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MEERCATBRONZE Member
A Meerkat that eats chicken
194 posts
Location: Cambridge UK


Posted:

Ok i was just listening to jefferson airplane and thought who the hell else listens to this sort of stuff ......................SO who else does ??????

AND if so anyone know of anymore music like this wonderful journey of insanity ???? ubbrollsmile ubbrollsmile ubbrollsmile cool

AdeSILVER Member
Are we there yet?
1,897 posts
Location: australia


Posted:
you could try russel morris - similar styles

I'm actually listening to Donovan playing early woody guthrie songs that he used to busk with smile

Rouge DragonBRONZE Member
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13,215 posts
Location: without class distinction, Australia


Posted:
oooh ME! ME! ME!

i would have changed ***** to phallus, and claire to petey Petey

Rougie: but that's what I'm doing here
Arnwyn: what letting me adjust myself in your room?..don't you dare quote that on HoP...


ZimBRONZE Member
Former Raver Invader... Not sure what i am now...
284 posts
Location: Southern California, USA


Posted:
not i...
but i do listen to Mindless Self Indulgence, and noone i've ever met has ever heard of them(outside of the people who i've gotten into MSI)

Clean for 6 months and counting... ah yeah, that's nice.


Hanzveteran
1,328 posts
Location: Bendigo, Vic, Australia


Posted:
Who's the band MEERCAT?

Coz I listen to a song occasionly by a band called Relient K, but it wont be the same people.
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Captain HazzardBRONZE Member
Ninja (shhhh, don't tell)
420 posts
Location: Truro, UK


Posted:
I love Jefferson Airplane! Somebody To Love is one of the best songs ever. Fact!

I only wanted to be 16... and free


FabergéGOLD Member
veteran
1,459 posts
Location: Dublin, Ireland


Posted:
i doubt it Hanz



Jefferson Airplane were a 60's band. one of their greatest hits, and one of my favourite songs, "White Rabbit" more or less personified the Summer of Love, the 60's counterculture and pychedelic rock.



they toured with other such 60's legends as Hendrix, the Doors, Janis Joplin, the Who etc.



singer Grace Slick (and perhaps some other members - not too sure) went on to form Jefferson Starship, who eventually became quite successful 80's band - Starship



neither Jefferson Starship or Starship were ever as good as Jefferson Airplane though, in my opinion....



lyrics to White Rabbit:



one pill makes you larger

and one pill makes you small

and the ones that mother gives you

don't do anything at all

go ask Alice....

when she's ten feet tall



and if you go chasing rabbits

and you know you're going to falla

tell 'em a hookah smoking caterpillar

has given you the call

call Alice....

when she was just small



when the men on the chessboard

get up and tell you where to go

and you've just had some kind of mushroom

and your mind is moving low

go ask Alice....

i think she'll know



when logic and proportion

have fallen sloppy dead,

and the white knight is talking backwards

and the red queen's "off with her head"

remember what the doormouse said:

"feed your head,

feed your head"



smile

My mind not only wanders, it sometimes leaves completely smile


FabergéGOLD Member
veteran
1,459 posts
Location: Dublin, Ireland


Posted:
i could never understand how this song got past the censors.... ubbloco biggrin

My mind not only wanders, it sometimes leaves completely smile


nearly_all_goneSILVER Member
Pooh-Bah
1,626 posts
Location: Southampton, United Kingdom


Posted:
Too true Fab - Jefferson/Starship were neither as good as the original lineup. They never had the songs after they changed.



J Airplane, however, were a great band! biggrin



Edit - you should check out Kula Shaker, my all-time favourite band (well, for a few years back there anyway). They're wicked and pretty psychedelic and chilled too. smile
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What a wonderful miracle if only we could look through each other's eyes for an instant.
Thoreau


Konstilovable smart-ass
785 posts
Location: vineyards, Vienna, Austria


Posted:
*stands up*
hello my name is konsti and i listen to jefferson airplane
*sits down again*

"is optimism in austria just a lack of information?"
-Alfred Dorfer


vanizeSILVER Member
Carpal \'Tunnel
3,899 posts
Location: Austin, Texas, USA


Posted:
Written by: Fabergé



i could never understand how this song got past the censors.... ubbloco biggrin






maybe the censors liked it too much and couldn't bring themselves to sully such a fine song with political duress?

ubbloco



And: My name is Vanize, and I listen to Jefferson airplane too (and totally agree that none of the later variations were nearly as good as the original band, but disagree about starship being a "succesful" eighties band, and will only conceed that they were, in fact, an eighties band that managed to make some money - success in some respect I suppose, but not artistically)

-v-

Wiederstand ist Zwecklos!


OrangeBoboSILVER Member
veteran
1,389 posts
Location: Guelph, ON, Canada


Posted:
Hehehe! I was listening to White Rabbit today on the train to Uni biggrin Melikes!!! Ohh, and last month, when I was in school, in music class, we were watching a video on 'pop musik' and they brought up the 70s hippie/drug bit in New Orleans... Leaned over to a friend, and said they COULD NOT do that without mentioning Jefferson Airplane. Then two seconds later, it came up, and I was happy.

I am Bobo, and I listen to Jefferson Airplane.

As for Jefferson Starship... We Buit this City on Rock and Roll rocks my socks, but a magizine in Halifax named it the worst song ever! confused What's wrong with people!!! ubbloco

~ Bobo

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fragst mich, wo wir gewesen sind...
du fehlst hier


Tao StarPooh-Bah
1,662 posts
Location: Bristol


Posted:
i'd challenege anyone to come up with a popular musician in the eighties who was, as you say 'artistically sucessful'. the very nature of the eighties meanth that everyone turned in to a moron for a decade.

I had a dream that my friend had a
strong-bad pop up book,
it was the book of my dreams.


vanizeSILVER Member
Carpal \'Tunnel
3,899 posts
Location: Austin, Texas, USA


Posted:
well, granted there are lots of worse songs out there, but...

-v-

Wiederstand ist Zwecklos!


nearly_all_goneSILVER Member
Pooh-Bah
1,626 posts
Location: Southampton, United Kingdom


Posted:
New Order tongue

What a wonderful miracle if only we could look through each other's eyes for an instant.
Thoreau


vanizeSILVER Member
Carpal \'Tunnel
3,899 posts
Location: Austin, Texas, USA


Posted:
er, not quite the same, but I like them too! even saw them in concert once back in '88. never saw jefferson airplane though (would have been very hard to beleive if I said I did anyway, despite my HoP senior citizen status)

-v-

Wiederstand ist Zwecklos!


Tao StarPooh-Bah
1,662 posts
Location: Bristol


Posted:
actually i have no idea, because i never listen to 80's music anyway.


for all i know you COULD actually be right!!! (ha ha ha) tongue

I had a dream that my friend had a
strong-bad pop up book,
it was the book of my dreams.


nearly_all_goneSILVER Member
Pooh-Bah
1,626 posts
Location: Southampton, United Kingdom


Posted:
Well, I am. So tongue

But no, not quite the same to say the least, ha ha!

I agree, the 80s was mostly dire. But there was Adam and the Ants, with Stand and Deliver!!

"Stand, and deliver (ooh-woh-ee-woh-ee-woh)
Your money or your life (d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-huh!)"

Best backgroundy bits in a song ever biggrin

What a wonderful miracle if only we could look through each other's eyes for an instant.
Thoreau


vanizeSILVER Member
Carpal \'Tunnel
3,899 posts
Location: Austin, Texas, USA


Posted:
artisticly succesful 80's musicians are numbering probably in the hundreds, if not thousands! Not a lot were on the radio in the states though... Loads of great music came out in the '80s!



case in point: the Pixies!!!

-v-

Wiederstand ist Zwecklos!


nearly_all_goneSILVER Member
Pooh-Bah
1,626 posts
Location: Southampton, United Kingdom


Posted:
Were Dinosaur Jr around in the 80s? I think they maybe were..

And the Manics recorded their first single, Suicide Alley, in 88. Total classic.

What a wonderful miracle if only we could look through each other's eyes for an instant.
Thoreau


FabergéGOLD Member
veteran
1,459 posts
Location: Dublin, Ireland


Posted:
Written by: vanize


And: My name is Vanize, and I listen to Jefferson airplane too (and totally agree that none of the later variations were nearly as good as the original band, but disagree about starship being a "succesful" eighties band, and will only conceed that they were, in fact, an eighties band that managed to make some money - success in some respect I suppose, but not artistically)




ubblol

Written by: Fabergé


singer Grace Slick (and perhaps some other members - not too sure) went on to form Jefferson Starship, who eventually became quite successful 80's band - Starship




quite successful meaning of course chart success. they did have #1 hits with "you built this city on rock & roll" and that other awful lament "sarah"..... i won't have you thinking i'm a closet starship fan smile

80's music, hmmm...... not really my forté. aside from hardcore & indie stuff most of it was indeed shite. i spent the whole decade listening to hardcore punk & heavy metal. there was nothing else decent to listen to

though in hindsight, and although i didn't appreciate some of them at the time, there were quite a few good 80's acts:

the smiths
the cure (though they may been around late 70's, not too sure)
joy division
the pixies
sonic youth

u2 (not particularly my cup of tea but they did reign for more than a decade (if not longer) as most successful rock band in the world)

ok... i give up now....

My mind not only wanders, it sometimes leaves completely smile


vanizeSILVER Member
Carpal \'Tunnel
3,899 posts
Location: Austin, Texas, USA


Posted:
faberge - methinks you and I are musical soul twins or something...

-v-

Wiederstand ist Zwecklos!


nearly_all_goneSILVER Member
Pooh-Bah
1,626 posts
Location: Southampton, United Kingdom


Posted:
I was going to say Joy Division, but I wasn't sure they counted as the band no longer existed when their only release on the 1980s came out..

The Cure are definitely an 80s band, nice one

Can't believe I didn't think of The Smiths. But then their music transcends the decades... biggrin That was a good save

What a wonderful miracle if only we could look through each other's eyes for an instant.
Thoreau


vanizeSILVER Member
Carpal \'Tunnel
3,899 posts
Location: Austin, Texas, USA


Posted:
yeah, I wasn't going to say Joy Division, as they are really a late 70's phenominon. They did have more than one release in the eighties though - I'm pretty sure the second peel session they did was in 80 for example (or maybe that was the release you meant? I need to brush up on my Joy division history...). but hard to say they were really and eighties band when Ian Curtis died in May 1980...



And speaking of bands that were aroundin the eighties- the Beastie Boys and Helmet (which did release their first album in the eighties if I recall correctly) are coming to berlin next month...



ON THE SAME FRIGGIN DAY!



now there is a tough choice.
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-v-

Wiederstand ist Zwecklos!


FabergéGOLD Member
veteran
1,459 posts
Location: Dublin, Ireland


Posted:
Written by: vanize


faberge - methinks you and I are musical soul twins or something...




cool cheers!

i've got my rollins ticket biggrin

My mind not only wanders, it sometimes leaves completely smile


Lillie Frognot a stranger
558 posts
Location: wales


Posted:
My name is Lillie and I love White Rabbit.

And 80's music.
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds.
Jesus and Mary Chain
I'll think of some more later I expect.

Eat when you're hungry
Sleep where it's dry
No one is ever what they seem
Gabriel King - The Wild Road


Captain HazzardBRONZE Member
Ninja (shhhh, don't tell)
420 posts
Location: Truro, UK


Posted:
I love nick cave too! I can never listen to him for too long though 'coz it makes me far too down. Such beautiful music though.

I only wanted to be 16... and free


Lillie Frognot a stranger
558 posts
Location: wales


Posted:
I like depressing music,

It cheers me up.

Leonard Cohen, brilliant.

Eat when you're hungry
Sleep where it's dry
No one is ever what they seem
Gabriel King - The Wild Road


dot.member
64 posts
Location: Po( i )land


Posted:
oh, i love leonard cohen.

"then fire, make your body warm
im gonna give you mine to hold
saying this she climbed inside
to be his one, to be his only bride..." (when i logged on HOP for the first time i had a nickname "joan of arc" - because of this song smile )

Down from my ceiling
Drips great noise
It drips on my head through a hole in the roof...


Rouge DragonBRONZE Member
Insert Champagne Here
13,215 posts
Location: without class distinction, Australia


Posted:
apparently Leonard Cohen got voted the most depressing singer by Britons

i like him tho. but i havent heard his version of Halleluja, even though im in love with the jeff buckley one!

i would have changed ***** to phallus, and claire to petey Petey

Rougie: but that's what I'm doing here
Arnwyn: what letting me adjust myself in your room?..don't you dare quote that on HoP...


Lillie Frognot a stranger
558 posts
Location: wales


Posted:
People who say he's depressing don't know what depression is!

Music to slash your wrists to.
Loverly. biggrin

Eat when you're hungry
Sleep where it's dry
No one is ever what they seem
Gabriel King - The Wild Road


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