The Album Review Club - Week #195 (page 1310) - A New World Record - ELO

threespires said:
Yours was so bloody obvious that even I managed to get it! I assume you'd draw the line at My Lovely Horse or the real life Eoin McLove, but anything else is fair game :-)
Click to expand...
Ah well, let see.
I think my last declaration of anything Oirish, for the future , may well lead to epic proportions of triple Clarkies, with double twists, and 7.8 degree difficulties.

Not from me, mind….. I’ll play it straight as an arrow.

Edit; have you heard of Daniel O’Donnell.
 
mancity2012_eamo said:
Ah well, let see.
I think my last declaration of anything Oirish, for the future , may well lead to epic proportions of triple Clarkies, with double twists, and 7.8 degree difficulties.

Not from me, mind….. I’ll play it straight as an arrow.

Edit; have you heard of Daniel O’Donnell.
Click to expand...

Never heard of him, but I know a woman who's the real life Mrs Doyle...

 
Black&White&BlueMoon Town said:
@mancity111 on their own clearly wrecked my game as I figured I was getting double digits on this for sure.

As I PM'd Rob, I had to put @GornikDaze on Metallica as I had no earthly idea who else would nominate that, unless they were in cahoots together, and I just didn't think that possible.

For longest time most of the week, I had Foggy on 3-5 tracks, to the point I was going to make him the pick for mine because I had no firm idea for him. At that time, I had Gornik on Silversun Pickups given some recent conversations here.

But that Metal Alice track kept staring me in the face asking "who am I???", and by Friday, I could not conceive that anyone other than Gornik had it. That moved Foggy over to SSP, which I inevitably got correct to secure the W.

But the biggest reason for the delay was I knew for a fact I had sussed out MCD, and I didn't want to give up that chip as the wrong guesses for him there kept rolling in.

I think I listened to that song the most during the week and probably should have added it to the top 10 for that reason alone, even quoting the lyrics too!

Everything fell apart but the W! ;-)
Click to expand...
I will stump you on the next one as well B&W but to get 9 is a decent effort but one big clue in the main is that Fog's pick could easily be mine. Surprised no one had me down for Substitution albeit I think only 10 participated in the end. Fog's pick was the only one I was really confident on because its a great track. His favourite track outside his own came in second for me unsurprisingly.
 
And what a little bit of sport that was...well done to all.
I would also like to thank Rob for the Captain Obvious Award, I feel very humbled to accept such a prestigious award, even so being the Only Dipper in the Village (sorry Forum). Dont let word get out to the rest of the forum that you are giving any awards to a dipper!
And setting it up for next time when Fog or B&W&B will be able to nominate Pulsewidth with everyone saying it is that "obvious" dipper again.
 
threespires said:
Is this warming us up for the merch e-store you're about to open?

Btw - don't know which members you're depicting there but it's certainly not me as the last time I was that thin was about 1989 :-)
Click to expand...
It was just an idea I had. We have a Canva subscription for our videos and I've seen my daughter generate some amazing graphics with the AI. So I asked if she could generate something "with four guys sitting around a gramophone."

It took a few attempts, and we had to add the text in ourselves because it's not very good with that, but I'm quite pleased with what it came up with.

It would look very good on a T-Shirt, a mug or a coaster.
 
threespires said:
Is this warming us up for the merch e-store you're about to open?

Btw - don't know which members you're depicting there but it's certainly not me as the last time I was that thin was about 1989 :-)
Click to expand...
When I first saw it, I pictured Rob 2nd from left behind the speaker enjoying the sound, threespires far right hands-on running the gramophone with the latest unexpected selection with a smug smile of "see, I knew you'd like it", with books and literature at his feet, and me and/or all others (take your pick) to the far left trying to figure out what this actually IS that is being played. 2nd right is still up for interpretation, but I did consider one from the balcony too. :-)
 
Last edited:
mancity111 said:
I will stump you on the next one as well B&W but to get 9 is a decent effort but one big clue in the main is that Fog's pick could easily be mine.
Click to expand...
Fog commented on me seeing SSP a few weeks ago in concert that he was also a fan, and for some unknown (yeah right!) reason that stuck with me. That track for me was always between Gornik (most of the week) or him, at the end. I didn't have enough data on you to know that.

mancity111 said:
Surprised no one had me down for Substitution albeit I think only 10 participated in the end. Fog's pick was the only one I was really confident on because its a great track.
Click to expand...
If I'm to be honest, that is one of my least favourite of their successful single tracks. I like many others more. If I were to pick one, it would have been a dead giveaway to those on the Playlist thread of "Growing Old Is Getting Old". That was the opener at their show, and it was simply amazing!
mancity111 said:
His favourite track outside his own came in second for me unsurprisingly.
Click to expand...
I look forward to finding that out next round, perhaps after the fact once all is revealed and I still haven't figured your selection out yet! ;-)
 
Last edited:
Mancitydoogle said:
Excellent detective work, I’d forgotten I’d posted that.
No wonder you top of the leaderboard!
Click to expand...
Indeed, I'd forgotten I'd posted about liking Silversun Pickups too!

I should have gone with my other selection -- one I played for my wife, and she said, "My God, that's absolutely fucking terrible." (She swears more than I do, seriously).
 
Mancitydoogle said:
I had you down for liking SP but I also knew BWBM liked them so I thought he was the better bet as you might have gone left field.

My wife’s hates a lot of what I listened to and also swears like a trooper,
‘get that fuckin shite off ‘ is one of her favourite phrases.
Click to expand...

The last weekend question I already knew the answer to in advance...

Me: "hey, are you interested in going with me to see DBTs?"
Her: "no, you just go and have fun."
Me: "Ok, just making sure..."

Let There Be Rock, indeed!
 
Black&White&BlueMoon Town said:
The last weekend question I already knew the answer to in advance...

Me: "hey, are you interested in going with me to see DBTs?"
Her: "no, you just go and have fun."
Me: "Ok, just making sure..."

Let There Be Rock, indeed!
Click to expand...
I dislike going to concerts on my own, but then I go with people who aren't as into the music as I am, and it's even less fun than going on my own.

I think my wife thinks she owes me as she dragged me to Grateful Dead shows when we were a-courting and she knew I could handle about a half hour of the music plus the unwashed hippie masses before I started to want to upload a Slayer CD on the sound system (big bonus points for anyone who understands that reference).

But she also turned me on to singers like Suzanne Vega and The Roches, and we both like Everclear and Flaming Lips and The Lemonheads, and we used to go to jazz shows and still frequent the SF ballet --- so it's all good if she says "You go see Superchunk, dear -- have fun."

When I was young, my friends and I all liked the same bands so it was easy to go together.
 
Mine and mrs spires music tastes have probably slightly diverged over the years. We always used to go to gigs together and though we still have much common ground we're as likely to want to go to different gigs as the same one these days. Other things have changed too. As I have previously recounted, the night we met she was drunkenly heckling Heather Nova much to the chagrin of some of Nova's fanboys, I am pleased to report in the intervening years she has mellowed or to be more precise has become enough of a two pot screamer that she retires hurt before she gets to the point where she feels emboldened to provide a loud and unvarnished critique of the talent on show.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Unread Posts

Don't have an account? Register now and see fewer ads!

SIGN UP
Back
Top