Genie Posted April 24, 2022 Share Posted April 24, 2022 12 minutes ago, Stevo985 said: Kanye West is a genius 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted April 24, 2022 VT Supporter Share Posted April 24, 2022 1 hour ago, maqroll said: Led Zeppelin were sloppy and tedious until they released their fourth album. Nah, they were a mix of tedious and brilliant all the way through, every album. I keep meaning to make my definitive LZ playlist (it wouldn't be the same as the existing 'best of' albums). My favourite album would be Houses of the Holy. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rjw63 Posted April 24, 2022 Share Posted April 24, 2022 4 minutes ago, mjmooney said: My favourite album would be Houses of the Holy. My wife's fave track is D'yer Maker Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted April 24, 2022 VT Supporter Share Posted April 24, 2022 4 minutes ago, rjw63 said: My wife's fave track is D'yer Maker Routinely quoted as their most hated and divisive track. I love it. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevo985 Posted April 24, 2022 VT Supporter Share Posted April 24, 2022 24 minutes ago, villa4europe said: And also a massive bell end at the same time but it is at the same time its not one or the other Makes it very hard to appreciate him personally, I do think he's slightly overrated and I don't get the love for dark twisted fantasy but then im not an out and out hip hop lover The dissect podcast stuff for him is really good, I love his ability to sample, that side of hip hop is something I enjoy so when you know where it comes from and what he's done it's brilliant Oh he’s an absolute grade A dickhead. Don’t get me wrong. But he is a genius 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maqroll Posted April 24, 2022 Author Share Posted April 24, 2022 36 minutes ago, mjmooney said: Routinely quoted as their most hated and divisive track. I love it. The rock heads were flummoxed by the tropical rhythm. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maqroll Posted April 24, 2022 Author Share Posted April 24, 2022 1 hour ago, MakemineVanilla said: I was a massive Zeppelin fan and it was one of the most disappointing things ever, when I found out they had nicked most of their stuff off other artists. When I saw them live, I thought Page using a bow on his guitar was pretentious wankery! These days I mostly like them for purely nostalgic reasons. I was amused to find that when Robert Plant was on Desert Island Discs recently, the one record he chose above all others was by Mario Lanza. I have no problem at all with the covering of someone else's material. What I can never forgive LZ for is the outright theft and passing those songs off as their own. I wish I had said something to Plant when I sat next to him at a bar once. I should mention that I was a crazy Led Zep head who had all their albums, read the biography and watched the film. Agree with Mike that Houses is the best one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maqroll Posted April 24, 2022 Author Share Posted April 24, 2022 Of course, if Zeppelin credited those blues guys songs, the royalties would've gone straight into the record label president's bank account! Thieves everywhere. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HanoiVillan Posted April 24, 2022 Share Posted April 24, 2022 1 hour ago, maqroll said: I wish I had said something to Plant when I sat next to him at a bar once. I'll try and get my wife to tell him when she sees him from time to time (at work, get your heads out the gutter). 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maqroll Posted April 24, 2022 Author Share Posted April 24, 2022 13 minutes ago, HanoiVillan said: I'll try and get my wife to tell him when she sees him from time to time (at work, get your heads out the gutter). What does she do for work? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HanoiVillan Posted April 25, 2022 Share Posted April 25, 2022 1 hour ago, maqroll said: What does she do for work? She's a teacher; he has previously funded the music department at the same institution and has been known to appear there, though I think the department is actually being closed. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xela Posted July 27, 2022 Share Posted July 27, 2022 Air travel is far too cheap and should cost substantially more. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villa4europe Posted July 27, 2022 Share Posted July 27, 2022 41 minutes ago, Xela said: Air travel is far too cheap and should cost substantially more. My work definitely agrees with this and does everything it can to pay more I had an "emergency" meeting in Bristol Tuesday, my return flights were £850, my parents were here at the weekend, their return flights were £35, no one in my office bats an eyelid How Ryanair do that £35 flight is mind boggling but with me living abroad its not something I'll complain about Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Albrighton Posted July 27, 2022 VT Supporter Share Posted July 27, 2022 I haven’t been on a plane in over six years, I don’t really have a frame of reference what a return ticket should cost. You could tell me London to Glasgow is £25, you could tell me it’s £150. From the post above it does sound like either is quite conceivable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villa4europe Posted July 27, 2022 Share Posted July 27, 2022 Timing and airline makes a huge difference but the biggest difference seems to be airport If you flew to "London" Stansted its way cheaper for some reason, if I lived within 30 mins of Stansted I'd have seen half of Europe by now Stansted + Ryanair doesn't make sense - punched in a date of 30th September in to skyscanner and clicked search everywhere and as a one way flight you can go to plovdiv, marseille, toulouse, Milan, turin, Dublin, knock, Luxembourg, eindhoven, Oslo, poznan, Bucharest, santander or Stockholm for less than a tenner - less than £20 is 50+ places Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sidcow Posted July 27, 2022 VT Supporter Share Posted July 27, 2022 On 21/04/2022 at 20:29, mjmooney said: Au contraire. The Joy of Kenneth™ lies in finding new (ideally never before seen) pictures. That's true 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KentVillan Posted July 28, 2022 Share Posted July 28, 2022 On 24/04/2022 at 22:48, Stevo985 said: Oh he’s an absolute grade A dickhead. Don’t get me wrong. But he is a genius Yeah, he’s a genius, 100%. Got an amazing ear for samples and hooks, and constantly trying to do new things. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MakemineVanilla Posted July 28, 2022 Share Posted July 28, 2022 On 24/04/2022 at 22:38, mjmooney said: Routinely quoted as their most hated and divisive track. I love it. It certainly goes a good way beyond pastiche and verges on piss-taking, but I don't dislike it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GarethRDR Posted July 28, 2022 Share Posted July 28, 2022 15 hours ago, villa4europe said: If you flew to "London" Stansted its way cheaper for some reason That's the danger-money factor of having to be that close to Luton. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
picicata Posted July 28, 2022 Share Posted July 28, 2022 (edited) 5 minutes ago, GarethRDR said: That's the danger-money factor of having to be that close to Luton. London Stansted isn't particularly close to Luton. London Luton, on the other hand, is Edited July 28, 2022 by picicata 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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