Off Topic And Now for Something Completely Different

[tigerscanada]

Did you ever see this bloke? Peter Green was a friend and big admirer of him. He was on in a pub I was in once. Wish I had paid him more attention. Just him with a guitar, harmonica and a bass drum. Was killed in a road accident a few years later.

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Shows how good Peter Green was when he turned it into this.

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"Shows how good Peter Green was when he turned it into this"

No one better

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Then he disappeared...but the gang lived on...

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[tigerscanada]

Who?

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[onlyme]

**** me...50 years. Remember it like yesterday. Loved this track off that album

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according to bowie i'm so glad was one of ronno's fave tracks and they did it live

40 years later they were just as "fresh" as ever with this other track from that same album...

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[tigerscanada]

"according to bowie i'm so glad was one of ronno's fave tracks and they did it live"

Didn't ever see Bowie live, so didn't know that fact. I'll try to find a clip of them playing it.

 

[Dr.Stanley O'Google, HCFC]

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[Quill]

All Mod Cons by The Jam is 38 years old today.

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Also, Autobahn by Kraftwerk is 42 years old today.

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[Kempton]

Kinell...

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It's a fake, but it's a good one.

 

[TIGERSCAVE]

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It would look even better hanging over the edge by the cable.... avoiding the drop!!!!!!!

 

[Barchullona]

All Mod Cons by The Jam is 38 years old today.

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Also, Autobahn by Kraftwerk is 42 years old today.

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Isn't it sad that 99% of the music you like was from before you were born?​

 

[The greengrocer]

Too cool for school!

 

[Quill]

Isn't it sad that 99% of the music you like was from before you were born?​

Not sure how that's sad. Just most of the artists I like are old. I'm a big fan of artists such as The Strokes, Arctic Monkeys, Massive Attack, Tame Impala, Oasis, Blur, Manic Street Preachers, The Libertines, Weezer, Arcade Fire, Noel Gallagher, Sigur Rós, Gorillaz, Beck, White Stripes, The Killers, Wilco and Björk, all of which are bands that I was born before they appeared or have been around since the early/mid 90s and are either still around or have been around most of my life.

Besides, have you heard the majority of music coming out nowadays?

I post older albums mainly because more people would probably prefer that. I could easily most albums that came out post-1995 if you want me to.

I'd say it is closer to 80 to 85% rather than 99%.

My favourite band, Radiohead, became big after I was born and only released music.

 

[The greengrocer]

Please stop!

 

[Quill]

Please stop!

Mutation by Beck came out 18 years ago today.

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By the way, no I won't stop. And I'm not doing it in an attempt 'to try really hard to be cool', as you said before. I couldn't honestly give a **** what people I've never met think of me.

 

[Fez]

Bean Street, I think.

Remember these bomb-site street corners, turned into rudimentary playgrounds?

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Lived and thrived amongst them, Stan.

 

[The greengrocer]

Mutation by Beck came out 18 years ago today.

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By the way, no I won't stop. And I'm not doing it in an attempt 'to try really hard to be cool', as you said before. I couldn't honestly give a **** what people I've never met think of me.

Well you're giving it a good go! You've just typed a list of your fave groups! what's your favourite colour?

 

[Quill]

Well you're giving it a good go! You've just typed a list of your fave groups! what's your favourite colour?

Blue.

Castro suggested 99% of music I liked was from before I was born, I gave some examples that are from afterward. Only you seem to have a problem with that, goodness knows why.

I'd say the person who is 'trying to look cool' is the one who seems to be trying to make himself look better than me by attempting to belittle me for some reason. I think you need to sort out your priorities, my friend.

Apologies if I don't reply to you after this, don't really fancy cluttering up the thread with inane bullshit arguing. I'm still going to do those type of posts,sorry if that upsets you for some reason, doesn't mean I'm going to stop doing it.

 

[The greengrocer]

Your a city fan that's great! But you really are trying too hard pal! just saying

 

[Kempton]

Isn't it sad that 99% of the music you like was from before you were born?​

I doubt Quill sees it that way. Loads of young people are into the music from the 60's, 70's because imo they're not turned on by the mostly anaemic offerings of the last 25 years or so.

This has massive advantages, because (as long as we're talking recorded music and not live) young people have such a massive back catalogue to choose from. I'm 52 (young looking) and there's still music from the now distant past that I can discover. Just for example, I only found Tom Waits about five years ago

Oh and 8 year old nephew loves Motown and THE BEATLES...

 

[Barchullona]

Not sure how that's sad. Just most of the artists I like are old. I'm a big fan of artists such as The Strokes, Arctic Monkeys, Massive Attack, Tame Impala, Oasis, Blur, Manic Street Preachers, The Libertines, Weezer, Arcade Fire, Noel Gallagher, Sigur Rós, Gorillaz, Beck, White Stripes, The Killers, Wilco and Björk, all of which are bands that I was born before they appeared or have been around since the early/mid 90s and are either still around or have been around most of my life.

Besides, have you heard the majority of music coming out nowadays?

I post older albums mainly because they'll appeal to more users. I could easily most albums that came out post-1995 if you want me to.

I'd say it is closer to 80 to 85% rather than 99%.

My favourite band, Radiohead, became big after I was born and only released music.

Wasn't having a dig at you or your interest in music, Quill. The 99%!was figurative, not literal. Just commenting on the fact that it is a reflection on modern music that most of your favourites were from before you were born and a lot of others were from when you were very young. To put it in context instead of enjoying the Beatles, Stones, Motown, Soul, Cream, Hendrix and other stuff in the sixties I would have been enthusing about Al Jolson, Al Bowley(a great favourite of one of the nicest old blokes I have ever known down the pub in the 1980s) and others. Though I was, and still am partial to Glenn Miller, something I never admitted to my dad who,was a Glenn Miller nut.
My kids are in their thirties and don't like any of the stuff from years back aside from .Oasis, Nirvana and assorted heavy metal stuff like Metallica and Iron Maiden. Though one does like my Sam Cooke stuff, so he isn't completely stone deaf.
Anyway, as you have been posting anniversaries, I missed the 50th anniversary of this, the best broadcast of the best ever music programme in TV.FACT. Hard to explain to someone nowadays who can access or see whatever they want the excitement as a 16 year old seeing people they liked but had never seen live on .TVS.

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[Quill]

Wasn't having a dig at you or your interest in music, Quill. The 99%!was figurative, not literal. Just commenting on the fact that it is a reflection on modern music that most of your favourites were from before you were born and a lot of others were from when you were very young. To put it in context instead of enjoying the Beatles, Stones, Motown, Soul, Cream, Hendrix and other stuff in the sixties I would have been enthusing about Al Jolson, Al Bowley(a great favourite of one of the nicest old blokes I have ever known down the pub in the 1980s) and others. Though I was, and still am partial to Glenn Miller, something I never admitted to my dad who,was a Glenn Miller nut.
My kids are in their thirties and don't like any of the stuff from years back aside from .Oasis, Nirvana and assorted heavy metal stuff like Metallica and Iron Maiden. Though one does like my Sam Cooke stuff, so he isn't completely stone deaf.
Anyway, as you have been posting anniversaries, I missed the 50th anniversary of this, the best broadcast of the best ever music programme in TV.FACT. Hard to explain to someone nowadays who can access or see whatever they want the excitement as a 16 year old seeing people they liked but had never seen live on .TVS.

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I think it is also a reflection on how the quality of music has just fallen off a cliff. Things such as The X Factor, autotune, the lack of singer-songwriters, instruments being seemingly used less and less in favour of a computer, etc.

Of course there is loads of good music if you look for it, but the problem is you have to look a lot deeper than you probably had to in the past. The charts are full of **** that all sounds the same.

I doubt Quill sees it that way. Loads of young people are into the music from the 60's, 70's because imo they're not turned on by the mostly anaemic offerings of the last 25 years or so.

This has massive advantages, because (as long as we're talking recorded music and not live) young people have such a massive back catalogue to choose from. I'm 52 (young looking) and there's still music from the now distant past that I can discover. Just for example, I only found Tom Waits about five years ago

Oh and 8 year old nephew loves Motown and THE BEATLES...

Spot on Kemps. Most modern popular music is crap, of those artists I brought up, only Arctic Monkeys seem to be able to crack the charts nowadays. Most people at my age when I was at school or uni preferred older music to modern stuff.