A partial list of songs I've recently rediscovered (I am truly ashamed I forgot about the first one btw):
- Helicopter - Bloc Party - Walking on Broken Glass - Annie Lennox - My Number - Foals - I'll Take You There - Staple Singers - Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition Was In) - Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings - Hit Me With Your Best Shot - Pat Benatar - 1 Thing - Amerie - Fishing For A Dream - Turin Brakes - It's Oh So Quiet - Bjork
A partial list of songs I've recently rediscovered (I am truly ashamed I forgot about the first one btw):
- Helicopter - Bloc Party - Walking on Broken Glass - Annie Lennox - My Number - Foals - I'll Take You There - Staple Singers - Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition Was In) - Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings - Hit Me With Your Best Shot - Pat Benatar - 1 Thing - Amerie - Fishing For A Dream - Turin Brakes - It's Oh So Quiet - Bjork
I have got this by Marcel Bontempi, never heard this version, really good!
A partial list of songs I've recently rediscovered (I am truly ashamed I forgot about the first one btw):
- Helicopter - Bloc Party - Walking on Broken Glass - Annie Lennox - My Number - Foals - I'll Take You There - Staple Singers - Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition Was In) - Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings - Hit Me With Your Best Shot - Pat Benatar - 1 Thing - Amerie - Fishing For A Dream - Turin Brakes - It's Oh So Quiet - Bjork
Driving home last night I got pissed off with Radio 4 so changed to my iPod and randomly fancied listening to some Bee Gees. I like their early stuff more than post Night Fever and have always recognised them as brilliant song writers (for themselves and for others). I had forgotten what a great song "Ive gotta get a message to you' is. Must have played it four or five times, singing along on my own at the top of my voice.
Driving home last night I got pissed off with Radio 4 so changed to my iPod and randomly fancied listening to some Bee Gees. I like their early stuff more than post Night Fever and have always recognised them as brilliant song writers (for themselves and for others). I had forgotten what a great song "Ive gotta get a message to you' is. Must have played it four or five times, singing along on my own at the top of my voice.
I heard something on the radio about the Bee Gees the other night. Apparently, they used to get bored sitting in their trailer between shooting the film about Sgt Pepper ( Didn’t know there was one???) so they wrote songs. Apparently, in about an hour and a half they had come up with 3 future hits ( Love So Right, Too Much Heaven and Tragedy, I think they were) That’s a pretty impressive and lucrative 90 mins of work eh.
Driving home last night I got pissed off with Radio 4 so changed to my iPod and randomly fancied listening to some Bee Gees. I like their early stuff more than post Night Fever and have always recognised them as brilliant song writers (for themselves and for others). I had forgotten what a great song "Ive gotta get a message to you' is. Must have played it four or five times, singing along on my own at the top of my voice.
Dr Robert & Kym Mazelle - Wait : This song always reminds me of driving to Tottenham Away in 1989 with my uncle....I clearly remember it playing on Capital. Heard it on Spotify the other day...probably for the first time since.
Driving home last night I got pissed off with Radio 4 so changed to my iPod and randomly fancied listening to some Bee Gees. I like their early stuff more than post Night Fever and have always recognised them as brilliant song writers (for themselves and for others). I had forgotten what a great song "Ive gotta get a message to you' is. Must have played it four or five times, singing along on my own at the top of my voice.
Anyone who can get the words tender and fanny in a song title deserves great credit
Now these aren't necessarily to my taste, I used to run a pretty successful mobile disco and here's a selection of floor fillers I could fall back on. Pure pop, some more sickly than others and shows the trick to shifting a lot of records is to write a chorus
Sugababes - About you now Girls Aloud - Love Machine Justin Timberlake - Like I love you Christina Aguilera - Dirty Beyonce - Crazy in love Kanye West - gold digger Jocelyn Brown - Somebody else's guy Britney Spears - Toxic The proclaimers - 500 miles George Michael - fastlove Wham - Freedom B52s - Love shack Michael Jackson - Billie Jean
You could argue that these should be sent into some kind of bin for bad taste but the great British public fucking loved them. Some songs that have become massively popular actually make me angry listening to them, Sisqos dreadful thong song and Nelly doing hot in here make me feel pretty murderous but they used to get played due to demand. Novelty songs also made my teeth itch such as band aid and anything involving tv characters. Again, if I got asked for that shit I'd play it. Nothing worse than a DJ who gets above his station when playing to a pub full of pissed up 30 year old WKD assassins thinking he's judge Jules. Play to the crowd as much as it feels like you are dying inside
I used to give Dennis Waterman an airing too occasionally, and at a wedding I was asked to play the home and away theme for the first dance which made me piss myself laughing and question the happy couples sanity but what the public want the public get. Always made me laugh when some cabbage would bend your ear about how they are a DJ and ask if I'm going to play progressive techno or deep house. At a fucking 50th, once I'd got bored of listening to their bullshit I'd stick Apache on and start working out how I'd spunk the money I was getting for the old rope I was peddling
Girls Talk - Dave Edmunds. I can't remember what programme but it was randomly plonked on something last week. It took me back to a great free lunch-time gig Rockpile did in The Three Tuns bar at the LSE around 1978. Pub rock as an art form.
One of my Fav songs along with Nick lowe , Cruel To Be Kind .
Out of the blue I played this today. About a dozen times. One of those songs you know at what stage of your life when it originally came out.
A perfectly imperfect proper pop song - tight drum fills, the acoustic backing, bass line, simplistic but effective guitar solo, harmonies, melody you can't get out of your head and words that will resonate with anyone who has been on the receiving end of that sort of relationship.
Then I found this on YouTube - Daryl Hall and Tom "T-Bone" Wolk accompanying Nick Lowe in an acoustic version that puts a somewhat authentic element to the song:
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Prairie Rose by Roxy Music
Loved the song some 43 years ago!!
- Helicopter - Bloc Party
- Walking on Broken Glass - Annie Lennox
- My Number - Foals
- I'll Take You There - Staple Singers
- Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition Was In) - Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings
- Hit Me With Your Best Shot - Pat Benatar
- 1 Thing - Amerie
- Fishing For A Dream - Turin Brakes
- It's Oh So Quiet - Bjork
Driving home last night I got pissed off with Radio 4 so changed to my iPod and randomly fancied listening to some Bee Gees. I like their early stuff more than post Night Fever and have always recognised them as brilliant song writers (for themselves and for others). I had forgotten what a great song "Ive gotta get a message to you' is. Must have played it four or five times, singing along on my own at the top of my voice.
Dunno why but someone put this on at work today. No idea what it's about but not heard it for years.
Icicle Works- Love is a Wonderful Colour
That’s a pretty impressive and lucrative 90 mins of work eh.
That was a great album.
Casanova (your playing days are over) - Coffee
(esp. the longer version, from the LP London Town)
Sugababes - About you now
Girls Aloud - Love Machine
Justin Timberlake - Like I love you
Christina Aguilera - Dirty
Beyonce - Crazy in love
Kanye West - gold digger
Jocelyn Brown - Somebody else's guy
Britney Spears - Toxic
The proclaimers - 500 miles
George Michael - fastlove
Wham - Freedom
B52s - Love shack
Michael Jackson - Billie Jean
You could argue that these should be sent into some kind of bin for bad taste but the great British public fucking loved them. Some songs that have become massively popular actually make me angry listening to them, Sisqos dreadful thong song and Nelly doing hot in here make me feel pretty murderous but they used to get played due to demand. Novelty songs also made my teeth itch such as band aid and anything involving tv characters. Again, if I got asked for that shit I'd play it. Nothing worse than a DJ who gets above his station when playing to a pub full of pissed up 30 year old WKD assassins thinking he's judge Jules. Play to the crowd as much as it feels like you are dying inside
I used to give Dennis Waterman an airing too occasionally, and at a wedding I was asked to play the home and away theme for the first dance which made me piss myself laughing and question the happy couples sanity but what the public want the public get. Always made me laugh when some cabbage would bend your ear about how they are a DJ and ask if I'm going to play progressive techno or deep house. At a fucking 50th, once I'd got bored of listening to their bullshit I'd stick Apache on and start working out how I'd spunk the money I was getting for the old rope I was peddling
A perfectly imperfect proper pop song - tight drum fills, the acoustic backing, bass line, simplistic but effective guitar solo, harmonies, melody you can't get out of your head and words that will resonate with anyone who has been on the receiving end of that sort of relationship.
Then I found this on YouTube - Daryl Hall and Tom "T-Bone" Wolk accompanying Nick Lowe in an acoustic version that puts a somewhat authentic element to the song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6no9DKxJhW0