A song for Bob!

TheTopHat · The BoomTown Kid

A song for Bob!

toriapplejoy · House on Fire

sounds like a great ideal The TopHat. Tonight on VH1 Storytellers Bob Geldof

ArrGee1991 · Dave

TheTopHat wrote:
So theres a new album! Horray!
What would you like to hear?
Well we all know Bobs a 'seanacai' (Irish for storyteller)

Maybe he can dig out his Dr. Feelgood, Stones, Kinks, Who, Small Faces, Dylan and seventies Roxy and Bowie LPs and find some inspiration from them.

Maybe he could write about the cult of Celebrity, with a She's So Modern for the 21st Century perhaps? He could have a listen to Pulp's Hardcore for a bit on the psychological consequences of fame.

Also a bit of church and media bashing wouldn't go amiss.

Also if he dares, a rewrite of Kicks as a grumpy old man!

( I don't get my Kicks no more from Coke or Heroin.....)

Jules · The biggest Geldof fan in the world, bar none!

ArrGee wrote:
Maybe he could write about the cult of Celebrity, with a She's So Modern for the 21st Century perhaps? He could have a listen to Pulp's Hardcore for a bit on the psychological consequences of fame.

Also a bit of church and media bashing wouldn't go amiss.

Also if he dares, a rewrite of Kicks as a grumpy old man!

( I don't get my Kicks no more from Coke or Heroin.....)

I like all of this and think he should definitely go for these.

toriapplejoy · House on Fire

i think so too.

TheTopHat · The BoomTown Kid

ArrGee1991 wrote:

Maybe he can dig out his Dr. Feelgood, Stones, Kinks, Who, Small Faces, Dylan and seventies Roxy and Bowie LPs and find some inspiration from them.

Maybe he could write about the cult of Celebrity, with a She's So Modern for the 21st Century perhaps? He could have a listen to Pulp's Hardcore for a bit on the psychological consequences of fame.

Also a bit of church and media bashing wouldn't go amiss.

Also if he dares, a rewrite of Kicks as a grumpy old man!

( I don't get my Kicks no more from Coke or Heroin.....)

Its possible, but a bit too linear?

Let me re-phrase.
What subject is interesting to you that you would like to be addressed?

Lets face it, he gets to his best when he's given a challenge!!!!

nick

toriapplejoy · House on Fire

and a challenge he shall get!!!

Jules · The biggest Geldof fan in the world, bar none!

OK a serious answer - it has to be deep and meaningful to Bob or else it doesn't work. It doesn't matter what I want him to sing about.

TheTopHat · The BoomTown Kid

Jules wrote:

OK a serious answer - it has to be deep and meaningful to Bob or else

Yes.... and thanks Jules,
deep and meaningful.... of course!

What else would you expect from Bob........... and want. You'd be crying out with anything less.
He doesn't faff around.

What subject is interesting to you that you would like to be addressed?

OK,

Any books, characters, new plays, topics.......anything that hits on YOU?

I'm not his R&D dept.
Me.....I'd only like to find out.... from my fellow Rat pals, what currently stimulates YOU. smile

??????
nick

ArrGee · Back To Boomtown

TheTopHat wrote:

ArrGee1991 wrote:

Maybe he can dig out his Dr. Feelgood, Stones, Kinks, Who, Small Faces, Dylan and seventies Roxy and Bowie LPs and find some inspiration from them.

Maybe he could write about the cult of Celebrity, with a She's So Modern for the 21st Century perhaps? He could have a listen to Pulp's Hardcore for a bit on the psychological consequences of fame.

Also a bit of church and media bashing wouldn't go amiss.

Also if he dares, a rewrite of Kicks as a grumpy old man!

( I don't get my Kicks no more from Coke or Heroin.....)

What subject is interesting to you that you would like to be addressed?

I wrote the cult of Celebrity. Which is a pretty large ranging topic encompassing drug use, kids hanging out at parties, selling themselves to the highest bidding newspaper, the poor role models, being hounded by paparazzi, the excessive high profile of the untalented, etc. Given Geldof is pretty close to all of this, he would have plenty to write about.

The danger of doing it could be whinging about it all whilst exploiting it. But then again that would be part of the fun of it.

Another topic could be the rise of the state in controlling lives, but I don't think Geldof has much to say on that as he appears complicit with it.

He could of course be all worthy and humanitarian, but that would be little more than what is expected. Sex, Age & Death worked to a degree, as it was the fall out of the Bob, Paula & Michael affair, but I don't see he can revisit that.

Also he's a bit old for writing songs about nights on the tiles and chasing girls.

Ultimately it won't matter much what he writes about if the music isn't good (see DITHON and Happy Club). Scream in Vain and $6,000,000 Loser would be the template for what he should aim for.

toriapplejoy · House on Fire

bob should just settle down.

TheTopHat · The BoomTown Kid

toriapplejoy wrote:

bob should just settle down.

I think we should all throw in the towel if he does that.

Is that an early April Fool smile toriapplejoy?

nick

PS. Arrgee
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I wrote the cult of Celebrity. Which is a pretty large ranging topic encompassing drug use, kids hanging out at parties, selling themselves to the highest bidding newspaper, the poor role models, being hounded by paparazzi, the excessive high profile of the untalented, etc.
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Is that Published?

-- Edited by TheTopHat on Wednesday 1st of April 2009 10:32:37 PM

-- Edited by TheTopHat on Wednesday 1st of April 2009 10:36:13 PM

Jules · The biggest Geldof fan in the world, bar none!

I hope it was! We can't have Bob settling down.. disbelief

musicmania · A Hold of Me

I wouldn't put Bob & the words settle down together

It doesn't even bare thinking about furious

toriapplejoy · House on Fire

sad but true. but bob and settle down go together.