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Just watched the BBC 4 Documentory on Jeff Lynne the singer,writer and producer of ELO a group I never really liked when they were in the charts. Must say some of the stuff he was playing with the original keyboard player sounded pretty amazing, might even buy a couple of the old cd's.
 

I never really liked the Manic Street Preachers, but wherever i hear stoke of their stuff now,  it sounds great.

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i wouldnt say i didnt like them, but not really given mumfords and sons a chance until today in the car, and i think their album is superb.

Idiot reporters on Sky

One this morning reporting outside the court in Wales saying the suspect was in the dock 'wearing nothing but his clothes'

WTF else would he be wearing

Not a band I'm familiar with  ;)

Are they trash metal? I'm sure i've heard of them.

Too numerous to mention really, the Police, Duran Duran I could go on.

There could also be the groups that at the time you thought were brilliant but have turned into dross.

Weird, two bands mentioned already have had the opposite effect on me.
I liked both Manic Street Preachers and Mumford & Sons when they first came out, but cannot stand either of them now.

I always loved The Smiths but there stuff never gets near the stereo now. I am sure a few years down the line they will be back in favour.

Dexys Midnight Runners, omn teh other hand, have come back into favour. The first album in particular is brilliant, but the second is almost as good despite Come on Eileen being played to death over the years.

The cure. Fleetwood mac

Led Zep....hated them when I was younger but am getting into them now..

Also as a Jam fan, the new Bruce Foxton album is the dogs bollocks and I'm even name checked in the sleeve notes.. :)

Green Day. Hated them but now quite like a few of their songs.

they've become the worst sort of parody of themselves; a bit like morrissey has.

I haven't heard any of their stuff or seen them in years... I appreciate their early stuff now, when a good 10 years ago they got right on my tits.

The Holy Bible and Everything Must Go are excellent, the first two albums are decent but the last 10 years has basically been awful

Everything Must Go was their last good album, No Surface all Feeling a particular favourite of mine.  

Everything went, and everything since has been pretty dire.

Journal for Plague Lovers (2009) was a good album by the Manics, the best they've done in the past 10 years or so.....

I saw Jeff Lynne, back in the late 60's, when he was with the Idle Race.....they sounded very psychedelic , which might have been them or might have been me, given my unnatural perceptions on the night of the gig...

Didn't take much notice of them after that, but think Lynne joined The Move...before his ELO phase. Liked early Move..eg Grass Grow, and this little psychedelic classic....something everybody should try...Watching Flowers in the Rain.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQOc_hgpyPE

ELO I mostly found pompous shit.

I shared a house with a fella in the midish 70's who tried to convince me Abba were good....it did take me a while to realise he was right and I was wrong.

He was very good at producing and being part of the super group 'The Traveling Wilburys'

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwqhdRs4jyA

most of it was written between The Holy Bible and Everything Must Go so i don't think it can be considered a contemporary Manics album

That's only half true.  The lyrics were left behind by Richey Edwards when he disappeared.  The band didn't write any of the music until after the release of Send Away The Tigers.  The result is almost as good as The Holy Bible, showing that they have missed Richey's lyrics - although the Wire can pull out a top song or two, the combination of the two of them was awesome.

I like the Manics.  A lot.

Anything like Led Zep or deep purple etc.

Didn't give the heavy stuff any credence as a youngster in my punk days and yonder....but jeez there was some seriously good heavy music back in the 70's especially.
Another band in recent times is The Feeling,dont really like them but find myself liking all there records....................so that really means i do like them :-[

Pearl Jam, early 90's wasn't into their music at all. But now I love Ten, Vs, Yield etc. Yellow Ledbetter is a flipping song and a half.

And like most of the country wasn't that keen on Stone Roses, wasn't helped by the fact I saw them at Reading and they were awful, however listening to their stuff now you can see how good they were.

My old man kicked the arse out of dire straits....nothing fucking but...
However now I quite like the stuff.

Found myself tapping my feet to the Stray cats,whilst listening to radio 2 yesterday . . i had a couple of beers but i know its no excuse  :beers: :-[

I was similar to this. I was more into the mod stuff so wasn't supposed to of liked heavy metal or head banging music so didn't take much notice of it. Meatloaf was just a racket to me back then but "Bat out of Hell " is probably the most played cd in my car these days although I still avoid ACDC  :)

Not any band in particular, but I was into 60s/early 70s west coast rock, psychedelia, early Floyd, Grateful Dead, Man, Help Yourself - anything with a 20-minute instrumental solo really - I used to look down on people who were into Motown, soul and funk and 3-minute pop songs.
Punk didn't change that but forty years on, my tastes are way more diverse and it's the soul and r&b stuff that I listen to most from that era.

my understanding was that some of the songs existed in rough form, is that not true?

regardless, nicky wire is a cockjuggling thundercunt