@whisht  @pedant

It’s funny that real people in the ACTUAL UK watched Mind Your Language or Are you being Served?  🙂

My dear Mum loved those shows. Gawd.

I was waiting till she mentioned this adoration to my year 5 teacher who was born in London and arrived in her mid-30s, husband and two children in tow. Boy, on PT evening Mrs Boski give me a…[Read more]

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*cough* Tom Robinson *cough*

Not really hi. At that time – 77-78 – all sorts of things had been unleashed by punk/ new wave, but very few of us completely abandoned the music that had shaped us before. Also my cohort was also quite politicised (especially by today’s standards).

So nobody has bitten on Plaistow Patricia, then?

@thane16…[Read more]

@whisht

That’s very interesting! It has a punk feel but it’s the chord structure & refrain which is REALLY interesting. That ‘twiney’ steel sound, lots of heavy bass, a deep voice, niiice chord changes which go somewhere different than you think.  @pedant @geoffers

I have another ear worm -more so a need to resolve what it is that makes 80s and…[Read more]

@JanetteB that is bloody awful! “Bloody” tends to be quite an Aussie thing, says Thane. I remember various people shouting “bloddy hill.” 🙂

45 degrees is no joke. It’s not easy to stay cool, here, but you’re far worse off.

I know Thane purchased a $2 pkt of ice and tipped it the bath to have an ice bath. Yeah, right. The so-called cold tap…[Read more]

@cathannabel @miapatrick @whisht

That apparently random text is to try to evade spam filters. You see that sort of thing in spam email quite often (although less than you used to).

@cathannabel @miapatrick @whisht

Many thanks – have marked them both as spammers. It does seem to be the case that, because there is “Doctor” in the site name they think we might be interested in their dodgy medication. They take the time to sign up, and add a profile pic. But they don’t take the time to work out what the site is about!

@whisht frustratingly, the other post leaves us hanging over what the most spontaneous effect of Kamagra is…

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I didn’t mind The Veronicas. Also Katie Noonan. Not a band -front singer from jazz to what people round about call ‘Indie’ moosic.

Just googling there is a terrific name of a Bris/Logan band: Fat Mans Cleavage  😀  Lovely!

Puro.

Ah, TRB, Tran Stacey. Niiice. I mean, Stan Tracey -links with Ambler etc. Very talented pianists. Parents were considered pretty far right conservative in the late ’80s and Ambler  against advice, played for the TRB for a few gigs “just temp, mind, lads, OK?” and ended up staying for awhile

@whisht That’s a terrific story!  The da-da duh in p…[Read more]

@whisht – i’m glad you enjoyed the caravan palace! they have new music coming sometime this year, and i’ll be making whatever effort is needed to see them in concert, if they tour the states, again. from what i’ve seen on youchube, they put on quite an energetic show… hopefully i can keep up!

as for zappa, i bought ‘jazz from hell’ on cassette…[Read more]

@whisht

Now that’s a story.

My nearest is a fifth-former, when I was in 6th and in charge of the stage sound booth, trying to trick me into playing Plaistow Patricia to morning assembly. It hadn’t occurred to the tedious little shit that I was totally familiar with it (someone else can post it though1).

Besides, I already chosen this which…[Read more]

@pedant @geoffers @whisht

I have heard this too! But it wasn’t a grocery store -or any ‘real’ store but a chiropractor and physio’s HQ. The music they played was that 20th century stuff mum loves. Not nice listening & a lot of screechy violins. Maybe they think if the patients can deal with the music they can handle the pain of a ‘cracked back.’…[Read more]

@whisht @geoffers @thane16

The thing you have to keep asking yourselves is “How likely is this to turn up on a grocery store mix tape”?

@geoffers That’s terrific! I haven’t experienced much ’90s music? But I will now look at much more. Actually Mum would reckon that she’s heard a lot of music from the 90s which she also likes a lot: I didn’t know that! The APP sounds like a terrific band and in listening to some last night (during the tennis) I think it’s like Pink Floyd but not…[Read more]

@whisht – the alan parsons project has been my fav band since i heard that song on the radio, as a kid, which is unusual, because they used multiple lead singers throughout their career. so it was difficult to identify new songs of theirs when they were released! their catalog is worth digging into, they’re a bit pink floyd “lite.” but the mid…[Read more]

@geoffers @whisht

With a lot of grog on hand (she’s allowed now on account of her teeth…long story).

We have crossed Tom and Mr Parson’s off the list (but it looks like there’s no apostrophe). Unfortunately. They were awesome songs and I personally haven’t heard them before. Through the door I gave her a bar piece (a sentence of music) and she…[Read more]

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The Music Man is Back! it is thane speaking. Mum is excited to see this thread hopping!!

She was telling in @pedant in Email Bursts (that is what we call them) about how at grocery shops she heard a song from the 1980S which had the words “forever” in it. 24 hours later she thinks it is Kiss song ‘Forever’  which is hilarious because…[Read more]

@whisht

Heh. People forget just how experimental that period from about 1968 to about 1973 was (although I think part of the issue here is that it is a TV mix, which was notoriously difficult in those days).

Any excuse:

Ditto what @Whisht says.

@whisht

Nice. There’s one more though: