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The Late Late Show - 11th. May 2012

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  • #692
    Skid
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,873 ✭✭✭Skid


    Seeing as it is now May 12th, can I just say Happy Birthday to Burt Bacharch?

    One of the greatest songwriters ever



  • #693
    monkey9
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,337 ✭✭✭✭monkey9


    Burt Bacharach always reminds me of Austin Powers 2: The Spy Who Shagged Me.


  • #694
    grey_so_what
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,749 ✭✭✭✭grey_so_what


    I love that song Skid.....NG does a really good job of singing it....I was at the Point when the brother went awol and he did an unplugged show and it was a cracker....he does the song justice....

    Happy Birthday BB...:)


  • #695
    grey_so_what
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,749 ✭✭✭✭grey_so_what


    Skid wrote: »
    It was in Smash Hits in 1987,so it must have been true. :)

    Smash Hits was a brilliant magazine. I always used to sneakily read my Sister's Copy :o

    You must have a memory like a Hawk Skid.....

    Can't remember the name of the magazine with the words of the songs in it I used to buy....If I heard it I'd remember....

    Better not do that clock test thing....:(


  • #696
    Skid
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    Gay Byrne and Finbar Furey on the SNS tomorrow apparently.

    Decent line up ...

    We have a great show lined up this week, a taster of who's to come include TV legend Gay Byrne, son of Sonny and Cher, Chaz Bono, Irish music great Finbar Furey and star of The Committments and The Tudors, Maria Doyle Kennedy will be performing one of her tracks.


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  • #697
    Skid
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    grey_so_what wrote: »
    You must have a memory like a Hawk Skid.....

    Can't remember the name of the magazine with the words of the songs in it I used to buy....If I heard it I'd remember....

    Better not do that clock test thing....:(

    That probably was Smash Hits ... for years I swore blind that the lyrics they printed were the official lyrics ... then they admitted that they just made them up, whatever they thought was being said :mad:

    The kids these days can just google the lyrics, and download the songs. I had to tape them off the radio, and hope they played the full song without Larry Gogan talking over the end. They don't know how good they have it :mad::D


  • #698
    grey_so_what
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    Sounds good....hopefully there won't be any more sad stories (sounds terrible but I've had it up to here with them).....FF should be good for a laugh and Bono Jr. should have a couple of good stories to tell....


  • #699
    darlett
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    Skid wrote: »
    Gay Byrne and Finbar Furey on the SNS tomorrow apparently.

    Decent line up ...

    Bet BOC will have some pointed question to Gaybo about the job he thinks Tubridy does hosting his show

    Gaybo will of course be the consummate gent and defend him and the current show half heartedly saying "Ah no, its harder to get the guests, no one will agree to come on anymore unless they have a book or movie to promote"
    Fairly sure this will happen.


  • #700
    grey_so_what
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,749 ✭✭✭✭grey_so_what


    Skid wrote: »
    That probably was Smash Hits ... for years I swore blind that the lyrics they printed were the official lyrics ... then they admitted that they just made them up, whatever they thought was being said :mad:

    The kids these days can just google the lyrics, and download the songs. I had to tape them off the radio, and hope they played the full song without Larry Gogan talking over the end. They don't know how good they have it :mad::D

    Breaking my heart laughing here Skid....never knew they were makey-uppy lyrics...lol....remember the top 30 on Radio Luxembourg and trying to get Noel Edmunds incessant gabbing off the song you were taping...and editing the favourite ones.....kids these day's don't know the half of it.....(as the mother would say)....:D


  • #701
    monkey9
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,337 ✭✭✭✭monkey9


    Sure i remember recording Radiohead's Karma Police onto tape off FM 104 one time. Towards the end of the song for some reason, FM104 played a bicycle bell sound over the song. Of course, i thought it was on the actual song itself.

    For years, i always heard the bell in my head when i listened to the song until one day i realised i wasn't hearing the bell. I had to put two and two together and realise it was the station all along!! B*astards. I can't listen to that song now without thinking of that bell!!


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  • #702
    Skid
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    grey_so_what wrote: »
    Breaking my heart laughing here Skid....never knew they were makey-uppy lyrics...lol....remember the top 30 on Radio Luxembourg and trying to get Noel Edmunds incessant gabbing off the song you were taping...and editing the favourite ones.....kids these day's don't know the half of it.....(as the mother would say)....:D

    Haha, I love it grey. Luxembourg was a bit before my time, to be honest. I have a bag full of tapes somewhere, I must listed to them again while i still have the equipment to pay them on.

    I remember saving my pocket money to buy my first album (on tape) I was in the record shop trying to decide between Michael Jackson's Bad and Wet Wet Wet's Popped In Souled Out. I took all day and eventually went for .... The Wets :) Feck it, I still like them even if they are not 'cool' to like. Marti Pellow is still a terrific singer, I saw him a few years ago, he was brill ...



  • #703
    darlett
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    grey_so_what wrote: »
    Breaking my heart laughing here Skid....never knew they were makey-uppy lyrics...lol....remember the top 30 on Radio Luxembourg and trying to get Noel Edmunds incessant gabbing off the song you were taping...and editing the favourite ones.....kids these day's don't know the half of it.....(as the mother would say)....:D

    I remember playing and rewinding Queens Bohemian Rhapsody to try and figure out the words after watching Waynes World rock it out headbanging the life out of a little car. "Scaramouche, Scaramouche, will you do the vandango, thunderbolt of lightening, very very frightening, ting Galileo, ting Galileo, Magnifico..." frigging "...beelzebub" I thought I was deaf or something

    ****ers do have it so easy today :P


  • #704
    grey_so_what
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,749 ✭✭✭✭grey_so_what


    I'm sure I have that Skid!...Marti with the twinkling eyes....must have had a load of eye drops in now I think!!.....never saw them live though....my first album was Rumours F/Mac and I will never forget that summer...It was fab and we used to rig up the record player and play it in the garden....happy days....

    btw I saw a converter in Lidl the other day that you could put your tapes in and load them onto your laptop....I used to open the tapes and sellotape them back together when they snapped or got tangled in the recorder!


  • #705
    grey_so_what
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,749 ✭✭✭✭grey_so_what


    "Popped In Souled Out" Skid......Have it in my hands.....10.99 sticker on it!!!lol...;)


  • #706
    monkey9
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    The first album i ever bought myself with my own money was Guns N' Roses' Appetitite For Destruction!!!! Get in there!!!! Not an ounce of embarrassment with that stat!!


  • #707
    JonathanAnon
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    On the wall of skid's bedroom

    Marti010.jpg


  • #708
    Skid
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,873 ✭✭✭Skid


    grey_so_what wrote: »
    I'm sure I have that Skid!...Marti with the twinkling eyes....must have had a load of eye drops in now I think!!.....never saw them live though....my first album was Rumours F/Mac and I will never forget that summer...It was fab and we used to rig up the record player and play it in the garden....happy days....

    btw I saw a converter in Lidl the other day that you could put your tapes in and load them onto your laptop....I used to open the tapes and sellotape them back together when they snapped or got tangled in the recorder!

    ha, those were the days alright. Rumours is a brilliant Album, hasn't aged a bit, timeless. I might invest in a tape converter soon, I'm sure I have a few gems on my tapes that never made it to iTunes :)


  • #709
    grey_so_what
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    No harm there......Good 'ol Marti....:)


    (to the poster on the wall!)


  • #710
    JonathanAnon
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    Skid wrote: »
    ha, those were the days alright. Rumours is a brilliant Album, hasn't aged a bit, timeless. I might invest in a tape converter soon, I'm sure I have a few gems on my tapes that never made it to iTunes :)

    There's actually one for sale in Lidl at the moment Skid.. 30 quid I think.. or you could just plug a 3.5mm male to male cable from the output of your sony walkman with radio and stop button (:D) into the back of your PC and record to mp3 using Audacity..


  • #711
    Skid
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,873 ✭✭✭Skid


    JonathanAnon wrote: »
    There's actually one for sale in Lidl at the moment Skid.. 30 quid I think.. or you could just plug a 3.5mm male to male cable from the output of your sony walkman with radio and stop button (:D) into the back of your PC and record to mp3 using Audacity..

    Cheers Jonny, my trusty Sony Walkman is still working as it happens.

    That was a splendid purchase - 20 years old and still going strong. They don't make them like that anymore :)


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  • #712
    darlett
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    JonathanAnon wrote: »
    There's actually one for sale in Lidl at the moment Skid.. 30 quid I think.. or you could just plug a 3.5mm male to male cable from the output of your sony walkman with radio and stop button (:D) into the back of your PC and record to mp3 using Audacity..

    That, particularly the last bit is an informative piece of excellence! Is there anything similar for VHS? I got Aldi/Lidl converter kit for video about 3 years ago but I never did get round to using it even once, just yet.


  • #713
    cofy
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    grey_so_what wrote: »
    No harm there......Good 'ol Marti....:)


    (to the poster on the wall!)

    I can still feel it in my fingers!!!!


  • #714
    JonathanAnon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 23,718 ✭✭✭✭JonathanAnon


    darlett wrote: »
    That, particularly the last bit is an informative piece of excellence! Is there anything similar for VHS? I got Aldi/Lidl converter kit for video about 3 years ago but I never did get round to using it even once, just yet.

    You wont be able to hook it up to a normal PC without extra hardware.. I have a TV Tuner card in my PC, which allows you to have a coax input... i.e. analog aerial / digital aerial / video... And you can use the software to record from there...

    This is the one I have...
    Hauppauge WinTV HVR-1100 - DVB-T receiver

    Though it's a damn sight cheaper there than what I paid for it.. :mad::mad:


  • #715
    Skid
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,873 ✭✭✭Skid


    JonathanAnon wrote: »
    On the wall of skid's bedroom

    Marti010.jpg

    Guilty as charged :o

    he is a legend though, here is Marti's tribute to Roy Orbison.

    Lovely Stuff.



  • #716
    JonathanAnon
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    Yeah Skid, I knew your hero made it when he was on Emmerdale..

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YH8mrAaCHnI


    Great singer though, great frontman...


  • #717
    washiskin
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    Skid wrote: »
    That's right Grey ...

    Wishing Well, Sign your Name, If you let me stay ...

    He used to be in the US Marines, too.

    That's all I can remember :o

    Here's another nugget for your fact-file, Skid - he was one of those artists who availed of the "let's live in Ireland and avoid paying a whack to the Taxman" 6 months back in the late 80's / early '90's. He lived in Beauparc House aka Henry Mountcharles' other stately home.


  • #718
    Dublin Red Devil
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    I get that most people don't like Jedward but you have to hand it to the two lads, They are making serious money. They are far from stupid. It's all part of their act. They will only have a few years to do it before they are in their mid 20's and the act doesn't work anymore.

    They are going to be financial set for life if they can run with this hype for a few more years. Apparently they already have made £2m each so far. Plenty more where that came from.


  • #719
    wnolan1992
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    Dublin Red Devil wrote: »
    I get that most people don't like Jedward but you have to hand it to the two lads, They are making serious money. They are far from stupid. It's all part of their act. They will only have a few years to do it before they are in their mid 20's and the act doesn't work anymore.

    They are going to be financial set for life if they can run with this hype for a few more years. Apparently they already have made £2m each so far. Plenty more where that came from.

    And that's exactly why most people hate them. The've made millions even though their talentless. I really don't get this argument, are we supposed to like them because they've found out how to exploit idiotic pre-teen girls who make up the majority of their fanbase?


  • #720
    Dublin Red Devil
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    wnolan1992 wrote: »
    And that's exactly why most people hate them. The've made millions even though their talentless. I really don't get this argument, are we supposed to like them because they've found out how to exploit idiotic pre-teen girls who make up the majority of their fanbase?

    If you had the opportunity, Or anyone one else had the opportunity to do what they are doing. You would do the exact same thing.

    Almost every artist out these days is bloody talentless

    Westlife spent 10 years doing it. Not one of them could ever play an instrument or right a song. They got up on stage a mined ever single word to a backing track of a covered song that someone who actually had talent wrote 30 years before


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  • #721
    Patrick2010
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    Rubbish, there are loads of talented artists out there. What kind of music do you listen to?


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