Idle thoughts...

**Rich Hero** · 17-05-2006, 05:44 PM

1. Last night I pulled out 'Basket Of Light' for the first time in a while. And, whilst I was enjoying it I noticed that the venue in the photo on the cover (I assume it's The Royal Albert Hall) was hardly oversubscribed, to put it politely. How, why?!?

2. Also, Titanic are all smiles and young, fresh faces (and alarmingly white teeth) on the back of their first LP. But just a few years later, on the sleeve of the 'Macumba' 45, they look drawn and haggard. Jumping to conclusions, how much drugs did they consume in the time between?

3. And what's that bloke out of Dynastie Crisis (the one who looks like Tom Middleton) doing in Mashmakhan, across the other side of the Atlantic?

Please chip in with any irksome questions that have arisen from pondering your record sleeves...

**Hooded Claw** · 17-05-2006, 06:16 PM

Why is Phil Collins so sweaty?

**beddoes** · 17-05-2006, 06:37 PM

I'm going to boldly assume (split infinitives are everybody's friend) that this thread will prove a hospitable home for the following guessing game. Who is this speaking?

"They both kissed me and stuck their tongues into my mouth. I naturally pulled away, because this is unsanitary. So they wouldn't feel bad, I started kissing them around the eyes and forehead. But they both got very angry with me and left.

Ah, well... I'm only waiting until I get to heaven where I won't have these problems. I dream that in the next world I'll be able to be with all the women I want. I don't want men around, except maybe my poor father, and Al Jolson. I will own them, all these beautiful creatures who never get old, and do whatever I want with them. There will be no body odor, and making l-o-v-e will be like it was in the Garden of Eden before the fall. I will never get tired, and my s-e-e-d will flow out for hours, like water out of a hose, in a stream of ecstasy."

**john stapleton** · 17-05-2006, 06:45 PM

Originally Posted by beddoes

I'm going to boldly assume that this thread will prove a hospitable home for the following guessing game. Who is this speaking?

"They both kissed me and stuck their tongues into my mouth. I naturally pulled away, because this is unsanitary. So they wouldn't feel bad, I started kissing them around the eyes and forehead. But they both got very angry with me and left.

Ah, well... I'm only waiting until I get to heaven where I won't have these problems. I dream that in the next world I'll be able to be with all the women I want. I don't want men around, except maybe my poor father, and Al Jolson. I will own them, all these beautiful creatures who never get old, and do whatever I want with them. There will be no body odor, and making l-o-v-e will be like it was in the Garden of Eden before the fall. I will never get tired, and my s-e-e-d will flow out for hours, like water out of a hose, in a stream of ecstasy."

is it Mick Hucknall?

**beddoes** · 17-05-2006, 06:49 PM

Originally Posted by john stapleton

is it Mick Hucknall?

Nope. Good guess, though. Hint: like Hucknall a minger.

**wallace** · 17-05-2006, 06:50 PM

Th' tongues gie it awa'.

Tis Rael -th' sod - wif the Lamia.

**beddoes** · 17-05-2006, 07:00 PM

Originally Posted by wallace

Th' tongues gie it awa'.

Tis Rael -th' sod - wif the Lamia.

Such a small thread, and Phil Collins and Genesis already mentioned. How quickly things sour these days!

**eric-adams** · 17-05-2006, 07:07 PM

[QUOTE=Hooded Claw]Why is Phil Collins?QUOTE]

**beddoes** · 17-05-2006, 07:36 PM

You lot are pathetic. I hope I'm never trapped in an invisible maze with any of you.

**wallace** · 17-05-2006, 08:23 PM

[. I will never get tired, and my s-e-e-d will flow out for hours, like water out of a hose, in a stream of ecstasy."[/QUOTE]

Whae wrote dis shite?

Tha' laist pairt are juist sillay.

Flowin' oot fer hours, 'im wouldnae be able tae goo oot an' say hi ter next dooar missus, 'im wouldnae be able ter ride car an' iffin 'im went ter kirk, would be a cormpleat cock-up, dunt yew tink?
'im would be oop fer awl sarts o charges o' pooblic misschiff.

'im would ha' ter be corntain'd fer guid o' society.

Mebbe dems could mak sum readies arf 'im - set 'im oop tidy aat Ripley's an' callit 'im ninth natooral wunder o'warld.

**wallace** · 17-05-2006, 08:58 PM

Bark ter orrigernool post - did ainny o' yews evar 'ear feckin' Mashmakan LIVE?

Jaysus Diddley! - tawk aybit off-key singin'! Tha' guy takes th' cake.

............

Oan an aside:
Radioactive done a runner.
Aye. Plummer scarper'd.

If yew believe tha', den yew will believe anyting.
Arctooally, troof be tha' fambily o' 'endrix juist ha' legal victory 'gainst Sonicus Ltd (Radioactive Records)

**Joe M'geek** · 17-05-2006, 09:14 PM

I've got an idle thought

1/ What does 'star time with the dark city sisters' sound like? I've got the intriguing sleeve for the UK issue on HMV, but no record...

**beddoes** · 17-05-2006, 09:17 PM

Tiny Tim!

**Joe M'geek** · 17-05-2006, 09:25 PM

Excrement

**beddoes** · 17-05-2006, 09:28 PM

In girum imus nocte et consumimur igni.

**Col Wolfe** · 17-05-2006, 09:29 PM

Originally Posted by Rich Hero

Please chip in with any irksome questions that have arisen from pondering your record sleeves...

Richard

I am very glad that you have raised such a thread as I have, for many a year, ruminated on the hidden message held within the cover-art of The Serfs' 'Earlybird Cafe' LP. I believe that certain information is encoded within the photographs. Sacred Geometry and the powers of the Golden Ratio become the equivalent of Where's Wally by comparison.

I have provided pictorial evidence to assist in speading the gnostic truth

Here we see an image of the front cover of The Earlybird Cafe.

Look carefully and you can see a young lad sat in the 'Gateway' of the ruined (Solomon's???) temple

Here is a close-up of the child - sat in the preaching position of Buddha, or indeed, Prabhupada

Now we look at the rear image of E-ST207/SKAO-207 and what do we observe? The child (of the Black Madonna?) is missing.

Or is he?

Look between the legs of the turban'd one....

.....yes, you're right.....

the little fucker is flicking the V at you!

**emperor tomato ketchup** · 18-05-2006, 10:38 AM

Dude the Da Vinci Code has nothing on you.

**SARGE** · 18-05-2006, 10:45 AM

shit man ever see the ghost in three men and baby ghost?......this one time this guy i knew flipped his avatar upside down!

**Rich Hero** · 18-05-2006, 12:39 PM

Originally Posted by Col Wolfe

the little fucker is flicking the V at you!

Cosmic...

**LDJB** · 18-05-2006, 02:33 PM

Who told Bo Diddley that he did indeed look like a black gladiator and not, as some might cruelly suggest, an old fat bloke in cheap gimp gear?

Why are there 11 Blood, Sweat and Tears on the cover of 'BS&T 3' yet only 10 credited on the back?

Why are there only four blokes in the gospel singing Five Blind Boys of Alabama (I know this 'cos I saw a sleeve recently) and which of them is taking the extra cut?

Why do birds suddenly appear?

**alanmck** · 18-05-2006, 02:40 PM

Originally Posted by LDJB

Who told Bo Diddley that he did indeed look like a black gladiator and not, as some might cruelly suggest, an old fat bloke in cheap gimp gear?

Now that's a sleeve i'd love to see

Bo Diddley: Old Fat Bloke In Cheap Gimp Gear.

**Rich Hero** · 18-05-2006, 02:55 PM

Originally Posted by LDJB

Who told Bo Diddley that he did indeed look like a black gladiator and not, as some might cruelly suggest, an old fat bloke in cheap gimp gear?

And who told him that Reg Prescott glasses were de rigeur on the S and M scene?

**babycart** · 18-05-2006, 02:58 PM

[QUOTE=LDJB]Who told Bo Diddley that he did indeed look like a black gladiator and not, as some might cruelly suggest, an old fat bloke in cheap gimp gear?

QUOTE]

The Isley Brothers would be high on my list of suspects.