Postcards From A Young Man Thread

[Ben]

Originally Posted by Zee

Just checked it -- WTF!

Right, so we now know that someone from here (franny?) has started editing it, thus making it worthless (although, it was always to be taking with a truckload of salt).

Zee, there is no 'Donkeys II' song - that stemmed from a debate in this thread.

[franny]

Originally Posted by Zee

Just checked it -- WTF!

Think that one's a joke

[centralscrutiniser]

They spelt Conspiracies wrong as well.

[franny]

Originally Posted by BradfieldsLoveChild

Right, so we now know that someone from here (franny?) has started editing it, thus making it worthless (although, it was always to be taking with a truckload of salt).

Zee, there is no 'Donkeys II' song - that stemmed from a debate in this thread.

:O Moi? No, not my style, it seems more like a joke at my expense

[Ken Korda]

Originally Posted by Siouxsie Sway

hihi. those were the two titles I liked best when first seeing them. (still is, an hour later )
but then again, I'm a silly, silly girl.

Yes, yes you are.

[bristarman]

Originally Posted by GeorgeDawes

7. Anti-Humanism"
8. Psychological Conditions"
9. Golden Platitudes"
11. Listen To Realism"
12. Magic Conspiricies"

These scream someone taking the piss - making up generic manics-y song titles. I am super cynical as a person in general, but I just don't think these titles fit. Will hold my hands up if I'm wrong, but it looks like a wishlist of titles from someone hoping for the sort of album they probably WON'T get.

The titles of 'Anti-Humanism' and 'Listen to Realism' would fit in with Nicky's aforementioned John Gray influence.

[BrianPowell]

1. Eternal (An Ode To Richey)
2. It's Not War Just The End Of Love (An Ode To Richey)
3. A Billion Balconies Facing The Sun (An Ode To Richey)
4. All We Make Is Entertainment (An Ode To Sony)
5. She Was Called Special (An Ode To Richey)
6. Postcards From A Young Man (An Ode To Richey)
7. Anti-Humanism (An Ode To Richey)
8. Cappuccino Holocaust (An Ode To Richey)
9. Psychological Conditions (An Ode To Richey)
10. Golden Platitudes (An Ode To Richey)
11. Donkeys II (An Ode To Donkeys)
12. Listen To Realism (An Ode To Richey)
13. Magic Conspiricies (An Ode To Richey)

[bristarman]

Originally Posted by Loz

'A Billion Balconies Facing The Sun' is the worst title so will probably end up being the best song on the album.

It's a JG Ballard quote from Cocaine Nights, chapter 16. Here it is in context:

Our governments are preparing for a future without work, and that includes the petty criminals. Leisure societies lie ahead of us, like those you see on this coast. People will still work – or, rather, some people will work, but only for a decade of their lives. They will retire in their late thirties, with fifty years of idleness in front of them.'
'A billion balconies facing the sun. Still, it means a final goodbye to wars and ideologies.'
'But how do you energize people, give them some sense of community? A world lying on its back is vulnerable to any cunning predator. Politics are a pastime for a professional caste and fail to excite the rest of us. Religious belief demands a vast effort of imaginative and emotional commitment, difficult to muster if you're still groggy from last night's sleeping pill. Only one thing is left which can rouse people, threaten them directly and force them to act together.'
'Crime?'
'Crime, and transgressive behaviour – by which I mean all activities that aren't necessarily illegal, but provoke us and tap our need for strong emotion, quicken the nervous system and jump the synapses deadened by leisure and inaction.'

[Dext37 Fielding]

Definately Franny.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postcards_From_a_Young_Man

[franny]

Originally Posted by Dext37 Fielding

Definately Franny.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postcards_From_a_Young_Man

Ah incontrovible proof there, I am a cunt after all. That wasn't you was it?

[Dext37 Fielding]

Originally Posted by franny

Ah incontrovible proof there, I am a cunt after all. That wasn't you was it?

Well, the Franny from FD Edtion was me, but the rest was not.

[franny]

Originally Posted by Dext37 Fielding

Well, the Franny from FD Edtion was me, but the rest was not.

Yeah, I just saw your edit. Tsk tsk, mucking around on Wiki Dex!

So who *says Hercule Poirot* did the other alteration?

[everlasting]

Considering someone has amusingly put Donkeys II, I doubt pretty much all the other titles now, where did they come from?

[Ben]

Originally Posted by everlasting

Considering someone has amusingly put Donkeys II, I doubt pretty much all the other titles now

Some of them are correct.

[franny]

Listen To Realism I can believe out of the unconfirmed ones. Who put Cappucino Holocaust?


edit: The chappie/chapette who put that I was a cunt appears to not be v. popular on Wiki either