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lardiman said:
Fair comment - Paul Weller's 90's stuff was a rare highlight in a dull decade.
I did like some Oasis too - Rock'n'roll star was a cracking track.
The importance of being idle, She's electric, Half the world away... very good songs.

I found Blur entertaining - some of their tunes lampooned things in a kind of 'Madness' style. Country House, Charmless man etc.

I loved the 80's pop scene,
if I was to list all my favourite 80's sounds (up to about '87 anyway) I'd be here all day.
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I just sent one member a PM with all of the post-1980 acts that I feature. Strangely enough the total is just over 40 - average about one worthwhile new artist per year by my reckoning,

The 60s and 70s present far more options for my musical taste.
 
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The Pub Landlord said:
The 60s and 70s have underwritten my radio show for over 5 years and even this week I have more than a dozen songs from that era I have never played before.

There is very little from the 80s onward that I will consider playing.

Although quite a few of those I play would not have made it to TOTP...
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What Radio show is that, PL?
 
The Penguin said:
What Radio show is that, PL?
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I do a show on Saturday evenings on the local FM station, 8:00 to 10:00.

It's a bit of fun, gives me a reason to dredge through my collection each week for new material. I have online listeners from my past life, in Philippines, Australia, Canada, USA and Hong Kong.

If there has been a notable death or anniversary I build a show around that, otherwise I just look for stuff that I think will sound good on the radio (which cuts out more songs than you might imagine).
 
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The Pub Landlord said:
I do a show on Saturday evenings on the local FM station, 8:00 to 10:00.

It's a bit of fun, gives me a reason to dredge through my collection each week for new material. I have online listeners from my past life, in Philippines, Australia, Canada, USA and Hong Kong.

If there has been a notable death or anniversary I build a show around that, otherwise I just look for stuff that I think will sound good on the radio (which cuts out more songs than you might imagine).
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Online? Have you got a link?
 
'Life on Earth' is still the finest Natural History series ever made - and it's over 40 years old now.
I never tire of watching it through.

If that 13 part series was re-made today with all the latest advances in filming, it would be magnificent.
Attenborough should be made a Peer of the Realm.
 
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I always find it a bit diffucult to split music into decades. For me, the finest was the period from around 1975 to 1985 (coincidentally when I was growing up). There was the vestiges of glam rock (Queen. Bowie, Roxy Music) followed by Punk, Ska, and the electronic music of OMD, Japan and Ultravox which morphed into the New Romantics before winking out in a desperate chase to get number one hits. After that there were blips and bands <i liked. The new punk movement in the early nineties (Offspring, Rancid, Green Day etc) and the rock like Metallica were great but a bit of a false dawn. There was some BritPop stuff from Blur, but sadly I could never find it in my heart to like Oasis, and from there it seemed to be a slide into drivel. I'm sure that there must have been great bands, but I couldn't be bothered to look.
But I will try and check into @PubLandlord 's musical offering at some point - change is good.
 
Shabby of Toad Hall said:
I always find it a bit diffucult to split music into decades. For me, the finest was the period from around 1975 to 1985 (coincidentally when I was growing up). There was the vestiges of glam rock (Queen. Bowie, Roxy Music) followed by Punk, Ska, and the electronic music of OMD, Japan and Ultravox which morphed into the New Romantics before winking out in a desperate chase to get number one hits. After that there were blips and bands <i liked. The new punk movement in the early nineties (Offspring, Rancid, Green Day etc) and the rock like Metallica were great but a bit of a false dawn. There was some BritPop stuff from Blur, but sadly I could never find it in my heart to like Oasis, and from there it seemed to be a slide into drivel. I'm sure that there must have been great bands, but I couldn't be bothered to look.
But I will try and check into @PubLandlord 's musical offering at some point - change is good.
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My personal hate band is ABBA ..... vile vile vile music (Euro pop at its worst)
 
Shabby of Toad Hall said:
With you all the way on that - you couldn't pay me to listen to Abba.
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Waterloo compared favourably with some of the ESC winners. I didn't like the heavy onbeat in most ABBA music, but thought they wrote some well-constructed songs with decent melodies. Heavy onbeat spoils it though. Unlike most blokes I preferred the dark-haired one to the blonde.
 
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