What are you listening to, right now................
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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.
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@Crucial said in What are you listening to, right now................:
@mariner4life said in What are you listening to, right now................:
definition of one hit wonders
Even though Eileen was there second Number One? That makes them at least the definition of a two hit wonder.
straw poll
who can name the other?
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@mariner4life said in What are you listening to, right now................:
definition of one hit wonders
Comedy Gold
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Breaking in another country can be a blessing or a curse, albeit a lucrative curse.
This is magnified if you're a non-American and you 'break' America.
You can be uber talented (controversial on here) like U2 and continually grow your musical repertoire or be pigeonholed into always being known for 1 song (maybe 2)
Dexy's Midnight Runners
Simple Minds
The Proclaimers
etc
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@MiketheSnow said in What are you listening to, right now................:
Breaking in another country can be a blessing or a curse, albeit a lucrative curse.
This is magnified if you're a non-American and you 'break' America.
You can be uber talented (controversial on here) like U2 and continually grow your musical repertoire or be pigeonholed into always being known for 1 song (maybe 2)
Dexy's Midnight Runners
Simple Minds
The Proclaimers
etc
etcPsychedelic Furs. Yanks only know them for Pretty in Pink (but they probably do OK from royalties on that song alone)
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@Crucial said in What are you listening to, right now................:
@MiketheSnow said in What are you listening to, right now................:
Breaking in another country can be a blessing or a curse, albeit a lucrative curse.
This is magnified if you're a non-American and you 'break' America.
You can be uber talented (controversial on here) like U2 and continually grow your musical repertoire or be pigeonholed into always being known for 1 song (maybe 2)
Dexy's Midnight Runners
Simple Minds
The Proclaimers
etc
etcPsychedelic Furs. Yanks only know them for Pretty in Pink (but they probably do OK from royalties on that song alone)
Awesome band.Exactly
If the song is in a successful / seminal movie then the hole is even smaller
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@mariner4life said in What are you listening to, right now................:
@Crucial said in What are you listening to, right now................:
@mariner4life said in What are you listening to, right now................:
definition of one hit wonders
Even though Eileen was there second Number One? That makes them at least the definition of a two hit wonder.
straw poll
who can name the other?
I have nil all and fuck all chance of doing so without google.
So based on that given my superior music knowledge I think the term “one hit wonder” is astonishingly apt.
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@MiketheSnow said in What are you listening to, right now................:
Breaking in another country can be a blessing or a curse, albeit a lucrative curse.
This is magnified if you're a non-American and you 'break' America.
You can be uber talented (controversial on here) like U2 and continually grow your musical repertoire or be pigeonholed into always being known for 1 song (maybe 2)
Dexy's Midnight Runners
Simple Minds
The Proclaimers
etc
etcSimple Minds did some bangers. They were terrific.
The Proclaimers did one big song that everyone knows well despite deep down realising it is absolute shite.
Much like “why does love do this to me?” It seems vaguely tolerable when extremely pissed but when you analyse it you realise it’s just mass marketed crap. Absolutely awful.
Plus the twins fronting the band look like a pair of tired old lesbians nowadays.
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@MN5 said in What are you listening to, right now................:
@mariner4life said in What are you listening to, right now................:
@Crucial said in What are you listening to, right now................:
@mariner4life said in What are you listening to, right now................:
definition of one hit wonders
Even though Eileen was there second Number One? That makes them at least the definition of a two hit wonder.
straw poll
who can name the other?
I have nil all and fuck all chance of doing so without google.
So based on that given my superior music knowledge I think the term “one hit wonder” is astonishingly apt.
It was literally in front of your eyes
Geno
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@MN5 said in What are you listening to, right now................:
Sound familiar ?
Not sure how a really big band that I’m a massive fan of didn’t get sued for this one.
They did
And won on appeal
A New Led Zeppelin Court Win Over ‘Stairway to Heaven’ Just Upended a Copyright Precedent
The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in favor of Led Zeppelin in the "Stairway to Heaven" copyright infringement case.
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@MiketheSnow said in What are you listening to, right now................:
@MN5 said in What are you listening to, right now................:
@mariner4life said in What are you listening to, right now................:
@Crucial said in What are you listening to, right now................:
@mariner4life said in What are you listening to, right now................:
definition of one hit wonders
Even though Eileen was there second Number One? That makes them at least the definition of a two hit wonder.
straw poll
who can name the other?
I have nil all and fuck all chance of doing so without google.
So based on that given my superior music knowledge I think the term “one hit wonder” is astonishingly apt.
It was literally in front of your eyes
Geno
No 1Not a bad tune……but I haven’t heard it til right now.
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This one hit wonder talk is simply based on age, location etc
Dexys other number one was the posted “Geno”. Was massively well known when I was a teen among anyone that followed the UK scene at the time. Many many years later I even went to a Geno Washington gig in Putney on the basis of that Dexys song alone.
I won’t claim to like the Proclaimers that much but again only a one hit wonder at a very superficial level. A whole musical/movie was created with their songs and then there’s this…
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@MiketheSnow said in What are you listening to, right now................:
@MN5 said in What are you listening to, right now................:
Sound familiar ?
Not sure how a really big band that I’m a massive fan of didn’t get sued for this one.
They did
And won on appeal
A New Led Zeppelin Court Win Over ‘Stairway to Heaven’ Just Upended a Copyright Precedent
The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in favor of Led Zeppelin in the "Stairway to Heaven" copyright infringement case.
Hmmmmmmmmmm.
Ok how bout this one ? Remind you of another song by my second favourite British 60s/70s band ?
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@Crucial said in What are you listening to, right now................:
This one hit wonder talk is simply based on age, location etc
Dexys other number one was the posted “Geno”. Was massively well known when I was a teen among anyone that followed the UK scene at the time. Many many years later I even went to a Geno Washington gig in Putney on the basis of that Dexys song alone.
I won’t claim to like the Proclaimers that much but again only a one hit wonder at a very superficial level. A whole musical/movie was created with their songs and then there’s this…
100%
Fantastic
As good as any National Anthem rendition (and that's coming from a regular singer of the the best of the best)
Letter from America
Sunshine on Leith
I'm Gonna Be (500 miles)
I'm On My WayGreat documentary
