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YZGI;1475458 wrote: That was great. Thanks Ahso.


Yeah, its a good track

For Gill.

Another Mark Ronson tune (Ronson is the guitarist). This one from SNL

Thanks Anne !!! :-6

You've all lost the plot, you should be listening to this ( I never did grasp embedding, sorry! )

Why a lot of people thought this was a sad song is beyond me !!!!






This was the last song the group ever recorded together in the studio.

Released as a single in Oct. '82

It was recorded and mixed on August 20, 1982, with the working title of "Den Lidande Fågeln" (The Suffering Bird). Apart from Fältskog's lead vocal and an operatic solo vocal line of Lyngstad mixed with the instrumental, the only instruments featured on the song were Andersson's synthesizer and drum machine, Ulvaeus' acoustic guitar and a snare drum by Åke Sundqvist. The song minutely details the story of a lonely woman's mundane life right before she met her loved one, blended with a sombre, haunting melody. (Wikipedia)



I must have left my house at eight, because I always do

My train, I'm certain, left the station just when it was due

I must have read the morning paper going into town

And having gotten through the editorial, no doubt I must have frowned

I must have made my desk around a quarter after nine

With letters to be read, and heaps of papers waiting to be signed

I must have gone to lunch at half past twelve or so

The usual place, the usual bunch

And still on top of this I'm pretty sure it must have rained

The day before you came

I must have lit my seventh cigarette at half past two

And at the time I never even noticed I was blue

I must have kept on dragging through the business of the day

Without really knowing anything, I hid a part of me away

At five I must have left, there's no exception to the rule

A matter of routine, I've done it ever since I finished school

The train back home again

Undoubtedly I must have read the evening paper then

Oh yes, I'm sure my life was well within its usual frame

The day before you came

I must have opened my front door at eight o'clock or so

And stopped along the way to buy some Chinese food to go

I'm sure I had my dinner watching something on TV

There's not, I think, a single episode of Dallas that I didn't see

I must have gone to bed around a quarter after ten

I need a lot of sleep, and so I like to be in bed by then

I must have read a while

The latest one by Marilyn French or something in that style

It's funny, but I had no sense of living without aim

The day before you came

And turning out the light I must have yawned and cuddled up for yet another night

And rattling on the roof I must have heard the sound of rain

The day before you came

Betty Boop;1475493 wrote: You've all lost the plot, you should be listening to this ( I never did grasp embedding, sorry! )




We're always losing the plot! The plot thickens!.........becomes something else entirely..........this forum has ADD!

Some years ago the choir started on "Mama Mia", a medley of songs frm the movie, but we dropped it before taking it to performance because the music was so dire.

As for the Flying Pickets, people only seem to know them from their 2 UK hits, "Only You" & "When You're Young And In Love". However, it may interest you to know that they're still going strong, on constant tour in Europe, and they have a massive repertoire. However, the artists have changed over the years. I have been in direct touch with them, as I was wanting som info on how to get hold of a couple of albums I'm missing from my collection ("At Work" & "Waiting For Trains"), & it turns out I already have a more comprehensive collection of their recordings than they do.

Jimmy Fallon is a terrific show host. Here he is with The Roots and Megan Trainor doing All About That Bass.

Here's some good listenin'. Put those quality headphones on :)

Leaving my house on Mars

Ahso!;1475526 wrote: Leaving my house on Mars




That's excellent Ahso. Much more me than Abba

Snowfire;1475530 wrote: That's excellent Ahso. Much more me than AbbaI figured that might ring your bell. The LP is called Universal Migrator in case you're interested.

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_ ... l+migrator

Ahso!;1475533 wrote: I figured that might ring your bell. The LP is called Universal Migrator in case you're interested.

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_ ... l+migrator


I listened to the whole of part one. Loved it

I'd not heard of Ayreon before. I like to stretch and indulge myself as much as I can and not much that's good gets past me. I've now got a few more albums to drown out my tinitus.

Thanks !

Maybe I've left enough for everyone, except perhaps Spot, that is. He's either diggin' all of it or none of it. There ain't no telling with him (yeah, I used "ain't" and it works).

not!

My son turned me on to David Grey a few years ago. I've learned to like Grey's music since. This one is called Babylon.

I can listen to Dave Matthews 24/7

There are two 70s songs which will still be played a hundred years from now, there's this and there's Stairway to Heaven, both on the grounds of extreme cleverness.

Kate Bush - Wuthering Heights

Three 70s songs, really. Bohemian Rhapsody[1] has to be there too, on the same grounds.







[1]A wonderful quote from Wikipedia's Bohemian Rhapsody page: Melody Maker said that Queen "contrived to approximate the demented fury of the Balham Amateur Operatic Society performing The Pirates of Penzance".

Except for a listener here and there, I personally doubt any of this music will be played in one hundred years from now. Well, maybe Dave Matthews.

Ahso!;1475559 wrote: Except for a listener here and there, I personally doubt any of this music will be played in one hundred years from now. Well, maybe Dave Matthews.


Really? There's plenty of music from a hundred years back that's played now - we could take 1910-1920 as the timeframe. Why would 2115 be any different?

Here - have an example. This was written in 1917. You'll not have heard of Joe Brown but I've seen him on stage in my time, he doesn't half enjoy playing to a crowd.

That's a good tune. I suppose some of today's music will be covered later, though music is changing so radically that it's difficult to imagine they'll sound anything like the original recordings. I took your original post to mean the original recordings will be somewhat popular in one hundred years.

I think they will be, though providing examples from a hundred years ago is rather difficult since very few recordings were made back then.

spot;1475566 wrote: I think they will be, though providing examples from a hundred years ago is rather difficult since very few recordings were made back then.


I am sure you will know of some operatic/choral/church performances that are the same now as they were back then

That's true. I have the soundtrack to Boardwalk Empire on my Google cloud account and my tablet that I listen to often; they're not the original recordings but performed like the originals. Here's an example.

Think about it, Joe Brarn and the Bruvvers was the first live act I ever did see. Late 60's

Snowfire;1475570 wrote: Think about it, Joe Brarn and the Bruvvers was the first live act I ever did see. Late 60's


If I get my time machine working, you can go back and see the show again. I'll drive.

I saw him at Cropredy, in bright sunshine. He started, and the crowd joined in, and he gave a great grin like it was a present and asked if we knew Henery the Eighth too.

Snowfire;1475570 wrote: Think about it, Joe Brarn and the Bruvvers was the first live act I ever did see. Late 60's


One of my first records......always had to wait for the 'drumming' on the guitar toward the end, and then play it again.

spot;1475561 wrote: Really? There's plenty of music from a hundred years back that's played now - we could take 1910-1920 as the timeframe. Why would 2115 be any different?
Nearly all the WW1 songs are still very much known.

Forget 1910, what about 1812 - fantastic overture.

FourPart;1475576 wrote: Nearly all the WW1 songs are still very much known.

Forget 1910, what about 1812 - fantastic overture.


The very first LP I ever owned was the 1812 Overture (with proper cannons) I'd heard it at school and my parent bought it for me.

Second LP was "Help" by the Beatles

Snowfire;1475578 wrote: The very first LP I ever owned was the 1812 Overture (with proper cannons) I'd heard it at school and my parent bought it for me.

Second LP was "Help" by the Beatles


Mine was Please Please Me. My aunt bought it as a Christmas present. I may have had the same 1812, a mass-market label called Music For Pleasure did one around then.





eta: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_for ... d_label%29

It was Classics for Pleasure, and they started the year Help! was released.

eta 2: The Swingle Singers also did a version. Without, one hopes, a cannon.

spot;1475580 wrote: Mine was Please Please Me. My aunt bought it as a Christmas present. I may have had the same 1812, a mass-market label called Music For Pleasure did one around then.Weren't MFP a branch of EMI, or did EMI buy them out or something?

My first self bought record.................

FourPart;1475582 wrote: Weren't MFP a branch of EMI, or did EMI buy them out or something?


I think EMI gave them access to their recording backlog in exchange for money.

I used to get the old Top Of The Pops L.Ps. In fact, I've still got loads of them stowed away in the cupboard. Some including a certain up & coming young session cover artist, Reg Dwight.

My first self-bought is an embarrasment

Snowfire;1475587 wrote: My first self-bought is an embarrasment




Clever parodies though. Very schoolboy humour. I just saw "The Chapel Lead Is Missing" in the right-hand-column and grinned. Bom Bom Bom Bom, if I remember.

Apart from the "ABC of Sound" (a record I can recite to this day), the first album I remember owning was "The Sorceror's Apprentice" (pre Disney version).

Snowfire;1475587 wrote: My first self-bought is an embarrasment




I would never have had the guts to own up to that............but seriously there are no novelty records these days, there were always one or more in the top twenty back then.

Here's my first self-bought album

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/e ... cover).jpg

I have not been revisiting music videos. I would like, instead, to introduce the team to a personable engineer, Colin Furze, who was interviewed on the BBC a year or so back.

Colin Furze: Inside the mind of an inventor - BBC News

He has a Youtube channel. He's very persuasive.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCp68_F ... n9QU6phsgw

He should have his own program on BBC1, I reckon.

More Channel 5

I would not know. I have not heard of Channel 5.

I found something that should have been in this thread.

It IS in this thread..............................it was my first self bought 45

I adore these two songs. I remember when when Australia embraced ABBA. There was a little secluded area in our school yard and us little nine to ten year olds would go there and sing their songs and prentend we were ABBA. lol Sigh. memories.

Bruv;1505617 wrote: It IS in this thread..............................it was my first self bought 45


The only one I can see there is Del Shannon's Runaway. What am I failing to see?

I just listened to The Barron Nights "And then he kicked me". I'm still amazed at how close they could get to the sound of the originals.

And Richard Digance - "When I left school I wanted to be a sex maniac but I failed the oral".





Digance

Helloooo.........here is the link........http://www.forumgarden.com/forums/music ... ost1475583

What am I missing here ?