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What's your personal jukebox? Page 8
Quote: NickTheDon @ July 13 2008, 12:48 AM BST
I remember my dad bought Keep Me A Secret when it came out and we listened to it constantly for weeks.
Do you remember that guy Pete from Fame Academy? He just looked like he was trying to be a mix of Ainsley and Pete Doherty. And then he actually got addicted to crack, lole.
Yeah! I really liked him too.
Dunno what he's up to now though. Well apart from the crack, apparently!
Most gents would like to get up to crack.
McNabb has an autobiography out soon I think.
Is he a singer?
Quote: zooo @ July 13 2008, 12:56 AM BSTIs he a singer?
I like how everyone's discussing proper singers and artists and we're talking about Fame Academy contestants 
Who was the girl that won it one year? Did a cover of Yellow by Coldplay? She was a lesbian too. Very pretty, quite small.
Alex!
God damn I love Fame Academy.
BRING IT BACK!
Quote: zooo @ July 13 2008, 12:58 AM BSTAlex!
God damn I love Fame Academy.
BRING IT BACK!
Hahaha, that was it!
She was good, I liked her.
Back to cover versions, anyone else heard Avril Lavigne's cover of Yellow?
Search for it on youtube if you haven't. It's so bad it made me want to rip my ears off.
Edit: Actually, I'm pretty sure it was The Scientist she covered now. One of those two definitely. It was so bad I just blocked it out my mind.
I'd quite like to see it back. Much less tacky than certain commercial-television programmes.
Quote: NickTheDon @ July 13 2008, 12:59 AM BSTBack to cover versions, anyone else heard Avril Lavigne's cover of Yellow?
Search for it on youtube if you haven't. It's so bad it made me want to rip my ears off.
Can't be any worse than the original.
Quote: Aaron @ July 13 2008, 1:00 AM BSTI'd quite like to see it back. Much less tacky than certain commercial-television programmes.
Can't be any worse than the original.
Yeah, f**k me Coldplay are shit. Painful dirge.
Fame Academy was the utter opposite to X Factor, etc.
It really bugged me when people lumped them together.
I'm listening to Ainslie's new music now on his website, It's really good!
Quote: Seefacts @ July 13 2008, 1:01 AM BSTYeah, f**k me Coldplay are shit. Painful dirge.
Too kind.
Quote: Seefacts @ July 13 2008, 1:01 AM BSTYeah, f**k me Coldplay are shit. Painful dirge.
They sound so much like Echo & the Bunnymen to me so I think they're OK.
One music autobiography I read was "Cor Baby That´s Really Me (Rock And Roll´s Greatest Failure)?"
Quote: David Chapman @ July 13 2008, 1:09 AM BSTThey sound so much like Echo & the Bunnymen to me so I think they're OK.
God no!
The Bunnymen are a brilliant band, Coldplay are just slow white noise.
Damn - sorry for this long-ee post
Strawberry Fields Forever - The Beatles - perfect pop, staggering instrumentation http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=ylI0S1v9B3k
We Care A Lot - Faith No More - staccato tongue-in-cheek rock pop at its best http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=2zaZnO8VFUo
Perfect - Smashing Pumpkins - can't hear this without crying, no emotional event is attached, just the exhilaration of the melody, the guitars, and the tensions within the high synth notes. http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=Mq4zp-g2Jec
Where is my mind? - Pixies - visceral sounds and a haunting BV http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=7EE59Ex5Px4
No9 Dream - Lennon - Just for the verse http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=HVKZ4_5FlNs
Maybe I'm Amazed - Macca - a genius for this song alone http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=cm2YyVZBL8U
Waterloo Sunset - Kinks - close to perfect as melody can get. http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=5J3gX47rHGg
Man with the Child in His Eyes - Kate Bush - for a first song for someone to write, it has to be one of the best http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=c3jduzfM2xg
This Woman's Work - The song she should be remembered for, not that wailing Wuthering. An excellent vid starring Tim Mcinnery http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=xw1fqgg42vo
1979 - Smashing Pumpkins - rhythm, beauty, love the percussive treatment http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=wrivjzw0RlI
Life on Mars - Bowie - for the perfect melodic climb into the chorus
Once in a Lifetime - Love the arpeggio synths in the verse - When he sings "in another part of the world" at 24 seconds in, he slurs like a drunken tramp assailing passersby. A STUNNING video of its time. Byrne makes the medium his own with weird movements. At 45 seconds he joins Monty Python and takes punches from an invisible attacker at 1:00. It evokes a primal gut reaction within me. http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=EYbUCvz1LYE
Killing Joke - Love Like Blood - haven't hear it for years but still an all-time Slagg fave of A + B. Vocalist wins scariest eyebrows in rock. http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=cVgMEsMZdcQ
Easter Theatre - XTC - earthy lumpen verses burst into a golden yolk of chorus. http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=zm4gm9bmypg
Eels - Mr E's Beautiful Blues http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=5gIFm5earUY
There is no love between us anymore - Pop Will Eat Itself - damned funny band and sampler kings http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=hP_vt0JV9EA
Up the Junction - Squeeze - great melody and staggeringly simple but clever lyrics - "This morning at two-fifty, I took her rather nifty, down to an incubator, where thirty minutes later, she gave birth to a daughter, within a year a walker, she looks just like her mother, if there could be another." Chose this vid as they're taking the piss of TOTP by swapping the instruments they normally play. http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=A7DRq7_5sQs