bobthedrummer
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Sat Apr-05-08 11:30 PM
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Poll question: Battle of the Bands: The Fixx vs. XTC |
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Sat Apr-05-08 11:42 PM
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1. How DARE you ask, sir! This is Respectable Street! |
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It's in the order of their hedgerows it's in the way their curtains open and close it's in the look they give you down their nose all part of decency's jigsaw I suppose
Heard the neighbour slam his car door don't he realise this is respectable street What d'you think he bought that car for 'cos he realise this is respectable street
Now they talk about abortion in cosmopolitan proportions to their daughters as they speak of contraception And immaculate receptions on their portable Sony entertainment centres.
Now she speaks about diseases and which sex position pleases best her old man Avon lady fills the creases when she manages to squeeze in past the caravans that never move from their front gardens.
It's in the order of their hedgerows it's in the way their curtains open and close it's in the look they give you down their nose all part of decency's jigsaw I suppose Sunday church and they look fetching Saturday night saw him retching over our fence bang the wall for me to turn down I can see them with their stern frown as they dispense the kind of look that says they're perfect.
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Sun Apr-06-08 12:10 AM
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3. "Another home falls by the wayside |
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A few old cushions stuffed with pride A hand is shaking from the rubble This is spirit is still alive
A servant bares his occupation Breaks his back just growing old Never mind his views were taken Just saw by the rules of old
Less cities more moving people Rushing out with pride Less cities more moving people Hands that once were tied
A church bell rang for the occasion The average man learns what's in store Now he sees where his life was taken Fighting heat, but growing old
Less cities more moving people Rushing out with pride Less cities more moving people Hands that once were tied
Is this what we call education Just watch the wheel of time revolve But why is this not what I'm thinking Just one mind and the unknown!
Less cities more moving people Rushing out with pride Cities are moving people Who just forgot their lives"
Less Cities More Moving People (The Fixx)
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Sat Apr-05-08 11:59 PM
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2. Dude, that's not even a fair fight. |
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The Fixx isn't even in the same galaxy of greatness with XTC.
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Sun Apr-06-08 12:12 AM
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4. Both could have been the 80's Beatles. But The Clash was the only band that mattered. eom |
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Sun Apr-06-08 12:16 AM
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5. yep, the clash were the best ever NT |
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Sun Apr-06-08 12:19 AM
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Sun Apr-06-08 12:27 AM
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I'd say ever. It's a tough call I suppose.... only considering rock and roll here, there were roughly 20 years before they started, which of course included Elvis, Johnny Cash, The Beatles... but after them I don't think there is much of anything that even could come close. I think My Bloody Valentine were maybe the last of the really great and original rock bands - I think that everything since then has been derivative to too large an extent to be comparable on the same terms.
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Sun Apr-06-08 12:35 AM
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8. Genres, styles, of "rock and roll"-my favorite is anything with Jimi Hendrix-from the Experience to |
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Band of Gypsys--yet it's arguable that it was rock and roll.
It all came out of the Blues, of course.
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Sun Apr-06-08 12:47 AM
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The Fixx couldn't tune XTC's guitars...
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Sun Apr-06-08 12:46 AM
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9. How in the hell is this vote even close??!! |
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XTC has been around since the late seventies and have put out several fantastic albums!
What did the Fixx do? "Red Skies at Night" and "One Thing Leads to Another"..., that's about it!
I weep for the future.
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