album instrumental bit on Computor Love.......total genius (even though its from the 80s and therfor bugger all to do with this thread)

i reckon computor world is better than Trans Europe - but maybe CW came out the 80s....dunno *rakes in LP filing system under Electronic/German/Begins with K*

Crossing the Red Sea with the Adverts - The Adverts Live at the Witch Trials - The Fall Never Mind The Bollocks - Pistols Electric Warrior - TRex Another Music in a Different Kitchen - Buzzcocks Arrival - ABBA Killing Joke - Killing Joke A Trip to Marineville - Swell Maps V2 - The Vibrators etc....... one could not possibly pick just one and most of the early stuff involving Roxy Music, Bowie, Iggy and Mr Thunders from the first half of the decade some decade

see that banter..... its generic to all 'garage rock' bands apparently (file under: The Hives) and especially ones from scandanavia they must all have the same 'training video' its also popular at Butlins on Karaoke nite...many a time have I imagined wee Dave in a red blazer wearing a spinning bow tie (but thats where the fantasy ends...) but thats the only bad thing about the needles imo.....the banter and the obvious bruce springsteen posturing ....but the music is generally way too groovy to worry about that.....although I still think they were better when they were raw snot nosed punky kids and never said a word to the audience (circa 98/99 i think).....awesome i once drunkenly told them they should try and go down a more JSBX angular route (when they were in that odd elvis costello phase) and offered to produce them in a such a way for free......but that was a very long time ago....and its too late now cos every garage band in the universe has done it already pah

i know shitloads about it but i cant be fucked to explain the whole thing in non specifics cos it would take ages and my information is generally unreliable but compoota sequencing and recording etc has recently come of age in my opinion....it used to be too expensive and totally unreliable resulting in malevolant violence towards PCs from anyone who tried it theres a couple of good mags to read that will help you get into le subject Computor Music, Future Music and Sound on Sound.....all in WH Smiths they cost about a fiver each so i recommend you slip em inside and NME and and nick em or just stand in the shop for 3 hours reading them all like I do. I even take a notebook sometimes for reference notes/websites etc It seems complicated to start with but with a bit of research its piss easy AVOID PC WORLD COMET AND DIXONS

drum machines in 'rock' music are generally shit live, and are only occasionally good on records but they sound fantastic when used on the right type of song in le right context and drum machines should sound like drum machines....these fucking drum machines that do a wanky impersonation of a real drummer are giving beatboxes a bad name.....most chart records feature them and they still put a token 'miming' drummer at the back of the stage on TOTP or MTV whatever they might as well just miss out the whole live experience and e-mail you an MP3 *switches on Roland CR8000 as an example of how a drum machine should sound* listen doof - tssssh - rest - doof - doof - tssssh - rest - repeat gorgeous! but real drummers (the good ones anyway) are much more entertaining despite the mental problems, latent alchoholism, sex offences, prescription fraud etc

she must look at you in a different way than she looks at me then i just see pure evilness!!! (which is not a bad thing....unless you are a Italian preist in a room overlooking a long flight of steps)

hes one sick puppy and will burn in hell for his sins etc