Current Music:

[reddragdiva]

Been digging through the 40 gig MP3 bucket again. It's like having all your CDs in a thousand-disc changer. Fiddling with the physical silver objects is so, so, clunky and Victorian.

Currently playing the Spikes' Colour In A Black Forest. A good example of why '80s Australian indie rock bands STRODE THE EARTH LIKE THE GODS THEY WERE. Bands who knew what a bass guitar is for. Will we hear their like again? (Outside the confines of B-Movie or Australian equivalent.)

Needless to say, it's almost all long out of print. And not even the dribs and drabs ever released on CD can easily be found on the peer-to-peer cultural preservation networks. I so have to get my vinyl over here and rip the lot of it. So much of it is music that only exists on a thousand pieces of vinyl, the master tapes having long since been lost or dissolved into dust.

(I'm sure a lyrics quiz on this stuff is on the way. You Engrish can SUFFER. "I'm not an elephant/Or a kangaroo ...")

Oh, here's the Sunnyboys best-of. This one came out on a major (Mushroom) and happens to still be available. (Those two, of course, not necessarily coinciding.) Second half is pointless, but it's a cheapie (AUD$20) and the first several songs are well worth having.

More Kim Salmon. Oh yesss ...

I also have to scan what remains of my fanzine collection and put it up somewhere. OCRing can follow in due course as researchers are interested. I actually gave boxes and boxes of zines to missmilky to pick over and donate the remainder to the West Australian state library before I left Perth. Wonder if she got them there ...

Must put more effort into Rocknerd too.

(I wanna start a band of record nerds. Hey, zotz, hirez, zoo_music_girl - I'll learn to play properly if you do! The band will, of course, be called the New Puritans.)

Off work again today. This is really crap. I desperately hope to be fit for Deathboy tomorrow, though it's possible I may not be.

Comments

[reddragdiva]

(Of course, she will assault you with shurikens made from CD-R copies of the Birthday Party, the Pop Group and the entire Throbbing Gristle 24-hour live box set.)

[duranorak.livejournal.com]

Officially scared now. Particularly by the threat of the Throbbing Gristle box set, as that's now a threat I've heard twice in one month. Please, god, no.

Unless her point is to destroy them (I don't know the lady in question, or her music taste) in which case I can think of people we could *both* assault.

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[reddragdiva]

I fear you may not be suitable for the band I'm thinking of.

[duranorak.livejournal.com]

~smile~ I thought that might be the case. It suddenly occurred to me that all the conversations about music I've had with zotz have entailed my having the exact opposite opinion to him.
zoo_music_girl, too, in general.

Well, I'll come and watch you, anyway. Assuming I haven't found a bunch of kids who can play boxes-which-go-bleep in the meantime.

It's not likely, really. ~sigh~ Oh, for a synthpop covers band...

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[dennyd.livejournal.com]

I always wanted to do heavy metal style covers of bands that go beep and/or bleep. I suspect this would involve you strongly disliking me, depending on what we chose to cover :)

2 Unlimited were my first choice of source material, but I can see it working with a lot of things...

(anyone with a really odd sense of humour and a modicum of guitar-playing ability is welcome to get in touch about this project, although as I'm based out of London it seems unlikely to go far. I'm a drummer, by the way)

[duranorak.livejournal.com]

I suspect this would involve you strongly disliking me, depending on what we chose to cover :)

That's a definite 'depending', though. For example, I would go and see a heavy metal 2 Unlimited covers band - I can actually picture it working. (In fact there's a band I saw recently who reminded me strongle of a heavy metal 2 Unlimited - honestly - but I probably shouldn't say that out loud...)

"Let the beat control your, er, hair." Right. ~giggles~

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[glensc.livejournal.com]

Doctor & the Medics did a live cover of " No Limits" mind you they sang somethibng like "No more techno "

[duranorak.livejournal.com]

I've also heard "No talent" and "No lyrics" (a favourite) but I should love to hear the Doctors' cover. They're wonderful. ~s~

Perhaps there's a bootleg out there somewhere...

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[reddragdiva]

Heh. This verges on what Deathboy had to do to translate the recorded versions of their songs (bedroom-synthesizer-computer creations by Scott) into something suitable for the live band (two guitars, bass, drums) to play. (Any comment from those involved? blankinfinity?)