You should live in the States; that's all they play on 'classic' radio - especially in the South - Wished I haden't seen the song-title in your post. Now its playing on an endless loop in my head A bit of Cockney Rejects hopefully will be the cure for us both...I'd promised the doctor ( my Ear, Nose, Throat ) that I wouldn't listen to loud music anymore, but one more for the road won't hurt . [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLB2gDLwAbs"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLB2gDLwAbs[/ame]
If you liked Scraps, they have their single on bandcamp you can listen to for free. A couple of the Rejects were very good amateur boxer. From wiki: "Jeff and Mick Geggus (who are brothers) had both been amateur youth boxers, and had fought at the national level". There's a documentary film about the band. I picked it up a few weeks ago but haven't had the chance to watch it yet. I think they talk about their boxing on it. Youtube "Join The Rejects... Get Yourself Killed", even Ricky Hatton is a fan! [ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIceLNzqYb8"]Cockney Rejects - Bad Man - YouTube[/ame] [ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUHz26Sp7oo"]Cockney Rejects - Fighting In The Streets - YouTube[/ame]
This lot were the source of much playground chanting in the seventies-perhaps a bit more poppy punk than the rejects but they knew how to write a great chorus, influenced more by the terraces rather than the art school backgrounds of other bands of their ilk [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzHFXzum95w"]SHAM 69 - Hersham Boys - YouTube[/ame] [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GQMIXGRjaw"]Sham 69 - If the Kids are United - YouTube[/ame]
Yeah, I'm beginning to get that impression. I think I'll stick to kids' platformers like Mario. At least they're colourful. Oh lawd I don't think I could put up with that. That said though, the only time I listen to the radio consistently is when I go to the gym fairly late at night and all the rock tends to range between some latest teeny bopper band trying to figure out how to hold a guitar and some woman screaming like a guy who has drunk whiskey and smoked too many fags while shouting at children all their lives. At least by comparison that bloody Kansas song has something that almost resembles a tune. You're right, it did work! I haven't got that song stuck in my head any more! Not sure which one is better though! ===== So to keep up with trying to sound like I'm cultured and civilised enough to post good music ( ), this came on the radio earlier tonight: [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YR5ApYxkU-U"]Pink Floyd - Another Brick In The Wall (HQ) - YouTube[/ame] Except it was a cover done by these guys: [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvskSSY-0YE"]KoRn-Another brick in the wall (pt. 1,2,3) lyrics - YouTube[/ame] Which got me wondering...how difficult is it for an artist to do a cover of a song that absolutely butchers the original? It seems a lot of artists have done a lot of covers of famous songs and they're all usually received fairly well by their target audience. Just something silly that went through my head earlier.
No, I'd no idea Mickey and Jeff had been in the ammys! Funny thing - I saw a relatively recent photo of 'em and they look like they hit the gym alot. Seriously hit the gym. Canna say that for others of their ilk that are still around - more o' that Keith Richards Warm'd O'er Death parlor.
You are too much! I never know when reading one of your posts is gonna result in a nasal projectile of whatever was in my mouth at the time. When I first came here, all they played was Foreigner, Kansas, - what else :thinking: Who does that "Come and saaaaiilll away with meeeeee" ? Cor blind me, now that's stuck in my head. :bang::bang: They played it incessantly, over and over and over - there were no other outlets, they didna even have jazz or classical as an alternative - just that pap and the most god-awful American commercial country music - which was far worse then than it even is today. When you went over to see a friend and they had the radio on - it war playing. You'd get in the car and they'd have the same thing playing. "Hey kids, guess what? We've got ANOTHER Barry Manilow set commin your way - that's right! - Another I Write the Songs foursome comming atcha!" There was all sorts of music going on in that era, but they never played it. When they did play something from a decent band, it was always the same bleedin' song; they'd leave out anything else except that one song. At least BBC 1, as bad as it was, had the John Peel show and there was Downtown Radio in Ulster and another - Fanning or somesuch. There was also the Pirate Radio Ships here and there. I think that's why I turned to the loudest, most raucous music I could find; it was an attempt to drown out the incessant mantra I were most cruelly subjected to as a child, lol.
Hersham 1969 - ja, the best thing about them was they got a lot of airplay in the day, something the other, more authentic(?) bands didn't. Oddly, they also received more'n their fair share o' grief as they attracted the worst factions of the Movement to their shows. I always wondered why. Walton/Hersham that's a nice area in Surrey, innit? :dunno: The Rejects on the other hand...coulda been bad for 'em but they managed to escape a lot of the bad elements of the Movement though they war much more ... ah...culpable. I think they saw the writin on the wall early on and tried to ditch that.
Sham were really vocal about their disdain for the BM/NF and tried to open up discussion and I think that attracted a lot of trouble as people turned up to their gigs to confront them. The Rejects on the other hand just battered them when they came to their gigs and caused trouble. But the Rejects ran with the ICF and I believe that a lot of their faces in the 70s were black guys. I think the "top boy" was Cass Pennant at the time whose parents were from Jamaica...Now compare that to Chelsea who were also one of the ICF's main rivals (IIRR). Ah, yeah...from 04:40. [ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9nKdqO279kI"]Cockney Rejects frontman recalls hooliganism that left him scarred - YouTube[/ame]
Today I have been mostly listening to Snuff [ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVbwrgWdszM"]SNUFF-LiveBizarreFestival.2000.Martin. - YouTube[/ame] [ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIOXn9KR2gc"]SNUFF-LiveBizarreFest2000.Nick Motown - YouTube[/ame]
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7tBXTKfLXw"]Mulatu Astatke - Nancy Jazz Pulsation 2011 - YouTube[/ame] Holy... cow these guys are amazing musicians. Like most people, I heard them first in Broken Flowers, which is an incredible film. Y'know, unless you like people in spandex with superpowers or whatever, rather than actual grown-up films
. As I've to have radioactive dye injected in my veins in the morning, I thought this would be an appropriate send off. [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ze-cX8qzFDY"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ze-cX8qzFDY[/ame] .
Duran Duran - Thank You DD covers some of their favorite songs. Crystal Ship, White Lines, Lay Lady Lay, 911 is a joke Earth, Wind & Fire - Grt Hits Vol 1 Classic soul & Funk. September, Fantasy, Reasons, That's the way of the world.
iTunes has decided I should listen to Quadrophenia again so... [ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dlN55SoF4Q"]The Real Me Live at the Royal Albert Hall - YouTube[/ame] (Play very loudly.)
Because its Samhain [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fu2bgwcv43o"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fu2bgwcv43o[/ame]
the discussion about contempory "Hey!" bands reminded me of these Swiss lads who play what they call "Sugar Hey!". "Hey!" with a touch of pop to make it all sweet and nice! No lyrics about violence...sadly...Saw them in Prague, can't remember them much I was battered and in the toilets most of the gig "chatting" to a young lady friend... Great night though! Reminds me of Chas 'n' Dave! [ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NaTQWfbhYqs"]Vanilla Muffins-Gimme some sugar Oi! - YouTube[/ame] [ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7vNfT9OE60"]Vanilla Muffins - Sugar Oi! Come On - YouTube[/ame] [ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2srn2S_ajU"]Vanilla Muffins - Mommy It´s Me - YouTube[/ame]
That's pretty cool actually. Because it's almost Samhain and thus not deserving a proper song: [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MfMa2lrFxhY"]Cradle Of Filth - Temptation [OFFICIAL VIDEO] - YouTube[/ame]
going back to the 80's. the the's mind bomb. [ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImI44EGIJ_0&list=PLDTHlyB6oKSPgEe9Qt0Se11Es_X-QxMWl"]The The - Good Morning Beautiful - YouTube[/ame]
[ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eU4ZvfkmOck"]The Game - Ali Bomaye (Explicit) ft. 2 Chainz, Rick Ross - YouTube[/ame]
