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BeebRock II - Music Shows on BBC Four, Sky Arts and everywhere else

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37,477 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    Emm... has TOTP the Story of 1994 been replaced with a Cranberries documentary???

    "To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 78,819 ✭✭✭✭Welsh Megaman


    Vic and Bob should have presented TOTP every week!



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 78,819 ✭✭✭✭Welsh Megaman


    Justin from Elastica wondering how Justine Frischman could come up with those melodies.

    Try Wire and The Stranglers back catalogue!



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 78,819 ✭✭✭✭Welsh Megaman


    ’Connection’ still sounds amazing though :)



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 78,819 ✭✭✭✭Welsh Megaman


    Shed Seven!


    *shudder*



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37,477 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    Blur v Oasis eh?

    Is it ok to admit I liked both but preferred Oasis?

    "To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 78,819 ✭✭✭✭Welsh Megaman




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 78,819 ✭✭✭✭Welsh Megaman


    ‘Babies’ by Pulp - absolute classic :)



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,444 ✭✭✭✭Skid X


    I think this Britpop 'Rock Family Trees' starting now on BBC2 is new



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 78,819 ✭✭✭✭Welsh Megaman


    Slow daaaaahn!

    Slow daaaaahn!

    You’re taking me ooooh-vaaaah!



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,867 ✭✭✭Arthur Daley


    Everyone fancied Justine. Then Louise from Sleeper came along.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 78,819 ✭✭✭✭Welsh Megaman


    Good documentary - makes a change having a doc about Britpop that doesn’t feature ‘Common People’ and barely any mention of Oasis.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 78,819 ✭✭✭✭Welsh Megaman


    Blur’s best song, by a country (house) mile…





  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 78,819 ✭✭✭✭Welsh Megaman


    David Byrne’s ‘American Utopia’ now available to download on Sky Catch Up for free.


    :)



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 78,819 ✭✭✭✭Welsh Megaman


    If only Sheila Ferguson had got together with Prince Charles!


    Imagine…an African American in the Royal Family…



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,134 ✭✭✭✭Jordan 199


    Transvision Vamp axe player plays a very nice Gretsch White Falcon. Billy Duffy is a big fan of them.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37,477 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    Bring back THE HUMAN LEAGUE!!!

    "To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 78,819 ✭✭✭✭Welsh Megaman


    TappyPoopy!


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 7,218 ✭✭✭Mike Litoris


    Good jaysus thats like a bad bad karaoke.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 78,819 ✭✭✭✭Welsh Megaman


    Worst! Cover Version! Ever!



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 7,218 ✭✭✭Mike Litoris


    Ah a rare gem!



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 78,819 ✭✭✭✭Welsh Megaman


    YES!!


    We are flying down to Ree-oooooh!



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 78,819 ✭✭✭✭Welsh Megaman


    Chris Rea!

    Did he run a bath for Bob Mortimer before this performance?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 7,218 ✭✭✭Mike Litoris


    Never heard that Chris Rea one before. Quite mesmerizing! 2 good, 1 bad. good start this week!



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37,477 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    Is this Chris Rea or Dire Straits ???

    "To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 78,819 ✭✭✭✭Welsh Megaman




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 7,218 ✭✭✭Mike Litoris




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,134 ✭✭✭✭Jordan 199


    A well battered Strat, sounds great though. I think Fender made some signature Strats in his name.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37,477 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    Tonight is Covers night!

    "To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 7,218 ✭✭✭Mike Litoris


    Bjorn Again! WTF tho!😄

    I remember the Abba revival that year and remember them being a bad cover band you'd see in the Submarine on a Wednesday evening. No idea they had a cover in the charts.



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