Hardcore Weapon Smasher
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Buy Chocolate and Cheese or Pure Guava. They're the two best Ween albums in my opinion.
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I saw the video yesterday. I reached for the nearest red hot poker and gouged out my eyes, then proceeded to blow up my eardrums with the nearest revolver.
It was that bad.
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I saw the video yesterday. I reached for the nearest red hot poker and gouged out my eyes, then proceeded to blow up my eardrums with the nearest revolver.
It was that bad.
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I saw Tim Rogers of You Am I for around $15.
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Crappy dowload limit only allows me to.....make.....one more CD. I have seven on my mind, help me decide. And tell me which ones are crap as well, so I can steer clear.
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I got Primal Scream and Manic Street Preachers latest albums for $4 each a couple of days ago.
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Beatles
Beastie Boys
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Beatles - Come on. It's the Beatles. You can't seriously vote for Franz Ferdinand over the Beatles.
Flaming Lips - Toughest. choice. ever. Two of my favourite bands. I have to go with the Flaming Lips though.
Beck - Beck rocks. Clash rock. But Beck rocks more than Clash.
Libertines - I like them equal. A coin toss had to decide.
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Boooo. Depeche Mode aren't dance Squancho. Did they take your mind along with your old name?
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Looks like AR is a closet country and western fan. It's okay to give in to your true feelings. C'mon now. You can do it.
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Here are the past lineups, I think 97 had the best lineup.
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The Thrills - Big Sur
Rooney - Blueside
The Sleepy Jackson - Come To This
Powderfinger - Sunsets
Jebediah - First Time
Eskimo Joe - Planet Earth
Eskimo Joe - Smoke
Eskimo Joe - From The Sea
Nice and poppy.
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These bands are rumoured to be playing the Big Day Out music festival in Australia next year:
Beastie Boys
The Pixies
AC/DC
The Flaming Lips
The Chemical Brothers
Coldplay
The Streets
Scissor Sisters
Slipknot
I am so going.
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Dude, I would go check the rules, because I think that talking about warez counts for a ban or warn.
For me its a song by Aphex Twin, I can't remember the name, but it was really fucked up. Someone will know what I'm talking about and give me the name... Hopefully.
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What is the song you hate most at the moment? I'd have to say 'Chocolate' by Kylie Minogue. I don't think I've ever heard such utter shite in my entire life. So of course they have to play it 24 hours a day on the radio.
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Dear God Squancho. You're losing your touch.
*brings out defibrillator paddles*
Quick people! We can still save him!
*zaps Squancho*
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I think that the younger sisters of these singers should have their vocal cords removed at birth. They always launch their own careers and leech off the popularity of their older sisters, eg. Solange Knowles.
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some friends of mine are big on reggae music and i think they said ziggy marley is good, i dunno if they were just high or if hes actually real :ohwell:
Ziggy Marley is Bob Marley's son.
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Just give them a chance. They're a novelty act, so don't take them too seriously. Just listen to Thunderbirds Are Coming Out, Whatareya, Greg! The Stop Sign!! and Ol' Man River, and you might like them.
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TISM (This Is Serious Mum) are seven unique musicians from Australia who haven't got the respect they deserve. It is my solemn duty to convince you to listen to their music and shower them with money. First, here is a picture of four of them, but once you know what four of them look like you'll know what the rest look like:
I should note, if you are easily offended at anything, you should leave now. Before you read another line.
Here's a biography of TISM from allmusic.com:
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TISM (short for This Is Serious, Mum), formed in Melbourne, Australia in 1982, and, after a couple of false starts, became one the most popular underground groups of the Australian music scene. Amazingly, the band even managed to receive some commercial success in the mid-1990s.
TISM have what can only be described as a twisted sense of humour. But whereas bands like They Might Be Giants use their humour to write pop songs with quirky lyrics, TISM use theirs to viciously lampoon anyone and anything. Literally nothing is sacred, and the band attempt to be as offensive as possible with mixed, although sometimes hilarious, results.
TISM are not publicity-shy in any way, but every time they appear in public (which includes live gigs) they wear masks to hide their identities. Officially, their line-up consists of Ron Hitler-Barassi (vocals), Humphrey B. Flaubert (vocals and drums), Eugene de la Hot Croix Bun (vocals and keyboards), John St Peenis (formerly saxophone, now vocals), Jock Cheese (bass), Les Miserables (vocals) and Tokin Blackman (formerly known as Tony Coitus) (guitar). Past members include Marco Fessey (saxophone) and Leak Van Vlahen (guitar).
Forming in Melbourne in 1982, the band wrote to Eddie Van Halen and Australian politician Paul Keating offering them the position of lead tamborine in the band. Both declined.
It wasn't until 1985 that TISM's recordings began to see the light of day. Their debut single "Defecate on my Face" was released that year, although it wasn't until their third single, "40 Years - Then Death" was released that one of their songs was deemed fit to be played on radio.
A rising tide of interest greeted the band in 1986 following the release of their debut album Form and Meaning Reach Ultimate Communion. An attempted interview at this time by a well-known music magazine was treated in a typical TISM manner: the journalist stood at the opposite end of a football ground to the band, and shouted questions to them through a megaphone. The answers were then shouted back through another megaphone. To make things even more difficult, a long piece of string ran between the band and the journalist - the string had to be kept taut or the band wouldn't co-operate.
In 1988, the album that made their name on the underground circuit appeared. Entitled Great Truckin' Songs of the Renaissance, the album was full of guitar pop, and the same twisted, tasteless lyrics that had been a feature of their work to date. Several singles were released from the album, including "The Ballad of John Bonham's Coke Roadie", "I'm Interested in Apathy", "40 Years - Then Death" and "Saturday Night Palsy". The last single hovered in the lower regions of the Australian charts, and prompted a popular television show to invite the band to perform the single. TISM performed, but in a move designed to infuriate the show's producers, performed the single with 28 band members, all in full costume.
In 1990, the follow-up Hot Dogma was released, but this failed to generate a great deal of interest and sold poorly. None of the TISM sense of humour had been lost here, and song titles from this album included "(I'm Gonna Sit Right Down) And Whittle Away My Furniture", "While My Catarrh Gently Weeps" and "Leo's Toltoy".
The next year, TISM were fired from their record company for being too difficult to work with. However, the small label Shock Records bought the rights to their back-catalogue and re-released some of their earlier work as a full-length album Gentlemen, Start Your Egos in 1992.
This was the catalyst for the band to record another disc, the Beasts of Suburban EP. It was more of the same anarchy, and featured a song entitled "Get Thee to a Nunnery", which was an attack on popular Australian childrens' television presenter Sophie Lee, although the band claimed to respect her work.
In 1993, another only mildly-successful disc, Australia the Lucky C*** was released. While not commercially successful, it proved to be one of their more controversial. The original cover art featured a koala with a syringe in its mouth, drawn in a similar style to art work by well-known Australian designer Ken Done. Done sued the band a week after the release of the disc, and it was withdrawn, but was re-released soon after with new cover art under the title Censored Due to Legal Advice.
Following this release, TISM found themselves in something of a rut. They had been unable to recapture the success of Great Truckin' Songs, and their later releases had been notorious due to surrounding controversy rather than for the music they contained. As a result, their next album Machiavelli and the Four Seasons, released in 1996, marked a substantial change in direction for the band.
Machiavelli saw synthesisers and dance music replace the guitar pop of earlier releases, and, as a consequence, became their biggest commercial success. This was also helped by favorable reviews at the time. The album went gold in Australia, and a number of singles were released from it, including "Jung Talent Time", "Greg! The Stop Sign!" (a song that ridiculed television advertisements about avoiding road fatalities and featured superb Beach Boys-style harmonies), "All Homeboys are Dickheads" and "(He'll Never Be an) Ol' Man River". The latter featured some of the more tasteless TISM lyrics for some time ("I'm on the drug that killed River Phoenix"). Despite this, or perhaps because of it, the song became hugely popular.
Two years later, in 1998, TISM re-appeared with another album of dance music-inspired anarchy. This record, entitled www.tism.wanker.com, did not receive flattering reviews and failed to match the success of its predecessor. Several singles became minor hits, including "Whatareya?" (which attempted to divide Australian men into two categories - "yobs" and "wankers") and "Thunderbirds are Coming Out". A third single, "I Might Be a C***, but I'm Not a F****** C***", was released, but, not surprisingly, was not picked up by radio.
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Now to the lyrics:
Ol' Man River:
I'm on the drug, I'm on the drug
I'm on the drug that killed River Phoenix
I saw his body thrashing 'round
I saw his pulse rate going down
I saw him in compulsive throws
I said "I'll have one of those"
Hilary had, Hilary had
Hilary had it in his veins
Hilary had Everest in his veins
Armstrong did moon, was not the same
Heroes explore to give us hope
River pushed back the envelope
Drank the slab, drank the slab
Drank the slab that Bon Scott drunk
I drank the slab that Bon Scott drunk
I injected some of Hendrix's junk
I booked a seat on Lynyrd Skynyrd's plane
Mama Cass' sandwich? I ate the same
Now I'm bored, now I'm bored
Now I'm bored and there's no stoppin'
Now I'm bored and there's no stoppin'
I need another celeb to fill a coffin
Where will I get my next drug action?
Odds on it'll be Michael Jackson
I'm on the drug that killed River Phoenix
I'm on the drug
Greg! The Stop Sign!!
The guy who slagged the football team -
Those yobs were not for him
Turns into a real estate agent
Who believes in discipline;
That guy who's the first to use cocaine,
The wild boy breaking free,
Ends up in a court of law
As a prosecuting QC;
Remember the school captain? -
Success was a matter of time;
I can hear her now as she screams,
'Greg! You missed the stop sign!'
Forget Snoop Doggy Dogg
Forget ol' Ice T
The true word out on the street
Is produced by the TAC
What good's the use of striving?
As life's road in front unravels
We get to do the driving
But don't choose the direction we travel.
Do your homework, or wag for weeks
And graffiti the Dandenong line;
It don't matter when you hear that scream:
'Greg! You missed the stop sign!'
Some time in the next hundred thousand years
A comet's gonna wipe out all trace of Man -
I'm banking on it coming before
My end of year exam.
The rich kid becomes a junkie
The poor kid an advertiser
What a tragic waste of potential -
Being a junkie's not so good either.
Your folks struggled hard for what you've got,
You are the fruit of their vine;
But who cares what you sow when what you reap
Is: 'Greg! You missed the stop sign!'
Bought a car just the other day
Man could that baby run
But you know what they always say:
There's always a better one.
Got a tumour in my brain
Its creeping to my lungs
And I've searched around in vain
Can't find me a better one.
Hardwired into everyone's head
Is the person they're gonna be
Growing up ain't a matter of choice
It's a matter of wait and see.
And so kids, yeah, you can do it!
You can do your best
Girls can do anything
You can pass the test
I'm OK, you're OK, We're all right, we're fine
I thought I saw a semi-trailer
Greg! You missed the stop sign!
Thunderbirds Are Coming Out
I was my parents' puppet till my teenage years
When I rebelled and swapped them for my peers
I used to sit for hours all alone
Without an opinion to call my own
I had to keep this compulsion to myself
This need to be like everybody else
But now I'm out of the closet and I feel free
Cos I just saw Thunderbirds on TV
Yes I've been outed and I'm so happy
I've found a role model just for me
I think I could be like those puppet guys
Cos there's less to them than meets the eye
5, 4, 3, 2, 1!
Sing if you're proud to be plastic now...
5, 4, 3, 2, 1!
Thunderbirds are coming out
Now I don't have to worry about a thing
As long as someone else is pulling my strings
My pop star can tell me what to know
I can get my political views from my youth radio
I can join the queues outside restaurant chains
Now I can do the Mexican Wave
Just tell me what's in and I'll make sure I fit
Just herd me into that mosh pit
Whatareya
You're a yob or you're a wanker -
Take your f**king choice
So who is your favourite genius
James Hird or James Joyce?
You ever seen a live performance?
Join the wanker club
You thought I meant table top dancing?
You're a yobbo, bub
What are ya? Yob or wanker?
Wankers once used mobile phones
But now that's sorta changing
And yobs once lived in cottage homes -
Ain't social change amazing?
If a yob and wanker want a girl
The wanker guy will get her -
Both of them are equally ugly
But the wanker hides it better
What are ya? Yob or wanker?
A wanker fights inequality
And for people's rights;
A wanker fights class prejudice
A yobbo just fights
Yob or wanker - wanker or yob
Pass me the brush to tar ya:
Make your choice then live your life;
Come on pal, what are ya?
(There's Gonna Be) Sex Tonite
She slagged Helen Garner, he said "You're right"
He shook his dreadlocks and condemned Wayne Carey
She offered him tofu; both were quite hairy -
There's gonna be sex tonight
Interval at the theatre - they both hit it off
Discussing the meaning of Anton Chekhov;
The director they hated, the actress? - they panned her;
What they acted out later weren't exactly Uncle Vania
On the deck of the boat she pointed out east
Said "A whale is in fact an air breathing beast"
He really liked nature; he was out of the slammer
He had a gram of cocaine and a video camera
He was knocking on doors; she was watchin' television
He said "Money for the kids? I'm collecting for World Vision"
Her heart was full of pity for a world full of grief
He donated to a charity she called Hand Relief
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Now to the songs. I order you to obtain the following TISM songs:
Ol' Man River
Greg! The Stop Sign!!
The Penis Is Mightier Than The Sword
The Ballad Of The Semitic Nazi
Defecate On My Face
If You're Creative, Get Stuffed
Saturday Night Palsy
I Might Be A Cunt, But I'm Not A Fucking Cunt
The Parable Of Glenn McGrath's Haircut
Thunderbirds Are Coming Out
Whatareya?
Martin Scorcese Is Really Quite A Jovial Fellow
Gimme Gimme Nervous Breakdown
All Homeboys Are Dickheads
Jung Talent Time
What Nationality Is Les Murray?
I Drive A Truck
Get Thee To A Nunnery
Lillee Caught Dilley Bowled Milli Vanilli
That is all. Tell all your associates about TISM. First step, World Domination.
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Legion Of Boom by The Crystal Method.
Best tracks:
Weapons Of Mass Distortion
Born Too Slow
Starting Over
I Know It's You
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Jessica Simpson at #1? Am I the only person who thinks she looks like a man? And Brody Dalle, don't even get me started on her. She shouldn't even be in the top 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000. Sorry Keith.
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Most of the songs by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds are well written.
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