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I bet most would go and see the band without JJ. Give it a couple of weeks or months to get used to the idea and then see how good the new bass player is on youtube and i think most would start going back and then quoting on here how its not the same without JJ but its still really brilliant blah bl...

cassini wrote: ↑11 Oct 2024, 10:05 The entire lyrics to Baroque Bordello are incredibly poetic and beautiful, but my favourite line is:

Swing doors and a blind venetian keep her in a walnut shell

Good call and so artistic

I like the line Home is a black leather jacket fitting sweetly to my brain. Oh man...yes, another one... as a 13 year old hearing that it was just so...I can't even describe it... I had no clue what the song was about, but it was dark and scary and then a leather jacket around his brain just classi...

I like the line

Home is a black leather jacket fitting sweetly to my brain.

Yep you've got exactly what was meant and described as....our...us...the bands 50th how else can he describe it's the bands 50th. For me it's what they are playing on the night,how they are performing on the night with hopefully people going home well satisfied being the all important point. I thin...

How else would he sum it up though? The band HAS lasted 50 years and it would sound silly if he talked about MY 50th and you can't not mention it. It's the least worst option. OK... maybe substitute 'our' for 'the bands'? I can't see any issue, ok if he's using the word "our" whilst the o...

1977- 1979 : never put a foot wrong 1980-83 from plain weird to soft pop that I could almost handle 1984-1990 Loyally following although their mediocre attempt to sound modern was outshone by many better groups 1991-1999 : going through the motions while being dragged in an unappealing musical dire...

Ruby wrote: ↑20 Sep 2024, 19:12 Sorry but I don't know how JJ has the gall to stand on stage and talk about 'our' 50th,as much as I love the bloke.It's the emperor's new clothes.

I love JJ as well

But this has to be the best comment i have read on the whole forum never a truer word said and summed up in one sentence.

Will the band be forgotten when we've all departed ? It's a horrible thought. So much great music was created in the 60s 70s and 80s, a lot quite obscure. The thought of it being overlooked is sad. Though thanks to the net it'll always have some kind of audience I suppose. Assuming the thought poli...

Will the band be forgotten when we've all departed ? It's a horrible thought. So much great music was created in the 60s 70s and 80s, a lot quite obscure. The thought of it being overlooked is sad. Though thanks to the net it'll always have some kind of audience I suppose. Assuming the thought poli...

A popular statistic that The Stranglers liked to always quote was that The Stranglers have had more hits than the Beatles. That was the case in the 80s whether that still stands now or not i don't know. It was hit singles, wasn't it? I know the Beatles had a couple of more recent ones that they'd f...

A popular statistic that The Stranglers liked to always quote was that The Stranglers have had more hits than the Beatles.
That was the case in the 80s whether that still stands now or not i don't know.