Well my 70's compilation album with hits as eclectic as Quo - Rocking all Over the World, Squeeze - Cool for Cats, Roll over Beethoven - ELO, Baker Street - Gerry Rafferty, Heart of Glass - Blondie, I don't like Mondays - The Boomtown Rats, Ike and Tina Turner - Nutbush City Limits, Don Mclean - American Pie, The Knack - My Sharona, Mud - Tiger Feet, Elton John - Pinball Wizard, David Bowie - Ziggy Stardust, Slade - We're All Crazy Now and one or two others.
When you think that the Seventies took in the end of the Beatles in 1970, through Glam Rock, club acts like Showaddywaddy and the Rubettes to the start of punk and new wave, woven through all of this time were mega-hits by mega-bands and artists like Bowie, The Who, The Stones, Genesis, Elton John, Quo and more. I was in my teens for most of the seventies. It's probably my age but I seem to like the stuff more now than I did at the time.
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Dead Can Dance - Serpent's Egg
Fear Factory - Archetype
Sigur Ros - Agaetis Byrjun
Bad Religion - Against The Grain
Dry your eyes is a classic. Think that's a great album.
Mozart's mass in C minor, as recommneded by Stanmore, has been waking me up via the iPod every morning.
The 70s are the best although I accept that whenever you first get into music, normally as a teenager, the music of that era will always be more significant and memorable to you.
That's a strange old compilation Bing. Mud and Squeeze? Boomtown Rats and ELO?
Also in the 70's you had the best of the Stones albums (Exile), Who's Next, The Ramones, Patti Smith, some great Van Morrison albums, All the best punk, motown and philly were still producing good music, some of the best reggae ever from the Harder They Come through to Two Sevens Clash via The Wailers live at the Lyceum as well as Dylan's last great work Blood on the Tracks.
The Last Shadow Puppets - The Age Of The Understatement
Saw knopfler in concert the other night.The man can play a few notes!
It's just a Hits Album - I think I bought it from Woolies a few years ago.
It was called Reg Dwight's Piano Goes Pop and it's got versions of In the Summertime, Spirit in the Sky and Young Gifted and Black.
The singer sounds familair but I can't put my finger on who it is : - )
New Coldplay stuff
Channelle H - I want It
Alex Gaudino ft Shena - Watch Out
Ricki-Lee - U Wanna Little of this
Stonebridge - You Don't Know
Danni Minogue vs Jason Nevins - Touch me like that
Shanie - Don't give me your life
The Zombies - Odessey and Oracle
Elvis Costello - Momofuku
4 O'Clock Planes - Charlie Chimp
Nick Cave - Dig Lazarus Dig
Neil Young - Decade
Otherwise the iPod is on shuffle - last track on my way into the office this morning was The Smiths, 'What difference does it make?'
Superb album - been playing it again today
Oh! and a bit of M G M T (time to pretend)
great lake swimmers, cat power, and escaped into some old vinyl last night , a crackly version of floyds wish you were here, perfect with a nice glass of wine.
Its been an ambition of mine to contribute to a "Listening to thread" thats another one ticked off the list, as I read most of the comments above I find myself saying " Nope, never heard of them" its alright its an age thing. ; )
No Idea mate could well be though, she sounds like a 'air head' :-)
White Lies - Anyone catch them on Jules Holland? 'Death' is good.
Postal Service - Brilliant. Every song.
Chenelle whatever her name is.................
Oh dear man!!
Zutons new stuff and Pigeon Detectives new stuff in preparation for going to see both this weekend. Pigeon Detectives Brixton Friday and Zutons Bedgebury Sunday.
I'm back in London. At work. It's raining.
Sometimes like sucks :-(