What are you listening to, right now................
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and, linked to my other post, i have spent the last couple of days listening to Powderfinger. This is still my favourite
And this is the go-to track if you are doing karaoke in Aus, and want the crowd to sing with you
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Powderfinger are awesome and I always recall my London years when I listen to them. Odyssey number 5 took all the plaudits, but I always preferred internationalist. A muso mate calls them a 4 year band, as he reckons that a 4 year old could play all their music - it's that simple. Never stopped oasis getting as big as they did, that.
Saw them live at Shepherds Bush one Saturday - quality concert.
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@mariner4life said in What are you listening to, right now................:
and, linked to my other post, i have spent the last couple of days listening to Powderfinger. This is still my favourite
First time I'd seen that subject-tracking camera effect. Really good clip.
The other track off that album that I liked was Love Your Way. There was some good stuff on Vulture Street - probably the album of theirs that was most "rock".
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Back in my early teens my mates and I used to love thrashing Ian Dury and the Blockheads 'New Boots and Panties'. It was considered a rather 'rude' and naughty record in those days, quite subversive and (rightly) we concentrated on the lyrics - Sex and Drugs and Rock'n'Roll - Wake up and make love to me - Plaistow Patricia - Billericky Dicky. While the songs were fucken brilliant lyrically, I seem to have totally missed just how good the Blockheads were in backing them up.
This clip is the one off Tv special in '99 about 9 months before Ian died (notice him being helped on stage).
Norman Watt-Roy is an awesome bassist and Chaz Jankel plays top funk-punk guitar. "Spasticus Autisicus" is a great funk track behind (what I now understand as) very ground breaking lyrics -Anyway, I know you 90s bogans out there probably won't get it but I'm glad I rediscovered this and as the thread title goes it is 'what I'm listening to right now'
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@Crucial Stiffs Live Stiffs was the one that really grabbed my attention although I also had NB&P.
Great era for Brit rock. A shit load of the "punk" successes had actually been around for 5 or 6 years in the pub rock scene learning their craft. Although Dury was calling more on music hall than Brinsley Schwarz.
I arrived in UK about 12 mths later and walked right into a really vibrant live scene.Bands like Clash, Jam etc were still playing relatively small gigs
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My 8 year old's favourite song right now
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@MajorRage That guy on the guitar at the end... is he, um, you know, dead?
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@Crucial said in What are you listening to, right now................:
Back in my early teens my mates and I used to love thrashing Ian Dury and the Blockheads 'New Boots and Panties'. It was considered a rather 'rude' and naughty record in those days, quite subversive and (rightly) we concentrated on the lyrics - Sex and Drugs and Rock'n'Roll - Wake up and make love to me - Plaistow Patricia - Billericky Dicky. While the songs were fucken brilliant lyrically, I seem to have totally missed just how good the Blockheads were in backing them up.
This clip is the one off Tv special in '99 about 9 months before Ian died (notice him being helped on stage).
Norman Watt-Roy is an awesome bassist and Chaz Jankel plays top funk-punk guitar. "Spasticus Autisicus" is a great funk track behind (what I now understand as) very ground breaking lyrics -Anyway, I know you 90s bogans out there probably won't get it but I'm glad I rediscovered this and as the thread title goes it is 'what I'm listening to right now'
Fucking great band, I've mentioned it on here before but I grew up listening to that album. Dad thrashed the shit out of it
Knew the words to Sex and Drugs and Rock n Roll before I knew what sex and drugs were.
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@Crucial said in What are you listening to, right now................:
Back in my early teens my mates and I used to love thrashing Ian Dury and the Blockheads 'New Boots and Panties'. It was considered a rather 'rude' and naughty record in those days, quite subversive and (rightly) we concentrated on the lyrics - Sex and Drugs and Rock'n'Roll - Wake up and make love to me - Plaistow Patricia - Billericky Dicky. While the songs were fucken brilliant lyrically, I seem to have totally missed just how good the Blockheads were in backing them up.
This clip is the one off Tv special in '99 about 9 months before Ian died (notice him being helped on stage).
Norman Watt-Roy is an awesome bassist and Chaz Jankel plays top funk-punk guitar. "Spasticus Autisicus" is a great funk track behind (what I now understand as) very ground breaking lyrics -Anyway, I know you 90s bogans out there probably won't get it but I'm glad I rediscovered this and as the thread title goes it is 'what I'm listening to right now'
If you've got a spare couple of hours this is well worth a listen mate....Soho radio 2 hour special on the career Norman Watt-Roy (bassist for the blockheads). A great musician
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The stones are just totally amazing guys - the fact they are still going, still moving, still playing and putting on great shows, is incredible.
Ronnie Wood is looking pretty tired these days, But Keith, Charlie & Mick just keep going with the same mojo they've always had (in Charlies' case that is somewhat less than the other two).
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@SammyC said in What are you listening to, right now................:
@Crucial said in What are you listening to, right now................:
Back in my early teens my mates and I used to love thrashing Ian Dury and the Blockheads 'New Boots and Panties'. It was considered a rather 'rude' and naughty record in those days, quite subversive and (rightly) we concentrated on the lyrics - Sex and Drugs and Rock'n'Roll - Wake up and make love to me - Plaistow Patricia - Billericky Dicky. While the songs were fucken brilliant lyrically, I seem to have totally missed just how good the Blockheads were in backing them up.
This clip is the one off Tv special in '99 about 9 months before Ian died (notice him being helped on stage).
Norman Watt-Roy is an awesome bassist and Chaz Jankel plays top funk-punk guitar. "Spasticus Autisicus" is a great funk track behind (what I now understand as) very ground breaking lyrics -Anyway, I know you 90s bogans out there probably won't get it but I'm glad I rediscovered this and as the thread title goes it is 'what I'm listening to right now'
Fucking great band, I've mentioned it on here before but I grew up listening to that album. Dad thrashed the shit out of it
Knew the words to Sex and Drugs and Rock n Roll before I knew what sex and drugs were.
Hope you went to school singing the opening to Plaistow Patricia
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Ian Dury and the Blockheads were just magnificent.
Like a lot of you fellas I jumped around singing along to "Spasticus Autisticus" without knowing what the fuck I was singing about which must have amused Dad and his mates to no end.
Much like my boys belting out lyrics to Faith no More and NER*D ( those are our staples ) on car rides. Any other Dads on here will confirm there is nothing funnier ( in the wrong way ) than kids swearing in songs.
Stones ? some good songs but they've never, ever been close to one of my favourite bands. They've just been going for about 50,000 year which I'll confess is a hell of an effort.
