Bojan Scores
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Post by Bojan Scores on Jul 5, 2018 18:30:15 GMT
I saw Nirvana at Manchester Poly in 1989, they were playing with another Seattle band of the time Tad. They hadn't yet hit big with 'Smells Like Teen Spirit' so there wasn't much hype around them. I don't remember anything special about their performance, the crowd seemed to prefer Tad as their obese lead singer Tad Doyle was a character with lots of banter. I remember Kurt Cobain pinning a young lad to the stage with his guitar, I don't think he liked stage divers. Definitely an overrated band given that there were other good Seattle bands around such as Mudhoney who are largely forgotten, of course it helped that Nirvana had a video that got massive MTV coverage & then the guy goes & kills himself ensuring 'legendary' status. I always thought that Nirvana’s first and last albums were so-so, but their second one ‘Nevermind’ was rock’s last great moment (arguably). I think it was like ‘Never Mind The b***ocks’ in so much, as they shone brightly for a short time and changed the music scene of the time.
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Post by Dirty Epic on Jul 7, 2018 18:39:53 GMT
Come to think of it Spike Island was a sort of beginning of the end of The Roses success as the gig despite the dewy eyed nostalgia wasn't all that from what I've heard... normally the way when these things get built up like this. Still would have liked to have been there mind. The Roses too let time pass them by after this falling out with their record company/management and taking nearly 5 years to come back with The Second Coming they (and The Monday's) were overtaken by a wave of Dance Music then Britpop and also (although IMO still having good music on Second Coming) didn't fit the Britpop fashion the media was fixated on (right or wrong) in the mid 90's. As for Spike Island the film again yes its nice to see that period and does have moments but just feels a bit like a fan tribute at times of what they'd like to remember of that period rather than what it was like and to sell it to the next generation they added a few clichéd references to things like Skins etc in how it looks feels and plays out!
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Post by Steve Austin on Jul 7, 2018 20:05:27 GMT
Come to think of it Spike Island was a sort of beginning of the end of The Roses success as the gig despite the dewy eyed nostalgia wasn't all that from what I've heard... normally the way when these things get built up like this. Still would have liked to have been there mind. The Roses too let time pass them by after this falling out with their record company/management and taking nearly 5 years to come back with The Second Coming they (and The Monday's) were overtaken by a wave of Dance Music then Britpop and also (although IMO still having good music on Second Coming) didn't fit the Britpop fashion the media was fixated on (right or wrong) in the mid 90's. As for Spike Island the film again yes its nice to see that period and does have moments but just feels a bit like a fan tribute at times of what they'd like to remember of that period rather than what it was like and to sell it to the next generation they added a few clichéd references to things like Skins etc in how it looks feels and plays out! They were banned from recording for 5 years I believe as their record company held the recording rights and they had to wait for them to lapse before they could release any new material.
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Post by Dirty Epic on Jul 7, 2018 20:44:43 GMT
Ah thanks for the info Steve surely though they could've sorted something out before 94? Made of Stone is a good watch mind.
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Post by Kenny Dalglish 1979 on Jul 8, 2018 18:47:08 GMT
Nirvana were a band I got into through my older brother. In 1992, he said he had listened to Smells Like Teen Spirit thanks to a mate and he asked me later on to get a mate of mine to copy the whole Nevermind album for him. When that happened, I listened to the whole thing and must say I enjoyed it from start to finish. I was 14 and a rock/metal fan anyway so took to it straight away. A classmate said he preferred Bleach and I also liked In Utero. At least they lasted a bit longer than The Sex Pistols, but Kurt did not want the flame to burn any longer. Dave Grohl has done immensely well for himself I must say with The Foo Fighters. Remember first listening to This Is A Call on Virgin 1215 in the summer of '95 and was impressed. I don't like every single thing they've done but The Colour And The Shape was a very good 2nd album, Rope is one of the best rock songs in recent years (first came across it on Absolute Radio in my car a few years ago) and One By One was a good album too.
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Post by OnTheBusesHugeFan on Jul 24, 2018 13:15:00 GMT
The Film Scum the original one , for me it could of ended abit better in my eyes
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Post by Arthur Pringle on Jul 31, 2018 17:56:18 GMT
All the hype & controversy, albeit in America, over Sacha Baron Cohen's new series 'Who Is America?' can't disguise the fact that it's mostly juvenile & embarrassing pranking with little to laugh at. It's also old hat as it's more or less a direct copy of 'Brass Eye' from 1997 with elements of 'Facejacker'. Ali G & Borat in particular were hilarious at times, but this new show is very disappointing, unsubtle & poorly scripted.
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Post by Cartman on Jul 31, 2018 19:55:22 GMT
Only seen bits of it and I tend to agree with Arthur. One funny bit was where he got some right wing fruitcake to run around shouting USA with his bottom hanging out. Ali G and Borat were funny briefly until it became obvious that they were sending up the interviewees.
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Post by Del Boy on Aug 1, 2018 11:25:58 GMT
Haven't heard of it but wonder if he's trying to cater for the intended audience by adapting some of what's been done before here.
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Post by Dirty Epic on Nov 1, 2018 12:49:56 GMT
Another one falling into this category is Morons from Outer Space that I recently watched on Youtube.
Despite having what you’d think would be the right elements Smith & Jones (Not the Nine O’clock News), Jimmy Nail (Auf Pet), Get Carter director Mike Hodges and many others on board watching it 30 years on just shows how flawed a concept it was. Don’t get me wrong it does have some funny moments like Bernard’s (Mel Smith’s) ‘therapy’ with an Iron Maiden record in the pyscho ward, Graham Sweetley (Griff Rhys Jones) taking his chance to go from a shrinking violet loser in a dead-end job in journalism to the manager/exploiter of the ‘aliens’ who under his guidance become mega-stars and James B Sikking’s (Hill Street Blues Renko) narcistic CIA agent. However beyond that and a few little digs at 1980’s pop culture and the cult of celebrity worship – almost foretelling X-Factor 20 years before the fact, not much else is really going on and for me Morons doesn’t even have the necessary comic timing of a p***-taking parody it just plods along aimlessly from start to end and the end result is a film which would have worked better as a Smith & Jones sketch or short film rather than the slap-dash effort I feel we got here.
As I say it’s not all bad and not a complete car crash and it’s one redeeming feature is Des Jimmy Nail’s character is pretty much like Oz for Auf Pet that you may or may not like but again like many successful British comedians/comedies that make the transition from the small to big screen something just doesn’t quite seem to work and perhaps here it was keeping Smith & Jones apart through almost the entire film which considering the chemistry they had (at that time) did seem very odd in hindsight.
It’s one of those films you just wonder why it exists not necessarily the worst you’ve ever seen but something that doesn’t rate IMHO.
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