OK a music thread...

[Besoeker]

And now for something a little more harmonious.....

YouTube - The Swingle Singers - Amazing Grace | Live UK 2009

YouTube - J. S. Bach-Swingle Singers - Transcription of 1st Movement from Brandenburg Concerto n. 3 BWV 1048

You could set your clock to Bach, JS that is. CPE is a bit different.
Or maybe not.

[Red Rackham]

That quote was Jeannine, who was almost certainly fibbing.

I did have Black Sabbath and the Zep in my time but also a lot of folk. I was firstly a folk and folk rock person. I played the geet and sang folk. Very heavy metal or rock was a bit strong for me, so Highway Star and stuff like that I listened to only if others were, never by choice. Also this music in SA was underground and we couldn't get it on the SA music radios, and we were only allowed to have TV in 1976, so we all listened to it on LM radio which was broadcast on shortwave radio from Lourenco Marques. Sounded like rock shot through with shooting stars and suffering on and off from terminal fade, but you know, I don't remember that bit, just the music. The music was so brilliant and the lyrics were so meaningful to our generation that this was the most important thing about it, not the sound system you got it from. We could also buy the "elpees" so although we have lots of long playing records, we have now lost our player and have repurchased as many as we can afford on CD or DVD. Now you can play this fantastic music in the car or when you're working.

LM Radio has been resuscitated in Mozambique. You can now hear the old songs again on FM from Maputo (old Lourenco Marques) and on Satellite, or live streaming. Here is the web site. You might find its history interesting as this is where so many of South Africa's power DJs found their broadcasting feet (many were born in the UK), at Radio Palace LM, on the naughty radio station that broadcast the verboten music of the times.

LM Radio - Home

I also liked bands like The Moody Blues, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, The Byrds, etc. So many, I can't think of them now, but there were just so many great bands and solo artists like Joe Cocker. You may be able to think of them, RR, I have many now on CD.

ZZ Top, Eric Clapton, Status Quo, Wishbone Ash ...

One group that has special status for us is Emerson, Lake & Palmer. They did Pictures at an Exhibition and this was a rock masterpiece of its time. I suppose it would rank with Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon in this "strangeness" category.

All the way through the 1960s to 1979 when it all shuddered to a halt and disco appeared, there was just this constant stream of creative output that will mark these decades as one of the peaks in western cultural output. Unfortunately, we killed ourselves, but then I suppose you can blame that on politics, the great culture smasher. Once you start directing people's thinking their artistic and literary work suffers and that free spirit of inspiration and idiosyncratic inventiveness just falls to earth like a chunk of lead.

I clicked on the LM Radio link and can put a name to all the faces apart from the chap on the right with the bow tie?

Ah yes, I remember the advent of "Disco" what a time that was. Tbh I have quite fond memories of disco, not for it's musical brilliance (no kidding) but it was good fun. Remember the dance floor in Saturday Night Fever? all flashing lights? we used to use a club in Hamburg with an identical dance floor, thinking back we probably made ourselves look just as daft as Travolta, in fact the more I think about it the more I cringe lol, happy days.

[Silfur Falki]

I clicked on the LM Radio link and can put a name to all the faces apart from the chap on the right with the bow tie?

Ah yes, I remember the advent of "Disco" what a time that was. Tbh I have quite fond memories of disco, not for it's musical brilliance (no kidding) but it was good fun. Remember the dance floor in Saturday Night Fever? all flashing lights? we used to use a club in Hamburg with an identical dance floor, thinking back we probably made ourselves look just as daft as Travolta, in fact the more I think about it the more I cringe lol, happy days.

Well, the good stuff still tried hard during the eighties and there were some great bands. I couldn't listen as before as this was my university hard slog time and I was occupied 24/7 for a very long time. I have to say that ABBA, although unashamedly pop were incredible, and I'm not just saying that because they're Scandinavian. The eighties were a kind of super decade that existed on its own like a beautiful, decadent bubble that somehow rose from the ruins and drifted till it was zapped by the sun.

[Red Rackham]

This has just been played on radio 2 (Johnnie Walker) I immediately stopped tapping away on here and drifted back to the 1970's...

[Silfur Falki]

This has just been played on radio 2 (Johnnie Walker) I immediately stopped tapping away on here and drifted back to the 1970's...

He is so cute I can forgive him the lousy sound of the RM seventies, IMHO, but when he made Avalon in the eighties I liked him completely.

[Red Rackham]

I agree, Avalon was/is a superb track.

Going off on one for a mo... I had a mate, no a friend, who was mad on Roxy Music, he had this poster in his bed space...



The girls loved him he was a real heart breaker and one of the first blokes I knew as a good friend. Sadly the provo basterds got him in Nov 1979, age 20.

[Silfur Falki]

Oh I'm so sorry, Red. That must have been traumatic for you as his friend and at that age. Really sorry.

[Jeannine]

It's rather crude, but it appeals, has a catchy tune, and I had it on my now defunct blog:

[Baron von Lotsov]

Beat this though guys!



These are some of the people who I spend my misspent yoof with.

I like the way the video is all over the place. It seems to charactorise these people very well.

[Rational Actor]