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Battle of the Bands

Henry Irving
Henry Irving Posts: 85,220
edited January 2007 in Other Football and Sports
The Temptations v The Four Tops

Aztec Camera v the Arctic Monkeys

The Faces or the Small Face

Black Uhuru v UB40
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  • Ketman
    Ketman Posts: 6,796
    Jeez hardly know any of them.

    Four Tops
    & UB40

    The rest Fug nose
  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 85,220
    How can you be a DJ and not know who the Temptations were? Funky before there was funk. Aint too proud to beg, papa was a rolling stone, etc, etc
  • Salad
    Salad Posts: 10,189
    Sorry to break your rules ...

    Aztec Camera, Arctic Monkeys, Small Faces.


    Bored by the others and hate U*40
  • Ketman
    Ketman Posts: 6,796
    I have heard of the Temptations just thought Four Tops were better. The only other group I knew was UB40 therefore they win that one by default.
  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 85,220
    I'll let you off then Ketman. :-)
  • suzisausage
    suzisausage Posts: 11,502
    love aztec camera, so can't choose between them and arctic monkeys

    "somewhere in my heart, there is a star that shines for you"
  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 85,220
    I obviously need to re-think this.

    Abba v Beatles

    Queen v Sex Pistols

    Blur v s club 7

    Monkees v the who
  • suzisausage
    suzisausage Posts: 11,502
    beatles
    queen
    blur
    the who
  • Salad
    Salad Posts: 10,189
    Suzi - have you got "High Land, Hard Rain" their debut album - aprt from Somewhere In My Heart, it contains all their best stuff - one of my all time favourite albums.

    Saw Roddy Frame a couple of years ago at Ronnie Scots and at the end he performed SIMH and four or five off from High Land, Hard Rain. His last solo album is pretty good too.
  • Salad
    Salad Posts: 10,189
    Abba Sex Pistols Blur Monkees
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  • suzisausage
    suzisausage Posts: 11,502
    erm...god knows what the album is, my mum and dad used to play it in the car, and me and my brother used to sing along to it. same with fairground attraction!

    i have an album with what looks like a carousel, is it love?
  • Ketman
    Ketman Posts: 6,796
    Abba
    Sex Pistols
    S Club 7 (LOL)
    The Who
  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 85,220
    [cite]Posted By: suzisausage[/cite]erm...god knows what the album is, my mum and dad used to play it in the car, and me and my brother used to sing along to it. same with fairground attraction!

    i have an album with what looks like a carousel, is it love?

    Cool parents. How old are they if you don't mind me asking?
  • suzisausage
    suzisausage Posts: 11,502
    my dad is 55 this year and mum is 60 this year.

    she listens to xfm and has every muse album amongst other stuff, and he's currently listening to maximo park, lily allen and jim noir amongst others, that was who he played in the car at the weekend

    mum saw the beatles live, and we took my dad to see the stones for his b'day in august, and got front row. me and my brother defo know where we get the music interest from!
  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 85,220
    Slightly older than me then! I always take that "hope I die before I get old" to mean stay young and interested rather than reaching a certain age. Sounds like your mum and dad agree. Be interesting to know what, say there top five albums are.

    Part of me thinks it would be great if Joe likes "my" music (of course it is what he hears now in the house and car) but as former punk I also want him to listen to stuff that I hate, think is derivative, too loud, can't hear the words and can't tell if they are boys or girls.
  • suzisausage
    suzisausage Posts: 11,502
    they have got occasional some questionable tastes. they started singing along to the black eyed peas album much to my dismay.

    dad got me into gomez, and he's going to come to glastonbury with us next year. he used to take my brother to donnington to see the monsters of rock, and took jon to see "night of 100 guitars" with eric clapton.

    mum is a massive motown fan, used to sneak out to concerts when she was younger, when her dad used to tell her that they were a waste of her money. she saw dionne warwick once, in a theatre in brixton, and there was no heating, she came on in her coat, sang 3 songs, not "walk on by" and left. they didn't get any money back and my mum didn't like her after that.
    love sitting down with them with them telling us stories about how music influenced them. my mums elder brother had a scooter, with all the mirrors, as he was a bit of a mod. mum used to nick his lp's.

    will ask them their top 5 albums and get back to you!!
  • Chirpy Red
    Chirpy Red Posts: 7,587
    Slade V The Sweet

    Rubettes V Shawadywaddy

    Glitter V Stardust

    Donny Osmond V David Cassidy

    The Jackson 5 V The Osmonds

    Mud V Wizard

    Pilot V The Motors

    Flintlock V The Wombles
  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 85,220
    edited January 2007
    Sounds like I'm going to like you mums choices more than your dads (monsters of rock!!). Really intrigued to hear what they are.

    My M & D are much older (74 and 82) so not of the rock and roll era but we did have lots of blues 78s in the house. Leadbelly, Bessie Smith etc that I wish I'd kept now. Dad used to play in a skiffle group but music wasn't such a big thing in my house when growing up.

    music and musicians such a big influence on me so I can dig where they are coming from, man.
  • suzisausage
    suzisausage Posts: 11,502
    slade
    never heard of rubettes so shawadywaddy
    stardust
    donny
    jackson 5
    mud
    pilot
    wombles cos dunno flintlock!
  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 85,220
    edited January 2007
    Nice one Dave

    Slade V The Sweet - Slade just

    Rubettes V Shawadywaddy - Rubettes

    Glitter V Stardust - Glitter even if now I couldn't really listen to him. Saw him live in about 1980 New years eve. Did all the classics

    Donny Osmond V David Cassidy David, better looking and no a mormon

    The Jackson 5 V The Osmonds The jacksons by a mile. Not even a contest. Pop genius

    Mud V Wizard - Wizard

    Pilot V The Motors - January, Magic classics for has to be the pilot

    Flintlock V The Wombles Flintlock for the light bulb spinning and the two groupies (linda Robson and Pauline Quirke plus the drummer was in the tomorrow people.)
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  • Chirpy Red
    Chirpy Red Posts: 7,587
    Flintlock V The Wombles Flintlock for the light bulb spinning and the two groupies (linda Robson and Pauline Quirke plus the drummer was in the tomorrow people.)[/quote]

    His name was Mike Holloway.
  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 85,220
    Yeah but what was his character name?
  • Chirpy Red
    Chirpy Red Posts: 7,587
    [cite]Posted By: Henry Irving[/cite]Yeah but what was his character name?

    Mike Bell I believe....
  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 85,220
    Yeah, he played a gypsy boy.
  • suzisausage
    suzisausage Posts: 11,502
    [cite]Posted By: Henry Irving[/cite]Sounds like I'm going to like you mums choices more than your dads (monsters of rock!!). Really intrigued to hear what they are.

    mums are:

    otis - blue
    beatles - rubber soul
    isley brothers - 3+3
    marvin gaye - she can't decide which album
    elton john - yellow brick road
  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 85,220
    edited January 2007
    She is a soul girl. Blue is great. Would have gone for What's going on but always think of Marvin and the Isley's as singles bands.

    Rubber soul or Revolver for a beatles LP but I can see why she go for rubber soul. Think that is Elton's best but not that big a fan.

    I'd go for

    Blue - Joni Mitchel
    Blood of the tracks - Dylan
    The Band - The Band
    Horses - Patti Smith
    Transformer - Lou Reed

    But hard not to have any Velvets, Impressions/Curtis, Clash, Stones, etc, etc.
  • MCS
    MCS Posts: 8,404
    was listening to the clash last night, london calling great album.
  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 85,220
    [cite]Posted By: MCS[/cite]was listening to the clash last night, london calling great album.

    First album is my fave. living in London in 1977 when that exploded. Going to listen to it again now. When those drums kick in on Janie Jones I'm 16 again.
  • Medders
    Medders Posts: 5,572
    edited January 2007
    [cite]Posted By: suzisausage[/cite]dad got me into gomez, and he's going to come to glastonbury with us next year.

    you serious?
  • suzisausage
    suzisausage Posts: 11,502
    next year, not this year. god knows how i'll explain how i can skin up....

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