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Bands or artists that you didn’t really appreciate when you were young but do now
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Forgot to add OMD to the list1
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Chic3
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A mate just sent me a link to Herb Alpert's Spanish Flea. I'd have laughed at it as a kid, but now I think it's great.0
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Great name too!Stig said:A mate just sent me a link to Herb Alpert's Spanish Flea. I'd have laughed at it as a kid, but now I think it's great.1 -
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I wanted to teach her gymnastics!
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Johnny Cash
Cat Stevens
Traffic
Small Faces
Marvin Gaye2 -
Tom Petty & Heartbreakers
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Stranglers3
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Quite a few from the blues side of early UK rock, but above all of them, Jeff Beck.
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And funerals. That was my mum's requested song to be played at her funeral. And it was.SoundAsa£ said:ABBA.....without doubt the most talented and successful “pop music” group that has ever existed.
Brilliant song writers too.
I don’t have any of their albums but always enjoy hearing them from time to time.
And finally......I defy anyone who says that haven’t tripped the light fantastic whilst at a wedding, christening or party and danced to the timeless “Dancing Queen”.
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I have never ever danced to Dancing Queen nor any other Abba song no matter how pissed or chemically enhanced I may have been. The only song I've ever liked of theirs was the cover by Blancmange of The day before you came.SoundAsa£ said:ABBA.....without doubt the most talented and successful “pop music” group that has ever existed.
Brilliant song writers too.
I don’t have any of their albums but always enjoy hearing them from time to time.
And finally......I defy anyone who says that haven’t tripped the light fantastic whilst at a wedding, christening or party and danced to the timeless “Dancing Queen”.
They are not the most successful pop music group that have ever existed & to say they are the most talented is down to personal opinion & taste. If you think that they are the most talented group that ever existed it comes as a surprise that you don't own any albums & only enjoy hearing them from time to time so I'm guessing that this is a wind up to entice sad old men like me to bite :-):smiley:0 -
I'm beginning to feel left out everyone seems to have a Kate Bush story but me :-(Addick Addict said:0 -
My next door neighbour was Kate Bush's dad's window cleaner.
IIRC he was a doctor.0 -
Her Dad was my first GP, lived in a big house off Upper Wickham Lane, treated my Great Uncle even after he'd retired from his practice,which he had in Plumstead for years0
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He was my doctor when I was a kid..Rock Spectacle said:Her Dad was my first GP, lived in a big house off Upper Wickham Lane, treated my Great Uncle even after he'd retired from his practice,which he had in Plumstead for years0 -
Frank Zappa
Never ‘got’ him at the time but now listen and watch his gigs on youtube all the time.
He was a musical genius.2 -
Friend's older brother had a flat in Blackheath in the late 70s and from time to time held large parties. As young men of a certain age we were very excited to hear that Kate Bush had been to the previous one and was due to attend the next one.charltonbob said:
I'm beginning to feel left out everyone seems to have a Kate Bush story but me :-(Addick Addict said:
Twisted his arm for an invite ............ she didn't go3 -
mine too . He had a surgery in Bathe rd in PlumsteadSomervilleAddick said:
He was my doctor when I was a kid..Rock Spectacle said:Her Dad was my first GP, lived in a big house off Upper Wickham Lane, treated my Great Uncle even after he'd retired from his practice,which he had in Plumstead for years0 - Sponsored links:
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My old boss was a big fan, he did me a tape of his more satirical stuff like the muffin man, jesus thinks you're a jerk, Bobby Brown etc. It was a great listen, I'm forever thinking what Zappa would have made of Trump if he was still about.Baldybonce said:Frank Zappa
Never ‘got’ him at the time but now listen and watch his gigs on youtube all the time.
He was a musical genius.0 -
My nan always used to tell me that Kate Bush's dad was her doctor.Covered End said:My next door neighbour was Kate Bush's dad's window cleaner.
IIRC he was a doctor.0 -
Once saw her jogging up the A207 holding pet biscuits chasing after a labrador that had pinched her lunch.
She was running up that hill to make a deal with dog.9 -
Nothing to do with Kate Bush or music but as a youngish man I had a GP, Doctor Blood. Funnily enough years later I ended up working with his daughter.Rock Spectacle said:Her Dad was my first GP, lived in a big house off Upper Wickham Lane, treated my Great Uncle even after he'd retired from his practice,which he had in Plumstead for years0 -
When I was in my teens I listened to pop music then the sort of stuff John Peel used to play, so I have a soft spot for early 80s pop, post punk, jangly indie, reggae and ska and guitar based African music (think Bhundu Boys and Indestructible Beat of Soweto). There are other things I've got into since then that I didn't really come across in those times so they don't fit the question, like folk, bluegrass or classical.
The thing I never got when younger was jazz. It's been creeping up on me for about the last decade. Prior to that the only arguably jazz records I had were a Jimmy Witherspoon collection and a Nina Simone one and I just told myself it was blues.
In lockdown, I've been listening a lot to Mulatu Astatke, an Ethiopian jazz musician and I love it. I'd heard this sort of stuff before at festivals and it hadn't really connected but for some reason it does now.
I still haven't "got" the weird screechy saxophone kind of jazz though and I'm not sure I ever will.
If it helps I like Kate Bush too, but don't have any anecdotes1 -
Johnny Cash ... thought he was ok but nothing special. Then about 25 years or so ago, I started listening properly.Such a wealth of amazing songs and a brilliant back catalogue, not to mention when he ‘re-invented’ himself with Rick Rubin.4
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I’ve discovered. Ethiopian music recently too, I’m enjoying the ‘mistakes on purpose’ album by Girma Beyene @ Akalewube.rananegra said:When I was in my teens I listened to pop music then the sort of stuff John Peel used to play, so I have a soft spot for early 80s pop, post punk, jangly indie, reggae and ska and guitar based African music (think Bhundu Boys and Indestructible Beat of Soweto). There are other things I've got into since then that I didn't really come across in those times so they don't fit the question, like folk, bluegrass or classical.
The thing I never got when younger was jazz. It's been creeping up on me for about the last decade. Prior to that the only arguably jazz records I had were a Jimmy Witherspoon collection and a Nina Simone one and I just told myself it was blues.
In lockdown, I've been listening a lot to Mulatu Astatke, an Ethiopian jazz musician and I love it. I'd heard this sort of stuff before at festivals and it hadn't really connected but for some reason it does now.
I still haven't "got" the weird screechy saxophone kind of jazz though and I'm not sure I ever will.
If it helps I like Kate Bush too, but don't have any anecdotes1 -
Just had a quick listen to some of Mulatu's music - very impressedrananegra said:When I was in my teens I listened to pop music then the sort of stuff John Peel used to play, so I have a soft spot for early 80s pop, post punk, jangly indie, reggae and ska and guitar based African music (think Bhundu Boys and Indestructible Beat of Soweto). There are other things I've got into since then that I didn't really come across in those times so they don't fit the question, like folk, bluegrass or classical.
The thing I never got when younger was jazz. It's been creeping up on me for about the last decade. Prior to that the only arguably jazz records I had were a Jimmy Witherspoon collection and a Nina Simone one and I just told myself it was blues.
In lockdown, I've been listening a lot to Mulatu Astatke, an Ethiopian jazz musician and I love it. I'd heard this sort of stuff before at festivals and it hadn't really connected but for some reason it does now.
I still haven't "got" the weird screechy saxophone kind of jazz though and I'm not sure I ever will.
If it helps I like Kate Bush too, but don't have any anecdotes0 -
For me it’s not so much groups that I’m starting to appreciate, but musical genres as a whole. Genres I missed out on/didn’t appreciate/was too young/old for.
Prog rock
punk
northern soul
easy listening of the 50s, 60s and 70s
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My mum used to live on the same street as Kate Bush and Billy Idol (sorry!)charltonbob said:
I'm beginning to feel left out everyone seems to have a Kate Bush story but me :-(Addick Addict said:1
