What are you listening to now ?

[plastic penguin]

Incidentally, not even this?

View: https://youtu.be/tflchAt5kJw?si=TcBX_rHWy1lot0fI

To me, one of the finest recordings /lyrics ever, featuring the vocals of Greg Lake.

No. Sounds like Pink Floyd. Cannot abide by most Prog Rock songs. Too long, unnecessarily too intricate and dislike with a passion the image.

I've always said you can start playing DSOTM go on holiday for a week and by the time you come home it'll still be only half way through the first side.

Not for me thanks.

You have to remember as a nipper the only songs I heard was Motown, The Who, The Small Faces, The Beatles, Dusty and other similar tracks. And in the late 70s/early 80s I was very much a part of the Mod revival scene.

 

[Freddy58]

No. Sounds like Pink Floyd. Cannot abide by most Prog Rock songs. Too long, unnecessarily too intricate and dislike with a passion the image.

I've always said you can start playing DSOTM go on holiday for a week and by the time you come home it'll still be only half way through the first side.

Not for me thanks.

You have to remember as a nipper the only songs I heard was Motown, The Who, The Small Faces, The Beatles, Dusty and other similar tracks. And in the late 70s/early 80s I was very much a part of the Mod revival scene.

Fair enough 👍

 

[plastic penguin]

Fair enough 👍

When my mum passed away in the mid 70s I was desparate for some sort of identity, fed up of wearing flares and bell bottom trousers with wide kipper ties.

Wasn't until 1978 I found what I was looking for: The Jam on The Old Grey Whistle Test - I was converted and when I started work in 79, out went the flares and kipper ties, long hair and in came Mohair suits, black and white penguin shoes... I was there. And it chimed with my musical taste: Joe Jackson, Elvis Costello, The Stranglers, early Dexys, Ska and Funk and Disco of the period.

View: https://youtu.be/9T9bqQh-gFI?si=xCtZycv0ex4__96N

 

[plastic penguin]

Currently listening to this. Fabulous album. Big fan of XTC.

 

[Gray]

The Jam

Featuring on TOTP tonight.
Sometime between 8.30-9.00, BBC4.

 

[plastic penguin]

Featuring on TOTP tonight.
Sometime between 8.30-9.00, BBC4.

Thanks for the heads up.

 

[Freddy58]

When my mum passed away in the mid 70s I was desparate for some sort of identity, fed up of wearing flares and bell bottom trousers with wide kipper ties.

Wasn't until 1978 I found what I was looking for: The Jam on The Old Grey Whistle Test - I was converted and when I started work in 79, out went the flares and kipper ties, long hair and in came Mohair suits, black and white penguin shoes... I was there. And it chimed with my musical taste: Joe Jackson, Elvis Costello, The Stranglers, early Dexys, Ska and Funk and Disco of the period.

View: https://youtu.be/9T9bqQh-gFI?si=xCtZycv0ex4__96N

I’m afraid The Jam never did it for me, although I can understand the attraction. Musically speaking, my eureka moment came purely by coincidence in ‘70 when I heard the following tune. On the face of it (now), nothing special , but considering what I was used to on the radio, it was a major diversion. It opened up a whole new world of music to me, I guess I was susceptible to it. Regarding ‘prog’, I grew up in a household that quite often featured classical music (my dad liked it) and found myself liking some of it too. I believe that some ‘prog’ very much has classical elements to it, insofar as you’re taken on a musical journey. That chimes with me, I find it operates on a very emotional level.
All that said, I would say I have quite diverse tastes in music. Incidentally, The Who were my favourite band way back when. Saw them 4 times in their hay day, first time in Jan ‘70 as part of their ‘Tommy’ tour.

View: https://youtu.be/An5beXqVEdc?si=naxDVkt7Zn5NeavN

 

[plastic penguin]

I’m afraid The Jam never did it for me, although I can understand the attraction. Musically speaking, my eureka moment came purely by coincidence in ‘70 when I heard the following tune. On the face of it (now), nothing special , but considering what I was used to on the radio, it was a major diversion. It opened up a whole new world of music to me, I guess I was susceptible to it. Regarding ‘prog’, I grew up in a household that quite often featured classical music (my dad liked it) and found myself liking some of it too. I believe that some ‘prog’ very much has classical elements to it, insofar as you’re taken on a musical journey. That chimes with me, I find it operates on a very emotional level.
All that said, I would say I have quite diverse tastes in music. Incidentally, The Who were my favourite band way back when. Saw them 4 times in their hay day, first time in Jan ‘70 as part of their ‘Tommy’ tour.

View: https://youtu.be/An5beXqVEdc?si=naxDVkt7Zn5NeavN

We are who we are and we all come from different backgrounds. If we liked all the same thing it'll be a boring world and ultimately forums such as this wouldn't exist.

 

[earmilk9229]

Listening to UNRUH-Santa right now. New piano ballad with amazing vocals

 

[vinod_david]

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[daveh75]

View: https://youtu.be/pSUgrhmtXIw?si=REql6O-vq0I70VGr

 

[Stuart83]

Just got up and decided on nu metal this morning after ejecting Vivaldi starting with limp bizcuit "faith" that's where the extra power I needed with th acram sa30
plays it's part.
I'm not sure how long I will get out of these q acoustics 3050i's 🤣

 

[daveh75]

View: https://youtu.be/0nTTGw2tXWU?si=P2VU55w9xw4s-KRf

 

[plastic penguin]

Muse -- Origin of Symmetry

Fab album. This track will blow away a few cobwebs.

View: https://youtu.be/dbB-mICjkQM?si=RJRGcs0SUYxmkkEM