The Album Review Club - Week #147 - (page 1942) - Blonde On Blonde - Bob Dylan

Well I Was going to channel Bluehammer's tradition and do a prank album for a couple hours, with a mini-write-up of Cliff Richard's I'm No Hero album, with the clues partly pointing l there. Before getting to the real choice, which Rob guessed straight away and blew it all apart. Ah well.

Well done. I was aware that if anyone knew that urban legend, the game was a bogey straight away, but that's part of the fun of the clues. Between the two items, I did think there was enough there for anyone that didn't know to work their way back to it.

Write-up (the real one) will follow.
 
Coatigan said:
Well I Was going to channel Bluehammer's tradition and do a prank album for a couple hours, with a mini-write-up of Cliff Richard's I'm No Hero album, with the clues partly pointing l there. Before getting to the real choice, which Rob guessed straight away and blew it all apart. Ah well.

Well done. I was aware that if anyone knew that urban legend, the game was a bogey straight away, but that's part of the fun of the clues. Between the two items, I did think there was enough there for anyone that didn't know to work their way back to it.

Write-up (the real one) will follow.
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I didn't know the story but I googled "Cliff Richard's name on a pen" and that story came up.

I had to laugh at the quote: "In the UK there's a cheap kind of pen called a Biro pen...."

Does he not know that the pen is named after its Hungarian inventor, Lazlo Biro, and that's why it's known as a biro worldwide?!
 
As I recall Biffy Clyro showed up in the "best bands" poll a while back and I remember thinking "who the fuck are these guys?" having never heard of them. I also recall listening to 4 or 5 tunes and feeling they had something to offer but also something that could be made fun of mercilessly. As such, I will look forward to this but suspect my review will likely skew to one side of the bell curve or another. Am I right that they have nearly no following in the USA?

Wikipedia suggests the following: The band cite influences ranging from heavy metal bands such as Metallica to progressive rock band Rush, while reviewers are often quick to link their sound to Nirvana and Foo Fighters – particularly in their use of shifting dynamics, which they adapted from Pixies and Fugazi.

Well, given how much I love Rush, Nirvana, the Foos, Pixies and was around during the pre-birth of Fugazi in DC (I liked Minor Threat, and Guy Picciotto was a college classmate of mine, also an English major with me and good friends with one of my roommates, though not me, when he was in Happy Go Licky and Rites of Spring), this could very well appeal!
 
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