Wall of Mouths

Dermot wrote:

^Hmm. I didn’t know Smog was in the soundtrack to that movie. I went to see Bill Callahan last year, it was a great show

The [smog] song that’s in the movie is “Vessel In Vain”. It’s right at the beginning of the movie.

You crazy Brits…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXIQSH-M_kQ&feature=related

I especially like the soundtrack: I got to know Smog, M_Ward and Adem through the movie. Beautiful music!

loco wrote:

Enjuto Mojamuto
(english subtitles)

The worst day of my life: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nm4N-YrT-ZU

I actually once participated in a message board discussion that involved the last sentence in that video.

Look entertaining, but Lemmy… oh well. Sure, he’s cool as hell, he’s one tough motherfucker… but still, people overestimate his importance. nobody needs more than one best of-cd by motörhead. that’s good enough for what it is, but if lemmy retired tomorrow, no one would care.

CS wrote:

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=HsG2cCKVIxY

The Boosh anyone?

http://youdontknowjack.com/node/561

Check out the inofficial “Kids” video on youtube. It’s really cool. and the tune is great, too, of course.

An okay cover, but again: what’s the point? it sounds exactly like the original.

Andy wrote something about how he met them at an awards show and that they were only friendly if you had the drugs. Of course, Andy didn’t refer to them by name, but he described them well enough that some WOMbles could figure out who he meant.

Well, anyway, I’m just reading “Kill Your Friends” by John Niven now, which is set in the mid-90’s (which is ace by the way!) and there’s a scene in which the main character walks into a toilet to sniff some cocaine and out come Brett Anderson and the singer of Elastica, who have apparantly just sniffed cocaine themselves.

Now, either those two were an infamous drug couple in those days or Niven (who is friends with James Dean Bradfield who is friends with Andy) based that incident on Andy’s experience.

Do you think that could be possible?

Eyesore wrote:

You know what, they should get Keith Caputo from Life Of Agony on vocals. First off, he’s a great guy. Secondly, he’s ten times the vocalist Weiland is, but at the same time he can sometimes find himself sounding a lot like Weiland.

http://www.myspace.com/keithcaputo

Check out the song “Troubles Down” from his newest solo album. That’s actually a heavy song—relatively speaking—for his solo stuff, but that could be a Velvet Revolver song. He’d be a good fit for the band, but I don’t know if he’d go for something like that.

That songs does sound a lot like Weiland/Velvet Revolver. Thinking about it, I guess Caputo is a fan. At least he covered “Vaseline” on some of his solo gigs.

I rate Ginger’s guitar playing higher than his singing. The harmonies on Wildhearts records often sound a bit off. The guitar playing is ace, though, especially on his solo stuff.

Jesus, their cover of “Carmelita” is worse than I expected…

Did anyone read the article that scrolls by in that window, which features Andy of Therapy? I’d love to know what he wrote or said about The Wildhearts.

butters wrote:

im not a quality whore

don’t be so hard on yourself ;-)

Probably an old one, but still:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hqq3bIJEhA

That’s just a rephrased version of the “giant douche vs. turd sandwich”-question.

deadsetgav wrote:

Sounds like it might make up for the pile of dogshit that was ‘market harbour’

Out of all his solo albums, this one seems to be the best so far. I think it’s admireable how prolific this guy is still.

Thinking about it, I’d say Ginger’s solo albums are pushing the borders more than anything The Wildhearts have done since “Endless, Nameless”. Unfortunately, neither the solo nor the band records are very consistent anymore. And on top of that the solo albums are flawed by really bad production.

Dennis wrote:

10/ 15 years ago you could go to any gig anywhere in the world by any band and be guaranteed that the Wildhearts would be somewhere on the bill.

Sorry, but that’s not true. I know because I kept crossing my fingers for them to play Austria one day and they never did… except for this one time when they opened for The Darkness, a show which I attended, skipping the opening act BECAUSE I HAD NO CLUE IT WAS THEM. FUUUUUUUUUUUUCK!

Movies:
Reality Bites
Less Than Zero
Weekend At Bernie’s

Songs:
Status Quo - Rock ‘Til You Drop, Warning Shot, Fakin’ The Blues, Nothing At All

Artist:
Mr. Big

Hm, it’s really hard to think of something that I like, but don’t think it’s okay to like it.

I would answer that if I knew what you’re talking about.

and that should be: “they sound good enough”.

OK, but I don’t get the purpose. They didn’t change a thing and Helmet sound well enough themselves on their recording.

or let me rephrase that:

Gruff Rhys or James Dean Bradfield?

Ridley (although I’m not a huge fan of either)

Super Furry Animals or Manic Street Preachers?

Tom & Jerry or Bugs Bunny?

you can base your decision on this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nagpV0dKRM&feature=related

vs.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljaopwpc6hs

I like Weezer and I’m looking forward to their new album, but this song doesn’t really excite me. It seems as if they were concentrating on all the wrong things again (sounding as modern as possible as opposed to just rocking early 90’s style).

Singles

The Wes Anderson soundtracks are all very good (The Royal Tennenbaums, Darjeeling Limited, The Life Acquatic, Rushmore)

Judgement Night is a nice idea, but hasn’t aged well. Spawn was a bad idea in the first place.

Demon Knight has its moments, as does the Velvet Goldmine soundtrack.

I’m Not There. is much better than that pretentious movie of the same title.

deadsetgav wrote:

oh - its all songs off the first record.

They also recorded a cover of David Bowie’s “Andy Warhol” that night, I believe. It’s the b-side of the “Vaseline” single.

kossu wrote:

Uri Geller the “spoon man” and afterwards this guy used to be Michael Jackson´s personal manger.
I remember from my childhood seeing this guy on finnish TV with his spoons and doing “spaghetti” out of them. Anyone else remember this fellow:)?

The same guy has a popular TV show on German television right now, which is called: “Looking for the next Uri Gellar”. These are bullshit times.

A friend of mine and me we have this little regional radio show. We always make Top 10 lists for our show and next week, we’d like to present some of the biggest fakes in history ever (and by that I don’t mean bands who have sold out or something like that, but cases of people making the world believe in lies).

Unfortunately, I cannot think of 10, so I came here to see if you people had some incredible stories to tell. Here’s what I’ve got so far:

Clifford Irving: the guy supposedly wrote the authorized biography of Howard Hughes in the early 70’s, but it was all just made up (as shown in the movie “The Hoax).

Stephen Glass: fabricated stories and interviews for “The New Republic” (as depicted in the movie “Shattered Glass”)

Tom Kummer did much the same with celebrity interviews in Germany (as he tells himself in his book “Blow Up”).

The case of Erika Schinegger: an Austrian female skier who easily won the worldcup and other ski races and was later found out to be a man. (not so much a case of “fake”, though. More of a revelation to himself)

Milli Vanilli: well, everybody knows the story.