Music

Oi! You’re not allowed to post songs that anyone has ever heard of on this thread.
Great song.

 

I think it's time for some Stump, the 2nd John Peel second contains a great cover of Satisfaction:

 

Pigbros, such an underrated band, so good live:

 

Good, but I prefer Pigbag's one hit wonder from the 80s...

 

Love this.

 

Jesus plays chilled out tunes at sunset.

 

Today I have been listening to the Propellerheads, Deckandrumsandrockanroll the 20th Anniversaary edition. It's got some bloody good remixes on it.

 

Early footage of Bjork as a 16 year old punk.

 

Sounds bizarrely like what a cover of that tune by Right Said Fred could have sounded like. They would probably have used the same imagery.

 

I love this album so much. One of the best ever live albums. It hasn't dated one bit. Still stands up really well.

Magazine were such an underrated band.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL706AA734CEC1DEE0

 

Very nice, but a lack of wooooooaaaaaarrrrrgh vocal for me.

 

Stranger Things indeed.

 

Are you predicting an apocalypse, now?

 

"We are here and now among you"

 

Still a banger.

 

Absolute CHOON.

 

I see that the blessed Saint Kate is #1 thanks to some young persons’ telly programme.

Longest gap between Number Ones for any artist - 44 years. Longest time for a single to get to #1 - 37 years.

Proof, if proof were needed, that 70s/80s music is still the best.

Here is a Partridge tribute:

 

Incomparable.

 

This is great, I think their first 3 albums are peerless, the fourth is good, and then a slow decline, until a rebirth in the 21st Century. RIP Dave Greenfield who died of Covid during Lockdown.

The BBC promised to give The Stranglers free tickets to give to their regular fanbase in Guildford, where they were originally based and built up a loyal following, but when these didn't materialise, they started letting them in through the Union building windows. However, the Ents Security (the usual Rugby Club members) started chucking them out, hence the diatribe and storm off at the end.

 

Some more meat on the bones of this story:

Rock Goes To College

… the tale behind the ‘infamous’ incident

In 1978 the BBC ran a music series called Rock Goes To College featuring bands playing at campuses. The Stranglers were booked to play Guildford University, this arrangement was set up by the BBC and Howard Marks, an independent PR retained by the Stranglers management. The band agreed to the idea particularly because Guildford was where they played their first gigs.

At the time the Stranglers were banned from other venues in the town so this was the only chance for fans to see them. However the band weren’t keen on tickets only being available to the students, they felt that people from the town should have an equal chance of attending and so wanted half the tickets to be sold through local independent record shops. Howard Marks assured them that he had secured this arrangement with the BBC.

After the sound check on the day of the concert Hugh spotted an offer of free tickets to the concert for new students who attended a cheese and wine party. The seeds of suspicion were sown, interrogating various BBC personnel showed that they were unaware of any agreement concerning the distribution of tickets. Word got back that most of those who queued to get in were from the university, and the very few members of public who had obtained tickets had paid high prices for them. It had seemed the BBC had gone back on the ticket deal.

The Stranglers decided to let some public non-ticket holders in, only to find out later that they were ejected again by the stewards. A pre stage meeting decided what was to happen next. On stage, Hugh asked the audience if any of them were from Guildford rather than the university, the result was less than overwhelming when only ‘half a dozen’ people at the back responded. This, proving that the Stranglers had been cheated, resulted in the band walking off after the first or second number (Hanging Around). Howard Marks the PR man meanwhile had not been seen all day.

The producer responsible for the broadcast, Michael Appleton, was not very happy because of the wasted BBC budget for the Outside Broadcast Unit and the lack of end product, particularly as another band could have had the chance instead. Appleton later went on to produce The Old Grey Whistle Test hence the Stranglers non appearance on this program as he was not prepared to work with them.

The BBC have subsequently broadcast the footage of this event, it was included in the 1992 Sounds Of The Seventies series in the edition concentrating on punk.:biggrin:

 

Fantastic! Is he available for birthday parties, political party conferences etc? Love it.

 

The perfect terrace song we've been looking for.
If we can just squeeze "family club" somewhere into the lyrics I think we are there.

 

Sam Fender with another banger released today:

https://open.spotify.com/track/57BvpyURy7xPYKgbPRaynf?si=zq6R-HocQKirFAZ29FGikQ&context=spotify:album:2rUWCf2wXA1PMK3NUckp2p

He was my Glastonbury highlight (mostly because my whole group loved it), incredible talent.

 

Are they.

This is my fav of theirs, I love the anger in it.

 

Like his T-shirt.