Synthesizer Patel

Your Sharona by Me Knackers

i'd say the ryan adams/conor oberst/'someone's allowed their music to be used for a commercial' threads are the interesting debates on this board. who wants to read a bunch of "i like such and such", "yeah i like such and such too!", "have you got such and such?", "yes, actually i have got such and such", "and do you like such and such?", "guess what? i do!" about people we either universally like or don't give a rat's minge about? i'd say i don't like conor oberst, but that's a bit of a lie - i've just never given him a try.

Bigfoot & The Bendy Sons

"An elephant could no more stick its trunk up its arse than we could lick our balls" - Nicholas Parsons

i think baby knut should have been forced to fight a baby grizzly bear, and then if he won that i'd have spared him his life. i think that's a reasonable compromise. How are you pronouncing that? (sorry)

"a wonderful christmas time." i am pretty sure the video for that is . . . oh, no it's not actually - forget i said that. (i just remembered what that is like) well, they both have a christmasy feel! actually, "the pipes of peace"! i knew there was a paul mccartney soung with a trenches video!

look it up on youtube or somewhere. you'd like it - it's a little bit like that paul mccartney song when the video is him in the trenches of world war 1 - forgotten the damn name of it now!

i know for a fact that nobody has said Jona Lewie's - Stop The Cavalry. now that's a proper one hit wonder - it's a christmas one too - which makes it top trumps, and now this thread is over. unless someone genuinely thinks they have something that can top it.

anyone said my sharona yet? ba boom boom bip bip!

You should also add that he was the drummer in Patto, and the song The Man used to be the coming on stage song for Wilco for a while a few years back. And I think that "Admiral Halsey" in Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey by Paul McCartney is in reference to him, also . . . . Kevin Bacon also likes them (that bit I made up). And, obviously, Ricky Fataar was in The Beach Boys, but that's got nothing to do with Wilco.

they are 'girls aloud' - this is their best song: biology i think the uk definately beats the us for hot girl band types in the charts, don't know why. and they are not as good as the sugababes: who make better music & videos, too: red dress push the button

keeley hawes as d.i. alex drake in ashes to ashes is rock n' roll.

oh, ok. but, surely a true 1 hit wonder needs to have 1 big hit around the world and then drop off the radar everywhere.

dexy's midnight runners had loads of hits

gary glitter had loads of hits

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pGht71KFkY http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rQmB7SCrzc obviously, all of those have got other great music, but those songs were all hits without them replicating that success again.

paris 1919 - it's pretty much perfect. i'd also suggest getting fear, slow dazzle and helen of troy - which you can pick up on a double cd called 'john cale the island years' which also has some non-album tracks too. that is a great package, but get paris 1919 first. there are some other albums of his that i like, but those ones are on a different plain to the rest.

aren't the words 'melody' and 'pleasure' both subjective under your terms, anyway? so it doesn't mean anything to say that. i would also say that music doesn't have to be melodic or pleasurable for it to be concidered good - subjectively, or otherwise.

you don't get it! the owl left a perfect mark on the window. you could see all it's feathers perfectly and also you could see it's face and beak etc... it was totally upright on the window (like i said, cartoon like). it's only recently gone after a good couple of months.

ok. although that doesn't account for how a monkey or an elephant can make a painting, or how a child that draws lines on a page is making art - if you give a child a spoon they will draw patterns on the floor without actually leaving marks, but in the same manner as they would if they were given a brush and paint, therefore their actions are the same whether they are apparently making art or not. does that make sense? therefore i think it is fair to say that a painting by van gogh which has been painted with all the experience and talent he had is better than something by a child who is worki

talent and artistic ability is only one part of making art. obviously if you have none then you can't make good art - then if you have a small amount but a lot of imagination (another factor) then this will balance it out and you can make good art. equally, if you're very talented and have no imagination then you will be unable to make good art. someone somewhere is bound to be coming up with a formula for all this.

so you're of the opinion that when a tree falls in the woods it makes no sound, cos there is nobody there to hear it. if there is no viewer or listener then it doesn't exist as a "thing." is that what you are saying?

if something can't be concidered factually as better than something else, and something can't be concidered factually as worse than something else - cos they are both, apparently, subjective terms. how can something be concidered THE SAME as something else? as that fits into the same framework, and therefore involves subjectivity. all that is left, therefore, is to say that everything is nothing. isn't it? and i like this thread too. what's not to like about it.

the real tragedy here is that van gogh's mum and dad hated his paintings

maybe this will lighten the mood in here: fleetwood mac are bullshit munchers!