What are you listening to, right now................
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Hadn't heard this years.
No idea why it's not embedding. Still a great track.
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Both of those songs are actually bloody well written musically. Both very similar structure and my fav bits in both are about 2/3 of the way through with the solo and then bringing it back in for a more powerful version of the chorus. Can tell there are actual musicians involved. Much better than a lot of the crap we are served up today.
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@jk said in What are you listening to, right now................:
Both of those songs are actually bloody well written musically. Both very similar structure and my fav bits in both are about 2/3 of the way through with the solo and then bringing it back in for a more powerful version of the chorus. Can tell there are actual musicians involved. Much better than a lot of the crap we are served up today.
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They did some good tunes back in the best era of rock…..
Here’s my favourite
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80's classical rock fusion. Consummate musicians who recorded some great stuff.
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@jk said in What are you listening to, right now................:
@pakman said in What are you listening to, right now................:
@jk said in What are you listening to, right now................:
One more while I'm here
A very special song to me. Played at my best friends funeral just months ago. Never really was a fan of it but its got me forever now
Brilliant song. Presume he passed prematurely?
Very mate. Early 40s. Shouldnt have really been a surprise given the way he disrespected his health but it was
Great song. It was also played at the end of the final episode of One Foot in the Grave. Very moving.
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@crucial said in What are you listening to, right now................:
@pakman said in What are you listening to, right now................:
Thanks for the read. Awesome memories. My spell of working in Auckland city was 83-89 and lunchtimes (long ones often) usually consisted of a circuit of the record shops followed by a couple of Elephant Beers (pre-crash).
Pay days in particular were a two album day at least.
Thinking back, in those pre-internet days going to the stores and devouring the music press (RIU, NME etc) was the only way you 'discovered' new music.
The band visits to record stores were awesome and it's sad that it is a side of things that has gone. No bricks and mortar stores and the bands are too up themselves to think of mingling with the public.
Had to laugh at the stories of chart manipulation. Screaming Meemees 'See me go' was the first NZ single to enter the charts at #1 based primarily on pre-sales from one store (I think Sounds Unlimited at the bottom of Queen St).Blast from the past to see a long lost old schoolfriend of mine in that photo of the Madness store visit as well. I honestly can't remember being there so can't categorically claim it but there is someone in that photo that looks like me, the year is right (1981) and I can see a friend there so I am now digging the dusty archives of my aged mind.
Actually the bit about Robert Bruce being security is ringing bells. WE were all big 'On the Mat' fans as kids and he was probably more famous than Madness.
Ernie Leonard, I want to tell you something!
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@snowy said in What are you listening to, right now................:
Hadn't heard this years.
No idea why it's not embedding. Still a great track.
Heard them live in King's Cross, Sydney, c. 1988. Great fun.
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some songs are impossible to listen to without singing along. This is absolutely one of them
Absolutely zero chance you listen to this and aren't, by 2.42 you aren't all
"EEEW OH OOOO OH ALIVE AND KICKING"
and then at 4.34 you aren't like
'BA BADADA DA DA"
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@mariner4life said in What are you listening to, right now................:
some songs are impossible to listen to without singing along. This is absolutely one of them
Absolutely zero chance you listen to this and aren't, by 2.42 you aren't all
"EEEW OH OOOO OH ALIVE AND KICKING"
and then at 4.34 you aren't like
'BA BADADA DA DA"
Whenever I see that vid ( and yes the song is an absolute banger ) I always worry the Bass Player is gonna fall off the cliff.
Mind you given that he’s only the Bass Player I doubt anyone would notice.
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@mariner4life said in What are you listening to, right now................:
some songs are impossible to listen to without singing along. This is absolutely one of them
Absolutely zero chance you listen to this and aren't, by 2.42 you aren't all
"EEEW OH OOOO OH ALIVE AND KICKING"
and then at 4.34 you aren't like
'BA BADADA DA DA"
I prefer Don't You Forget About Me. That way I can think about Molly Ringwald and that scene where we got to see her undies. The hormones were raging in me back then and that scene had quite the effect.
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@crazy-horse said in What are you listening to, right now................:
@mariner4life said in What are you listening to, right now................:
some songs are impossible to listen to without singing along. This is absolutely one of them
Absolutely zero chance you listen to this and aren't, by 2.42 you aren't all
"EEEW OH OOOO OH ALIVE AND KICKING"
and then at 4.34 you aren't like
'BA BADADA DA DA"
I prefer Don't You Forget About Me. That way I can think about Molly Ringwald and that scene where we got to see her undies. The hormones were raging in me back then and that scene had quite the effect.
Yes we can tell!
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@mariner4life Great track.
Love this one by them:
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This is a good site if you're looking for 12" club mixes of 80s tracks:
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On the subject that @Crazy-Horse started…..
This tune always makes me think of the ( formerly ) insanely hot Jennifer Connolly.
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formerly?
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@mariner4life said in What are you listening to, right now................:
formerly?
Yes. She resembles a walking skeleton now. Still decent but not a patch on her early 20s.
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@Tim For those not yet around in 82, I can't overstate how revolutionary New Gold Dream was at the time. Promised You a Miracle and Glittering Prize were like nothing I had heard before. My favourite and one I still break out regularly practically 40 years later is this one: