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CrazyEnglishTriathlete

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Re: Today I am Listening To...
« Reply #5400 on: 01 July, 2020, 09:18:41 am »
Never saw Motorhead play live.  Did see Lemmy in the audience at the Marquee Club for a Lee Aaron gig in 1990
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Re: Today I am Listening To...
« Reply #5401 on: 01 July, 2020, 10:50:05 am »
Never saw Motorhead play live.  Did see Lemmy in the audience at the Marquee Club for a Lee Aaron gig in 1990

You missed out. I don't have any of their records but live they were a force of nature. Brilliant.
I think you'll find it's a bit more complicated than that.

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Re: Today I am Listening To...
« Reply #5402 on: 01 July, 2020, 11:19:48 am »
Never saw Motorhead play live.  Did see Lemmy in the audience at the Marquee Club for a Lee Aaron gig in 1990

One of my Tenuous Claims to Fame is having been elbowed out of the way at the bar in Dingwalls by a thirsty Lemmy intent on obtaining further supplies of drinkohol for himself and Wilko Johnson at a Deviants reunion gig.
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CrazyEnglishTriathlete

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Re: Today I am Listening To...
« Reply #5403 on: 02 July, 2020, 05:20:08 pm »
Today's band is Beast in Black.  They were support for Nightwish on their Decades tour at Wembley Arena.  They came on to Judas Priest's Nightcrawler and launched into that era heavy metal.  Naff riffs.  Naff songs.  Except the lead singer Yannis Papadopolous is a trained opera singer rather than just a wannabe, they nailed all the riffs, and it just somehow sort of works. 
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Re: Today I am Listening To...
« Reply #5404 on: 05 July, 2020, 09:08:48 pm »
Shack: HMS Fable
https://open.spotify.com/album/0waCN9Dzq28sIxCSVYwPHO?si=Fq8WQ5R_Q_6zoAMUCstmsQ

It's a grower this. 1999 album from band led by Mick Head, former Pale Fountains front man, and his brother John. I'd never come across it before. Great songwriting really authentic and raw. Thought it was a bit hackneyed first time thro...but keep coming back to Streets of Kenny, Comedy, Cornish Town and others yep... a keeper.

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Re: Today I am Listening To...
« Reply #5405 on: 05 July, 2020, 10:41:08 pm »
Exile on Main Street - again.

It just gets better every time.
I think you'll find it's a bit more complicated than that.

Re: Today I am Listening To...
« Reply #5406 on: 06 July, 2020, 06:03:59 pm »
Lots of SCALA radio (my daughter's fault).  It's generally a nice mix, but a little heavy on showtunes and classic covers of fuckingcoldplay.
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Re: Today I am Listening To...
« Reply #5407 on: 16 July, 2020, 10:42:33 pm »
Feeling nostalgic & browsing videos on pootube,,,   


https://youtu.be/ahTUBOzKjVI


https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x30et3h


   Poor Kirsty  :'(
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Re: Today I am Listening To...
« Reply #5408 on: 17 July, 2020, 05:29:32 pm »
Just discovered bancamp (yea, I know, total dinosaur - I even buy my own music).

Hunt Sales (Ex Tin Machine of Bowie infamy).  Not my usual thing.
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Mr Larrington

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Re: Today I am Listening To...
« Reply #5409 on: 17 July, 2020, 06:17:37 pm »
He (and his brother) were also in Iggy's post-Stooges band for a while.
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Re: Today I am Listening To...
« Reply #5410 on: 19 July, 2020, 11:42:43 pm »
Steel Panther

Its ironic when a band satirizing hair metal bands are actually better than most of the original bands.
I think you'll find it's a bit more complicated than that.

Re: Today I am Listening To...
« Reply #5411 on: 20 July, 2020, 12:06:31 am »
Oh god I've moved on to Mötley Crüe now.
I think you'll find it's a bit more complicated than that.

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Re: Today I am Listening To...
« Reply #5412 on: 20 July, 2020, 12:51:13 am »
(Sings)
Help me Mrs Medleycott
I don't know what to do
I've only got three bullets
And there's four of Mötley Crüe
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Re: Today I am Listening To...
« Reply #5413 on: 20 July, 2020, 11:20:36 pm »
He (and his brother) were also in Iggy's post-Stooges band for a while.
Aye, I think that's where Bowie met them in the first place.
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Re: Today I am Listening To...
« Reply #5414 on: 21 July, 2020, 02:40:56 pm »
A CD reissue of the Moody Blues' On The Threshold of A Dream.  I think the last time I listened to this was when I was 17 and sharing a house with a massive Moodies fan. 

Of course, a lot of it hasn't aged well, particularly the 'poems' but what is most striking about this, and a couple of their other albums from that period, is how much more interesting the songs written by Mike Pinder are than the more well-known Justin Hayward and John Lodge offerings.  This CD contains a bunch of alternative takes of songs from the album, including a complete version of his Have You Heard, which has to be one of the most gorgeous songs in the band's whole back catalogue.  (On the original album, it was split into two parts, with a rather overblown instrumental piece dividing them.)

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Re: Today I am Listening To...
« Reply #5415 on: 21 July, 2020, 10:58:09 pm »
Bourbon House - Wild Abandon

Nothing to do with the family well connected amongst crowned heads of Europe but something far more down to earth.  Has a sense of a band experimenting with their boundaries and encourages me to hope that they will continue to do so.
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Re: Today I am Listening To...
« Reply #5416 on: 22 July, 2020, 01:54:14 pm »
Dept of Disappearance, Jason Lytle
 :thumbsup:

Re: Today I am Listening To...
« Reply #5417 on: 28 July, 2020, 07:38:37 pm »
Mrs Pcolbeck has had radio 2 on all day and they have played Katie Melua's new single A Love Like That several times.
I'm not a big fan of Ms Melua's oeuvre but  I like this, its got a bit of a Zero 7 vibe to it.
I think you'll find it's a bit more complicated than that.

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Re: Today I am Listening To...
« Reply #5419 on: 12 August, 2020, 03:43:39 pm »
Just found out NIN gifted out two albums at the start of lockdown Ghosts V&VI - instrumental tracks.

Also, The Cure's Join the Dots (B-sides), which I thought was a bargain @ £14 for 4CDs.
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Re: Today I am Listening To...
« Reply #5420 on: 21 August, 2020, 09:20:16 pm »
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAawm4OhQJU&list=PL8a8cutYP7fohtC8ZZRDbFM7Xe6BdgKzK


Ella Fitzgerald singing the Cole Porter songbook.   A good CD purchase. 
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Re: Today I am Listening To...
« Reply #5421 on: 21 August, 2020, 10:46:51 pm »
DJ Random: Roadrunner (Twice) ~ J Richman & The Modern Lovers
[Four songs later]
DJ Random: Roadrunner (Once) ~ J Richman & The Modern Lovers

And it's not as though I have fifty versions of each, either.
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Re: Today I am Listening To...
« Reply #5422 on: 22 August, 2020, 07:05:16 am »
A new discovery for me last night, Brother Dedge

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bd6PjKDj5s

Difficult to describe. Sort of dark acoustic Americana folk.
I think you'll find it's a bit more complicated than that.

Re: Today I am Listening To...
« Reply #5423 on: 22 August, 2020, 05:55:21 pm »
The Cure - Join the Dots.  It's like getting four new albums that you know will be as good as the old stuff - because it is the old stuff.

In so doing I just discovered that Google Play sell mp3 downloads (in fact that it exists) and that some of their albums are significantly cheaper than amazon.
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Re: Today I am Listening To...
« Reply #5424 on: 22 August, 2020, 06:20:01 pm »
Arild Andersen, as in this.
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