Barking Spiders

Probably 1988 - 1998...ish...the golden age of hip hop; grunge; the start of the best periods for Ninja Tune, Pork and Warp; peak era for House, Rave, trance, techno, drum n' bass blah etc, Pixies and House of Love do their best stuff. Yup, a great time to be in one's late teens-20s

A slamming bit of trance tunage from 1999...

This was an item in a newspaper????. Guess it must've been a quiet day across the rest of the planet then.

mebbe more like a bottle of Lambrusco and a quick fumble down a back alley

yeah but at least they could do it in the privacy of their own bathroom. Thing is it's just not new. Over the last several decades there've been thousands of groups doing rock covers whether in a jazz, classical, easy listening, redneck hoe down, metal stylee .... or

Sure was one helluva player and even stood out at a time when the 80s pop/indie scene was full of stellar bassmen

Maybe it's because both realise their own stuff is such utter gash the only way is up however dire the covers are

Metallica can only wish they were as good as Coldplay 😊

In my OP I did say terrible covers of GREAT or GOOD songs though!

Just been scrolling the DAB channels to see what's on and landed on Planet Rock while a truly awful song was on. I stayed to listen to it as it's just criminally bad. Now I'm not the world's biggest Beatles fan but one of their tunes I do really like is I Am the Walrus. However, the song I'm talking about happens to be a cover of this by something called Spooky Tooth. It has nothing in it that makes the original a classic but adds in loads of Keith Moon style drumming, overly loud sustained chords on a Hammond organ and a singist who sounds like Ozzy on an off day. Anyone else heard this and can you think of another cover that really mullers the original.

Good to find other peeps on BC that share my taste. Big fave this one though I tend to think of it mostly as a DJ Shadow album

Listen to the first two New Model Army albums when Stuart Morrow was on bass and in particular a track like this one. Such as great tone!

At the moment Exai by Autechre is playing in the foreground. Plenty here to irk those that think music should only be made with 'real instruments' 😊

I've left many bands entirely due to dull and predictable set lists, drawn up to appeal to the lowest common denominator to whit several tunes mentioned - Cocaine, SHA, Rockin in The Free World, anything by Oasis, Mustang Sally plus Valerie, Brown Eyed Girl, Living on A Prayer, Sex on Fire, Mr Brightside, Caroline, Sweet Caroline and Alright Now. If I never hear any of these again it'll be too soon.

I've been selling off much of my collection of basses and guitars so have been very pleased to have been able to sell at much higher prices this year than say 2 years ago. Fr'instance I sold a 4-year old Sub Ray 4 for pretty much the same price I bought it for. The higher prices are pretty much entirely due to the hangover from Covid impacting on shipping costs and the much longer lead times UK retailers have been reporting. Guy at my local store told me he's been experiencing lead times up from 3-4 weeks to 6 months plus at least a quadrupling in container costs.

Yup, give me SAW any day over Morrissey and other miserable indie mopers. Think the UK generally had it better than the US in the 80s. We never had to really put up with hair metal, stadium AOR and all that anodyne c@ck.

There are several highly rated albums (by the NME etc anyway) that went over my head when I heard them around the time they were released. I'm giving them another chance to see if age has mellowed by opinion of them Loveless by My Bloody Valentine - nope it's no better, still sounds like an anaemic version of Psychocandy The Queen is Dead by The Smiths - the title track and Bigmouth are ok but the other tracks are pretty unremarkable. The Bends by Radiohead - Just is ok but the rest? erm...no Funeral by Arcade Fire - I tried, honest but I still don't get their appeal

The 80s were my formative years, music wise and things of a more personal nature. Back then, the bass was right in your face, from indie lefty ranters New Model Army via alt-funkers such as A Certain Ratio and Shriekback to Sade and Wham. Some good examples given so far esp The Pasadenas debut. Other 80s great bass albums I'd recommend... side 1 of Penthouse & Pavement by Heaven 17 Lexicon of Love by ABC esp tunes like 4 ever 2 gether, Valentine's Day and Many Happy Returns. Care by Shriekback Sister feelings call by Simple Minds Welcome to the pleasuredome -FGTH

Will be going up to Bluedot for a day just to see Leftfield pretty much. Then that'll almost definitely be the last gig I ever go to. I've now seen all my faves and most are now defunct or close to calling it a day.

Not heard this in a good while. Love the bassline

what's more punk than ageing baldies with beer bellies playing 'youth' music?

Recently came across this gem from Fluke that never appeared on any of their albums or EPs in CD format but did show up on LP. It's mildly bugging when albums track selections can vary a bit by format or country of release.

HMHB are the band the Beatles could only have dreamed of being. Neither Lennon, McCartney nor Harrison have come up with anything as great as Joy Division Oven Gloves, All I Want for Christmas is a Dukla Prague Away Kit, I Left My Heart in Papworth General, Deep House Victims Minibus Appeal and 13 Eurogoths Floating in The Dead Sea. I rest my case m'lud.

Love's just for people who can't afford expensive hookers/gigolos

Blasting out the wax from my ears with...