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Baker's Dozen - the herculean task of selecting 13 favourite songs.

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Andy is the King said:
The last video you posted on the music thread isn't playable.
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Typical...I suffer from the same thing some of ya'll on the other side of the pond post...damn YouTube regional blocks

It was Modern English - Someone's Calling but I was mainly talking about the amount of participation from me on that thread in the last 11 years...easily surpasses any other thread.
 
Andy is the King said:
I truly like the Stones. Let it Bleed is probably my favourite album of theirs. But.......

it is often argued they are an over-glorified R & B band.

They have existed 200 years longer than necessary & released too much forgettable material. Should have called it quits when Mick Taylor left. A few decent tracks after that but not much. Just my opinion.
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Appreciate your opinion mate honestly but they will never be replicated. BTW. I lived in Amsterdam from 77 till 82. The Stones were on in Rotterdam about 1980. One of the best days if my life. We had a ball. Getting back on the coach to go back, a Londer pipes up to the 80% scouse bus and says," What's it like to watch a proper band?" To which a mate of mine who I lost 3 weeks ago replied "Koff [Poor language removed], you wouldn't have heard of them if The Beatles hadn't written their first hit for them " Pure class. Shut them up. R.I.P Peter Cheshire from Marsh Lane. One of the very best . My mate
 
Gwladys St. Glory said:
Typical...I suffer from the same thing some of ya'll on the other side of the pond post...damn YouTube regional blocks

It was Modern English - Someone's Calling but I was mainly talking about the amount of participation from me on that thread in the last 11 years...easily surpasses any other thread.
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Make that 14 years; feck I've been on here too long.
 

Bazlar said:
Appreciate your opinion mate honestly but they will never be replicated. BTW. I lived in Amsterdam from 77 till 82. The Stones were on in Rotterdam about 1980. One of the best days if my life. We had a ball. Getting back on the coach to go back, a Londer pipes up to the 80% scouse bus and says," What's it like to watch a proper band?" To which a mate of mine who I lost 3 weeks ago replied "Koff [Poor language removed], you wouldn't have heard of them if The Beatles hadn't written their first hit for them " Pure class. Shut them up. R.I.P Peter Cheshire from Marsh Lane. One of the very best . My mate
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Interesting you say this. Earlier in the week I was talking to a guy about 60's & 70's music. Next thing he is pontificating about the superiority of the Stones over the Beatles. He made this comment "what did the Beatles ever do, they were crap." I know the debate has gone on forever but I nearly hyper ventilated. What did the Beatles ever do 😂.

When I stated work nearly in the early 80's I worked with a Londoner & he was the same, he loathed the Beatles. He used to watch the Stones when they first started & practically ejaculated when he talked about the them. I get the impression that these comparisons are more of a Stones / London thing, that a Beatles / Liverpool thing - I could be wrong.

As I said, I like the Stones, they wrote some great stuff. But seriously, very little comes close to Sgt Peppers, Abbey Road, etc (IMO). You could list most of the Beatles albums as ground breaking.

When all is said & done, these kinds of debates are purely subjective anyway.
 
Massive Attack - Teardrop
Trentemoller - Take Me Into Your Skin
Bjork - All Is Full of Love
Marvin Gaye - Inner City Blues
Freddie Joachim - Waves
Mitch Murder - Remember When
Aphex Twin - Alberto Balsam
Burial - Archangel
Five Stairsteps - Ooh Child
Unkle - Lonely Soul
M83 - Lower your eyelids to die with the sun
Souls of Mischief - 93 til infinity
Apparat - Goodbye
Pink Floyd - Shine on you crazy diamond pt1
Clint Mansell - Waves crashing on distant shores of time

A couple or so might change if my memory wasn’t awful
 
I have done this very quickly and probably forgot most of my favourites, but here goes....

Toto - Hold the Line
Oasis - Live Forever
Tears for Fears - Everybody wants to rule the world
Crowded House - Don't dream it's over
Beatles - I saw her standing there
Billy Joel - Piano Man
Smiths - How soon is now
CCR - Have you ever seen the rain
Travis - Sing
Peter Gabriel - Sledgehammer
Adele - Make you feel my love
Dire Straits - Sultans of Swing
Arcade Fire - Everything now
 
No Surrender Bruce Springsteen
Electricity OMD
Up The Junction Squeeze
Walk The Line Johnny Cash
Something The Beatles
Heroes David Bowie
Someone's Looking At You Boomtown Rats
Dirty Old Town The Dubliners
Radio Gaga Queen
You To Me Are Everything Real Thing
Sugar Coated Iceberg Lightning Seeds
Poison Alice Cooper
Sloop John B The Beach Boys


And there's probably loads more I could have put in but decided either go with the ones you first think of.
 

Bazlar said:
Some of you kids were too late for proper music. Unfortunately for you and other whipper snappers. Never mind 😆
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I think you develop your innate taste of music in your formative teenage years and that stays with you. It doesnt mean you dont love and appreciate music that came before or after, you certainly do.

I find it hard to experience the sheer excitement and exhilaration of listening for the first to Sonic Youth's Daydream Nation or Hüsker Dü's Zen Arcade and lots of other bands around the late 80's.
 
dublinbluenose said:
I think you develop your innate taste of music in your formative teenage years and that stays with you. It doesnt mean you dont love and appreciate music that came before or after, you certainly do.

I find it hard to experience the sheer excitement and exhilaration of listening for the first to Sonic Youth's Daydream Nation or Hüsker Dü's Zen Arcade and lots of other bands around the late 80's.
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Yeah that's def true. I was in Oxford when dubstep made it outside of Bristol and parts of London. Somehow Oxford was the next place, and the whole thing was amazing - to be part of a new style of music just arriving

It got bad pretty quickly, but there was at least one great year of it
 
ToffeeTim said:
I have done this very quickly and probably forgot most of my favourites, but here goes....

Toto - Hold the Line
Oasis - Live Forever
Tears for Fears - Everybody wants to rule the world
Crowded House - Don't dream it's over
Beatles - I saw her standing there
Billy Joel - Piano Man
Smiths - How soon is now
CCR - Have you ever seen the rain
Travis - Sing
Peter Gabriel - Sledgehammer
Adele - Make you feel my love
Dire Straits - Sultans of Swing
Arcade Fire - Everything now
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I forgot about Sultans of Swing
Class song.
 

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