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Craig White
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Dec 03, 2019 04:19AM
barbra dickson, val doonican, lulu and cradle of filth.
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Ms Dickson is still popular up here. nocheese and I saw her once singing with someone (male) more worthy of our attention, but can't remember who. I could of course be wrong, my memory not being what it was.Edit: maybe Rab Noakes?
Here's my guilty pleasures and in some cases (*) minus the pleasure...Bat Out Of Hell - Meatloaf (33)
Dead Ringer - Meatloaf (33)
The Reflex - Duran Duran (45) *
Never Trust A Stranger - Kim Wilde (45)
London Girl - Chas and Dave (45) *
Greatest Hits - David Gray (CD) *
Against All Odds - Phil Collins (45)
Greatest Hits - Journey (CD) *
Will add more as they come to mind. Guess you'll just have to forgive me for the unmarked ones that suggest that I may still like em? Suppose I better add that I like one track from the DG album and two from the Journey collection, hence the reason they'd have been purchased in the first place.
I can explain the presence of all the above, 'cept for a certain Chas & Dave, which appeared amongst my singles when I was not much older than our youngest. Reckon my folks 'planted' it there for reasons known only to themselves.
Tech XXIII wrote: "cradle of filth."Think you maybe mistook Ron and Ron's dire 'blackface' musical routine for the filthsters. 🤔
ha! and still too little time has elapsed since the atrocity that was the 'black suppression and belittlement minstrel show'.
list of past t.v. programmes that are best forgotten,1 - the black and white minstrel show
2 - love thy neighbour
3 - the comedians
4 - till death do us part
5 - it ain't half hot, mum
6 - curry and chips
7 - mind your language
8 - the cosby show
9 - jim'll fix it
10 - friends (mostly as it's f***ing awful!)
Tech XXIII wrote: "list of past t.v. programmes that are best forgotten,1 - the black and white minstrel show
2 - love thy neighbour
3 - the comedians
4 - till death do us part
5 - it ain't half hot, mum
6 - curry ..."
You missed out The Good Old Days
and 'Heil Honey, I'm Home' (look it up)The ever-so-pleased-with-itself 'Mash Report' hosted by the unbearably smug Nish Kumar should be in there too.
.... oh, and anything involving the execrable Michael McIntyre
Tim wrote: ".... oh, and anything involving the execrable Michael McIntyre"Who is unfortunately not past, but omnipresent.
living individuals who appear on t.v., but would serve audiences better by being dead,1 - joe pasquale
2 - ant
3 - keith lemon (leigh francis)
4 - michael mcintyre
5 - scarlett moffatt
6 - joe swash
7 - jamie oliver
8 - jeremy clarkson (and the other 2 dicks)
9 - james corden
10 - dec
dead people who've appeared on t.v. that could do with re-animation,1 - tommy cooper
2 - dermot morgan/frank kelly
3 - leonard rossiter
4 - arthur lowe, john le m..........aw f*** it, all of them
5 - rik mayall
6 - peter cook/(the cooler side of) dudley moore
7 - ronnies corbett/barker
8 - ken dodd
9 - benny hill (just to be hunted down and disembowelled)
10 - benny hill (just to be chased at high speed round a tree by vicious armed women who will kill him, again and again and...)
hill!
To add to the growing list of TV progs, best forgotten:Downton Abbey
Gee..how has this show ever got as popular as it has? Nothing happens in it! Even Bill Bailey once said..he watched an episode of it..and lamented that moss grew on a butler in real time! :)
Lez wrote: "Ms Dickson is still popular up here. nocheese and I saw her once singing with someone (male) more worthy of our attention, but can't remember who. I could of course be wrong, my memory not being wh..."Might have been Gerry Rafferty, Lez. She did backing vocals on a couple of tracks on his City to City album, and later recorded an album of his songs (To Each and Everyone).
No, I never saw Gerry Rafferty, though I'd have liked to.
theDuke wrote: "To add to the growing list of TV progs, best forgotten:Downton Abbey"
A very poor man's 'Upstairs Downstairs' (early 70s version, not the godawful and thankfully short-lived revival attempted around the same time as Downton started).
Tech XXIII wrote: "living individuals who appear on t.v., but would serve audiences better by being dead,1 - joe pasquale
2 - ant
3 - keith lemon (leigh francis)
4 - michael mcintyre
5 - scarlett moffatt
A list after me own heart there dude. Would definitely add Danny Dyer tho. He seems to really believe he's the kinda tough guy character that he's known for playing... apart from Thick Mick from 'enders of course. Even then he manages to get the hardman routine in whenever possible. Probably written into his contract.
Reckon I'd give Scarlett a break and swap her for Dyer. Not that I'm a huge fan but when I look at the rest....
With thanks to the Wayback Machine and classic Amazon Listmanias... British comedy that i remember enjoying,1. Nightingales
2. How Do You Want Me
3. Fun at the Funeral Parlour
4. Absolutely
5. Big Train
6. Black Books
7. Spaced
8. The Day Today
9. Still Game
10. A Very Peculiar Practice
11. Blott on the Landscape
12. Porterhouse Blue
13. Brass
14. The Goodies
15. The Original Vic Reeves Big Night Out
16. Coupling
17. Green Wing
18. Game On
19. The IT Crowd
20. The Thick of It
21. The New Statesman
22. Bottom
23. Jeeves And Wooster
24. Mapp And Lucia
Prompted by Lez's comment on the Edinburgh Lyceum on the shapes voting thread, a list of venues where I can remember seeing bands:Birmingham Odeon
Birmingham Hippodrome
Hammersmith Odeon
The Rainbow (Finsbury Park)
The Dominion (Tottenham Court Road)
Shaw Theatre (Euston)
Fulham Greyhound
Chelsea College
Whitelands College (Roehampton)
The Marquee (Wardour Street)
Royal Festival Hall (South Bank)
Queen Elizabeth Hall (South Bank)
Empire Ballroom (Kilburn)
Weaver's Arms (Stoke Newington)
Brixton Academy (now the O2)
Hare & Hounds (Islington)
Some pub in Ealing
Manchester Apollo
Bridgewater Hall (Manchester)
Telford's Warehouse (Chester)
Whitchurch Leisure Centre (Shropshire)
Victoria Hall (Stoke-on-Trent)
Red Lion Hotel (Nantwich)
NFU Hall (Audlem, Cheshire)
A tent in a field in Warwickshire
Atlantis (Basel)
Fabrik (Hamburg)
Musikhalle (Hamburg)
Hamburg Fischmarkt
Some Irish pub in Hamburg
Some seedy bar(s) in New Orleans
innaresting,think i'll do it too.
kilmarnock grand hall
kilmarnock bellfield tavern
kilmarnock bickering bush
glasgow apollo
glasgow barrowlands
glasgow tiffany's/garage 1
glasgow garage 2
glasgow academy
glasgow mono
glasgow cca
glasgow hydro
glasgow royal concert hall
glasgow secc
glasgow sec armadillo
glasgow drygate
glasgow king tut's wah wah hut
glasgow some upstairs venue in sauchiehall st (twice!)
glasgow satellite city
ayr pavillion
irvine magnum
troon town hall
paisley bungalow
paisley unknown
east kilbride unknown
dundee art school
edinburgh royal highland showgrounds
edinburgh odeon
edinburgh clouds
edinburgh nite club
london hammersmith odeon
blackpool unknown
i theenk! well, there's one crossover - were you at the cramps in 1984, gordon?
I was in Switzerland for the first seven months of 1984, tech. Are you sure The Cramps were at the Odeon rather than the Palais? I'm afraid I never saw them (or the Ramones).
The very, very worst gig I ever went to was at the Hammersmith Odeon: Deep Purple in 1991. They were truly excremental. Hardly surprising, I suppose.
yeah, it was a weird one - the odeon event was an extra date (due to the demand of the public of course!) for a 2 night stint at the h.palais - it was flung in for the night before at the odeon. i still have the ticket, so i will check, but i'm pretty sure i'd have remembered being mr white, man, in the hammersmith palais!
"remembered being mr white, man, in the hammersmith palais" - so at the Ramones gig(s) were you doing the BlitzCraig Bop?
Most of the Cramps fans I knew would have been aghast at the thought of going to the Hammersmith Odeon. They had an ideological objection to any venue with seats (in the hall or on the toilets).List of acts I saw at that slightly dubious venue...
Hawkwind (several times)
Tom Waits
Weather Update (post-Weather Report Zawinul band)
John Lee Hooker
Deep Purple
Funny, I thought I'd been there more often than that. It must be the multiple Hawkwind gigs that account for the number of visits I remember, at one of which I was sat next to Mr Ian Fraser Kilmister and two delightful young ladies who must have been his nieces.
I used to quite like Hammy Odeon back in the day - seats or no seats. Being an old git, here are some of the bands I remember seeing there;Uriah Heep
Rush
Scorpions
Rainbow (I think)
Lynyrd Skynyrd
Blue Oyster Cult
XTC
10CC
I woulda actually have liked to experience Hammersmith Odeon when I wuz a young un but never got the chance.Also...The Marquee looked like the kinda hole I would've flourished in. Never got to go there either.
I quite liked the Marquee in Wardour Street. Except the only time I went there (to see a nondescript prog band called Twelfth Night) the manager had lost his keys and we had to wait outside for three-quarters of an hour while he got a locksmith to let us in.
Vaguely remember Twelfth Night from way back when; think there's one of their tracks on one of the cheap double album 'Metal Killers' comps from the 80s. All about bargains, me! Said comps were mostly made up of those kinda 'small-time' outfits with a few odd high profile names like Sabbath thrown in, to sell em. The odd pleasant surprise could be found amongst these lesser known tunes mind, I reckon.Yeah very prog, Twelfth Night, if I remember correctly; a lot of keyboards n stuff. Did they do themselves any favours at The Marquee then Gordon or were they just meh? Or worse??
They were okay, Blastro. I remember a few songs now, about 30 years later: one called Creepshow, a cracking instrumental called Afghan Rain and a long, slightly pretentious, opus called Sequences. Reminded me a bit of Kansas. I think they were better live than in the studio, which is the fate of a lot of bands that never get to work with good producers.
Top 5 Christmas things (at time of typing)...1. Berlioz: L'Adieu des bergers à la Sainte-Famille (from L'Enfance du Christ)
2. Händel: Unto Us a Child is Born (from Messiah)
3. Thea Gilmore: Sol Invictus (from Strange Communion)
4. Loreena McKennitt: Snow (from A Winter Garden)
5. Morten Lauridsen: O Magnum Mysterium
Probably be a different five tomorrow.
List of supposedly "nice" things getting on my nerves,1. Wind chimes.
2. "Deep & Uplifting" thoughts & quotes on a Facebook enforced by pictures of Unicorns in clouds or rainbows or ecstatic maids with their hands up or angels looking down from, again, clouds, rainbows, sunset or sunrise in background etc. eugh.
3. Shaping "hearts' symbol using hands, usually one can see on tv shows like x factor etc.
4. Sending xmas or whatever celebrations at the moment message by one click to everyone or just passing someone's, again, to everyone on Facebook.
5. Noble kids saving planet (at expense of attending school) talking mindless shit or holding placards saying "THERE IS NO PLANET B' and similar wise observations.
Post Soviet wrote: "List of supposedly "nice" things getting on my nerves,1. Wind chimes.
2. "Deep & Uplifting" thoughts & quotes on a Facebook enforced by pictures of Unicorns in clouds or rainbows or ecstatic maid..."
With you all the way until the somewhat Trumpian No.5. Go Greta; qualifications will be of little use when the mass extinction begins, food and water runs out, mass migration leads to unpalatable responses (machine-gunning refugee boats on the Med anyone?) and life-threatening extreme weather ramps up. Wait till the North Atlantic oceanic circulation breaks down and Ireland loses the balm of the warm current from the Gulf of Mexico and endures winters like the north eastern seaboard of the USA.
Would you have these kids just shrug cynically, say there's nothing to be done and go back to their computer consoles? Such political, humanitarian and environmental engagement by the young is only to be encouraged.
"Would you have these kids just shrug cynically, say there's nothing to be done and go back to their computer consoles? Such political, humanitarian and environmental engagement by the young is only to be encouraged."No, I don't want cynical kids either. I wish them to get good education and DO something real to improve things here a little. But right now I'm just feeling annoyed, honestly, there is nothing I can do.
OK, but we can't wait for the kids to get their GCSEs, then A levels, then maybe a degree, get established in a job and then in a decade or so, wake up to and do something (what, besides exert some pressure on our business as usual political class which Greta and her ilk seem to be doing way more effectively than most?) about the existential threat humanity poses to Lifeboat Earth.
sorry, we f***ed this planet up the arse, can we have another one please? promise we won't break it!
Damn commies the lot of em; we'll have none of that green talk around here, it's fake news! A witch hunt!! Ya know what to do General?Yessir, Mr President sir - Round em up, put em in a field and bomb the baskets!!
On a serious note, can somebody who's more up on politics than meself explain why bother with the impeachment when the crooked bastard's sure to come through ok because the republican control of the senate? The word now seems to be that, rather than hinder him, the whole process might even do him a favour! There's no getting rid of him is there? That scares me shitless.
We need some - Brotherly - Brotherly - Brotherly Love!!!
Blastronaut Mk2 wrote: "On a serious note, can somebody who's more up on politics than meself explain why bother with the impeachment when the crooked bastard's sure to come through ok because the republican control of th..."If the Democrats hadn't basically spent the last three years trying to overturn the result of the 2016 election, perhaps this impeachment proceeding would have more impact. As it is, for Trump's supporters (and the Republican Party in general) it just looks like more of the same.
Merry Christmas to y'all!!! Have a good un girls n boys.
You bloody miserable lot! Not Christmas folk eh?
I think the problem, Blastro, is that we often all wish each other Happy Xmas etc on various different threads and forget who we've greeted and where! Same with birthdays and other greetings.Anyway, belated Merry Christmas ;-)
Of course, you are correct Lez. I don't get round many threads so I miss most birthday wishes and such. I hope that explains any lack of 'Happy Birthdays' from me to cyber friends and the appearance of 'Merry Christmas' on seemingly random threads. Bless you m'dear and Happy New Year!!!
… and it even rhymes!
Slicing Up Eyeballs have finally published the latest in their ongoing "Best of the ’80s Redux" song polls. The latest shows the results for 1986.("For the ’86 poll, readers were asked to vote for up to 25 of their favorite songs that first were released in some form — as a single, B-side, on an album, etc. — during that calendar year.")
SLICING UP EYEBALLS READERS POLL: TOP 100 SONGS OF 1986:-
1. New Order, “Bizarre Love Triangle”
2. The Smiths, “There Is a Light That Never Goes Out”
3. R.E.M. “Fall On Me”
4. XTC, “Dear God”
5. Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, “If You Leave”
6. Crowded House, “Don’t Dream It’s Over”
7. Public Image Ltd., “Rise”
8. The Smiths, “Bigmouth Strikes Again”
9. Peter Gabriel, “In Your Eyes”
10. The Housemartins, “Happy Hour”
11. Prince and the Revolution, “Kiss”
12. Depeche Mode, “Stripped”
13. The Psychedelic Furs, “Heartbreak Beat”
14. Duran Duran, “Notorious”
15. Hüsker Dü, ”Don’t Want to Know If You Are Lonely”
16. Skinny Puppy, “Dig It”
17. Billy Bragg, “Greetings To the New Brunette”
18. Depeche Mode, “Black Celebration”
19. They Might Be Giants, “Don’t Let’s Start”
20. The Smiths, “Panic”
21. Talking Heads, “Wild Wild Life”
22. Depeche Mode, “But Not Tonight”
23. Billy Bragg, “Levi Stubbs’ Tears”
24. The Chameleons, “Swamp Thing”
25. The Jesus and Mary Chain, “Some Candy Talking”
26. The Smithereens, “Blood and Roses”
27. R.E.M., “Superman”
28. The Smiths, “Ask”
29. The Blow Monkeys, “Digging Your Scene”
30. Pet Shop Boys, “Suburbia”
31. The Pretenders, “Don’t Get Me Wrong”
32. Erasure, “Oh L’Amour”
33. World Party, “Ship of Fools”
34. The Human League, “Human”
35. New Order, “Shellshock”
36. The Psychedelic Furs, “Pretty in Pink”
37. Depeche Mode, “A Question of Time”
38. Love and Rockets, “Kundalini Express”
39. Sigue Sigue Sputnik, “Love Missile F1-11”
40. Ministry, “The Angel”
41. Pet Shop Boys, “Love Comes Quickly”
42. Big Country, “Look Away”
43. Peter Gabriel, “Sledgehammer”
44. The Smithereens, “Behind the Wall of Sleep”
45. Peter Gabriel, “Don’t Give Up”
46. Siouxsie and the Banshees, “Candyman”
47. Gene Loves Jezebel, “Desire (Come and Get It)”
48. The Bangles, “Manic Monday”
49. Peter Gabriel, “Red Rain”
50. Love and Rockets, “All In My Mind”
51. Depeche Mode, “A Question of Lust”
52. Erasure, “Sometimes”
53. R.E.M., “Begin the Begin”
54. Suzanne Vega, “Left of Center”
55. The The, “Infected”
56. Julian Cope, “World Shut Your Mouth”
57. Midnight Oil, “The Dead Heart”
58. Big Audio Dynamite, “C’mon Every Beatbox”
59. Beastie Boys, “No Sleep Till Brooklyn”
60. David Bowie, “Absolute Beginners”
61. The Stranglers, “Always the Sun”
62. The Smiths, “The Queen is Dead”
63. XTC, “Earn Enough For Us”
64. The Call, “I Still Believe (Great Design)”
65. Bananarama, “Venus”
66. Billy Bragg, “Help Save the Youth of America”
67. Eurythmics, “Missionary Man”
68. Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, “(Forever) Live and Die”
69. Berlin, “Take My Breath Away”
70. New Order, “As It Was When It Was”
71. Hüsker Dü, “Sorry Somehow”
72. Prince and the Revolution, “Mountains”
73. The Smiths, “Cemetry Gates”
74. Love and Rockets, “Yin and Yang (The Flowerpot Man)”
75. New Order, “Paradise”
76. Run-DMC, “It’s Tricky”
77. New Order, “All Day Long”
78. John Taylor, “I Do What I Do (Theme for 9½ Weeks)”
79. Ministry, “All Day Remix”
80. David + David, “Welcome to the Boomtown”
81. Run-DMC, “Walk This Way”
82. Crowded House, “World Where You Live”
83. Howard Jones, “No One Is To Blame”
84. New Order, “State of the Nation”
85. The Mission, “Wasteland”
86. R.E.M., “I Believe”
87. a-ha, “I’ve Been Losing You”
88. Cocteau Twins, “Love’s Easy Tears”
89. Duran Duran, “Skin Trade”
90. Cutting Crew, “(I Just) Died In Your Arms”
91. Eurythmics, “Thorn In My Side”
92. Furniture, “Brilliant Mind”
93. Sonic Youth, “Starpower”
94. Belinda Carlisle, “Mad About You”
95. Andy Taylor, “Take It Easy”
96. Beastie Boys, “(You Gotta) Fight for Your Right (To Party!)”
97. Cyndi Lauper, “True Colors”
98. Paul Simon, “The Boy in the Bubble”
99. Primal Scream, “Velocity Girl”
100. Madonna, “Live to Tell”
They've also created a Spotify playlist of the results - https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3W4...
Their previous poll results ('80 to '85) can be found here, if anyone's interested - http://www.slicingupeyeballs.com/cate...
Oooh? - there is quite a few of my own favourites listed on there ;o>
Blastronaut wrote: "Of course, you are correct Lez. I don't get round many threads so I miss most birthday wishes and such. I hope that explains any lack of 'Happy Birthdays' from me to cyber friends and the appearanc..."Ohhh, and an extremely belated although still very Happy Christmas nevertheless to you too, Rob! ... (*giggles*) ... ;o> ... ;o> ... ;o>
suzysunshine7 wrote: "Oooh? - there is quite a few of my own favourites listed on there ;o>"Skinny Puppy? Ministry? 😉 😁
There are some really great songs on the list; there are some shockingly bad songs on the list. Weird mixture.
Lots of Depeche Mode and The Smiths which is a good thing, but Howard Jones and worse still The Pretenders, eek!
Well? - I would tell you, Helen, but I reckon at least half of them would very likely be on your Shockingly Bad and Nick's Eek Lists ... HA HA HA HA HA!!! ;o>
