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Post by cheeesfreeex on Mar 4, 2018 20:44:33 GMT
What!!!!!!??? Wash yer mooth out. Why are you putting one hit wonders on my B&S thread? Just showing you something they could aspire to, being Soul fixated highlanders. You're lucky I was going to put this on for TDC... but resisted infecting your beautiful thread.... Nice bit of stoner rock... goin see them at The Rigger 24th march all being well. Supported by me mates, Space Witch.
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Post by felonious on Mar 4, 2018 20:50:08 GMT
Why are you putting one hit wonders on my B&S thread? Just showing you something they could aspire to, being Soul fixated highlanders. You're lucky I was going to put this on for TDC... but resisted infecting your beautiful thread.... Nice bit of stoner rock... goin see them at The Rigger 24th march all being well. Supported by me mates, Space Witch. Not a patch on Regina
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Post by felonious on Mar 4, 2018 20:57:39 GMT
Bowie lost me in the Low/ Lodger era. I honestly thought he could'nt do any wrong up to that point. Again on the Eno front the early Roxy albums were special probably up to Siren then they went ultra commercial. I wasn't the greatest fan of the early REM but the middle and later stuff was exceptional. I do believe we're both big fans of REM but at the opposite ends of their spectrum Queen and Elton had exceptional starts for me and then the formula took over.
The opening three albums from Alt J have been magnificent for me. The third one caused me problems last year because I've heard 4 pre-released tracks so many times that I couldn't listen to the album properly. I had a renewed listen pre Xmas and really liked it. I wish they'd go back to the old days of one single then an album.
Regarding Kate Bush I've just remembered this offering from her which wasn't up to her usual standard.
[/quote] Bowie was a man ahead of his time but does stand up to a re assessment now and again. I wasn't all that keen on his Eighties output, but love 'Scary Monsters' and even 'Let's Dance' now. Even fond of his later Drum and Bass excursions {Loving the Alien etc}. His albums are there for folk to catch up with and 'get' a decade or so later. {Went see 'him' last week.. outstanding.} 'Young Americans is up there with me fave albums. Didn't like 'Dancing in the Street' that's all. Bush had a dodgy Rolf Harris moment, but he was headlining Glasto at the time I suppose. I like her more World musicy moments. Got into Rem very early courtesy of a mate, it was 1984 and Brit guitar music was pretty much dead, it was all heading to rave or as you say formulaic. REM were something fresh.. lucky enough to catch them live around that time. Almost worn me vinyl 'Murmur', 'Reckoning' and 'Fables..' out. But only now catching up with the post 'Up' stuff. As a kid Elton's greatest hits album, and Bohemian Rhapsody were staples... but don't think I've ever listened to a full album of either... I like 'Seven Seas of Rye'. AltJ.... not for me... I don't understand what it is. [/quote][/p]
I saw Bowie in 1975 at Bingley Hall. 30 minutes of electronic music greeted by polite applause then the opening bars of 5 years started and then you had a football crowd. Young American is up there with his very best albums
I saw REM in Cardiff at the old International stadium. They were definitely not a stadium band. One song on your feet followed by one sitting down, repeat.....
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Post by cheeesfreeex on Mar 4, 2018 21:00:53 GMT
Just showing you something they could aspire to, being Soul fixated highlanders. You're lucky I was going to put this on for TDC... but resisted infecting your beautiful thread.... Nice bit of stoner rock... goin see them at The Rigger 24th march all being well. Supported by me mates, Space Witch. Not a patch on Regina Possibly true. Don't know why it double posted, can't delete one of 'em either, necromancy no doubt. Had me eariels pointed towards the glorious Natalie Evans earlier. She's today's muse.
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Post by Rednwhitenblue on Mar 5, 2018 14:01:17 GMT
If only anyone had made a 'recommend a band to the Oatcake' thread, specifically for the purpose of people being able to whack up a few videos & a short post about bands people might have missed/overlooked What, when, who? Go on TDC don't be coy, give it a bump. Let's have a loook, I may have something for ya, up your street etc. I think TDC was trying (and failing) to be a smartarse, as per usual, Cheesy. Good band Belle & Sebastian and get a fair amount of airplay on 6Music. Weren't they the band who left their drummer behind at a diner while on tour in the States recently! They realised when they arrived at their destination in a different State!
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Post by felonious on Mar 5, 2018 14:41:52 GMT
What, when, who? Go on TDC don't be coy, give it a bump. Let's have a loook, I may have something for ya, up your street etc. I think TDC was trying (and failing) to be a smartarse, as per usual, Cheesy. Good band Belle & Sebastian and get a fair amount of airplay on 6Music. Weren't they the band who left their drummer behind at a diner while on tour in the States recently! They realised when they arrived at their destination in a different State! You're right.
Murdoch joked that one former manager had suggested that organising the band's eight members was like "herding cats" and had suggested 15 years ago that they all be microchipped
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-40960413
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Post by felonious on Mar 5, 2018 14:44:11 GMT
Why are you putting one hit wonders on my B&S thread? Just showing you something they could aspire to, being Soul fixated highlanders. You're lucky I was going to put this on for TDC... but resisted infecting your beautiful thread.... Nice bit of stoner rock... goin see them at The Rigger 24th march all being well. Supported by me mates, Space Witch. There's not much for them to aspire to as they've already been voted the greatest Scottish band of all time
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Post by Rednwhitenblue on Mar 5, 2018 15:30:47 GMT
A travesty. The Proclaimers Bay City Rollers Wings - the band The Beatles could have been Many far more deserving candidates
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Post by felonious on Mar 5, 2018 16:52:53 GMT
A travesty. The Proclaimers Bay City Rollers Wings - the band The Beatles could have been Many far more deserving candidates I was thinking more like SAAB Big Country Simple Minds Beta Band
......Cheesy will post loads no doubt
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Post by cheeesfreeex on Mar 5, 2018 17:15:31 GMT
A travesty. The Proclaimers Bay City Rollers Wings - the band The Beatles could have been Many far more deserving candidates I was thinking more like SAAB Big Country Simple Minds Beta Band
......Cheesy will post loads no doubt
Marillion.
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Post by Rednwhitenblue on Mar 5, 2018 17:20:26 GMT
A travesty. The Proclaimers Bay City Rollers Wings - the band The Beatles could have been Many far more deserving candidates I was thinking more like SAAB Big Country Simple Minds Beta Band
......Cheesy will post loads no doubt
Early Simple Minds fantastic. Teenage Fanclub also excellent. One from left field for you - did you ever come across The Silencers? A letter from St Paul is not a bad Byrds influenced rock/pop LP. Had high hopes for the Beta Band after their Dry The Rain EP but they never quite made it. Some of Steve Mason's latest stuff is ok.
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Post by cheeesfreeex on Mar 5, 2018 17:32:14 GMT
I was thinking more like SAAB Big Country Simple Minds Beta Band
......Cheesy will post loads no doubt
Early Simple Minds fantastic. Teenage Fanclub also excellent. One from left field for you - did you ever come across The Silencers? A letter from St Paul is not a bad Byrds influenced rock/pop LP. Had high hopes for the Beta Band after their Dry The Rain EP but they never quite made it. Some of Steve Mason's latest stuff is ok. The Fence Collective. King 'Kenny' Creosote & co.
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Post by felonious on Mar 5, 2018 19:39:51 GMT
I was thinking more like SAAB Big Country Simple Minds Beta Band
......Cheesy will post loads no doubt
Early Simple Minds fantastic. Teenage Fanclub also excellent. One from left field for you - did you ever come across The Silencers? A letter from St Paul is not a bad Byrds influenced rock/pop LP. Had high hopes for the Beta Band after their Dry The Rain EP but they never quite made it. Some of Steve Mason's latest stuff is ok. I'll have a listen to the Silencers, they're on the list.
I got "Meet the humans" by Steve Mason a couple of years back, nice album. Not as good as Astronomy for dogs by The Aliens which is a superb album
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Post by felonious on Mar 5, 2018 19:45:13 GMT
I was thinking more like SAAB Big Country Simple Minds Beta Band
......Cheesy will post loads no doubt
Marillion. One of the finest bands to inhabit the planet until Fish left. Neither he nor they ever got near the heights of the early stuff after the split but then again what heady heights
I went up to Sale to see him a few years back and enjoyed a glorious nostalgia trip. I remember him saying that if he forgot the lyrics he expected the audience to get him out of trouble. Always good to have a singalong gig
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Post by felonious on Mar 5, 2018 19:51:43 GMT
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Post by felonious on Mar 5, 2018 19:59:05 GMT
I was thinking more like SAAB Big Country Simple Minds Beta Band
......Cheesy will post loads no doubt
Marillion. Better than The Associates?
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Post by cheeesfreeex on Mar 5, 2018 20:09:08 GMT
Better than The Associates? Where was the 'Best Scottish Band Poll'... Crocheting Weekly? Associates didn't reach my three album rule. {But yes prefer them to Your mates}. Were Prefab Sprout Scottish? Hue & Cry and JAMC/Primal Scream trump B&S in my book. Mogwai, Snow Patrol... Skids/Big Country?
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Post by Rednwhitenblue on Mar 5, 2018 20:31:50 GMT
Haha, Hue & Cry. 30 years ago a friend dragged me along to Roundhay Park in Leeds to see Madonna headline some festival whose name now escapes me. Main support were Hue and Cry and the sheer indifference that greeted their set still amuses me to this day. At one point well into the set the singer got frustrated and said "I'm overwhelmed by your enthusiasm" ay which point the crowd started whistling and jeering until they fucked off. I have a vague memory of them flicking the Vs as they left the stage. Always quite satisfying to see a shit band get the reception they deserve. Like the infamous time Matt Bianco (also Scottish?) got asked why they were such wankers live on Noel Edmonds swapshop phone in Incidentally, Madge was quite good.
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Post by felonious on Mar 13, 2018 13:59:03 GMT
Well lads and lasses at least I had a great night last night
I went with the lad and informed him that there was to be no talk of SCFC until after the concert.
He got it about B&S last night. At the first sporadic outbursts of dancing around the auditorium I got the "Don't even think about it" comment however about 6 songs in everyone had given in to the foot tapping. The lead singer asked that anyone wanting to test their interpretive dancing skills on the next track was welcome to join him on the stage cue about 30/40 up on the stage dancing in front of the band and the rest joining in from the floor.
Poor lad had to endure some quality dad dancing last night. I think he thought he was going to see a band that you sit down tapping a finger and appreciating and he got a dance band on top of their game
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Post by felonious on Mar 17, 2018 20:29:07 GMT
Off to Liverpool to see them again on Monday night. They appear to be doing 18 songs in a one and three quarter hour set and changing 8 to 10 tunes every night.
The lad's had this on repeat since Manchester
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Post by Rednwhitenblue on Mar 17, 2018 20:48:54 GMT
Good work, felonious, I think we owe it to our kids to steer them away from the kind of shite that so infests much of the airwaves and kids tv programmes these days.
There really is so much good stuff out there. You just have to make a bit more of an effort.
Not sure if you've come across Jane Weaver? Modern Kosmology is a cracking album. I think she likes to use a lot of old analogue synths but it's a lovely overall layered sound.
I was due to see her at the Hare and Hounds in Moseley but my mate bailed on the day and I sacked it off too. Big mistake.
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Post by felonious on Mar 17, 2018 21:02:14 GMT
Good work, felonious, I think we owe it to our kids to steer them away from the kind of shite that so infests much of the airwaves and kids tv programmes these days. There really is so much good stuff out there. You just have to make a bit more of an effort. Not sure if you've come across Jane Weaver? Modern Kosmology is a cracking album. I think she likes to use a lot of old analogue synths but it's a lovely overall layered sound. I was due to see her at the Hare and Hounds in Moseley but my mate bailed on the day and I sacked it off too. Big mistake. I've heard of Jane Weaver, I'll give the album a listen to thanks.
The lad's 20 and he's had an education from an older dad His mates can't understand why he knows so much music but from a young age he's been an avid consumer of music. B&S is only the second concert I've been to with him the first one being Roger Water's performance of The Wall at the MEN
I keep banging on about it but this generation is so lucky to have every previous generation's music at their fingertips. From memory his first flirtation with music was with Elvis as a little boy. He's a massive Arctic Monkeys fan now.
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Post by felonious on Mar 20, 2018 0:28:38 GMT
Fantastic again in Liverpool tonight. I sat down in the foyer with a drink and watched the crowd coming in.... several lads and dads of varying ages. I got down to the front for a dance tonight but not up on the stage. There was a boy about 10ish and a girl about 4/5ish wearing the sweetest pair of ear defenders
Security were freaking out, eyes everywhere don't think they get many fans up on stage at the Liverpool Philharmonic
We even got a few Doddy jokes thrown in.
The encore.
Dance to the beat of the party line
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Post by felonious on Mar 24, 2018 19:10:52 GMT
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Post by cheeesfreeex on Mar 24, 2018 19:29:19 GMT
Poor mans' Patrice Rushen. Forget Me Knots.
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Post by felonious on Mar 24, 2018 19:38:49 GMT
Poor mans' Patrice Rushen. Forget Me Knots. I don't really think this thread is intended for you Cheesy.
Interestingly they're a completely original band and I've been listening to music non stop as long as I can remember as in recollecting the early Beatles singles. I've seen them in concert twice in two weeks and had two completely different experiences. I know you don't like the lead singers voice because you've mentioned it several times generally using the same words
I've no idea why you don't like them after all they're not that commercially successful
I've no idea why you try to pigeonhole them as I said a completely original band. You should fork out £37.50 and go and see them live you never know you might enjoy the gig and be in a position to give a proper opinion
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Post by cheeesfreeex on Mar 24, 2018 19:59:30 GMT
Poor mans' Patrice Rushen. Forget Me Knots. I don't really think this thread is intended for you Cheesy.
Interestingly they're a completely original band and I've been listening to music non stop as long as I can remember as in recollecting the early Beatles singles. I've seen them in concert twice in two weeks and had two completely different experiences. I know you don't like the lead singers voice because you've mentioned it several times generally using the same words
I've no idea why you don't like them after all they're not that commercially successful
I've no idea why you try to pigeonhole them as I said a completely original band. You should fork out £37.50 and go and see them live you never know you might enjoy the gig and be in a position to give a proper opinion
Wouldn't do for us to all like the same stuff. I'm always willing to learn, ears open regarding music. I won't slam the door on the way out. Don't wish to extinguish the candle at the altar.
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Post by felonious on Mar 24, 2018 20:18:12 GMT
I don't really think this thread is intended for you Cheesy.
Interestingly they're a completely original band and I've been listening to music non stop as long as I can remember as in recollecting the early Beatles singles. I've seen them in concert twice in two weeks and had two completely different experiences. I know you don't like the lead singers voice because you've mentioned it several times generally using the same words
I've no idea why you don't like them after all they're not that commercially successful
I've no idea why you try to pigeonhole them as I said a completely original band. You should fork out £37.50 and go and see them live you never know you might enjoy the gig and be in a position to give a proper opinion
Wouldn't do for us to all like the same stuff. I'm always willing to learn, ears open regarding music. I won't slam the door on the way out. Don't wish to extinguish the candle at the altar. My ears are always open to new music. It's entirely possible that I've never heard my favourite band and never will.
I find that I can't judge other peoples music because beauty is always in the eye of the beholder. The lad loves the Arctic Monkeys, music, lyrics, the whole thing and I just can't get it. I sat here several months back and listened to three hours of their top tunes non stop and a few were pleasant but I can't feel the love but there's nothing crap about them they just don't do it for me. Then again what a sad world it would be if we all liked the same shit
They keep asking him at Uni how he's heard all this music so I think I've done a decent job. He knows his Eels from his Heaven 17
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Post by cheeesfreeex on Mar 24, 2018 21:08:18 GMT
Wouldn't do for us to all like the same stuff. I'm always willing to learn, ears open regarding music. I won't slam the door on the way out. Don't wish to extinguish the candle at the altar. My ears are always open to new music. It's entirely possible that I've never heard my favourite band and never will.
I find that I can't judge other peoples music because beauty is always in the eye of the beholder. The lad loves the Arctic Monkeys, music, lyrics, the whole thing and I just can't get it. I sat here several months back and listened to three hours of their top tunes non stop and a few were pleasant but I can't feel the love but there's nothing crap about them they just don't do it for me. Then again what a sad world it would be if we all liked the same shit
They keep asking him at Uni how he's heard all this music so I think I've done a decent job. He knows his Eels from his Heaven 17
Indeed mate. Only pulling your leg. I thought your opening assertion that they were the best thing you'd heard in twenty years was interesting. Opened it up for discussion? The beauty of music, opinions, discussion, debate, recommendations etc. The fors and the againsts. I've pointed out that I like some of their stuff, I reckon I could compile a really good Best of Ten track compilation. That'd do me. In that sense it would be worth me seeing them live, but I'm not a big fan of 'bigger venues' and paying £30+ no more. So I doubt I ever will. I suppose that reflects your perception that I'm somehow 'against' commercial music per se. Inverted snobbery and that. None of it.. Lily Allen, Lil Pump, Shakira, All Saints... mmmm plenty of chart toppers have been on me radar. It's a non issue in these eclectic times. Dolly Parton and Discharge on rotation. I don't listen to much Radio 1 so I may be largely immune from the excesses of pap and wallpaper {music}. Not going to the Red Spektor stoner rock thing, it's Heavy Weather, blues at the Black Hoss. I don't get your claims of originality for them, I doubt if any modern band operating in 'pop' music can or would claim originality. they've never really broke any new ground have they? That's not really a criticism neither. I thought you'd appreciate me bumping yer thread. Here you've missed this, love this....
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Post by cheeesfreeex on May 13, 2018 19:48:33 GMT
Joined on stage in Sydney {Opera House} by Robert Forster of the Go=Betweens for a couple of ditties. feloniousRip it up.
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