Re: Time for a music thread

[JGK]

Love Me Do was released 50 years ago today.

[skully]

I Googled it. The Beatles, ay? Any good - did they amount to anything?

[JGK]

I Googled it. The Beatles, ay? Any good - did they amount to anything?

Well, they were no Dexy's Midnight Runners.

[taipan]

Love Me Do was released 50 years ago today.

Just as well I checked here first. Was going to start a birthday thread.

[JGK]

Probably still worth it. I was just being lazy.

[taipan]

By an odd co-incidence the first 007 movie was also released 50 years ago today.

[Guest]

Wings: The band the Beatles could have been.

[lardbucket]

class

[lardbucket]

class

Someone here used to say that form was temporary, and class was permanent.

Apparently not, if the class is posted on Youtube.

[lardbucket]

Does anyone else here still buy 'albums' (CDs or iTunes albums)?

Regardless, what music have people bought recently, and why?

Below are my most recent 'album' purchases, ignoring a few isolated singles ... the album purchases have mostly been made to replace vinyl no longer easily played, or just to augment my own 'collection' which is mainly eclectic guitar-based blues and jazz:

Bettye LaVette: Interpretations (The British Rock Songbook)
Dire Straits: Making Movies
Dire Straits: Communiqué
Bettye Levette and Carol Fran: Bluesoul Belles
Al Green: Al Green (Greatest Hits)
Anita O'Day: Anita
Anita O'Day: Anita Sings The Most
Anita O'Day: The Lady Is A Tramp
Anita O'Day: An Evening With Anita O'Day
Led Zeppelin: II
Led Zeppelin: III
Led Zeppelin: Presence
Davy Graham: Folk Blues and Beyond
Lee Ritenour: Captain Fingers
Larry Carlton: Larry Carlton
Richard & Linda Thompson: Pour Down Like Silver
Vashti Bunyan: Just Another Diamond Day

[Invader Zim]

Last two months:

Wild Nothing | Nocturne
Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti | Mature Themes
Divine Fits | A Thing Called Divine Fits
Alt-J | An Awesome Wave
You Am I | #4 Record
Cat Power | Sun
The Notwist | Neon Golden
Grizzly Bear | Shields
Bob Dylan | Highway 61 Revisited
The Who | My Generation
Led Zeppelin | Led Zeppelin I
Tame Impala | Lonerism
Ladyhawk | No Can Do
Bat For Lashes | The Haunted Man

[Invader Zim]

And just finished listening to Neil Young & Crazy Horse's latest "Psychedelic Pill"...

Brilliant as always, you can really smell the Horse...

Walk Like A Giant, a 16 minute epic a real highlight.

[JGK]

Does anyone else here still buy 'albums' (CDs or iTunes albums)?

Regardless, what music have people bought recently, and why?

Below are my most recent 'album' purchases, ignoring a few isolated singles ... the album purchases have mostly been made to replace vinyl no longer easily played, or just to augment my own 'collection' which is mainly eclectic guitar-based blues and jazz:

Bettye LaVette: Interpretations (The British Rock Songbook)
Dire Straits: Making Movies
Dire Straits: Communiqué
Bettye Levette and Carol Fran: Bluesoul Belles
Al Green: Al Green (Greatest Hits)
Anita O'Day: Anita
Anita O'Day: Anita Sings The Most
Anita O'Day: The Lady Is A Tramp
Anita O'Day: An Evening With Anita O'Day
Led Zeppelin: II
Led Zeppelin: III
Led Zeppelin: Presence
Davy Graham: Folk Blues and Beyond
Lee Ritenour: Captain Fingers
Larry Carlton: Larry Carlton
Richard & Linda Thompson: Pour Down Like Silver
Vashti Bunyan: Just Another Diamond Day

Of those I have all the Zep as well as Vashti Bunyan.

[Demelza]

I can't believe they've done this . . . http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/x-factor/9550051/Gary-Barlow-on-updated-album-of-Jeff-Waynes-The-War-of-the-Worlds.html

Liam Neeson in place of Richard Burton?

I've been listening to the original in the car recently. Brought back so many memories from when I was younger. What a masterpiece.

[Brass Monkey]

Zim, keep meaning to tell you you're a freak.

[Invader Zim]

Zim, keep meaning to tell you you're a freak.

Hey Dan how's it going? Long time no 'see'...

[Brass Monkey]

Aye, pretty shite cheers man. What about yourself? How's getting back into work after skiving for an age?

[Guest]

I just buy whatever music the radio tells me to.

[Brass Monkey]

I just buy whatever music the radio tells me to.

I forgot that absolute abomination that is 'the radio' until I've been in the main office at this job. It's an amalgamation of about 10 songs in one entire day that the play over and over - the worst bit being they're all the wankest of wank.

[Guest]

I just buy whatever music the radio tells me to.

I forgot that absolute abomination that is 'the radio' until I've been in the main office at this job. It's an amalgamation of about 10 songs in one entire day that the play over and over - the worst bit being they're all the wankest of wank.

They all are. Even Absolute, with its "no repeat guarantee" - they just play the same songs day after day. No one really pays any attention to lyrics as long as it "sounds happy". They just like the simplicity and easy listening of 4:4 and verse-chorus-verse-chorus-breakdown-chorus-end, all with an auto-tuned mannequin wailing away.

I once played this song at work. They thought it was a really nice, chilled out, happy piano ballad, and thought it made a good change from the "depressing" rock that I used to play.



They weren't actually listening because it's about the raping of a child and the loss of innocence. What a happy, uplifting song, eh?!

Most people aren't actually music fans.

[Brass Monkey]

Now that's the sort of jaunty song that everyone can appreciate!

[Guest]

I'm sure Jimmy S. would have done, if they'd ever made it onto TOTP

[Invader Zim]

Aye, pretty shite cheers man. What about yourself? How's getting back into work after skiving for an age?

Holiday seems an age away...and work sucks (of course). Only got domestic holidays for the next few years; then Japan in 2016, and another big one in 2018 is the plan atm...

We're in the design stage of building a house (exciting), I'm studying again (not so exciting), and we're seeing Billy Bragg (awesome) tonight so can't complain...

[WideWally]

[Big Dog]

Billy Bragg.....the poor mans Paul Simon.

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