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Skid X · 14-04-2017 06:35PM

Madness Airlines - here for a good time, not a long time.

Welsh Megaman · 14-04-2017 06:36PM

Europe Charts?!

*record scratches*

cml387 · 14-04-2017 06:37PM

I think the European chart rundown was a short lived experiment.
Still I guess JP enjoyed the trip.

Skid X · 14-04-2017 06:39PM

Jonathan King used to do the USA Charts on TOTP around this time, but he's one of them so we don't see that.

Welsh Megaman · 14-04-2017 06:39PM

Was that chat/chart moribund, I don't think so!

cml387 · 14-04-2017 06:40PM

Dolce Vita!!!!

Welsh Megaman · 14-04-2017 06:42PM

Skid X wrote: »

Madness Airlines - here for a good time, not a long time.

Madness definitely understood the music video format straight off the bat, when MTV was in it's infancy.

Genesis, not so much

cml387 · 14-04-2017 06:43PM

If Peter Gabriel hadn't left Genesis, would we ever have heard of Phil Collins?

Now there's a thought.

Skid X · 14-04-2017 06:51PM

Can't believe Depeche Mode's single dropped down the charts, after they had a whole night on BBC Four last Friday.

Obviously didn't translate into Sales. Ah well!

Welsh Megaman · 14-04-2017 06:52PM

Good ole Stray Cats - dig that Gretsch

Welsh Megaman · 14-04-2017 06:55PM

I predict happy times ahead for these Birmingham boys. Especially if they keep an eye on where their profits are going

Skid X · 14-04-2017 06:56PM

UB40- two left handed guitar players?

Or maybe they are larking about.

cml387 · 14-04-2017 06:57PM

Welsh Megaman wrote: »

Good ole Stray Cats - dig that Gretsch

Did I tell you my joke about the double bass?

The orchestra go out for lunch. When they come back they find the double bass player and the triangle player at each other's throats.

When they are separated the conductor asks what the problem is.

"That bast*rd triangle player has detuned one of my strings" says the double bass.
"So"?" says the conductor.
"HE WON'T TELL ME WHICH ONE!!!"

Welsh Megaman · 14-04-2017 06:57PM

Written by Neil Diamond, dontcha know.

'Red Red Wine', not this New Order song.

Now THAT would be interesting

Skid X · 14-04-2017 07:01PM

Welsh Megaman wrote: »

Written by Neil Diamond, dontcha know.

'Red Red Wine', not this New Order song.

Now THAT would be interesting

Google regrets to inform me that no-one has made a mash up of Song Song Blue Monday. Yet.

Gizmo55 · 14-04-2017 08:20PM

Andy McCluskey always annoyed the sh1te outta me. Still does. Plus OMD were sh1te. Imo :P

Hotblack Desiato · 14-04-2017 08:45PM

Second biggest tw** in music. First - the aformentioned Mr Collins.

Gizmo55 · 14-04-2017 09:06PM

Hotblack Desiato wrote: »

Second biggest tw** in music. First - the aformentioned Mr Collins.

His head, voice and jumper still annoy me 36 years on. I guess it's time I let it go

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmwMhjbThKg

Hotblack Desiato · 15-04-2017 06:43PM

Was raging when I heard that Blondie are playing support to Phil Collins. They're coming all the way over here to do a support gig for that git.

If they did a standalone gig I'd be there in a heartbeat.

Welsh Megaman · 15-04-2017 08:23PM

Excellent Manics documentary on Sky Arts right now.

Welsh Megaman · 15-04-2017 10:07PM

What always troubled me about the 'Everything Must Go' -era Manics, was that for better or for worse (as alluded to in the documentary), they attracted the Oasis 'Derp' Crowd who had never heard of the band pre-'A Design For Life', and who only liked the band not for 'Libraries Gave Us Power' but 'We Only Want To Get Drunk'

BandMember · 15-04-2017 10:10PM

Was never a fan of the Manics (if I never heard Motorcycle Emptiness again, I would die a happy man), but would have watched that doc - any idea when it's being repeated?

Skid X · 15-04-2017 10:12PM

BandMember wrote: »

Was never a fan of the Manics (if I never heard Motorcycle Emptiness again, I would die a happy man), but would have watched that doc - any idea when it's being repeated?

It's on again next Friday at 10pm, BM

Welsh Megaman · 15-04-2017 10:32PM

BandMember wrote: »

Was never a fan of the Manics (if I never heard Motorcycle Emptiness again, I would die a happy man), but would have watched that doc - any idea when it's being repeated?

One of the best documentaries I've seen in a long time - extremely rare video footage from that era as well as demo versions of EMG songs.

Skid X · 15-04-2017 10:35PM

Welsh Megaman wrote: »

One of the best documentaries I've seen in a long time - extremely rare video footage from that era as well as demo versions of EMG songs.

I forgot to stick the tape in tonight, I'll make sure to catch the repeat.

I was never a huge fan but I always enjoyed seeing the Manics at Festivals.

They always played a 'Festival Friendly' set with some cracking cover versions.

Welsh Megaman · 15-04-2017 10:41PM

I was actually at this gig - support from Audioweb, Mansun and some group called Embrace...only the band Northern Uproar could have been :pac:

Skid X · 15-04-2017 10:46PM

Welsh Megaman wrote: »

I was actually at this gig - support from Audioweb, Mansun and some group called Embrace...only the band Northern Uproar could have been :pac:

I've seen Embrace a few times, loved their work.

I remember seeing them at Witnness a long time ago, Danny McNamara said "This is brilliant, I'm so happy today I feel like I got the Moon On A Stick"

Well, nobody else bar me and my buddy got the reference but we were so happy we also felt like we had the Moon On A Stick

Hotblack Desiato · 15-04-2017 11:26PM

Skid X wrote: »

I forgot to stick the tape in tonight

Not literally?!? You have heard of DVRs, right?

Yesterday I was trying to explain to my daughter what a game cartridge was, then I let it slip that back in the 80s we didn't even have them we loaded games off cassettes, then I had to try to explain what a cassette was

I feel old...

BandMember · 15-04-2017 11:32PM

Skid X wrote: »

It's on again next Friday at 10pm, BM

Thanks very much Skid, I'll set the timer on my Betamax....

Hotblack Desiato · 15-04-2017 11:37PM

BandMember wrote: »

Thanks very much Skid, I'll set the timer on my Betamax....

I'll cue up my reel-to-reel and make an audio telerecording.

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