JC's Godlike Genius #1

[naughty boy]

Not at all, no!

I bought the special edition earlier this year and it's mostly rubbish - almost as bad as The Damned.

It's certainly not good enough to hold its own with the other albums in Yomp's list.

[Matt Wilson]

You don't like the Damned either?!

Damn!

[naughty boy]

oh GO BACK TO BED

[Matt Wilson]

It's 11:30 AM!

[naughty boy]

Exactly.

[Matt Wilson]

I can't wait for The Godlike Genius of JC #2!

[naughty boy]

Do your own!

[Snarfyguy]

That’s a brilliant track. I love those first two albums with my favorite being Dub Housing (don’t hate me).

I, too, prefer the follow-up.

[yomptepi]

Michael, how come you give the Americans a pass with all that punk stuff, yet condemn the Clash and Pistols?

The pistols were shit. I don't like heavy metal.

The Clash sold out. All the joy of that first album followed by fuzz guitars and heavy rock riffing. A disgrace.

And I don't really give the Americans a pass, but there was some great things happening in New York in 1975/6/7. A lot of which gets very little respect.

[Matt Wilson]

Here's something I learned from John: "It's all good!"

[toomanyhatz]

It's brilliant.

What I love about it - and I know I've said this before - is how aggressively weird and playful the keyboards are. Considering everyone else was either being artsy or cold and robotic with them - and the latter would get much, much worse soon thereafter - the fact that they treated the synth as basically as punky an instrument as slashy guitars is, imo, some kind of accomplishment. Plus Thomas's voice - despite having the standard resolute unmelodicness - was not really like anyone else's. They really were a one-of-a-kind band.

[naughty boy]

uh huh well actually I...uh...

*tosses hair to one side, looks up to ceiling*

actually uh prefer the second album, Dub Housing


uh yeah

[Snarfyguy]

What can I say? I heard the second album before the first and it holds a special place for me.

[naughty boy]

Only joking, Chris!

[naughty boy]

(I love the album too - don't think there's anything that quite compares to 'Pact' tho')

[$P.Muff$]

Was reluctant to vote 'Amazeballs' due to the stupidity of the phrase, but nevertheless...

[Snarfyguy]

Only joking, Chris!

But... how did you know about the hair tossing?

*closes curtains*

[naughty boy]

[naughty boy]

Plus Thomas's voice - despite having the standard resolute unmelodicness - was not really like anyone else's.

He's one of my favourite vocalists. Wyatt's another (I think you feel the same way).

I'd hate to sound calculatedly idiosyncratic but I really do prefer those kinds of singers to the likes of Otis, Aretha, Smokey et al.

[naughty boy]

or 'iconoclastic'