Magazine (the band)

[PhilHibbs]

  

2 hours ago, mfbrandi said:

On a flipper tip, Gbaji karaoke!

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I'm looking through a hole in the sky
I'm seeing nowhere through the eyes of a lie
I'm getting closer to the end of the line
I'm living easy where the sun doesn't shine

I'm living in a room without any view
I'm living free because the rent's never due
The synonyms of all the things that I've said
Are just the riddles that are built in my head

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This and that, they must be the same
What is legal is just what's real
What I'm given to understand
Is exactly what I steal

I wormed my way into the heart of the crowd
I wormed my way into the heart of the crowd
I was shocked to find what was allowed
I didn't lose myself in the crowd

Shot by both sides
On the run to the outside of everything
Shot by both sides
They must have come to a secret understanding

I vaguely recognized the first, but not the second. Never heard of Magazine. I looked it up, and it's got a really good early Stranglers/Damned vibe. I'll have to check out more of their stuff.

Oh, Buzzcocks/Banshees connections. That makes sense.

Edited March 23, 2023 by PhilHibbs

[mfbrandi]

8 minutes ago, PhilHibbs said:

I'll have to check out more of their stuff.

As a measure of how unhip I am, I owe my knowledge of their existence to my high-school maths teacher.

The first three albums are all good, but start with Real Life. It was falling apart a bit by the end — the live album and Magic, Murder & the Weather — but then Devoto turned in a decent solo album. (Government health warning: these are just Brandi’s opinions — discount as necessary.)

A friend of mine spent time in Manchester in the ’80s and knew a bunch of people on the scene (man). Sadly, he reports that Devoto was too taken with the “look at me, I’m a rock star”-ness of it all. Ho hum! 😉

[PhilHibbs]

5 minutes ago, mfbrandi said:

As a measure of how unhip I am, I owe my knowledge of their existence to my high-school maths teacher.

In my experience maths teachers often have great musical taste.

[Bill the barbarian]

3 hours ago, PhilHibbs said:

I vaguely recognized the first, but not the second. Never heard of Magazine. I looked it up, and it's got a really good early Stranglers/Damned vibe. I'll have to check out more of their stuff.

 

Love the stranglers (no more heroes is just great for RQ).

 

2 hours ago, mfbrandi said:

As a measure of how unhip I am, I owe my knowledge of their existence to my high-school maths teacher.

 

My best high school math teacher was a dixieland jazz band drummer.

2 hours ago, PhilHibbs said:

In my experience maths teachers often have great musical taste.

Yep, and trolls say they taste good too!

 

[mfbrandi]

3 hours ago, PhilHibbs said:

In my experience maths teachers often have great musical taste.

1 hour ago, Bill the barbarian said:

My best high school math teacher was a dixieland jazz band drummer.

Now I want you to come to an amicable agreement, but which is it going to be?

(I’d have hoped jazzy mathematicians would be more at the Elvin Jones/Tony Oxley end of things. But I probably took one blow too many to the head as a child.)

[Bill the barbarian]

11 minutes ago, mfbrandi said:

(I’d have hoped jazzy mathematicians would be more at the Elvin Jones/Tony Oxley end of things. But I probably took one blow too many to the head as a child

Jazz like many wonderful things is a many splendored thing... For high schoolers, Dixie Land. For theoretical mathematicians may I suggest Thelonious Monk, and for calculating Calculus tutors one might imagine Charles Mingus... I am at a loss of what to suggest for Spyro Gyra or Weather Report. A stoned or recovering 60's prof teaching Godel?

Edited March 23, 2023 by Bill the barbarian

[mfbrandi]

20 minutes ago, Bill the barbarian said:

For theoretical mathematicians may I suggest Thelonious Monk, and for calculating Calculus tutors one might imagine Charles Mingus.

Monk & Mingus for everyone, no?

[Bill the barbarian]

29 minutes ago, mfbrandi said:

Monk & Mingus for everyone, no?

Math for everyone?

Who gives a shit, a double order of al gebra here, and a little Eubie Blake for ambience if ya please!

[Bill the barbarian]

On 3/23/2023 at 10:21 AM, PhilHibbs said:

Oh, Buzzcocks/Banshees connections. That makes sense.

Ah, bliss, the memories of youth... several apologies Phil for being so OT that I brought Eubie Blake to an Amp Fight!

Edited March 24, 2023 by Bill the barbarian

[soltakss]

19 hours ago, mfbrandi said:

Monk & Mingus for everyone, no?

I read that as Mork and Mingus, a sitcom about an alien living with a jazz pianist?

[Bill the barbarian]

32 minutes ago, soltakss said:

I read that as Mork and Mingus, a sitcom about an alien living with a jazz pianist?

Yes, yer point??