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Off Topic Saints Not606 Music Thread

Discussion in 'Southampton' started by Saints_Alive, Jun 13, 2017.

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Do you want a stickied music thread ?

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  1. aberdude

    aberdude Well-Known Member

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    brilliant album dude, glad you enjoy it deserves the airing.............cheers for the return track, great vid, a brutal but truthful account of the vile act that's war.

     
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    As the good people on the QPR music forum will testify, I am a sucker for melodic Big Star, Byrdsian guitar driven Jangle/Power Pop music.
    Today is the birthday of a giant in this genre, Norman Blake, founding member, Guitarist, Singer and Songwriter of Scottish Indie bands BMX Bandits and Teenage Fanclub who is 52 today.

    Here is where it started ( he wrote most of The Bandits early stuff)...

     
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    He left to form Teenage Fanclub in the early 90s and wrote this epic on their debut album A Catholic Education....



     
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    We've already honoured the recently departed Tom Petty on here but he was born on this day in Gainsville, Florida in 1950...

     
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    And Happy 59th Birthday to the biggest thing to come out of the I.O.W...er, well ever....Level 42 Bassist and Singer, Mark King was born in Cowes on this day in 1958...

     
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    Glad you brought up Level 42, SA. I knew there was another band from the 80's that I tried and particularly liked, especially as the last time I looked I had 3 of their albums. I put Mark King amongst the very top of bassists, although really he's in a very select group among bassists. He's a lead bassist, and that makes it all about him, maybe one or two others, and that's it. And for a short while, a band from the Isle of Wight were about as cool and funky as you could get. From the Running in the Family album, The Sleepwalkers:


    Just realised that Mark King is one month younger than me.
     
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    Happy Birthday to the maverick and ever so slightly bonkers Julian Cope who is 60 today.
    He found fame with the Liverpool Post Punk band The Teardrop Explodes....

     
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    He went solo in 1983 and has written a best selling book about Archaeology and antiquarianism called The Modern Antiquarian. He has also written a fiction novel called One Three One..

     
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    Happy 77th Birthday to the keyboardist of his namesake band and the follow up Earth Band, Manfred Mann was born Manfred Sepse Lubowitz on this day in Johannesburg in 1940...

     
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    Jazz great, Dizzy Gillespie was born on this day in South Carolina in 1917...

     
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  18. ChilcoSaint

    ChilcoSaint What a disgrace
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    Beautiful, here she is with another of my favourites:
     
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    There are two tracks which stick in my memory from both Julian Cope and Manfred Mann's Earthband. Actually, for about a millisecond, back in the 1980's I thought Julian Cope might be a genius. He wasn't that but he was different. And very talented. Here's World Shut Your Mouth:


    And I can't turn down the chance to post up Blinded by the Light. For those who know the song but have been plagued by those notorious lyrics, here they are. Great song from the band that brought you 54321 in a different guise:

     
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    Great song. Written by Bruce Springsteen of course!
     
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