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

Yes, quickly try again. The Flaming Lips are just wonderful. I challenge you to listen to 'The morning of the magicians' on 'Yoshimi' without almost crying. If you're into punk, their older weirder stuff might appeal to you too; 'The day they shot a hole in the jesus egg' is impressively daring to put it one way.

If your funds are limited old fruit, allow me to get you a MacLurcher or a pint of finest Bowel Clencher....



Bassman

thats awful kind. ill certainly take you up on it if i make it to the meet

I just found Flaming Lips a little uninspiring, especially in comparison to some other bands I've listened to like them.

uninspiring? uninspiring? i dont think you listened to them at all.

I haven't really heard any bands similar to the Flaming Lips - are there many good ones?

Tom I've already told you I'll have another try with them but the song I heard was just a little pants for my liking.

what song?

1.LED ZEP 11
2.TOM WAITS-BLUE VALENTINE
3.FUNKADELIC-ELECTRIC SPANKING OF WAR BABIES
4.DAVID BOWIE-HUNKY DORY
5.JOHN MARTYN-ONE WORLD
6.IAN DURY AND THE BLOCKHEADS-DO IT YOURSELF
7.BLACK GRAPE-ITS GREAT WHEN YOUR STRAIGHT-YEAH
8.LENNY KRAVITZ-LET LOVE RULE
9.JAH WOBBLE-RISING ABOVE BEDLAM
10.JETHRO TULL-LIVING IN THE PAST

I told you last night which song Tom and you agreed it was a bit pants...so

1. Prefab Sprout: Steve McQueen (Desire As)
2. Roxy Music: For your Pleasure (Strictly Confidential)
3. Martin Stephenson: Boat To Bolivia (Rain)
4. Carole King: Tapestry (So Far Away)
5. Beach Boys: Pet Sounds (God Only Knows)
6. Neil Young and Crazy Horse: Rust Never Sleeps (Powderfinger)
7. Van Morrison: Veedon Fleece (You Don't Pull No Punches But you Don't Push The River)
8. Elvis Costello and Burt Bacharach: Painted From Memory (God Give Me Strength)
9. Frank Zappa: The Best Band You Never Heard In your Life (Florentine Pogen)
10. Judie Tzuke: Secret Agent (Secret Agent)

Some good songs that have been and are still running through my mind recently:
- Lifestyles of the Rich and the Famous: Good Charlotte
- Not the Same: Bodyjar
- Something Borrowed, Something Blue: Ben Lee
- Complicated: Avril Lavigne
- Sk8er Boi: Avril Lavigne
- I'm With You: Avril Lavigne
- Luv Your Life: Silverchair
- The Ketchup Song (Aserje): Las Ketchup
- Iris: Goo Goo Dolls
- The Rock Show: Blink 182

This is so hard....Erm...
1. Michael Jackson [sorry, I can't help it]: Dangerous -Will you be there
2. Catatonia: Greatest Hits- You've got a lot to answer for
3. Badly Drawn Boy: The Hour of Bewilderbeast -Epitaph and Cause a Rockslide
4. Boy George [I apologise again]: U Can never b 2 straight- Ich bin Kunst [need I really say that<?>] and If I could fly
5. Sex Pistols: Rock and Roll Swindle - No-one is innocent and My Way
6. T-Rex: Greatest Hits -21st Century Boy
7. Nitin Sawney: Beyond skin - Immagrant and Serpants
8. Royskopp: Melody AM -Remind Me
9. Siouxsie and the Banshees: Greatest Hits- Peek-a-Boo
10.Queen: Greatest Hits I - Save me and Bicycle Race

How about my top ten foods? Something random...
1. Doughnuts (cinnamon or with any icing except for chocolate, no jam)
2. Cupcakes (huge ones with pink icing and hundreds and thousands or choc chip ones)
3. Watermelon
4. Caramel Mud Cake
5. White Chocolate Magnum
6. Maltesers
7. McChicken Burger
8. Fries (MacDonalds)
9. BBQ Meatlovers Pizza (Pizza Hut)
10. Tanduri Chicken Burger (MacDonalds)

in no particular order at all....

1) The Clash- Self Titled (please don't make me pick a track)
2) Alice Cooper- Welcome to my Nightmare (Black Widow)
3) Led Zeppelin II (Ramble On)
4) Liz Phair- Exile in Guyville (Girls, Girls, Girls)
5) The Pogues- The Very Best Of.... (Dirty Old Town)
6) The Jesus and Mary Chain- Psychocandy (Teenage Lust)
7) Violent Femmes- Self Titled (Blister in the Sun)
8) Elvis Costello- My Aim is True (Watching the Detectives)
9) Beatles- Sgt. Peppers (Sgt. Peppers... I know this isn't the best Beatles album but I have my reasons)
10) Pink Floyd- Dark Side of the Moon (Money)
11) The Clash- London Calling ( the obligatory 11th... London Calling)

I have made a very serious omission!!!

Billy Bragg- Talking to the Taxman About Poetry (Levi Stubb's Tears)

1. Radiohead: OK Computer (Paranoid Android/Exit Music/Lucky)
2. Pixies: Death To The Pixies (Where Is My Mind?)
3. Muse: Origin Of Symmetry (Citizen Erased)
4. Green Day: Bab's Uvula Who? (Insomniac)
5. Oasis: Heathen Chemistry (Little By Little)
6. Red Hot Chili Peppers: Blood Sugar Sex Magik (Funky Monks/Give It Away)
7. Colplay: Parachutes (Yellow)
8. Blur: Leisure (There's No Other Way)
9. Radiohead: The Bends (Bones/Black Star)
10. Sum 41: All Killer No Filler (Fat Lip)

Where is my Mind is my all time favourite Pixies song

Yeah, I think it's pretty much the best moment in film when The Pixies fade into Fight Club and play Where Is My Mind as all the skyscrapers collapse.

I always forget how good Ok Computer was; I need to remember to listen to it more.

I'm gonna have to watch it again just that last bit, I just love that song, it's brilliant Debaser used to be my fave...now it's this