SHINE 5 - wife swapping is the futcher

[atommickbrane.livejournal.com]

SHINE 5: you know that it would suitcher! June 1996, the year Shine went MASSIVE in more ways than one, I think this is one of the best Shines yet, except for Shine 3 which was of course, my first Shine. This is the year Ash went "sensitive" and made "timeless touching pop moments" with Goldfinger and Oh Year, clearly a good move seeing as they appear on this compilation not once but TWICE - Marion and the Longpigs have their STRONGEST SONGS YET and the sodding Cranberries make yet ANOTHER baffling appearance. Audioweb make their first appearance on a Shine. WHY!!!

So, anyone remember Salt?? ON WITH THE VOTES!

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[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

super furries roXoR they r prog QED

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

I have spent time in Wales ===> I have learnt to loathe Super Furries more than anyone could possibly guess.

They are the British Beck ie people always go on about how WEIRD and WACKY they are but they make BORING BOG-STANDARD INDIE and those people should be forced to listen to NOTHING BUT CIARA for a decade!!!

[atommickbrane.livejournal.com]

B-b-b-but they had a TANK! And hahaa there was always a techno element to their music! They said this in ALL INTERVIEWS cos they had someone on the odd bleepy noise machine. Hometown Unicorn is a LOVELY song and God! Show Me Magic was a GRATE bit of gleeful pop noise and this one is all about RAVING!

FOR SHAME, LEX!

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

Haha, God Show Me Magic was the first SFA song I heard and I didn't mind it but nothing else they've done comes even close to a tune as good as that!

Also he couldn't sing etc etc etc!

[braisedbywolves.livejournal.com]

By "he couldn't sing" do you in fact mean "He's a boy"? Because Gruff has one of my favourite singing voices ever.

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

The "techno element" to the SFA's music is surely one of the greatest white elephants in wock'n'woll history.

[plumsbitch.livejournal.com]

SECONDED.

There's almost certainly a bit of rave mentality to them as an entity but there's buggerall sign of it in their music.

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

See also: people claiming the Stone Roses had something to do with acid house.

[plumsbitch.livejournal.com]

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Last time I had that conversation, it resulted in me talking *at* someone for, oh, serveral days... The words 'A Guy Called Gerald' recurred frequently.

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[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

surely this is not what "white elephant" actually means? it is the ugly vase stall at the village fete -- ie gifts it is hard to get rid of -- not mythical entities

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[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Curse you and your "meaning". You're right though.

What is the phrase for mythical entities I'm thinking of then?

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[atommickbrane.livejournal.com]

Do you not just mean "the elephant in the room"?

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[atommickbrane.livejournal.com]

Except that being a big thing that no-one talks about it being the EXACT OPPOSITE of what you mean, haha OKAY!

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[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

"white whale" would sorta work -- a semi-mythical beast that the capt ahabs of RnR are obsessively seeking (and when they find it destroys them)

i quite like the idea of "white elephants" as a critical concept -- qualities a band has been "blessed with" but want to get rid of and can't -- how i can't come up with any examples at the moment

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[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

when I interviewed Alex Smoke there was much talk about how he wanted to make really messy, rough sounding music, but whenever he tried he reverted to order and harmony (I think for a while he wanted quite desperately to get away from his classical background but now that he's talking about wanting to score film music and listening to nothing but Sibelius and Mozart the pendulum has probably swung back)

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[braisedbywolves.livejournal.com]

Damon Albarn's pop ear.