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Post by matsrule on May 18, 2005 19:21:35 GMT -5
I Love that line in CFMT. "I was dying to get out of there and he was just dying to be dying" (not the exact quote but close enough!!)
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Post by kgp on May 18, 2005 20:14:46 GMT -5
Gina (yes, I know I'm supposed to hate her) Arnold wrote about the elevator meeting in 666 On the Road to Nirvana. I don't remember if she had anymore insight (I'm guessing no), but I'll dig around in my basement for that book.
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Post by cellarfullofnoise on May 18, 2005 22:38:02 GMT -5
Gina (yes, I know I'm supposed to hate her) Arnold I used to read her in some Bay Area rag in the early 90s and it seemed like she liked the Mats fine then, namechecking a lot. Lost track of her since then, so fill me in on the hate please.
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Post by GoddamnJob290 on May 18, 2005 22:43:57 GMT -5
"Yeah, Nevermind is a great Replacements record." - Chris Robinson, The Black Crowes Apparently Kurt hated The Black Crowes for this quote. Ah, I've heard that quote too. The question is though: does it really sound like a Replacements record? I've mused over the idea, but the handful of people I've talked to about it have answered no. Most of the songs on Nevermind are pretty minimalist, so drawing proper comparasions gets hard (meaning you could say that it sounds like the Replacements, but you could also say it sounds like Cheap Trick and still be equally right).
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Post by GoddamnJob290 on May 18, 2005 22:47:01 GMT -5
I used to read her in some Bay Area rag in the early 90s and it seemed like she liked the Mats fine then, namechecking a lot. Lost track of her since then, so fill me in on the hate please. I read an interview where she said she had lost interest in rock crit after Cobain died. The interview was published in 1995 or 1996. For all I know though, she's still reviewing stuff, but I haven't seen anything from her that's been published recently.
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Post by esquizzle on May 19, 2005 8:52:47 GMT -5
Maybe Chris Robinson was saying that when he hears that title, he thinks of The Mats song "Never Mind" first? If so, that scruffy beanstalk of a guy just got a few more brownie points in my book.
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Post by GtrPlyr on May 19, 2005 9:38:32 GMT -5
One take on "It's a Wonderful Lie." Damn, that's impressive. How the fuck did he remember all those lyrics? ;D
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Post by Kathy on May 19, 2005 9:44:49 GMT -5
If you thought a song was about you, and in this song the lyric went...."you wax poetic about things pathetic, as long as you look so cute" I don't think you would be too happy. But it would still be better than if you thought a song was about you and the lyric went..."A former whore's peeing on A-jax". ;D
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Post by kgp on May 19, 2005 12:25:01 GMT -5
I used to read her in some Bay Area rag in the early 90s and it seemed like she liked the Mats fine then, namechecking a lot. Lost track of her since then, so fill me in on the hate please. Self-referential rock critic? Go figure. Honestly, I think she's taken more disrespect than she deserves. She's no different than many of the male rock critics. I don't know, sometimes she has a tendency to act like the artists are her best friends. I think she interviewed Paul during his 2002 tour. I haven't heard anything about her since.
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Post by cellarfullofnoise on May 20, 2005 7:03:15 GMT -5
I believe Paul's liner notes P.S. may have a factual error (gasp) He writes, "How did they put it in Portland? Ah yes, 'The Splendid Recluse.'" An article headlined, "The Splendid Recluse Returns: No Band, No Charge" was distributed by a wire service a few days ahead of Paul's spring 2002 in-store tour. The article actually was datelined Los Angeles. Paul probably happened to see it in Portland, his second stop. But if any town should get credit for "splendid recluse," it's definitely L.A. But wait! The phrase "splendid recluse" appears to have originated with Aleister Crowley, who used it in 1906 to describe the philosopher Hegel: "The splendid recluse! The lonely and virtuous student who would stand motionless for hours gazing into space, so that his pupils thought him idle or insane." Crowley, a British occultist, mystic, writer, poet, astrologer, sexual revolutionary, painter, mountain climber, and social critic, has a long history with rock and roll (see en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleister_Crowley#Crowley_and_Rock_.26_Roll). He appears on the covers of both "Sgt. Pepper's" and Michael Jackson's "Dangerous," and his writings are scratched into the vinyl next to the label on Led Zeppelin III. Not only that -- a MPLS connection -- Crowley originated the phrase "Love Is The Law," the title of a song and album by The Suburbs (whose sometimes wacked-out lyrics the Mats mocked in "Gimme Noise": "Can't figure out 'Music for Boys'"). In The Suburbs' song, "Love is the Law," that phrase is seen scrawled on the street in ... where else but Los Angeles.
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Post by velvetgefiltefish on May 20, 2005 9:17:20 GMT -5
I remember some interview where Paul was directly asked if "Fad" was about Cobain. His answer was: "No, I never respected him enough to write a song about him."
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Post by GoddamnJob290 on May 20, 2005 9:20:22 GMT -5
I remember some interview where Paul was directly asked if "Fad" was about Cobain. His answer was: "No, I never respected him enough to write a song about him." That's probably more harsh than anything the song could've said.
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Post by scoOter on May 20, 2005 10:30:18 GMT -5
I remember some interview where Paul was directly asked if "Fad" was about Cobain. His answer was: "No, I never respected him enough to write a song about him." i always assumed he wrote the song about himself.
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Post by A Regular on May 20, 2005 10:38:55 GMT -5
i KNEW it was cobain! the lefty thing is interesting, too. i always assumed he wrote the song about himself. Color me confused.
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Post by GoddamnJob290 on May 20, 2005 11:03:42 GMT -5
I read somewhere that Paul wrote the song for himself and Tommy, sort of as a reflection on the lessons they learned during the "I'll Be You" era.
Or at least I think I read that somewhere.
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Post by scoOter on May 20, 2005 12:07:21 GMT -5
areg, i was responding to the bestberg notes in which paul said people THOUGHT the song was about another rock star. cobain is the most obvious one you would think about. so, i knew paul was referring to cobain, but that was a mistake people were making. from day one, i assumed it was about himself. paul has mentioned people thought he wrote it about tommy, but again, i think he wrote it about himself.
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Post by kgp on May 20, 2005 12:14:35 GMT -5
Sort of changing the subject, but does anyone know what MTV perfomance Paul walked out of?
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Post by scoOter on May 20, 2005 12:19:32 GMT -5
Sort of changing the subject, but does anyone know what MTV perfomance Paul walked out of? /smartassinisity on any one he would've been invited to... \smartassinisity off
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Post by bigbak on May 20, 2005 12:19:56 GMT -5
Back in '93, I read a review that claimed WCF was obviously about Cobain (Spin, I think). The lyric "Whose suicide you're on" struck me as eerily prescient after KC offed himself.
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Post by scoOter on May 20, 2005 12:21:47 GMT -5
Back in '93, I read a review that claimed WCF was obviously about Cobain (Spin, I think). The lyric "Whose suicide you're on" struck me as eerily prescient after KC offed himself. well, i'm glad spin knows so definitively who the song is about. i'm also glad to know they don't know what they are talking about.
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