Posts by James Butler
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Hard News: One man’s Meat Puppets is…, in reply to JacksonP,
Finally, a version of that song I can sing along to!
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Hard News: One man’s Meat Puppets is…, in reply to Joe Wylie,
my husband has a theory that Ian Curtis sounds like Jim Morrison but no one will admit the influence because, y'know, it's Jim Morrison. Heh.
He sounded hell of a like Jim Morrison.
I'm pretty sure that the main similarity is that they both sing in the natural baritone register, which hardly any rock singer does. Nick Cave and Johnny Cash being the other ones I can think of.
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Hard News: One man’s Meat Puppets is…, in reply to Russell Brown,
Ah yes. Tool.
What the hell is that bollocks about?
Fisting.
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Just to break the genre barrier for a second, let me get my choir-geek on to bring you some John Rutter:
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Hard News: One man’s Meat Puppets is…, in reply to Scott Chris,
Worst vocal performance, and most over-rated band of all time
Don’t ‘get’ the Smiths either.
I walk away from a thread for an hour, and look what happens ):
Although I can't help thinking that if you don't get The Smiths, that's because the joke's on you.
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Hard News: One man’s Meat Puppets is…, in reply to Gareth Davidson,
Dude must have some publishing income!
Yeah, just like Jeff Buckley (well, his estate) and “Hallelujah"
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Hard News: One man’s Meat Puppets is…, in reply to Hebe,
I really should leave this thread before PTSD hits.
Heh. Actually I just realized that my real musical torture is "all the tapes my Dad used to play in the car on the drive to Napier". Coming up next: Dave Brubeck.
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Also Roger Whittaker, a man so square he couldn't bring himself to sing "don't" for "doesn't" when covering Streets Of London:
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Hard News: One man’s Meat Puppets is…, in reply to Jackie Clark,
Never heard of Sky - thanks!
Oh god oh god what have I done
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As for my top musical torture, I nominate anything by Sky. This one in particular gives me nightmares:
EDIT: On reflection, deleted the "almost" before "anything".
