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[Music] What's the best song you have heard today? Share it here.
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Cheers for the reply. Yes, plenty varied although I detect a great deal of common DNA running through those phenotypes
As I've said before I absolutely love the psychobilly stuff you've posted. I struggled with the ted music back in the day (mid/late 70s) partly because those lads wanted to beat me up and I imagined the music was reactionary and anti-new.
The other funny thing is when people ask me what I like (this happened again yesterday at the mother-in-law's birthday party) I always say 'oh, pracically everything', then I start adding 'of course, I don't like traditional chart pop music, most jazz leaves me cold, I lost interest in blues-rock in the early 70s, most heavy rock and heavy metal is a bit boring, arena rock and pomp rock of the likes of Genesis, Fleetwood Mac, Floyd and suchlike seems specifically designed for people who like events but don't like music, and.....
So, er, it's late 60s/early 70s prog rock, Canterbury scene, late 70s punk, reggae (as long as it was made pre 84), late 70s/early and mid 80s post-punk (my musical hay day, with sucessor artists still eagerly sought out), shoegaze (which is sort of 90s+ post-punkmost), most electronic music, including late 90s and early noughties synthipop, darkwave, EBM, wave, trap, witch house.....and music by iconoclast nutters, such as Peter Hammill, Ivor Cutler, Bowie, Arthur Brown, Edward Ka-Spel, SRSQ, Popsimonova .....give me a madman or madwoman and I'm IN!
Yes, perhaps that is narrow. I hated 'Britpop' and had little time for the post-post punk resurgence of 70s influenced guitar music that seems to be the 110% staple of so many blokes in the 40-55 age bracket, with a few notable exception - Adorable, early Verve, Mew, Radiohead, and latterly Protomartyr.
Anyway....it's all good!
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pearl
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Ezra Furman has terrific musical taste as well. She has sat in for Marc Riley on 6 music a few times. Upbeat and eclectic - it' good stuff. Hope the gig works out
Ludensian Gull
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Icy Gull
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Apologies going twice today.
This is rough, raw and brilliant….before they got slick and turned into a money making corporation. Loved the original line up too. Great to see the co writer of the song Jackson Browne on piano too
https://youtu.be/mM_BACT7MuI
This is rough, raw and brilliant….before they got slick and turned into a money making corporation. Loved the original line up too. Great to see the co writer of the song Jackson Browne on piano too
https://youtu.be/mM_BACT7MuI
Worried Man Blues
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Blimey, dogs went ballistic over that first note!
Worried Man Blues
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Love them, first heard them on BBC in 1973 taped from the tele, hanging the mic over the speaker, telling every one to be quite until the concert finished!
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Super Steve Earle
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Interesting about Genesis Fleetwood Mac and Floyd. Yes, of course I see your point, but I saw all three. Genesis with Peter Gabriel at the helm with a sunflower on his head just seemed very arty rather than an event. Just another band trying to sound and look a bit different from the rest. Floyd was the infamous first gig at the Dome of Dark Side of the Moon and they just seemed to want to be innovative and inventive rather than pompous. Always pushing the envelope. I saw Mac when they had drifted over the top a little and possibly had a weaker line up with Burnette and Vito but they had a more pure rock and roll/blues feel about them at the time.Cheers for the reply. Yes, plenty varied although I detect a great deal of common DNA running through those phenotypes
As I've said before I absolutely love the psychobilly stuff you've posted. I struggled with the ted music back in the day (mid/late 70s) partly because those lads wanted to beat me up and I imagined the music was reactionary and anti-new.
The other funny thing is when people ask me what I like (this happened again yesterday at the mother-in-law's birthday party) I always say 'oh, pracically everything', then I start adding 'of course, I don't like traditional chart pop music, most jazz leaves me cold, I lost interest in blues-rock in the early 70s, most heavy rock and heavy metal is a bit boring, arena rock and pomp rock of the likes of Genesis, Fleetwood Mac, Floyd and suchlike seems specifically designed for people who like events but don't like music, and.....
So, er, it's late 60s/early 70s prog rock, Canterbury scene, late 70s punk, reggae (as long as it was made pre 84), late 70s/early and mid 80s post-punk (my musical hay day, with sucessor artists still eagerly sought out), shoegaze (which is sort of 90s+ post-punkmost), most electronic music, including late 90s and early noughties synthipop, darkwave, EBM, wave, trap, witch house.....and music by iconoclast nutters, such as Peter Hammill, Ivor Cutler, Bowie, Arthur Brown, Edward Ka-Spel, SRSQ, Popsimonova .....give me a madman or madwoman and I'm IN!
Yes, perhaps that is narrow. I hated 'Britpop' and had little time for the post-post punk resurgence of 70s influenced guitar music that seems to be the 110% staple of so many blokes in the 40-55 age bracket, with a few notable exception - Adorable, early Verve, Mew, Radiohead, and latterly Protomartyr.
Anyway....it's all good!
A bit tongue in cheek there. I also saw Genesis at the Dome with 'a flower?', and loved it. Floyd are hit and miss with me but on the whole I like everything up to DSOTM and was put off the latter by school mates who had spent the previous 4 years oblivious, all queuing up to go to Earl's Court and drool. Fleetwood Mac, again I was put off by the same twerps a-droolin'. I liked the Peter Green version and have rediscovered the brilliant Buckingham and Nicks era stuff. And I have loved Christine since Chicken Shack. So, yes, what I may listen to at home and what I may admit to listening to among dull company are not necessarily the same.
Unfortunately for me, once people whose judgement I know I can't trust get in on the scene I'm out. It isn't snobbery. It's Aspergers. The part of the spectrum that keeps me protected from cockwomblery
(On the other hand, I will give all sorts a try if someone I like recommends it.)
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Thrifty non-licker
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HellBilly
Have you ever made it to Viva Las Vegas rockabilly festival on your US travels? Quite fancied it this year, but couldn’t make my work schedule fit. Interested to find out next years line up…
https://www.vivalasvegas.net/tickets/
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Oh wow!
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The wife has family in Vegas and we have been to visit them, they have a limousine business. No disrespect to the city you live in, but I found it depressing, watching people gamble away their lively hoods, watching them come out of the casinos all depressed and forlorn.
I know there is more to Vegas and if your sensible it can be a fun place to live, being a former gambler I found it hard to see.
As for Viva Las Vegas it is run by Tom Ingram, who is from down here in Sussex started dj on the rockabilly scene around the early 80s he then started to help with Hemsby Rockabilly weekender and the Psychobilly weekenders in Hemsby too. He then started and still runs Viva and although they have good bands, not something I would consider as I know folks and bands who have gone from the UK and it is totally different to the UK scene, they pose way more, and there are so many different tribes within the scene, who go for different reasons Hot Rods dudes, Burlesque girls, Cats who just want to pose, Gangs of Mexican Rockabillys occasionally rumble and then there are the Brits and other Europeans who just get smashed ! I hear getting in for somethings is dreadful and can be so busy.
If you go, let me know what it is like anyway, I would be interested to hear your perspective.