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Week Y
Feb 27, 2015 11:53:16 GMT
Post by sandbachhatter on Feb 27, 2015 11:53:16 GMT
Our penultimate week! Hasn't this gone fast?
Y not consider one of the following this week:
Yazoo
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Yes
Young, Neil
Young, Paul
Or perhaps you have something/someone else in mind?
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Week Y
Feb 27, 2015 13:50:56 GMT
Post by gazz on Feb 27, 2015 13:50:56 GMT
Easy this. Neil Young. Not least for his immense contribution to music, but also for his involvement in the 'Pono' (not a typo, honest!) FLAC format music service that offers music as it should sound, unlike iTunes. ponomusic.force.com/Back to his music though, and this is one of my favourite tracks by Young. This version of 'Harvest Moon', taken from his 1993 'MTV Unplugged' performance, as chilled and as easy listening as you can get: |
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Week Y
Feb 27, 2015 15:24:55 GMT
Post by bigfudge on Feb 27, 2015 15:24:55 GMT
Neil Young for me as well!
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Post by archie on Feb 27, 2015 15:31:50 GMT
Hundred percent agree with Gazza and Fudgie. Play Rockin' In The Free World straight after Harvest Moon and you'll get an idea of the breadth of his musical mastery. Neil Young first the rest nowhere.
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Week Y
Feb 27, 2015 19:14:30 GMT
Post by offertonhatter on Feb 27, 2015 19:14:30 GMT
Unlike last week, this is another tough one.
Yazoo? Only You is superb and Alison Moyet's voice is sublime.
Paul Young? Soulful voice, however I saw him at the opening of Brannigans in Croydon back in 1997 and his voice has gone.
Will Young? Not a chance!
Neil Young. Great musician both solo and with Crosby Stills Nash and Young.
Yello. Great synth artists, who can forget "The Race" and "Oh Yeah"
The Young Rascals - Groovin'
Oh and of course those epic prog rockers - Yes.
I think I will have to go with Yes, if only for this epic song, amongst others...
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Week Y
Feb 27, 2015 23:06:47 GMT
Post by collingecounty on Feb 27, 2015 23:06:47 GMT
Yazoo.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 28, 2015 6:07:06 GMT
Honourable mentions for Yazoo, great combination between Alison Motet and Vince Clarke, and Yes although I've not heard most of their stuff.
I'm going for Yello this week if only for the 12" version of The Race.
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Week Y
Feb 28, 2015 19:46:41 GMT
Post by bringbacklenwhite on Feb 28, 2015 19:46:41 GMT
Yes. Yes Yes.
It's Yes for me.
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Week Y
Mar 1, 2015 16:06:40 GMT
Post by hatter_in_macc on Mar 1, 2015 16:06:40 GMT
Yes. Yes Yes. It's Yes for me. Alternatively, Yeah Yeah Yeah(s). Or, possibly, Yeah Yeah Noh! The YYYs are one of my favourite bands from more recent times. Kind of Blondie-meeting-Siouxsie, but with a nice blend of their own. I loved the raunchy strut of Bang on their debut EP - while, in Maps and Zero, they have produced, respectively, the best alternative love song and electro-pop single of the new century. All four albums of theirs have been consistently strong, and I sincerely hope that Karen O and the other two return soon from the ongoing hiatus that they have imposed upon themselves. YYN were (and, I think, may still be) a refreshingly anti-style, DIY outfit from Leicester. Emerging as an antidote to New Romanticism in the mid-'80s, their bedsit psychedelia, laced with a stream of sardonic words and wit, made for 'Perfect Unpop'. Check out Bias Binding, which encapsulates all of this in around two minutes. But, this week, and not just because today's St David's Day, my vote goes to the Welsh wonders that were Young Marble Giants - whose Colossal Youth is one of those rare albums for which it's actually (well, possibly...!) worth going back into a burning building. Combining a lilting, heavy bass with electro-acoustic backing, a cheesy drum machine and the awesome Alison Statton's fragile vocals, it adds up to a thing of great atmospheric beauty. And no home should be without that. |
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Week Y
Mar 2, 2015 8:50:25 GMT
Post by sandbachhatter on Mar 2, 2015 8:50:25 GMT
Early update:
Young, Neil 3 Yes 2 Yazoo 1 Yello 1 Young Marble Giants 1 |
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Week Y
Mar 2, 2015 10:01:52 GMT
Post by Epworth Hatter on Mar 2, 2015 10:01:52 GMT
Yoohoo, it's Y Week...
A mention for a few y's I've dabbled with...
yourcodenameis:milo
yeah yeah yeahs
yellowcard
But there is only one winner for me this week: Young Marble Giants. Macc has already extolled their virtues, but I will repeat that no home should be without a copy of Colossal Youth. Sheer brilliance. The two EPs are also outstanding: Final Day and Test Card EP.
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Week Y
Mar 2, 2015 14:28:53 GMT
Post by countyfan on Mar 2, 2015 14:28:53 GMT
Not much to add on the 80's front but its doesn't stop me being a fan of the 80s!!!
All I can think of are...
Yeah Yeah Yeah's
Weird Al Yankovic
Yello
Sydney Youngblood
For me it was a close run call between Yello and Sydney Youngblood as I love both "the race" and "if only I could" but the winner of this race is Sydney Youngblood.
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Week Y
Mar 2, 2015 16:58:37 GMT
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Post by gazz on Mar 2, 2015 16:58:37 GMT
Good shout on Weird Al, cf, some real belters in his back catalogue.
'Nine Coronas' a brilliant parody of The Knack's 'My Sharona', and 'Fat' a parody of Jacko's 'Bad' being two favourites of mine, the video for the latter is a brilliant take on MJ's actual 'Bad' video.
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Post by collingecounty on Mar 2, 2015 21:54:48 GMT
And Amish Paradise!
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Week Y
Mar 3, 2015 7:59:18 GMT
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Post by jamesgill on Mar 3, 2015 7:59:18 GMT
I'll jump in and say Weird Al. He's the only one who is really from anywhere near my time.
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