How can you enjoy your albums without paying attention to the labels?
By listening?
Do you have "In A Glass House" as a US release?
It's a trick question...
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How can you enjoy your albums without paying attention to the labels?
By listening?
Do you have "In A Glass House" as a US release?
It's a trick question...
I'm a fan. And spin what I have on vinyl from 40 - 50 years ago. But I don't have the in depth knowledge that I do with Yes, Genises, ELP, etc. I have five or six on vinyl IIRC. They are up at the other house. Can I get back to you on that? They are in my Prog mix on Spotify and I listen to it a lot. Camel is in that same category for me.How can you enjoy your albums without paying attention to the labels?
By listening?
Do you have "In A Glass House" as a US release?
It's a trick question...
To expound a bit more, I am an eclectic. The Beatles. CCR. Dylan. Bowie. Yes. ELP. Genesis. The Boss. Southside Johnny and the Jukes. Buck Owens. The Clash. The Jam. The Pistols. The Beat. The Specials. Rick Nelson. Linda Ronstadt. Jefferson Airplane. Quicksilver. Quake. Blondie. Greg Khin. Al Stewart. The Bangles. The Band. The Avett Brothers. Harry Chapin and even Dan Fogelberg. And of course Neil. And dozens of others. Including my current fave, Nikki and Silversun Pickups.
Family. Friends. Music. Dodger baseball. Fly fishing. That's my life.
Be warned. When I retire, I'm visiting Finland. I will hunt you down. And bring beer. We'll flip discs and talk music for hours.
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Hey! Y'all could meet in the middle: Lake Worth, FL. Largest population of Finns outside Suomi.
Sorry Mike. It's Florida. You know I will never step foot in that state as long as I live.
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Talk Talk is one of the few '80s bands I like. I'm a pop-music advocate (when it's good) but honestly I'm not a fan of most '80s "New Wave"...
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Not The The The Experience? Then you would be filed under E
There were some great bands in the eighties. But finding them was becoming harder as the record industry and radio was changing.
Look to the college radio darlings. REM. The Judybats (stupid name, great music). 10,000 Maniacs. Big Audio Dynamite. Big Country.
Capital sort of tried to make Aussie Paul Kelly popular here, but failed. They wouldn't spend the money for his tour. I know the guy who was his liaison, and he quit and went to law school because Capital management gave Paul the shaft.
Thank goodness for YouTube. We can see what coulda, shoulda, would have been had people who knew music been in charge.
I'll look you up next time I'm down there.
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I can focus my opinion (remember, it's my opinion and everyone has their own) point with '80s James Bond soundtrack songs - with Bond Girl, we have been very selective. As an example when I first joined BG 10 yrs ago, the band was learning "View to a Kill" - what we learned in our attempt is that is was a pretty poorly written song. (never made it to a live show) Bond soundtracks had a solid history of having really good classical pop songs and at a certain point that legacy suffered because of era-specific choices. Shenna Eastman's ('81) "For Your Eyes Only" was the transition - a good song well sung.., but as sappy as you got then. Next was Rita Coolige's "All Time High" ('83) ... schmaltz-ville. Next was Duran Durans aforementioned song ('85).., then A-ha's "The Living Daylights" ('87 - totally forgettable) followed by ('89) "License to Kill" by Gladys Knight which helps save the franchise songs' being sung by a legendary singer.
The '90s & '2000s had mostly* ok theme songs and we play a number of them, but in retrospect I personally feel the '80 offered the weakest Bond movie theme-songs of the bunch and we don't play any of them except 1981's "For Your Eyes Only".
*definitely not all...
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Yell Yell, the screamo Talk Talk cover band. Curse Curse, the punk Talk Talk cover band. The bass players would of course only play Thunderbirds.
There were lots of good bands in the 80s, including many who were not new wave.
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On Sunday I saw a '58 Vette (who knows, possibly this one) in a cool brown/black combo I'd never seen before.
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Yes, I agree - I liked The Meat Puppets, Cocteau Twins, the Specials, and a few others. Most of the rest was over-produced and clique - pompas style over substance. I did like this '80s song though...
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There were some gorgeous chocolate cars!
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I agree - brown is so dis'd as a colour, but done right it is as you say - gorgeous! It must have been "Brown Sunday" because I also saw a cherried-out '65 Mustang convertible in a more red-brown.
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I was briefly in Miami twice many years ago - once to do a photo-shoot for TREK bicycles (#38) in Sept 1983 - ad (both as one & two-page format) appeared in cycling magazines in '84.
The days of steel-frames, leather "hairnets", toe-clips/rat-traps and skinny sew-up tyres. Definitely a different time for racing bikes. Honestly - the bikes have gotten more sophisticated but bike racing is pretty much the same.
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