Way way back, when I was a lot younger and the Beatles were new... the girl I was going out with said Lennon was her favourite because "he looked a bit of a bully..."
And she'd only seen him on TV in glorious black and white.
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| Author: | MacBiter [ Thu Feb 20, 2020 10:26 pm ] |
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| Author: | Leewave [ Sat Feb 22, 2020 10:30 pm ] |
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Regarding TOTP, Top of the Pops on the BBC, yes I agree with you a lot of it is fairly rubbish and they repeat a lot of those. They keep coming back. It's okay if you want to catch a performance by a particular group but much of it is mediocre I agree. And mimed. And the same performances by the same groups keep being shown again and again. Some of it is good, okay. Most of it I was not interested in anyway, even then. I stopped listening to Top of the Pops around about 1975. That was when I got my first job which was overseas in the Middle East. When I returned in 76 I lost interest in the music scene in the UK because it had changed dramatically. The punks came in and while energetic and completely different, musical ability was not of importance any more. In fact musical ability was actively despised. That turned me off entirely. I got into gliding and spent a lot of the time at the gliding club and doing different things. I agree with you that the Top of the Pops from the 80s and the 90s is pretty awful generally. But you don't have to look at it! There is good and less good with everything. A program I really do miss from BBC 2 in the 70s was the Old Grey Whistle Test. Now that was a program worth saving! Unfortunately when the punks came in, the atmosphere changed, and they decided, the powers that be, that live music performances by proper bands were no longer worth broadcasting. That is a damn shame! That was a very good programme. Bring it back! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCQ3yKAU1p4 David Bowie - Queen Bitch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UroApoVbKn0 Elton John - Tiny Dancer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dq6fCOGyVJg Captain Beefheart - Upon The My O My https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIUKHcVdgPE Steppenwolf - Born To Be Wild https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jX66xTukMRU Little Feat - Fat Man in the Bathtub https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOB9pt9UKNc Robin Trower - Bridge Of Sighs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6fcfQgMcpw Joan Armatrading - Down To Zero https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LtU-9EMSYu0 Tim Buckley - Dolphins https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MhPw6cHzyWU Ry Cooder - Vigilante Man, Going to Brownsville |
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| Author: | Defcom [ Sun Feb 23, 2020 10:54 am ] |
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Heres some vid's if you're interested. Genesis 1973 https://we.tl/t-CZ0DVmVTL2 Zeppelin 1970 https://we.tl/t-AO6BcGpItA Zeppelin 1975 https://we.tl/t-YWpu68rRQw Page & Plant 1995 https://we.tl/t-WwWMnO9UsK 7 Days to download, enjoy boy's. |
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| Author: | loughor [ Sun Feb 23, 2020 12:11 pm ] |
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What ho! A Podcast. Evil Genius with Russell Kane. 30 minutes long. Someone we oldies know: John Lennon. Evil or Genius? (or via the Podcast app). I always thought of him as a bit bad. I'll say no more at this time. Pip pip. |
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| Author: | Highmac [ Sun Feb 23, 2020 6:04 pm ] |
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Way way back, when I was a lot younger and the Beatles were new... the girl I was going out with said Lennon was her favourite because "he looked a bit of a bully..." And she'd only seen him on TV in glorious black and white. |
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| Author: | Mike Smith [ Mon Feb 24, 2020 2:49 pm ] |
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| Author: | loughor [ Mon Feb 24, 2020 7:26 pm ] |
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Some punk was OK and I agree that disco was ear-bleedingly pathetic, as was the way "rock" had gone, with the likes of Yes and Genesis going up their own prog-sphincters. Some groups wrongly thought of as punk (but weren't) were good - The Pretenders and Blondie for two examples. Peter Gabriel was good after he went solo. Of course, some Genesis was OK: I know what I like (in your wardrobe). I expect people will disagree, as is their right. That's why there are so many kinds of music. Of the newer stuff, Muse is for me. |
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| Author: | Leewave [ Mon Feb 24, 2020 8:39 pm ] |
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Of the newer stuff, Radiohead |
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| Author: | loughor [ Mon Feb 24, 2020 9:10 pm ] |
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I've never really heard their works (except the track on radio). Creep, obviously. Recommend one album, please, and I'll start there via Music - ta. |
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| Author: | Leewave [ Mon Feb 24, 2020 9:57 pm ] |
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One album? 1995 1997 2000 2001 2003 From The Basement 2007 From The Basement 2011 2016 - Not Creep. I missed out Pablo Honey because it was the first one and so far I haven't got to like it, or listened to it much. Begin anywhere. Backdrifts, Hail to the Thief? Or anywhere else. Everything In Its Right Place, Kid A |
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| Author: | loughor [ Tue Feb 25, 2020 6:17 am ] |
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One album yes. I don't use that video sharing site. It comes under my "I'm not going to agree to Google T&Cs" thing. I don't discuss it either but thanks for the effort. |
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| Author: | Leewave [ Tue Feb 25, 2020 9:43 am ] |
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My reply is for everyone - not just you! But you have some names to look at. Kid A |
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| Author: | loughor [ Tue Feb 25, 2020 10:43 am ] |
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I have been told 
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| Author: | Leewave [ Tue Feb 25, 2020 12:46 pm ] |
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You asked ..
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| Author: | loughor [ Tue Feb 25, 2020 1:07 pm ] |
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I did. For one album as a hook in. Your selection suggests that they don't actually have one good album....  ... but I now get that you were compiling your "hits" to share 
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