Barking Spiders

Not seen any mention of the hugely underrated Sugar here till now. Much prefer them to Husker Du. Copper Blue is great but I prefer the Beaster EP. What are you listening to? Currently have the new release by The Black Dog, The Grey Album, which is great. Recommended to those who fancy a bit of Warp type electronica

Only came across this recently yet it's been out for 10 years but it's the most interesting new bit of music I've heard in aeons

..ok then here's another 15 and so.....Generation Sex (Billy Idol and Steve Jones both 67, Tony James 70, Paul Cook 66), Johnny Marr 59, Glen Matlock 66, Rick Astley 57, Steve Hillage 71, Robert Fripp 77 & Toyah 65, Steve Earle 68, Richard Thompson 74, Billy Bragg 65, Paul Carrack 72, Glen Tilbrook 65, Neville Staple 68, the Damned mid-late 60s I'm guessing. Didn't know they were even still going. And there were loads more guys from the electronica scene in their 50s. I'm not saying it's wrong for these older musicians to be there. I'm just surprised at how many bands from my youth and toddler years are still active. I don't buy music mags or read Pitchfork etc and nor do I listen to music on the radio so have no idea what's going on in the music world. I only listen to my CDs.

Is this the most senior citizen Glasto ever? Candi Staton 83, Debbie Harry 77, Sparks 77 & 74, EJ 76, Cat Stevens 74, Chrissie Hynde 71, Neil Barnes of Leftfield 63 or 62, Axl Rose 61, Fatboy Slim, Duff McKagen and Barrington Levy all 59, Slash 57, Dave Grohl 54. Take heart, BC posse. there's plenty of time yet to get booked 😁. BTW I'm a slip of a lad of a mere 52 summers

On my boat kicking back to Music Has The Right To Children (That be Boards of Canada to the uninitiated) featuring

Learned how to read music and all that jazz (well not jazz per se) while studying clarinet and alto sax between 11 and 16, years of age that is.. not o'clock. Then it all went t1tz up when I discovered gurls. Picked up guitar, drums and bass, initially thinking they might help me get to 4th base. Didn't happen but still kept up with them. The phrase 'self-taught' is a bit high-falutin in my case. More a case of fumbling my way up and down fretboards over the years.

Judging from the full line up it looks like nearly every band in Britain is playing there this year. Is yours?

In this glorious weather I generally prefer listening to summery, laid back, beach vibes such as ...

I don't know either but she's pretty fit

Probably 1988 - 1998...ish...the golden age of hip hop; grunge; the start of the best periods for Ninja Tune, Pork and Warp; peak era for House, Rave, trance, techno, drum n' bass blah etc, Pixies and House of Love do their best stuff. Yup, a great time to be in one's late teens-20s

A slamming bit of trance tunage from 1999...

This was an item in a newspaper????. Guess it must've been a quiet day across the rest of the planet then.

mebbe more like a bottle of Lambrusco and a quick fumble down a back alley

yeah but at least they could do it in the privacy of their own bathroom. Thing is it's just not new. Over the last several decades there've been thousands of groups doing rock covers whether in a jazz, classical, easy listening, redneck hoe down, metal stylee .... or

Sure was one helluva player and even stood out at a time when the 80s pop/indie scene was full of stellar bassmen

Maybe it's because both realise their own stuff is such utter gash the only way is up however dire the covers are

Metallica can only wish they were as good as Coldplay 😊

In my OP I did say terrible covers of GREAT or GOOD songs though!

Just been scrolling the DAB channels to see what's on and landed on Planet Rock while a truly awful song was on. I stayed to listen to it as it's just criminally bad. Now I'm not the world's biggest Beatles fan but one of their tunes I do really like is I Am the Walrus. However, the song I'm talking about happens to be a cover of this by something called Spooky Tooth. It has nothing in it that makes the original a classic but adds in loads of Keith Moon style drumming, overly loud sustained chords on a Hammond organ and a singist who sounds like Ozzy on an off day. Anyone else heard this and can you think of another cover that really mullers the original.

Good to find other peeps on BC that share my taste. Big fave this one though I tend to think of it mostly as a DJ Shadow album

Listen to the first two New Model Army albums when Stuart Morrow was on bass and in particular a track like this one. Such as great tone!

At the moment Exai by Autechre is playing in the foreground. Plenty here to irk those that think music should only be made with 'real instruments' 😊

I've left many bands entirely due to dull and predictable set lists, drawn up to appeal to the lowest common denominator to whit several tunes mentioned - Cocaine, SHA, Rockin in The Free World, anything by Oasis, Mustang Sally plus Valerie, Brown Eyed Girl, Living on A Prayer, Sex on Fire, Mr Brightside, Caroline, Sweet Caroline and Alright Now. If I never hear any of these again it'll be too soon.

I've been selling off much of my collection of basses and guitars so have been very pleased to have been able to sell at much higher prices this year than say 2 years ago. Fr'instance I sold a 4-year old Sub Ray 4 for pretty much the same price I bought it for. The higher prices are pretty much entirely due to the hangover from Covid impacting on shipping costs and the much longer lead times UK retailers have been reporting. Guy at my local store told me he's been experiencing lead times up from 3-4 weeks to 6 months plus at least a quadrupling in container costs.

Yup, give me SAW any day over Morrissey and other miserable indie mopers. Think the UK generally had it better than the US in the 80s. We never had to really put up with hair metal, stadium AOR and all that anodyne c@ck.