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Shades of rhyme sounds of Eden


 
Posted : 13/01/2016 8:13 pm
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Virtually impossible question, but it may just boil down to Comfortably Numb.


 
Posted : 13/01/2016 8:22 pm
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Where's Captain Kirk - Spizzenergi for the mental youth club disco memories


 
Posted : 13/01/2016 8:34 pm
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That reminds me, got a Spizz lp somewhere. Better dig it out.


 
Posted : 13/01/2016 8:40 pm
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Led Zeppelin stairway to Heaven. Well hackneyed but it was Mrs Taxi and my song 😀


 
Posted : 13/01/2016 8:45 pm
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Ask me in an hour at it will be different


 
Posted : 14/01/2016 8:26 am
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Ramones - Baby I Love You.

Always loved it. Walked my daughter down the aisle to it and will have it as a funeral song when i pop my clogs.


 
Posted : 14/01/2016 12:28 pm
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Or


 
Posted : 14/01/2016 12:55 pm
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Glen Campbell Wichita Lineman
Ask me in an hour at it will be different

Can't read this thread without wanting to yell CHOOO-OOON!!1! at fairly frequent intervals.


 
Posted : 14/01/2016 2:21 pm
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Fairport Convention - who knows where the time goes

Pedant alert! Strictly speaking it's Sandy Denny's song, she wrote it when she was fourteen, IIRC, which is astonishing, that level of awareness in one so young. It came close to being my choice, it's a song that can have me in bits under certain circumstances, as much because of the thought of what Sandy had left to give, had she not died so young.
I have an album of unfinished songs of hers recorded by Thea Gilmore, and it's stunning.
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How do you embed the actual video, for a tech numpty?

When you select the video URL from YouTube or Vimeo and copy it, click on the Video box above the post text box, delete the http// text that's already in the box that appears then paste the video URL into the empty dialogue box, then post it.


 
Posted : 14/01/2016 4:11 pm
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its almost impossible to pin it down to one song but if i had too - id say 'archangel thunderbird' by amon duul 2.


 
Posted : 14/01/2016 4:18 pm
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Good call with The Chameleons.

The song that gets me dad dancing best might be Bohemian Like You, The Dandy Warhols


 
Posted : 14/01/2016 4:20 pm
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Driving rhythm section, jangly guitars, great lyrics, plus a Hatful of memories.

(B side to This Charming man and a live favourite)


 
Posted : 14/01/2016 4:55 pm
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Mine is Dry the Rain by The Beta Band - I love the way it builds.

Oh good shout sir. In fact all of the songs from the 3 eps are classics.... Dr baker is one of my faves

Good shout the pair of you.

The Three EPs is just the most amazing album, it never gets tired and I've not heard anything else like it.

Not a duff track on it, extraordinary piece of music.


 
Posted : 14/01/2016 5:15 pm
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Having thought about this, weighing up various tracks, I guess I'd have to go with Cat Power's version of Joni Mitchell's Blue.

Today at least.


 
Posted : 14/01/2016 7:21 pm
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I think today it's Dignity by Deacon Blue.


 
Posted : 14/01/2016 7:22 pm
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Talk Talk - I Believe in you

A crap video for a beautiful song, which I think Mark Hollis wrote about his brother who od'd.


 
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Posted : 14/01/2016 7:59 pm
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Not sure... liking these three a lot ATM though,


 
Posted : 14/01/2016 8:16 pm
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Levee Breaks or CCR's version of Long As I Can See the Light


 
Posted : 14/01/2016 8:42 pm
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The one song you always sing along to

Not just in the car, but for any situation that calls for loud signing, out of tune and getting ready for anything:

Beastie Boys - 'Sabotage'


 
Posted : 14/01/2016 8:48 pm
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Some good songs but some of you really have shite music taste ... 😆


 
Posted : 14/01/2016 8:57 pm
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Don't stop me now - Queen. Mainly because it was the first song I knew all the words to (and still do).


 
Posted : 14/01/2016 9:02 pm
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I've tried to answer this several times and every time before I hit Send Post I change my mind, impossible to me unless I keep reposting.
At this moment in time it is Rox by Aliens. Check it out Beta Band fanboys.
In ten minutes it will be Teenage Angst by Cracker.
Or Marquee Moon.
Or Halleluhwah by Can
Or We Don't Play Guitars by Chicks On Speed.


 
Posted : 14/01/2016 9:09 pm
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nope


 
Posted : 14/01/2016 9:50 pm
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Hurry on sundown -Hawkwind
Lots of mushrooms!


 
Posted : 14/01/2016 10:05 pm
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Holy F*ck – Lucky. I just adore this song. Love how the beat builds back up about half way through. Awesome band live too, go see if you ever get the chance.

(although whoever uploaded this called it the wrong song name)


 
Posted : 14/01/2016 10:15 pm
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Sorry..,.can I also add 'Is This The Life' by The Cardiacs?
Awesome tune.


 
Posted : 14/01/2016 10:41 pm
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Uncertain smile by The The


 
Posted : 14/01/2016 10:47 pm
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Never thought I'd be able to answer this question, but I'm happy to reply with Otis Redding's Try a little tenderness. 8)


 
Posted : 15/01/2016 2:47 am
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Definitely either this:

Or this:


 
Posted : 16/01/2016 1:32 pm
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Great choice sbob!


 
Posted : 16/01/2016 1:33 pm
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Some good songs but some of you really have shite music taste ...
😯
Can't find it now, but I'm damned sure Chewkw said something about having given up listening to music ages ago, so to say that is pretty rich.


 
Posted : 16/01/2016 6:32 pm
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Had a few minutes to myself so just listened to the tracks in this thread I didn't know. Some really interesting choices. Thanks to all. Loop and the Chameleons particularly.

As for me, I'm with chip. Modern music began with 'I feel love'. That video, that music, is raw sex. However, I must point out that a mark 1 Capri would have been 10 years old at that point. 🙂


 
Posted : 16/01/2016 7:06 pm
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Billy Bragg - Waiting for the great leap forwards


 
Posted : 16/01/2016 8:22 pm
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Currently "Whistle for the Choir" by the Fratellis. Great lyrics, structure and melody. Also "Tramp" by Otis Redding and Carla Thomas. Finally "She's a Rainbow" by the Stones.
Oh yeah, just heard Lola by the Kinks. I love that song (& it tells a story 😉 )
"One of these things first" - Nick Drake and "The Wind Cries Mary" - Hendrix.
Too many...


 
Posted : 16/01/2016 10:22 pm
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And lest we forget "Little Wing" - Stevie Ray Vaughan version (sorry Jimi)


 
Posted : 16/01/2016 10:24 pm
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"Piece of my heart" - Big Brother and the Holding Company (Janis Joplin). Such an incredible cover that Emma Franklin, who wrote and originally recorded it, didn't recognise it..


 
Posted : 16/01/2016 10:31 pm
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Anyway, I'll get me coat..


 
Posted : 16/01/2016 10:32 pm
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And lest we forget "Little Wing" - Stevie Ray Vaughan version (sorry Jimi)

That is fantastic and yes, better than Jimi's. There is a brilliant live energy to all SRV's recordings.


 
Posted : 17/01/2016 11:00 am
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Which reminds me. Hendrix - The Wind Cries Mary.


 
Posted : 17/01/2016 11:25 am
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Funkrodent. Shes a Rainbow is a real favourite of mine! Tramp is a song I have so many great memories of dancing to! Kinks and Nick Drake selections are brilliant too!


 
Posted : 17/01/2016 11:38 am
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Love reign over me, the who quadrophenia....

JeZ


 
Posted : 17/01/2016 1:47 pm
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Got to be this, want it playing at my funeral (eventually!)


 
Posted : 17/01/2016 2:32 pm
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Prefer Soundgarden to audioslave obviously lead singer was in both but if you didn't know listen to badmotor finger by Soundgarden 😉


 
Posted : 17/01/2016 2:50 pm
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Prefer Soundgarden to audioslave obviously lead singer was in both but if you didn't know listen to badmotorfinger by Soundgarden

Which possibly proves that some things are greater than the sum of their parts. See: The Beatles.
I'm not sure if Jeff Buckley has been mentioned or not, but Grace has some outstanding songs on it, and it turns out that there's a bunch of new songs turned up in Sony's archives that had been filed away and forgotten, so cue a certain amount of rejoicing from me.


 
Posted : 17/01/2016 5:06 pm
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"Flag Day" by the Housemartins beautiful song great tune powerful lyrics and evocative memories of a lousy flat on the Quayside in Newcastle and an incredible gig at the Riverside .saw Stan sat on a junction box outside our flat and Hugh on a cafe before the gig too.


 
Posted : 17/01/2016 5:16 pm
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Totally impossible ,but at this moment in time it's Sugar Baby Love by The Rubettes....:-)


 
Posted : 17/01/2016 8:20 pm
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Good call for 'Flag Day'.
Just two albums from The Housemartins was not enough.
Used to have the VHS of 'London 0 Hull 4' which had Norman Cook messing about with his first dj stuff.
It got stuck in our video and is now forever lost.


 
Posted : 17/01/2016 8:44 pm
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Today this:

Under normal circumstances I'd probably go for this...

Redressing the balance regarding the shocking under-usage of the hurdy gurdy in rock music. Have loved them since I accidentally saw them live nearly thirty years ago.

Apologies for lack of embedding btw. Bloody iPad keeps crashing when I try.


 
Posted : 17/01/2016 10:28 pm
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Bring me sunshine - Willie Nelson


 
Posted : 17/01/2016 10:31 pm
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Axis bold as love Jimi Hendrix


 
Posted : 18/01/2016 12:10 am
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Beach - Martha and the Muffins[/url]


 
Posted : 18/01/2016 11:40 am
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Fade to Black - Metallica


 
Posted : 18/01/2016 11:45 am
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Not particularly been thinking about this thread and there are many tunes that mean much to me, but revisited For Those About To Rock by AC/DC tonight and thought there's probably not a tune that means more to me than that. Sat for hours before my first boxing match, atmosphere flat as a fart - comes time to put the wraps on and that tune put me right in the mood. 😀


 
Posted : 19/01/2016 2:09 am
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Voodoo Chile, Hendrix
Back Street Luv, Curved Air
Luney Tune, Alice Cooper
21st Century Schizoid man, King Crimson
Black Sabbath
Interstellar Overdrive.
One man rock and roll band, Roy Harper
Archangel Thunderbird, Amon Duul

the list goes on and on and


 
Posted : 19/01/2016 3:29 am
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If you have a Spotify account get adding -

https://open.spotify.com/user/ls-7/playlist/71MrayoPI4s577UWaFOenP


 
Posted : 19/01/2016 4:29 am
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Hurry on sundown -Hawkwind

😀

Definitely in my top 100. I can't choose a favourite of all time but for today I'm going with Marvin Gaye 'What's Going On'

As poignant and heartfelt, as hopeful, groovesome and melancholic today as it was back then.


 
Posted : 19/01/2016 8:07 am
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Changed my mind!

Sheriff Fatman - CTUSM


 
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