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Here's one from 1976, with Midge Ure's former band:
And this is the Ultravox I preferred, pre-Ure. I got the album from a very clued in friend in exchange for a white shirt. God knows where the vinyl went but I managed to pick up a CD later.
For someone who didn't much like punk, I'm still a little surprised at how much I enjoyed Foxx's Ultravox.
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Hard News: One man’s Meat Puppets is…, in reply to Craig Ranapia,
When it comes to David Tennant doing a Dennis Potter, you can’t go past the bizarre majesty that is __Blackpool__…
O.o
Oh, and anyone who says show tunes are stupid can BITE ME in triple time.
That one is awesome. I was watching it on the night and immediately started hunting it down on YT
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Hard News: One man’s Meat Puppets is…, in reply to Sacha,
not up there with '500 miles' by any stretch, but well overplayed in its season. plus some easy trainspotter-fodder.
Got to 1:54 and had to ditch. And I *really* liked it way back when.
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Hard News: One man’s Meat Puppets is…, in reply to Russell Brown,
Smalltown Boy' and the Communards' authentic disco classic version of 'Don't Leave Me This Way':
Word.
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Hard News: One man’s Meat Puppets is…, in reply to Russell Brown,
That's a great song. Although for years I thought it was written by, um, Jon English.
Me too. I really loved his version.
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Hard News: The Huawei Question, in reply to Jonathan Hunt,
I'd be impressed if the NSA had access to the source code of Huawei's products. Is there any evidence of this?
I thought I read recently that GCHQ say they've seen the source and it's okay.
ETA Snap Russ
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Just posted to Matthew on FB "You mean they're going to install ghost chips???"
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Hard News: One man’s Meat Puppets is…, in reply to Russell Brown,
Which brings me to Little Feat. Just don't get that.
Don't fail me now, Russ. My older brother was into the Feat, but I suspect it was the late 60's/early 70's Wellington pothead scene as much as anything. Never really got the music but I loved the Robert Crumb cover! Then again, he also introduced me to Maria Muldaur, The Band (without Dylan), and the Who's Tommy. On the gripping hand, he introduced me to Dylan, who I rate as a lyricist but do not enjoy hearing sing.
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Hard News: One man’s Meat Puppets is…, in reply to Craig Ranapia,
We’re talking about disco – if that’s not a musical genre all about smothering the most innocuous lyric in sexual innuendo (the gayer the better) what the hell is?
Thank you Craig. Everything sounds better with BMG. Funny about Venus Hum is that here her voice is awesome, yet I'm not fussed on her original music. Seems too atonal for me.
And I guess that's why I was never much into punk. Too many three chord screamers with no musicality. I can look back and see how useful it was to break the 70's monotony (coincidentally, about the point where record companies became more concerned with "moving product" than making music) but at the time, I thought the form was awful and full of posers, onstage and off. If what you're after is anarchy, why are you cutting a record deal with any label? You're surely just fitting in the system rather than overthrowing it. Anyway.
If I went to gigs (rarely - I don't do crowds very well and never have), it was to RnB, jazz, the folk club (wish we'd had a decent blues club in Welly that I'd known about) and that was what I listened to at home. Plus, classical, Gregorian chant, chorale, the aforementioned JMJ and the others (precursors of ambient and trance, in my mind), Broadway musicals, even Lloyd Webber for a time.
Punk and early rap were about the only forms I didn't get into, though I remember hearing Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five and thinking woh! what's this? But 'gangsta rap' put me off the genre as a whole, and I've only peeked back at the edges with some of the local stuff, like Kapisi and Che Fu.
Totally <3 country, even the old crappy Hank Williams I era stuff - it is what it is, and as necessary to the development of the alt.country genre as Malcolm McLaren (now, THERE'S a tosser) was to New Wave.
This thread has set me thinking as well, and the thing that pisses me off most about music discussions in general is how people measure your 'coolness' by what the majority listens to. Took me years to own up in public to enjoying ABBA and certain disco tunes, to realise that really I don't give a fuck what other people think of my musical tastes, that I refuse to allow others the power to judge me. Which is easier said than done.
The reason we have so many genres of music is that we all have different tastes. Most of the Friday stuff that people post here does nothing for me but, like Jackie's brother's mixes, every so often there's something that makes me go "Hmmm!".
I still don't like the Pixies, though, Sacha.
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Hard News: One man’s Meat Puppets is…, in reply to Tom Beard,
Not that I actually read that into it when it came out: I was far too young and innocent. Another song that I loved back then, without realising just how astonishingly dodgy the lyrics were, was this:
Jesus, were you not listening??? The whole fucking album (yes, I did buy it, on vinyl and CD) is about sex, the more illicit the better.