always brings tears to my eye,and thanks to rock & chips for these music http://youtu.be/n-XQ26KePUQ
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Quote: George Kaplan @ July 24 2013, 11:10 PM BSTThanks! Enjoyed that. Never heard of them before. Doesn't seem to be that much info about them, but found this:
http://www.last.fm/music/Fishmonkeyman
Were you a fan at the time, or did you discover them later?
I am pleased you enjoyed it George. Yes, at the time.
Here's the potted history. Born in the 1960s. Was writing down the Top 30 each week when I was 7. How embarrassing. It means, though, that my peers were punks but I got a hippy ish start musically. Too young for most prog rock, probably a blessing, but indiscriminate on everything else. Luckily there was a lot of soul, reggae, folk, electronica, etc too in the early 1970s charts. Still have very good memories of that time.
I took to aspects of punk and new wave in my teens but as an addition, then went heavily into mainstream indie. A lot of gigs. I was very into the late 1980s Madchester thing and then Britpop. The latter felt a tad young for me, not that it mattered much. I did take on board the dance and hip-hop trends in the 1990s a little but "the charts" became more distant. Much to everyone's relief, the list writing ended around 1999.
In parallel, there was a world music thing going on. Womad - but I've also been to Glastonbury ten times, having delayed it until the age of 30, and other events too. Recently I've learnt more about jazz and country music from other people but there's a long way to go. Most strands continue as they do. I try to be aware of the current and still like to think there is a world of discovery. Which there always is obviously.
Phew - done it!
Quote: Horseradish @ July 24 2013, 11:32 PM BSTWas writing down the Top 30 each week when I was 7. How embarrassing.
I used to tape my favourite hits off the radio when they had the chart rundown on a Sunday. I'd be on the carpet with my radio and my mono cassette recorder, ready to flick down the play and record buttons simultaneously at the end of every song in case something I liked was about to hit the airwaves. 
I took to aspects of punk and new wave in my teens but as an addition, then went heavily into mainstream indie.
Mainstream indie sounds like it ought to be a contradiction in terms. Do you mean stuff like The Smiths? Indie that broke through into the mainstream?
Quote: Gordon Bennett @ July 24 2013, 4:28 PM BST
Listening to this again. This may sound ridiculous but I prefer the Badfinger version of "Come & Get It"...Badfinger sound more Beatle-ish than the Beatles on this.
Quote: George Kaplan @ July 24 2013, 4:35 PM BSTGlad to hear it. You'll wear yourself out with all that funking you're doing these days, Gordon.
Don't worry dude, ma body's made for fonkin'...
Quote: Gordon Bennett @ July 25 2013, 9:49 AM BSTDon't worry dude, ma body's made for fonkin'...
All the same, you might want to check on some new moves on David's video - though maybe not the splits. 
Quote: David Smith @ July 25 2013, 10:48 AM BSThttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CfihYWRWRTQ
Quote: The Cool Mikado @ July 25 2013, 11:32 AM BST
Dambusters March Exellent Theme and when we won 
[link http://youtu.be/MvtH-cSb5AI[/link]
Quote: George Kaplan @ July 25 2013, 12:57 AM BSTMainstream indie sounds like it ought to be a contradiction in terms. Do you mean stuff like The Smiths? Indie that broke through into the mainstream?
I enjoyed your recollections of the chart rundown and the cassette recorder. Time very well spent. I'd be interested to hear yours and others' thoughts on the music of the 80s and memories of the other eras.
During the first half of the 80s, I liked the mainstream end of the John Peel show and the infrequent visitors to the Top 10. Some of the groups were on Rough Trade, Postcard, Factory, 4AD and Red Rhino but others were on the bigger labels. So it was Aztec Camera, Orange Juice etc alongside the likes of Echo and the Bunnymen, The Smiths. I was very into The Clash. I've seen a post on The Redskins. We saw them in 1985.
One of my posts features Paul Buchanan. He recorded with The Blue Nile in 1984 on the then emerging independent record label Linn which was, and is still, state of the art. Arguably, bands like The Teardrop Explodes, XTC, Talk Talk, The The and The Waterboys were considered more commercial, if all had a certain edge. Hollis and Co, of course, changed a lot in just a few years. But I guess it was the NME cassette C86 which really defined, or redefined, indie, at least for a while, albeit with many accusations of soppiness!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C86_(album)
By the mid to late 80s, we were seeing The Wedding Present, Jesus and Mary Chain, New Order and Big Audio Dynamite live in Central London and the Sugarcubes at Reading Festival. The band that we saw most often was The Pogues and, when they were on form, the atmosphere was electric. Later, it was The Stone Roses at Alexandra Palace as well as the Happy Mondays, The Las, The Farm and The Mock Turtles. While Peel was still on the radio so too in the capital was Gary Crowley. He undoubtedly was an impetus re gigs. GC played power pop - Fishmonkeyman, New Fast Automatic Daffodils, Ned's Atomic Dustbin, Carter USM.
But that period was quite diverse. My first outdoors gig was on a common with Anti-Apartheid and it featured Gil Scott-Heron. There was the emergence of 808 State and A Guy Called Gerald, Soul II Soul and De La Soul. I did see the latter live. Following Graceland, some tremendous world music was getting a bit of airplay. That had been long overdue. There was even music of the New Age released on Windham Hill!
Quote: David Smith @ July 25 2013, 4:41 PM BSThttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZ4De_RieBM
christ it is summer not Christmas yet already is it jeezz
f**king love this one
Quote: george roper @ July 25 2013, 6:33 PM BSTchrist it is summer not Christmas yet already is it jeezz
f**king love this one
It's a great song though.
Uh Huh? Oh Yeah!
Jack White and Loretta Lynn - Portland Oregon
One of my secret Judas Priest faves. Very atypical: