What are you listening to, right now................
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@dogmeat said in What are you listening to, right now................:
@broughie I don't think its anything like UK music from the 80's except for the synths. It's more Kraut NeuMusik
It's shite whichever way you look at it.
@MN5 more popular in EnZed than the UK
The fern is very divided on this one.
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I saw Bonobo at Ally Pally in London a few years ago and on top of being epic it was one of the loudest things I've ever experienced with bass so deep it made you feel a bit wobbly.
So apparently he had a residence in the Royal Albert Hall this year and when his sound tech / trumpet guy was there late one night he heard this young musician Anna Lapwood practicing on that humungous organ that dominates the back of the hall. He asked her to play some Bach and next thing they wrote a piece for her to play in one of their songs next evening. I can't begin to imagine how loud this whole thing must have been but wish I'd been there.
She really is all kinds of awesome.
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Here's the sound tech hearing her that night -
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@dogmeat said in What are you listening to, right now................:
@broughie All 3 Upvotes come from individuals whose user name starts with an 'M' as does the original poster
One of them is definitely a fluffybunny, the other two Iâm 50/50 on.
As for myself well I think the fern is pretty unanimous on that.
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@broughie said in What are you listening to, right now................:
@MN5 I can honestly say that the song does nothing for me. The video is cool but I didnât grow up with the early 80s
BritishCanadian music.In the early 80s British music ruled the world
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@broughie said in What are you listening to, right now................:
@MN5 I can honestly say that the song does nothing for me. The video is cool but I didnât grow up with the early 80sBritishCanadianQuebec music.They also had a pair of lesser-known hits, incl. âPop Goes the Worldâ and this one, featuring puppets, before Ivan quickly went solo and became quickly forgotten.
Anybody else heavily into his La Belle Province contemporary Mitsou?
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@antipodean You can always count on my upvote for Rammstein.
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@Tim not sure if you have access to BBC iPlayer but they have pulled out and old compilation show âSynth Britannia at the BBCâ. All TOTP and Grey Whistle Test performances.
Old Roxy, Depeche Mode, New Order doing Ceremony, Japan, SparksâŚâŚ
The type of shit I think youâd enjoyMay even be on YT. I havenât checked.
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@Crucial I remember watching a documentary by that same name.
There was a very good mix series called "Synth Heroes" by Dazed Digital.
This mix by a UK session musician who has played with big names (McCartney) is very good:
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Some of the public comments after Dexys opened the CG Closing Ceremony like "what's the Birmingham connection? I thought they were Irish" made me post this.
Kevin Rowlands first band. Formed in Birmingham and two years later had evolved into this
and this
Come on Eileen was a couple of years after the Northern Soul influenced start that provided the band with their name.
Apologies if I'm saying stuff you already know but Searching for the Young Soul Rebels is on my all time influential album list and so much of my music listening pleasure over the last 40 plus years can be traced back to it. I get pissed of when Come on Eileen is thought of as their only song. -
definition of one hit wonders
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@mariner4life said in What are you listening to, right now................:
definition of one hit wonders
Even though Eileen was their second Number One? That makes them at least the definition of a two hit wonder.
