Group Listening Party Fun Time II: Craner vs. Craner

[craner]

 

[woops]

not what i thought simple minds sounded like either, i thought they were tears for fears, more like echo and bunnymen

 

[craner]

FUCK OFF EVERYBODY IT'S SIMPLE MINDS

Literally the best band in the world in 1982, when I was 3.

This track is one of the best off their mini-epic Sister Feelings Call.

I dreamed of writing a book about the sinews of normal life and it was like this. Sinister, in the guts of modern life, hidden from high-brow fiction and soap operas. Jim Kerr had a big cock, wanted to conquer America and ended up shagging Patsy Kensit. But, at one point, he could make this odd and mercurial and true pop music, sitting on the margins but radiating out.

 

[EskimoKush]

Did Jammer sample this

 

[craner]

China Crisis.

A lo-fi synth band who made hit records, but hid. This hit was lovely, though, arch, camp poetry, in the way Scritti could never achieve, 60 songs on. This is the most indie track on the list, one for Woops. Thanks for staying at my party, you're my friend now.

 

[woops]

i think that indie tronic one was more indie myself,, 80s indie was jingle jangle

 

[craner]

Swaying Stevie Nicks in the guise of FM, post-Tusk.

 

[craner]

Another SN classic next.

 

[craner]

She's a Welsh Witch,

 

[craner]

What we call in Wales, "a fucking Welsh Witch!"

 

[craner]

This is the template for Belinda Carlisle, whom I love.

 

[version]

Lori Walton 10 months ago
Bitter sweet song, there’s an old woman that I see everyday in the mirror but my heart will be forever 21.

Effnine66 1 year ago (edited)
My dad went to a concert to see her...she touched his hand, hes never forgotten. He LIGHTS up everytime he tells the story... his is my fave smile when talks about it.

 

[woops]

the room is actually on fire

 

[craner]

Literally the most romantic song ever written, 10 minutes before shagging.

 

[version]

I'm sure Luke said one of those blogs he read was obsessed with Belinda Carlisle and had somehow tied loads of conspiracies to her.

 

[version]

It wasn't Belinda Carlisle. It was Liz Fraser from Cocteau Twins.

It's not all that right wing but it is basically bonkers. He's got an obsession with Liz Fraser from Cocteau Twins. Most of his conspiracies theories revolve round her. He thinks she was possessed by some spirt or other. Demented really. There is a really good visual essay on there though about the dome and obelisk conjunction.

 

[craner]

He hates her, I have been in love with her since I was 10. It's a major schism in our friendship.

 

[woops]

dunno about this one, like lorde but crap

 

[version]

That's something I would never do if I was being paid needless to say. I'd write something nice. But I watched a Belinda Carlisle video just now and felt so empty and bleak and horrified and I didn't want to write a nice one. It really destroyed me. I hated that side of the eighties, that desolate simulacrum. As a child all that music felt so enervating. I knew it was the enemy.

 

[woops]

sounds like a poetry thread to me