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Only got computer and internet access at work, so I only even vaguely know what this means!
It's 1985 in my house... -
These prices make me damn glad I've never had the urge to buy any merch!
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On 7/25/2018 at 10:39 PM, IpMan said:
Women will only put up with so much before they call it a day. I don't care how rich or how good looking you are, most women will indeed leave yo ass at some point.
Especially if he'd started nobbing her sister again, I guess...
Seriously, though, on reflection, yes, I agree - a bond that was strong in 1977/78 could well have been strained and broken by 1981/82.
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1 hour ago, SteveAJones said:
they were divorced within five years of it being written, so I would say no.
Good point!
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3 hours ago, babysquid said:
I think singing “proud Aryan” pronounced like that might have brought about a few comments regarding the Nazis!
Indeed, which is another reason it's inconceivable to me that it could be 'Aryan', no matter what the pronunciation.
With his interest in mythology and the ancient world, Robert could certainly have been aware of the origin of 'Aryan' as it relates to the Indo-Europeans,
so I suppose there could be a vague reference to Maureen there.
But to most people who grew up in the second half of the 20th century, like Robert, 'Aryan' has only one notorious connotation - and Maureen's not a blue-eyed Nordic blonde, after all.
It honestly never crossed my mind that Robert might have sung 'Aryan', until people began suggesting it in posts on here a few years ago.
I can't see it - whereas the Ariadne association seems clear.
Still, always happy to be proved wrong and it will be good to find out for sure.
Thinking about it, though, if it does prove to be 'Arianne', isn't the reference still likely to be to Maureen - who, just as Ariadne led Theseus out of Minos's labyrinth,
perhaps led Robert out of the maze of despair after Karac's death?
Makes sense - but doesn't mean it's right!
Interesting, this.
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Indeed, Steve, given the earlier 'thread' line and Robert's love of mythology, I always thought the reference was to Ariadne.
If it was 'aryan', wouldn't Robert, being English, pronounce the first syllable to rhyme with 'airy', rather than 'harry'?
Although, I guess he could've deliberately twisted the pronunciation to obscure the lyric and make it more ambiguous.
It'll be interesting to have it confirmed one way or the other from the ITTOD songbook.
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6 hours ago, porgie66 said:
the extended version with the guitar solo and Bonzo's epic fills is so much better than the fade out of the actual album version. It's pure gold for those last couple minutes.
This!
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Hah - I knew a girl who claimed she'd 'met' Nazareth backstage after a gig at Sheffield City Hall in 1979.
Each of em. One after the other.
Hey, it was the '70s and all that!
She's a grandma now - I'm guessing this's not a yarn that gets told around the Xmas dinner table... -
The No Quarter edit really does pull you out of the song with a jolt and a lurch - it's a pretty cackhanded cut, I've got to say.
You really do need the original - and, like Walter said, that way you'd also have the old solo at the end of Celebration Day, too.
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That singer's face is possibly even more annoying than Robbie Williams'...
Why does he always look so damned happy?
I mean, it's not as if he's young, talented, famous, successful and lasses like him, is it?
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22 hours ago, SteveAJones said:
His guitar playing may not have been Robert's cup of tea, but Francis Dunnery is funny as hell and was a great fit for the young band Robert had at the time.
Yes, a friend of mine once interviewed Francis Dunnery (for The Derbyshire Times!) and said he was a really good bloke.
Unfortunately for me, I sat through It Bites' support set in 1988. It was like a repeat of Then Jericho, who'd supported Iggy the year before.
That's not a good thing...
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It Bites? It Shites, more like...
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On 4/24/2013 at 4:24 AM, weslgarlic said:
Saxon's track "wheels of Steel " nicks it's from the Black Sabbath riff from their track " Rock 'n' Roll Doctor "
Thank fck someone else's said it! I thought that when I saw it on TOTPs way back in 1981, but you're the only other person I've heard say it.
I'm not even vaguely approaching any kind of Saxon fan - I suppose you could say I've seen them, as I was at the first Donington in 1980,
although I went for a wander while they were on, so I guess it's more like I've 'heard' them live...
Mind you, I did see Biff Byford waiting for a coach in the open-air part of the old Barnsley bus station in 1982.
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On 6/4/2018 at 3:28 PM, z1inspector said:
to who ever that was that said Plant said some negetive things re' Morrison 》U may have miss interpeted & please elaborate !
I think Robert was a Doors fan early on, but was really disillusioned after seeing them at Seattle Pop in 1969. He told Melody Maker:
'He hung on the side of the stage and nearly toppled into the audience and did all those things that I suppose were originally sexual things, but as he got fatter and dirtier and more screwed up, they became more bizarre. So it was really sickening to watch. My wife and I were there watching and we couldn't believe it.'
Jimmy was equally uncomplimentary about seeing the Doors at the Roundhouse in 1968:
'I was surprised after hearing a lot of advance publicity in England about how sexy Jim M. was. How virile and whatever. I was surprised to see how static he was live on stage.
Being dressed in black leather can only go so far but standing there like my father would on stage doesn’t really come across for me.
As far as I could see the Morrison thing is just an embarrassment towards the audience.'
Robert, at least, re-appraised Morrison many years later, apparently after Phil Johnstone kept hassling him to listen to the Doors' albums again - hence Break On Through on the '88 tour, etc.
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On 5/31/2018 at 8:16 AM, chillumpuffer said:
Faded fat bastard please, not "Robbie"
Indeed! Would 'Cocknocker' pass as an alternative, every now and then?
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On 7/7/2017 at 4:58 AM, IpMan said:
Are you tired of spending you time and effort on that special someone, only to find out they were Warrant fans?
LMAO (or whatever the kids said 12 years ago). Good one, IpMan!
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Yes, indeed, we've had this many, many times and it's this simple: 'parking the car' was just an off-the-cuff quip - a joke, a simple pisstake.
Not a value judgement.
Other than that? Robert gave some interview in the '80s where he said that there'd been times when he'd tried to discuss songs with JPJ,
but Jonesy would go 'oh, I can't remember that one - what key was it in?' and Robert said he'd just sigh and go 'I dunno, Jonesy' and leave it at that.
No big deal - you click less with some people than you do with others, is all.
I guess there's Dave Thompson's claim that Robert played Pictures At Eleven for JPJ and Jonesy supposedly said 'I thought you could have done something
a little bit better than that, old chap!' - but I don't think Thompson gave a source for that, so who knows how accurate that one is? -
On 4/11/2018 at 5:42 AM, Boleskinner said:
Any release has to be approved by jones and plant as well, and plant is picky about his vocals.
Exactly - Robert seems to think that he used to get a bit excited and overly enthusiastic!
This is why, according to Kevin Shirley, Robert had various 'ad-libs - the baby, baby, babys' removed during the TSRTS remix.
Mind you, Shirley also said that when they got to ‘Does anyone remember laughter?’, Robert 'winced and asked if we could delete it.
I said, ‘No, you can’t erase that, it’s what people remember, part of history!’ So he very reluctantly allowed me to keep it in.'
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Killing Joke in Nottingham. Cue 'the sound of the earth vomiting'!
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Arnold Layne is the only Pink Floyd song I like.
Ok, maybe Wish You Were Here. And yeah, ok, maybe See Emily Play.
Hmm, thinking about it, maybe Eclipse and Comfortably Numb and...
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There's a brilliant line in the YouTube comments for Loose:
'This song has the same riff as Smoke on the Water'!
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Funhouse is glorious - Loose into TV Eye, it doesn't get more primal than that.
Prefer Ron Asheton to James Williamson, but Williamson-era Cock In My Pocket has the greatest lyric ever written:
'Just wanna fuck, don't want no romance'.
You don't get that in Shakespeare, Marlowe or the King James Bible...
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Jimmy cuts out Mary Lou and then says that he didn't put Tangerine on the re-issue as he 'didn't want to mess with the album'?!
Me no comprehende...
That's the worst perm since Eddie Large!
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