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Re: The Stones Roses, it wasn't just the music it was the scene that evolved from that period along with the Happy Mondays (another overated band IMO) that they are so revered but one half decent first album and a piss poor second and a singer who can't hold a note does not a band make. But, having been very much around the rave scene at the time I can honestly say I had it LARGE! :))

giggirl Wrote:

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> Radiohead


Like the woman said.


I wasn't in the British Isles during the 90s (came back in Jan 00), so there wasn't any overshadowing to be done.


For me, Kim Deal was hyper important to the Pixies, and she came into her own with The Last Splash. Tomboyish not macho. Saw them in the Basque Country in the 90s - nothing like it! (even though the floor almost collapsed)


None of Britpop measured up to that (and I saw everyone from Suede to Stone Roses to Elastica to Oasis to....).


Radiohead, of course, surpasses anything that Britpop ever did. They live alongside Slowdive and Ride (OX4 anyone?) in my collection. Yes, the shoe-gazers have something to be proud of!

I'd agree with Jah, Stone Roses doesn't stand up to close analysis in the same way that Star Wars doesn't, but if it was the whole fabric of right sound, right place, right time, and now it's so interwoven into special memories.

Along with Acid House it quite literally blew my socks off!

atila the gooner Wrote:

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> The cult of "Celebrity" and celebs as a whole



YES - ABSOLUTELY - WHAT ATILA SAID


Who are these people - most of them are famous for nothing. At least actors and musicians have done something (albeit sometimes not much); but there are people out there claiming to be celbrities for nothing. This is partly the reason that I don't have a TV; the cult of celebrity is just so invasive; reality TV is everywhere (except my house obviously). I once asked a friend's little girl what she wanted to be when she grew up and she said "famous". I nearly cried.

Coffee

Bacon

Being young - much happier now I'm older thank you

Going to the gym

Live music in restaurants

Holidays abroad

Heston Blumethal-style ingredients - irony and food do not go together


Am thinking of volunteering for next series of Grumpy Old Women, before anyone asks... You're quite wrong about Pride and Prejudice, though. V amusing, though not quite as funny as Persuasion.

Ms B Wrote:

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> Coffee

> Bacon

> Being young - much happier now I'm older thank

> you

> Going to the gym

> Live music in restaurants

> Holidays abroad

> Heston Blumethal-style ingredients - irony and

> food do not go together

>

> Am thinking of volunteering for next series of

> Grumpy Old Women, before anyone asks... You're

> quite wrong about Pride and Prejudice, though. V

> amusing, though not quite as funny as Persuasion.



Yes - I told you I was out of step with 99% of the population on P and P. But COFFEE??? OMG! To echo Mockney...ARE YOU MAD?

Ms B Wrote:

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> Coffee

> Bacon

> Being young - much happier now I'm older thank

> you

> Going to the gym


Sport

Football

Team sports

Competitive sports

Winter sports

Skiing

Jogging

Marathons


(but cycling is great)


> Live music in restaurants


Live music in any location that is not a live music venue.


> Holidays abroad


Package holidays in increasingly bizarre locations.


Holidays where the sole purpose seems to be to travel across the world just to be surrounded by people from your home town. Including overseas hen parties, stag parties etc.


And on that subject: weddings, white weddings, expensive weddings, wedding dresses

I'm with you on soggy rashers of limp pink back-bacon stuff. Especially when it's fried, and ends up poaching in the water that was injected into it to make it look all plump.


But proper streaky bacon grilled until it's nice and crisp... now there's a truly wonderful thing.

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