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Kind of embarrassing but despite all the hype I never actually listened to them... Someone please tell me what album or EP I should start with? Btw, what's the deal with their (pretty eventful) no-show at Lolla? ~conceptual art, or...?

Aladdin Sane, The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust & Hunky Dory I'll also forever love him for stanning for Syd Barrett since the 70s and to this day.

OMG Burning Desire video anyone?!

Blue jeans, white shirt~~ I love how she never leaves the house without her false eyelashes on. Also loving her cap.

~~Summer. And yeah, me too. I only go there for the occasional sharethread.

I don't see anything wrong with it either, tbh. Sure, it's not the prettiest dick I've ever seen, but I don't see what all the fuss is about either. Okay so this is really random BUUUT

Chromatics - Kill For Love

Sorry about that, I just wanted an excuse to post one of my fave gifs of all time & this thread was it. The Smiths aren't one of my favourite bands or anything (I don't know all that much about them since I've only listened to 2 albums) but I do love 'The Queen Is Dead'. Really need to listen to the rest of their discography.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6366dxFf-Os lmao @ this video & 'Alex band guy'

Only version I could find is a 192kpbs one. Do you want it?

'Implied gore' kinda defeats the whole definition of gore though... While it was disturbing I didn't think it was that gory either, tbh (I never watched the 2nd).

I like it, but I was a bit disappointed at first, when I found out it was only a re-recording and restructuring of old songs... I was a bit like, 'what's the point?'. I absolutely love the collab with Stephen Fry in '50 Words for Snow' (song)... And I mostly like them, tbh. And yeah, it's unbelievable... And she's such a genuinely strange person, so reserved and eccentric. I love that aspect of hers.

I don't know how she manages it, but she's the epitome of both class and sensuality! And those are great!

I think I read somewhere that he'd used a live performance because it was the closest he could get to an a capella version (and you definitely shouldn't ).

So would I! Btw, here is one of my favourite live performances: The Man With the Child in his Eyes -- Live at SNL, December 9 1978 (don't know how to embed this, or if it's even possible here)

Wtf, we can't drive in the US with an European drivers licence?! Is a tourist not allowed to rent a car there or something?

Why can't we see his soundcloud in the wayback machine? That would interest me for more than one reason...

Me too, sometimes! I think my favourite one from The Dreaming is 'Sat in your lap'... But those 2 are definitely close favourites along with 'All The Love'!

Crystal Stilts - The Dazzled

Man, I can't tell you how happy I am to know that I'm not the only one who keeps interviews of some of my fave artists on my iPod!

Ahhhh I just found this thread!!! ONE TRUE QUEEN. Gosh, when did I first notice her? Well, I remember hearing Wuthering Heights when I was a child and being fascinated by those incredible high notes! Of course at the time I had no idea who she was... Much later, already in my late teens, I 'rediscovered' her via Pink Floyd. I'm a *HUGE* PF fan, and some of you may know that David Gilmour was basically the one who kickstarted her career when she was still 16 - he helped her record & paid for a 3-track demo, and Kate was eventually signed by EMI (which was also PF's label) soon after that. As soon as I listened to the first album, I was sold! My favourites are The Kick Inside, Lionheart and Hounds of Love. But her whole discography is flawless tbh, and I adored 50 Words for Snow! @@deeth Really jealous of your tote bag!

More than a year later and it's still one of my top albums. SO GOOD! I want/need a new one.

Sure she is, I think I didn't explain myself very well when I said that. What I mean is: while she's a huge artist that will sell out concerts pretty much anywhere (like any of the other 4 mentioned here), I get the impression that her status in the US is ridiculously untouchable: she's the perfect *everything* - the perfect star, the perfect performer, the perfect mother, the perfect wife, the perfect feminist; no one dares criticize her (not without receiving a lot of backlash anyway); and she & Jay Z are pretty much music's royal couple (a title that would imo belong to Kim & Kanye if she weren't utterly useless and so very unlikeable) and only second to the Obamas as far as powerful couples go. To me, that is absolutely crazy! Here she's a *huge* pop artist, but that's pretty much it. About what I said re: lack of memorable songs -- I'm not a fan of either 5 & have never listened to a full album, so my knowledge of all of them is pretty much the same (= very limited). Yet off the top of my head I can easily think of 5 or 6 (if not more) Katy, Gaga, Rihanna and Britney songs respectively, and only 2 of Beyoncé's (Crazy In Love - and Single Ladies, which I'd forgotten about in the previous post).