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Topic: Which would you actually prefer to endure?
Posted: June 26 2017 at 09:44

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Posted: June 26 2017 at 08:15

I don't know what Vogon poetry is but it can't be worse than Radiohead.

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Posted: June 26 2017 at 08:02

Actually, three or so years ago, I had her liking some songs from Rush off of Permanent Waves and Moving Pictures. I knew it wouldn't last but I enjoyed it while it did. Big smile

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Posted: June 26 2017 at 08:00

Hercules wrote:

Anyone who has read The Hitchhikers' Guide to the Galaxy knows that Vogon poetry is the worst in the universe; so much so that some have only survived a reading by gnawing off limbs so that the pain distracts them.

I confess that, after watching Radiohead at Glastonbury, I was close to having to seek the services of an artificial leg manufacturer. I really enjoyed Muse last year - and they're not usually my favourite band - because they were sensational live. In the same way, I'm generally ambivalent about Radiohead, but thought they might shine live. They didn't. To say they bombed is an understatement.

So pick your poison.

Let me tell you something, my nine year old daughter is fully into the top 40 pop pablum stage so when we are driving anywhere I get to listen to the likes of Ed Sheeran, Sia, Beiber, and still more horrific nonsense. Oh gee, and now there's a new Lorde record out. I'm sure program directors all over the country are just peeing themselves in anticipation of being able to flood the airwaves of their stations with that puke.

I've never heard either of those pieces you posted but without even one single listen, I would pick both of them and gleefully listen anywhere from 80 to 5,376 times in place of the garbage my daughter likes. Anything would be better than driving with my knee on the steering wheel because my fingers are in my ears.

I remember when Bugs Bunny asked Elmer Fudd if he wanted to shoot him now or wait till he got home. I really don't care which, just shoot me. Dead

Edited by Jeffro - June 26 2017 at 08:07

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Posted: June 26 2017 at 07:09

I am a big Temples fan but I prefer the British variety. Their debut Sun Structures is a wonderful slice of psychedelic pop/rock a la Beatles anno 1970. Their most recent Volcano though seems to have been infected by the 80s synth bug like every other psych rock outfit out there atm. I prefer Pond's two most recent releases if we're going down that road.

Edited by Guldbamsen - June 26 2017 at 07:10

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Posted: June 26 2017 at 06:47

Vogon poetry used as lyrics in prog rock would be an interesting endeavor. Come to think of it, Hitchhiker would be make an ideal prog rock opera. Avoiding the "cheesiness" factor might be a difficult one.

Edited by progaardvark - June 26 2017 at 06:48

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Posted: June 25 2017 at 17:29

Another band from yesterday's line up I hadn't known before that I saw today in the morning was Temples. Apparently they're on progarchives but there's only a single review yet. Quite young but unashamedly retro, this music could have worked well in 1971. Not overly complex but very charming with some nice twists in their melodies and a good intuition for live dynamic. Some prog fans may like them.

Edit: Just checked Guldbamsen's review of the 2011 Temples album, and despite them being classified as psych, what my ears heard was actually quite different from what he wrote in his review. Now the Temples on progarchives are from Finland and Wikipedia says "Temples are an English rock band formed in Kettering in 2012 by singer and guitarist James Bagshaw and bassist Tom Walmsley.^{"
I think the guys at Glasto were the latter. They're classified as psychedelia, too. Very confusing.}

Edited by Lewian - June 25 2017 at 17:38

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Posted: June 25 2017 at 16:58

Haven't seen the performance, it will appear in the US sometime over the summer. Love Radiohead, I've seen them live and watched previous live performances. Would love to see them again. I'd also probably go to a Vogon poetry recital just for the experience.

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Posted: June 25 2017 at 16:35

Hercules wrote:

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Hahaha thank you Hercules, watching them on TV as I'm typing because some friends wanted to see it, oh how some Vogon poetry would distract me from this pain...

"Oh freddled gruntbuggly,

Thy micturations are to me

As plurdled gabbleblotchits on a lurgid bee.

Groop, I implore thee, my foonting turlingdromes,

And hooptiously drangle me with crinkly bindlewurdles,

Or I will rend thee in the gobberwarts

With my blurglecruncheon, see if I don't!"

Better than Thom Yorke's whining, wasn't it?

Thank you dearly, that was a relief.

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Posted: June 25 2017 at 16:12

Do know anything about the performance itself, but that set list sounds good to me.

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Posted: June 25 2017 at 14:34

Hercules wrote:

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I thought Radiohead were excellent last night. I thoroughly enjoyed the one shining light in a festival of utter dross.

We rarely disagree but, on this occasion, I'm going to dissent. I thought they were awful.

The Foo Fighters are pretty good though, so it's not (quite) all dross.

I didn't think much of Jeremy Corbyn's set, but it could have been worse: Theresa May wasn't there.

Yep, very rare we do not see eye to eye on our music.

I thought the idea of a rather old socialist appealing to a bunch of metropolitan yoofs to be slightly amusing.

As I am typing this, I have appropriated the telly in my dining room (the better half is watching the choir thingy in the other room) to watch Saxon on Sky 1 at Wacken 2014. Good old Biff. Far better than bloody Sheeran at Glasters!

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Posted: June 25 2017 at 09:36

Radiohead, easily, although I have no problem with Vogon poetry. As poetry goes, it's certainly 'prog'

Radiohead's Glastonbury set was superb IMO. They really come alive when playing live. I do understand why they polarise opinion so much.

Ultimately bored by endless ecstasy!

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Posted: June 25 2017 at 06:38

Guldbamsen wrote:

^You've never read Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy? Shocked

Surely a must for any prog fan.

Nope !!
I can read, say, a band / artist bio the size of a bible, but a regular novel does little for me. I even bought a large-ish collection of Moorcock paperbacks 20-odd years ago and I've read about 3 of them - only 18 to go !!! At this rate, I'll be dead by the sixth one.....

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Posted: June 25 2017 at 06:25

Foo Fighters. Yeah, they can play their instruments and can perform well.
But musically their music just doesn't have any depth. There's a teenager born every minute of course. And if liking the band is now the dividing line between youth and old then hand me my Zimmer frame!
At least I can listen to stuff that reveals its secrets upon multiple listens. With their music it's big riff,shouty bit, back to big riff, back to shouty bit.
Thanks for introducing Jack Black to the world. No idea what I would have done with my life otherwise.
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But as you were, Radiohead Vs Vogon Poetry!

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Posted: June 25 2017 at 04:04

Lewian wrote:

I didn't really see the logic in Radiohead's set list and I think that they end off their songs too abruptly live, they just do their stuff but haven't added much to them for their performance. So it wasn't all great, but I love their music and largely they did it well, so 3.5 stars from me.

The Foo Fighters are good entertainment but ultimately just a too perfect everybody's darling rock band. Dave Grohl is a nice guy but he'll never be David Bowie, Kurt Cobain or even Thom Yorke, he's just too nicely catering for everybody and lacking edge (despite their outbursts of wildness; you see what he's learnt in Nirvana but as controlled and well dosed as in the Foo Fighters you know too well that everything's always safe).

By the way I saw two songs of a band called BadBadNotGood for the first time in today's Glastonbury coverage, I loved them. Thundercat were good, too.

I have just seen a couple of episodes of the rockumentary Sonic Highways and find it extremely puzzling to have all these gifted musicians talking about some of the seminal moments, people and places in rock history...and then you get The Foo Fighters take on it, which granted, was far more interesting than what I would have thought - anyway they recognise all the great music and talk about how great music is born - about throwing out the rule book and trying something a little different and bla bla bla. Fact of the matter is that by the end of the show they record a new song for their upcoming album, Sonic Highways, and every goddamn one of them sounds EXACTLY like the one preceding it LOL

It truly boggles the mind how these musicians can get so incredibly inspired by their surroundings and then NOT try something new/different (the one exception I noted was the 10 second inclusion of a country western sounding guitar to an intro...from there on the song just went into every other Foo Fighter tune they've ever released.)

After 3 of these in a row I was literally in tears! Bizarroworld. They remind me of Nickleback actually.

With all that being said; I still find these guys very sympathetic. Dave Grohl should've stuck with the drums though.

P.S. I am very jealous of you. I would've loved to see BadBadNotGood and Thundercat.

Edited by Guldbamsen - June 25 2017 at 07:42

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Posted: June 25 2017 at 03:47

^You've never read Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy? Shocked

Surely a must for any prog fan.

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Posted: June 25 2017 at 02:30

WTF is Vogon poetry ???
By the sound of it, I prefer Radiohead's Kid A. I don't even like Radiohead tbh, though Kid A is a spectacular album....

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Posted: June 24 2017 at 17:44

I didn't really see the logic in Radiohead's set list and I think that they end off their songs too abruptly live, they just do their stuff but haven't added much to them for their performance. So it wasn't all great, but I love their music and largely they did it well, so 3.5 stars from me.

The Foo Fighters are good entertainment but ultimately just a too perfect everybody's darling rock band. Dave Grohl is a nice guy but he'll never be David Bowie, Kurt Cobain or even Thom Yorke, he's just too nicely catering for everybody and lacking edge (despite their outbursts of wildness; you see what he's learnt in Nirvana but as controlled and well dosed as in the Foo Fighters you know too well that everything's always safe).

By the way I saw two songs of a band called BadBadNotGood for the first time in today's Glastonbury coverage, I loved them. Thundercat were good, too.

Edited by Lewian - June 24 2017 at 18:00

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Posted: June 24 2017 at 17:43

twseel wrote:

Hahaha thank you Hercules, watching them on TV as I'm typing because some friends wanted to see it, oh how some Vogon poetry would distract me from this pain...

"Oh freddled gruntbuggly,

Thy micturations are to me

As plurdled gabbleblotchits on a lurgid bee.

Groop, I implore thee, my foonting turlingdromes,

And hooptiously drangle me with crinkly bindlewurdles,

Or I will rend thee in the gobberwarts

With my blurglecruncheon, see if I don't!"

Better than Thom Yorke's whining, wasn't it?

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Posted: June 24 2017 at 15:36

Hahaha thank you Hercules, watching them on TV as I'm typing because some friends wanted to see it, oh how some Vogon poetry would distract me from this pain...

Poll Question: Pick your poison!
Poll Choice	Votes	Poll Statistics
Radiohead at Glastonbury	13	[50.00%]
An evening of Vogon poetry	13	[50.00%]
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