In which we find it difficult to escape the 1960s

[petronia]

A TRUE STORY: to make the mental jump from acoustic Pete Doherty bootlegs to Pretty.Odd.Punctuation.Strikes.Again. I had to go through Syd Barrett. In the process I discovered I find Ryan Ross's voice 1,000 times more tolerable than Brendon Urie's. What the hell, guys.

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: so when are PATD going to cover "Waterloo Sunset"? Will

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[dipping_sauce]

(... What did I tell you about the coffee? I can just picture in my head the arm-flailing and the fast-talking.)

I swear, the first time you played a Duffy song for me, I thought it was a Dusty Springfield tune I'd never heard of. I love Duffy, I can't stop listening to her stuff. (And I found a really great remix of mercy by someone called Dunproofin? Really awesome. Have you heard it?)

[petronia]

Honestly I haven't had any! I refine my rants verbally before committing them to the Internet is all. XD And yes, I have the remix, is indeed ace.

[kovaa]

I had to go through Syd Barrett. In the process I discovered I find Ryan Ross's voice 1,000 times more tolerable than Brendon Urie's. What the hell, guys.
WHAT THE HELL, INDEED. explain please!

[petronia]

There's not much to explain! Syd Barrett and The Kinks split the difference there, but as for why that is someone'd have to ask the PATD guys. XD; I have to say I was kind of... not expecting Ray Davies to be the Great Emo Sound Killer 2008.

I'm kind of weird about male rock vocals. ^^; Like, most of the time I think they're at the very least too high in the mix.

[worldserpent]

Wait, I thought you were saying in rockism, tho (of which punk is an extreme), it didn't matter whether you were a great bassist, but that you played the guitar yourself? Or am I getting things mixed up again?

Anyway, am curious about Nana and drugs and why it made you stop reading it?

[petronia]

Yes, but it matters to the characters in Nana whether someone is a good bassist or not. XD; Or should.

Because if you're going to annoy me by sending a character I quite like on an angsty drug-fueled death spiral, at least make it realistic and not some kind of retarded after-school special! Or maybe, being Canadian, I'm not as impressed as a Japanese audience would be. Basically it just started taxing my suspension of disbelief. I'll go back to it at some point, though, but I feel like much less has happened in the last few volumes than in the first few, apart from ominous foreshadowing (a la CLAMP?).

[worldserpent]

Huh, but don't actual punk people admire Sid? Or is that just a stereotype? [No idea on how Japanese rockers would process rockism/popism here]

Eh, I took a break from Nana because the suspense was just too frustrating. But as for Ren, I was expecting it to happen anyway, and it's par for the course for manga, I find, I guess. I'd expect the editorial, since Nana is technically shoujo-ish, probably affects that; now a treatment of drugs a la Murakami Ryuu would be pretty interesting in manga.

[jokersama]

Hahahaha! Weirdly, I guess my introduction to that whole band of freaks WAS PIL. My sister got "The Greatest Hits...So Far" (which I still have, like, 20 years later), and told me that this was a spinoff of the Sex Pistols.

"Okay?" I said; at that time, my knowledge of the Sex Pistols was basically limited to wondering what "Bollocks" meant and that our cockatiel was named Sid Vicious. Oh, and that the Slits' "So Tough" was about Sid Vicious, too. (My sister told me a lot of things that I had absolutely no way of processing in grade school. XD)

You've listened to Happy?, right?

[petronia]

Ha, I remember you mentioning Sid the cockatiel, that's totes awesome. XD

You've listened to Happy?, right?

Actually I haven't!

[flamebyrd]

I really like Brendon Urie's voice in the lower registers (ie. verses) but not so much in the higher register (ie. choruses). *scuffs foot* Ryan's voice is nice but not very... emotive. Which is funny, when you think about it.

*downloads offered music*