breezes
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Post by breezes on Nov 3, 2004 13:36:35 GMT
i just got out lazer guided melodies from our cd library should be a brewer. i just found my cd library in our uni in the 3rd year, what a waste, but any suggestions for anything that you think imight remotely like then stick em up cos its my intention to give this library a good old fashioned viking style raping this year.
is that a picture of kerouac?
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Post by Kamikaze Circus on Nov 3, 2004 14:43:59 GMT
This is strange Binks.Tis indeed Jack Kerouac, something of a hero of mine.And i purchased lazer Guided Melodies just a couple of days ago.is it any good this library??Big?comprehensive?
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Post by Barno on Nov 3, 2004 15:38:42 GMT
CD library? Jesus Ricky, they do treat you good at Nottingham Uni dont they! I'll get the heckling of a lifetime for this, but I strongly suggest you give Parallel Lines by Blondie a listen, its not actually their best work but a good entry point to a good band. Ive been listening to a bit of Bowie recently, and find 'Low' is particularly good for helping with essays on political thought and what not. Its not a comedy bowie album, and a lot of it is instrumental cold war style atmosphere music! Have you bought 'Loveless' by My Bloody Valentine yet Binkovski? This masterpiece has taken residence in my CD changer as well...
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Post by Kamikaze Circus on Nov 4, 2004 13:09:03 GMT
Not sure what your into Breeze, but id recomend The Manic Street Preachers "The Holy Bible", unconditionally brillaint.Youll love it. Also get the Velvet Underground debut, if youre notr all ready familair with it. Yeah Nick Drakes awesome, "Northeren Lights" is on Bryter Lyter, thats a masterpiece of beautiful music.havnt managed to geyt hold of Pink Moon, hows it compare??AS good as Five leaves??I tried to get it from HX library this very morning, but they dint have it.That place sucks.
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Post by Kamikaze Circus on Nov 4, 2004 13:36:20 GMT
Andy Warhols a first class prat.Lou Reed though is a fiest class geezer and genius.So is the other guy.But Nico bless her cannot sing at all.
Five Leaves is the best ive heard of the two.Got it last Crimbo and i still play it.The guitair playins immesnse.Fantastic!!!!
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Post by Barno on Nov 4, 2004 14:08:43 GMT
Nick Drake, indeed a genius. Belle & Sebastian owe their career to him and Stuart Murdoch really wants to become him. Had to buy a book for Uni yesterday at Blackwells, theyve started selling classic albums at low prices. As i had to buy some Sieyes political nonsense book i decided to treat myself to Highway 61 Revisited by Bobby Dylan for £6! Now im usually quite sceptical bout Dylan as i think he is well overrated, but this is a belter of an album, and known as one of his best. 'Desolation Row' is one of the best 10 minute tracks ever, along with 'The End' and 'Marquee Moon'. Golden
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Post by Barno on Nov 4, 2004 14:15:55 GMT
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breezes
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Post by breezes on Nov 5, 2004 13:39:38 GMT
i just been and got pink moon and mercury rev - deserters song on recomendation. got told to get sonic youth - daydream nation, is supposed to be a bit like loveless but i aint never heard any sonic youth, any good anybody? its not a bad library, its got a lot of stuff that you probably wouldnt have bought but you can give a listen so its alrite like that. to please everybody i'll hav to get a blondie (gaz, when debbie harry was in her prime i can think of a couple of good "entry points" to blondie, if you know what im saying gaz, a bit of smut there for you), i'l give throwing muses a go for joe, just to shut him up!!! and i'll sample a bit of funk for ol' popa keo.
indeed kamikaze, On The Road, a first class read, just makes you wanna stop whatever your doing and just get out of this shitty country and just Go. i think this could become a current favourite read thread as well, well im gonna make it one now!
catch22- prob my favourite book ever. highly recomended.
Elektric Kool-Aid Acid Test - Tom Wolfe, charting the adventures of Ken Kesey (the bloke who wrote One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest), and his Merry Pranksters, who travel around USA for a couple of years in a psychedelic school bus driven by none other than Dean Moriaty straight out of on the road. weird to think what it must have been like to see these guys for real, this was before anybody else had really ever even heard of LSD.
Last Exit Brooklyn - Hubert Selby Jnr., about lowlifes, drug addicts, whores, wasters in post war new york. not particularly pleasant but good anyway.
Hunter S. Thompson - anything by him, relatively, short, easy to read and funny, ive never seen the film for Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, and i havent got a clue how theyve made a film of it, its an insane book.
The Outsider - Camus, just read this and i know its proper token student book but its very good anyway. makes you think about all the shit stuff you do in your life just cos your supposed to fit in with everyone else.
Brave New World -Huxley, Fahrenheit 451 - Bradbury, both sort of along the same lines as each other. both a variation of 1984.
those are the only ones i can think of off the top of my head, but i wouldnt mind having some suggestions for somat new to read fromanyone else.
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Post by Kamikaze Circus on Nov 5, 2004 14:36:37 GMT
I just completed downlaoding Pink Moon off Win MX and burnt it to disk.Ive also been investigating Sonic Youth daydream nation! They aint bad and i wanna hear more.
And if you wanna read i have recommendations,: Albert Camus-The fall, if youve not read it i find it much better than the Outsider.
Victor Hugo-Les Miserables, you cant beat the proper classics, its huge and takes time but its the bestest thing i ever read.Ace.
Paulo Coelho-The Alchemist, depending who you ask this is life changing, positively amazing or its a sentimental shepherds tale.For me its definitely the former.
And Philip Pullmans Dark Materials are well worth getting into, even if it is a kids book.
Avoid Willaim Burroughs, hes SO over rated, just a big junkie bummer.IMO.
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Post by Barno on Nov 5, 2004 15:08:54 GMT
Yeah, i just bought Les Miserables by Mr Hugo myself actually. Saw it in a sale for £1.25 so i thought "I'll have a bit of that" its only volume 1 of 2 though, so i'll have to seek the rest. Havent had chance to start it yet though, because im tied up reading political theory of the French Revolution...can you see a pattern to my reading here?
I would like to recommend Kurt Vonnegut Jr, my favourite writer at the moment. 'Cats Cradle' is a classic satire on religion and science, set on a fictional island. He introduces a made up religion, Bokkonism, that has been referred to in cultural analogies ever since. A must read.
'Breakfast of champions' and 'Timequake' are two other innovative works by the same author. The latter is partly Vonnegut's auto-biography spliced with a story. The story is that of a timequake, which sends everyone back 20 years in the past. Everyone is aware of the event, but cannot do anything differently from what happened in the original 20 years...that is to say that they cannot stop bad things they know will happen from happening...makes you wonder, it really does
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Post by Detroit What on Nov 5, 2004 16:34:29 GMT
Ive bin wanting to read those vonnegut books 4 ages-never have any money to buy books any more. meanwhile here are some of the books that have been brewing sammy t in the eyes recently:
-The Master and Margarita by Bulgakov: ive trumpetd this one before but its really worth it. Its a satire on many of the more cultural aspects of communist dictatorships rather than the more political stuff you get in animal farm etc. surreal beyond belief,funny,creepy and v.compulsive. The guy who wrote it was going to emigrate until Stalin rang him personally to ask him to stay even though his books werent properly publishd in russia til mid 80's
-Catcher in the Rye-j.d. salinger-imagine many have read this already, if haven't do-its ace.
-Cannery Row-John Steinbeck.-worth reading just for the quality of the prose-there isnt much to the story at first reading but it grows on you
Wild Swans-autobiography of a chinese woman and the story of her family during Mao's wacky cultural revolution.not a barrel of laughs but interesting to read about a society so totally divorced from what the west went through in the last 100 years
well those are my words on recent readings. breezes i'd also put catch-22 in my top ten, it's a stunner
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Post by Barno on Nov 5, 2004 16:39:58 GMT
Sammy Sammy triple Whammy, head your boots over to blue 3 of the good ol JRULM, theyve got loads of Vonnegut books to savour for free! check this shit: Blue,Floor 3: 813.5,V896/32 That will mean nothing if your not at our uni...but its the only language us soap dodgers know!
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Post by Detroit What on Nov 5, 2004 17:27:15 GMT
cheers barnoloid-call me a jew if im not there already doin my us foriegn policy reading-how very convienient ;D
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Post by Kamikaze Circus on Nov 6, 2004 11:01:37 GMT
Can "Tago Mago", fell through my door this morning, cheers postie your Christmas this annum tip shall be immense. Found it on Amazon for £7 after extensive searching of highstreet stores, all of whom wanted me to hand over £16 for it!!Its good, "oh Yeah" is one of the greatest things ive heard in an age, like Joy Division singing in Japanese!!
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Post by garykeogh on Nov 8, 2004 9:06:43 GMT
Youve used some bery true words there mr circus! Tago Mago is truly amazing!! I remember 1 night at DC where most of the yardtime were having a most uplifting experience listening to can. ha, at one point it got a bit too intense. Those crazy mushrooms!!!
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