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  1. 8 hours ago, Cato said:

    The UK entry has been getting a fair bit of rotation on Radio 1, so unusually for me, I've actually heard it this year and, even more unusually it's rather grown on me.

     

    (The video takes about 20 secs before the music starts)

     

     

    I reckon it's well above the admittedly low bar for UK entries, probably becausebit's not trying to do the europop thing, it's just a fairly typically British pop song.

     

    I'll be astonished if anyone but Ukraine wins this year, but it'll be interesting to see how the UK gets on. I haven't heard all the other entries but surely at a minimum this song deserves to be top half of the final table.

    I’m really hoping that the UK makes a decent fist of the contest this year. It’s the first time in years when we’ve actually had a decent song. Though I must confess some bias as I know one of the co-writers of the song and she’s 1) a properly good songwriter (with some well deserved Grammys under her belt over the last few years!), 2) a properly good singer/performer and 3) a properly lovely person too. 

     

    Sam Ryder is a talented singer too so it adds up to a good combination for a change! Good to have a combination which Should be in with a fighting chance this year. Notwithstanding the fact that, of course, Ukraine could enter a Duracell monkey banging some tiny cymbals together for three minutes and they’d probably still walk the voting process!

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  2. 1 hour ago, LukeFRC said:

    You didn’t know Jesus used to read the Melody Maker?

    Funny, I always thought this was the publication He had a subscription to…

     

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    I’m reliably informed by my son’s primary school assembly that He danced in the morning (when the world was begun). He danced for the moon and the stars and the sun and so on and so forth…

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  3. Actually, this reminds me of another comedy single I was given about the same time which I do recall quite fondly, both A-side and B-side. By no means comedy genius but a darned sight better than Bionic Santa!

     

    I guess comedy singles were a big thing in the mid 70s, thinking back on it… what with the Python albums, the Barron Knights and The Grumbleweeds, songs like The Streak, Convoy, Convoy GB etc etc… I did enjoy these two…

     

     

     

  4. The recent resurrection of the Covers thread got my mind thinking…

     

    I recall, back in the mid 70s being given a novelty 7 inch single which used little snippets of hit songs in between narration to tell a “funny” story to “comedic” effect (I use “funny” and “comedic” in their loosest possible meanings). It’s been bugging me what it was for weeks now as the single uses three snippets from “The Boys Are Back In Town” - hence the connection as Lizzy are one of my favourite bands and “The Boys Are Back…” is one of my favourite Lizzy songs.  Finally worked it out… “Bionic Santa” by club DJ Chris Hill.

     

    This is probably the strangest (and most excruciatingly awful) musical compilation you’re going to see/hear in a long time. It’s been bugging me what it was but now, listening back to“Bionic Santa” I’m unsure if I’d have been better off not working it out. A listen confirms that this is probably one of the worst records ever - matched only by its predecessor from the previous year “Renta Santa”. Bear in mind these two singles actually made it to No 10 on the UK singles charts in 1975 and 1976!  What were we thinking, especially as back then you needed to shift serious units to hit the top 10! Especially in the Christmas period!

     

    Enjoy! …which is unlikely if you actually listen to it!

     

     

  5. Most people are, to one degree or another, seen as a collection of clichés or easy hooks to hang a label on as far as the people who know them are concerned. Dad, brother, [insert job here], petrolhead, pain in the proverbial, pedant, sports fan, geek etc etc… Certainly for us bass players our chums will probably do that with our musical tastes. 
     

    But there are probably outliers for all of us which step outside the perception of us. Bands or artists no one would guess we are into. A lot of my uni chums would think of me as a beardy folky because of the folk rock band I formed then and many group trips to see Fairport Convention. Most people know me as a huge ELO fan or an aging rocker who loves Thin Lizzy and Gary Moore. Some guitarist chums refer to me (ironically) as “Progmeister” because I love Yes, Rush and Genesis…

     

    But I doubt that anyone would ever guess that my LP and CD collection contains a pretty large amount electronica like Kraftwerk and, in particular, Jean Michel Jarre.  Just love a bit of Jarre… And it goes right back to being a teenager, listening to Equinox and Magnetic Fields. When I first heard he was planning a City Concert gig in London it became my “must see” gig for that year. Destination Docklands still ranks as one of my best (and wettest) gig experiences!

     

    I wonder what other folks “core listening” and unexpected outliers are.

     

     

     

     

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  6. At least with Tim Hughes tunes when you strip away the production trappings they’re just pretty straightforward indie guitar anthems. 
     

    Going to be fun to see how the kids cope when all of the cues they’ve been used to listening to just aren’t there - like the Euro-trance keyboards kicking in for the refrain/bridge. What’s the betting they’ve not been tracking their section changes to chorus sequences or lyrics but to production/arrangement/sound  changes!

     

    Much much better just to play the CD/YouTube video as a backing for them.

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  7. 2 minutes ago, Barking Spiders said:

    I'm going pretty obscure here. Regular Peel listeners back in the 80s and/or Liverpool residents might've come across these two woefully underrated/overlooked/neglected bands. I had these 2 tunes of 45s but now can only hear them on YT.

     

     

    …three more from them later…

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  8. 8 hours ago, LeftyJ said:

    I've tried an Audere JZ3D in my Jazz Bass (not a Sire) once. They offer various configurations, but mine had volume, 3-way impedance switch, stacked pickup pan / mids, stacked bass / treble and a passive tone knob. I liked the versatility, but couldn't stop fidgeting with it and eventually switched mine back to passive, but with a rotary bass boost switch in the 4th position. 


    Another vote for an Audere preamp. Drop in, lots of good configurations available (including simpler ones than the one I chose), powerful but also very musical (no silly unusable over boosted extremes),  very transparent with the EQ controls centred… great little preamp. Love it in my Frankenjazz!

     

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  9. On 18/03/2022 at 09:34, Andyjr1515 said:

    Yes - and the Pro 1 (?) had that flat wide one (which, given the above, was an 'unusual' choice) , although that seems to have been also relatively quickly dropped.  You can see the plate in the thread I have just posted above of @Fishman's Wal save/rebuild a couple of years back.

     

    Whoops, late to the party on the profile gauge!

     

    My understanding was that with the laminate construction Ian and Pete found the carbon fibre strips unnecessary and, in fact, potentially made the necks TOO stiff and resistant to profile changes. So, they dropped them for the Custom series. 

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  10. 17 hours ago, TrevorR said:

    Love the Barenaked Ladies… Brian Wilson, If I Had $1,000,000, Be My Yoko Ono and Grade 9 spring to mind.

     

    Or what about Mayor of Simpleton by XTC… humour in music doesn’t just need to be Flanders & Swan or Bernard Cribbins (though both are great)…

     

    ….and who couldn’t love…

    D’oh, for some reason all the other Tom Lehrer clips others had posted weren’t showing up on my iPad…d’oh!

     

     

  11. Love the Barenaked Ladies… Brian Wilson, If I Had $1,000,000, Be My Yoko Ono and Grade 9 spring to mind.

     

    Or what about Mayor of Simpleton by XTC… humour in music doesn’t just need to be Flanders & Swan or Bernard Cribbins (though both are great)…

     

    ….and who couldn’t love…

     

     

     

     

     

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