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Post by Cartman on Jan 4, 2020 14:55:28 GMT
Like those choices too Del. To me the 70s are head and shoulders above all other decades musically, especially the tail end, 78/79,the period when punk and new wave was running parallel to disco was brilliant.
Other decades I have to cherry pick quite a lot, I'm not a massive 80s fan, the 60s could be a bit hit and miss here and there, but it's best stuff was very good indeed, and only the second half of the 90s is of any interest to me, like Del, I got back into music thanks to Oasis, Blue and Take That (sorry!)
21st century stuff, again hit and miss, a few very good ones amid lots of crap.
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Post by Sparky on Jan 4, 2020 15:43:23 GMT
I can't help but feel like if any of us really liked anything from the 21st Century we would be in the wrong place! Some nice choices there, Del. I've got Heart 80s on at work as is the norm. I'm mostly alone on a Saturday with the agents just popping in to swap keys and things and I always get the "why are you listening to that? You weren't even born in the 80s". Yes, because I need a daily reminder . I can go for 60s or 70s but find I have to be more picky which, when it's a radio station, isn't exactly easy. 80s is the safest bet and 90s is alright in small doses. But anything since that and we are really talking about cherry picking a couple of songs a year if you're lucky . Indeed - all music seems to consist of these days is either the Hired Hair do, stylised puppets of some Record Company, or some kid with an acoustic guitar droning on about breaking up with his Girlfriend.
Even the "live" festivals have the latter Headlining...
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Post by DI Alex Drake on Jan 4, 2020 15:56:42 GMT
Glad I'm not alone, Del! My parents were born in the early 50s - they had my brother relatively late and me 7 years even later! So They're about the age of most of my school friends' grandparents. So I guess me having an out of time relationship with music was inevitable. Although I stress it's not just the music; it's everything! I regularly grumble to my parents that I could have been about 17 years earlier than I was, thank you very much. I can't bear Punk but New Wave is very much my thing - Ultravox and the ilk. I love things like The Shadows and The Hollies (take it of leave it with The Beatles, I'm afraid) and then in the 70s I love prog but not very interested in disco etc. And then the 90s ... there's not much which catches my attention but my husband was born in 1988 and is a proper Brit Pop child so I've learned to cope with Oasis etc, but wouldn't put it on by choice. As Sparky said, there's very little variation or imagination around now and most people seem to "play" a laptop on stage .
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Post by Vienna on Jan 4, 2020 16:10:48 GMT
Del, those five choices you have made would be similar to mine. I would certainly include the two fantastic Blondie albums that would definitely be in there. Vi
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Post by Davy Freeth on Jan 4, 2020 16:14:51 GMT
1. AC/DC Highway to Hell 2.The Rolling Stones Beggars Banquet 3.The Rolling Stones . Sticky Fingers 4.James gang Rides Again Funk#49 5.Ac/Dc Back In Black Just off the top of my head Probably change my mind tomorrow lol so many good albums we haven't even heard lol.
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Post by D.C. Burtonshaw on Jan 4, 2020 16:47:46 GMT
I have to admit I couldn't really give a list of top 5 albums as I've only ever bought very few cassette albums by any artists. Jamiroquai's early stuff was one, as I like their earlier 70's style sounds they initially did in the 90's. Instead I've bought many compilations of genre's like Ska, Mod or Soul/Northern Soul and 60's and 70's hits, together with other compilations featuring UB40, James Brown, Madness etc. I know that sounds a bit general, but that's how it works for me!
But I suppose many of the individual tracks I like from various artists may well be on the same artists album and others scattered amongst different albums the artist has done.
I apologise in advance for going off topic a bit, but I probably put this down to the way I listened to music in my life, and never bought singles as a child, only pop compilations initially from when I was 16 onwards. Before that, it was what I caught on Top of the Pops, other pop programmes, and the radio. As Delboy was saying, same with me, I only liked electronic, house and Rap and some chart and dance singles from the 80's onwards, (Not all the late 80's pop though, the Stock Aitken and Waterman stuff I never really liked!!) and when I got bored with that (which I still don't really bother with now), and was about 22, I started to discover the proper older music.
I rediscovered Two tone and Madness and The Specials from about then (I remembered liking them at Primary school age when they were new) and started looking for their music together with discovering the other New Wave and Mod Revival music gradually from the same era too - The Jam etc. And in parallel I discovered U.S 70's Funk and soul, after initially getting into James Brown from about 1988 onwards.
The interest in Two Tone and Ska etc from 1978-81, then caused me to get interested in the earlier 60's Reggae, Trojan record label material.
As well as the above, I casually don't mind a bit of Punk and 1960's Mod affiliated bands like The Who, Small Faces, The Kinks, etc but only really gained more of an interest in them over the last 5-10 years.
Same with Motown, and now as its about a quarter of a century old, appreciate Blur and Oasis far more than I did when they were new.
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Post by Sparky on Jan 5, 2020 15:12:16 GMT
I have to admit I couldn't really give a list of top 5 albums as I've only ever bought very few cassette albums by any artists. Jamiroquai's early stuff was one, as I like their earlier 70's style sounds they initially did in the 90's. Instead I've bought many compilations of genre's like Ska, Mod or Soul/Northern Soul and 60's and 70's hits, together with other compilations featuring UB40, James Brown, Madness etc. I know that sounds a bit general, but that's how it works for me!
But I suppose many of the individual tracks I like from various artists may well be on the same artists album and others scattered amongst different albums the artist has done.
I apologise in advance for going off topic a bit, but I probably put this down to the way I listened to music in my life, and never bought singles as a child, only pop compilations initially from when I was 16 onwards. Before that, it was what I caught on Top of the Pops, other pop programmes, and the radio. As Delboy was saying, same with me, I only liked electronic, house and Rap and some chart and dance singles from the 80's onwards, (Not all the late 80's pop though, the Stock Aitken and Waterman stuff I never really liked!!) and when I got bored with that (which I still don't really bother with now), and was about 22, I started to discover the proper older music.
I rediscovered Two tone and Madness and The Specials from about then (I remembered liking them at Primary school age when they were new) and started looking for their music together with discovering the other New Wave and Mod Revival music gradually from the same era too - The Jam etc. And in parallel I discovered U.S 70's Funk and soul, after initially getting into James Brown from about 1988 onwards.
The interest in Two Tone and Ska etc from 1978-81, then caused me to get interested in the earlier 60's Reggae, Trojan record label material.
As well as the above, I casually don't mind a bit of Punk and 1960's Mod affiliated bands like The Who, Small Faces, The Kinks, etc but only really gained more of an interest in them over the last 5-10 years.
Same with Motown, and now as its about a quarter of a century old, appreciate Blur and Oasis far more than I did when they were new.
I love SKA from the late 70s. It was only as I got older that some tunes were in fact covers - that inspired me to get listening to the Originals. Oasis I have grown to like a lot - much more than when they were new.
But I find that - there is a lot of music from the 80s that I hated when it was released - nowadays, I hear it and think "Hey, that was a great tune".
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Post by Lord Emsworth on Jan 5, 2020 15:58:16 GMT
Love a bit of ska and rock steady too
Recently I've been midly obsessed by
Dandy Livingstone - Rudy, A Message to You (1967)
So many great covers of this too
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Post by D.C. Burtonshaw on Jan 5, 2020 17:23:47 GMT
Nice one Sparky and Lord Ems! I was thinking just the same!
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Post by Sparky on Jan 5, 2020 18:08:26 GMT
Love a bit of ska and rock steady too
Recently I've been midly obsessed by
Dandy Livingstone - Rudy, A Message to You (1967)
So many great covers of this too
Wow! Trojan Records....
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