What are you listening to now? Page 990
Tell you what O. While everyone is asleep, I will post my wobbly old Ruth Gipps. It's more up your street.
It's about time there was one on YT without the wow and flutter, dontcha think?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Krfbm3ePmRw
(Great pic by the way - is it Prince?)
Alabama 3 - Hello........I'm Johnny Cash
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3d9-sXrx3o
(The Cool Mikado - I loved your ukelele Theme From Shaft - Thanks)
Quote: Chappers @ July 25 2013, 10:59 PM BSTAre you guest vocalist?
no I forgot to taken my username off sorry about that folks
i love this song reminds me of richard beckinsale don't know why though.
This is a mans world-james brown
I like that little song:
Oh yes. I misread the title and thought it would be the Fortunes' song. Thanks for that one. Love the James Brown song too. The next record celebrates its 50th birthday today.
http://www.eyeneer.com/video/r-b-soul/smokey-robinson-the-miracles/mickeys-monkey
Quote: Horseradish @ July 26 2013, 8:09 PM BSThttp://www.eyeneer.com/video/r-b-soul/smokey-robinson-the-miracles/mickeys-monkey
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Some great choices there. Mr R's first is admirably robust.
Doctors advise that sleep improves when feeling bloody miserable. This malarkey will guarantee eight hours:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vTBZzB_gfY
Quote: Horseradish @ July 25 2013, 4:04 PM BSTI 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.
Liked all these bands, and bought their music. Saw the Clash all through their "career", from the Rainbow with the Jam & Buzzcocks, through to their "Combat Rock" Tour at Brixton Academy, with a Rock Against Racism gig at Victoria Park (as featured in "Rude Boy", which I saw in the cinema at the time too) in the middle. Saw the Smiths play at a "Save the GLC" rally.
Adored Echo and the Bunnymen. Saw them at the Lyceum - on a bill with Teardrop - and much later at the "V" festival. The Redskins were made up of members of the SWP (Socialist Workers' Party).
John Peel is an all-time favourite too. Miss not seeing him on the BBC's Glastonbury coverage, in his wellies.
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!
Bands on this list that I followed were Teardrop, XTC, The The. Who is Hollis?
I have a lot of these NME cassettes still.
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.
Liked all the bands in bold. Saw New Order at the Festival Hall, early on. The first BAD album is really good, and "Megatop Phoenix" is still one of my all-time favourites. Great, great album. Would love to have seen The Pogues, though I hear they were pretty ramshackle, and that Shane could barely stand up when he performed.
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!
Ska and reggae were important too. The 2 Tone movement - The Specials, The Beat, Selector, early Madness.
On the reggae front - Misty in Roots, Aswad, Steel Pulse. John Peel championed British reggae acts on his show.
And let's not forget female/mixed gender bands - The Slits, The Raincoats, The Au Pairs.
The Au Pairs were great live, very Gang of Four:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rB-DAyZ-3Nk
Then there was the Leeds/Sheffield scene - The Human League, Mekons, Gang of Four, and the Fast label. The first two Human League albums were pretty interesting with lots of rough edges and weird lyrics, and quite different from the slick (in a good way) pop act they later became.