Missing guitarist 'presumed dead' (1 Viewer)

[Lili Marlene]

You are pure! You are snow!
We are the useless sluts that they mould-ooo-wow-oo-oh--oooo-hoo-hooo-ooooh-hooooo-hoooo!
Rock 'n roll is our epiphany
Culture, alienation, boredom and despair - oooo-hoo-hooo-ooooh-hooooo-hoooo!

heh, i've always loved that bit.

seriously, you're doing them a disservice by only quoting bits of their songs, it's not like they only have have isolated lines that are like that

 

[Moods For Mallards]

They were my favourite teenage band.

In fairness, the early singles and The Holy Bible are brilliant. And there's a song that sounds like Phil Collins on This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours that I have a soft spot for.

Anyway:

Liberty, sweet liberty
Charitable respectability
Then pacifism killed us all
For all the tourists on the Berlin wall

So we protest about human rights
Worship obesity as our birthright
But freedom of speech won't feed my children
Just brings heart disease and bootleg clothing
Just brings heart disease and bootleg clothing

We love to kiss the Dalai Lama's ass
Because he is such a holy man
Free to eat and buy anything
Free to fuck from Paris to Beijing

Little boys with dangerous toys
All bow down to the Beastie Boys
But freedom of speech won't feed my children
Just brings heart disease and bootleg clothing
Just brings heart disease and bootleg clothing

Royalty - hereditery - unelected and becalmed
Just like Stalin, just like Stalin
Human and useless

Bomb the Chinese Embassy
The west is free, oh the west is free
Laugh at the hammer and sickle
It is antique, oh it is antique

And see the love in Richard Gere's eyes
JS Pemberton saved our lives
But freedom of speech won't feed my children
Just brings heart disease and bootleg clothing
Just brings heart disease and bootleg clothing
Just brings heart disease and bootleg clothing
Just brings heart disease and bootleg clothing

 

[killy kill]

drummer was classic 'fat, boring guy'

 

[Moods For Mallards]

seriously, you're doing them a disservice by only quoting bits of their songs, it's not like they only have have isolated lines that are like that

Agreed. I'll stop now.

 

[daydream_nation]

You are pure! You are snow!
We are the useless sluts that they mould-ooo-wow-oo-oh--oooo-hoo-hooo-ooooh-hooooo-hoooo!
Rock 'n roll is our epiphany
Culture, alienation, boredom and despair - oooo-hoo-hooo-ooooh-hooooo-hoooo!

was just gonna write tha some video as well. yer man who directed it used to slag them in nme all the time in the post richey era. nme + manics = teenage years flashback, ugh!

their most recent two albums are garbage as well

havent heard em. that thing with yer wan from the cardigans was fucking rotten though.

 

[Lili Marlene]

yeah but like

hot!

 

[GO]

was just gonna write tha some video as well. yer man who directed it used to slag them in nme all the time in the post richey era. nme + manics = teenage years flashback, ugh!


havent heard em. that thing with yer wan from the cardigans was fucking rotten though.

Ah man,I fucking love that tune.Nearly the only song of theirs I like.

 

[nlgbbbblth]

Good band that went shit post 1996.

Saw 'em live in 1991 and 1994. Rocked.

 

[cpr]

yeah but like

hot!

fuck yeah...yum!

 

[sweetoblivion]

They were my favourite teenage band.

EDIT: Bonsai here not Sweet

same here:

Hospital Closures kill
more than car bombs ever will
and it takes money because
people are expendable

 

[Lolo]

Never got into this band. But commended them for making it acceptable for young men to wear eyeliner again.

 

[evil bandit]

Their album output has been getting steadily worse alright but they were my favourite band for a long time and I'll still go and see them whenever they come over.

There next ablum will include old Richey lyrics and is being produced by Steve Albini

 

[Jelly_Block]

He's actually in Hollyoaks

 

[Kermit McDermott]

Motorcycle emptiness is a top chooin in all fairness. Love that neck pick up sound on the Les Paul.

 

[Doctor Muscles]

They got unspeakably shit, and the first two albums were not great (although i have a soft spot for Gold Against The Soul),

Not even at my dizziest, fourteen year old manics-loving stage did I like gold against the soul! You got the bug bad!

 

[CinnamonBoy]

Not even at my dizziest, fourteen year old manics-loving stage did I like gold against the soul! You got the bug bad!

It's got some good tracks on there. 5 by my reckoning.

 

[Doctor Muscles]

2 by mine. Would you like a fight?

 

[daydream_nation]

from despair to where
la tristesse durera (have the japanese import ep of this - biggest waste of old money EVER)
life becoming a landslide

...all alright. there are some good individual songs, some hilarious ones (drug drug druggy)...just isn't great as an album. anyone hear motown junk on today fm earlier...about 7.15. stops your heart beating for 1 6 8 seconds, stops your brain thinking for 1 6 8 seconds

 

[Lili Marlene]

Musically, i think every song on that album bar Drug Drug Druggy and Symphony of Tourette is great (and SOT is at least hilariously bad)

Lyrically, maybe about 2 of them

 

[BonsaiSuperstar]

my idea of love comes from
a childhood glimpse of pornography
though there is no true love
just a finely tuned jealousy

i agree with John that musically everything is good bar SOT and maybe drug drug druggy....but lyrically every song has its moments