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Week F
Sept 27, 2014 9:50:00 GMT
Post by sandbachhatter on Sept 27, 2014 9:50:00 GMT
Here are your starters:
Fatboy Slim Feeder Fleetwood Mac Foo Fighters Franklin, Aretha
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Week F
Sept 27, 2014 11:38:48 GMT
Post by sirroger on Sept 27, 2014 11:38:48 GMT
Billy Fury worth a mention as is Free. I'm including Bryan Ferry with Roxy Music later.
So for me, that leaves The Four Tops as my choice this week. A truly brilliant group and in Levi Stubbs (RIP) one of the greatest singing voices of all time.
You think Motown, you think The Four Tops.
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Week F
Sept 27, 2014 13:13:01 GMT
Post by bigfudge on Sept 27, 2014 13:13:01 GMT
Foo Fighters for me. One of my favourite bands, despite being an unpopular opinion I think people who say David Grohl learnt everything from Cobain are simply wrong. I think Grohl and the Foo Fighters are far better than Nirvana or Cobain ever were, despite the fact he was in both of them.
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Week F
Sept 27, 2014 15:30:56 GMT
Post by gazz on Sept 27, 2014 15:30:56 GMT
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Week F
Sept 27, 2014 18:08:48 GMT
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Post by sandbachhatter on Sept 27, 2014 18:08:48 GMT
I'd agree with that Fudgie. Although the Foos have gone a bit downhill with their last few albums for me, they're incredible live (it takes a good band to get me to drive to Milton Keynes!) and although I never had the pleasure of seeing Nirvana live, I'd take the Foos every time.
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Week F
Sept 27, 2014 18:32:10 GMT
Post by gazz on Sept 27, 2014 18:32:10 GMT
I'd agree with that Fudgie. I do think they're decent. I like this one over anything else they've done, it was one of the very first tunes I ever downloaded on t'internet:
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Post by sandbachhatter on Sept 27, 2014 18:53:47 GMT
Have you seen the video for 'Learn to fly'?
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Week F
Sept 27, 2014 20:21:57 GMT
Post by another_ruined_saturday on Sept 27, 2014 20:21:57 GMT
just songs for me this week:
'mykonos' by fleet foxes
'brilliant mind' by furniture
the 'hounds of love' cover by futureheads
will go for fleet foxes cos they've done some other lovely ones as well.
quick shout out for aretha though - 'say a little prayer' in particular is a thing of wonder.
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Week F
Sept 27, 2014 20:33:45 GMT
Post by offertonhatter on Sept 27, 2014 20:33:45 GMT
Have you seen the video for 'Learn to fly'? Great song and brilliant video! Hilarious. I'm going for Free. "All right now" is a classic!
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Week F
Sept 27, 2014 22:14:00 GMT
Post by gazz on Sept 27, 2014 22:14:00 GMT
Have you seen the video for 'Learn to fly'? With the pilots mucking about? If so then yes, it's funny that.
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Week F
Sept 27, 2014 22:56:08 GMT
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Post by sandbachhatter on Sept 27, 2014 22:56:08 GMT
That's the one.
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Week F
Sept 28, 2014 10:02:52 GMT
Post by archie on Sept 28, 2014 10:02:52 GMT
Looking at my CDs I thought that this might be a bit of a flat week with several worthy contenders but no stand-out and only Fairground Attraction and Fairport Convention to add to Sandy's list. However, a check of the vinyl brought up a few more names including Fotheringay, Foreigner, Family, Georgie Fame and Roberta Flack. I'll also give a mention to Agnetha Faltskog in the hope of a couple of forumites choking on their eggy soldiers but I've ended up going for Dan Fogelberg. Those who've even heard of him will probably associate him with ballads like Longer and Same Old Lang Syne but he could up the power when necessary and I offer the evidence of Face The Fire from the album Phoenix:
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Week F
Sept 28, 2014 10:14:54 GMT
Post by hatter_in_macc on Sept 28, 2014 10:14:54 GMT
just songs for me this week: the 'hounds of love' cover by futureheads quick shout out for aretha though - 'say a little prayer' in particular is a thing of wonder. Can't argue with either of those two, in particular, exile - good shouts. (Actually, impossible for me to deny the beauty of I Say A Little Prayer - having once cited it as an all-time personal fave on this very forum!) It does appear to be an 'F-in' good week for individual songs by acts beginning with the letter: Fire Engines - Get Up And Use Me
Field Mice - Sensitive
Farmer's Boys - Whatever Is He Like?
But my vote has to go to The mighty Fall. Exceedingly durable - over thirty years in the business, having survived thirty thousand-odd line-up changes! - raw and abrasive, stylistically bonkers, and never ever doing anything that those outside the band ask or expect them to do. "Always different... always the same", as John Peel described them in a nutshell.
I have stuck with The Fall since their post-punk industrial beginnings: danced like a dervish in a trenchcoat to Totally Wired; marvelled at Gut Of The Quantifier while trying to figure out what it means (still haven't); cried along to Bill Is Dead; and sang Theme from Sparta F.C. to get Macc Junior to sleep when he was one day old. They are responsible for the best B-side of all time in Australians in Europe, and the peer of Peel Session tracks, by any act ever, in Eat Y'self Fitter. Perversely, too, their Touch Sensitive was used to advertise the Vauxhall Corsa - they will have hated that.
Having released, in their early years, a glut of singles - most of which sold modestly, at best - they are, to me, very much more a 'body of work' band that is best savoured through albums (thirty, and counting). And frontman/flawed genius, Mark E Smith's autobiography, Renegade: The Gospel According to MES, is an absolute must-read - even if you have never listened to, or never intend to explore, his band's musical output.
Wouldn't want to go on holiday with him, mind...
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Week F
Sept 28, 2014 10:35:04 GMT
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Post by gazz on Sept 28, 2014 10:35:04 GMT
I have never been even remotely interested in listening to The Fall, but that's a fabulous write-up, Maccy. I might have to give some of those tracks a listen now, mate.
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Week F
Sept 28, 2014 12:07:01 GMT
Post by hatter_in_macc on Sept 28, 2014 12:07:01 GMT
Go for it, gazza.
Theirs is a 'Wonderful and Frightening World' (and that's a good album to try, for starters...), which will change your life - ah!
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