Whatever happened to the teleprinter?

[hirez]

A remarkably close fought thing, though the threatened upset caused by the last minute entries of some hardcore Peelites failed to materialize. So, without much more rambling, we find the final scores are as follows:

Ayatollah of rock&rollah - swisstone - 18
Proven pattern of success to follow - naughtypixie & juliann - 17
(Wo)man who's head expanded - zoo_music_girl - 17
Mature white gimmick - sheepthief - 14
Honey, you're wasting ammo - zeocin - 13
Hard normal daddy - _alexander_ - 13
Eleven things in order - halja - 11
Listening to the Higsons - spride - 10
Fiery Jack - mr_tom - 9
Smedley's melody - aeia - 7
Clifford, darling. Please don't live in the past - agent_greige - 7
Man with the lightbulb head - nils - 7
Having an average weekend - childeric - 6
Driving with my gears in reverse - naturalbornkaos - 5
She's lost control - mistressmalaise - 3

... And that the tracks were as follows, with vague notes and handwaving.

1. The Who - Substitute.
2. The Fall - Fire Jack.
3. Messiah - Thunderdome (USA mix)
4. Severed Heads - Dead eyes opened (Reopened mix)
5. AC/DC - Whole lotta Rosie.
6. Joy Division - Incubation.
7. Stakker - Humanoid.
8. Public Enemy - Rebel without a pause.
9. Billy Bragg - A13 (Gateway to the sea).
10. LFO - LFO (Leeds warehouse mix).
11. The Doors - L.A. woman.
12. Flying Lizards - Money.
13. Cameo - Word up.
14. The Barracudas - Summer fun.
15. Bob Dylan - Subterranean homesick blues.
16. Devo - Working in a coal-mine.
17. The Specials - Gangsters.
18. XTC - Making plans for Nigel.
19. The Tornadoes - Telstar.
20. Nirvana - Come as you are.

I have to say I was a little surprised that no-one picked up on Public Enemy (though if I'd left the next bar in, the howling sax sample would have given it away) or LFO. I'm reasonably sure that they both featured in festive fifties. Speaking of which, I suspect that the Bragg and the Specials were culled from the Peel Sessions 12", which may have caused some confusion. Telstar's another one of those difficult tracks that's completely obvious one bar after the intro. On the other hand, it does sound damn modern for the early sixties and Joe Meek was a Gloucestershire boy. The AC/DC reminds me of horrible 80s metal clubs. I'm reclaiming it to wind up the Nathans.

Anyway, cheers for having a bash and try not to strop too much if I've managed not to count up correctly.

Comments

[naturalbornkaos.livejournal.com]

I knew from the brass squeal that it must be PE but I didn't say anything but I was too embarrassed to spot the sample - of COURSE, now you've said, it was indeed kick-myself material...

For missing Devo, I need my ears cleaned out - something very wrong there... and with XTC.

The othters are either totally alien to me or just ones I'd NEVER have expected to find in your collection (ie: AC/DC, Bob Dylan, Cameo) so I just wasn't looking for at all.

[hirez.livejournal.com]

I fear the 'What's that doing in your record pile?' has been a familiar question since I walked nervously into Preedy's record dept and departed with (on succeeding weekends) 'Ace of spades', 'Radioactivitat' and 'Fanfare for the common man'.


Mind, this weekend I've been sitting there and wondering what the hell I was doing buying bloody Covenant (for instance) CDs when I should have been at the Goldfrapp and Muse and...

[naturalbornkaos.livejournal.com]

Actually I would approve far more wholeheartedly of Covenant than Goldfrapp (yaawwn!) or Muse (10th rate Radiohead wannabes with added yodelling)... so maybe I'm slipping too!

[hirez.livejournal.com]

I'm... Not sure.

I'm finding the EDM/futurepoop thing... Tiresome. IoC, for instance, seem to be going downhill with each album. I really want to like them a lot more because I thought the first CD was dead good and I felt it was an interesting blueprint. And certainly after seeing Kraftwerk again the other month I was left there wondering why I bothered with Covenant at all.

You're probably right about Muse, mind. I was sitting there through a good half of the set thinking 'This is prog rock. Any more twiddly and there'll be a dull hum from Bach's grave as he comes up to 500rpm'. On the other hand, it's got a good handful of bollocks to it. Something sadly missing from the general run of synth-driven whinecore that they have the gall to call 'industrial' these days.

Then there's Weatherall, who's been called 'deathrock' not far from here. A tag that does the chap a grave (haw!) disservice. And Squarepusher and Coklacoma and...

[naturalbornkaos.livejournal.com]

(Argh, I just wrote a really big response to this and LJ ate it... oh well.. try again...)

I wasn't trying to defend futurewotsit as a genre (you only need to look at Solitary Experiments to see how rapidly stagnated it's all become) nor even Covenant as a band (although I am rather partial to them) - I was more just looking for an excuse to knock Muse. ;) I'm sick to the stomach of whiny, high-pitched, half-arsed vocalists, whether it be the musical wallpaper of Keane, Coldplay, Travis, Snow Patrol, Starsailor, et al or whether it be Muse (who are basically the same as any of the above but with more time signature changes and "wild and crazy" gurning in the videos!)...

I was quite optimistic about the fate of 'industrial' as a genre, until I heard Skinny Puppy's 'comeback' album (the aptly titled "Greater Wrong of the Right") and I started having my doubts!

As for Weatherall, I picked up "From The Double Gone Chapel" (partially on the strength of your review!) and whilst some of it is rather good (though to call it 'deathrock' is a leap too far for me), I'm not ready for my Damascean conversion to his talents just yet...

The only "new"(ish) bands that I'm willing to be walking across hot coals to see at the moment are Bikini Atoll, We Start Fires and Zombina and the Skeletones. I'm not sure what that says about me.

[zoo-music-girl.livejournal.com]

Ah, I thought 1 was familiar. Other than that I didn't miss anything I'm aware of having heard more than once so I'm content with my score!

It's a pity Graham didn't get round to posting his answers, I think he was doing quite well when we were listening together yesterday.

[zotz]

I'd have stuck them in last night if I'd realised. I wouldn't have done better than you did, though.

[sheepthief.livejournal.com]

Did anyone get The Barracudas? Are you going to unscreen peoples answers? Ooh, the teleprinter! Nottingham Forest 2 ... Stoke City 1.

[swisstone.livejournal.com]

I was groping towards it, but didn't quite get there.

[sheepthief.livejournal.com]

I knew the song, but had no idea who it was by. I think it might have been a favourite of my fathers as I seem to recall hearing it a lot in the car when I was a kid.

I can't pronounce bacarruda

[grega.livejournal.com]

I would have had I not been larging it up in Leeds away from the PC.

[thepaintedone.livejournal.com]

Bah, I should have had a go. I think I could have managed 10 points (AC/DC, Cameo, Nirvana, Staker and The Doors (maybe) )

I just assumed your music taste would be far too off the wall for a dodgy metaller like me :o)

[swisstone.livejournal.com]

I take it I lost marks for saying that it wasn't The Specials? I did rather think after I'd posted, 'Hang on, maybe it is them. Ho hum. The Bragg must be from the Peel Sessions, but until Must I Paint You A Picture came out last year, I think that was the only studio version of the song available.

[hirez.livejournal.com]

Well, not so much 'lost', but...

... It wasn't 'til I'd posted the damn thing that I remembered I'd culled the MP3 from the Peel Session version.

It's another one of those odd things like the Barracudas. I remember it as being all over the radio when I was at big school, and I think it stuck in my head the same way 'Do you remember rock&roll radio?' did. (the tail-end of which was used by Simon Bates as a jingle with no apparent irony.)

However, there's a better than average chance that it was just me and playing the beast repeatedly in the intervening years has made it loom larger in my personal history.

[twicezero.livejournal.com]

ya didn't get my entry... gah, move to opera and this is what i get! I'm going back to IE and the joys of being hacked

[hirez.livejournal.com]

I guess not. A bit odd, but given the level of LJ b0rkery not out of the question.

Firefox/Mozilla/Konqueror work for me (depending on platform).

[grega.livejournal.com]

Curses! I was away in Leeds for the weekend or I would have got 24 points by my reckoning.... ah well.

[zoo-music-girl.livejournal.com]

You're welcome to have a crack at my quiz (http://www.livejournal.com/users/zoo_music_girl/378740.html?nc=11) if you like.

[metallikat.livejournal.com]

Did you know 'Telstar' is Thatcher's favourite song of all time?

[hirez.livejournal.com]

I did indeed.

It doesn't stop it being a quite marvellous racket.

[dj-alexander.livejournal.com]

Oh my, I can't believe how badly I did. I didn't even get Bob Dylan.