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Everything Else / Re: what songs are you listening to RIGHT NOW

« Last post by Shush on August 29, 2025, 12:38:41 AM »

Up the Beach - Jane's Addiction. An unusual piece, still a favourite after many a year

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Everything Else / Re: what songs are you listening to RIGHT NOW

« Last post by Guillaume on August 28, 2025, 10:48:09 PM »

Back n the new Florence And The Machine album... it's really rather good.

Ten years later...i agree! I only recently found this band but I am now captivated by Florence's voice and lyricism...I love the title track of this album "How big how blue how beautiful".

Florence"s concert in Hérouville St Clair/Caen (where NMA played in the cool little venue le Big Band Café at least 5 times) in 2015, for the release of the album:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBvI7FSNfFs&list=RDXBvI7FSNfFs&start_radio=1&ab_channel=FATMFrance

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New Model Army / Re: Best bass,drums and guitar parts in NMA's discography?

« Last post by Guillaume on August 26, 2025, 10:02:37 PM »

I've added "vocals" to the thread! If there are any singers among you, what are your favorite Justin singing moments on the 15 NMA albums (and his two solo albums)?

Oh and not forgetting the legend that is Lemmy and his phenomenal driving bass!... unbelievably his bass setting was full treble..full middle and the bass off (on zero!)..his Rickenbacker played at such a crushingly loud volume it that it distorted to F**k!

His bass sound was special! I love the powerful intro to "Ace of Spades" for example.

anyhow all 4 of NMA's bassists are in my top 20 greatest bassists in history:
My top 5 are:
1 Stuart Morrow
2 JJ Burnell
3 Bruce Foxton
4 Geddy lee
5 Paul McCartney

I like JJ Burnel, and I think Stuart Morrow likes him a lot too!

As for bassists, I'd mention well-known figures like Phil Lynott, Stanley Clarke, Steve Harris, and Robert Trujillo (mainly for his playing on Infectious Grooves and Suicidal Tendencies, because I have trouble hearing his bass in Metallica!), and then I'd add two bassists who are perhaps a little less well-known but who are worth listening to: Eric Avery of Jane's Addiction (the famous song "Three Days," for example) and Graham Bailey of the fabulous band The Sound (listen for Bailey's playing: "Longest Days," "Total Recall," "Sense of Purpose," "A New Way of Life," "We Could Go Far," etc.).

"Longest days": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsH8rzUne_A&list=RDlsH8rzUne_A&start_radio=1&ab_channel=ABorlandFan

"Total recall": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBsVRVbXJ3g&list=OLAK5uy_lWBmk9COv-P6KFMwY37mMXwoEfkLJoeyg&index=2&ab_channel=DemonMusicGroup

"Three days": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QimlMkyR4fI&list=RDQimlMkyR4fI&start_radio=1&ab_channel=Jane%27sAddiction-Topic

"Could this be heaven" (i don't remember the name of Original Mirror's bass player, but i really like his/her bass line on this song):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zuS7VfCgOTA&list=RDzuS7VfCgOTA&start_radio=1&ab_channel=MsRATAMAYA

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Everything Else / Re: Non NMA gigs you just got home from or are going to

« Last post by Master Ray on August 24, 2025, 07:20:23 PM »

There was a 'jazz and blues' festival in that little town where I live these days (of which only about 30% of bands fitted that category but whatever) and it was one of the best nights out I've had this year.  Various acts playing all over the place and all free entry. Punk rockers Vomit (formed in 1977 and local boys) playing a tiny sweaty and packed social club and what a good band they were too, then some lovely girl doing her own acoustic stuff at a local pub, must look up her name, and then the Town Hall hosting a band called Skatrain, basically a 7-piece cover band playing stuff from that fantastic era to an absolutely packed crowd, everyone from kids to old fellas dancing like nutters to those great tunes.

(then off to Wetherspoons until 1AM...  )

Just goes to show you don't have to go to see some big name act and pay big money to have a brilliant night out... if you love live music and are open minded about what you want to see you can find talented acts anywhere.  It's certainly made me more open to catching unknown acts in my local region that aren't charging much.  You never know what you might find!   

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New Model Army / Re: I think there should be, one day, an official biography of NMA... anyone agree?

« Last post by Shush on August 22, 2025, 07:42:16 PM »

Yes, I believe it would make a good book, not a biography, but more like a history of the band book. I am sure I suggested such here in the distant past. I remember saying Dean White would be a good candidate to write it; after all, he has been in the band the second longest, over 30 years now, so what he hasn't seen himself, he must have heard about.

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New Model Army / Re: I think there should be, one day, an official biography of NMA... anyone agree?

« Last post by Master Ray on August 22, 2025, 07:25:00 PM »

Justin once said at a concert that he didn't have time for a biography and that lots of his songs were biographical anyway. Joolz once wrote a kind of unfinished biography called "The Memory Box" about her early days and her beginings with New Model Army and published it in installments on Facebook.

I've always wondered whether the song “Great Disguise” refers to this biography.

Yes, but I'm not talking about an autobiography, I'm talking about a writer writing with permission from the band and access to personal material.

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New Model Army / Re: I need more time background singer

« Last post by MaoLee on August 21, 2025, 08:19:12 PM »

could it be "the politics of love"...or "Learning how to love"?...

I just listened to the section with different frequencies. Somehow it sounds to me like “Calling in the room.” But of course, it could just be my imagination. Maybe the just singing "Dada di dada doooooo" 

I've asked myself this question several times, I might be wrong (sorry but English is not my native language!), but I feel like the vocals are saying something like "A man in the hole"? This might be my favorite song on this album, very intense for the music and the lyrics (when i translated them) ! The last part of the song when it "explodes" in a kind of despair, after the long build up is especially powerful.  "Between dog and wolf" is a beautiful album, which ages like fine wine.

Yes, it's a great piece of album.

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New Model Army / Re: I think there should be, one day, an official biography of NMA... anyone agree?

« Last post by Guillaume on August 21, 2025, 02:32:38 PM »

It would be great to have a book on the band indeed (the special magazine on NMA released at the time of "Between dog and wolf" was already very good), we should see if there would be a way to finance that at least in part? A beautiful, well-illustrated book, with lots of pictures, interviews, reviews of the albums when they came out, etc. A few years ago there was a french fan who had a project to write a book on NMA, she had done her thesis I think--on the band, but no news of her book:

https://webtv.univ-lille.fr/video/6651/serre-solveig-cnrs-arias-cnrs-ens-paris-3-france

https://shs.cairn.info/revue-corps-2015-1-page-19?lang=fr

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New Model Army / Re: I need more time background singer

« Last post by Guillaume on August 21, 2025, 02:17:51 PM »

In “I Need More Time,” there is a recurring phrase in the verses that is sung by the others. It first appears after “too many games of too many kinds.” What are they singing?

could it be "the politics of love"...or "Learning how to love"?...

I've asked myself this question several times, I might be wrong (sorry but English is not my native language!), but I feel like the vocals are saying something like "A man in the hole"? This might be my favorite song on this album, very intense for the music and the lyrics (when i translated them) ! The last part of the song when it "explodes" in a kind of despair, after the long build up is especially powerful.  "Between dog and wolf" is a beautiful album, which ages like fine wine.

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New Model Army / Re: I think there should be, one day, an official biography of NMA... anyone agree?

« Last post by MaoLee on August 21, 2025, 06:38:26 AM »

Justin once said at a concert that he didn't have time for a biography and that lots of his songs were biographical anyway. Joolz once wrote a kind of unfinished biography called "The Memory Box" about her early days and her beginings with New Model Army and published it in installments on Facebook.

I've always wondered whether the song “Great Disguise” refers to this biography.