[kj] OT: Best Banshees tune AND I ROADIED FOR THE BANSHEES

Alex Smith gathering@misera.net
Mon, 24 Nov 2003 07:27:27 -0500


Oh lordy....that's weird. I was *JUST* going to mention the Stranglers!!
Huge favorites of mine

My faves...
1. "Five Minutes"
2. "Straighten Out"
3. "Something Better Change"
4. "Just like Nothing on Earth"
5. "the Raven"
6. "Ice Queen"
7. "Haning Around"
8. "No More Heroes"
9. "Toiler on the Sea"
10. "Nuclear Device"

Alex in NYC



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>From: amyr@jump.net (Amy Moseley Rupp)
>To: gathering@misera.net
>Subject: Re: [kj] OT: Best Banshees tune AND I ROADIED FOR THE BANSHEES
>Date: Sun, Nov 23, 2003, 11:53 PM
>

>> After reading this Siouxsie And The Banshees thread, i got to wondering 
>what it'd be like to have a sort of "Band Of The Week" thread on here.Seems 
>like there's so many of you out there that know an almost endless amount of 
>bands.It'd be fun to sit back and get to hear about something/someone that 
>i might not have otherwise been exposed to yet.
>
>I think it'd be great.
>
>Could we get everyone to *agree* on a band?  It'd also be nice to
>do old and new.  Some of the bands y'all bring up as influential
>or seminal I've never heard of, or really gotten into.  For
>example -- The Stranglers.  I have a picture of my sweetie aged
>14 wearing a Stranglers t-shirt.  But what albums and/or songs
>are good?  Used to be I had time to go to our uni's library and
>even back in the 80s they had a music listening library where
>you could directly request any album they had be played; you
>then plugged into a headphone jack at a carousel, sat down and
>listened.  Some studied but I can't do both at the same time ;-)
>You could look up at a TV monitor which listed out the channels
>and what was on which channel, so if something of interest came
>on, you could flip over -- of course, you'd land wherever the
>album (usually, vinyl) was playing at the time, none of this
>digital on-demand repositioning -- but it was a good way to
>sample music.
>
>Oh for the days when I had time to go to the library! :-)
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