just a band

[eebs]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yoN6XfyQsr4[/youtube]

in the live version (also on you tube) he takes back the clash being just a band

[mere1975]

He's like the Martin Luther of trendy pop culture. What a treatise!

Fun, indeed!

But he broke my heart a little when he said the Beatles were just a band.

- Mere "knowing this lot, I bet he broke yours too, whether it was when he mentioned Nirvana, Arctic Monkeys, Minor Threat, the Clash or the Cure. . . " 1975

[ifihadahifi]

Amen to Pheonix.


And daaaayum somebody's grumpy today. Just got bitched out at verk for the "noise."

Walk on if you don't like it. I'm slacking.

[Irock]

Amen to Pheonix.

um, no.
...and I would point Dan Le Sac (who I've never heard of) back to the part about not putting recording artists on pedestals. That means he doesn't get to decide the way words are spelled "no matter what the Oxford English Dictionary says."

The OED > this guy.

hmph.

i "English major high horse" rock

But yeah, cool video.

[eebs]

Amen to Pheonix.

um, no.
...and I would point Dan Le Sac (who I've never heard of) back to the part about not putting recording artists on pedestals. That means he doesn't get to decide the way words are spelled "no matter what the Oxford English Dictionary says."

I think the concept is meant to be tongue in cheek so don't take it to much to heart - it's a bit of a poke at authority / conventional thoughts on subjects - the OED being a source of authority like the NME or the Bible. He probably got a bollocking at school for spelling it wrong in a test or summat

[monet2u]

[ifihadahifi]

He probably got a bollocking at school for spelling it wrong in a test or summat

That or it just makes common freakin' sense that it would be spelled e-o by the way it sounds.


hi-ElFenix-fi

[Irock]

Since when do English pronounciations make sense?
Try explaining this to a non-native speaker:

though
through
bough
thou
thought

I think there are eight different English pronouciations for "-ough."

But really, I was kidding too. Mostly.

OED entomology of "phoenix," because I'm a geek

The ancient Greek writer Herodotus learnt the legend of the phoenix at Heliopolis in Egypt, where, he stated, the cult of the mythical bird was as old as the city. Some modern scholars derive ancient Greek **some greek word** ‘phoenix’ from ancient Egyptian bnw, a type of heron widely known as a symbol in Egyptian religion, but the resemblance is not clear. More recently a Semitic, possibly Phoenician, origin for the word has been proposed. It has also been suggested that the name of the bird derives from ancient Greek **some greek word** red (see PHOENICIAN n. and adj.), with reference to the prevailing colour of its body (Herodotus 2. 73: **some greek words**, its plumage is partly golden and partly red).

[Sybil]

And just for the record, the Beatles were most assuredly NOT just a band. Smug self-satisfied kids just don't know nothin'!

But a fun video anyway.

Sybil

[mere1975]

And just for the record, the Beatles were most assuredly NOT just a band. Smug self-satisfied kids just don't know nothin'!

Now I feel better.

I knew I was right all those years, I just needed an authority figure to confirm it and I trust Sybil.

- Mere "thought that guy was Matisyahu" 1975

[monet2u]

- Mere "thought that guy was Matisyahu" 1975

me too for a few moments