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bodyline wrote:

horace wrote:hmmn...I expect I would like much of what is on the Lardy playlist...I rarely have the misfortune of listening to the modern elevator music that seems to infect the wireless nowadays...

cannot agree about Cold Chisel - at best a good pub band with the musicality and interest of Midnight Oil...

give me the Saints, Specials, Ian Dury, Nick Cave, paul kelly, Divynals, post mod French gypsy music

"Rock music in the seventies was changed by three bands—the Sex Pistols, the Ramones and The Saints". (Bob Geldof)

Horseshit.

He doesn't even have any authority to say that either, it's not like he was hugely successful. If it weren't for Band Aid then no one would have heard of him.

Black Sabbath and Led Zeppelin changed rock music in the 70s. Bands are still influenced by them to this day, whereas punk is pretty much dead, or a niche at best.

Yorkie Jill wrote:I don't get Kate Bush. Don't like her stuff at all. Although I do like Placebo's version of Running Up That Hill and the Futureheads' Hounds of Love.

She was a siren that produced magical songs. OK, there was a lot of late 70's London arts pretention, but what lovely songs. I used to hate her but not any more. I'm not like the hugest fan.

Basil wrote:Anyone up for a Kajagoogoo reunion?

Yes!

WideWally wrote:Then there was The Purple Hearts with Mick Hadley up front.

Oooh yeah??? Yeah? Me too. Still, I was part of a largeish Mod revival (before I realised they were all qunts)... Secret Affair?

Brass Monkey wrote:

WideWally wrote:Then there was The Purple Hearts with Mick Hadley up front.

Oooh yeah??? Yeah? Me too. Still, I was part of a largeish Mod revival (before I realised they were all qunts)... Secret Affair?

They were huge. They had Lobby on geetar. It was during his Purple Hearts days that the legend began.

Fred Nerk wrote:Eminem.....foul-mouthed, ADD-addled waste of space.

I disagree Nerky. I like a lot of his stuff.

WideWally wrote:
They were huge. They had Lobby on geetar. It was during his Purple Hearts days that the legend began.

Sorry Wall, I was on about 'Purple Hearts' come to think of it. An entirely different band. I have heard some of 'The Purple Hearts' stuff, it's pretty decent anyhow - so the sentiment is still there.

Brass Monkey wrote:

WideWally wrote:
They were huge. They had Lobby on geetar. It was during his Purple Hearts days that the legend began.

Sorry Wall, I was on about 'Purple Hearts' come to think of it. An entirely different band. I have heard some of 'The Purple Hearts' stuff, it's pretty decent anyhow - so the sentiment is still there.

Hehe. I know. The Aussie band were quite a few years earlier than the British one. Mid sixties.

Aye, heard they reunited? Funny thing was, I think it was the same time as the British one

I thought only bogans or pissheads on tours of Bali liked Cold Chisel

Scratch the "thought" part - I still think that

Big Dog wrote:You'd be a fan of the 'Loved Ones' i'd guess Wally.

I am.....

...me too....Humphries was uber cool...

heard him play again in the 90s...he had been working as a psych nurse in Inner Pomgolia (London) and came back for a concert visit...died a few years back

I didn't catch The Loved Ones at the time but I vaguely recall another band, Gerry and the Joy Boys (ACDC had a problem with gay venues trying to book them on the basis of the name - this mob would have had the same hassle), who did a good cover of Buddy Holly's 'Rave On', which absolutely eats the later John Cougar Melonhead effort.

Amazing talent, years ahead of his time, after that incredible strangulato on Ever Lovin Man you wondered how he'd ever be able to sing again (and no he wasn't Barry's brother, or even his third cousin twice removed, forcefully or otherwise. Check the spelling....).

Paul Keating wrote:My best Oz/NZ singers/groups/bands

Crowded House
Nick Cave
INXS
Midnight Oil
Abby Dobson
Ice House

Would drop Nick Cave and Dobson simply because I have not heard much of them. Else Good picks would throw in Divinyls, Mental and Icehouse for good measure. I take it that Crowded house includes Split Enz as well they had some good numbers.

Another song that has an immediate effect of switching channels on me is American pie. Simpleton music padding up lyrics that a Southern Evangelist from the US might endorse.

Fred Nerk wrote:I didn't catch The Loved Ones at the time but I vaguely recall another band, Gerry and the Joy Boys (ACDC had a problem with gay venues trying to book them on the basis of the name - this mob would have had the same hassle), who did a good cover of Buddy Holly's 'Rave On', which absolutely eats the later John Cougar Melonhead effort.

Amazing talent, years ahead of his time, after that incredible strangulato on Ever Lovin Man you wondered how he'd ever be able to sing again (and no he wasn't Barry's brother, or even his third cousin twice removed, forcefully or otherwise. Check the spelling....).

Gerry and the JB was pretty much the same as the Loved Ones tho a little less edgy....you are dead right about the vocals on 'ever lovin man'....when I saw him again in the early 90s his voice not surprisingly was somewhat shot in a Tom Waits kind of way...made the vocals even more evocative

vilkrang wrote:

bodyline wrote:

horace wrote:hmmn...I expect I would like much of what is on the Lardy playlist...I rarely have the misfortune of listening to the modern elevator music that seems to infect the wireless nowadays...

cannot agree about Cold Chisel - at best a good pub band with the musicality and interest of Midnight Oil...

give me the Saints, Specials, Ian Dury, Nick Cave, paul kelly, Divynals, post mod French gypsy music

"Rock music in the seventies was changed by three bands—the Sex Pistols, the Ramones and The Saints". (Bob Geldof)

Horseshit.

He doesn't even have any authority to say that either, it's not like he was hugely successful. If it weren't for Band Aid then no one would have heard of him.

Black Sabbath and Led Zeppelin changed rock music in the 70s. Bands are still influenced by them to this day, whereas punk is pretty much dead, or a niche at best.

Aye, if it wasn't for Sabbath and Led Zeppelin we wouldn't have Creed and Maroon5



Although, no Pistols, Saints, Ramons then no Nirvana

Are you a fan of this mob, Woody?

Kings of Leon?

Plea for Purging, "apparently". The above is a popular form of pic where the funniest looking head is put on all people in the photo, in this case, the fat guy's. Some bloke at work was rabbiting on about them and I came across the funny pic on Damn LOL. Lead singer (the fat guy) has a voice like you like listening too.

The above is a popular form of pic where the funniest looking head is put on all people in the photo

garque, people must get more bored at work than even I do

Here's a version (the final pic) that made me chuckle.

Gerry and the Joy Boys

I thought the Joy Boys were Col Joye's backing band.

vilkrang wrote:Horseshit.

He doesn't even have any authority to say that either, it's not like he was hugely successful. If it weren't for Band Aid then no one would have heard of him.

Black Sabbath and Led Zeppelin changed rock music in the 70s. Bands are still influenced by them to this day, whereas punk is pretty much dead, or a niche at best.

Hold.... hold it... HE doesn't have any authority to say that? Last I checked, he released more singles than you have.

Keep chucking out cliches, man.

Brass Monkey wrote:

vilkrang wrote:Horseshit.

He doesn't even have any authority to say that either, it's not like he was hugely successful. If it weren't for Band Aid then no one would have heard of him.

Black Sabbath and Led Zeppelin changed rock music in the 70s. Bands are still influenced by them to this day, whereas punk is pretty much dead, or a niche at best.

Hold.... hold it... HE doesn't have any authority to say that? Last I checked, he released more singles than you have.

Keep chucking out cliches, man.

Authority aside, I'm actually right and he's wrong.

Bands that were influenced by the bands I mentioned have almost certainly sold billions of albums between them. Led Zep and Black Sabbath have a pretty strong case for inventing heavy metal, more so with Sabbath, and metal is the biggest selling genre in the world.

Punk? Like I said, pretty much dead.

If stating facts is "chucking out clichés" then so be it.