Irreligious countries and ****.

Obliq · 30-03-2013 11:41am

Ok, I don't care what age you lovely lads/lasses are - I have to try and get you to hear what I'm hearing in James Blake. I KNOW, I KNOW .....he looks too young and insecure to be this good. But rhythm......has never been this subtle. Or not in my memory anyhow.

You'll be hearing "retrograde" everywhere at the mo,
but this is off the first album - who's listened to it at full speaker capability? You WILL understand. YOU MUST. You have been informed. That is all.

sponsoredwalk · 02-04-2013 5:11pm

^Very spacey, in that great on the bus away the world kind of way...^

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There be dragons behind the curtains of reality, & don't let anyone tell you any differently my son :cool:

Burn 'em, burn the witch...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rW04lbSI5mE

Obliq · 03-04-2013 8:53pm

sponsoredwalk wrote: »

^Very spacey, in that great on the bus away the world kind of way...^

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There be dragons behind the curtains of reality, & don't let anyone tell you any differently my son :cool:
Burn 'em, burn the witch...

The account has closed for this youtube post, but thank you petal. It is rather spacey behind these curtains (they need linings).......and indeed the dragons are fiercely protective of each of our twitching secrets and grisly notions of "honesty", "morality" and "law". For example, I may be old enough to be your mother, never mind your son, my child. I fear I haven't had the courage of my convictions up here in the neverwhere of A&A - and YET ye may cry "burn her, burn the witch". Hang me high indeed.

Where does "taste" become poor? I am not ashamed to like(*) this dancer's style - even his knobbly knees have a certain "f*ck you" narcissism when combined with the appalling shorts. However, if you have a love of dance and a childhood in the 70's/80's, this man's clothing alone MAY ACTUALLY epitomise a certain "back it up there, Cynthia, begod we're in Europe now" attitude that was prevalent before the Celtic tiger. A time between the fleadh and the feile. A time of "I'm quite a pretty boy, I take good chances and I'll be your's tonight" which works out rather less well as it turns out, than a fiscally sensible marriage of long term good intentions and salary between two or more reasonable parties. Sigh. Who knew? Not me; no how.

Watch through for the Sonic references.

You may expect more dance posts in future. Me is feeling fine now.

* read: obsessively watch his best moves in an entirely asexual fashion. He is a study in studying how to move .....as opposed to how to think (like in philosophy for example, which pays probably less well

)

Turtwig · 06-04-2013 1:20am

Ninja mate, I commend you for your efforts, but it's just not the same. Strobeyyyy where are you gone? ?
I got all nostalgia wound up today. So, anyone remember this tune?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2OAlHNmIok

Hotblack Desiato · 12-04-2013 1:44am

And when you're done porning, reflect that she's dead now... [ha, did you think only relidjion could only give a guilt trip? hahahaha]

Turtwig · 12-04-2013 1:55am

I think you need to work on the philosophical bit to your posts in this thread.
Express yourself, let your conscience flow. Like that river outside somewhere that's all peaceful and calm. Let it flow and be free.

Strobey this one's for you.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=diYAc7gB-0A

Hotblack Desiato · 12-04-2013 1:56am

the day the world turned day glo, you know, you know, you know

..back when nuclear annihilation was taken seriously.

oh yeah. Poly Styrene is dead too. didn't realise...

Hotblack Desiato · 12-04-2013 2:37am

sponsoredwalk · 12-04-2013 4:20am

In the spirit of rivers flowing soulfully through the meadows

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59SLE-krndE

(I've been listening to this for the past 2 days, something in the collective unconscious willed that metaphor from you Jern)

Two years, & the motivation for about half of my posts in this thread, ended on Monday - where oh where does one decipher the inspiration to go on from

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWe6bMVvTzk

Ah, but if you are one of those who doesn't draw inspiration from the sadder things in life perhaps I can offer you something whose compact support has a little more oomph:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrOtqtQN84k

You may of course be directed along a slightly different inward path than that trodded by music and so would prefer to know thyself in a different manner (though if Funkadelic hasn't done it golly gee Freud & Bernays sure will have a hard time of it):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iww8eseFg7k

strobe · 12-04-2013 11:48pm

Apparently glass bottles explode in a firey hell fire when filled with butane and a spark applied, sometimes setting off the building fire alarm? How is someone supposed to know this and why isn't it thought in basic sex education to five year olds in our schools?

I suppose this means I can no longer fill things with butane and ignite them in my small bottom floor apartment while trying to get drunk?

What is this... Communist Kazakhstan? (is Kazakhstan communist?)?

On the plus side, very few deaths.
Huzzah?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKFkc19T3Dk

Edit:(that there be a mobile youtube site attempt at a link... Now if only there was a mod that saw that and did some Internet magic to make it show up...)

Edit : Your wish shall be done. But you know there's a price right? I need your left arm attached to a unicorn horn in the mail by tomorrow.

Turtwig · 12-04-2013 11:58pm

STROBEYYYYYYYYYYY

strobe · 13-04-2013 12:07am

Sup j-dog, and here is me stockpiling right arms and mermaid tails....

Damn you Irish Business Post! (that's a thing, right?)

Turtwig · 13-04-2013 1:41am

You see strobey. Your lightning deletes always catch me off guard. Once before I posted S-club 7 and was utterly embarrassed because the context and meaning was lost. This time around I spent the last half hour thinking up what tune to post here, only to think of it, go to youtube find the link and see that, yet again, you've deleted your post.

So, anyway, I'm putting the tune here because the title is appropriate and the tune itself should cheer your up a bit. It does to me anyway. But then if you just severed your arm, then I'm not sure what can cheer your up. I know HeWhoMustNotBeNamed gave a Worm guy a silver arm, but I'm afraid I don't have such skills. I do however possess the ability to regrow unicorn horns so if you won't mind sending that unicorn you dehorned my way I'll be happy to recompliment it with an extra horn.
Thanks very much in advance,

Anyways dude you're awesome and cool and don't let anyone else tell your otherwise.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ab1l2TwFp8

Also, to the grammer nazi's out there I apologise for the inventions of perfectly cromulent words.

sponsoredwalk · 13-04-2013 1:44am

Jesus H Christ man, that is the best fcuking song in the world, there's a few variations of it though & the differences are subtle but it's totally worth listening to 6 different versions to find the one that speaks to you. Ahh christmas... (??^&^%^£%£$^"£)

Turtwig · 13-04-2013 2:01am

sponsoredwalk wrote: »

Two years, & the motivation for about half of my posts in this thread, ended on Monday - where oh where does one decipher the inspiration to go on from

:eek:
That can't be a coincidence?
It can't . .. .

Turtwig · 13-04-2013 2:04am

sponsoredwalk wrote: »

Jesus H Christ man, that is the best fcuking song in the world, there's a few variations of it though & the differences are subtle but it's totally worth listening to 6 different versions to find the one that speaks to you. Ahh christmas... (??^&^%^£%£$^"£)

I don't think it's my favourite version either. But it's the name used for this particular one and Strobey's post that made it such a fecking awesome choice. All that time spent reflecting. . .
*Wanders off muttering something about trippsy strobsy deleting hissz posts.*

Turtwig · 13-04-2013 2:15am

This dude has the best f**king job in the world.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_P-yAkBbIV0

Someday, I'm going to meet a space cat. Someday . . .

Turtwig · 15-04-2013 12:13am

Goo! Goo! Goo everywhere! And it's adorable. Grey balls, white balls, skeleton balls, green balls, pink balls, cyber balls, ballooon balls, sticky bomb balls, cacti balls. Oh how adorable. I hate it when they die, I hate it when I have to leave them behind. I hate it how sometimes I sacrifice a precious ball for the greater good. (Or evil! I honestly can't tell, but the game sets a goal and I must complete it.)

Spent the last hour or so trying to build a bridge across a chasm to light a fuse and then I smacked myself on the head when I realised I was going to need two separate fused. Built the second bridge in about two minutes and lit the fuse.
Boom!
Gooballs all over the place! But oh what a pretty sight. But boy! What a fecking soundtrack.

Sponsored, dude you need to give this a try. Strobey you too. Heck all of yez do!
And what a name for tune eh? But seriously try the game on your PC, Wii, Android or i-Thingy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHId6LIPVd4

Turtwig · 07-05-2013 11:43pm

STROBEYyyyyyyyyy!
Strabby????

No way we're letting this thread even get a hiatus. Ever had a notion of what it is like to breathe free? Ahh that air is so pure (I don't honestly know what this means.:o) and fresh. Still not perfect, bit stingy but it it feels great! !!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCVrC7Dg2qo

Oh yeah philosophical bit?
Do try hard.

Obliq · 15-05-2013 7:57am

Don't be lonely

I can't write, but I'll dance and sing a little tune for you.....

You will have to imagine the singing and dancing, but nonetheless, that's what I'm doing.

"The name "Alt-J" is an allusion to the Greek uppercase letter delta (∆) which can be typed on Apple Mac OS X by the key sequence alt (option) + J. Coincidently the Alt + J function on a PC opens the Windows Media Player."

I think this is the nerdiest band name ever. I approve thoroughly. :cool:

Obliq · 15-05-2013 8:36am

Hmmm, never actually watched the video before. Way to go spoiling the beauty of the Paris Pantheon with a bunch of gyrating women

Or maybe that's just me?!

strobe · 17-05-2013 1:13am

Hey yo Jernal, sorry to leave you hanging man. My insomnia has taken a serious beating back into recession lately due to a certain someone, but I'm back not sleeping again tonight, and so the story goes...

I see Jakkass AKA Philologos AKA Christian Batman AKA Mohhamed El Nihad Nufemaria III closed his account???
Bad dice, Jakkass was cool enough.

What other song could it possibly be... this goes out to you man, where ever you be... hope things work out for you, however they go.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayGTIWMlo20

Edit: now with added subtitulos... app...apparently.
(God damn it's unexpectedly hard to find a satisfactory SOYCD video on youtube. Spaniards to the rescue, for some inexplicable reason... )

Turtwig · 17-05-2013 1:36am

STROBYER
EYEEEeeeeeeeee

Here be the hug.
There be the dragon we slayed in your honour.
There be the dragon's daugther coming to slay us all.
There goes the hero to save us preoccupied by his iPad. (I'm sure he'll save us when he's finished demolishing the Pigs fortress.)
Here be purple monkey dishwater trying to make sense of this all.
Here be the song that is keeping with the thread.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=

...
Oh right yeah, copy and paste
Here be the internal monologue.
you-tube dot com.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5Jr4xIc-Zs

Oh and there in that desert is strabogolis studying something important sciency with some math and elegance - and beauty. Though right now he's probably pulling hair out of his head. Either way, strabby and strobey I bid thee well

As for the dragon's daughter she's still coming . . .

sponsoredwalk · 19-05-2013 4:52am

Jernal wrote: »

I doubt you could be against everyone. You of all people should know by now that nothing is ever that black and white.
I take it you think some of the posts here have been too judgemental and lacking in empathy? Or something else? Either way, please elaborate on your post.

Also, please post in the irreligious thread it gets lonely in there at times.

On my part it's been lonely because I've been dealing with lovelessness, homelessness & exams (in that order, if the erudite Victorian must know), but a song like this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXp413NynFk

makes it all worthwhile [no matter how stingingly it resonates with the first of the reasons, no mater how fcuking bad it stings Moriarty...]...

The rest of them though, shure they only have themselves to blame (& we can heap it upon them, even if I may have changed a left-handed childs life tonight).

sponsoredwalk · 25-05-2013 11:18pm

Alright, no hiatus:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZkWHZ3hJtY

What a doc, definitely one deserving of commemoration in the soul-repository that is this thread :cool:

strobe · 14-02-2014 9:13pm

So, good morrow, this is a song what I do like that is being played on the radiograph presently.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIWbgR4vYiw

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Edit: Also, Atheism and stuff.

Edit 2: Someone please please please tell me they think Beck sounds just a little bit like what Ozzy Osbourne sounds like with singing and things? Yes? No? That kind of almost auto tuned way of singing, yes?

sponsoredwalk · 15-02-2014 12:40am

Man that's some song, it's pure Beck to me but I only know a little Ozzy.

My song at the moment

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jbWxf7nTS0

Ooh kichie kichie kichie

Turtwig · 23-03-2014 2:24am

StrobyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyS and Strabyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy where are you guys gone? You honestly think this thread can be let die!!!?:mad:

Strabogolis where you may be, I hope with all the sincerity of other people's heart that you a keeping well. Strobey you should be in a cesspit. Keeping well of course, but in a cesspit nonetheless.

So, where does one begin? This is March the first month of Spring. Course, when we buggers went to school we thought it was the second month of spring. Such a useless thing to teach people too as it had no reflection on Ireland's climate. Bleh, l hope they've correct that error. Speaking of Climate. CLimate science is fricking class! The stuff people have figured out about our climates, deep in the earth's history and the other planets and the other stuff that came about. Cool. Amazing science. Science is cool. Tedious to do no doubt but cool when viewed from that outside perspective that collates all the data and produces the complete approximation. A sequence of approximations to the truth. It's a great big universe and it began right here! And here and over there and now we have the first strong inkling of evidence towards eternal inflation models. How freaking awesome is that? Course we have to doubt all the results and models but that we can peer back to those billionth's of second when time began. That on a sheet of paper I can produce my own crude approximation of a universe, Dust world Terry pratchett would have been proud. I really ought to read one of his books sometime. ANyway, this paragraph is long, I hope it's epic enough for the bump this thread deserves,

Yiz all better be keeping well and awesome and all that stuff. Strabby kicking ass in his exams.

Now, um, music.
May the odds forever be in our favour.

Nodin · 23-03-2014 5:48am

I need to be dropped by helicopter on a mountain top in Nordland, naked, with nothing but a flamethrower, an axe, a pack of Viagra, and this blazing out all over.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXkP4WS8Y_Y

Turtwig · 23-03-2014 5:59am

An axe plus Viagra usually equals extreme sadistic torture.

Nodin · 23-03-2014 3:23pm

Jernal wrote: »

An axe plus Viagra usually equals extreme sadistic torture.

Well its Viagra or Deep Heat, and the Deep Heat is definitely extreme sadistic torture...

Obliq · 23-03-2014 7:02pm

Nodin wrote: »

I need to be dropped by helicopter on a mountain top in Nordland, naked, with nothing but a flamethrower, an axe, a pack of Viagra, and this blazing out all over.

Yes, definitely. Updates as you get em please...

is it ok if I lurk here? oh, music....yes

Something for the Nordic mood so. And I've been planning sculptures - there's a feeling eating at me like I'm about to expand in a rather explosive fashion, as if from a singularity and I'm fierce afraid of what I'll unleash upon myself again......it's basis is a mash up of those immortal remains of saints (re imagined and reconstructed in German speaking Europe during the Protestant Reformation by [for example] the nuns of Ennetach, who stunningly decorated the holy ribcage of St Felix), the veneration of homogeneity, and my aunt's recent mastectomy. I haven't done a sculpture in 16 years. Wish me luck.

sponsoredwalk · 23-03-2014 8:25pm

Jernal wrote: »

Strabogolis where you may be, I hope with all the sincerity of other people's heart that you a keeping well. Strobey you should be in a cesspit. Keeping well of course, but in a cesspit nonetheless.

Alright dude, doing pretty well thanks, hope you're well yourself - 3 issues in #225 reversed their ever-prominent order of importance & in celebration of such victories, well, one could literally do nothing but throw oneself into all 10 Landau's [read the reviews to all volumes to get a sense of the poetry inherent in a slab of tar - volume 2 gives the theory behind gravitational waves ] along with the original frickingamazeballs Lagrange's, Fourier's, Laplace's, Maxwell's, Gibb's, Poincare's & Dirac's, dipping each into home-made strawberry daquiri's while whipping guitars with belts. Find me a better climate change book than this ideological tripe please

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_426RiwST8

Obliq wrote: »

I haven't done a sculpture in 16 years. Wish me luck.

Mmm I can only hope your return to sculpting is on a par with the feeling certain people get when they pick up their first metronome ("get yourself a metronome"), and yes Heartbeats makes my heart beat :cool:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epIDvFAn9EU

(Seen these guys on Friday night - only 20 people went, a massive massive injustice)

Obliq · 23-03-2014 10:55pm

sponsoredwalk wrote: »

Mmm I can only hope your return to sculpting is on a par with the feeling certain people get when they pick up their first metronome ("get yourself a metronome"), and yes Heartbeats makes my heart beat :cool:

I'm happy to hear The Animators - very good. Last I heard of Dublin rap/breakbeat was Collie, and tho hilarious, did not tune to my heart at all. I'm pretty sure my next sculptures will dance to this song next though...

The Knife are for sure the beat behind my sense of dread, but Anthony....oh Anthony... is it's voice. Although he didn't write that one. Still...As a child I knew, that the stars could only get brighter...

All of Anthony and The Johnson's songs are NSFW due to emotional triggering. Use with care and consideration.
Bugger. Can't find a working URL. Use this instead, if interested: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fb8S51M2GAc

H3aler · 27-03-2014 2:03pm

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xwwqna_main-rowan-tenu-yad-kar-ke-sajna-by-nusrat-fateh-ali-khan_music

strobe · 13-04-2014 12:31am

For the first time in years and years and years for some reason:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7TEkmt1Wvg

Obliq · 14-04-2014 4:39pm

That's been overplayed in my house. Infected Mushroom is ruined for me due to my teenager's obsessive use of it as full-volume housework music. Great though

Hotblack Desiato · 02-05-2014 11:45pm

Random Retro Video Audio Dept:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3MtaVS60eY

Hotblack Desiato · 02-05-2014 11:54pm

With age-appropriate visuals :pac:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xv8URilkuqg

Hotblack Desiato · 03-05-2014 12:55am

Zero-budget fan-produced video is better than a lot of 80s professional videos.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0WNbm1jz6A

sponsoredwalk · 02-06-2014 10:56pm

Captain Planet ring-lighting-up/call/hands-on-top-of-each-other mode activated:

Huzzah!
(Drink Strawberry daquiri's loaded with instead, better for your health)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1vdYTzPtKQ

Kanda good as in one song's alright, ah I begrudge - they broke my Holy Roller Novacaine

Hotblack Desiato · 28-06-2014 11:51pm

The visuals are early 90s and unrelated to the late 80s tune, but never mind. It's SY on tour through the vacuum of mid-western UsA, the banality of life on the road is <cue Thurston> uh, I dunno, meaningful.

Anyway, wgaf, this is currently close to the top of the list of 'songs I most want to force my relatives to listen to at my funeral.' Enjoy!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yyE6--wXKJ0

sponsoredwalk · 29-06-2014 6:56am

Just imagine that being played on fm104 everyday in this day and age :cool:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4T4eXkGl8zo

Hotblack Desiato · 28-11-2014 11:30pm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvCjtlJlJ68

Incidentally the black rectangle in the upper left was Mickey Mouse, removed on (some) album covers due to legal threats (they objected to their 'cultural icon' being seen on the same object as the other 'michael' in the bottom right)