Off Topic Saints Not606 Music Thread

Ooh. LOVED that video ..... purely for the music you understand.....

 

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There are two songs that summed up my experience of 1981 the best, one was Ghost Town by Specials and this absolute classic single by Queen and Bowie. That bassline those passionate masterly vocals and the powerfully emotive lyrics and message, it's a career highlight certainly for Queen...

 

Very underrated imho .

Also the best album cover / name ever .

 

This Portland Punk band were an influence on Sonic Youth and you can hear why. this is the title track from their second album, Youth of America...

 

Transvision Vamp covered this but I prefer the original from American New Wavers, Holly and the Italians' only studio album, The Right to Be Italian...

 

I've posted stuff from Stray Cat's brilliant eponymous debut album, produced by Dave Edmunds before but not this one I think...

 

Great songwriting never goes out of style and here is a corker from one of the best in the business off of The Kink's album, Give the People What They Want...

 

I agree with you general point Dave, but Matchstalk Men and Matchstalk Cats and Dogs is a touching and heartfelt tribute to one of the greatest ever Englishmen.

 

...As is Grandad.

 

Out of the ashes of Joy Division came New Order with this brilliant first single, unsurprisingly an old JD song. Hooky's bass intro is a killer.

 

Bringing a bit of culture to the thread by posting this tune by Claude Debussy who was born in 1862. Had he lived he would be 156 years old today. This is one of my favourite tunes and I whistle along with it quite regularly.

 

That might well be, but it still doesn’t make them good songs and I’ll never forgive the “general” record buying public for putting them, Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep, Tie a Yellow Ribbon et al, at the top of the charts .....

 

Great piece of music. Played at my first mistake ..... err, I mean “wedding”

 

I get that Matchstalk's style of a northern Brass Band is not cool or everybody's cup of tea but it absolutely fits with the subject matter of the song, which is original and cleverly written and is no doubt appreciated by Lowry's many admirers.
I much prefer it to # 1s like No Limits (no lyrics) by 2 Unlimited and the multitude of lazy, drab and clichéd "moon in June" type love songs personally.

This is a print of the Lowry original painting of the old Woolston Floating Bridge that is stored at the Southampton Art Gallery in the Civic Centre..

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Talking of brass bands, here’s one with some women singing about a pigeon:

 

Some Californian Hardcore Punk...