What are you playing tonight?

[Dave Sutton's barnet]

Maybe You Should Drive, Barenaked Ladies, for the first time in years. It's from before they got big with that song thing. And very melodic it is too. All this from accidentally falling out of a CD rack while I was plugging in my guitar effects box...

[Dave Sutton's barnet]

Just accidentally made a passing five-year-old cry when she heard Mama & Papa from Supergrass's fine third album, cunningly entitled Supergrass. "Daddy, did that boy get home OK?"

[CrazyHorse]

Ok, I know this isn't classed as 'tonight', but there is no thread called What you listening to this afternoon...

101 80s Hits. 5 CD mega collection. Superb, solid gold.

[Batman]

The missus is listening to one of those 'Pure Moods' ones,

I feel very sleepy

[TANGODANCER]

Ok, I know this isn't classed as 'tonight', but there is no thread called What you listening to this afternoon...

101 80s Hits. 5 CD mega collection. Superb, solid gold.

Funny how the eighties are suddenly in vogue. I got a newly-released four CD set a couple of weeks ago as a present.

[CrazyHorse]

Ok, I know this isn't classed as 'tonight', but there is no thread called What you listening to this afternoon...

101 80s Hits. 5 CD mega collection. Superb, solid gold.

Funny how the eighties are suddenly in vogue. I got a newly-released four CD set a couple of weeks ago as a present.

Aye, they're making a comeback for sure. All we need is a Falkland invasion and the reintrodiction of the pound note and we're there!

Mine is a cracking set, still listening to it now. Currently on "The Reflex" by Duran Duran. Brill.

[Dave Sutton's barnet]

Ok, I know this isn't classed as 'tonight', but there is no thread called What you listening to this afternoon...

101 80s Hits. 5 CD mega collection. Superb, solid gold.

Funny how the eighties are suddenly in vogue. I got a newly-released four CD set a couple of weeks ago as a present.

There's a theory that 20 years ago is always seen as The Golden Age, while a decade ago is reviled. Perhaps it's because fashion and music is increasingly cyclical, and as a teen/young adult you reject what you grew up with. The 20-year gap seems particularly true in music of late; we've had Interpol leading the Joy Division tribute bands and a whole host of "angular" guitar bands thrashing artily away like it's 1982. And now I read that some scenesters are pushing bands featuring Level 42-style fat bass. Dear sweet Jesus.

Oh and FWIW I'm not listening to owt tonight, bar some Sky commentators desperately trying to big up Boro-Sunderland as the best game ever.

[TANGODANCER]

There's a theory that 20 years ago is always seen as The Golden Age, while a decade ago is reviled. Perhaps it's because fashion and music is increasingly cyclical, and as a teen/young adult you reject what you grew up with. The 20-year gap seems particularly true in music of late; we've had Interpol leading the Joy Division tribute bands and a whole host of "angular" guitar bands thrashing artily away like it's 1982. And now I read that some scenesters are pushing bands featuring Level 42-style fat bass. Dear sweet Jesus.

Trouble with musical theories is they change shape as you get older. You find yourself appreciating the music you laughed at your parents for listening to. Modern technology in sound has made a wondrous difference to quality generally (although the obsession with bass is nothing but an invitation to premature deafness) and, nostalgic as we may feel this has to be admitted.
Some of the lyrics from the fifties and sixties sound terribly juvenile now (could you get away with "doo-wah, diddy diddy etc, today?) although the Motown era will live forever for me along with Dean Martin, Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald etc.. There are also some artists, thankfully, who recognise and keep alive the better songs of bygone days. Michael Buble is one of them. TV also has a penchant for using old-time greats in advertising and re-incarnating them (Dinah Washington's "What a difference a day made" is a classic example). All in all, music is pretty wonderful and almost everyone finds something to keep them happy.........

Trots off to listen to Ravel's Bolero and look forward to tomorrow's final of "Dancing with the stars" (Have to record it though as it clashes with the match. Must keep our priorities right.)

[communistworkethic]

The missus is listening to one of those 'Pure Moods' ones,

seems somehow so appropriate for a woman....

track listing..
1. he's left he loo seat up again
2. I've not put wieght on, M&S have made their sizes smaller
3. why don't you like my friends?
4. PMT (parental discretion advisory)

[TANGODANCER]

The missus is listening to one of those 'Pure Moods' ones,

seems somehow so appropriate for a woman....

track listing..
1. he's left he loo seat up again
2. I've not put wieght on, M&S have made their sizes smaller
3. why don't you like my friends?
4. PMT (parental discretion advisory)

Current Top Ten in the Pure Moods Charts:

1. Temptation.(New version by Hot Chocolate)
2. Positively Brackley Street. (Bob Dylan)
3. Perfect Fit (Fairground Attraction)
5. Lazing on a Saturday Afternoon. (The Kink)
6. House of the rising floorboards. (The Animal)
7. Lord won't you send me a D.I.Y Man. (Amalagamated Female Crying Society)
8. Strangers in the nightmare. (Loo Loo)
9. Come fly-swat with me. (Frank Sinflatterer)
10.Moaning Lisa. ( Nat Sinkhole)

[Verbal]

Jakobinarina - The First Crusade

f*ckin best thing out of Iceland since Eidur.

[Batman]

Dunno about that Verbal, I thought their 2 for £2 offer on Cornettos was fookin superb!

[Verbal]

I set em up....

[Dave Sutton's barnet]

There's a theory that 20 years ago is always seen as The Golden Age, while a decade ago is reviled. Perhaps it's because fashion and music is increasingly cyclical, and as a teen/young adult you reject what you grew up with. The 20-year gap seems particularly true in music of late; we've had Interpol leading the Joy Division tribute bands and a whole host of "angular" guitar bands thrashing artily away like it's 1982. And now I read that some scenesters are pushing bands featuring Level 42-style fat bass. Dear sweet Jesus.

Trouble with musical theories is they change shape as you get older. You find yourself appreciating the music you laughed at your parents for listening to. Modern technology in sound has made a wondrous difference to quality generally (although the obsession with bass is nothing but an invitation to premature deafness) and, nostalgic as we may feel this has to be admitted.
Some of the lyrics from the fifties and sixties sound terribly juvenile now (could you get away with "doo-wah, diddy diddy etc, today?) although the Motown era will live forever for me along with Dean Martin, Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald etc.. There are also some artists, thankfully, who recognise and keep alive the better songs of bygone days. Michael Buble is one of them. TV also has a penchant for using old-time greats in advertising and re-incarnating them (Dinah Washington's "What a difference a day made" is a classic example). All in all, music is pretty wonderful and almost everyone finds something to keep them happy.........

Quite so, Tango. (Don't know why it took me so long to spot your reply.)
As for Doo Wah Diddy Diddy, asinine "lyrics" have been around as long as popular music. The young people tell me there was a rather repetitive song about an umbrella recently, and it's no recent reversion to simplicity. Take Travis, who you might remember from about a decade ago. Thoroughly nice chaps according to all who interviewed them, pleasant tunes, choruses with the lyrical adventurousness of Baldrick's The German Guns...

[TANGODANCER]

Quite so, Tango. (Don't know why it took me so long to spot your reply.)
As for Doo Wah Diddy Diddy, asinine "lyrics" have been around as long as popular music. The young people tell me there was a rather repetitive song about an umbrella recently, and it's no recent reversion to simplicity. Take Travis, who you might remember from about a decade ago. Thoroughly nice chaps according to all who interviewed them, pleasant tunes, choruses with the lyrical adventurousness of Baldrick's The German Guns...

Agreed, but trouble is, it's only when you hear things now that you once thought wonderful in your younger years that it comes home hard. Another factor is the difference between popular music and pop music. You might think the first is just an abbreviation of the second; not so, at least as far as I'm concerned. Pop music tends to be ruled by fourteen-year-olds and encompass the top twenty chart list; popular music can be anything and with a far wider range. Categories like World Music, Easy listening, and the divisions such as specific Jazz, Hard Rock, Folk, Brass Band, Classical and Country and all the various album chart lists etc, are now defined to make selection easier when buying. (I was real pxxxed off when "Andy's Records" closed as they had a phenomenal selection of categorised choice)

At one time you had to go into places like Harker Howarth etc (used to be a place down the side of Burtons, can't remember what it was called) and leaf through a host of 78 rpm records all in matching brown paper sleeves; a positive nightmare. Got a clip round the earhole when my dad sent me out to buy a Josef Locke single and I told him they didn't have it and came back with Frankie Laine. Ah, the pain you suffer for your music.

[Dave Sutton's barnet]

There's pop and there's pap!

My mate worked in Andy's Records (not the one in Bolton). Andy himself came in once and told him never to wear those trainers again.

[CAPSLOCK]

Beach Boys - Pet Sounds

[Daxter]

Alter Bridge- Rise Today

[Dave Sutton's barnet]

The Bluetones' latest, self-titled, album

Its mix of melody and melancholy suits the mood

[norm the jedi]

Essential Dylan...
feckin majestic...