How important has music been/is in your life?

TheVat said:
Worst band of the seventies:

Starland Vocal Band

(And sadistic DJs kept spinning their insipid POS, "Afternoon Delight," over and over until you wanted to repeatedly stab yourself in the face if you were trapped with some dweeb who insisted on keeping the radio on during those insufferable three minutes of witless sexual innuendos.)
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Yes "Afternoon Delight" but lets not forget "You Light Up My Light" and "Feelings" from the same era. Also, anything by David Gates of "Bread".

I did like Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young and oddly Duran, Duran, Elvis Costello and Haydn's "Drumroll Symphony".
 
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Worth a mention. Probably the greatest music dvd ever made, "Black and White Night: "Roy Orbison and Friends"
Featuring besides the "Big O" James Burton, Glen Hardin, T Bone Burnett, Jackson Browne, Elvis Costello, k.d Lang, Bonnie Raitt, J.D. Southern, Bruce Springsteen, Tom Waits, and Jennifer Warnes.1779485817573.png
 
Seattle said:
Yes "Afternoon Delight" but lets not forget "You Light Up My Light" and "Feelings" from the same era. Also, anything by David Gates of "Bread".

I did like Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young and oddly Duran, Duran, Elvis Costello and Haydn's "Drumroll Symphony".
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Agreed. A diet of Bread wouldn't be nourishing. CSNY goes on any list for sure, Duran x2 was listenable synthpop with hits like Rio and the Reflex, but they seem more an eighties band even if they technically did form at the end of the seventies. Drumroll Symphony is more 90s, erm 1790s. ;)
 
Sarkus said:
He didn't write it for that film, but it did suit it well. Maybe in the US that is how the track/album is recognised?
Queen moreso than The Who. Mercury was very much someone who took inspiration from everywhere, but loved Opera, especially the voice of Montserrat Caballé, one of the best opera singers of all time. They had a great relationship and he got her to co-sing on his Barcelona album, a pop/opera cross-over, and a fun album.
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Yeah, Yanks seem to think of tubular bells as a movie track. Brits, feel free to execute a suitable eyeroll. Didn't know about the Hg/Caballé connection - I want to look up that album now. Ok, I see that was Hg outside of Queen.
 
TheVat said:
Agreed. A diet of Bread wouldn't be nourishing. CSNY goes on any list for sure, Duran x2 was listenable synthpop with hits like Rio and the Reflex, but they seem more an eighties band even if they technically did form at the end of the seventies. Drumroll Symphony is more 90s, erm 1790s. ;)
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The 1790s are underrated..
 
For me 1970 represented everything I wanted to go back to musically when I was 18 or so in 1985. This program came on and I managed to tape it and watch it with my gf a few years later.

It is half an hour of grainy footage of music and news clips.

It is bad form to request members watch a video so I have time stamped. Music, news clip

Begins Edison Lighthouse.

1.05 Top of the pops dancer, Family Law reform act.

1.44 Bad Finger

First UK Radio one female DJ, Women's lib, Biafra.

3.38. Temptations

Nigeria/Biafra cont.

5.20 Lennon.

UK send aid to Biafra, My Lai massacre count martial, John Lennon art Ex halted.

6.59 George Best song

Best skills.

7.33 Reggae.

Skin head movement.

8.28 Jethro Tull.

Michael Brodie breaks down.

10.30 Spirit in the Sky.

Bacca Jordan trains kids for war, Cambodia.

12.50 Simon & Garfunkel

Shanouk deposed and sentenced, Prince Charles student at Cambridge, US anti war riots.

14.50 Mungo Jerry

Cambodia escalation, Students killed by national guard US, father's speech.

17.27 Dutch priests and the pope clash.

18.46 Free.

UK election Heath, Gay Lib movement.

21.58 Rag mamma Rag, The Band.

N. Ireland troubles, Devlin jailed

23.47. Hendrix (and death)

Planes Hijacked, hostages freed, Vietnam Troops get high.

25.34 Deep Purple on TOTPS.

Joplin Found dead.

26.38 McGuiness Flint

UK strikes, Army steps in, De Gaulle dies, Yukio Mishima.


 
Same as year at Bushy I think, Janet Kay. This song is nuts, not because of the high note but because the format.
To me it seems to start in the middle, then kind of goes to a pre verse, then verse, then pre chorus, then a long chorus. Anyway it's great.

 
Pinball1970 said:
She wrote this at 13, recorded it at 16.
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My cat heard this playing and became violently ill. Ok, seriously, that wasn't bad. If you subtract the video part. She's got a dulcet voice. I hadn't really heard Janet Kay - she could be a coloratura soprano.

I know 10cc must have had other hits but I only recall INIL. I have heard their band name origin is apocryphal but they eventually shrugged and rolled with it. Now they're older so they're changing their name to 5cc. Ha!
 
TheVat said:
My cat heard this playing and became violently ill
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I don't like cats, you have added another reason to not like them.
TheVat said:
Ok, seriously, that wasn't bad.
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Very generous, Dave Gilmore thought so too, he was the one who pushed the record label to release her material after he paid for decent recordings he was that taken with her voice, playing, writing.
TheVat said:
If you subtract the video part
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Yes apologies, she is awfully unattractive, this one has no images so you are safe. Also this is much better than the crap she wrote when she was 13, she penned this at 15 and her voice is from the original demo or close to recorded at 16. The sounds at the intro are whale song, not her singing, just to give you a heads up.

 
TheVat said:
know 10cc must have had other hits but I only recall INIL
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You may know this track. This band were very talented they all sang wrote and played. You will notice that Lol Creme is on lead here because the vocal it too high for Eric Stewart, both are on guitar now too. Graham Godley is on drums and he formed Godley and Creme with Lol after they left. The bassist Graham Goldman wrote tracks for different acts in the 1960s.

 
TheVat said:
I know 10cc must have had other hits but I only recall INIL. I have heard their band name origin is apocryphal but they eventually shrugged and rolled with it. Now they're older so they're changing their name to 5cc. Ha!
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They certainly didn't pigeon-hole themselves to one style for their classics (not that they had that many).
This is my favourite...
 
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