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morayloon

#153
July 16, 2024, 04:25:00 AM
Back to 1972 and a single that did not reach the charts. Released on John Peel's Dandelion label, should have been a hit, but wasn't!!!
 
https://youtu.be/vVYr5_FFl4o

morayloon

#152
October 26, 2023, 04:51:54 AM
The Date 11/2/1990. This South African Freedom Fighter was released from prison having been incarcerated for 27 years. In 1984 the Specials AKA were in the charts with this song:

https://youtu.be/AgcTvoWjZJU

Nick

#151
October 21, 2023, 10:55:16 PM
I can explain it to you, but I can't understand it for you.

morayloon

#146
October 12, 2023, 12:35:15 AM
Quote from: srb7677 on October 11, 2023, 07:02:20 PM

But lets never forget that there was at times still a lot of crap around which will fade into oblivion. The best selling British group of 1975 after all were - wait for it - The Wombles!!! Yes the frigging Wombles outsold everything else here that year, lol.

Who kept buying such shite has long been a complete and inexplicable mystery to me.
One of my pet hates: Novelty songs! Out of all those which have (dis)graced our charts the one I think the most criminal is "My Ding a Ling". That the great Chuck Berry had that song as his best selling single in the UK, if not world wide, is ridiculous in the extreme. But, the song was part of his live show and he seemingly held it in high esteem. From a 2010 'Rolling Stone' article:
Berry still considers "My Ding-A-Ling" — his 1972 novelty hit about masturbation — to be as good as any song in his oeuvre, to the embarrassment of his devoted fans.
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/chuck-berry-american-visionary-129350/

srb7677

#145
October 11, 2023, 07:02:20 PM
Quote from: Red Rackham on October 03, 2023, 01:08:22 AM
https://youtu.be/8kl6q_9qZOs?feature=shared
Great song and great music, a definite classic.

Sadly they, and all the other bands I think are great and unmatched by anything or anyone today, are so bloody old now. If not already dead like David Bowie.

My favourite band has long been Pink Floyd, but they must all be up into their late 70s at least, if not their 80s by now. And as with all the greats it seems, their best stuff was created decades ago, in the Floyd's case in the 70s.

It is a sad thing to have to contemplate, but the immediate future years are going to see the loss of many of these greats. But their music will live on for as long as human civilisation exists on this planet.

200 years from now, people will still be listening to the Rolling Stones, the Beatles, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, David Bowie, and a host of others. There have not been many artists since about which the same could be said.

Even though I was not born until 1965, I would say looking back that the period from about then into the very early 80s were a golden age for British popular music.

But lets never forget that there was at times still a lot of crap around which will fade into oblivion. The best selling British group of 1975 after all were - wait for it - The Wombles!!! Yes the frigging Wombles outsold everything else here that year, lol. 

Who kept buying such shite has long been a complete and inexplicable mystery to me.

But it is the greats who will stand the test of time.
We are not all in the same boat. We are in the same storm. Some of us have yachts. Some of us have canoes. Some of us are drowning.

morayloon

#142
September 24, 2023, 02:08:48 AM
The Faces: That's All You Need

https://youtu.be/GzRpP0dFkNY

morayloon

#141
September 13, 2023, 11:00:27 PM
US punk from 1995 courtesy of Rancid
 https://youtu.be/0P9QMkm9Eew

morayloon

#139
August 27, 2023, 06:54:20 PM
Hatebreed  Another Day Another Vendetta
 
  https://youtu.be/t4quacQsKvs?si=o3NOG8Aa1tOFPPQF
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