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Watching this video. James sounds immense. *swoon* |
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Did you go hummingbird?
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:) Yay for you. JDB is sounding and looking wonderful on those vids. Especially after laryngitis-gate. Still got a cracking falsetto.
I wasn't there *sniffs* |
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Your sincerity touches me :P
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Watching Iron Man 2, it occurred to me that Robert Downey Jr is wearing JDB's hairdo from the You Stole the Sun video.
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Is it just me or does the intro and verses of "Ghosts of Christmas" sound a lot like bits of "Ooh La La" by The Faces?
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James should just go solo, Nicky is ridiculous... to think I loved him
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I know that feel bro, we were all stupid and around the age of 16 once.
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Tracey likes to nab em' young.
For the JDB club that is :shiftyeyes: |
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I noticed an article on the front of the Sunday Times financial section today about how Blackstar (as in 'I love this amp!') had recorded record growth and profits over the last year. Obviously down to JDB's sparkling endorsement of it :D
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JDB fandom is where it's at! :D
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Been reading accounts of fans' experiences from the Generation Terrorists days for the first time since I was a typical teenage Manics fan. Weird remembering how impressionable I was when I got into them fully, being dazzled by the glamour, intensity, and cultural references and all. In my naivety, I remember yearning to have been older so I could've had a chance to follow them around in 1992 in eyeliner and be fully immersed in the idolatry, along with the girls who must've jumped ship long ago. Now I'm 27, I read the old hostility towards 1996 (and onwards) Manics and the inevitable "new" fans and I feel both contempt for the elitist attitude and that same wish to have been a part of it first time around. Somebody slap me before I regress to a CoR idiot.
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I always thought the old fan/new fan debate was a bit silly. When a band is around long enough, they'll inevitably get new fans who were previously unaware of them or too young to have been a fan a few years earlier. Do old Rolling Stones fans hate younger fans? I do remember the possessive nature of some of those arguments though. Even though I wasn't there, I thought it was a load of crap that somebody who discovered the band post-1995 couldn't be affected the same way, or at least similarly. I didn't get to see them play every night at various Universities in 1992, but I was still affected by the lyrics, outfits, references and ambitions that others had been affected by years earlier. Thankfully I don't see that kind of debate anymore, and I'm sure many on here became a fan for the reasons I did, and subsequently saw past the myths. Even though they're sometimes entertaining. |
I've been a fan since 92 but I never met any fans from back then so did'nt see them till 95 at Reading. They were unheard of round here, I hardly met anyone who liked them after 96 either, its only since I have come on FD that I have known other Manic fans.
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i had a couple of friends at uni that were manics fans. One introduced me to the ray of sunshine that is THB and told me to persevere with it :)
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At work I came across a younger fan so I chatted loads about them with him. There was an older colleague who liked them up to EMG but had gone off them with Truth. (He was the one who spotted that I'd written a slightly embarrassing letter to NME sticking up for James!)
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After a few friends at school, I was lucky I guess. There's a club in Hull I started going to at 15, and at the time, it appeared that every Manics fan around went. You Love Us would come on and the dancefloor was full of leaping leopard print and eyeliner. It was pretty exciting.
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Jealous of everyone who's had the chance to meet other Manics fans. Never spoken to anyone in person who'd known about the band before I introduced them, except a woman who was next to me at the O2, and that was for about 10 seconds. Even my music geek friends usually haven't a clue. :(
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I've been a fan since September 2010 and most of the other fans I know are people I came across on the internet (on here and on Tumblr). One of them on Tumblr lives about 20 minutes away from me and a lot of her friends went to my 6th form, but if it hadn't been for Tumblr we'd probably have never met.
I know a few people who listen to them occasionally who I didn't meet through the internet - a friend's boyfriend who went off them after SATT, another friend from 6th form and my uncle's partner, and I managed to get my boyfriend into them - but none of them are as big a fan as I am. All of the other obsessives I know are on here or Tumblr. |
The Convalescent is really, really brilliant.
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I just bought the Faster/PCP 10" in near mint condition for £10 and the Despair to Where 12" with a slightly distressed sleeve for £3. That can't be bad, apart from me just having spent £13 on songs I already own.
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When I saw the thumbnail of the image below for an article on The Sun's website asking "Are these the worst restaurant customers in Britain?", for a second I thought it was JDB and The Wire.
http://img.thesun.co.uk/multimedia/a...6_1594551a.jpg It would be so like them to abuse the all you can eat buffet. http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage...#ixzz289vVYmX7 |
Ha ha ha, thats funny
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Ha ha ha, they really are taking a few years out aren't they!
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I saw a headline on the BBC website that I thought said JDB Collapse. :surprise: I was like nooooooo, but they weren't being over familiar, it was JJB Collapse.
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Someone has probably mentioned this before, but I thought it was a bit silly.
Someone today mentioned that the riff in Let Robeson Sing = Groovy Kind of Love. Yes I do think it's silly, but it wasn't me guv! |
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