Shred XLIX: And then the North Koreans attacked

rushfan4 wrote: Not sure if this would have much interest here, but they are doing a tribute to Deep Purple's Machine Head, and Metallica does a pretty good cover of one of the B side songs.

Interesting.  I'd never heard Purple's version or this one before, but I do have some interest in Deep Purple, so that's good to know.  How long ago did Metallica record this version?

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The Flaming Lips doing Smoke on the Water.... that could be very good, as long as they don't try to turn it into a cutesy pixie pop song.  Their last album was pretty Krautrocky and scungy though, so maybe they'll dirty it up this time.

Lenny Bruce was an American comedian from the 60's (I think) who opened the doors for swearing and other such things for comedians.  I believe that he may have had legal troubles because of some of the things that he would say in his routine.  I suspect it is probably quite tame compared to the things people say today, but at the time it was quite groundbreaking.

Yeah, that pretty much covers it.  He wasn't exactly a potty mouth, but he did talk about topics that were taboo for standup comics, like religion and race relations.  But his view was also that "If you do it, you should be able to say it" with respect to "bad words".  I think most of his early arrests were because the Irish Catholic cops didn't like his less than reverent attitude towards the Pope, and the bad words were more of a pretext for hauling him in.  It soon turned into what amounted to essentially a conspiracy to shut him up, as his arrests became more frequent.  He used to perform with his overcoat on, just in case he got hauled away again and didn't want to be separated from his coat.

Eventually he was banned from performing in almost all the major nightclubs, and he soon died penniless and a broken man, as they say, bankrupted from his efforts to defend himself.


Edited by HolyMoly - September 14 2012 at 14:58

He was no rabble rouser, though.  He was an extremely humble and articulate man, who just placed honesty above all else.  This is the story (*swelling music*) of Lenny Bruce (*credits roll*)

Horizons wrote: The Bearded Bard wrote: What's your favourite TMV album, Austin? I've read that you really like the newest one.   Hmmm... 1. Deloused in the Comatorium - Best mixture of their characteristics 2. Noctourniquet - Emotionally charged, catchy, best vocals 3. Amputechture - Really strong long songs, omar finds an obvious comfort zone 4. Frances the Mute - has the greatest song ever written (Cassandra Gemini), classic Cygnus, Widow and Miranda's ending are weak points, plus i wish the title track made it. 5. Bedlam - hard hitting, but super long and sometimes becomes monotonous, Goliath/Cavalettas/Llyena are some career highlights. 6. Octahedron - consistent, accessible

JS19 wrote: Horizons wrote: The Bearded Bard wrote: What's your favourite TMV album, Austin? I've read that you really like the newest one.   Hmmm... 1. Deloused in the Comatorium - Best mixture of their characteristics 2. Noctourniquet - Emotionally charged, catchy, best vocals 3. Amputechture - Really strong long songs, omar finds an obvious comfort zone 4. Frances the Mute - has the greatest song ever written (Cassandra Gemini), classic Cygnus, Widow and Miranda's ending are weak points, plus i wish the title track made it. 5. Bedlam - hard hitting, but super long and sometimes becomes monotonous, Goliath/Cavalettas/Llyena are some career highlights. 6. Octahedron - consistent, accessible Whoops - mine is like the polar opposite of that. But I like all the albums. They're my favourite band my quite a distance.   1. Frances The Mute - The perfect album. (Add the title track at the start and it makes it even better) 2. The Bedlam In Goliath - Crazy, but crazy good. It's like being punched in the face with awesome for 75min 3. Octahedron - Has 'Luciforms' in it which might be the best song ever. Half the songs are classics half are simply good. 4. Noctourniquet - Took bloody ages to grow on me. Some amazing stuff but not got the overall wow factor. 5. Amputechture - Tetragrammaton has some awful bits, Meccamputechture is too long. Last track might as well not be there. Rest of the tracks are great 6. Deloused In The Comatorium - Starts off great but Eriatarka is grating as is The Apparatus... Televators is awesome. Too much emphasis on hooks that I just don't like.

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