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« Reply #15 on: Monday, October 8, 2012, 14:32:55 » |
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The Holy Bible and Everything Must Go are excellent, the first two albums are decent but the last 10 years has basically been awful
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janaage
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« Reply #16 on: Monday, October 8, 2012, 14:52:19 » |
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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.
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« Reply #17 on: Monday, October 8, 2012, 15:48:56 » |
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Journal for Plague Lovers (2009) was a good album by the Manics, the best they've done in the past 10 years or so.....
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« Reply #18 on: Monday, October 8, 2012, 16:01:33 » |
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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 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.
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. |
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« Reply #19 on: Monday, October 8, 2012, 16:08:22 » |
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He was very good at producing and being part of the super group 'The Traveling Wilburys'
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« Reply #20 on: Monday, October 8, 2012, 16:37:44 » |
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Journal for Plague Lovers (2009) was a good album by the Manics, the best they've done in the past 10 years or so.....
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 |
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« Reply #21 on: Monday, October 8, 2012, 17:44:54 » |
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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. |
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« Reply #22 on: Monday, October 8, 2012, 17:54:52 » |
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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  |
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« Reply #23 on: Monday, October 8, 2012, 18:01:56 » |
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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.
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« Reply #24 on: Monday, October 8, 2012, 18:11:34 » |
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My old man kicked the arse out of dire straits....nothing fucking but...
However now I quite like the stuff.
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« Reply #25 on: Monday, October 8, 2012, 18:21:09 » |
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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  |
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« Reply #26 on: Monday, October 8, 2012, 19:06:37 » |
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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 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  |
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« Reply #27 on: Monday, October 8, 2012, 19:17:22 » |
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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.
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sonicyouth
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« Reply #28 on: Monday, October 8, 2012, 19:32:04 » |
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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.
my understanding was that some of the songs existed in rough form, is that not true? regardless, nicky wire is a cockjuggling thundercunt |
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