Magazine - A Song From Under The Floorboards Reaction
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 18 ก.ย. 2024
- In this video we're checking out Magazine. We feel like we've heard this band mentioned before somewhere. We're always interested in discovering bands we've never heard. Surely this will be one of those. Enjoy!
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Great reaction, thank you for doing this group.
Magazine were quite a big band in the late '70s and early '80s, their album 'The Correct Use of Soap' was great, other tracks by them which I recommend are: "Shot By Both Sides", "Touch and Go", "The Light Pours Out of Me", and "Motorcade", there are other tracks but these are good ones to start with.
Yeah, Shot By Both Sides is pretty much mandatory at this point! Then, Lipstick, by The Buzzcocks!
@@Sandy-dd4le Yes, Lipstick by Buzzcocks is a great idea.
HAVE YOU EVER FALLEN IN LOVE WITH SOMEONE YOU SHOULDN'T HAVE FALLEN IN LOVE WITH? YIP SURE HAVE. And yes please please please LIPSTICK and if you're going down this awesomely fun road ORGASM ADDICT for all the teenagers hiding in us
I *looove* 'The Light Pours Out of Me'! 🤩
My husband, my brother and my brother in law (LiveItUp's husband) were at this concert in September 1980 at the Festival Hall in Melbourne. This clip was shot for a music program in Australia called Nightmoves. I remember seeing the video for ''The Light Pours Out Of Me'' on Countdown. That's about all.
Cheers,
Hayley
A brilliant band!! This track is from ‘The Correct Use Of Soap’, of course; a great album but it’s their first, ‘Real Life’, that gets more regular plays on my turntable. And as for Devoto’s voice? I love it, but understand why some might not be so keen.
Aah, School days!
Ace Magazine tracks:
Shot By Both Sides
The Light Pours Out Of Me
Rhythm Of Cruelty
You Never Knew Me
Philadelphia…etc.
Now you've opened the front page of MAGAZINE hopefully you'll explore the rest of THEM,👍👏👏👏🤘✌️
The guitar player on this live version is Robin Simon, who replaced John McGeoch after he left to join Siouxsie & The Banshees. Simon also played with the early John Foxx line-up of Ultravox, quite brilliantly on the album Systems Of Romance. Which prompts me to suggest you play 'I Can't Stay Long' from that album. Sublime.
Yes, Robin Simon was brilliant on Systems of Romance, a superb album every track is spot on. He was excellent the short time he was with Magazine.
I think the singer in this band is Howard Devoto.
He was the original singer of the Buzzcocks.
Now there’s a band you should check out.
Classic English Pop Punk.
You could try:
What do I get.
Ever fallen in love with someone
Harmony in my head
You say you don’t love me
I think you’d like any of these.
There are many more great ones.
Keep up the great work.👍
Great to hear you reviewing Magazine, great band, please check out there version of Goldfinger and my favourite Magazine song Give me everything.
it's based on the dostoyevsky novel notes from underground
it always put me in the mind of Kafka's Gregor Samsa.
My favorite Magazine album is the live one , Play. This song is on the excellent The Correct Use Of Soap 🧼. Singer Howard Devoto was the original singer in The Buzzcocks.
WHAKAPAPA (blood lines) .
PS Pete Shelley R.I.P is right up there amongst the greats lyrics vocals song writing just GENIUS in my opinion
@@heathcornbeef Life's The Illusion .. Love Is The Dream ..
I think his vocals are perfectly matched that's just my opinion but i really like his delivery it's kinda dry and yip musically 👏👏👏👍
@@heathcornbeef Nothing Ever Happens To People Like Us ..Except We Miss The Bus .. Somethings Gone Wrong Again !
Top tune top band. Won't mention tracks others already have. Keep up the great work.
Bass player Barry Adamson is one of the greats. The late John McGeoch was a great guitar player.
Howard Devoto and Morrissey were roommates at one time. Both deal in angst and self loathing.
Morrissey does a fantastic version of this.
John McGeoch wasn't playing on this live album, it was Robin Simon (ex-Ultravox) who'd stepped in at this point, as John had left to play with the Banshees.
Just superb, I requested you cover Magazine a long time ago. Check out their album No Thyself from 2011, about 30 years after their last one. This a very Kafkaesque song!
Howard Devoto was a brilliant lyricist . I’ve got a book that was published,with them all in.Perfectly complimented the music.
Not a great singer,granted,but great for this superb band.
Yes , shot by both sides has to be next , then listen to lipstick by the buzzcocks , wonderful things happen when you do . Love magazine, love the buzzcocks .
as previously stated, we were out of it in the 1980s, Brilliant band
This song makes me cry.
Ok, like I said for the recent Buzzcocks video you did, where you just happened to pick my favorite by them, this is my favorite song by Magazine...not my favorite album by them, that would be their 1st one. Everything on the 1st album is God like. The bassist name is Barry Adamson and the bass he's playing is not a fretless. It's made by a company called Ovation, who was better known for their acoustic electric guitars (think Anne Wilson of Heart, and David Carriden from The Partridge Family) . I know, because after looking for years for one that I could afford, I finally got one (used) about 3 years ago. It's great, and I got it purely because Barry used one. He also used to use a Rickenbacker. He was the 1st bassist I ever heard that used a chorus on the bass in the way he used it. Peter Hook, of Joy Division, Steve Severin, of Siouxsie And The Banshees, Will Heggie, Cocteau Twins original bassist, and a guy name Glenn Campling of one of my all time favorite bands, Tones On Tail owe a debt to Magazine's Barry Adamson. Also, I would recommend listening to the studio album version of their songs. I always thought that Howard Devoto's vocals were always better on the studio albums than on any live recording.
Permafrost and Definitive Gaze are brilliant
and now that you've watched this, try their opening act that night, models ''two people per sq km''
I always thought of the lyrics to this song as a statement about how, in the bigger picture of things, like a persons life verses the size and age of the universe, that we're all like ants crawling along the floorboards of this great big world, let alone the universe, never able to see the big picture or even caring to think about it. This songs seems to be from the perspective of a thinking insect. In a world where you have singers singing basically about the same things mostly...things like love, this singer/songwriter has veered way off that over run road, and to me that's always been the great thing about mostly British bands from this era.
I always thought Magazine was one of the under-rated bands of the British the wave era. My personal favourite by this band was "Shot By Both Sides".
The singer is Howard Devoto, briefly a member of The Buzzcocks. This is largely about self loathing methinks, a fairly standard lyrical theme for him. Not the best singer, it's more about the words and the music
The guitar player is John McGeogh, he would have a starry career that was cut short by his death. A member of Magazine, The Armory Show, Siouxsie And The Banshees and Public Image Limited. Massively influential player, Johnny Marr still talks about him like a God to this day.
Iirc, the keyboard player ended up in Swing Out Sister!
Interesting live version, I dont think I've seen this before
Nah, that's not McGeoch. Despite this guy's similar dress style and same Yamaha guitar model. But his face is way different, so I suspect this is actually Robert Simon, who'd replaced John (according to online info).
@@mightyV444weird, looks just like him
@@Sandy-dd4le - I'm not completely excluding that possibility, but someone in the comments of the original video had also mentioned this was Robert Simon.
@@mightyV444this show seems to be September 1980, so you're probably right, as McGeogh left that year.
I wonder if they made Simon get a McGeogh haircut and Yamaha SG? 😂
@@Sandy-dd4le - Strange, eh! 😄 Unless Simon just happened to be a McGeoch admirer 😉 I hadn't actually been aware of them having had different guitarists! And Simon was eventually replaced, too! 🙂 I'd once had a Yamaha SG-300, kind of a budget version of this SG-1000. Great guitar, but also very heavy 😅
I was at this concert. It was done at the Festival Hall in Melbourne in 1980, and the bill was shared with XTC, Flowers and Models. My friends and I agreed that Magazine were a band to see because it was Magazine. Not because they were a great band to see. Models, Flowers and XTC were much better bands that night.
I was there too. XTC were the headlining act, and they were good. Magazine were great as musicians on stage, but I had to trick myself into the idea that Howard Devoto was sending a message (much like the reactors are doing here). Flowers were as cool as ice, but Models owned that night imo... Young, intense, electronic, determined, innovative.. They made Magazine look like old men.
@@Win_Lose116 I usually check myself when I champion a local group. I don't care about being blinded by bias. But you said it perfectly. Models made Magazine look like old blokes. They played well and Howie did his groan singing, but Models were everything one needs from a post-punk band. Youth, irreverence, sharpness. Nice to talk to a fellow Melburnian (assuming that's what you are?)
@@DogInSpace I grew up in Fitzroy
@@Win_Lose116 Brunswick back in the 60's and 70's
Absolute belter!!
The bassplayer is Barry Adamson. He would join Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds. He has a series of solo records where he toys with making soundtrack music to movies that don't exist. He also did a cover of ''These Boots Are Made For Walking'' with Anita Lane. Maybe one day you can do a ''who did it better?'' video on the following:
The Boys Next Door - These Boots Are Made For Walking nzoz1978
Barry Adamson & Anita Lane - These Boots Are Made For Walking
Nancy Sinatra - These Boots Are Made For Walking
Some of it is downright hilarious!
What's the one with the female narrating the story about the damsel in distress? Absolutely brilliant!
That would be an interesting comparison.
@@DogInSpace Nick Cave's first group, Nick Cave's girlfriend and his ex-Bad Seed bandmate and the original 60's version. How could it not be interesting? lol
@@Sandy-dd4le The Snowball Effect?
@@OnceWasRStrathfield I'm not sure, I think its on, Something Wicked. I need to check.
Barry Adamson played Bass with Nick Cave and the bad seeds after his bass playing with magazine
I am so surprised and delighted you looked into this song, please for your own appreciation look at the morrissey version if you love a good singer version it is out of this world. But the original on The Correct use of Soap is phenomenol. Just for the first time discovered you guys, already love you. How great 👍
Wow. I thought I was the only one to know about this song. Just saw this and I’m out now so this is a treat for later. I believe it’s influenced by the novel Naked Lunch? ❤❤
No. It is Dostoevsky. Notes from Underground. Read it. Could change your life, it changed mine.
@@thegreekgeekreborn Thanks! 👍
@@thegreekgeekreborn "I am a sick man ... I am a spiteful man. I am an unattractive man"
Not a fretless bass, but Barry Adamson has a very loose, smooth way of playing, and in this song in particular, he's using the pad of his thumb to "pluck" the strings. This gives a quite a "rubbery" sound to the notes. Also, I think he's using a chorus pedal, which makes the sound richer in tone.
Folks loved their musicality but were alienated by Howard Devoto's Iggy Pop-ish vocals.
BTW he was the original singer in The Buzzcocks.
Great music sounds great 👍 like it live sounds great music
Love the lyrics, cynical view.
Your next Magazine song should be motorcade which is about the murder of JFK.
Now we're going back to my school days
The Aussie band My Friend The Chocolate Cake did a pretty good cover of this. Their addition of strings is an interesting touch.
Just my opinion of course but I think with a band you don't know at all the studio version is the way to go until you get an idea of what they are about,and having said that please do Philadelphia and Thank you (faletti me be mice elf again) from the album The correct use of soap.
Maybe a comparison is in order. We don't mind having a Sly Stone hit on our channel.
Singer Howard Devoto was originally in Buzzcocks
Morrissey did a great cover of this. A couple of these guys were in Visage too
It is not the singer that is important it is the lyrics and expression, I guess you have had to experience an existential crisis to understand what was being said or have thrown away the rose coloured glasses.
To be honest, I always take this song as self-deprecating comedy (and find it hilarious). Devoto has that little skinny punk-nerd style, and is clearly aware of how he looks; he can be serious ("Motorcade" is great political commentary), but this one is so over the top that I really think he's joking about himself. It's rather dark humour, obviously.
I know this one so it's not so bad but I think I've buggered my hearing. Just back fi a really noisy gig and everything sounds very odd.
Be careful. I (Chris) got tinnitus on my left side because of a noisy gig.
@@hanierfamily Certain frequencies sound like I'm hearing them underwater. and there is a weird almost echo there.
Hawklords are pretty loud though and I wasn't wearing earplugs, so it's mi own fault.
I've found that same problem after gigs maybe it's time to stop sticking my head into the speaker stack's Something you should never do at a SALMONELLA DUB concert you won't be able to balance properly for days after and Glass's and Can's falling of the upstairs balcony railing usely half full from the bass vibrating the crap out of every Atom in the venue AWESOME
@@heathcornbeef Definately not.
It's mi own fault. I just need to start using Ear Plugs.
They work great. And you don't have to spend the big money and have them fitted, though I suspect they sound better (my AE instructor had himself a pair. Real nifty). I went to a musician store and found a pair for less than $30 CAD.