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rik: I know exactly what you mean!!!
Seeing the list of 45s took me right back!! Somewhere, possibly back at my parents place I have a record box of old records ... from memory:
Transvision Vamp (two singles: Baby I Don't Care and another one)
Paul McCartney: The Frog Song (this is something I would rather keep quiet!)
Paula Abdul: Straight Up
A-ha: Cry Wolf
A few more too ... I still like to buy vinyl when it is possible. They released quite a few albums on vinyl a while back ... I would love to get my hands on some of the Metallica back catalogue just to hear it how it was heard back in the 80s!!
New music is mostly lost on me. A lot of bands churning out music these days feels like a rehash of bands I already know and either love or have skipped over on purpose. The *indee muzak* is lost on me. I have a healthy aversion to most of it ... namely Coldplay and the gazillion bands that soung like them.
Oh yeah: Kim Wilde was HAWT (strange to see her on gardening programmes!!), so was Wendy James ...
Exactly! and now it's a dire situation because the bands creating the decent music we've all grown up with or loved for years are getting older, in some cases stale with the exceptions being slayer, metallica, iron maiden, motorhead and cannibal corpse coz they're still making kick [censored] music. I'd love to include GNR in that list there but Chinese democracy was Great, not timeless plus i saw the AXL show live on Monday and it was really bad. :'(.
I hate to think what music's going to be like in 20 years time...
Ozzy and Lemmy will probably still be alive tho, ha!
Ha ha my dad and I had a heated debate about this a few weeks ago, which was ended when I reminded him that
Shaun Cassidy - Da Doo Ron Ron, reached no.5 in 1963
Black Lace - Agadoo, reached no.2 in 1984
Spitting Image - The Chicken Song reached no.1 in 1986
and
The Wurzels - Combine Harvester, reached no.1 in 1976
all of the above would have been based on actual sales in shops so people would have had to make a decision to go out and buy them so whats the excuse there lol
Hey Guys
I'm 28 and i like old school rcok music such as ACDC, Stones, Queen, Beatles and others. Also I like modern day music like Kaiser Chiefs, Coldplay, The feeling and that sort of music as they write there own music unlike all these wannabe popstars who copies the oldies and ruins them, such as mcfly when they tried to do a Queen song. I also prefer to buy from shops then downloading as i always like to see the album covers and you can't do that on a download.
The problem is the shops themselves - when I was a teenager thee was Woolies (obviously!) and an independent record shop which had the 12" singles.
I remember having to wait until Wednesday before the single was in stock.
Nowadays you get it in Tesco with your weekly shop or online from anyone of a number of sites. Or you download - it isn't the same but it is convenient!
There's no record store vibe anywhere these days though, tesco can sell anything they want but they'll never re-create waiting 2 days to get my hands on slayer records from a local music store because they "only had one in and that went on tuesday" or something. it might not have been as easy to get hold of stuff but you could hang out for ages, listen to new stuff and talk to the guys in there, i found loads of music hanging out in small stores. :'(.
...(Flanders & Swann, Tom Lehrer, Spike Jones, Bob Newhart etc)
RESPECT!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhuMLpdnOjY
...as for the original Q: I'm all CDs. Don't understand MP3s. Gave all my LPs away to a friend who would love them and look after them. Have a box full of beer and cheap wine soaked dayglo vinyl punk singles, up in the loft.
I agree with Rik. I used to spend hours in little independents, flicking through racks of singles. Trying stuff out that I'd never heard of before. We used to just go there to be cool and hang out.
I guess I'm just too old to be cool anymore ...daddy-oh 😥
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsmcDLDw9iw&ob=av3n
Seeing as though there are (or rather were) 666 posts on this board, here's a classic.
(Yes, i'm THAT geeky).
On the subject of music - I was shown this last week, and think it's awesome - his viewing figures have leapt by around 700,000 in the last 5 days.
Thats where my drainpipe has gone!!!
Thats where my drainpipe has gone!!!
.. and your cooking spatulas 😀
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