thursday 1 Posted December 7, 2010 Share Posted December 7, 2010 405.2 lbs and they aint gonna eat it Link to post Share on other sites
dale#1 1 Posted December 8, 2010 Share Posted December 8, 2010 Breaking news! That Ebiso or whatever his face is called dude will hold a press conference this evening to explain why he had a fight when he was pissed, or something. Link to post Share on other sites
pie-eater 207 Posted December 10, 2010 Share Posted December 10, 2010 Hey, can someone tell me when the news stops being all about Wikileaks and something else happens. Cheers. Link to post Share on other sites
Ctrl-Z 0 Posted December 11, 2010 Share Posted December 11, 2010 Not yet. Link to post Share on other sites
thursday 1 Posted December 12, 2010 Share Posted December 12, 2010 not yet still Link to post Share on other sites
JA2340 16 Posted December 12, 2010 Share Posted December 12, 2010 The world is still spinning ... wikileaks hasn't collapsed yet! Link to post Share on other sites
grungy-gonads 54 Posted December 13, 2010 Author Share Posted December 13, 2010 Originally Posted By: dale#1 Breaking news! That Ebiso or whatever his face is called dude will hold a press conference this evening to explain why he had a fight when he was pissed, or something. WTF is the big deal with that story? Link to post Share on other sites
big-will 7 Posted December 14, 2010 Share Posted December 14, 2010 HOLLYWOOD sweethearts ZAC EFRON and VANESSA HUDGENS have split up, it emerged yesterday. Shocking. Link to post Share on other sites
Tubby Beaver 209 Posted December 14, 2010 Share Posted December 14, 2010 Who? Link to post Share on other sites
thursday 1 Posted December 15, 2010 Share Posted December 15, 2010 Zac Enron, the con merchant who stole billions on energy shares. Link to post Share on other sites
scouser 4 Posted December 16, 2010 Share Posted December 16, 2010 Pretty shocking thats for sure. Link to post Share on other sites
thursday 1 Posted December 16, 2010 Share Posted December 16, 2010 this just in: Annie Lennox’s favourite Christmas songs 1 Eurythmics – Winter Wonderland This was the first Christmas song I made. We recorded it over 25 years ago for a charity album called A Very Special Christmas, put together by Eunice Shriver to raise money for the Special Olympics. It was visionary of her to think of doing an album that would last for years. The song itself was very hastily put together. I recorded it with a neighbour of Dave Stewart’s because he was busy. We knocked it out in a day but I still thinks it stands up. When I listen to it I can still hear the different flavour I wanted to give the song by putting an electro-rhythm track behind it. So you have the fusion between nostalgia and edginess which I still think really works. 2 Silent Night I put this on the album because I think it is simply beautiful. Through having children myself, what I wanted to draw out of that song was the bond between a mother and her child. Holding your own child when they are peaceful is one of the most tender experiences you can have and there is this beautiful silence. I wanted to bring out that intimacy in the song and bring the listener into that very tender place. With all these carols I wanted to touch people’s hearts. 3 Ding Dong Merrily on High Not one that I did but a brilliant song, although completely different in tone. There is that bit in it where you almost faint trying to get all the notes in. It’s not easy to sing and it really reminds me of being a child at carol service – it was always the last thing we’d do in the winter term at my Scottish girls’ school. Where I come from is pretty grey in winter so to go inside a beautiful church and see the tree and all the lights was incredibly magical. 4 Sex Pistols and Thin Lizzy – A Merry Jingle This song is pretty awful but I chose it because it was around in the Seventies. It is nice to remember Thin Lizzy and the Sex Pistols doing this. It is pretty ridiculous but I love that is has the silly factor to it. You need to have the whole gamut at this time of year. 5 Bing Crosby and David Bowie – Little Drummer Boy I think this song goes between the cracks of silly and serious. The ambiguity of this song and the odd couple dynamic of Bing and David is what so intriguing about it and God bless them both for doing it. 6 Pogues – Fairytale of New York Although this song has been played to death, I can never get sick of it. I think its appeal never wears out because it has such humour. It paints a bleak picture of life and yet the sentimentality completely undercuts it. We lurch between absolute drunken sentimentality at this time of year and violent abuse and it picks up up on that dynamic. It is so poignant to hear Kirsty MacColl and it is marvellous that in spite of dying so tragically and so young, her vibrancy and feistiness lives on perfectly in this performance. It is beautiful to hear her in her fullness. 7 The Ronnettes – Frosty the Snowman When I listen to this it makes me think of crackling logs and twinkling tinsel and the fizz of champagne. It makes me feel the excitement of being a teenager getting ready to go out and spraying myself in cheap perfume. This is fun, party music and really encapsulates America at that time. When I do interviews in America and they talk about classic Christmas songs they mean songs like this from the Fifties and Sixties, not old medieval carols. 8 Once in Royal David’s City If you go to a carol service you will always hear this but I think of it more as a hymn than a carol. It goes straight to the heart of the nativity scene. When you are kid singing these songs you haven’t got a clue what all these strange words like manger or frankincense and myrrh mean. None of it made any sense but it all sounded great. 9 Annie Lennox – Universal Child I wasn’t planning on writing a Christmas song – I just wanted to cover traditional standards. But when I was working on the album, I was playing around in a break on the piano and all of a sudden I found myself playing a melody that turned into this song. It sort of poured out of me. I think it was because the nativity is really about a child born in dangerous, impoverished circumstances. We all lead lives that are accidents of birth. It had real resonance for me with the times we are still living in now – they haven’t changed that much but we have become inured to it. 10 Bing Crosby – White Christmas This is pure nostalgia. This is the dream of Christmas that we all want to have. We all want it fluffy; we want Christmas to be like It’s A Wonderful Life. I think that when Dickens wrote A Christmas Carol he was doing the same thing. He was showing us the dark side but consoling us at the end. Link to post Share on other sites
big-will 7 Posted December 16, 2010 Share Posted December 16, 2010 Annie Lennox really is quite annoying isn't she. Link to post Share on other sites
thursday 1 Posted December 16, 2010 Share Posted December 16, 2010 yes, but this is brilliant Link to post Share on other sites
grungy-gonads 54 Posted December 16, 2010 Author Share Posted December 16, 2010 Nah, it's annoying and overdone. Shane's 'vocals' don't help. Link to post Share on other sites
JA2340 16 Posted December 17, 2010 Share Posted December 17, 2010 Originally Posted By: big-will Annie Lennox really is quite annoying isn't she. Who?? Link to post Share on other sites
big-will 7 Posted December 17, 2010 Share Posted December 17, 2010 Annie Lennox. Link to post Share on other sites
thursday 1 Posted December 17, 2010 Share Posted December 17, 2010 JA, get back into your cave. Do not venture out unless hungry for grubs. Link to post Share on other sites
JA2340 16 Posted December 18, 2010 Share Posted December 18, 2010 As usual, a particularly unhelpful comment from Thurs, and almost as useless from big-will. Anyone with a halfway intelligent response to my query? Link to post Share on other sites
thursday 1 Posted December 18, 2010 Share Posted December 18, 2010 oooooooo... touchy touchy. Rag week is it? Link to post Share on other sites
Mick Rich 78 Posted December 18, 2010 Share Posted December 18, 2010 Originally Posted By: JA Anyone with a halfway intelligent response to my query? Who's that Girl? Annie Lennox was the singer in the popular 1980's UK duo called the Eurythmics :-) Link to post Share on other sites
thursday 1 Posted December 18, 2010 Share Posted December 18, 2010 that is not intelligent. It's obvious. Reply does not qualify. Any cave man with an internet connection could've found that out for himself. Lazy. Link to post Share on other sites
Mick Rich 78 Posted December 18, 2010 Share Posted December 18, 2010 Sadly, that's from my memory! Link to post Share on other sites
thursday 1 Posted December 18, 2010 Share Posted December 18, 2010 Annie looks and sounds like a classic lesbian. Hate the way she does her hair. Link to post Share on other sites
Mick Rich 78 Posted December 18, 2010 Share Posted December 18, 2010 Fair point, but she did have a great voice. Link to post Share on other sites
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