Barking Spiders

No love for.... Ossie's going to Wembley His knees have gone all trembley Come on you Spurs ......then 😊

loads of music I like where the bass is very much low in the mix. In fact what really gets my spine a-tingling are songs where the drums or percussion is to the fore. Few things get me more buzzin than this

ok the words are suspect but the tunes are powerful

Too true. God Save The Queen is a total pile of poop . The words are embarrassingly archaic and deferential and the tune is a funeral paced drone. By several thousand miles it's the worst national anthem of any major country. Two that are great are The Marsellaise and Russia's. Then again those countries had have a great tradition of top class composers.

Except that Argentina , Portugal and Brazil sides were centred around their superstars. Neymar has shown he's no team player. Belgium and Croatia play like teams should. England have some real finds, in Macguire, Trippier and Pickford in particular. I'm sure many big sides will be whipping out their chequebooks for those boys. However, too many chances have gone missing in the last few games that should've been buried. I'm thinking of Rashford's against Belgium and two by Sterling against Sweden. With one of them Sterling had Kane to his left in front of an open goal yet Sterling was fannying about trying to score himself.

Tread Lightly is also my fave with those other two among my fave ten Mastodon tracks as are 3 from Leviathan. I'm not even a rock fan and dislike most heavy metal but as always there are exceptions to the rule. Mind you, live they'd need to be more communicative with the crowd although Troy at least makes some effort to rock out.

Don't think you will though. England have done well and congratulations are deserved but so far they haven't met any teams of the calibre of Croatia (when they're on form), Belgium and France , both on the form they've showed in the knockout phases. England don't yet have anyone quite of the class of Modric, de Bruyne or Mbappe.

I've really enjoyed all the matches I've see in this WC, and I've watched most and have been pleased to see a much transformed England side doing very well. However, I've been less pleased to hear the dire Three Lions song doing the rounds one more time. I may be slightly prejudiced as I've never been a fan of Frank Skinner, David Baddiel or the Lightning Seeds but even that 'song' is less then at the sum of these three parts. Now I quite like World in Motion, the vocal contribution of the players making a New Order song half decent for once. So, which footie songs get you toe tapping and which make you want to bash your own brains in with a lumphammer?

Righty ho I take a bit of a different view here. I like Leviathan though my faves are Hunter and Once as tracks are shorter, more melodic and lack the proggy vibe of Crack and Blood. I can't abide prog in any shape or form. Also, I like the inclusion of Brann's clean singing while I really don't like Brent's voice. But in agreement with you peeps, I was a bit disappointed with EOS overall.

I've know three or four Grateful Dead fanatics who had everything they ever did including several shelves worth of bootleg tapes. For myself, the tedium of having to sit through one of their dirgy albums brings on my migraines.

I play drum kit, various hand and stick drums, guitars and bass and switch regularly so there's no chance of getting fed up. Over the last 10 years I've done may more gigs playing drums or percussion than bass. There's something really cathartic about banging drums, especially if you're in a group of drummers, that you don't get with fretted instruments.

anything like this ?

I acknowledge Jaco's influence on the bass in the same way I recognise Kraftwerk for their pioneering in electronica. It's just that i don't really like much of the music either made, preferring what was done by their successors. I generally can't abide jazz-rock (as opposed to jazz funk, which I largely enjoy) which is what most of Jaco's music is. There are scores of other bass players i'd much rather listen to for inspiration

First time I've seen her is on this thread but I will be thigh rubbing some time today 😀

Never mind the bass playing , I'd happily pay to watch her pole dancing 😉

Someone said here the MSP were a preach yColdplay. Bang on the money. Thought I should give some of their more highly rated albums a go but they all irritated the fook out of me, the vocals, the lyrics. Kin awful. The Fall. I used to be a keen Peel listener but never could understand his love of The Fall. Gave several of their earlier efforts a go to figure out what he saw in them then i concluded he must have been be partially tone deaf. Just amateurish tosh. Dire Straits - on the plus side I still really like MK's guitar playing . It was a welcome alternative to the army of rock guitar dullards of the time. Then came Brothers in Arms which was relatively devoid of the classy playing on the previous albums and had some of the most irritating tunes of the 80s e.g. Walk of Life and Money for Nothing

But they sound their best when nobody sings them 😉

Certainly there are six strong tunes on the spin , four or five of which are among his best 20 tracks..IMO of course

Biosphere's recent reissues of Patashnik and Cirque. Top notch ambient electronica, something Scandinavians excel at, Biosphere being a Norwegian geezer. Also the newie by The Orb, No Sounds Are Out of Bounds, which is mostly dub-heavy electronica with some bass ting by Jan Wobble

Love the Six Nations and I agree it's time Georgia were given a chance. TBH I'd like to see it expanded to 8 nations , to include Romania. It's the stuffed shirts on the 6 nations committee that keep blocking the addition of new countries. The Six Nations is a bit like those snooty golf clubs that still won''t allow women in. Time to get rid of the old f@rts on the Six Nations executive. They'd probably argue that the likes of Georgia won't pull in the viewers. If they play as well as they did in the 2015 world cup they would. Ha, the mods might think we're digressing from bass chat!

I no longer follow the PL for the same reason (I 'm a Forest Green Rovers supporter for my sins, my local team) but the WC differs as it's about pride of playing for one's country and not just about chasing the biggest paypacket.

I tried very hard getting into Ziggy Stardust and thought I might be a bit gone in the head as all my mates liked it. Many decades later I still don't like it. Also agree with you about Heroes. I bought the lead single, with V 2 Schneider on the B side., which I played to death. I bought the album on the strength of this but should've just stuck with the single. Low on the other hand still sounds good to me after all these years. His best after Station.

+ 1 for the Whitesnake comment . For a brief moment when I was young I liked Deep Purple's Burn and bought Whitesnake's debut on the strength of it. Shouldn't have bothered. It's all been downhill from there though as far as worst bands ever they're up there but there are worse such as Kiss, RHCP, Journey, Boston, Kansas, REO you get my drift

Yep, me too. Thought that as bass enthusiast I thought I'd better give Jaco a go so went and bought his eponymous album, Black Market, Heavy Weather and Mr Gone around 10 years ago to see what the fuss was about.. After several attempts at trying to 'get' them I gave up and sold them on Amazon a couple of weeks later. As for Steely Dan i used to have a hits comp then went and got everything from Cant buy a thrill through to ,Aja. Realised all the best tracks are on the comps and sold all the proper albums on Amazon. Joni Mitchell - seeing her on a re-run of OGWT was enough to tell me I needn't look further.

Cos I can't play bass and watch the footie while I've a Punk IPA in one hand and my arm round my missus, who's also well into the WC 😊