Reply to: Lily Allen - is she any good?

[RichardCranium]

SO - for a woman to be successful she has to be shag someone to get there?
Hmm is it cold in your cave?

I think her voice is dreadful and the lyrics dire.

However I see why you are offended and shall alter my views accordingly:

I think she's awful but she must be bribing someone at Radio 2 because she is permanently on their playlist.

Probably with BJs, but how she gives a BJ with a paper bag over her head, I don't know.

[Peoplesoft bloke]

Excellent band, Magazine

The Correct Use of Soap was also a brilliant album

Pretty good live band too

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I am proud owner of secondhand daylight, correct use of soap and the first album on both CD and vinyl - the secondhand daylight CD I came across recently in Borders.

Saw Magazine at Derby Ajanta cinema (it was the old Derby playhouse that became an Asian Cinema - now long since pulled down). They were supported by Bahaus.

I saw Joy Division at the same venue, and Ultravox, (pre Midge Ure.)

Saw Devoto playing solo at Derby Blue Note club a few years later too.

Happy days

[NickFitz]

She was at the studios in Bristol when I was working there, doing an interview with Sally and Kevin. Seemed OK (based on the fact that nothing untoward happened as she walked past my desk), but then again, they don't usually kick off when they're at a radio station for an interview.

Amy Winehouse was there not long after, and everybody commented on what a pleasant and charming person she was

[minestrone]

Like everyone on here listens to Stravinsky

More like a bunch of IT geeks that play air trumpet to a Phil Collins song on Radio 2.

She is young, plays decent music she writes herself and people like it.

[TriggerHippy]

Lily Allen ... if a loaf of bread could sing, it would sound like this .... completely vapid, meaningless crud.

[Rantor]

Excellent band, Magazine

the Correct Use of Soap was also a brilliant album

Pretty good live band too

Ms Allen on the other hand is a potty mouthed little madam. Her latest single is always on Studio Brussel and my 5 yr old likes singing along to it in the supermarket, thus rendering my 'no swearing while driving' mission totally pointless.

[badgerpig]

shes a tw@ just like her dad!

[NickFitz]

Cool. I wait with baited breath.

For the record, I preferred the later stuff he did with Magazine. Secondhand Daylight - great album

Excellent band, Magazine

The Correct Use of Soap was also a brilliant album

[Pogle]

I think she's awful but she must be giving sexual favours to someone at Radio 2 because she is permanently on their playlist.

SO - for a woman to be sucessful she has to be shag someone to get there?
Hmm is it cold in your cave?

BTW I neither like or dislike her - there are worse singers on the planet and there are better

[RichardCranium]

I think she's awful but she must be giving sexual favours to someone at Radio 2 because she is permanently on their playlist.

[HairyArsedBloke]

That's where I first heard this track but this is the official video - NSFW due to swearing.

The Radio Edit seems somewhat pointless.

Totally O/T, but does anyone recognize that hotel in Paris at the start of the video? It's odd, I've never stayed anywhere like that in Paris, but it looks familiar.

[Pogle]

Cool. I wait with baited breath.

For the record, I preferred the later stuff he did with Magazine. Secondhand Daylight - great album

From Mr P :-

Shelley on official single release - Devoto on bootleg of Spiral Scratch recording sessions (28 December 1976), subsequently released officially on album 'Time's Up'

Incidentally Dec 28th in our house is known as Buzzmass day.

Yes Magazine - marvellous band, I feel a little 'Shot by both sides' is in order

[wurzel]

I believe that there are two versions- I have asked the Oracle of all things Buzzcockien* to confirm.

BTW its not the words you have to worry about!

* That would be MR P.

Cool. I wait with baited breath.

For the record, I preferred the later stuff he did with Magazine. Secondhand Daylight - great album

[Pogle]

I've got it somewhere, perhaps I never paid much attention to the words. Wasn't that Howard Devoto?

I believe that there are two versions- I have asked the Oracle of all things Buzzcockien* to confirm.

BTW its not the words you have to worry about!

* That would be MR P.

[wurzel]

Wayne County and the Electric Chairs raised an eyebrow or two.

I am off to the Rebellion Punk festival in Blackpool in a couple of weeks. Yay.

Jayne County