Does exactly what it says on the tin. Some of the nonsense contained herein may be very loosely related to The Sisters of Mercy, but I wouldn't bet your PayPal account on it. In keeping with the internet's general theme nothing written here should be taken as Gospel: over three quarters of it is utter gibberish, and most of the forum's denizens haven't spoken to another human being face-to-face for decades. Don't worry your pretty little heads about it. Above all else, remember this: You don't have to stay forever. I will understand.
So it's a vicious circle of wankerdom, then? Wankers begetting wankers who in turn develop more wankery because they read the NME? Doesn't this raise the horrifying possibility of a wanker resonance cascade, plunging the entire earth into an overload of wankers? Something should be done.[/quote]
It's already too late..Russell Brand walks amongst us.
"It was great that Kurt Cobain shot himself when he did..cos without that ,we'd have no Foo Fighters today" :Ramone, Little Lebowski Urban Achiever. November 2008
nodubmanshouts wrote:Sorry if this offends anyone, BUT....
NME is read by wankers. Wankers who think they know about music. They think they know about music because they read the NME. To all intents and purposes, all they know about music comes from the NME.
So it's a vicious circle of wankerdom, then? Wankers begetting wankers who in turn develop more wankery because they read the NME? Doesn't this raise the horrifying possibility of a wanker resonance cascade, plunging the entire earth into an overload of wankers? Something should be done.
nodubmanshouts wrote:Sorry if this offends anyone, BUT....
NME is read by wankers. Wankers who think they know about music. They think they know about music because they read the NME. To all intents and purposes, all they know about music comes from the NME.
This article exists to give them some "goth" knowledge. Lo, NME readers would actually go out and buy a "goth" album because its just not cool.
So this little article exists to help NME readers have a view on something they know nothing about.
Ignore it. Its not for us. Its for them.
Bring back Sounds....
Almost right.
As described by another friend of mine, it is written by a bunch of 16yr old indie kids whose musical knowledge comprises that which is read on wikipedia.
I bought said publication ( ) a couple of weeks back, just for the Cure cover versions CD.
In the mag there is an A-Z of goff & who was listed under "I"?
Billy Idol of course, who else?
fecking tossers.
So it's a vicious circle of wankerdom, then? Wankers begetting wankers who in turn develop more wankery because they read the NME? Doesn't this raise the horrifying possibility of a wanker resonance cascade, plunging the entire earth into an overload of wankers? Something should be done.
Indeed. One can in fact liken it to a black hole of music-wankerdom which is focused on the collapsed neutron star that was, at one time, known as Alan McGee.
Whether or not you blame Alan for this event horizon could depend somewhat on whether or not you blame Jesus for the Mormons.
nodubmanshouts wrote:Sorry if this offends anyone, BUT....
NME is read by wankers. Wankers who think they know about music. They think they know about music because they read the NME. To all intents and purposes, all they know about music comes from the NME.
This article exists to give them some "goth" knowledge. Lo, NME readers would actually go out and buy a "goth" album because its just not cool.
So this little article exists to help NME readers have a view on something they know nothing about.
Ignore it. Its not for us. Its for them.
Bring back Sounds....
Almost right.
As described by another friend of mine, it is written by a bunch of 16yr old indie kids whose musical knowledge comprises that which is read on wikipedia.
I bought said publication ( ) a couple of weeks back, just for the fat bob & co cover versions CD.
In the mag there is an A-Z of goff & who was listed under "I"?
Billy Idol of course, who else?
fecking tossers.
Perhaps.
I was following a bit of a tenuous link with Tony James though.
I suppose at least he was in Generation X with Tony James & Tony then went on to join The Sisters.
But it's a bit "my neighbour's sister's flat mate's gold fish was once fed by....." in terms of the link.
Ah Rasputin was indeed great. But Listen to He Was Steppenwolf for pure Boney Gothicness! Actually if the NME wants really gothic songs try Bright Eyes by Art Garfunkal; Superstar by the Carpenters; The Day before you Came by Abba; I don't like Mondays by Boomtown Rats; Ghostown by the Specials etc etc. In the NME barren little world what passes for gothic is basically gloominess, a kind of absence of thought that they specialise in. I've done a couple of gothic art exhibitions in my time that have included exploding pomegranates and helicopters, something the NME and the like wouldn't really get. [/quote]
Yep! Ah just the pomegranites... Eastenders may have a better case than most...But I think the Cold War was gothic so what do i know. Floodland was gothic in that respect only. Too much Doc Strangelove!
I don't care, if songs/bands are considered goth or whatever, because I don't care what goth is. All these classifications are for people who take pop music (and their "knowledge" about it) much too seriously. (so basically the readers of magazines like NME)
But I didn't know These New Puritans before and it made my day.
btw: the Boney M clip is awesome.
There have been better plans
But none that I could ever understand...
) a couple of weeks back, just for the Cure cover versions CD.
