Wall of Mouths

^Well 3 WOMbles expected it!

As with Amy Winehouse last year, I’m gonna assume that this was an “unnatural cause”…

1st Realityfuck 20 (Etta James 7, Whitney Houston 13 *UNNATURAL*)
2nd Theng - 14 (Etta James *JOKER*)
3rd Crazy Horse - 13 (Whitney Houston *UNNATURAL*)
Silverginger5 - 13 (Whitney Houston *UNNATURAL*)
5th Dermot - 9 (Bob Holness *UNIQUE*)
6th Caffinebomb 7 (Etta James)
7th Everyone Else - 0

Four people have him (including me!)

Ah, that explains it. It is annoying though. You’d think whoever set up the unofficial fan page would defer to the real thing!!

There’s a few bands like that. The Mountain Goats have albums under “Mountain Goats” and “The Mountain Goats” etc.

I do wonder why T?’s official Facebook page is missing the ? mark though!

Yeah, I definitely agree that The Buzzing sounds very SPYF-ish. I’ve come around to it now I think… really loving Before You With You After You now as well.

Nice one!! Roundtable is a good show.

The standout track for me so far is “Why Turbulence”. Great lyrics. Funny to see the progression of Therapy?’s lyrics over the years… songs on Troublegum, Nurse, Infernal Love etc were all about being on your own / getting dumped / twisted relationships / guilty messed up sex etc. But now the lyrics are stuff like “I have food, shelter, a family who love me and who I love back” - but where do you go from here? Other songs in recent albums have been about similar things… “Clowns Galore” (What do we do now that we are happy?) and “Unconsoled” (we made it to the suburbs) etc etc. Back to “Why Turbulence”, I just think it walks the right line between humour and darkness that always made T? stand out for me… very like Beckett in fact (“Big Black Hooded Perambulator” is a line from the Beckett play Krapp’s Last Tape). “Birth Was The Death Of Me” - good line. Read an interview with T? on the internet that said it’s called “Why Turbuelnce” because that’s what a leading physicist said he would ask God if he met him (apparently turbulence can’t be properly scientifically explained).

Other fav track so far is Ecclesiastes. I kept waiting for a monster riff to kick in that (thankfully) never came. I’d like to hear T? do more songs in this style tbh but can’t see it happening any time sooon. The expression “There Is Nothing New Under The Sun” comes from Ecclesiastes (“everything under the sun… is absurd”).

Will have to give it a few more listens before I form an opinion overall. I know they’ve said otherwise but I do think it follows in a similar vein from Crooked Timber (which I liked) in terms of a filthy bass, similar thematic concerns, similar “feel” albeit with more of a dub influence (more “space to breathe” as a WOMble on here put it very well). I agree that “The Buzzing” is a bit jarring. But so far I’d definitely rank ABCOL above NANE, OCFA, and HA.

Sure my 16 month son picks my list!!

(Joke!! ;-))

How old is your baby mate? Congratulations! Quite an inappropriate thread to discuss such joyous matters in!! :-)

*bump*… in theory the deadline for entry to this has passed so get yer lists in as quick as ye can!

14 entrants isn’t too bad… but I know there’s a couple of dedicated players out there who’ve yet to enter :-)

ABCOL has been greyed out on Deezer now and says “FEB 6” in big letters beside it. Waaah.

I see “Living in the Shadow” with artwork is streamable on Spotify now though

They nearly always refer to T?’s longevity as well eg “15 years in the business”… “18 year years later and still strong”… “an incredible 20 years of consistent output…” etc.

They often refer to their lyrics too eg “wordsmiths…” “smart lyrics”… “thinking man’s metallers” etc.

Yes - Simon is the progenitor of all this! The Death Race Daddy!!

It’s never too late to get re-involved Si! :-)

“I am… Death Race”

Now hurry up and enter yer list!! ;-)

I’m only gettin the one copy of the album (haven’t even pre-ordered yet or anything) so I don’t mind splurging the 79p on the one track

Nope

I just downloaded it from iTunes there now

I always thought Enjoy The Struggle sounded like “Walk” by Pantera. I think Andy admits as much himself in those stories behind the songs. On the flipside, Lostprophets first single back in 2001 sounded like Punishment Kiss:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LO1ftoRREW4

Thefanthattriedtostrangleitslf wrote:

Our what?

ZING! ;-)

Good man Crazy Horse - from first glance your list looks kosher!!

Right, seems I missed as trick in not putting Etta James down… a few of you had her. My lead was short lived!

1st Theng - 14 (Etta James *JOKER*)
2nd Dermot - 9 (Bob Holness *UNIQUE*)
3rd Caffinebomb 7 (Etta James)
Realityfuck 7 (Etta James)
5th Everyone Else - 0

Boom *tsch*! :-D

Phew! Thanks for the reassurance guys ;-)

That’s what I fear Gav!!

Hope so Chr1s! :-)

Come on peeps… there’s half as many entrants as last year!

Don’t tell me that Death Race is dead itself?? :-(

Wow… that’s class! They’ll be playing ATP and Primavera next! ;-)

Exactly… you snooze, you lose! ;-) My first points in years!

1st Dermot - 9 (Bob Holness *UNIQUE*)
2nd Everyone Else - 0

Come on people… that’s 7 entries so far… we have to beat the 19 we had last year!!

I’m gonna resist the temptation to listen to the previews I think… would be too much of a tease!

Only a month to go!!

Here’s my effort… got rid of about half of last year’s:

1) James Molyneaux
2) Doris Lessing
3) Murray Walker
4) David Coleman
5) Michael Douglas
6) Jean-Luc Godard
7) Ian Paisley Sr
8) Jeanne Moreau
9) Don King
10) Ian Brady
11) Ariel Sharon
12) Jack Charlton
13) Prince Philip
14) Fidel Castro
15) Margaret Thatcher - JOKER
16) Jimmy Carter
17) Pope Benedict XVI
18) Nadine Gordimer
19) Billy Bingham
20) Bob Holness

I’ve updated the Hall Of Fame here as I’ve been told Lola and Ci? are in fact the same person!

I think one or two other usernames might have changed as well… “sp” is now “msd” I believe. I miss Sam from these threads… he was always good value for death race dedication!

I’ve also included the points totals for the years we’ve had the current format :-)

2005: Deadsetgav
2006: Ci? (Lola)
2007: sp
2008: The Autosurgeon
2009: Caffinebomb
2010: Jobrok (with 22 points)
2011: Lola (with 38 points)