What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[barrett]

CAPS LOCK BROKEN BOBBY?

 

Yup, modern lovers were Jonathan Richman's band. Wouldn't expect anyone to have heard of the rest, save for Eno and The Fall I guess most of it is pretty obscure...

[trigger]

I've never heard of most of them neither!

 

What's making me grin today is a phone call telling me that my 35 year old BMW has past it mot today without any advisorys!, i bet there's a lot of 3 year old cars that can't even boast of that!

[The Liberator]

Excellent work, Mr barrett! My top ten, using the same no artist duplication criterion:

 

Wire - I Am The Fly

Talking Heads - Uh-Oh, Love Comes To Town

The Fall - How I Wrote Elastic Man

Univers Zero - Malaise

Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band - Sheriff of Hong Kong

Bartok - String Quartet No 4

Booker White - Aberdeen Mississippi Blues

Can - Peking O

Stars of the Lid - Piano Aquieu

Camper Van Beethoven - Take the Skinheads Bowling

 

Contents liable to change without notice etc.

[RedSparrow]

Hey, I always thought that Take the skinheads bowling was by the Manics.

 

 

Anyway, that Van Beetohoven lot seem good, ta for introducing me to another good band!

[barrett]

Eggsellant choices!

As a Stars of the Lid fan, have you heard this Acid Mothers Temple track? (annoyingly split into two parts on youtube, it's pretty long)

Despite being the precurser to a very bad acid trip, it's still one of my favourites (ok, i've already completely changed my list... )

 

 

edit: just listened to it and they cut the last 5 minutes off, which is the best bit! try and download the track instead....

[Cavcraft]

Hard to do a 'permanent' top ten as keep changing my mind but here's my current one:

 

Althea & Donna: 'Uptown Top Ranking'

 

Sugar Mynott: 'Good Thing Going'

 

Slaughter & The Dogs: 'Where Have All The Bootboys Gone?'

 

P.I.L: 'Rise'.

 

Sid Vicious: 'My Way'.

 

Snap: 'Rhythm Is A Dancer' (preferably 12" version). Greatest dance recored EVER.

 

The Exploited: 'Let's Start A War'.

 

Cockney Rejects: (either) 'War On The Terraces' or 'Here We Go Again'.

 

Keith and Tex: 'Stop That Train'. I've only recently 'found' this song and it's utterly fantastic.

 

The Smiths: 'Hand In Glove' (sung by Morrissy).

[barrett]

'uptown top rankin' is a massive tune!

 

ps- congrats to Trigger, here's to another year of non-weldy BMW love!

[Minimad5]

My work gear is getting made up as we speak ... with my name on

 

Is it sad to say i am excited to be part of a company ?

[brammy777]

My BCOT overalls have my name on them!

Today we went to the Aldermaston banger track and there was testing done on the Colleges 2CV racecar in preperation for the 24 hour race. I dont care what anyone else thinks, those things sound brilliant, the noise it made when going up into third was sublime.

So much shite on the roads today too! Saw a mint MKII Escort 2 door driving round, may even be one owner!

[dollywobbler]

2CV racing is ace. Make ten minutes in your life to watch this. Super close finish!!

 

[ashmicro]

2CV racing is ace. Make ten minutes in your life to watch this. Super close finish!!

 

Marshalled a couple of 2CV races at Mondello Park in the past. Brilliant fun. I remember quite a few of the cars with "Thank You For Marshalling" in the rear windows. Always a nice touch.

[Parky]

The old top ten is going to be tough but here goes. It'll be different in the morning fo sho'. In no particular order.

 

Une Very Stylish Fille - DJ Dimitri from Paris

Any Major Dude will tell you - Steely Dan

Essex Dogs - Blur

Distractions - Zero 7

Our love is here to stay - Ella Fitzgerald

Sleepwalk - Santo & Johnny

Superfly - Curtis Mayfield

The Happy Goth - Divine Comedy

Mini - Corduroy

Diskobox - Beck

 

Its not often I compile a top ten without at least one Depeche Mode or Ben Folds Five track. Strewth that was tricky but as I say, it'll be different tomorrow....

 

And add me on for Althea and Donna, class tune which always makes me think of fixing shite in the sunshine! In fact Jamaican dancehall (Desmond Dekker, Lord Tanamo) is just the best for fixing motors. Cant remove a gearbox to Ella Fitzgerald IMHO but happy to stand corrected!

[michiel]

Ben Folds Five

[ashmicro]

Since a top ten thing is going on here (and us blokes love our lists eg, cars, music, firearms, planes etc)

 

1: Iron Maiden - Hallowed be Thy Name

2: Metallica - Seek and Destroy (Live at the Hammersmith Odeon 1989)

3: Guns n' Roses - Welcome to the Jungle

4: Megadeth - Peace Sells

5: Motorhead - The Ace of Spades

6: Iron Maiden - The Phantom of the Opera - remember this? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1LtaD63zYoQ

7: Metallica - One

8: Dire Straits - Money for Nothing

9: Boston - More than a feeling (Live New York 1977)

10: Finally, the theme music from the PC game "Driver". If you put the CD ROM in a CD player, you get 2 tracks of funky 70's cop show music.

[Station]

Haven't got much of a list - my favourite albums are:

 

Dillinger Escape Plan - Calculating Infinity

Rage Against The Machine - Debut

Paw - Dragline

Mr Bungle - Disco Volante

The Rollins Band - Weight

Car Bomb - Centralia

Boards Of Canada - Twoism

Alarum - Eventuality

Cannibal Corpse - The Bleeding

Coalesce - Revolution In Just Listening

[ashmicro]

Just getting back to the Antidote thread for a mo - my 4 year old niece bought me a Lambo:

 

 

Bless her, she saved some of her birthday money

[scaryoldcortina]

Since a top ten thing is going on here (and us blokes love our lists eg, cars, music, firearms, planes etc)

 

1: Iron Maiden - Hallowed be Thy Name

2: Metallica - Seek and Destroy (Live at the Hammersmith Odeon 1989)

3: Guns n' Roses - Welcome to the Jungle

4: Megadeth - Peace Sells

5: Motorhead - The Ace of Spades

6: Iron Maiden - The Phantom of the Opera - remember this? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1LtaD63zYoQ

7: Metallica - One

8: Dire Straits - Money for Nothing

9: Boston - More than a feeling (Live New York 1977)

10: Finally, the theme music from the PC game "Driver". If you put the CD ROM in a CD player, you get 2 tracks of funky 70's cop show music.

ash, you are my new god, lol... everything there is on my garage playlist, except the driver things.. I did play the PS1 game to death though... did the PC version have the "get carter" chase through newcastle as a completion bonus?

[Albert Ross]

Top ten eh? No particular order.

 

Budgie- Napoleon Bonapartes 1 and 2.

Mountain- Theme from an imaginary Western.

Led Zeppelin- Dazed and Confused.

PWEI- 92 degrees F.

Rush- Spirit of Radio.

Ian Dury and the Blockheads- Spasticus Autisticus.

ELP-The Great Gates of Kiev.

Deep Purple- Grabsplatter.

AC/DC- Ain't No Fun (Waitin' round to be a milionaire)

War of the Worlds- (Anything but the Red Weed.)

Cheating, but true.

[warren t claim]

Since a top ten thing is going on here (and us blokes love our lists eg, cars, music, firearms, planes etc)

 

1: Iron Maiden - Hallowed be Thy Name

2: Metallica - Seek and Destroy (Live at the Hammersmith Odeon 1989)

3: Guns n' Roses - Welcome to the Jungle

4: Megadeth - Peace Sells

5: Motorhead - The Ace of Spades

6: Iron Maiden - The Phantom of the Opera - remember this? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1LtaD63zYoQ

7: Metallica - One

8: Dire Straits - Money for Nothing

9: Boston - More than a feeling (Live New York 1977)

10: Finally, the theme music from the PC game "Driver". If you put the CD ROM in a CD player, you get 2 tracks of funky 70's cop show music.

All top tunes with the exception of Boston. If someone buys me another cheap compilation rock album with More Than A Feeling I will go on a kill crazy rampage!

 

Slightly miffed that no one here has chosen any Zappa.

[Parky]

Jewish Princess would make my top twenty if that makes you feel better Warren?

[scaryoldcortina]

Zappa is fine with me too but hey, don't knock boston.. got Fred a cheap escort, didn't it? lol....

 

I'm not even close to giving you a top then tho. here's a good sample of what's in my head at any given time though.

[ashmicro]

Since a top ten thing is going on here (and us blokes love our lists eg, cars, music, firearms, planes etc)

 

1: Iron Maiden - Hallowed be Thy Name

2: Metallica - Seek and Destroy (Live at the Hammersmith Odeon 1989)

3: Guns n' Roses - Welcome to the Jungle

4: Megadeth - Peace Sells

5: Motorhead - The Ace of Spades

6: Iron Maiden - The Phantom of the Opera - remember this? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1LtaD63zYoQ

7: Metallica - One

8: Dire Straits - Money for Nothing

9: Boston - More than a feeling (Live New York 1977)

10: Finally, the theme music from the PC game "Driver". If you put the CD ROM in a CD player, you get 2 tracks of funky 70's cop show music.

Fair comment, Warren. In mitigation, my missus said that the fact I didn't like "spide" music (rave in those days) when we first knew each other gave me brownie points.

[155V6]

10 of my favourites,

 

Mouldy Old Dough-Lieutenant Pigeon

 

Green Onions-Booker T & the MGs

 

Gangsters-The Specials

 

Burn Burn-Lostprophets

 

Foo Fighters-Best of You

 

Garbage-It's all over but the crying

 

Iron Maiden-Charlotte the Harlot

 

Rancid-Fall back down

 

+44-I'll be there

 

The Almighty-Jesus loves you...but I don't

[Rusty Pelican]

Have to admit that i havnt listened to much of these new lists , probably im too old to apreciate it , Some else has heard Deep Purple , Grabsplatter , great track , ive got it on Vinyl somewhere .The Guns @ Roses , Rush and Boston tracks are class , Listened to Black Sabbath , Die Young tother day , apparently the cause of a few suicides but a great toon all the same

[Cavcraft]

10 of my favourites,

 

Mouldy Old Dough-Lieutenant Pigeon

 

Green Onions-Booker T & the MGs

 

Gangsters-The Specials

 

Burn Burn-Lostprophets

 

Foo Fighters-Best of You

 

Garbage-It's all over but the crying

 

Iron Maiden-Charlotte the Harlot

 

Rancid-Fall back down

 

+44-I'll be there

 

The Almighty-Jesus loves you...but I don't

 

Top bombing sir, especially The Specials.

[ashmicro]

 

Bootleg video of Iron Maiden at IIRC The Soundhouse. Extra shite points as I read that this was recorded on a Sony Betacam. I've been a Maiden nut since I was about 9, the first album I ever bought was The Number of the Beast in 1982, on red vinyl.Mutha and Fatha Ash were displeased as I blew up the speakers on their record player.

[Cavcraft]

I like Iron Maiden but continuing the 'grin' theme it was pretty funny watching people urinate in pastic bottles then hurl them at Dickinson at Reading Rock circa 1982, after he'd got a major leage strop on.

[warren t claim]

I like Iron Maiden but continuing the 'grin' theme it was pretty funny watching people urinate in pastic bottles then hurl them at Dickinson at Reading Rock circa 1982, after he'd got a major leage strop on.

I managed to hit top pop paedo Jonathan King with a bottle of piss at Donnington circa 1987.

 

With hindsight as I was only a teenager at the time he probably enjoyed it!

[ashmicro]

I like Iron Maiden but continuing the 'grin' theme it was pretty funny watching people urinate in pastic bottles then hurl them at Dickinson at Reading Rock circa 1982, after he'd got a major leage strop on.

I managed to hit top pop paedo Jonathan King with a bottle of piss at Donnington circa 1987.

 

With hindsight as I was only a teenager at the time he probably enjoyed it!

That in itself made me grin! Good drills, Warren!

[ashmicro]

Since a top ten thing is going on here (and us blokes love our lists eg, cars, music, firearms, planes etc)

 

1: Iron Maiden - Hallowed be Thy Name

2: Metallica - Seek and Destroy (Live at the Hammersmith Odeon 1989)

3: Guns n' Roses - Welcome to the Jungle

4: Megadeth - Peace Sells

5: Motorhead - The Ace of Spades

6: Iron Maiden - The Phantom of the Opera - remember this? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1LtaD63zYoQ

7: Metallica - One

8: Dire Straits - Money for Nothing

9: Boston - More than a feeling (Live New York 1977)

10: Finally, the theme music from the PC game "Driver". If you put the CD ROM in a CD player, you get 2 tracks of funky 70's cop show music.

ash, you are my new god, lol... everything there is on my garage playlist, except the driver things.. I did play the PS1 game to death though... did the PC version have the "get carter" chase through newcastle as a completion bonus?

At the risk of Mrs Ash chinning me, but in the interests of Autoshite factuality, I endeavoured through the game to find that yes, The Toon is a last/bonus level in the PC game of Driver. Furthermore, Mrs Ash spent some of her childhood in New-cassle and says that it is fairly accurate.