You can take the boy out of the indie...

[boyofbadgers]

Three things:

1. I've had the new Arab Strap album on repeat for the last couple of days. It's easily the best thing they've done. Aidan has found wuv and is grudgingly optimistic about it. All still partially cloaked in a fug of stale beer and last night's used condoms of course but he's positively joyous in places. Hell, he even SINGS for most of it.

2. Listened to Seamonsters this morning and am now unreasonably excited about seeing The Wedding Present next week. I hope they'll be as good as they were the last time I saw them, at the late lamented Duchess in Leeds. In 1993. Argh.

3. As noted in catsgomiaow's poll, my favourite Xmas song right now is No Xmas For John QuaysLittle Drummer Boy. What I didn't say is that this is almost entirely due to Low's uber-indie slo-core version of the song.

It appears that November has made me come over all indie. And with no Poptimism on the horizon to cure me either. Help!

Comments

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

SHUSH!

I am willing to admit slight grebo tendencies ie owning a NFADS album...

[jauntyalan.livejournal.com]

i have a NFADS CD single, and Big is on the ladytron mix cd, this does not make me in the slilghtest grebo

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

It's a rum mix of Big on that Ladytron CD. Bloody yng ppl and their rmxs.

BIG, BASSLINE OF

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

blim blim buddeley bim
bim bim biddle-oo bom
bum bum buddley bum bum
blim blim biddle-oo bim

The desert grows three miles a year

[boyofbadgers.livejournal.com]

I put my pain in a jarrrrrrrr

Re: The desert grows three miles a year

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

I've got penguins for company!

Re: The desert grows three miles a year

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Also, I found on ver interweb years ago most of the Music Is Sh1t EP apart from the title track! The other three were super good, I always wondered if that one was just a clever name...

Re: The desert grows three miles a year

[boyofbadgers.livejournal.com]

Oooh. Geemail?

Re: The desert grows three miles a year

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

I am 98% I haven't deleted them off the hard drive. Will check when I get herm...

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

dude you haf an army jacket and i bet you haf owned:

a. doc martins
b. stripy tights

at some point ;)

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Aaaaaa no I never owned any DMs!

apart from the DM shoes that were briefly fashionable if you were a 12 year old girl who desperately wanted DM boots but wasn't allowed them in school

no comment re stripy tights. THEY DEFINITELY WEREN'T PURPLE AND BLACK

[boyofbadgers.livejournal.com]

NFADS were not grebo! No drum machines plus they were from Manchester and therefore automatically indie-dance.

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

I also have a Neds single that wasn't Kill Yr Television (only had that on a mixtape)

[boyofbadgers.livejournal.com]

I own THREE Neds singles. Oh dear.

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Also have the 2 good stuffies albums, PWEI best of OH DEAR GOD why am I making the case for myself being grebo! It's no better than indie!

"the 2 good stuffies albums"

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Sorry couldn't parse this bit.

Re: "the 2 good stuffies albums"

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Hup and 8 Legged Groove Machine. There some good singles on Never Loved Elvis etc but them two are crackin.

[boyofbadgers.livejournal.com]

Senseless Things? MC4?

This is all more fraggle than grebo, btw. Especially the stripy tights.

[plumsbitch.livejournal.com]

Oh My God.

But NFAD are far more fraggle/grebo than anything else, their being from Manchester doesn't save you-- ahahahahahahahaha.

*goes to hide all photos of self from uni, since in most of them she is wearing PWEI t-shirts*

But I no longer own any Neds singles.

[boyofbadgers.livejournal.com]

I have been meaning to get rid of them for years. Honest.