Posted December 16, 200816 yr talking heads 'and she was' must rank as another of the 80's most underated acts, along with talk talk, fine young canibals, adventures, xtc... i like talking heads, some great lyrics ... 'youve said that once, why say it again'?..:lol: my fav was 'road to nowhere' though.. :) oh yeah... we won the quiz by a mile... 66/70, 12 pts in front of second place.
December 20, 200816 yr talking heads 'and she was' must rank as another of the 80's most underated acts so obv not a member of the Ting Tings then :lol:
December 22, 200816 yr Author B)-->QUOTE(Neil B @ Dec 22 2008, 09:00 AM) 2353409[/snapback]I don't get it either! his way of thinking is more bizarre then kate james! lol...
December 25, 200816 yr B)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Neil B @ Dec 22 2008, 09:00 AM) 2353409[/snapback]</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->so obv not a member of the Ting Tings then :lol: I don't get it either! The Ting Tings are a popular musical group who even though they come from Salford are not a bunch of Smiths obsessives but seem to have taken most of their ideas from New York acts of the post-punk era with Jules probably growing up listening to Ze Records, Blondie and all those types and especially the Tom Tom Club, who are Tina Weymouth and Chris Frantz of Talking Heads so so i guess not underated at all... from http://www.thetingtings.com/global/the-band "It's nothing you'll see on Shameless, but - whisper it - Salford has an artsy underside that is shaping up to be a Northern variant on Warhol's early Factory. Based in a former disused Mill and shrouded by council High Rises, its first breakout stars have emerged. Welcome, if you will, The Ting Tings - the Sonny and Cher of Salford Precinct for the Noughties. The Ting Tings are Jules de Martino and Katie White. They met when she was just out of being a Wigan school-girl and bonded over a shared ambition to rock the foundations of pop music. Brought up on an exclusive musical diet of radio pop music ("any old c**p really") on a farm in the delightfully named Slag Lane ("try living with that in the school playground"), Katie is quite the most unusual front woman you might expect to crossover as the figurehead of Manchester's Bohemian margins. She speaks as she finds, admits to being fired up by "a massive chip on me shoulder" and hadn't heard of The Smiths until she moved into The Mill. She also possesses the unique ability to whip the stage up in a manner entirely befitting of a frenzied thrift shop messiah. You wouldn't know it now, but she started her musical life in a girl band, which was, as she freely admits, "the sort of thing you did in the mid 90s, wasn't it?" If she wasn't in The Ting Tings you could quite imagine Katie turning heads whilst fagging it outside Night and Day on Oldham Street or picketing to keep Afflecks Palace open. She's bluff Northern alternate-girl incarnate. Funny, brassy, not a boring bone in her body and with one ear always cocked to the chorus. Jules is the ying to Katie's yang. East London born and bred, with a surfeit of early art school experience, his Metropolitan charms are a direct counterbalance to Katie's brusque Northern manner. He can appear a little more pragmatic than his frontwoman but for the moment that you hear him pounding the drums as her musical foil. Ting Tings are very much a two-way operation. They share lyric and music writing duties. "If it feels right," he says, "then it goes in, whoever has come up with it." Jules admits that it was Katie who taught him to accept the pure thrill of pop music. "Even though we come from opposite ends of the musical spectrum, we have sort of reversed roles. I was always ‘the alternative one', now it's the other way round." The heart of The Ting Ting's plucky, arty, double-headed power-pop assault is back home at The Mill. Home to sculptors, painters, webbos and DIY musicians given free reign to do what they want with their private areas of creativity. Too urbane to be called a commune, the only time the occupants of this diverse and scintillating space came together was for ad hoc club nights that became word of mouth Mancunian sensations a year or so ago. "There weren't many places that you could go and get off your face to white noise back then," notes Katie. It was at the Mill that Katie's fuller rounded musical education began, courtesy of Jules. He introduced her to Talking Heads and Velvet Underground. She developed a minor, platonic girl crush on Heads bassist and Tom Tom Club front female Tina Weymouth. Her lack of Smiths knowledge was nipped in the bud when erstwhile guitar god Johnny Marr started renting space at The Mill, dropping in on occasions to here the manic pop thrill that was going on down the corridor. The Ting Tings aren't the most famous occupants of The Mill. Yet."
December 25, 200816 yr B)-->QUOTE(Neil B @ Dec 25 2008, 12:05 PM) 2357410[/snapback]Nope, still don't get it but thanks anyway :D well i guess if Katie and Jules were called the Ting Ting Club it might be more obv!!! :lol:
December 28, 200816 yr Author B)-->QUOTE(Neil B @ Dec 28 2008, 10:21 AM) 2360261[/snapback]OK, sort of makes sense now. Tom Tom Club etc. if i dont 'get' his posts first time, i give up trying.
January 1, 200916 yr B)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Neil B @ Dec 28 2008, 10:21 AM) 2360261[/snapback]</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->OK, sort of makes sense now. Tom Tom Club etc. if i dont 'get' his posts first time, i give up trying. c'mon just see it as part of your pop quiz - you like doing those dont you...tho i'm guessing its a really bumper filled slice of pop trivia type of quiz than just song title, band name and year (the last things always so hard)
January 3, 200916 yr Author c'mon just see it as part of your pop quiz - you like doing those dont you...tho i'm guessing its a really bumper filled slice of pop trivia type of quiz than just song title, band name and year (the last things always so hard) nope.... its music id artist/group/year with only a minute bit of trivia needed. they always have been .
January 5, 200916 yr nope.... its music id artist/group/year with only a minute bit of trivia needed. they always have been . and is for all the night...or is it just ten records after the piccy quiz for a few beers that will set you up for the main quiz that you never win?!?!?
January 5, 200916 yr Author and is for all the night...or is it just ten records after the piccy quiz for a few beers that will set you up for the main quiz that you never win?!?!? toninghts quiz is 30 bits of music to id with the artist. plus the snowball which is at £300 consists of id-ing artist, track, year plus 2 other questions eg first top ten/last top ten. thursday night has 50 music/artist ids plus picture round and snowball. these quizes last around 2 hours and i/we invariably win!
January 7, 200916 yr these quizes last around 2 hours and i/we invariably win! so everyone else is useless and there only for the beer?!?!? :lol: :lol: the quiz that i sometime goes to - can do the music most cases but no the year - only ten tracks but no good on normally quiz after as normally only there tagging along with bro and his mate and every other team has about 95 billion memebers...tho never actually come last as theres some subjects we can do... also sometimes go to place with mates where they have big money mistery artist round at end...and actually have 'won' that but we werent given the money as we put the lead singler down solo when it was his group...and that £££ would have provided us with a few good nights out...arse!!!!
January 7, 200916 yr Author so everyone else is useless and there only for the beer?!?!? :lol: :lol: pretty much so nowdays, theres only 3 in 'my' team and we are the smallest team in both quizes. there used to be some uber-knowlegable guys who have long since left. id do the quiz regardless of whether or not we win, as long as i like the quiz format. to me its more about testing my own knowlege against my memory then against anyone else....
January 8, 200916 yr pretty much so nowdays, theres only 3 in 'my' team and we are the smallest team in both quizes. there used to be some uber-knowlegable guys who have long since left. id do the quiz regardless of whether or not we win, as long as i like the quiz format. to me its more about testing my own knowlege against my memory then against anyone else.... You ever tried "bits & pieces" whereby they play a few seconds of a track and you have to guess it. I remember they they used to do it on the Radio 1 roadshow. I used to do quite well at that, never get them all but get at 2/3's.
January 9, 200916 yr Author You ever tried "bits & pieces" whereby they play a few seconds of a track and you have to guess it. I remember they they used to do it on the Radio 1 roadshow. I used to do quite well at that, never get them all but get at 2/3's. yep! used to do that, jo whiley still does a similar thing, the 7 song shuffle, but its modern songs which i might recognise but not i.d. ...lol. made a couple of great errors last night that saw me slip to third place.. 'regret'... WHY did i put the lightning seeds?... :lol: new order obviously! why did i put 'frijid pink' instead of 'vanilla fudge' for 'you keep me hanging on'? but i really blew it on dropping a year (5 pts) after putting 93 i changed it it 92... it was 93! DOHHHHH! :lol:
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