How We Get Into Things

Sep 13, 2005 08:31

I'm interested in how people get into music, film, TV, theatre, books, etc. Often (especially if it's obscure) there is a story behind it, or a memory, or a string of other things.

For example, lately I've been listening to Rip Rig & Panic a lot (one of Neneh Cherry's pre-solo groups). I first heard them in an episode of "The Young Ones"; it was ( Read more... )

comedy, music, film&tv

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unbridled September 14 2005, 01:10:50 UTC
argh are you SURE you want to hear one of mine? hahaha

don't open that canoworms...

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carnivee September 14 2005, 12:06:23 UTC
i do i do i do! you in particular because you're into more obscure things as well. do tell.

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embarrassing unbridled September 14 2005, 18:11:31 UTC
Um, lets see lets see. I'll try to come up with more than one if I can but I don't have many that are interesting ( ... )

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Re: embarrassing carnivee September 23 2005, 00:50:34 UTC
nice one!!
how did you get into belle and sebby?

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Re: embarrassing unbridled September 23 2005, 00:55:31 UTC
Heard them on the public radio show on KDHX... took a while to warm up to it, but I taped a couple songs for a friend of mine. She got WAY hardcore into them from that and it rubbed off on me... haha.

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Re: embarrassing carnivee September 23 2005, 01:01:54 UTC
when was this, can i ask?

i like to compare myself to other b&s fans, because i'm a pretty early fan for an american. ;) i like to make it a competition, basically. "ha ha, i got into them before you, neener neener." i have this weird ownership over them (b&s) whenever i talk to "newer" fans... LOL. i'm horrible.

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Re: embarrassing unbridled September 23 2005, 15:09:14 UTC
1997 maybe? sometime around when Sinister was getting around over here but before they ever toured, cos we saw them on their first american tour. i had heard of them over the internet before I heard their music but it took me a while to catch on. and i'm pretty much used to everyone being into stuff before me, so it's not a big deal... i dont' think of myself as an oldtyme b&s fan or anything although I did lose interest after FYHCHYWLAP (fishyclap) and saw them with all the original members intact :(

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Re: embarrassing carnivee September 24 2005, 12:39:15 UTC
impressive! well i think of you as a old-school b&s fan (american relativity). i got into them in 98, from this fancy-schmancy actor who, when he wasn't working, which was often (he took random film roles to pay the bills, and lived simply so he didn't have to work all the time), would spend a lot of time in the uk and ireland. that's how he heard of them ( ... )

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Re: embarrassing unbridled September 24 2005, 19:43:02 UTC
Fishyclap was a nickname used on the Sinister mailing list "back in the day", along with "Twattybus" (TBWTAS) and "Gender Wars" for Gentle Waves (i think.)

I wish I knew where it started with their decline, I think Murdoch let too many others have a hand in the soup, I really strongly disliked "Chickfactor" and that Spaceboy whatever song on Arab Strap despite liking most of the album quite well. ANd Catastrophe Waitress... I dont' even know what to say about that, what I have heard of it sounded like some alternate universe charicature of the band or something. I couldn't get into it at ALL. I still like Sinister and Tigermilk and the first EP's, and some other scattered songs along the way. It does seem like the Decemberists will have more staying power. It's really a shame. a damn shame.

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Re: embarrassing carnivee September 24 2005, 20:33:41 UTC
i think you're probably right- it's murdoch's stuff that was really the kicker for me. his lyrics and his music have had such an impact on my life ( ... )

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Re: embarrassing unbridled September 24 2005, 20:43:58 UTC
Piazza NYC is not bad, I've only heard it once though. I liked it more than other stuff I heard from DCW, but that one song... the uh... mailroom song, or whatever? God. Tv theme song? It's not BAD, but... urghh. Know what I mean ( ... )

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