What are you listening to, right now................
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@r-l said in What are you listening to, right now................:
Not a fan of coldplay but forgot how good this song was until I heard it today... Blasted it out!!
Coldplay are a band you find yourself liking about 3 songs. (for me this one, and Fix You), the rest are meh.
They do melodies and hooks really well.Just not a band you tell anyone you like...
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@virgil yeah that's a lovely song to be fair.
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@r-l Our other discussion has just reminded me of this song - which hasn't aged well at all.
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@snowy never heard it! Must be before my time!
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@r-l said in What are you listening to, right now................:
@snowy never heard it! Must be before my time!
It's old, and as I say say hasn't aged well. They weren't Elvis that's for sure.
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Just had Dusty Springfield's classic version of Son of a Preacher Man come on a playlist which led me to youtube which reminded me of this smoking hot soft porn version by Joss Stone. Love the old men in the audience trying soooo hard not to check the 19 year old out with their wives sitting next to them and knowing it is being broadcast.
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Have been listening all week to Paul Weller's latest 'Fat Pop'
Leftovers from the previous album plus a bunch of 'lockdown songs ' written and recorded while bored because he couldn't tour.
As expected in those circumstances it is a jumble of styles and experiments. Anyone expecting hits from the man is barking up the wrong tree these days as he isn't trying to write them. What he still does really well is grow and experiment with pop sensibilities and for anyone on that journey with him it is a another chapter in an impressive legacy of work.
Here's what is probably the 'easiest' track and an area that he has covered before but occasionally goes back to and modernises. A Beatlesy tune with that touch of Ray Davies like 'kitchen sink drama' touch.
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@snowy First Band to debut in the British charts at #1 since the Beatles. I was working in a sweat shop in Brighton and when the Radio 1 DJ told the audience there was a new #1 and etc no one guessed who it would be. Not for Entertainment though
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@dogmeat yep, the song debuted at #1 if not the band. Eton Rifles had gone in at #3 only a few months before and about 10 other tracks had been top 40 singles.
Repeated the feat with Town Called Malice.
Malice gets a bad rap from being overplayed but if taken in isolation is a bloody good song.I managed to get to Weller gigs three times while in London and now days he does go through his catalogue a bit for the punters. It's a hard ask when you have recorded so much and there are always these old tossers that just want him to resurrect their youth by playing endless Jam songs.
I always found it interesting to see what songs he still holds in high enough regard to play.
That's Entertainment, Man in the Corner Shop, Ghosts....Malice and Start come out as crowd pleasers (being number ones) but I actually like the way that he doesn't play songs like Underground which are truly Jam songs and require Bruce and Rick. I feel like it is honouring their contribution. -
As more proof of how out of touch with reality David Cameron was he once famously named this as one of his favourite songs....a track about what prats Etonians like him were and how futile it was to take them on.
Also has one of the best ever opening lines. 'Supupyour beer and collect your fags, there's a row going on down near Slough'
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@crucial said in What are you listening to, right now................:
As more proof of how out of touch with reality David Cameron was he once famously named this as one of his favourite songs....a track about what prats Etonians like him were and how futile it was to take them on.
Amusing isn't it.
Man, the Jam takes me back. I was seriously young but had two older sisters. The eldest was into The Jam, Clash, Ramones et al. I still love it.
I'll have to have a word with the other sister. I'm having Abba flashbacks or something - it's not good for my mental health.
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@snowy said in What are you listening to, right now................:
@crucial said in What are you listening to, right now................:
As more proof of how out of touch with reality David Cameron was he once famously named this as one of his favourite songs....a track about what prats Etonians like him were and how futile it was to take them on.
Amusing isn't it.
Man, the Jam takes me back. I was seriously young but had two older sisters. The eldest was into The Jam, Clash, Ramones et al. I still love it.
I'll have to have a word with the other sister. I'm having Abba flashbacks or something - it's not good for my mental health.
Sounds like your sister is from my era. My teen years were a diet of those bands.
The Clash at he Logan Concrete Centre in 82 is still one of the best gigs I have been too.Edit: Playlist here https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/the-clash/1982/logan-campbell-centre-auckland-new-zealand-73d7c2dd.html
Imagine a band these days opening their set wih their most famous song. -
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Have just found a recording of the complete Auckland gig. I thought that there was only one show and that's also what various websites tell me but I have also found a poster that mentions an extra show the next day.
There are a couple of moments that I remember strongly. In particular when Strummer stopped because some fucktard bootboy gobbed and hit him. Challenged the guy to come on stage and retrive the spit.
Must listen through now to confirm which gig I was at as that setlist doesn't quite seem right either. I recall the crowd getting bored when they played the Sandinista stuff and chanted 'old stuff' at them.EDIT: found it in the recording. The quality is crap but can confirm I was at the Friday night show. I can't even confirm if the Saturday one happened. Strangely they played in Welly on the Sunday at the Town Hall
