h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Thanks TWF! I don't know if you saw, but I added two WAV files for songs on the first album - worth checking out if you have time. I also posted cover art. Oh! Oh! I almost forgot - Brian Hunt replied to my email. What a swell guy I'll post the meat of his respose when I have more time........

Good stuff TVF. Hang on to any emails from him so if you submit the article you can prove you have his official sanction for artwork & samples.
I just finished Vegiman's Fun Run 3 and it was a long race!
I must come down from full prattle mode
I'm gonna go monosyllabic for a while.
Yeah. Right.

Hey Frizzychick,
I was at Reading 10 years ago! Small world.

Gawd do you remember...
John Peel playing records inbetween songs...'Losing My Religion' getting everyone through a ownpour...Crazyhead...Wonderstuff...Graham Poppy (The blond *singer* in PWEI) broke his leg so was onstage in a plaster cast...The Sugarcubes...House of Love...The Mission (?!?)...Butthole Surfers...New Model Army...police frisking everyone for drugs...New Order finally encoring with 'Blue Monday' when everyone thought they weren't coming back on!

Yeah that was a bloody good festival.
Apart from the small piece of cardboard I was sold for a fiver that turned out to be...cardboard

* TWF Sits back in slippers and rocks in his chair puffing at pipe *
- "...aah such memories"

My official response goes: "Jazz, blues and wierd French stuff"

However my CD collection encompases pretty much (and I _mean_) everything.

Last album bought? Wierd Al Yankovic - Running With Scissors

Thanks for that daSilva.
Weird French stuff? I must admit ignorance in that field. I've got some Negresses Vertes and Young Gods (Swiss but sing in French) and that's about it...tell me some more of this weird stuff you speak of.
I love weird!

I have a thing for incidental music (film scores etc - and no, not songs used in films [well, OK, sometimes], but the actual background, mood music...) hence coming across Maurice Jarre (from Lawrence of Arabia and Ghost to name a couple of Oscar winners), his son (yes, Jean-Michel) and Eric Serra, who can usually be found working with Luc Besson.

I also had the...erm...experiance of seeing a French group "Urban Sax" play Birmingham city centre - 50 saxophonists(Yes, that's five, then zero!) dressed up as astronauts on rooftops, abseiling walls, climbing over street furniture, on a huge stage (complete with fire-fighting foam at waist height) and doing all manner of strange things to one tune which lasted about 1 1/2 hours...

Now that's what I call _WIERD_ !

Blimey! Wish I'd seen that!
Last really weird band I saw was on TV. The Leningrad Cowboys (band put together for a cult film - Leningrad Cowboys Go America) did a gig backed by the Moscow Red Army Choir! It was ace.

Sounds a class act to me!

They are a class act..... I saw the Leningrad Cowboys live at Womadelaide, a world music event held in Adelaide every 2 years.......
They are one of the most original cover bands I have ever seen!

I _may_ just have to look out for the film then

Reading 1989... boy, did it rain. Memories include (and they are all a bit sketchy) the skies opening during That Petrol Emotion (I think); nearly setting fire to myself drunkeningly dancing around a fire to the Pogues; The Pixies Here Comes my Man being played everywhere; falling over tents for hours; shouting rude things about the Mission; and a sorrowful appeal in the campsite one night of "Can you please all be quiet, I've got a headache" coming from some tent.

Joyous youth

I forgot The Pogues. Shane MacGowan falling around all over the stage - obviously in sympathy with you. I remember That Petrol Emotion bringing the rain 'cos they sang The Beatles song "Hey Bulldog" -
'Bulldog standing in the rain...'
Seems like it is an Irish band's duty to sing Beatles songs about rain at festivals. U2 at Milton Keynes Bowl in 1986 performed "Rain" errrm in the rain...

There (was) always Half Man - Half Biscuit, with such classics as:

"The Trumpton Riots"

and "I Hate Nerys Hughes!"

I loved HMHB - v. silly.

*hazy nostalgic mood for old favourites*.. The Wedding Present, The Woodentops, The Shop Assistants..

Fave line from Shop Assistants song :

"I don't want to be friends with you. You leave me and I'll scratch your eyes out."

OK see if you can spot the lyrics ...

(1) "Well well well...polish off the tarnish and make it shine"

(2) "She said 'do these seats fold down', I said 'if you pull that handle'"

(3) "I can already hear your tune calling me across the room. When the world and his wife are on my back again, not enough pleasure, too much pain"

(4) "Take the profit out of war, we don't need it anymore"

(5) "So the band broke up ... and it looks like ... we will never play again, guess you only get once chance in life to play a song that goes like"..*TWANG*..."TURN IT DOWN!"

(6) "Twisted colours of never-ending dreams, I can't see what what these images mean.
Locked inside me, can't set the rainbow free, like the waves they flow and ebb in tide..."

(7) "I want to take you home, I want to give you children and you might be my girlfriend yeah yeah yeah yeah"

(8) "Well the guns went off in my forehead, the guns went off in my chest"

(9) "Don't forget to pack your wife"

(10) "Jealousy is an essential part of love
The hurting here below and the emptiness above"

I'm rubbish at this sort of thing - I think I've got TWO (the shame, the shame) - how about a link to some answers for those of us who give in too easily?

OK, you can find the answers here:
http://www.h2g2.com/forumframe.cgi?forum=14658&thread=24024

I really wish you hadn't asked me about my musical preferences b..nonono YOU wish you hadn't asked me about my musical preferences...

Kate Bush
Tori Amos
PetShopBoys
Jimi Hendrix
John Coltran
Charlie Parker
Genesis
Tears for Fears
Tricky
Massive Attack
LTJ Bukem
Depeche Mode
Rainbow (On Stage)
ELP
Pink Floyd
Camel
Loudon Wainwright III(top of the list actually)
Todd Rundgren
Peter Gabriel
Garbage
Orbital
Chemical Brothers

oh well..... sorry.....

Don't be sorry TM, it'll be OK.
I've got records by 14 of the artists from your list. But I wouldn't discount any of the others.
Except maybe ELP. If you can sell me a good reason to listen to ELP in 100 words or less, I'll give it a go