Danbert - I said EXACTLY the same thing to Mrs G last night. Good show, but it sort of started at the half way point !!!Originally Posted by Danbert
Didn't think much of last nights efforts.
As much as i love them, Since when did the Indie scene start with the Smiths?
Joy Division/New Order, or Factory weren't even mentioned which is rather like doing the history of punk without mentioning the Sex Pistols.
Glad to see I'm not the only one who appreciates early Genesis and VdGG. Oddly before this prog came on I'd been trying without success to track down a CD copy of The Lamb in my local record shops. The best I could come up with is The Platinum Collection, which oddly for a retrospective collection starts with the most recent stuff and goes back in time. Best disc is the third one which not only has 3 tracks from the lamb but also has the epic Suppers Ready. CD1 is OK as background music in the car, CD2 still has some Steve Hackett stuff on it but it does creep into abacab territory.
Sadly it misses the fell-running track (and one of the my faves from LLDOB) "Riding the Screes".
Bo-bid-e-bop
I just made a CD copy of my Vinyl version of The Lamb. NO SCRATCHES! I'd forgotton what a dense, mysterious and involving piece this is. It seems to have gained power over the decades and now comes over as almost Wagnerian. You cannot have it as background musak..it just grabs your attention with multiphasic shifts of mood, colour and rhythm. Quite astonishing.
Even to this day I remember my first hearing of The Lamb. I was carp fishing (autumn I think) beside a little lake at Midhurst (Sussex) and had brought along a crap radio to listen to the first broadcast of the whole album (radio 1, I dunno?). It was pitch black, it was cold, it all sounded great
The fact I can still remember it, says something about the experince and the music.
It was really rubbish wasn't it. So indies consisted of the Smiths, the Stone Roses and Oasis? I won't list the hundreds of bands they could have mentioned from the UK ... and what about the US undergrounf / indie scene from the mid - late 80s? That produced FAR more exciting, challenging and groundbreaking music than the UK ever did. Bah!Didn't think much of last nights efforts.
As much as i love them, Since when did the Indie scene start with the Smiths?
Joy Division/New Order, or Factory weren't even mentioned which is rather like doing the history of punk without mentioning the Sex Pistols.
Definitely went off this series with its Americanisation of punk and stadium rock and was so fed up with it that I wasn't going to watch the last one, but did in the end. Hmmmm....ok it was a view on the Indie scene, but I guess the beauty about that time was that you could pick up on a bit of this and that and not be driven entirely by the Blur/oasis thing, however much you liked either or both. Where was Joy Division? pretty fundamental stuff that!
Interestingly I enjoyed the first two parts of this, ie the bits I was too young to remember, well the first anyway! The bits that annoyed me were the times I lived through and experienced myself first hand. Guess I have my own view on history there and it didn't conform to the programs!
Bloody good cover of Stairway to Heven
http://www.splentale.com/this-sensat...a-speechless/#
Thanks for that Patrick, love it when Jason Bonham joins in... the zep guys look well impressed.
Welcome back from the distant mists of time...
Yeah. Now we have whatever old music we want, anytime, courtesy of YouTube. Been trying out loads of stuff I missed out on first time around.
Neu....amazing! How could I have missed these guys.
Mahavishnu Orchestra....dense, flashy music. Too rich for my taste.
Buddha of Suburbia.....Wow! How did I miss that one??
Aphex Twin. Love it.
Can. Good in parts.
Thats enough for now.
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