What is East Dulwich Listening to?

[Keef]

Yep but you don't get to see Shane wobble ;-)

[capt_birdseye]

I see Neon Bible is at Number 2 in the album charts. Does that mean we can't like it anymore? :)

[mockney piers]

Dagnammit, I'm listening to it right now, I'm like so last week!!

Admin, can i post a hideously compressed (almost unlistenable) mp3 of a song up to give people a taste, or is that considered illegal filesharing in some way?

[Administrator]

I'd rather you didn't post it up here. Why not tell people where they can go and listen to a sample of it? This Forum is not responsible for the content of external internet sites, image if we were! Blimey, what a nightmare that would be.

[capt_birdseye]

blinder999 Wrote:

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> I mostly listen to Neutral Milk Hotel - in the

> aeroplane over the sea.

>

> I liked this album so much I bought the vinyl

> version too, and the 7" limited edition picture

> disc of Holland 1945, despite not having a record

> player:-S

I have obtained this album, not sure what to make of it after just the one listen. It hasn't grabbed me by the cahunas just yet, I guess it must be a grower.

It will struggle to top "Come on Feel the Illinoise" in my humble opinion...

[mockney piers]

It does require a few listens to begin sinking in. Come on Feel The Illinoise is superb, but imho doesn't have the lasting minty freshness of ITAOTS.

I really hope you gel with it Captain, it's worth it.

I liked the quote from wossisname from Franz Ferdinand on the back about it being the one cassette in his car for years and never quite guaging what the bloody hell it was on about, but feeling like you've experienced something bigger than yourself at the end of it.

But then I'm a pretensious muso when it comes down to it, so I wouldn't listen to me.

[blinder999]

definitely a grower - I recall not getting it at first. When it finally grabs you though, it doesn't let go.

A site for the obsessive completist with movs and live mp3s etc is here:

http://www.the-collective.net/~sashwap/

All together now: "Two-headed boooooooooooooooooooy..."

[CrystalClear]

cool site :))

It's worth a bit of effort, promise!!

[capt_birdseye]

It's on the pod as I type. Oh Comely.

[mockney piers]

He he, on my work winamp

"..and one day we will die and our ashes will fly from the aeroplane over the sea,

but for now we are young, let us lay in the sun and count every beautiful thing we can see"

[CrystalClear]

hang on - I have it on my phone.....

The only girl I've ever loved

Was born with roses in her eyes

But then they buried her alive

One evening 1945

[capt_birdseye]

there's a disturbing lyric about something smelling of semen. Could of course be seamen, like the original Captain Birdseye.

[CrystalClear]

ah, this one....

Sweet communist

The communist daughter

Standing on the sea-weed water

Semen stains the mountain tops

[blinder999]

The only girl I've ever loved

Was born with roses in her eyes

But then they buried her alive

One evening 1945

...inspired by the Diary of Anne Frank apparently

[mockney piers]

Hey, I have it on my MP3 player

"All of them milking their green fleshy flowers while powerful pistons were sugary sweet machines

smelling of seamen while under the garden was all you were needing when you still believed in me"

was that what you were after captain?

[Mark]

my copy of Fred Deakin's The Triptych's just arrived (after rob recommended it a while back) and it's brilliant. Check this out for the Disc 1 tracking listing:

1. Appa - Badmarsh & Shri

2. Spin - Impossible Dreamers

3. Mr Matawe - Flying Fish

4. Selecter - Selecter (1)

5. Private Party - Nunn, Bobby

6. Disco Dynamite - Mr. Flash

7. Amor Dei - BBC Radiophonic Workshop

8. Perpetuum Mobile - Penguin Cafe Orchestra

9. Ode To Joy - Seeger, Pete

10. Want 2 Need 2 - Phillips, Sharon

11. Kita Kita - Lawal, Gasper

12. Funk Music - Angel, Dave

13. Adolescent Sex - Japan

14. Touch Of Jazz - Straker, Nick

15. Don't Be Cruel - Swan, Billy

16. One Way Ticket - Mama Cass

17. Music Box - Native Force

18. Rocker - Thin Lizzy

19. Funk Soul Sensation - Jemini The Gifted One

20. Supernatural Thing - Siouxsie & The Banshees

21. Nothin' - NORE

22. Come Together - Graffiti (1)

23. Straw Dogs - Tomahawk (2)

24. Ooh Baby (I Believe I'm Losing You) - Hawks, Billy

25. Coffee In The Pot - Supergrass

26. St Louis Blues - Wills, Bob & His Texas Playboys

27. It's Better To Have (And Don't Need) - Covay, Don

28. He's On The Phone - Saint Etienne

29. Sometimes Always - Jesus & Mary Chain

30. My Resistance Is Low - Cribbins, Bernard

(note the those last two tunes) and there's 2 more discs of this brilliance!

[mockney piers]

Wow, there's an eclectic selection

[mamafeelgood]

as part of the miseducation of my children currently hot faves are: james brown (name gives that away), old tribe called quest & de la soul, david bowie, the beatles, marlena shaw, roy ayers ... the list goes on longer than my ipod battery lasts...

no doubt criticism will be leveled that there is nothing new on the list but whenever i turn the radio on i just want to turn it off, plus the kids just love that funky drummer.

p.s. radio nova in france (get live stream on line) pisses all over anything here and they don't speak too much french on it.

[CrystalClear]

Do you suppose that if we say Neutral Milk Hotel enough times in this thread, the forum will come up when some bod searches for Neutral Milk Hotel?

[mockney piers]

My simon bedell dearstalker hat still doesn't appear in a google images search but it is the first hit on google

So 50% success on that one.

The forum is the first hit for east dulwich on google though.

[CrystalClear]

wow. I bow to your Simon bedell deerstalker. The forum is the first stop in ED for Neutral Milk Hotel, so I'll take that as a starting point.

[mockney piers]

well, we're not far off yet

[capt_birdseye]

"Neutral Milk Hotel East Dulwich", I imagine that's a fairly popular search term...

[CrystalClear]

well that's at least two, and in the space of 4mins, so the graphs looking good at the moment!

[mockney piers]

I didn't say we were all the way there did i! ;-P

I do it all the time!