What are you listening to, right now................
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@JC Auckland town hall isn't as cool as the Royal Albert but I'll take it. I would have bought you a beer and it would have been worth the trip. They really were good.
The other album would have been Black and white? Nice'n sleazy being the main track?
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@Snowy No More Heroes. If I remember I heard Rattus at a party and went out and bought it. Bugger me if a couple of days later No More Heroes was out. Back then there was no NZ music press, not even Rip It Up., so there was no way of knowing when records would be released. They just appeared.
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@JC said in What are you listening to, right now................:
@MN5 Burnel had quite a few cool basslines to be fair. I always liked this one:
If I had to pick I’d go this one, he does some cool lines in the chorus.
But if we’re talking ugly, creepy but awesome British bass players of that era......wow
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@MN5 said in What are you listening to, right now................:
@JC said in What are you listening to, right now................:
@MN5 Burnel had quite a few cool basslines to be fair. I always liked this one:
If I had to pick I’d go this one, he does some cool lines in the chorus.
His finest hour
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Anyone remember Feargal Sharkey?
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A lot of people do not realize this was him ,years earlier , was a punk anthem
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@Snowy said in What are you listening to, right now................:
RIP Mr Greenfield. The lyrics and song are great, the vid isn't.
Saw the stranglers maybe 10 years ago , not quite the same , different singer , and heaps older
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@kiwiinmelb Yeah I mentioned the "new" singer earlier and they really have been around for ever. Eclectic bunch over the years. One of them was a classical guitarist that played with symphony orchestras, a couple of jazz guys and they end up in a punk band that was originally the Guildford Stranglers, but none of the are from Guildford.
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@kiwiinmelb said in What are you listening to, right now................:
A lot of people do not realize this was him ,years earlier , was a punk anthem
Punk anthem?
Just a great song, full stop. First (only?) song that John Peel played twice in a row when he first heard it.
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Back to the Stranglers though and they used to have a reputation of being complete tossers to deal with. I only learned recently that the whole thing was a deliberate ploy by their manager as he wanted to ride the coat tails of the punk movement and the best way to sell what was a rough but avant garde band at the time was to dress them in black and lump them in with the image of being obnoxious anti-establishment types.
Guildford's finest band. Guildford's only band really.
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@Crucial said in What are you listening to, right now................:
@kiwiinmelb said in What are you listening to, right now................:
A lot of people do not realize this was him ,years earlier , was a punk anthem
Punk anthem?
Just a great song, full stop. First (only?) song that John Peel played twice in a row when he first heard it.
It is a great song ,
but it was one of the massively popular songs in the punk crowd around that 78 period,saw it first hand , I was 16 and going to the parties
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@kiwiinmelb said in What are you listening to, right now................:
@Crucial said in What are you listening to, right now................:
@kiwiinmelb said in What are you listening to, right now................:
A lot of people do not realize this was him ,years earlier , was a punk anthem
Punk anthem?
Just a great song, full stop. First (only?) song that John Peel played twice in a row when he first heard it.
It is a great song ,
but it was one of the massively popular songs in the punk crowd around that 78 period,saw it first hand , I was 16 and going to the parties
Punk had already finished by 78
But yes, the kids and movement it inspired we’re going strong for a while still and this was part of the soundtrack.
Actually a good example of what punk changed. A couple of years before and bands like this didn’t even get noticed -
@Crucial said in What are you listening to, right now................:
@kiwiinmelb said in What are you listening to, right now................:
@Crucial said in What are you listening to, right now................:
@kiwiinmelb said in What are you listening to, right now................:
A lot of people do not realize this was him ,years earlier , was a punk anthem
Punk anthem?
Just a great song, full stop. First (only?) song that John Peel played twice in a row when he first heard it.
It is a great song ,
but it was one of the massively popular songs in the punk crowd around that 78 period,saw it first hand , I was 16 and going to the parties
Punk had already finished by 78
But yes, the kids and movement it inspired we’re going strong for a while still and this was part of the soundtrack.
Actually a good example of what punk changed. A couple of years before and bands like this didn’t even get noticedYeah , I think It did take off a little late in Nz though , as far as a wider crowd getting involved , compared to the uk ,
Wasn’t much happening in 76 like england , but by 78 there were heaps wanting to be a part of it,
So I guess In hindsight I am talking about how popular is was in Nz Or Auckland around that time
With that crowd
