Heartland

> "...a right hand is a horrible thing to lose..."

Definitely, although the girl with one paw I referred to had a birth defect.

''You Want it Darker' by Leonard Cohen sounds very much like 'War on Drugs' by The Sisters. The key, the melody and the temperament are the same.

I'll start with I Brought a Girl Home I brought a girl home once and she loved Scott I saw her next week and I said naught Many years later I loved him too And have wondered since If I had then I'd be with you? I brought a girl home once and she was fat I brought her home twice, thrice, it was like ...

Apparently the parachute borked the Soviet nylon industry. Perhaps this says more about the state of that industry than the size of the parachute. There's an old CIA saying that the Russians would be unable to smuggle a suitcase nuke into the US because they would be unable to construct a functionin...

And her hallway...

Some people get by with being able to quote huge tracts of their holy books. Impressive, but some people get by with being able to quote the entire Under the Gun lyric.

Nice to see an appreciative entry for the Sisters. I particularly liked the observation that: "Ever better, and from the same Floodlands (sic) album was “This Corrosion” – a track more epic than watching all three Lord of the Rings movies from the top of Mount Everest." Still, IMO, 27 years on, Unde...

Day by day, we get closer and closer to this song being a prophecy.

More seriously, all albums by Ladytron, The Eden House and Unloved. For some reason, I only wish to listen to music with female singers these days. Not quite sure what it is.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IgomTOOgl8M

Well, it's a great song. Find your inner Rik.

Scott Walker - Genevieve

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VOhSfGTc3ss

As always with Scott, sheer class.

There must have been some kind of legal proceedings since, as far as I can recall, Eldritch won a certain amount in damages from the Hussey camp. Damned if I can remember how much it was. It's not as though Eldritch gloated about it or anything like that. ;-) > As I recall, the row wasn't about the ...

It may be interesting to speculate on how things would have progressed had Eldritch continued with the name The Sisterhood. Perhaps very differently, perhaps exactly the same. That's a very interesting point to speculate on, Mark. After all he, won the court case and had proved his point. In a sens...

Not read any of this thread. Just read the title and chipping in with the opinion that The Sisters sounded their best live in '85. Not that I saw them then but do have the boots to prove it. Simple as that and my opinion on this is utterly inflexible. So there.

No punches were sent or received here, Mark.

No worries Sam but apology not expected or required. In any case thanks for being so nice. Also grumpy and drunk.

Sam, I would say the whole point of a joke is to subvert accepted moral standards, but not seriously, only in a 'sandbox', so to speak. It's a very interesting question as to why we would want to do this. Clearly there is something unnatural about being compelled to obey these moral standards. Other...

markfiend wrote: pur-leeze. Picking on Patricia for her weight is so 1996.

With all due respect Mark, there is nothing, I repeat nothing, that was right in 1996 and is wrong in 2020.

Here's the big one: was he wrong to have recorded and thus committed the history of this galaxy 'The Damage Done'?

My view on this is that was a price worth paying for the utterly bastard groovy 'Home of the Hitmen', but only just.

There's definitely a more than a bit of Blackadder in Eldritch.

Meanwhile....

This Corona is sweeping the globe right now. Quite an infectious little number.

"Hey now, hey now now (cough, cough) sing This Corona to me"

Eldritch was wrong to start smoking and he knows it. And I was wrong to follow him and I know it. That said, it was kind of amusing and also somewhat sad (even to a fellow smoker) to see him at the Bristol gig last week with an unlit fag between his fingers for two thirds of the show until he was ab...

No.

> Sartre did not; he still wanted there to be such a thing as humanism.

Not in the Being and Nothingness era. That came later e.g Existentialism Is a Humanism. As far as I'm concerned his work was done with Being and Nothingness.

Sartre's 'Being and Nothingness', even though it's basically a goth cover version of Heidegger's 'Being and Time', is nevertheless a remarkable, insightful achievement. My main criticisms of both authors apply to their later endeavours.

Just had a taxi ride back from my local Morrisons where the actually quite enjoyable 'Fast Car' by Tracy Chapman was being played on the radio. It rung a little memory bell relevant to the subject at hand. Back in the day when Tracy (and possibly Eldritch) commanded substantial media attention, he w...