Did you ever go to see The Cult?

[ouchmonkey]

And are your mates now kicking themselves for enjoying watching the band all those years ago now that they have gone out of fashion? do they think, "god damn it, we should have listened to ouchmonkey, he is so bloody hip"?

Music is supposed to be entertainment, if you enjoy watching them live does anything else really matter?
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you appear to have an unshakeable grasp on the wrong end of the stick here
I was showing understanding and solidarity with the OP in finding yourself baffled about everyone else liking them, here's a little reminder....

God, they were truly fucking awful. Weirdly enough, though, practically everyone I know of a certain age went to see them at some point.

Why? Why, God, why?

And, yes, I saw them. In St Austell. They had 'Love Removal Machine' out.

as for people kicking themselves, there are plenty of slightly embarrased admissions on this thread, my own included. Hindsight is a bitch isn't it? there were plenty of other bands about that I almost went to see and might have preferred to but often the decision was made on whether I'd be going alone or not - eventually I did - New Model Army would be a band I saw a good few times because a whole crowd of mates were going, but they quickly got to be very dull indeed. so it goes. You love The Cult all you like, I don't care but I never could understand why - that's all.

 

[Blagsta]

Saw them twice. Once in Penzance and once at The Elephant Fayre. Was music really that dire then that we had to go and see stuff like that? Yes. Yes, it really was.

Killing Joke, anyone? Now there was a band that were proper up themselves. One or two decent songs, mind. Nirvana had obviously heard them. 'Come As You Are' bears more than a passing resemblance to 'Eighties'.

Some of Killing Joke's stuff is excellent.

 

[Griff]

Saw the Southern Death Cult.

 

[fieryjack]

I saw them a clatter of times, usually enjoyed myself even in the Sonic-Temple-and-beyond "dark times". No revisionist shit for me, I'd cheerfully listen to most things from Electric back to Moya and I've got some great bootlegs from 83-85

el jefe likes them more than he's letting on. FACT.

 

[El Jefe]

FACT my arse. I like Sanctuary, I like Astbury, that's it. Don't own a single record by them.

 

[fieryjack]

FACT my arse. I like Sanctuary, I like Astbury, that's it. Don't own a single record by them.

It is a fact as real and indisputable and hairy AS your arse: we've talked about this when we're pissed.

maybe i've got you mixed up with ouchmonkey ho ho

 

[ouchmonkey]

gets comfy

puts kettle on

 

[El Jefe]

It is a fact as real and indisputable and hairy AS your arse: we've talked about this when we're pissed.

maybe i've got you mixed up with ouchmonkey ho ho

nope, I really don't like them. Apart from their ludicrousness, and Sanctuary.

 

[Clint Iguana]

you appear to have an unshakeable grasp on the wrong end of the stick here
I was showing understanding and solidarity with the OP in finding yourself baffled about everyone else liking them, here's a little reminder....



as for people kicking themselves, there are plenty of slightly embarrased admissions on this thread, my own included. Hindsight is a bitch isn't it? there were plenty of other bands about that I almost went to see and might have preferred to but often the decision was made on whether I'd be going alone or not - eventually I did - New Model Army would be a band I saw a good few times because a whole crowd of mates were going, but they quickly got to be very dull indeed. so it goes. You love The Cult all you like, I don't care but I never could understand why - that's all.

I don't understand this hindsight thing. There were numerous bands i went to see in the 80s that i do not like now, but i am not embarrassed about it. I liked them at the time, i enjoyed going to watch them at the time, i don't like them now but i am not about to rewrite my own history to look cooler.

I realise you never liked them, but the fact that all your mates now think they are crap (and so do i as it happens) does not mean you were right all along. Working on that premise you can just say everything is crap and wait for them to either fall out of fashion or just plod on too long and actually become crap so you can never be accused of liking an uncool band. I am not suggesting that was what you did, i appreciate you genuinely did not like them, but I don't think that qualifies you has having some sort of insight to allow you to say 'i told you so'.

out of interest, what bands from that era do you like?

 

[El Jefe]

jesus, give it up.

 

[chainsaw cat]

Saw them twice. Once in Penzance and once at The Elephant Fayre. Was music really that dire then that we had to go and see stuff like that? Yes. Yes, it really was.

Killing Joke, anyone? Now there was a band that were proper up themselves. One or two decent songs, mind. Nirvana had obviously heard them. 'Come As You Are' bears more than a passing resemblance to 'Eighties'.

Ahem.


Marillion.

I'm going to hang myself now, don't worry.

 

[Nigel]

At some festival once.
Possibly Glastonbury

 

[Voley]

Marillion.

I'm going to hang myself now, don't worry.

Wow. You win.

 

[ouchmonkey]

I don't understand this hindsight thing. There were numerous bands i went to see in the 80s that i do not like now, but i am not embarrassed about it. I liked them at the time, i enjoyed going to watch them at the time, i don't like them now but i am not about to rewrite my own history to look cooler.

I am not suggesting that was what you did, i appreciate you genuinely did not like them, but I don't think that qualifies you has having some sort of insight to allow you to say 'i told you so'.

I never said I told you so.
To anyone on this subject.
not even to mates who saw a band they liked 'turning' shit.

where d'you get that from?

you have a thing about 'cool' which keeps recurring too.
I don't think liking The Cult then, now, whatever is particularly uncool.
that just seems completely irrelevant.

 

[Clint Iguana]

I never said I told you so.
To anyone on this subject.
not even to mates who saw a band they liked 'turning' shit.

where d'you get that from?

you have a thing about 'cool' which keeps recurring too.
I don't think liking The Cult then, now, whatever is particularly uncool.
that just seems completely irrelevant.

fair enough.

Its just that 'time has proved me right' sounds an awful lot like 'i told you so' to me.

Sometimes the negativity on this board gets me down and it goads me into endless rants about minor details, sometimes being focused on the wrong person.

And before you know who tells me to get a grip, i am hanging on like a mother fucker tonight and will not be entering into the Ian brown debate

 

[savoloysam]

Loads of times, great band have most of their albums. One of the best rock bands ever IMO.

 

[hash tag]

I've arrived here because I like them, never seen them and they are in the UK soon. I expect to be booking tickets laters, after all, it's a night out.

 

[Pickman's model]

I've arrived here because I like them, never seen them and they are in the UK soon. I expect to be booking tickets laters, after all, it's a night out.

there's never been a better time to see 80s bands than the last few years

 

[Glitter]

I saw them last year. They were alright.

 

[Pickman's model]

I saw them last year. They were alright.

not really a ringing endorsement

 

[Voley]

Live At The Marquee popped us a recommendation on Spotify recently and curiosity got the better of me.

I used to fucking love this one when I was about 13.

 

[weepiper]

They were the first band I ever saw that I had bought tickets for myself rather than being taken by my parents (who were old folkies, so I had seen plenty of live bands but nothing like that). Edinburgh Playhouse, and I was 13 and went with my brother and his girlfriend.

 

[ddraig]

Saw them and The Alarm in Cardiff castle last year, they were great!

 

[Steel Icarus]

Never saw them. Preferred Love but have to say the production on Electric is superb. Les Warner on drums, brilliant.

 

[Pickman's model]

I saw the mission once by mistake

 

[Pickman's model]

Steel Icarus went to the marquee to see creaming jesus but they'd been booted as the mission wanted to have a secret gig. Ended up chatting to Charlie harper out of the UK subs for about 80% of the gig. Next time I saw him he was begging for change to get into the Camden palace

 

[Steel Icarus]

Steel Icarus went to the marquee to see creaming jesus but they'd been booted as the mission wanted to have a secret gig. Ended up chatting to Charlie harper out of the UK subs for about 80% of the gig. Next time I saw him he was begging for change to get into the Camden palace

Just for anyone reading Pickman's did that, not me

I mean The Mission were shit but with a couple of acceptable tunes

 

[Steel Icarus]

Now thinking about bands I've seen by accident. I didn't plan to see Kasabian in 2007 but a lass I'd bought dinner for the week before insisted. They were alright. I also saw Paul Quinn who was launching an album but supported by Teenage Fanclub who were great. I walked out of Quinn's set, it was awful.

 

[Pickman's model]

Now thinking about bands I've seen by accident. I didn't plan to see Kasabian in 2007 but a lass I'd bought dinner for the week before insisted. They were alright. I also saw Paul Quinn who was launching an album but supported by Teenage Fanclub who were great. I walked out of Quinn's set, it was awful.

I've never walked out of quinn's, I've staggered

 

[Glitter]

I saw the mission once by mistake

Guesscwho supported The Cult when I saw them.