Comments on: Lord you gotta let me drown so those ringlets they won’t see

By: Neil G

Neil G — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 11:09:37 +0000

If you are so inclined, you can convert it into an mp3 file at http://www.youtube-mp3.org/
I think I’ve got everything now, except the new album (champs at bit).

By: Neil G

Neil G — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 11:09:13 +0000

This is one track that I haven’t been able to get hold of until today. It’s on YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jl3g7eYLnek&feature=related

By: John Burscough

John Burscough — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 09:39:23 +0000

I’m So Meta – Even This Acronym…

By: Vendor of Quack Nostrums

Vendor of Quack Nostrums — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 15:32:51 +0000

Meta-pedantry is surely the art of correcting the corrections. Dave is absolutely spot-on; The Armoury Show were indeed post- not pre- The Skids. Spelling-wise it depends on whether the back catalogue in question is of the post-Skids and Magazine band (The Armoury Show) or the International Exhibition of Modern Art after which the group were named (The Armory Show).

The Armoury Show’s entire back catalogue is available for perusal here; http://www.armouryshow.com/ should you need it.

By the way, I’ve just googled ‘Meta-pedantry’ to see if it is a commonly used phrase. You will not be surprised, I expect, to learn that the first return that makes any sense directs you straight back to this site!

By: Dave Wiggins

Dave Wiggins — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 13:06:19 +0000

Surely The Armoury Show was post-The Skids?

By: Charles Exford

Charles Exford — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 21:18:53 +0000

I was thinking of this song last Friday when FIFA banned the snood, and then up it popped again on Monday. This week’s commemorative 700th edition of The Sky at Night saw the Astronomer Royal Martin Rees complementing Brian May on his hair. On being substituted by May, because there apparently weren’t enough chairs in Patrick Moore’s house, Rees said “you look more like Isaac Newton than any other scientist”, and May took it as a massive compliment. Then just half an hour after we watched that (it’s at 49 mins on the i-player or the repeat), there was a picture of Isaac Newton on University Challenge to which Mrs. Exford answered “Brian May”. Much mirth.

Anyway, this isn’t the PBRs thread, so I just thought I’d say that after my pancake-inspired Robert Johnson listening yesterday I’ve listened to this song a few times too, and it dun got no “and” bro’.

He really does seem to be imitating the Robert Johnson style at that point in just singing “chopped”.

Just to be extra pedantic, if it is there, which it ain’t, then we should probably write it either as ‘n’ or and.

By: Dave F.

Dave F. — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 21:00:21 +0000

The second “I haven’t got a balaclava, and my good girl’s got no snood”
has an (oooh) in it.

As with a previous lyric there appears to be a short and, ‘n’ or ‘&’ before “chopped” in:
But the devil’s built a bypass, chopped down all of the trees

By: Bill Stow

Bill Stow — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 16:07:33 +0000

Hi – In the song ‘Hair like Brian May blues’ – the references throughout to the ‘Armory show’ should I think read ‘Armoury Show’ the pre-Skids band fronted by Richard Jobson.