Comments on: The Music Fan’s Lament #4: Decreasing Quality

By: billisdead

billisdead — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 18:54:55 +0000

I’m with Euan on the Smiths, (although as a soap dodgin’ weegie I should be offended by the poncy east coaster) they were overrated, for sure they were better than most of the shite at the time, however Roddy Frame was a better lyricist than Morrissey and a far superior guitar player than Johnny Marr. I don’t know if their is more dross now than then as I seem to remember an awful lot of crud during the 80’s. But who needs new music when the Fall are still around anyway.

By: Matthew

Matthew — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 13:04:38 +0000

I’m sure I’ve seen that somewhere too – brilliant!

I think a tart might be onto something as well, because there is so much arch, knowing stuff around at the moment, and so much artifice, that someone playing hard, bare, real music could be in a position, after a couple more years, of having a very contrived scene to explode into. The Stripes and their ilk did that to the arse end of Britpop, to a degree.

By: Dylan

Dylan — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 11:38:08 +0000

Back in the 1990s, when Q magazine was worth reading because it was written and edited by worldy music journalists – as opposed to the team of chimpanzees who seem to be in charge nowadays – the magazine was well known for it’s witty photo captions.

One of my favourites was for a huge double page spread portrait of The Smiths, for which the caption read:

Andy Rourke, Mike Joyce, and the other two.

I thought that was brilliant.

By: Euan

Euan — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 11:01:19 +0000

And yes – I’m nae liking the fukin smiths.

By: Euan

Euan — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 09:00:35 +0000

I’m a Dundee gadge. )

By: Matthew

Matthew — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 22:42:51 +0000

Are there any fine upstanding Edinburgh sorts?

By: Dylan

Dylan — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 22:21:34 +0000

Yeah. We have a word called “Chick-Wa-Hey!”

It means something completely different over here.

By: Campfires & Battlefields

Campfires & Battlefields — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 21:34:24 +0000

So the “boke” is simply the rising of the gorge? Wow, you Brits have a word for everything. What is your language called again?

But you’ll never match the Nicaraguans. My wife is Nicaraguan, and they have a word for the slightly nasty smell that lingers in a room or on one’s fingers after exposure to raw chicken. The word is “chiquije” (approximate spelling), and is pronounced Chick-WEE-Hay. As in, I need to go wash my hands to get rid of the chiquije. Just thought I’d share.

By: Mrs Toad

Mrs Toad — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 19:55:01 +0000

A boke is a pre-cursor to a pavement pizza. The dry, gurgling anticipation of a vomitory heave that strikes when confronted with sudden manifestations of the ugly or putrid.

The willies is a mere frisson of distate and is for GIRLS (literally as well as figuratively)

Basically, he’s nay likin thae fuckin Smiths by the way big man.

For other Scottish quaint sayings delivered in song, try this : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=scNLfr1EP08

As a disclaimer, that is what we call a Weegie and a Ned and not to be confused with any fine upstanding Edinburgh sorts.

By: Campfires & Battlefields

Campfires & Battlefields — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 18:50:50 +0000

Erm, what’s a “boke”? Is that something like “the willies”?