[QUOTE=davieddy;262616]...

I also love Steely Dan, but finding someone with a similar taste
in music is not rare. So, remarkable as it was, your week's purchases
don't shatter my non-belief!

David[/QUOTE]
I used to listen to a lot of music but over the years stopped bothering and until recently tunes would go round in my head and keep me awake. But I've started listening to more again only to find my old CDs missing or damaged. So I've been buying a few old favourites.
And your mention of Haitian Divorce on this thread after the earthquake (yes I'm slow to react) reminded me of how much I used to enjoy their stuff.

[QUOTE=Flatlander;262623]I used to listen to a lot of music but over the years stopped bothering and until recently tunes would go round in my head and keep me awake. But I've started listening to more again only to find my old CDs missing or damaged. So I've been buying a few old favourites.
And your mention of Haitian Divorce on this thread after the earthquake (yes I'm slow to react) reminded me of how much I used to enjoy their stuff.[/QUOTE]

IIRC my divorce was celebrated in Norwich.

OTOH I do remember Annie Nightingale (Berkeley Square)
announcing Newyear after Newyear that the best song of all time was
[URL="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yz2qkfxRjVE"]Reeling in the years[/URL]

David

[URL]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBllejn5fVA[/URL]

Reversing gravity
 

I know those of us old enough to remember "The Seekers"
thought they were a bit "Square" and wallked upside down, but they sang good stuff which endures.
e.g. [url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Ga9Bs4fzSY&feature=related]Another You[/url]

David

[QUOTE=Flatlander;262583]J.J. Cale[/QUOTE]

IMAO that is tantamount to calling Z.Z.Top "Zed Zed Top":smile:

David

[url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vx6DtgW_uh0]All Saints[/url]

90's
 

OK it's getting ever harder to sift out the good stuff, but
IMHO this is a gem of "Brit Pop"

[url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIzcRqyXGdk]Slight Return[/url]

David

[QUOTE=davieddy;262616] persisted Kirsty Wark.
[/QUOTE]

I meant Kirsty Young

Not to be confused with the immortal
[url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DL2GmaI3Xus]Kirsty MacColl[/url]

David

[QUOTE=davieddy;262633]I know those of us old enough to remember "The Seekers"
thought they were a bit "Square" and wallked upside down, but they sang good stuff which endures.
e.g. [url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Ga9Bs4fzSY&feature=related]Another You[/url]

David[/QUOTE]
[MID-LIFE CRISIS]
I don't remember The Seekers, just The New Seekers. (I also don't remember K, just Special K.)
Coka-Cola ad wasn't it?

I wonder if the Slimcea girl ever got down.
'Six slices a day, is the well balanced way.' Or was that something else?

Remember Puppet On A String and my dad getting a big tape of St. Pepper's ... which he recorded bedtime stories over.
Ernie the fastest milkman.
Boom, boom, boom, boom. ESSO blue. (Made to make your mouth water.)
Clunk, click ...
Only a fool breaks the two-second rule.
"You must be out of your tiny minds."
"It's orange!" (Moon dust.) edit: I remember the news report. 'It could be rust, therefore there could be water, therefore there could be life.'
Plant a tree in seventy-three.

All jumbled up now.
[/MID-LIFE CRISIS]

Earliest real* memory, in a pushchair suddenly feeling self-conscious because I had been singing. 1967?
* Also remember walking in some long grass as a 1 year old, but I think I just remember remembering now.

[QUOTE=davieddy;262648]
Not to be confused with the immortal
[URL="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DL2GmaI3Xus"]Kirsty MacColl[/URL]

David[/QUOTE]

I'll eat my hat if the backing group didn't have a lot to do with
[URL="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5sTTb4QZ2fs&feature=related"]Dave Edmunds[/URL]

Duane Eddy

[URL]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_lYPhiNb-Y[/URL]

[QUOTE=Flatlander;262649][MID-LIFE CRISIS]
I don't remember The Seekers, just The New Seekers. (I also don't remember K, just Special K.)
Coka-Cola ad wasn't it?

I wonder if the Slimcea girl ever got down.
'Six slices a day, is the well balanced way.' Or was that something else?

Remember Puppet On A String and my dad getting a big tape of St. Pepper's ... which he recorded bedtime stories over.
Ernie the fastest milkman.
Boom, boom, boom, boom. ESSO blue. (Made to make your mouth water.)
Clunk, click ...
Only a fool breaks the two-second rule.
"You must be out of your tiny minds."
"It's orange!" (Moon dust.) edit: I remember the news report. 'It could be rust, therefore there could be water, therefore there could be life.'
Plant a tree in seventy-three.

All jumbled up now.
[/MID-LIFE CRISIS]

Earliest real* memory, in a pushchair suddenly feeling self-conscious because I had been singing. 1967?
* Also remember walking in some long grass as a 1 year old, but I think I just remember remembering now.[/QUOTE]

I can hardly remember whether it was the New Seekers or Bucks Fizz
who removed their skirts and duly won the Eurovision Song contest.

The only good thing about commercial breaks IMO is that it
gives you the opportunity to go for a pee without missing any action.

Of course I enjoyed some adverts. There was a Persil one accompanied
by a blues/trad jazz number I had never heard before, but loved.
Can you help me place it?

David

I think my favourite tune from the telly was the theme from The South Bank Show. (Excludes the incredible music from Blankety Blank of course. But I could never remember the words.)

Just played this~20 times
 

[QUOTE=davieddy;262577]I have always loved both JJ Cale and Lynyrd Skynyrd.

[URL="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsIqEq9OFxE&feature=related"]They call me the breeze[/URL]

David[/QUOTE]

As I am wont to do with stuff I like.
Sounds better every time.

Used to share a house in my earlier days.
Me and my Mancunian musico friend Russ came back from the pub one night
(he having taught me the art of spewing over his shoulder without breaking stride) and played [URL="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOW8lFaBK4U"]Lights Out[/URL] at high volume indefinitely
until another housemate came down in a fury IN THE NUDE and ripped the plugs out.

Happy Days.

David