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What Song Are You Bringing?

James - Sit Down	1 votes
Inspiral Carpets - This Is How It Feels	0 votes
Happy Mondays - Step On	2 votes
The Farm - All Together Now	2 votes
Stone Roses - She Bangs the Drums	1 votes

metirish Aug 19 2008 08:06 PM

Was it big over here , in the late 80's to the early 90's it was massive in Europe , you are alone on a desert island and you must choose which song you will bring. James - Sit Down Inspiral Carpets - This Is How It Feels Happy Mondays - Step On The Farm - All Together Now Stone Roses - She Bangs the Drums I saw all of these groups around that time at the Féile Festival in Tipperary , great festival music and great times.

AG/DC Aug 19 2008 08:14 PM

Jeez, dial it back a few more years and we've got New Order, the Smiths, and Prefab Sprout. That's where my flag is planted. Dial it back still more and you've got the Buzzcocks and Joy Division. Most of those guys are living on the privileges of the brand "Manchester Band" that their predecessors established for them. Still, I'll listen and vote. I suspect I'll go with the Roses.

metirish Aug 19 2008 08:19 PM

You are dead right , The Haçienda Club in Manchester where all these bands hung out was founded by Rob Gretton who managed Joy Division and New Order , they were all part of that scene.

AG/DC Aug 19 2008 08:25 PM

Any charm in the James song is dampened by the superhuman effort it takes to get past that guy's affected hat.

batmagadanleadoff Aug 19 2008 09:16 PM

Where the hell are The Charlatans? Or this one?

batmagadanleadoff Aug 19 2008 09:30 PM

AG/DC wrote: Dial it back still more and you've got the Buzzcocks and Joy Division. Dial it back still some more and you've got Eric Burdon and The Animals. The black and white video British Invasion Animals. The good Animals. Not the pretensious psychedelic post-Monterey Pop Animals. You can dial Manchester back far enough to get to the Industrial Revolution too, I suppose. Though you won't find no Charlatans UK there either.

John Cougar Lunchbucket Aug 19 2008 09:42 PM

We really need to start obeying the Desert Island Pollmaster here. You're supposed to be at least a little dissatisfied with your choices in this exercise, if not because you can't choose which one you like the most, then because you can't choose which one you hate the least. You're about to be stranded for years. It's not all fun and games. If you wanna make sure a genre or artist is included in your Mix Tape, then make a poll!

batmagadanleadoff Aug 19 2008 09:55 PM

I'm not voting. Veeblefetzer!

metirish Aug 20 2008 04:41 AM

We could dial back all these polls to find what inspired the artists , but where's the fun in that. I didn't include The Charlatans , I was going to but I thought five is a good number for a poll, it's hard enough to ask people to listen to five.One might ask where are 808 State in this poll.

John Cougar Lunchbucket Aug 21 2008 09:18 AM

I have to confess that I missed this whole scene. I'd never even heard of The Farm. Going with the Stone Roses on the basis that the first 10 seconds sounds like an old Simple Minds song. Breasts has 24 votes ands this has two. Hmmmm.

seawolf17 Aug 21 2008 09:35 AM

I didn't vote because these aren't my favorite songs by these bands. Inspiral Carpets should be represented by "Party in the Sky," and James by "Laid." I can't remember which Stone Roses song we played the hell out of at my college radio station, but it wasn't that one. Never heard of the other two bands.

batmagadanleadoff Aug 21 2008 09:41 AM

seawolf17 wrote: I can't remember which Stone Roses song we played the hell out of at my college radio station, but it wasn't that one. I betcha it was "Fool's Gold". I linked to it in my second youtube video, above. The album version is about 10 minutes long.

metirish Aug 21 2008 09:42 AM

It's funny how huge that scene was in Britain and Ireland yet not so over here(I mean if it bypassed bucket how big could it have been) It was even known as 'the second summer of love' Danny Wilson even had a song of that name...youtube it I would say 'The Happy Mondays' were the biggest of them all back then and Shaun Ryder is still big there. Disappointed that Seawolf didn't even vote , I voted for the Farm song , love it.

batmagadanleadoff Aug 21 2008 09:57 AM Edited 1 time(s), most recently on Aug 21 2008 12:58 PM

Okay already. I'll vote. It's time to revive this day old poll and I don't wanna get blamed for killing it before it ever got started. In the Summer of 1990, Dave Johnson is gone and Dave Magadan rakes. I am a young adult and I want things to stay that way. But it's not easy when many of the kids just out of college haven't seen Tom Seaver pitch in a button-down Mets jersey. In the Summer of 1990, I sat on my couch one night, watching MTV for an hour straight through until I realized that I didn't recognize any of the bands or songs in the rotation. MTV still plays music videos in the Summer of 1990. Was I getting old? Was my music collection, -comprised mostly of stuff that was first released when I was too young to comprehend- still hip? The Mad Mad Mad Mad sound of Madchester breaks on through here in the States. The sound is pleasantly consistent with my personal tastes. Psychedelic overtones, wah-wah pedals, Hammond organs and just enough acid-rock hook to compensate for the disco-y dance beat pulsing underneath. So what if this was all a fad that came and went just as quick as a Buddy Harrelson lineup card? Would you believe that just last week, I had the Happy Mondays Pills & Thrills CD in my car stereo? I vote Happy Mondays. Step on.

John Cougar Lunchbucket Aug 21 2008 10:05 AM

See that's the spirit. When I take this DIMxT idea big-time you can say you were there near the start.

batmagadanleadoff Aug 21 2008 10:08 AM

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: See that's the spirit. When I take this DIMxT idea big-time you can say you were there near the start. What is "DIMxT"?

batmagadanleadoff Aug 21 2008 10:10 AM

Desert Island Mix Tape(s)?

batmagadanleadoff Aug 21 2008 10:13 AM

batmagadanleadoff wrote: Would you believe that just last week, I had the Happy Mondays Pills & Thrills CD in my car stereo? Is it cool to listen to the Madchester sound today?

metirish Aug 21 2008 10:15 AM

Thank you for voting batmag , and a good story to tell. I was 17/18 at that time , perfect age for that music , I remember ending up in the Hare Krishna tent at a weekend festival after seeing these bands preform. The local Bishop put a stop to the concerts after three years, fun times.

metirish Aug 21 2008 10:16 AM

] Is it cool to listen to the Madchester sound today? I have all that stuff on my ipod, it's still good music.

batmagadanleadoff Aug 21 2008 10:20 AM

metirish wrote: ] Is it cool to listen to the Madchester sound today? I have all that stuff on my ipod, it's still good music. Got any Charlatans?

John Cougar Lunchbucket Aug 21 2008 10:26 AM

batmagadanleadoff wrote: Desert Island Mix Tape(s)? Yes. Instead of going to a desert island with a limited number of albums you love*, you're sent to a desert island with a mix tape made up of songs selected from a series of hold-your-nose-and-choose polls. You are to be stranded you understand. Most frequently, the polls require you to make a single selection from an artist's entire repetoire, others like this one could be a reprsentative of a genre. Feel free to go dig the old polls up and vote they've been going on for more than a year here but the concept is so brilliant it will shirley break the confines of the CPF any second now and become a phenomenon. *What could be more boring than someone else's favorite music?

metirish Aug 21 2008 10:28 AM

Yes I do , it's a singles compilation though - Forever - The Singles. I like them and I guess I should have had them on the list.

AG/DC Aug 23 2008 03:12 PM

I'm getting past the hat in James and voting them. There's a great outro there when it becomes clear he's trying to give sympathy as much as get it. In the video, everybody who sits next to him are people who folks probably don't like sitting next to. A lot of Smiths sounds going down, but Happy Mondays (who I'm not sure could play anything) are on a T-Rex tip. The lyrics make about as much sense, too. Stone Roses are probably the best band with the most distinctive sound, but I'm going to sit down next to James.

seawolf17 Aug 23 2008 06:35 PM

batmagadanleadoff wrote: Got any Charlatans? LOVE this song.