Erincaeous, glad you like "One of Our Submarines"; how glorious were the early 80s when this kind of thing was actually in the charts!
Mal: Cut it out. Job's not done until we're back on Serenity. Zoe: Sorry, sir. Didn't mean to enjoy the moment.
'Ariel'
Buffista Music II: Wrath of Chaka Khan
There's a lady plays her fav'rite records/On the jukebox ev'ry day/All day long she plays the same old songs/And she believes the things that they say/She sings along with all the saddest songs/And she believes the stories are real/She lets the music dictate the way that she feels.
Angus G - Aug 12, 2004 6:54:30 am PDT #4548 of 10003
Roguish Laird
tommyrot - Aug 12, 2004 6:59:34 am PDT #4549 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
I've always liked "One of Our Submarines" but I never knew it charted. (Was that in Britian, the US, or both?) I thought "She Blinded Me with Science" was the only hit from that album.
Angus G - Aug 12, 2004 7:04:30 am PDT #4550 of 10003
Roguish Laird
No, you're probably right, tommyrot, I have no idea whether "Submarines" itself charted, just reflecting on the general fact that the charts (esp. the British charts which are the only ones I pay attention to) were full of weird esoteric electropop around that time. (But I believe "Wind Power" did also chart in the UK.)
Frankenbuddha - Aug 12, 2004 7:07:30 am PDT #4551 of 10003
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
I think "Hyperactive" also charted in the US. Nowhere near as high as "Science", but I remember hearing it a lot for a spell there.
eta, always adored "Submarines". And "Wind Power" for that matter.
Gandalfe - Aug 12, 2004 7:08:19 am PDT #4552 of 10003
The generation that could change the world is still looking for its car keys.
A charter member of my redundantly-named all-star band.
Don't forget about Siouxsie Sioux.
As for songs, how could you all forget the classic Specimen tunes, "Kiss Kiss Bang Bang," and all of the Cure's "Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me?"
Gandalfe - Aug 12, 2004 7:14:17 am PDT #4553 of 10003
The generation that could change the world is still looking for its car keys.
I think "Hyperactive" also charted in the US.
It did, but, yeah, not very high. Also, one of the track off of Aliens Ate My Buick did vaguely well, I think it was Airhead.
tommyrot - Aug 12, 2004 7:52:32 am PDT #4554 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
I think "Hyperactive" also charted in the US.
I just bought this from iTunes. The melody is familiar--not sure about the rest of it. Did he borrow the melody from some other song? or is it a cover? If not, then I've actually heard this back when.
Lyra Jane - Aug 12, 2004 9:24:41 am PDT #4555 of 10003
Up with the sun
He was always completely down-to-earth in interviews. He's just a bloke who married his childhood sweetheart and plays football a bit
Oh, yeah -- it was clear that the Q interview was about Robert Smith and the Filter interview was really Who the Writer Desperately Wants Robert Smith to Be. It was just an interesting contrast, worth looking for at a newsstand near you.
And yay Hec on the Marianne Faithfull-age!
Gandalfe - Aug 12, 2004 10:46:19 am PDT #4556 of 10003
The generation that could change the world is still looking for its car keys.
Did he borrow the melody from some other song? or is it a cover?
I know it's not a cover, and I don't think he took the melody from anywhere, so, yeah, you probably heard the real thing back in the day.
bicyclops - Aug 12, 2004 2:09:01 pm PDT #4557 of 10003
Does anyone have the tracklisting to the Moonlit Bonus Mix?
Yes. It was odd... when I stuck the CD into iTunes it just came up with 22 unnamed tracks. But when I stuck it into my linux box the cd program used some other CDDB server and came up with all the track titles, artists, etc.
I think I'm probably responsible for that. I tried to upload the listing for Angus' mix, too, but kept getting an error back from the server.
And here's moonlit's notes, after which I posted a track list correction.
(edited to fix link)