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martin

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STN said:
I found a completely clean, undefaced copy of the French textbook Tricolore
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That's incredible. Fuck finding German electronic records in bargain bins - a clean Tricolore.

What's the score with Tricolore? Do they ever update the pictures? We used it in late 80s / early 90s, and all the 'kids' looked well "1970s neo-nazi scout camp porn shoot". Inevitable racist speech bubbles wherever you had a shot of a black bloke looking for "la boucherie"
 
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martin said:
That's incredible. Fuck finding German electronic records in bargain bins - a clean Tricolore.

What's the score with Tricolore? Do they ever update the pictures?
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I expect they probably last updated them in around 2000. The pictures you describe sound exactly like the ones my school was using in the mid-nineties (though I think they'd probably been bought in around 1982). The clean copy I found was of a 21st century vintage, and the pictures had been updated somewhat by the publishers (though not updated with biro, as per schoolkid tradition).
 
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matt b

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STN said:
The clean copy I found was of a 21st century vintage, and the pictures had been updated somewhat by the publishers (though not updated with biro, as per schoolkid tradition).
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was it still based in la rochelle?
 
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Gabba Flamenco Crossover

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martin said:
That's incredible. Fuck finding German electronic records in bargain bins - a clean Tricolore.

What's the score with Tricolore? Do they ever update the pictures? We used it in late 80s / early 90s, and all the 'kids' looked well "1970s neo-nazi scout camp porn shoot". Inevitable racist speech bubbles wherever you had a shot of a black bloke looking for "la boucherie"
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Yeah, but the real touch were the roleplay cassettes. Again with uneasy pornfilm undertones. A clean set of them, well, you could probably retire on it.
 
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gumdrops

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swears said:
The new Klaxons song "Golden Skans" sounds like Keane or something. Really, really generic post-Coldplay tosh.
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not read through this whole thread so maybe someones said it already but the klaxons, while not really ravey sounding sonically, are still a great band. and there is something ravey about their rhythm section on quite a few songs (and i dont just mean that stupid siren sound in one track), their melodies/chords, rhythmic sensibilities, their drummer at times sounds like hes apeing all those jutting hardcore breakbeats and the bass has that sort of wonkiness you used to get in house/rave tracks. its not overt (which im thinking is a good thing and actually makes it a bit different rather than if they used proper rave samples or synths and programming which would have made it possibly retro or just a bit obvious, its more interesting in a way that theyre doing it in a trad rock 4 piece format) and maybe im just looking for it cos of all the hype but there is something there... golden skans doesnt sound like coldplay at all!

edit - just heard the xan valleys ep again after ages and apart from the 1st song, they sound so ropey (and just kinda shit)! then again, a lot of rave was kinda 'ropey' too so.... ;) new single is great though, and so was magick.
 
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Lichen

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Do the kids in Tricolore still listen to a band called "Les Feux Rouges", I wonder?

e.g "Qu'est ce que tu fais apres de l'école?"

"Je vais écouter la nouvelle disque de Les Feux Rouges"
 
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comparing the responses of herrn reynolds and kpunk wrt the klaxons' artisanal nu rave/pub rock

(sr) how UK bands should be--mouthy but confused, fired up by having read a lot of stuff they've not properly digested.................plenty of that sort of garbled autodidact stuff

(k) a bi-polar oscillation: the 'weak messianic' hope that there must be something new on the way lapses into the morose conviction that nothing new can ever happen........focus shifts from the Next Big Thing to the last big thing - how long ago did it happen and just how big was it?

(displaced to the previous post, not notionally about klaxons but you know, with a little lability)

then a variation on those cemeteries of wasted effort, calvaries of crucified dreams, registers of false starts!

which is all good......i can see how endearing that jejune autodidactism can be, all of that naively thrown together esotericke nonsense (even if they've probably all got shit humanities/social science degrees and they're all older the me, not some 17yr olds in [shit provincial town] in 1972 with nary a pot to piss in but, aha, a library card)

the incoherence can still be excused cos they're probably all on like drugs and shit, or someone else has done it for them (says they were formed late 2005 so maybe someone has written their entire script, who knows)

they really do sound shit though, almost enough to get nostalgic for the test icicles
 
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it's so cute when naifs like the klaxons cite burroughs as a primary influence. very "punk rock" of them.
 
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mistersloane

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tht said:
the incoherence can still be excused cos they're probably all on like drugs and shit, or someone else has done it for them (says they were formed late 2005 so maybe someone has written their entire script, who knows)
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Unfortunately I think it may just be because they're dumber than they look.
 
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nomadologist

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i love that part in that video where the glo stick filling comes flying out of his eyes. if it involves jumping into a pile of green chemical sludge, it must be about raves. right? edgy, dark. punk rock. oh i said that. what else? literary.
 
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nomadologist

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i draw pictures of them in my notebook with hearts going up into the air and lightning bolts going down the center of the page. i think i might spend my entire morning at work doing that in photoshop. or "paint" if that still exists in the start menu
 
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mistersloane said:
Huh the video's cool. The Horrors are better though.
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holy shit THAT video rocks. i can't remember when i saw it, but it's the really scary one with samantha morton (?) in it, it's so edgy 60-year-old fashion designers are going to be bumping it at their next show.

i love how no one except pete doherty has the balls to really do drugs anymore--they just pile on the eyeliner.
 
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mms

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nomadologist said:
holy shit THAT video rocks. i can't remember when i saw it, but it's the really scary one with samantha morton (?) in it, it's so edgy 60-year-old fashion designers are going to be bumping it at their next show.

i love how no one except pete doherty has the balls to really do drugs anymore--they just pile on the eyeliner.
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it's a chris cunningham video - the horrors fell off when people actually heard their music or saw em live though, they're absolute crap in gothy clothes.

i for one have some hopes about whats coming next in british pop/indie i think there will be bands trying bit by bit to get away from the absolute pile of shite that music has been for a while now. whether they will just divert to another piece of history shoddily re-written or aped or actually do something interesting who knows.

Aren't klaxons just sigue sigue sputnik?
 
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