Urban's Journal Of Half Assed Ideas

starrynight · 06-05-2011, 05:32 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Goblin Tears

Wombles and Blondie in the same post?

Why not?

I agree that the video to Union City Blue is excellent. For The Wombles though I think I would pick The Wombling Song as better. For Dr Hook probably More Like the Movies, and for Neil Diamond I think I prefer a song like Forever in Blue Jeans.

Hello I think sounded and looked too over the top for many at the time. However it is still quite a well crafted song, and the album it was from was a classic with underrated songs like The Only One. The fact that critics ignore it on album lists makes me like it even more.

"URBAN'S REVIEWS FOR PEOPLE WITH A.D.H.D."

Good. I don't think hundreds of words are needed for someone to explain why they like or dislike something. Music can largely speak for itself.

FETCHER. · 06-13-2011, 11:30 AM

I loved the review about music that shaped you, so much so I'm probably going to be a copying bastard and do one for me. Cheers

. I really enjoyed it though, it was funny and personal which is the kind of review I like best.

Urban Hat€monger ? · 07-15-2011, 10:48 AM

Ridiculous Moments In Music History

No 2 - The Judas Priest 'Hot Rockin' Video

1. The boys are in a gym that appears to be in some kind of white void working on those guns so that they're ready to rock hard like the bunch of metal maniacs they are.

2. Form an orderly queue ladies

3. Glenn Tipton wins a game of spot the hidden spycam while in the shower. Thank God it wasn't any lower.

4. I really don't have anything to say here.
And to think this video was supposed to help break them in the U.S.
No wonder they had to wait another year until Screaming For Vengeance came out.

5. Halford is rockin in his car now, so hard in fact he's forgotten to bother using the steering wheel.

6. He's rocking so hard he's started to hallucinate ghostly air guitarists.
And why's he wearing an Iron Maiden shirt?
Doesn't the budget stretch to giving him a Judas Priest shirt?
You think they'd have their name of their own band on his chest given that this is supposed to be a promotional video FOR Judas Priest.

Urban Hat€monger ? · 07-15-2011, 10:50 AM

7. The band take to the stage on what appears to be a giant chocolate cake inside an enormous bin liner.

8. Air guitar ghost guy turns up in zombie form with 6 of his zombie mates

9. I guess it wasn't a chocolate cake after all it must be a giant nylon sheet as the static seems to have caused Rob Halford's boots to combust he's rocking that damn hard.

10. Because the rest of the band are laughing at his misfortune Rob decides to start setting fire to all their stuff to see how they like it.

11. Meanwhile the zombies bow down to the Fire-God and his magical sceptre of fire.

12. But as soon as they realise it's just a bunch of cheap special effects they just sort of talk amongst themselves whilst trying to look interested

13. The band go for that epic climactic ending by having drummer Dave Holland spontaneously combust a full two years before Spinal Tap tried the same stunt. And with him being a registered sex offender nobody seems to mind too much anyway & everybody goes home happy.

Urban Hat€monger ? · 07-27-2011, 11:13 AM

An Apology

I wish to extend a unequivocal unreserved and heartfelt apology to a Mr G Lee, Mr N Peart and Mr A Lifeson better known as the popular beat combo known as Rush.

Over the past 6 years as a member of this forum I have shamefully berated this band far more than they deserve to be berated.
It was a combination of many factors of which I shall explain the reasons for my actions in detail in a moment.
What I will say that lead to this change of heart was practically being forced at gunpoint to listen to the Moving Pictures album by someone of whom I respect a great deal and discovering that it is indeed a great album just as he had been trying to drill into my head for God knows how long.

The reason for my dislike of Rush goes back many years, I distinctly remember buying All The World's A Stage & Hemispheres when I was 14 or 15 years old. I tried to like them. I really did, I even sort of liked a few songs but on the whole I found most of the stuff to be rather boring. I was 15 years old, I was a raging inferno of attitude & hormones. I didn't want to listen to songs about Snow Dogs or Trees. I was more interested in the passage between a girls legs than one to Bangkok, so this Rush thing was never going to happen for me. Nobody ever got laid listening to Caress of Steel... trust me.

So even though a couple of songs interested me they soon faded when more glamorous & edgy bands came around to my attention a couple of years later. Iggy, NY Dolls, Black Flag, Primal Scream, Sonic Youth, Husker Du, Bowie. Stuff that was actually cool to listen to. I began to resent even considering buying anything as geeky as a Rush album but the resentment eventually died to total disinterest and they became long since forgotten in my mind as I spent the whole of the 90s in some drunken stupor trying to dance to bad electronic desperate for a shag.

Come 22nd December 1999 and I find myself online for the first time ever. Naturally I search out music sites and after browsing these for a while and meeting all sorts of people I come to the following conclusion.
People who listen to prog rock are really fucking annoying,
So what mild disinterest I had in Rush soon turned into hatred as the thought of listening to anything the same as these people filled me with horror. Annoying Rush fans became a sport and one which I had a lot of fun with.

But then I realised that even bands that I do like have arsehole fans. How could I hate Rush because of their fans when I listened to Radiohead. I thought about giving them another chance now that I was older & wiser but I chickened out, I just couldn't bring myself to listen to a band I had been so vocal in my distaste for, even though it's about 15 years since I actually listened to them and my decision to dislike them was made when the whole of my taste in music could be summed up as loud metal & loud punk.

As I've gotten older I've come to realise that there's room for all bands on the geek spectrum in my record collection I don't have to JUST listen to cool music, I can throw in the odd nerdy unfashionable band in once in a while & nobody will notice. Besides, I've come to realise that being cool & hip isn't all it's cracked up to be, besides with my good looks, wit, charm, intelligence & humbleness i'm pretty damn cool anyway so listening to one geeky prog rock band isn't going to make that much of a dent into my attributes. And who knows, maybe I'll enjoy Permanent Waves just as much.

And I bet I could get laid playing Caress Of Steel.

Here's hoping you accept my humble apology

Urbz xxx

P.S. I stand by my vote for Keith Moon in that thread.

P.P.S. Any members of Genesis reading this ... don't get any fucking ideas.

Dr_Rez · 08-27-2011, 02:14 AM

Grade A Hot Rockin Review

Urban Hat€monger ? · 08-27-2011, 04:07 PM

Musical Diary
Saturday 27th August 2011

I have just discovered that if you put 'Blam!!!' by Swell Maps on repeated play the ending of the song is a perfect introduction to itself and it ends up sounding like an extended punky krautrock jam session.

I realise nobody gives a flying fuck about this but I feel my discovery was worthy of noting somewhere, and this is my journal after all.

Urban Hat€monger ? · 02-02-2012, 10:42 AM

Some Albums I Only Checked Out Because The Cover Art Intrigued Me

1. Lustige Mutanten - Unpop (1981)
If memory serves me correctly this is a German synthpop album that sounds nothing resembling a pornographic German oompah band ... sadly.

2. Sexus - The Official End of It All (1996)
FACEPALM!!!!!!!!!!
Actually this cover pretty much sums up the bands whole career. Sexus were given acres and acres of press in the Melody Maker & NME as a part of the whole failed Romo movement (Basically an excuse to revive the New Romantics of the early 80s) back in the mid 90s when they were looking for the next big thing after they'd got bored of Britpop.
However nobody cared, Romo & Sexus died on their arses in a matter of weeks and this single became the only thing they ever released.
Shame really because it's quite good.

3. Various Artists - New Electric Warriors (1980)
Ever since I saw this album in Kerrang article on really bad album covers sometime in the early 90s I've wanted this album so so much.
I don't know why I would want an album full of third rate NWOBHM bands with a cover featuring a bunch of guys wearing pudding basins on their heads standing in a field playing air guitars or why would raise my interest so much after all these years, but there you go.

Moderator cut: image removed
4. Treepeople - Something Vicious for Tomorrow / Time Whore (1992)
And you thought the internet invented goatse.

5. Briard - **** the Army / Product of TV–Generation (1978)
And also the human centipede was actually invented in Finland in 1978

6. The Dils - Class War (1990)
The anger, The aggression, The nihilism, The perms.
It's almost like I can feel it through the screen....
"Grrrrrrr"

Dr_Rez · 02-02-2012, 09:49 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Urban Hatemonger

3. Various Artists - New Electric Warriors (1980)
Ever since I saw this album in Kerrang article on really bad album covers sometime in the early 90s I've wanted this album so so much.
I don't know why I would want an album full of third rate NWOBHM bands with a cover featuring a bunch of guys wearing pudding basins on their heads standing in a field playing air guitars or why would raise my interest so much after all these years, but there you go.

Its like a half album cover half a Kawasaki ad. It is strange how they seem to want you to look at the bike more than anything else.

Urban Hat€monger ? · 02-03-2012, 08:28 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by RezZ

Its like a half album cover half a Kawasaki ad. It is strange how they seem to want you to look at the bike more than anything else.

Because I like you Rezz I created this alternate cover just for you...

07-15-2011, 10:48 AM	#123 (permalink)
Urban Hat€monger ? The Sexual Intellectual Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Somewhere cooler than you Posts: 18,605	Ridiculous Moments In Music History No 2 - The Judas Priest 'Hot Rockin' Video 1. The boys are in a gym that appears to be in some kind of white void working on those guns so that they're ready to rock hard like the bunch of metal maniacs they are. 2. Form an orderly queue ladies 3. Glenn Tipton wins a game of spot the hidden spycam while in the shower. Thank God it wasn't any lower. 4. I really don't have anything to say here. And to think this video was supposed to help break them in the U.S. No wonder they had to wait another year until Screaming For Vengeance came out. 5. Halford is rockin in his car now, so hard in fact he's forgotten to bother using the steering wheel. 6. He's rocking so hard he's started to hallucinate ghostly air guitarists. And why's he wearing an Iron Maiden shirt? Doesn't the budget stretch to giving him a Judas Priest shirt? You think they'd have their name of their own band on his chest given that this is supposed to be a promotional video FOR Judas Priest. __________________ Urb's RYM Stuff Most people sell their soul to the devil, but the devil sells his soul to Nick Cave.

07-15-2011, 10:50 AM	#124 (permalink)
Urban Hat€monger ? The Sexual Intellectual Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Somewhere cooler than you Posts: 18,605	7. The band take to the stage on what appears to be a giant chocolate cake inside an enormous bin liner. 8. Air guitar ghost guy turns up in zombie form with 6 of his zombie mates 9. I guess it wasn't a chocolate cake after all it must be a giant nylon sheet as the static seems to have caused Rob Halford's boots to combust he's rocking that damn hard. 10. Because the rest of the band are laughing at his misfortune Rob decides to start setting fire to all their stuff to see how they like it. 11. Meanwhile the zombies bow down to the Fire-God and his magical sceptre of fire. 12. But as soon as they realise it's just a bunch of cheap special effects they just sort of talk amongst themselves whilst trying to look interested 13. The band go for that epic climactic ending by having drummer Dave Holland spontaneously combust a full two years before Spinal Tap tried the same stunt. And with him being a registered sex offender nobody seems to mind too much anyway & everybody goes home happy. __________________ Urb's RYM Stuff Most people sell their soul to the devil, but the devil sells his soul to Nick Cave.

07-27-2011, 11:13 AM	#125 (permalink)
Urban Hat€monger ? The Sexual Intellectual Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Somewhere cooler than you Posts: 18,605	An Apology I wish to extend a unequivocal unreserved and heartfelt apology to a Mr G Lee, Mr N Peart and Mr A Lifeson better known as the popular beat combo known as Rush. Over the past 6 years as a member of this forum I have shamefully berated this band far more than they deserve to be berated. It was a combination of many factors of which I shall explain the reasons for my actions in detail in a moment. What I will say that lead to this change of heart was practically being forced at gunpoint to listen to the Moving Pictures album by someone of whom I respect a great deal and discovering that it is indeed a great album just as he had been trying to drill into my head for God knows how long. The reason for my dislike of Rush goes back many years, I distinctly remember buying All The World's A Stage & Hemispheres when I was 14 or 15 years old. I tried to like them. I really did, I even sort of liked a few songs but on the whole I found most of the stuff to be rather boring. I was 15 years old, I was a raging inferno of attitude & hormones. I didn't want to listen to songs about Snow Dogs or Trees. I was more interested in the passage between a girls legs than one to Bangkok, so this Rush thing was never going to happen for me. Nobody ever got laid listening to Caress of Steel... trust me. So even though a couple of songs interested me they soon faded when more glamorous & edgy bands came around to my attention a couple of years later. Iggy, NY Dolls, Black Flag, Primal Scream, Sonic Youth, Husker Du, Bowie. Stuff that was actually cool to listen to. I began to resent even considering buying anything as geeky as a Rush album but the resentment eventually died to total disinterest and they became long since forgotten in my mind as I spent the whole of the 90s in some drunken stupor trying to dance to bad electronic desperate for a shag. Come 22nd December 1999 and I find myself online for the first time ever. Naturally I search out music sites and after browsing these for a while and meeting all sorts of people I come to the following conclusion. People who listen to prog rock are really fucking annoying, So what mild disinterest I had in Rush soon turned into hatred as the thought of listening to anything the same as these people filled me with horror. Annoying Rush fans became a sport and one which I had a lot of fun with. But then I realised that even bands that I do like have arsehole fans. How could I hate Rush because of their fans when I listened to Radiohead. I thought about giving them another chance now that I was older & wiser but I chickened out, I just couldn't bring myself to listen to a band I had been so vocal in my distaste for, even though it's about 15 years since I actually listened to them and my decision to dislike them was made when the whole of my taste in music could be summed up as loud metal & loud punk. As I've gotten older I've come to realise that there's room for all bands on the geek spectrum in my record collection I don't have to JUST listen to cool music, I can throw in the odd nerdy unfashionable band in once in a while & nobody will notice. Besides, I've come to realise that being cool & hip isn't all it's cracked up to be, besides with my good looks, wit, charm, intelligence & humbleness i'm pretty damn cool anyway so listening to one geeky prog rock band isn't going to make that much of a dent into my attributes. And who knows, maybe I'll enjoy Permanent Waves just as much. And I bet I could get laid playing Caress Of Steel. Here's hoping you accept my humble apology Urbz xxx P.S. I stand by my vote for Keith Moon in that thread. P.P.S. Any members of Genesis reading this ... don't get any fucking ideas. __________________ Urb's RYM Stuff Most people sell their soul to the devil, but the devil sells his soul to Nick Cave.

08-27-2011, 02:14 AM	#126 (permalink)
Dr_Rez Registered Jimmy Rustler Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: USA Posts: 5,361	Grade A Hot Rockin Review __________________ Best chance of losing virginity is in prison crew Always Checks Credentials Crew nba > nfl crew Shave one of my legs to pretend its a girl in my bed crew

08-27-2011, 04:07 PM	#127 (permalink)
Urban Hat€monger ? The Sexual Intellectual Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Somewhere cooler than you Posts: 18,605	Musical Diary Saturday 27th August 2011 I have just discovered that if you put 'Blam!!!' by Swell Maps on repeated play the ending of the song is a perfect introduction to itself and it ends up sounding like an extended punky krautrock jam session. I realise nobody gives a flying fuck about this but I feel my discovery was worthy of noting somewhere, and this is my journal after all. __________________ Urb's RYM Stuff Most people sell their soul to the devil, but the devil sells his soul to Nick Cave.

02-02-2012, 10:42 AM	#128 (permalink)
Urban Hat€monger ? The Sexual Intellectual Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Somewhere cooler than you Posts: 18,605	Some Albums I Only Checked Out Because The Cover Art Intrigued Me 1. Lustige Mutanten - Unpop (1981) If memory serves me correctly this is a German synthpop album that sounds nothing resembling a pornographic German oompah band ... sadly. 2. Sexus - The Official End of It All (1996) FACEPALM!!!!!!!!!! Actually this cover pretty much sums up the bands whole career. Sexus were given acres and acres of press in the Melody Maker & NME as a part of the whole failed Romo movement (Basically an excuse to revive the New Romantics of the early 80s) back in the mid 90s when they were looking for the next big thing after they'd got bored of Britpop. However nobody cared, Romo & Sexus died on their arses in a matter of weeks and this single became the only thing they ever released. Shame really because it's quite good. 3. Various Artists - New Electric Warriors (1980) Ever since I saw this album in Kerrang article on really bad album covers sometime in the early 90s I've wanted this album so so much. I don't know why I would want an album full of third rate NWOBHM bands with a cover featuring a bunch of guys wearing pudding basins on their heads standing in a field playing air guitars or why would raise my interest so much after all these years, but there you go. Moderator cut: image removed 4. Treepeople - Something Vicious for Tomorrow / Time Whore (1992) And you thought the internet invented goatse. 5. Briard - the Army / Product of TV–Generation (1978) And also the human centipede was actually invented in Finland in 1978 6. The Dils - Class War (1990) The anger, The aggression, The nihilism, The perms. It's almost like I can feel it through the screen.... "Grrrrrrr" __________________ Urb's RYM Stuff Most people sell their soul to the devil, but the devil sells his soul to Nick Cave. Last edited by Urban Hat€monger ?; 10-30-2014 at 10:33 AM.