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Post by mortified on Feb 17, 2018 9:25:53 GMT
snakelady, I don't know that Sweet song at all. Its good as well. Best Bay City Rollers song? There were precious few to choose from in my book but this one gets the nod. I took sis to see them in 1975. It was mental!
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Post by mortified on Feb 18, 2018 7:50:16 GMT
snakelady , I don't know that Sweet song at all. Its good as well. Best Bay City Rollers song? There were precious few to choose from in my book but this one gets the nod. I took sis to see them in 1975. It was mental! It's from their great album Off the Record. Mysteriously though the song never charted in the UK at the time.
I think the Rollers were on the wane by this time. It was 1976 and their hey day had passed. They had more hits of course but not many. They were actually local lads from the housing estate that sis and I grew up in. Girls (including sis!) were camped outside their houses early on but after a short while they moved south (London probably) and that was that. My sister also liked Sweet, Mud, Sparks and one or two others. I took her to see Mud and Sparks but Sweet never came to Edinburgh that I'm aware of. Which is a pity because they were the best of the glam bunch for me.
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Post by mortified on Feb 18, 2018 8:56:25 GMT
Sorry, @inna , I misunderstood. I'm not that clued up on Sweet albums (or Rollers' albums!). But I guess the same sort of thing applies. Sweet had gone past their peak of popularity by '76 or '77 with only Fox On The Run and Love Is Like Oxygen keeping them briefly in the limelight I guess. Always infamous for their B-sides which showed what they were really about. My own personal favourites were always Action and Turn It Down. I think only Action was a hit. ****And as a bit of an update, I've just read that Pip Williams played on their first hit Funny Funny way back in the early 70's! Apparently none of the band played on their very early hits and only provided vocals.
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Post by col on Feb 18, 2018 16:34:02 GMT
How about these!!
And one of the greatest ever!!
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Post by snakelady on Feb 19, 2018 8:13:41 GMT
I've never heard any of these before col - they either didn't chart here, or it's simply those 2-3 years I was too young to notice. mortified - I never knew Roger Chapman was in a band, only know him as a solo artist. Really liked this though (I know it technically belongs into the 80s thread):
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Post by mortified on Feb 19, 2018 8:28:22 GMT
snakelady, Roger Chapman was in Family before putting together Chapman Whitney Streetwalkers. Charlie Whitney was also in Family. I think there were reunions of both recently although I'm not 100% sure. Some of Family's stuff was completely off the wall (it was the early 70's!) but when they wanted to they could be quite brilliant. They had two hit singles in the UK; this was the other. Also very good. With regard to Col's post, the Blackfoot Sue and Dr Feelgood singles were big hits here. The Rod & The Faces song was the opening track of the album A Nod Is As Good As A Wink.... but I don't think it was a single. That was Stay With Me.
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Post by snakelady on Feb 19, 2018 8:43:39 GMT
Merely knew him from Roger Chapman and The Shortlist. That must've been after the other project you mentioned. It wouldn't be a surprise if they didn't chart here, musical developments differed quite a bit from time to time. I should add a few tunes that were popular here. Still think this one's a work of genius: great lyrics: You'll know the tune :
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Post by mortified on Feb 19, 2018 9:04:57 GMT
Good grief, I haven't heard of Udo Lindenberg for years! Great thread this. All those old acts you never hear of now. Ground-breaking acts many of them. Pushing the envelope all over the place. I was looking at Family stuff and came across Curved Air at the same time. Bl00dy hell, these acts don't half take me back! :oo: Sonja Kristina has aged like the rest of us but back in 1971 she was a 14-year old's dangerous bedroom poster You're right, snakelady Autobahn is a work of genius. Their biggest hit here, of course, was The Model which was no.1 for what seemed like ages.
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Post by mortified on Feb 19, 2018 16:02:30 GMT
@inna, Blackfoot Sue disbanded a long time ago; probably in the 70's. Sing Don't Speak was a minor hit in the UK but I found it very anthemic and a bit of a Slade copy. I did love Standing In The Road though. That and Jo Jo Gunne's Run Run Run which feels like it was around the same time; sort of summer '72. Never did get into dungarees though
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Post by mortified on Feb 20, 2018 15:55:03 GMT
@inna, you're obviously and old hippie rocker at heart Hawkwind and Free? You must have had flares wider than the Grand Canyon
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Post by coldwarkid on Feb 21, 2018 17:50:42 GMT
And still playing to sold out arenas right now!
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Post by snakelady on Feb 22, 2018 7:41:35 GMT
And still playing to sold out arenas right now! Ah yep, had that on cassette too. Always reminded me of this
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Post by snakelady on Feb 25, 2018 19:04:50 GMT
These need to be included too:
What a great film Hair was !
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Post by snakelady on Mar 15, 2018 8:27:40 GMT
mortified's remark about 'a bloke with a piano' (concerning Randy Newman) made me search for this: The guy's brilliant IMO .. and talking about Randys - love this:
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Post by mortified on Mar 15, 2018 8:37:13 GMT
I didn't think you'd have ever heard of Gilbert O'Sullivan, snakelady . He was very much peculiarly British I thought. Is he still on the go? I must have a wee Google. Randy Bachman I'll give you. I actually bought his last album back in about 2015. At least I think it was Randy. It was just called Bachman and was straightforward bulldoze blues rock but I liked it. Actually, I'm not totally anti blokes with pianos. There's one out there at the moment called Andy Davis that I really like. His Heartbreak Yellow album is marvellous. But it always helps if they have a half decent band behind them.
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Post by mortified on Mar 15, 2018 9:38:33 GMT
Hmm, apparently Gilbert O'Sullivan is Irish! I never knew that. I got it all wrong. He's in his 70's now and is evidently stuck in the Brian May hair time warp
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Post by mortified on Mar 16, 2018 6:19:21 GMT
@inna , you're the only person I've ever known refer to that Heart song, Barracuda. I bought the single way back when it was released. I'd never heard of Heart at that point. They went on to do stuff that I didn't like at all. But it was the stuff that made them famous. Shows you what I know
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Post by snakelady on Mar 16, 2018 6:31:50 GMT
Like all of the above including Barracuda, but it's the only Heart song I know. Their song somehow reminds me of this (we don't have a 60s thread ) Concerning Gilbert - he had that hairstyle from very early on, maybe it was even him who invented it and Brian followed suit ? I actually know and like numerous of his tunes, even bought a CD once. Think he was quite successful here. There are a number of British bands, who were more successful here than in their home country: Alan Parsons Project, Barclay James Harvest, Uriah Heep ..
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Post by mortified on Mar 16, 2018 8:46:36 GMT
Like all of the above including Barracuda, but it's the only Heart song I know. Wish it was the only one I knew I take it Heart didn't have the huge hits in Germany they had everywhere else then? What About Love, Alone, These Dreams, All I Wanna Do Is Make Love To You and probably many more. All sickly power ballads. Yuk.
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Post by mortified on Mar 16, 2018 10:25:21 GMT
And I forgot about Dan Hill. "Sometimes when we touch; the honesty's too much" ? Really? Get a grip, ya knob. Just gruesome.
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Post by snakelady on Mar 16, 2018 12:47:15 GMT
And I forgot about Dan Hill. "Sometimes when we touch; the honesty's too much" ? Really? Get a grip, ya knob. Just gruesome. I've actually a recording on one of my cassettes ..
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Post by mortified on Mar 16, 2018 14:12:55 GMT
And I forgot about Dan Hill. "Sometimes when we touch; the honesty's too much" ? Really? Get a grip, ya knob. Just gruesome. I've actually a recording on one of my cassettes .. Then please seek medical attention.
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Post by snakelady on Mar 19, 2018 7:54:34 GMT
I've actually a recording on one of my cassettes .. Then please seek medical attention. You don't like Tongue Tied, so your judgement on ballads doesn't count. I didn't say I listen to that song though. It certainly is bombastic and dramatic and difficult to tolerate - as opposed to TT The 70s were the time when we still watched the Eurovision song contest :
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Post by col on Mar 20, 2018 21:41:14 GMT
"One of the greatest singles of all time" Mark Lanegan
This was BEFORE The Pistols, The Clash, The Damnedet al
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Post by snakelady on Mar 30, 2018 7:11:19 GMT
"One of the greatest singles of all time" Mark Lanegan This was BEFORE The Pistols, The Clash, The Damned et al You do have an eclectic taste. Most of the songs you put up I've never heard before. Serious background this next one (she managed to get thrown out of the GDR for being too subversive ):
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