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<p>thankfully they haven't gone that far. They fucking love this</p>
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<p>I haven't enjoyed a track this much upon hearing it for the first time since I got down with OPP back in the 90s......great work.</p> -
<p>It's catchy as hell aye? </p>
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<p>Holy shit, that new Macklemore album is actually really good. Mixed in with the piss takers (i know a loooot of people who will relate to "Lets Eat") there are some really good serious, even sobering songs. I'm impressed. </p>
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<p>Holy shit, that new Macklemore album is actually really good. Mixed in with the piss takers (i know a loooot of people who will relate to "Lets Eat") there are some really good serious, even sobering songs. I'm impressed. </p>
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<p>Are you telling me there's a white boy rapper out there to carry on the torch that Vanilla Ice lit in 1990 since we all stopped what we were doing......collaborated and listened ?</p> -
<p>I'm down with the mack bro. Thrift shop is a mint tune (but thrashed to death) and new stuff is good too. </p>
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<p>MN5, I liked 'Sorry' before I realised it was the beebs. Still like, although that dirty feeling won't wash off! Didn't hate that dubstep track he did either.</p>
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<p>I've been working through my fav Weezer music of late. Saw them on their Blue Album tour and they were fucking mean. That album has aged well imo.</p> -
<p>Weezer are fucking excellent, i listen regularly. </p>
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<p>Weezer are fucking excellent, i listen regularly. </p>
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<p>Buddy Holly is as good a song as you could possibly get from that era but on the whole they're not a band I really got into.</p>
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It's great to hear that warm crackle before the music starts. So I have unearthed my old collection, some of it I haven't listened to for nearly 30 years. Christ I had some shit, but real gems too. Currently going through a lot of old Stones and Zep albums! -
<p>Don't you love it when Spotify breaks through your early onset dementia and reminds you of a band you hadn't listened to for years and used to love.</p>
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<p>The Sound.</p>
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<p>Probably one of my most thrashed collections of vinyl in the post punk era, so much so that I must have reached a point of moving on and forgot all about them. They came up as a suggestion when I was looking for something to put on this morning and I have rediscovered this awesome collection of albums (well apart from one dud)</p>
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<p>Totally underrated band commercially but favourites among many of my friends in the day. Easily comparable to Echo and the Bunnymen, Joy Division, The Smiths.... in some of their stuff it is like listening to the best bits of those bands all melded together but in their own way. Peter Hook like bass lines, Johnny Marr and Will Sergeant like guitar, Ian McCulloch like vocals and imagery.</p>
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<p>Best thing is that having no hits as such you can value the entire albums without being put off by some 'one hit wonder' element.</p>
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<p>Looked up Wikipedia to see what happened to them and was reminded that like Ian Curtis, the lead man in The Sound, Adrian Borland was a troubled soul and took his own life.</p>
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<p>This is what wiki has to say about them..."Many have said that The Sound were not given the recognition they deserved.[1] Trouser Press questioned: "It's hard to understand why this London quartet never found commercial success. At their best, The Sound's excellent neo-pop bears favourable comparison to The Psychedelic Furs and Echo and the Bunnymen."[2] Jack Rabid of The Big Takeover magazine stated: "The Sound? Just one of the finest bands of the 1980s."[11] Chris Roberts of Uncut magazine wrote, "U2? Joy Division? Bunnymen? They pale in this band's shadow."[12]</p>
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<p>a couple of samples. </p>
<p>First song on the first album</p>
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<p>a live version of one of my faves</p>
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<p>Why is there a woman holding boobies on this and then no fucking woman holding boobies in the video. Colour me Jegga disappointed.</p> -
<p>Weezer... WOW!</p>
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<p>Some things take you right back to certain points of your life. Say It Ain't So takes me back to end of 7th form, hearing it on the radio and thinking thats a catchy little number, blissfully unaware that this song, combined with Offspring, Self-Esteem, would pretty much so define my first year at Uni (these were the big numbers played at the Hilly in 1996 to get the crowd going).</p>
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<p>Why is there a woman holding boobies on this and then no fucking woman holding boobies in the video.</p>
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<p>It's probably a metaphor for life in the 21st century.</p> -
<p>Double J listing Trainspotting's <a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://doublej.net.au/news/features/trainspottings-five-greatest-musical-moments'>Five Greatest Musical Moments</a>.</p>
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Solid boogie tune from Stretch, the band that got off to an infamous start as the "fake Fleetwood Mac".<br><br>
<a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stretch_(band)'>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stretch_(band)</a><br><br></p><p></p><blockquote class="ipsBlockquote">The band was put together in 1974 with help from Fleetwood Mac manager Clifford Davis and drummer Mick Fleetwood, to perform as Fleetwood Mac on a US tour because the existing Fleetwood Mac were not in a position to fulfil outstanding contractual obligations. However, Fleetwood did not join the tour as planned, and later denied any knowledge or involvement, and partway through the tour it became obvious to audiences that there was no original member of Fleetwood Mac in the band, and the tour collapsed. Bass player Paul Martinez claimed, "Mick Fleetwood pulled out at the last minute claiming not to know who we were!"[2]<br><br>
Stretch rose from the ashes of this debacle, and soon had a No. 16 hit single in November 1975 with "Why Did You Do It?",[3] the lyric of which was a direct attack on Mick Fleetwood for his failure to join the band on the ill-fated Fleetwood Mac tour.[4]</blockquote> -
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Solid boogie tune from Stretch, the band that got off to an infamous start as the "fake Fleetwood Mac".<br><a class="bbc_url" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stretch_(band)">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stretch_(band)</a></p></blockquote>
The Fleetwood Mac story is so weird you think it was too farfetched if they made it into a film. The Stretch thing rose out of the band cancelling their US tour after Mick F discovered that their then guitarist Bob Weston was having an affair with his wife Jenny Fleetwood, who was sister of Pattie Boyd (aka Layla). The manager, Clifford Davis, was on the hook for the losses so tried to form a band who would tour.<br><br>
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<p>The Fleetwood Mac story is so weird you think it was too farfetched if they made it into a film. The Stretch thing rose out of the band cancelling their US tour after Mick F discovered that their then guitarist Bob Weston was having an affair with his wife Jenny Fleetwood, who was sister of Pattie Boyd (aka Layla). The manager, Clifford Davis, was on the hook for the losses so tried to form a band who would tour.<br><br>
Their guitarist dramas are simply insane.</p>
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<p>.......and yet they make the most dreary, inspipid, safe music possible.......ironic.</p>
