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Christ we're shit this morning.

(, Tue 23 Apr 2013, 9:40, 213 replies, latest was 12 years ago)
Start as you mean to go on.

(, Tue 23 Apr 2013, 9:41, Reply)
The popular page is shit and all.

(, Tue 23 Apr 2013, 9:41, Reply)
I've said it before and I'll say it again: MORIBUND

(, Tue 23 Apr 2013, 9:44, Reply)
We could always talk about my album?

(, Tue 23 Apr 2013, 9:45, Reply)
i could do with a laugh

(, Tue 23 Apr 2013, 9:46, Reply)
something something the yolks on you

(, Tue 23 Apr 2013, 9:46, Reply)
Go for a piss.

(, Tue 23 Apr 2013, 9:47, Reply)
finally someone who appreciates United wrapping up the title at Old Trafford for a change

(, Tue 23 Apr 2013, 9:51, Reply)
Or not.

(, Tue 23 Apr 2013, 10:01, Reply)
he's gone for a cry in the disabled bogs again

(, Tue 23 Apr 2013, 10:16, Reply)
This might help
b3ta.com/questions/offtopic/post1925589
(, Tue 23 Apr 2013, 10:08, Reply)
that reads like a romcom d8 flick for chicks !!!

(, Tue 23 Apr 2013, 10:15, Reply)
Distressingly enough, you're not wrong here.

(, Tue 23 Apr 2013, 10:30, Reply)
Folk off

(, Tue 23 Apr 2013, 9:46, Reply)
I'd just like to use this forum to express my distaste for advertisers using twee folk versions of pop songs to sell shit.
Now, if you could get, Major Lazer, say to record a version of 'Little Musgrave and Lady Barnard' or 'The Pig Castrator's Daughter' with Napalm Death's vocalist then I MIGHT be impressed.
(, Tue 23 Apr 2013, 10:12, Reply)
I'm on it

(, Tue 23 Apr 2013, 10:13, Reply)
Basically, if no-ones died, been raped, kidnapped by fairies or gotten shit-flinging drunk by the end of it, it ain't a folk song.

(, Tue 23 Apr 2013, 10:14, Reply)
or been shot in the chest
you know what I'm talkin about
(, Tue 23 Apr 2013, 10:16, Reply)
But only, ONLY if there's angels on ariels in it.

(, Tue 23 Apr 2013, 10:18, Reply)
imma go do an enormous plop now

(, Tue 23 Apr 2013, 10:21, Reply)
I mean like, no calls for like 30 minutes kinda plop

(, Tue 23 Apr 2013, 10:21, Reply)
I had one of those this morning.
I thought drinking real ale was supposed to make your shit drop really easy.
(, Tue 23 Apr 2013, 10:22, Reply)
Buy my album.
Nothing twee about that.
(, Tue 23 Apr 2013, 10:15, Reply)

b3ta.com/questions/offtopic/post1940726
(, Tue 23 Apr 2013, 10:18, Reply)
Everyone dies on this album.

(, Tue 23 Apr 2013, 10:20, Reply)
We can but hope.

(, Tue 23 Apr 2013, 10:23, Reply)
This thread may just save the day

(, Tue 23 Apr 2013, 9:42, Reply)
That's what I'm thinking.

(, Tue 23 Apr 2013, 9:45, Reply)
Well it gets your mind off cheese......
or does it?
(, Tue 23 Apr 2013, 9:46, Reply)
YOURN SHIT!
Muppet.
(, Tue 23 Apr 2013, 9:46, Reply)
Fackin joker

(, Tue 23 Apr 2013, 9:47, Reply)
Cover versions which appear on Tango's album: GO!

(, Tue 23 Apr 2013, 9:47, Reply)
Everybody Yurts

(, Tue 23 Apr 2013, 9:48, Reply)
click

(, Tue 23 Apr 2013, 10:15, Reply)
WOmad World

(, Tue 23 Apr 2013, 9:49, Reply)
Yakety Yak

(, Tue 23 Apr 2013, 9:49, Reply)
I Don't Like Meatdays

(, Tue 23 Apr 2013, 9:51, Reply)
why?

(, Tue 23 Apr 2013, 10:05, Reply)
Fuck that shit

(, Tue 23 Apr 2013, 9:52, Reply)
Is that not Darths?

(, Tue 23 Apr 2013, 9:53, Reply)
it's one of those must cover tunes for every aspiring pub band

(, Tue 23 Apr 2013, 9:55, Reply)
Or Kroney's

(, Tue 23 Apr 2013, 10:16, Reply)
I Think Yurt Amazing

(, Tue 23 Apr 2013, 10:05, Reply)
Yoghurt The Love

(, Tue 23 Apr 2013, 10:06, Reply)
No Womad, No Cry

(, Tue 23 Apr 2013, 10:07, Reply)
Why Tofus Fall In Love?

(, Tue 23 Apr 2013, 10:07, Reply)
Lentl by Barbara Streisand.

(, Tue 23 Apr 2013, 10:07, Reply)
hahaha!

(, Tue 23 Apr 2013, 10:08, Reply)
click

(, Tue 23 Apr 2013, 10:12, Reply)
Swampy, Remember Me

(, Tue 23 Apr 2013, 10:09, Reply)
Way-couscous Me Up Before You Go Go.

(, Tue 23 Apr 2013, 10:13, Reply)
Nut Cutlet City Limits

(, Tue 23 Apr 2013, 10:16, Reply)
*golf clap*

(, Tue 23 Apr 2013, 10:18, Reply)
Linda McCart-knees Up Mother Brown

(, Tue 23 Apr 2013, 10:18, Reply)
Four Minute Quorning

(, Tue 23 Apr 2013, 10:21, Reply)
oh nice

(, Tue 23 Apr 2013, 10:23, Reply)
Brown Rice in the Ring

(, Tue 23 Apr 2013, 10:21, Reply)
Amuselid To Death

(, Tue 23 Apr 2013, 10:25, Reply)
Yurt Cheatin' Heart

(, Tue 23 Apr 2013, 10:26, Reply)
Hands Across The Vegetable

(, Tue 23 Apr 2013, 10:34, Reply)
"Tom's diner" Suzanne Vegan

(, Tue 23 Apr 2013, 10:34, Reply)
Morning Monty, have you checked out the Bowie exhibition at the V&A yet?
The man is a living god by all accounts and people who say stuff like that know what they're talking about I'm sure. I also noticed that VUe cinemas or somesuch are going to be showing Labyrinth at a late night showing soon *buys tickets*...*rotates balls*
(, Tue 23 Apr 2013, 9:51, Reply)
he's a fucking talentless transvestite, just sayin

(, Tue 23 Apr 2013, 10:02, Reply)
I hate him even more than foreigners. I ent even lyin.

(, Tue 23 Apr 2013, 10:03, Reply)
I'd like to kick a biro down his ear

(, Tue 23 Apr 2013, 10:04, Reply)
I wish it had been me who lobbed that lolly in his eye.

(, Tue 23 Apr 2013, 10:07, Reply)
pretty sure "lobbing a lolly in his eye" is gay slang for something unsavoury

(, Tue 23 Apr 2013, 10:10, Reply)
I wouldn't know, soz

(, Tue 23 Apr 2013, 10:12, Reply)
haha, we have a right laugh here don't we

(, Tue 23 Apr 2013, 10:13, Reply)
hah, yeah

(, Tue 23 Apr 2013, 10:16, Reply)
Course I have.
I've been 15 times already. I just love the chamaeleon of pop. He's so avant garde and 'ahead of the curve'. One of the best pieces of wanker journalism I've ever read concerned his recent album: the utter cunt writing it actually claimed that the 15 years silence between his last LP and this one 'was almost a piece of conceptual art in itself'. Jesus shitting Christ.
(, Tue 23 Apr 2013, 10:03, Reply)
lols

(, Tue 23 Apr 2013, 10:03, Reply)
he's a fucking talentless transvestite, just sayin

(, Tue 23 Apr 2013, 10:04, Reply)

he's I'm


LOL!!!!
(, Tue 23 Apr 2013, 10:05, Reply)
haha, we have a right laugh here don't we

(, Tue 23 Apr 2013, 10:06, Reply)
Pfft
Someone sent me a link to the Top 100 tracks of the eighties according to NME t'other day. I quite like Joy Division/New Order but they had about five entries in the top 20 or sutin. They weren't that fucking good.
(, Tue 23 Apr 2013, 10:31, Reply)
Joy Division are one of my favourite bands ever.
I'm quite the obsessive fan.
(, Tue 23 Apr 2013, 10:31, Reply)
That's funny because they're fucking dreadful.
Ian Curtis was tone fucking deaf, looked like a prick and his 'stage prescence' was like watching a mongol having an eppy.
(, Tue 23 Apr 2013, 10:34, Reply)
He was the best one and all.
Pretty sure he WAS a mongol having an eppy though.
(, Tue 23 Apr 2013, 10:35, Reply)

b3ta.com/questions/offtopic/post1940779
(, Tue 23 Apr 2013, 10:37, Reply)
At least he had the good manners to kill himself.
Spared me the bother.
(, Tue 23 Apr 2013, 10:38, Reply)
I believe we have to agree to disagree here about the dreadfulness, though not about the vocal talents of Ian Curtis.

(, Tue 23 Apr 2013, 10:35, Reply)
Oh come on. It must have been like watching Battered sing karaoke.
With a Manc accent.
(, Tue 23 Apr 2013, 10:36, Reply)
I find their music achingly beautiful acksherly
I could bore you with the reasons why but time and space do not permit.
(, Tue 23 Apr 2013, 10:39, Reply)
Thank Christ for that

(, Tue 23 Apr 2013, 10:40, Reply)
A ringing endorsement, if ever there was one.

(, Tue 23 Apr 2013, 10:34, Reply)
I like them too, but in the eighties I also liked Five Star and the Axel F theme
AND WHERE WERE THEY IN THE TOP 20, HUH?
(, Tue 23 Apr 2013, 10:35, Reply)
My top 100 80s records would be almost all hip hop, a few neo-psych acts like Loop and some '88 acid house records.

(, Tue 23 Apr 2013, 10:36, Reply)
Needs MOAR Billy Ocean

(, Tue 23 Apr 2013, 10:39, Reply)
^ this guy gets it!

(, Tue 23 Apr 2013, 10:40, Reply)
He's certainly sharing the same dream

(, Tue 23 Apr 2013, 10:42, Reply)
tee hee

(, Tue 23 Apr 2013, 10:42, Reply)
Get out of my dreams

(, Tue 23 Apr 2013, 10:42, Reply)
My top 100 80s records would, inevitably, include most of Liquid Liquid's output, JAMC, Dead Kennedys, Black Flag, Temptation by New Order, a fair few Public Enemy records and a smattering of Detroit techno.
Actually, dunno if I could do 100. 50 definitely.
(, Tue 23 Apr 2013, 10:41, Reply)
haha, you listen to shit music

(, Tue 23 Apr 2013, 10:45, Reply)
haha you're a dull prick

(, Tue 23 Apr 2013, 10:47, Reply)
woah, no need to get upset

(, Tue 23 Apr 2013, 10:50, Reply)
I'm just checking 'em.

(, Tue 23 Apr 2013, 10:52, Reply)
woah

(, Tue 23 Apr 2013, 10:52, Reply)
They were total shit.
Was that top 100 based on a fans poll, a critics poll or sale?
(, Tue 23 Apr 2013, 10:35, Reply)
Dunno
Deffo not sales, unless it was 12" sales as Blue Monday was No1. I'd expect the same result from people who write for NME and people who read NME. NME made me think I should like Dinosaur Jr back in the day, still not sure if I should or not.
(, Tue 23 Apr 2013, 10:37, Reply)
No, they're shit and all.
People latched onto them as 'good' because everything else was so terminally shit. To this day idiots claim J Mascis is an 'amazing guitarist'. Amazingly shit, maybe.
(, Tue 23 Apr 2013, 10:39, Reply)
Quality guitarist

(, Tue 23 Apr 2013, 10:40, Reply)
hahaha

(, Tue 23 Apr 2013, 10:41, Reply)
Missing Link on the Judgement Night soundtrack is fucking brilliant guitar all the way through

(, Tue 23 Apr 2013, 10:51, Reply)
That's the Del Tha Funkee Homosapien track, right?
I taped that album way back when it came out. My favourite tracks on it are that Slayer & Ice T track, the Biohazard & Onyx one and the Helmet & House of Pain one. Page Hamilton is another boss guitarist an' all.
(, Tue 23 Apr 2013, 10:53, Reply)
I like Del and indeed all those Hieroglyphics kids

(, Tue 23 Apr 2013, 10:54, Reply)
Me too.
Not overly keen on that track he did for Handsome Boy Modeling School, but he's an otherwise dependable emcee.
(, Tue 23 Apr 2013, 10:55, Reply)
Thats the one

(, Tue 23 Apr 2013, 10:54, Reply)
J Mascis is an excellent guitarist.

(, Tue 23 Apr 2013, 10:41, Reply)
NO REAL NAMES

(, Tue 23 Apr 2013, 10:43, Reply)
ANDREW MARR is an amazing guitarist

(, Tue 23 Apr 2013, 10:43, Reply)
I liked it when he did "Pump up the volume"

(, Tue 23 Apr 2013, 10:47, Reply)
surely when THEY did 'Pump up the volume'?

(, Tue 23 Apr 2013, 10:49, Reply)
ANDREW MARR is a THEY?

(, Tue 23 Apr 2013, 10:52, Reply)
No, but the track was done by M.A.R.R.S.

(, Tue 23 Apr 2013, 10:54, Reply)
REALLY WAS IT?

(, Tue 23 Apr 2013, 10:55, Reply)
YEAH, ANDREW MARR AND HIS CLONE, ANDREW MARR!

(, Tue 23 Apr 2013, 10:56, Reply)
Yeah but what tyres would he prefer on a Mk2 Golf GTI?

(, Tue 23 Apr 2013, 10:58, Reply)
4

(, Tue 23 Apr 2013, 11:00, Reply)
No spare?

(, Tue 23 Apr 2013, 11:01, Reply)
NO SPARE TYRE CHAT

(, Tue 23 Apr 2013, 11:02, Reply)
^ this ^

(, Tue 23 Apr 2013, 11:02, Reply)
Don't want to offend any lolfatties

(, Tue 23 Apr 2013, 11:04, Reply)
Terrible bullying of b3th

(, Tue 23 Apr 2013, 11:06, Reply)
haha

(, Tue 23 Apr 2013, 10:53, Reply)
I liked it

(, Tue 23 Apr 2013, 10:53, Reply)
Was he in the Smiths?

(, Tue 23 Apr 2013, 10:49, Reply)
No, The Strokes

(, Tue 23 Apr 2013, 10:53, Reply)
Very good

(, Tue 23 Apr 2013, 10:54, Reply)
Only for a bit, he bought a magazine and a Ribena but then left in a hurry to catch his train

(, Tue 23 Apr 2013, 10:53, Reply)
officesmirk

(, Tue 23 Apr 2013, 10:54, Reply)
lol

(, Tue 23 Apr 2013, 10:55, Reply)
Same people talking about the same old shit, innit.
Usually I'm the life and soul of this dump, but I'm up against it this week. I've barely any time left to waste.
(, Tue 23 Apr 2013, 9:51, Reply)

the life and soul of this to be found in the kitchen freezing my latest
(, Tue 23 Apr 2013, 10:04, Reply)

time waste
waste freeze
(, Tue 23 Apr 2013, 10:04, Reply)
I feel like there's a thread running through these two posts that I'm not quite getting.

(, Tue 23 Apr 2013, 10:12, Reply)
It's rather as if you've fallen between two stools, here

(, Tue 23 Apr 2013, 10:13, Reply)
no shit

(, Tue 23 Apr 2013, 10:14, Reply)
I think the negative vibes in this thread have put everyone off from posting.
You've got to remember that a lot of people's medication may not have taken full effect yet and they need some encouragement to come out and play.
(, Tue 23 Apr 2013, 10:01, Reply)
I've had my coffee now

(, Tue 23 Apr 2013, 10:02, Reply)

www.b3ta.com/questions/offtopic/post1940576
(, Tue 23 Apr 2013, 10:05, Reply)
FUCK YEAH

(, Tue 23 Apr 2013, 10:06, Reply)
it's ok, I'm here now

(, Tue 23 Apr 2013, 10:01, Reply)
In that case I think I might check them.

(, Tue 23 Apr 2013, 10:04, Reply)
haha, missed out on the dubz there

(, Tue 23 Apr 2013, 10:06, Reply)
Speak for yourself.


Some of us are shit *all* the time.
(, Tue 23 Apr 2013, 10:23, Reply)
bethany is it true that you 'actually' asked to be made a moderator ?

(, Tue 23 Apr 2013, 10:26, Reply)
It's true that I told Rob we needed a mod here
and offered to do the job.
However, it's also true that I told him it wouldn't matter if it was chompy or anyone else. Just so long as we had someone here to keep the trolls in line.

I think you'll agree I've done a *sterling* job with the tools at my disposal.
(, Tue 23 Apr 2013, 10:30, Reply)
haha yeah like you have any tools beyond linking to images haha

(, Tue 23 Apr 2013, 10:31, Reply)
TTJ numbnuts

(, Tue 23 Apr 2013, 10:32, Reply)
Oh, there's plenty of tools here.

(, Tue 23 Apr 2013, 10:32, Reply)
Don't we just know it.

(, Tue 23 Apr 2013, 10:33, Reply)
Can I gather from your MUSIC CHAT up there ^
that you're a fan of the folk music of olde englande?
(, Tue 23 Apr 2013, 10:37, Reply)
I'm well down with the wack-fol-diddle-I-down homies, yo.

(, Tue 23 Apr 2013, 10:37, Reply)
It's a genre I've had to become intimately familiar with over the last thirteen years.
Against my better judgement, I'm actually starting to rather like it.
(, Tue 23 Apr 2013, 10:39, Reply)
Basically, you need to get yo'self some Alaisdair Roberts.
That homie kills someone on record they stay dead.
(, Tue 23 Apr 2013, 10:42, Reply)
Scottish / German mix?
I know someone who would LOVE that shit, yo.
(, Tue 23 Apr 2013, 10:45, Reply)
Check it
www.youtube.com/watch?v=R46Aue8R_Fc

Saw him playing a 13 plus minute version of this at Snape Maltings a few years back. Heavy shit.
(, Tue 23 Apr 2013, 10:46, Reply)
I've shown mr b3th a video of him playing Long Lankin.
His verdict is that no-one does it like Maddy Prior, and Roberts guitar picks like Dick Gaughin.
(, Tue 23 Apr 2013, 11:01, Reply)
His Dad recorded 'Caledonia' with Dougie McClean.

(, Tue 23 Apr 2013, 11:04, Reply)
Seconding this opinion right here.
We supported him last year and he's a top chap and all.
(, Tue 23 Apr 2013, 10:47, Reply)
Now.
This is important.

Where do you stand on Kate Rusby?

This question to B3th also.
(, Tue 23 Apr 2013, 10:51, Reply)
Meh.
Prefer Eliza Carthy
(, Tue 23 Apr 2013, 10:52, Reply)
I've met her dad.

(, Tue 23 Apr 2013, 10:54, Reply)
I have a mate who looked after her mum when she was in hospital a year or two back.

(, Tue 23 Apr 2013, 10:55, Reply)
Martin?
/outofmydepth
(, Tue 23 Apr 2013, 10:57, Reply)
That's the chap.

(, Tue 23 Apr 2013, 10:59, Reply)
A FINE woman.
Starting to look distressingly like her mother though.
(, Tue 23 Apr 2013, 10:55, Reply)
The Watersons are another group that mr b3th likes.
Just last weekend I bought him a remastered CD of old Maddy Prior & some bloke recordings, which went down quite well.

I don't mind the female singers. It's the toneless dirgey blokes I can't stand.
(, Tue 23 Apr 2013, 11:04, Reply)
There are an awful lot of cunts that just can't fucking sing on the circuit.

(, Tue 23 Apr 2013, 11:13, Reply)
Hiya!!!

(, Tue 23 Apr 2013, 11:14, Reply)
I've never stood on her.
She's not really my bag.
Inoffensive enough, but not doing anything new or interesting.
My mum loves her though.
(, Tue 23 Apr 2013, 10:53, Reply)
Basically anyone that does a duet with Ronan Keating can come off the artistic roll call.
I like Mike Harding but his fascination with her is really quite creepy.
(, Tue 23 Apr 2013, 10:54, Reply)
He is slowly starting to recognise that there are some decent contemporary folk acts out there.
Rather than a lot of the dull old shit that he tends to favour.
(, Tue 23 Apr 2013, 10:59, Reply)
I must confess, I quite like MarK Radcliffe, when he shuts the fuck up a bit and plays stuff.

(, Tue 23 Apr 2013, 11:00, Reply)
It's a bit of a departure for him, as he usually does banter based radio.

(, Tue 23 Apr 2013, 11:08, Reply)
STOP

(, Tue 23 Apr 2013, 11:14, Reply)

carry on
(, Tue 23 Apr 2013, 11:14, Reply)
I liked it when he got hit on the knee

(, Tue 23 Apr 2013, 10:59, Reply)
You should buy my album as well then.

(, Tue 23 Apr 2013, 10:48, Reply)
i'm surprised thats all, robs made a big song and dance that the last people who should be mods are those that ask for this mighty power in the first instance
who knew that robs full of shit eh, who knew

you're pretty innocous as a mod, apart from posting personal details about me
(, Tue 23 Apr 2013, 10:33, Reply)
alright Liam?

(, Tue 23 Apr 2013, 10:33, Reply)
NO REAL NAMES PLEASE

(, Tue 23 Apr 2013, 10:34, Reply)
Is that why you call me bethany?
Because you know it's not my real name?
(, Tue 23 Apr 2013, 10:35, Reply)
OF COURSE IT ISNT

(, Tue 23 Apr 2013, 10:38, Reply)
She's known on other websites as Margaret, 59, from Weston.

(, Tue 23 Apr 2013, 11:14, Reply)
Haha, brb, going on facebook to contact all the Liams and say "Ahhhhhh yah' CUNT ! I FOUND YOU ! AHhahahahahah, mug. Look at you, with that stupid shirt on your profile picture".

(, Tue 23 Apr 2013, 10:39, Reply)
i'm not on facebook Paul

(, Tue 23 Apr 2013, 10:59, Reply)
I'm glad Chompy wasn't made a mod.

(, Tue 23 Apr 2013, 11:08, Reply)
Music chat

(, Tue 23 Apr 2013, 10:53, Reply)
Buy my album.

(, Tue 23 Apr 2013, 10:54, Reply)
maybe if you were to provide me with a link to a website where I could listen to it and decide that it's well-intentioned amateurish twaddle?

(, Tue 23 Apr 2013, 10:57, Reply)
he's shy ent he
and it's shit
(, Tue 23 Apr 2013, 10:58, Reply)

www.b3ta.com/questions/offtopic/post1940754
(, Tue 23 Apr 2013, 11:04, Reply)
where's my link, I want to buy your album

(, Tue 23 Apr 2013, 11:05, Reply)
If you are serious I can gaz you a link.

(, Tue 23 Apr 2013, 11:06, Reply)
I'd be interested to hear a preview innit

(, Tue 23 Apr 2013, 11:07, Reply)
Gazzed

(, Tue 23 Apr 2013, 11:14, Reply)
Give me a blurb.

(, Tue 23 Apr 2013, 10:59, Reply)
Ewwwww.

(, Tue 23 Apr 2013, 11:02, Reply)
Buy tangledupinblue's album.

(, Tue 23 Apr 2013, 10:55, Reply)
I've started a new thread.

(, Tue 23 Apr 2013, 11:07, Reply)

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