Comments on: Checking out the Quantocks http://www.chrisrand.com/hmhb/checking-out-the-quantocks/ Busking this at Embankment Tube tomorrow Fri, 10 Feb 2012 22:57:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Paul Fhttp://www.chrisrand.com/hmhb/checking-out-the-quantocks/comment-page-2/#comment-65253 Paul F Tue, 24 Jan 2012 10:40:44 +0000 http://www.chrisrand.com/hmhb/?p=210#comment-65253 Is that for real? Is that for real?

]]> By: Rubber Faced Irritanthttp://www.chrisrand.com/hmhb/checking-out-the-quantocks/comment-page-2/#comment-65220 Rubber Faced Irritant Mon, 23 Jan 2012 22:50:55 +0000 http://www.chrisrand.com/hmhb/?p=210#comment-65220 <a href="http://pitchfork.com/news/45193-disney-is-selling-a-joy-division-mickey-mouse-shirt/">This would go nicely with the oven gloves</a>. The link to Disney has gone down since this news was tweeted a couple of hours ago. This would go nicely with the oven gloves. The link to Disney has gone down since this news was tweeted a couple of hours ago.

]]> By: Charles Exfordhttp://www.chrisrand.com/hmhb/checking-out-the-quantocks/comment-page-2/#comment-13263 Charles Exford Thu, 16 Dec 2010 13:19:39 +0000 http://www.chrisrand.com/hmhb/?p=210#comment-13263 I often forget to remember to preface my comments with some sort of disclaimer about the unreliability of my memory (due to being dropped on my head frequently as a baby, at least three of which occurred around an ancient stone font during a typically drunken family christening). But thanks to Chris' recent posting on his blog of a clip of JDOG @ Cambridge Junction, I now realise that NB's intro went "this song was written after purchasing a Flux of Pink Indians shower sleeve". Not Pink Military, of course. FOPI were a much Crassier act all round. I often forget to remember to preface my comments with some sort of disclaimer about the unreliability of my memory (due to being dropped on my head frequently as a baby, at least three of which occurred around an ancient stone font during a typically drunken family christening).

But thanks to Chris’ recent posting on his blog of a clip of JDOG @ Cambridge Junction, I now realise that NB’s intro went “this song was written after purchasing a Flux of Pink Indians shower sleeve”.
Not Pink Military, of course. FOPI were a much Crassier act all round.

]]> By: Martinhttp://www.chrisrand.com/hmhb/checking-out-the-quantocks/comment-page-2/#comment-10493 Martin Thu, 09 Sep 2010 08:54:18 +0000 http://www.chrisrand.com/hmhb/?p=210#comment-10493 I've just listened to the 6Music session and came on here to re-plead my case for "They say she's too hot".... it is even more pronounced in that version. It turns out you'd already changed it though, so I can't be a narky blert. Thanks go to Dave F, I wear your gold star with pride. I’ve just listened to the 6Music session and came on here to re-plead my case for “They say she’s too hot”…. it is even more pronounced in that version.

It turns out you’d already changed it though, so I can’t be a narky blert. Thanks go to Dave F, I wear your gold star with pride.

]]> By: Dave F.http://www.chrisrand.com/hmhb/checking-out-the-quantocks/comment-page-2/#comment-8753 Dave F. Sun, 25 Jul 2010 20:44:04 +0000 http://www.chrisrand.com/hmhb/?p=210#comment-8753 Yep, just you. Surely it's a repeat of ovengloves very quickly? Yep, just you.

Surely it’s a repeat of ovengloves very quickly?

]]> By: Germhttp://www.chrisrand.com/hmhb/checking-out-the-quantocks/comment-page-2/#comment-8734 Germ Sun, 25 Jul 2010 12:35:40 +0000 http://www.chrisrand.com/hmhb/?p=210#comment-8734 I've been checking out both the album version and the "Peel Sessions" trying to figure out what the background chant is (just before the "My grandfather clock" line) and I'm convinced it's just a repeating chant of "Tokyo,Tokyo" etc. Just me? I’ve been checking out both the album version and the “Peel Sessions” trying to figure out what the background chant is (just before the “My grandfather clock” line) and I’m convinced it’s just a repeating chant of “Tokyo,Tokyo” etc.

Just me?

]]> By: Charles Exfordhttp://www.chrisrand.com/hmhb/checking-out-the-quantocks/comment-page-2/#comment-5543 Charles Exford Fri, 09 Apr 2010 13:26:24 +0000 http://www.chrisrand.com/hmhb/?p=210#comment-5543 Ah well I suppose I shouldn't criticise the way people talk about HMHB song titles as somehow separate entities from the songs, if even Geoff Davies is doing it: "Joy Division Oven Gloves is a bit of a throwaway song - they've done far more epic, interesting songs than this - but it's an easy laugh, the title wins you over," Davies added (in last Wednesday's Guardian interview). "Throwaway" it may be, but personally, I don't think Nigel has ever written a better, funnier rhyming couplet than "Talk to the hands, Talk to the hands [in my JDOGs] Dance, dance, dance, dance [in your JDOGs ]" I can't see that these lines could have been written any other way than having the gloves made* and dancing round the kitchen in them to the sublime majesty of "Transmission" itself. Dancing in oven gloves, as some of you will know, automatically results in a kind of camp Charleston effect, and from the moment you put them on it must be hard not to write at least a couple of throwaway lines beginning "ooh-ooh", but the silver medal for couplets in this song surely goes to: "On a sinking ship, a sailor yearns [for his JDOGs] Nero fiddles while Gordon Burns [in his JDOGs]" * I do believe Nigel's story about actually having the prototype JDOGs made down at Birkenhead Market. After all, there they are on the album cover with an alleged hot potato. I am more sceptical about his introduction of the song at the Cambridge gig: "here's a song that was written after coming across a Pink Military shower sleeve." Ah well I suppose I shouldn’t criticise the way people talk about HMHB song titles as somehow separate entities from the songs, if even Geoff Davies is doing it:
“Joy Division Oven Gloves is a bit of a throwaway song – they’ve done far more epic, interesting songs than this – but it’s an easy laugh, the title wins you over,” Davies added (in last Wednesday’s Guardian interview).

“Throwaway” it may be, but personally, I don’t think Nigel has ever written a better, funnier rhyming couplet than

“Talk to the hands, Talk to the hands [in my JDOGs]
Dance, dance, dance, dance [in your JDOGs ]”

I can’t see that these lines could have been written any other way than having the gloves made* and dancing round the kitchen in them to the sublime majesty of “Transmission” itself.

Dancing in oven gloves, as some of you will know, automatically results in a kind of camp Charleston effect, and from the moment you put them on it must be hard not to write at least a couple of throwaway lines beginning “ooh-ooh”, but the silver medal for couplets in this song surely goes to:

“On a sinking ship, a sailor yearns [for his JDOGs]
Nero fiddles while Gordon Burns [in his JDOGs]”

* I do believe Nigel’s story about actually having the prototype JDOGs made down at Birkenhead Market. After all, there they are on the album cover with an alleged hot potato. I am more sceptical about his introduction of the song at the Cambridge gig: “here’s a song that was written after coming across a Pink Military shower sleeve.”

]]> By: TWO FAT FEEThttp://www.chrisrand.com/hmhb/checking-out-the-quantocks/comment-page-2/#comment-5472 TWO FAT FEET Mon, 05 Apr 2010 10:24:05 +0000 http://www.chrisrand.com/hmhb/?p=210#comment-5472 WIll probably get tarred and feathered for this, but, having been very excited at the prospect of hearing this for the first time, when I finally got my CD for Father's Day 2008 I was rather disappointed at this one. If I were bored enough to compile a list of which HMHB song titles far outweighed the quality of the song itself, I think this would be challenging for a podium spot. WIll probably get tarred and feathered for this, but, having been very excited at the prospect of hearing this for the first time, when I finally got my CD for Father’s Day 2008 I was rather disappointed at this one. If I were bored enough to compile a list of which HMHB song titles far outweighed the quality of the song itself, I think this would be challenging for a podium spot.

]]> By: dagenham davehttp://www.chrisrand.com/hmhb/checking-out-the-quantocks/comment-page-2/#comment-4720 dagenham dave Thu, 18 Feb 2010 17:13:29 +0000 http://www.chrisrand.com/hmhb/?p=210#comment-4720 I've given the 'post-punk postcard fair' a lot of thought (maybe too much) and have arrived at the following conclusion. Initially I thought postcard should have a capital P as in the Glasgow based record label, however you wouldn't have to qualify it as 'post-punk' as it started in 1979. So I think it refers to a postcard collectors fair which if described as 'post punk' is rather amusing. To me anyway.... I’ve given the ‘post-punk postcard fair’ a lot of thought (maybe too much) and have arrived at the following conclusion.
Initially I thought postcard should have a capital P as in the Glasgow based record label, however you wouldn’t have to qualify it as ‘post-punk’ as it started in 1979. So I think it refers to a postcard collectors fair which if described as ‘post punk’ is rather amusing. To me anyway….

]]> By: Drunkenmadmanhttp://www.chrisrand.com/hmhb/checking-out-the-quantocks/comment-page-1/#comment-4636 Drunkenmadman Wed, 10 Feb 2010 12:59:46 +0000 http://www.chrisrand.com/hmhb/?p=210#comment-4636 I still get freaked out every time someone mentions a video I've done. Exxo, if you do a video, tag it as a video response, I'd love to see it. Btw, I do requests. Sort of. If I like the request, that is. I still get freaked out every time someone mentions a video I’ve done.

Exxo, if you do a video, tag it as a video response, I’d love to see it.

Btw, I do requests. Sort of. If I like the request, that is.

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