"In my head we're Danny and Sandy...but baby, you don't even like Grease Megamix" is one of the greatest putdowns of pointless punk indignation put to vinyl.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQLKSUEUzjA
Which will in turn to at least one suburban mother looking uncomfortable, yet bemused, the first time they accidentally blast Nimrod's Son picking the kids up from school.
It's a 10, but I still find it hard to believe that 30 years on the basin-headed dude staring menacingly over soup is relevant, constantly mixing genre boundaries and widely respected in hip-hop.
One of my favourite NME Blur disses was "Sure, Oasis are the new Beatles, but do we really need the new Dave Clark Five?". Although it turned out the new Dave Clark Five had a much more interesting career overall.
All good Sandro. To be honest, I'm planning on using the upcoming edit functionality to steal jokes if I have a comment upthread. I'll make a note to steal one of yours in the future.
Take it away, Randall Munroe's slightly outdated but still relevant chart.
https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/tradition.png
We need spookier Christmas classics. Someone get whatever Gdawful autotuned children's choir they hire for Supermarket PAs onto this, stat.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YpeDRGV6P9w
Yeah, "Tennessee" is the obvious highlight for me. "Louisville is death we've got to up and move/because the dead...do not...improve" is possibly my favourite Berman line, and the Stephen Foster-doorbell imagery and enthusiasm with which he sings "hot middle-aged women", all while basing it around a shitty-ass pickup line? Classic Dave.
Once I saw (or didn't, she made everyone turn around and her guitar was slung low anyways) the guitarist from Partyline piss in a pint glass onstage. Never thought it'd end up being the more polite option when having a full bladder onstage.
Still don't trust the glassware at Melbourne's Tote.
Not being able to listen to your absolute favourites isn't necessarily a bad thing, it can leave a bad association with the band that persists well after you've gotten through the worst of it.
I've seen Forster fucken work a banana yellow suit before. Love Grant, but Forster is charismatic as hell.
I always wonder if they'd have done better if they'd stuck Robert Vickers toward the front in press shots - he looked way more like a conventional popstar and focussing on the hot non-singing bassist worked for Fall Out Boy.
Grant's overwrought facial expressions in "Bachelor Kisses" crack me up. For a dude that was pretty into film, he looked a little lost in front of a camera.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_nn90p-tIg
"Mystery Box More Like Mystery Bollox, Also You Promised Lost Had a Decent Ending, Also Also Fucken Palpatine? Really, Dickhead?"
My ability to channel the voice of the kids in 2021 is incredibly accurate.
Eh. Van Morrison's a dick, and people have a right to not be defamed regardless of their profession, but politicians suing for defamation should make people pretty uncomfortable. There's been a slate of high-profile Australian politicians (the then-Attorney General, then-Deputy Premier of NSW, unfortunately-current-Minister of Defence. Fascist dickheads the lot of them) engaging in defamation suits against journalists recently, and having wealth becoming a barrier to criticising the government is fucking terrifying. Slightly different situation because Van can afford to defend himself, but it's not something people should idly cheer from the sidelines.
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