the last 'band' you were 'into' before you renounced indie

[version]

everyone envies America now, and they don't even have a bbc equivalent.

PBS?

 

[boxedjoy]

Fox News vs BBC News, really the same function with reference to their respective Governments

 

[WashYourHands]

PBS?

PBR

 

[thirdform]

PBS?

Doesn't have the same kind of high cultural cachet. I actually find bbc's news coverage the least offensive part of it. It's just standard right wing shit. The worst part is how it kills any working class hatred towards the entertainment industry in this country stone dead by generating feelings of national nostalgia in people. There's no reason to revolt when you have some consolation in iPlayer at the end of a day trying to negotiate with DWP bureaucracy.

 

[Leo]

everyone envies America now, and they don't even have a bbc equivalent.

a certain demographic here has always been highly envious of the BBC, or at least the BBC in their mind.

 

[Benny Bunter]

Sad news about Mimi Parker from Low. Not listened to them or any 'indie' (if that's what they were) for years, but I saw them live a few times in late nineties/early 2000s and they were a very special band, especially live.

 

[Benny Bunter]

 

[version]

'indie' (if that's what they were)

Shaka made a 'slowcore' thread where they came up.

 

[shakahislop]

Sad news about Mimi Parker from Low. Not listened to them or any 'indie' (if that's what they were) for years, but I saw them live a few times in late nineties/early 2000s and they were a very special band, especially live.

the first time someone famous died and i actually cried, i was having a particularly shit day anyway but it's not totally unconnected to the fact that she's been a presence for so long, it was unexpected, they were still very much active and doing their best stuff, and that she seemed like a normal person with normal hair and clothes dealing with a load of struggles like the rest of us

 

[shakahislop]

a certain demographic here has always been highly envious of the BBC, or at least the BBC in their mind.

i end up regularly having to deal with european's perspective of americans and americans perspectives of europe. one thing all of that has in common is this unexamined cultural thread whereby people think europe is superior or at least more sophisticated (the europeans think it for sure and a certain group of americans do).

 

[version]

i end up regularly having to deal with european's perspective of americans and americans perspectives of europe. one thing all of that has in common is this unexamined cultural thread whereby people think europe is superior or at least more sophisticated (the europeans think it for sure and a certain group of americans do).

You could do a thread on this.

 

[shakahislop]

You could do a thread on this.

yes but sufi makes me pay him £40 every time i start one, he calls it 'priv money'

 

[Leo]

£40? he changes me 50!

 

[Leo]

Love how one of the poll choices is Glasvegas.

 

[Leo]

Also, how are Bad Brains and Fishbone grouped together?

 

[IdleRich]

i end up regularly having to deal with european's perspective of americans and americans perspectives of europe. one thing all of that has in common is this unexamined cultural thread whereby people think europe is superior or at least more sophisticated (the europeans think it for sure and a certain group of americans do).

I remember one of my friends shaking his head laughing as he compared Stone Henge and Car Henge....



He did admit that Europe was better on some things though.

 

[woops]

this is the thread i should have used for my pavement review

 

[sufi]

the first time someone famous died and i actually cried, i was having a particularly shit day anyway but it's not totally unconnected to the fact that she's been a presence for so long, it was unexpected, they were still very much active and doing their best stuff, and that she seemed like a normal person with normal hair and clothes dealing with a load of struggles like the rest of us

Woebot took me @luka and Jim to see Low at the Barbican
Luke may claim this never happened

 

[shakahislop]

last time i was in london @luka took me to see lana del rey and then afterwards he wanted to go to spearmint rhino, i kept saying no but he was insistent really manipulative, and then he claimed to not have his wallet despite the fact i could see it bulging out his pocket and he made me give him a load of tenners to stuff in the thongs of the dancers. kept claiming it was all coz he needed 'poetic inspiration', inspiration my arse

 

[woops]

last time i was in london @luka took me to see lana del rey and then afterwards he wanted to go to spearmint rhino, i kept saying no but he was insistent really manipulative, and then he claimed to not have his wallet despite the fact i could see it bulging out his pocket and he made me give him a load of tenners to stuff in the thongs of the dancers. kept claiming it was all coz he needed 'poetic inspiration', inspiration my arse

he's notorious for this kind of conduct