Does anyone like "Fuel"?

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Postby black francis » Fri Feb 15, 2008 5:14 pm

Fish Hook Girl wrote:Even the part when Ian sings about the "songs to learn and sing". Pure gold!

Maybe you've gone deaf with all that Valentine's Day masturbating you've been doing. :lol:


No I haven't gone deaf but my vision is a bit blurry and goddamn these are the hairest palms I've ever seen.
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Postby JackT » Fri Feb 15, 2008 5:14 pm

Fish Hook Girl wrote:Even the part when Ian sings about the "songs to learn and sing". Pure gold!


Yeah I like the lyrics. I like the "home and dry and unstuck" line. And the chorus too.

Then theres the xylophone and the drum machine. It's all good.
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Postby Frank The Bunny » Fri Feb 15, 2008 5:16 pm

Fish Hook Girl wrote:Even the part when Ian sings about the "songs to learn and sing". Pure gold!

Maybe you've gone deaf with all that Valentine's Day masturbating you've been doing. :lol:


Didn't he use that line on the mostly-flaccid Siberia album as well?

If nothing else, Ian McCulloch is the recycle-king of rock n roll

And... there's nothing wrong with having spent Valentine's Day masturbating.

If you can't be with the one you love, love the one you're with.
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Postby Fish Hook Girl » Fri Feb 15, 2008 5:31 pm

Frank The Bunny wrote:Didn't he use that line on the mostly-flaccid Siberia album as well?

If nothing else, Ian McCulloch is the recycle-king of rock n roll


Yes, yes indeed. He is the Great Recycler. The line has been used three times -- (1) Fuel, (2) the title of the first greatest hits album and (3) Of A Life.

Yet I look upon its usage in Of A Life as a playful nod to the past.
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Postby black francis » Fri Feb 15, 2008 5:35 pm

I kinda like "Of a Life" because of it's tempo changes. The Pixies get a lot of credit for that but the Bunnymen were doing it about 5-7 years earlier. maybe not as extreme though.
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Postby JackT » Fri Feb 15, 2008 5:36 pm

Fish Hook Girl wrote:Yes, yes indeed. He is the Great Recycler. The line has been used three times -- (1) Fuel, (2) the title of the first greatest hits album and (3) Of A Life.

Yet I look upon its usage in Of A Life as a playful nod to the past.


Yes, I regard it as a wink to the fans. There are a few on Siberia, actually.
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Postby withahip » Fri Feb 15, 2008 11:25 pm

Frank The Bunny wrote:Didn't he use that line on the mostly-flaccid Siberia album as well?

If nothing else, Ian McCulloch is the recycle-king of rock n roll



It's an inconvenient truth.
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Postby Scouser » Sat Feb 16, 2008 2:14 pm

Can I just say...I really like Fuel.
Mr. Brian, I find that offensive.

Scouser's inability to se others' point of view is rather grating.
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Postby Dave Smith » Sat Feb 16, 2008 5:17 pm

Yeah but as any budding Pythagoras knows its hypotenuse not hypotenu-saaaahhh.
Not a bad tune though.
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Postby industri » Sun Feb 17, 2008 10:48 am

JackT wrote:Yes, I regard it as a wink to the fans. There are a few on Siberia, actually.


A: I like Fuel.

B: I've always wondered if they were winks to fans, or unintentionally lazy accidental-recyclings. I hope the prior, but have always secretly harboured a fear of the later.
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Postby black francis » Sun Feb 17, 2008 10:52 am

I'm gonna listen to fuel one more time before deciding once and for all you're all wrong. That's how fair and benevolent I can be.
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Postby withahip » Sun Feb 17, 2008 10:58 am

Fuel being on the remastered Porcupine with the stellar title track and the awesome Ripeness sounds pretty weak.

And speaking of Ripeness, the alternate track is better than the amazing album track.
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Postby moses (2) » Mon Feb 18, 2008 5:08 am

Does anyone like Fuel

yeah my new car -- it is drinking it by the fucking Tanker load and it is costing me a fortune at 1.20 euro a litre



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Postby black francis » Mon Feb 18, 2008 9:54 am

moses (2) wrote:Does anyone like Fuel

yeah my new car -- it is drinking it by the fucking Tanker load and it is costing me a fortune at 1.20 euro a litre



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I'd bitch about our gas prices but I hear you guys have it worse on the other side of the Atlantic.
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Postby JackT » Mon Feb 18, 2008 9:56 am

black francis wrote:I'd bitch about our gas prices but I hear you guys have it worse on the other side of the Atlantic.


and you drive a 64 Impala.
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