Music! Albums that kept you going during your school years.

[Emma Jane]

Blimey, there's a blast from the past.

All together now : "Gordon is a moron......"

"yeah, yeah, it's not fair.."



almost a Grecian

Wasn't that the one about His girlfriend who went off with Gordon? Saw them at the bus stop...
Funniest thing ever

[Emma Jane]

Paul Weller - Wild Wood

I was a huge fan of The Jam, but I never really forgave him for 'The Style Council' so I more or less stopped listening to his stuff.

I probably missed some good stuff in more recent years. Oh well......

Much as I loved The Jam, though, Weller always seemed to be a particularly humourless individual.

Humourless as may be, but I think he's pretty talented. Beautiful voice. Wild Wood was fantastic, and I really liked Studio 150. Not sure what to make of the most recent one just yet, but it is growing on me.

[Emma Jane]

Why are The Eagles still so popular?

Why were they ever popular?

Anyone?

I think so... depends on the generation - you may be too young to appreciate them!

I know quite a few people who were brought up listening to The Eagles, and still listen to them now. Much better musicians than much of the recent stuff anyway.

[Richard Ruck]

I think so... depends on the generation - you may be too young to appreciate them! .

Bl*ody Hell! Thanks!

They were popular with blokes who were a couple of years older than me, so you might be right.

These things must go in cycles, I suppose.

[Richard Ruck]

Humourless as may be, but I think he's pretty talented.

I can't argue with that. I just thought the Style Council stuff was pretty insipid after The Jam.......

Just a personal thing, I suppose.

"All Mod Cons" came out towards the end of my time at C.H. - I still think it's his / their finest moment.

[Richard Ruck]

Blimey, there's a blast from the past.

All together now : "Gordon is a moron......"

"yeah, yeah, it's not fair.."



almost a Grecian

Wasn't that the one about His girlfriend who went off with Gordon? Saw them at the bus stop...
Funniest thing ever

Yep, "Jilted John" by 'Jilted John'.

Graham Fellowes was the bloke's real name, I think.

[Emma Jane]

Bl*ody Hell! Thanks!

No worries! I suppose cycles sounds about right - a bit like flares maybe? I think they're fantastic, (especially Desperado and Doolin' Dalton) but then again, I think Willie Nelson is too. No accounting for tastes, or so I'm told.

[huntertitus]

David Bowie - Ziggy Stardust
Kevin Ayers - The Confessions of Doctor Dream
David Bowie - Alladin Sane
T Rex - Slider
Roxy Music - For your Pleasure


Most people in my time listened to Deep Purple
Led Zep, Bad Company, E.L.P, Yes, Focus

I looked down on them with distain

[HowardH]

Kevin Ayers - Confessions of Dr Dream. I haven't heard that for many a year .... "I take life .....with my knife ...." I remember preparing/producing a dream sequence theatrical dance to that at uni.... gosh"!

Actually the only music that kept me sane at C.H. was my first exposure to that Irish enigma (be warned I won't hear a word said against him..... it could result in throwing my computer through the window) - Van Morrison.
George Ivan Morrison's "Astral Weeks" reduces me to little bits every time I hear it, but so do most of his other 39 discs that I own, not too mention various soundboard recordings from gigs all round the globe.....

Anyone asleep yet? Soon will be. I sense the Great Plum laughing at this utterly predictable post!

[huntertitus]

Kevin Ayers - Confessions of Dr Dream. I haven't heard that for many a year .... "I take life .....with my knife ...." I remember preparing/producing a dream sequence theatrical dance to that at uni.... gosh"!

Actually the only music that kept me sane at C.H. was my first exposure to that Irish enigma (be warned I won't hear a word said against him..... it could result in throwing my computer through the window) - Van Morrison.
George Ivan Morrison's "Astral Weeks" reduces me to little bits every time I hear it, but so do most of his other 39 discs that I own, not too mention various soundboard recordings from gigs all round the globe.....

Anyone asleep yet? Soon will be. I sense the Great Plum laughing at this utterly predictable post!

I never expected anyone to have heard of, let alone know the music of Kevin Ayers

Well done!

He was actually a genius - the favourite songs I recall had names like

"Song from the Bottom of a Well"
"Shouting in a Bucket Blues"

There was a song about a fellow who turns his back on everything - leaves his job, goes off on his horse, shares a funny cigarette with same horse, has stoned conversation with same horse and then thanks the hose with sincerity

Very English

Very eccentric

which reminds me of the immortal (actually now dead - fell asleep drunk and got burnt) Vivian Stanshall - I used to listen to the LP called "Doughnut in Granny's Greenhouse" did you ever have that one?

[Richard Ruck]

I had and still have The Bonzo's "Gorilla" - always found it tittersome.

One year I organised the Mid.B entry in the House Singing Competition - we did an awful rendition of 'Jollity Farm' and got knocked out in the first round.....

Judges, eh? No sense of humour!

I think Col. B did something comparably silly, and were the other house to make a swift and undignified exit.....

[J.R.]

Hhhhmm.
No
Now there's a surprise (is it whole or half?)

Well, he did ask!

Whole (well, almost - knackers lopped off at a young age).

Oh Richard ! I'm SO sorry ! Did it affect your singing voice in later life ?

No record players in my day at school, but I seem to remember that Del Shannon and Brenda Lee were fav's !

I notice DaveByThe Sea is very quiet on this one. That reminds me ! - I must ask him how 'Nipper' the dog is ?

[DavebytheSea]

I am not usually accused of reticence, but JR has thrown down the gauntlet. Thus I must respond .............. and confess!

The fact is that I was the Camilla of my day. A perfect sight-reader at 12 and totally uninterested in anything remotely connnected with 'pop' music. (It is still the case despite my four children). I did have a wind-up gramophone in the house (Mid A) and sharpened fibre needles to play Tchaikowsky and Sibelius - my passion with Bach was still developing. An album was, and remains, for me a repository for stamps.

So notorious was my obsession with the choir, that on returning late from choir practice one evening I was punished by having to learn (and sing) a pop song. I can remember every syllable, every note to this day.

"If you lay a silver dollar down upon the ground
It will roll because it's round"

... ugh! .... I will not bore you with the rest - but I suppose if you want a full rendition, I will give it in return for a beer at the Bax next Saturday evening. I should add, that it remains to this day the only popular music I have ever acquired.

Nipper? Who he?

[UserRemovedAccount]

Come on Eastburn!
You can't have been so classical that you never heard any pop songs at all. What about Alma Cogan, Lonnie Donegan, Frankie Lane, Doris Day, Petula Clark and that American who always ended up in tears, who the rest of us were listening to? Did you really never listen to Radio Luxembourg?
You will be telling us next that you never read the "Eagle"
And by the way, in the second line of your quotation, the word "round" is repeated three times.

[DavebytheSea]

well yes I hadn't - not any of them. Now the Jankovic brothers or the choir of Kings College - that's different! I thought three notes to the one word, but I could be wrong!