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Playlist and Image by Warrigal Mirriyuula
Today I’ve been up; not quite kickin’ arse and takin’ names. Apparently they’re worried about diminished aerobic capacity so I’ve been on the treadmill. Nothing too strenuous, a brisk walk sort of thing. I couldn’t do it without a soundtrack. This list is the result. Sequencer tracks are good for any repetitious activity. (13/8/2011)
Just press the little knob down to start.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ivd6I-L8s2E
Mike & The Mechanics, All I Need Is A Miracle
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gV2ggqJz4us
The Communards featuring Jimmy Somerville, Run Away
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1IsJEOVfnw
New Order, Blue Monday
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SpZ9gEKBoYI
Thomson Twins, Hold Me Now
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2Tt86_PdGM
Orchestral Manoeuvers In The Dark, Enola Gay
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMPC8QJF6sI&ob=av3e
Visage, Fade To Grey
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-sFK0-lcjGU
Art Of Noise, Close To The Edit
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iH33RIfi2KI
Art Of Noise, Peter Gunn
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68C-r9kSLNE
Kraftwerk, Autobahn
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3fI8834iCgo
Thomas Dolby, She Blinded Me With Science
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTOQUnvI3CA
Frankie Goes To Hollywood, Two Tribes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3j2NYZ8FKs&ob=av3e
Pet Shop Boys, West End Girls
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqyc37aOqT0
Peter Gabriel, Sledgehammer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2ilpYb_SbA
Hall & Oates, Maneater
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPudE8nDog0
Human League, Don’t You Want Me
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGSKrC7dGcY
Depeche Mode, Enjoy The Silence
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCpxSzacbyc
DEVO, Jocko Homo (Are We Not Men, We Are DEVO.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oEh5pWjcWCg
Soft Cell, Tainted Love
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8ujNrjVNYI
Blondie, Call Me
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VosFiY1SifA
Jon Anderson & Vangelis, I’ll Find My Way Home
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3v8Wden1LFs
Jon Anderson & Vangelis, State Of Independence
Keywords: Mike & The Mechanics, The Communards featuring Jimmy Somerville, New Order, Thomson Twins, Orchestral Manoeuvers In The Dark, Visage, Art Of Noise, Art Of Noise, Kraftwerk, Thomas Dolby, Frankie Goes To Hollywood, Pet Shop Boys, Peter Gabriel, Hall & Oates, Human League, Depeche Mode, Devo, Soft Cell, Blondie, Jon Anderson, Vangelis
Window Dresser's Arms, Pig & Whistle 
Helvi – that is the group’s name. They are Australian but more known in Europe. First heard them on the ABC radio’s Conversation Hour. CD goes so well in the car, my own private sound booth. Just switched it today back to Tangier (Billy Thorpe).
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I did a tour with Thorpie years ago. Cunning bugger had Chuggie and Zev Isaac bidding for it. Chuggie, wisely as it turned out, told his friend Billy to “give this opportunity to Zev”.
The tour didn’t make a bean but Thorpie left the country with a suitcase full of cash. I helped him count it in a room at The Sebel Townhouse. It was one of the few Times Zev was bested in a straight money deal.
It was great fun as I recall. Particularly the Perth dates, though I did get terribly burnt snorkeling for rock lobsters off Rottnest.
I’ve got desk tapes from those dates somewhere, or maybe they were lost in the fire too. I must look.
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I never did a tour with Thorpie, I never did a tour with anyone, I’m a loser……
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Oops sorry, just won some money on a greyhound, anyway as I was saying yes, I’m a loser….
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Darn, just won some more on the trots, anyway yes, I’m a loser for sure…..
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Licked a dish?
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Shit, just scratched 5k, but yeah, I’m a loser…..
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Oh no, won lotto, but yeah I’m a loser….
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This is how bad it is
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Classic HOO!
Never let a self inflated fool go unpricked!
Go you good thing!
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Hung… as you’re so flush right now, could you loan me fifty bucks?
😉
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I tried posting this below but the site seems to crash.
I’m know they are not Hammonds. They just look like it. The minimilism refers to the stage. The Autobahns of course are another matter.
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I give up!?!
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You mustn’t do that Algy. I for one would miss your contribution.
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I won’t be giving up in a hurry, Waz. That comment was in frustration to my first post hanging then it posted somewhere different to where I thought.
Thought I’d throw this in as its of a similar theme and of the period.
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Memories of the back corner of the Manzill Room about 5 in the morning.
“And the coloured girls go
doo do doo do doo do do doo….
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Jon & Vangelis. A great combo. One of my daughters favourites.
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Good to hear that you are keeping fit. I hope it’s all going OK.
There is some truly wonderful stuff on here. Just for a laugh, I tested myself, by trying to hum each one that I recognised, as I scrolled down.
Could get Dolby, or ‘close to the exit’.
Perhaps you could pipe it through the wards, Warrigal. I’m not sure if you are staying in hospital, or just day visits. A lot of the large hospitals have tapes made by DJs. In fact some in the UK, have hospital radio where they do requests.
Tainted love should get them moving, and with any luck a few comley nurses wiggling between beds.
Not too much dancing music in the orthopaedic wards though. Remember the ending of the film ‘It’s a Mad, mad, mad World’, Spencer Tracy Mickey Rooney ect? One of my favourite films of all time. It kills me, just as ‘The Laughing policeman does. Most of the cast are in bandages in the hospital ( they fell of the building and fireman’s ladder)—and Ethel Merman slips on a banana skin. Well they all erupt with laughter, even her son Sylvester…Side splitting stuff!
Hope that little recollection cheers you up 😉
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Could ‘not’ remember Dolby to hum. I meant.
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I should have acknowledged all of the electronics of course.
I think that the Moody Blues were one of the first to go into POP mainstream, with their Moog Synthesiser.
Most of the top ten in The UK at one point (in time) had these bands on stage, just tapping drum machines and playing keyboards that reproduced virtually any sound at all.
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The first mainstream pop use of the Moog was The Doors’ “Strange Days”.
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Yes. f course Warrigal. thanks for correcting me.
It was the mellotron that I was thinking of, in my foggy memory. It was used by The Moodys, and for some of us in The UK, it became their signature sound. One can hear it on several of their famous numbers.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mellotron
When I played The Doors this morning, it was hard to think that it was all those years ago…sigh!
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I guess that you could have inserted Tubular Bells somewhere…But then there’s so much.
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A seminal work.
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Love the piccie, Warrigal! It looks like a 22nd century Wurlitzer! So… er… what exactly IS it?
🙂
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I dunno, but if you press the little knob down, the music goes round and round and it comes out here.
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So I was led to believe… but for the life of me, I couldn’t find the ‘little knob’… Maybe it’s a kind of ultra-calliope?
Hope the therapy is still working well; and that it’s bearable!
🙂
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Metacalliope?
Truth is I can’t even find the little knob either; but imagine what it might sound like if we could.
Apparently….,
Seventy-six trombones led the big parade
With a hundred and ten cornets close at hand.
They were followed by rows and rows of the finest virtuo-
Sos, the cream of ev’ry famous band.
Seventy-six trombones caught the morning sun
With a hundred and ten cornets right behind
There were more than a thousand reeds
Springing up like weeds
There were horns of ev’ry shape and kind.
There were copper bottom tympani in horse platoons
Thundering, thundering all along the way.
Double bell euphoniums and big bassoons,
Each bassoon having it’s big, fat say!
There were fifty mounted cannon in the battery
Thundering, thundering louder than before
Clarinets of ev’ry size
And trumpeters who’d improvise
A full octave higher than the score!
(Show-offs!)
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I think you’re most probably right… it would most likely sound very much like that! And I remember that song very vividly from the 1950s… Fifty ‘mounted cannon’ eh? They must have been playing the 1812 Overture, surely!
🙂
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Or maybe it was the very early sixties…?
🙂
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Couldn’t resist, I just love it.
I’ll remember Harry Sloggett in my meditations tonight.
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Buddy Hackett’s Eyes !
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Warrigal, if you hadn’t posted that, I was gunna…
😉
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Dammit… they disabled the ’embedding’… Let’s see if I can’t find a link that’ll work…
Ah… there it is:
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Ich liebe die Musik Autobahn, aber das Fahren auf den Deutchen Autobahnen ist sehr beängstigend, vor allem nach zweispurigen Australishen ‘highways’ (cattle-tracks) 🙂
I also like the eighties’ Debby Harry, always her own woman. Tainted Love is good too, but don’t let MTR to listen to it
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Glücklich! glücklich! dich hab’ ich gefunden,
Hab’ aus Millionen dich umwunden,
Und aus Millionen mein bist du –
Lass das Chaos diese Welt umrütteln,
Durcheinander die Atomen schütteln;
Ewig fliehn sich unsre Freund zu.
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Oh, how this brings back my struggles with Goethe, Schiller and Rainer Maria Rilke…
the prose in any language is doable, but poetry, even in your mother tongue is a different matter alltogether…
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I know they aren’t Hammonds, just looked like it. The minimalism was the stage setting. The Autobahns of course are another matter.
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Actually H, you may recall that Schiller used the word “Herzen”, or heart, in the last line, but I thought that just a gnat’s bit forward.
Its a beautifiul poem in either German or English.
Here’s the English of the fragment I posted for those who don’t speak German. It’s from a poem called “die Freunschaft”.
Happy, O happy, I have found thee, I
Have out of millions found thee, and embraced
Thou, out of millions, mine! Let earth and sky
Return to darkness, and the antique waste
To chaos shocked, let warring atoms be,
Still shall each heart unto the other flee!
Full Version German for H and Algy
http://www.lyrikwelt.de/gedichte/schillerg4.htm
Full English for anybody else.
http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/friendship-13/
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Thanks Warrigal for the English translation, indeed a beautiful poem in any language. People who translate poetry must also be poets…
Talking about poetry, Daughter was telling me today that Thomas came second in a poetry competition, the subject matter was ‘silence’, can’t wait to see it.
This is happening at a primary school level, I think some of the Australian public schools are very very good, the boys are lucky.
Good to hear that you are getting better…the threadmills can be soo boooring…
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PS. Many thanks also for the poetry sites, good places, checked them out already, both of them.
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Thanks for the English version Waz. Very nice poem.
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Oh well, I wrote a long comment about Goethe, dilletantes, philosophy and music. It’s disappeared. That is a problem with wireless, that manifests every now and again.
I’ll not rewrite it. It was obviously fate.
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Es ist interessant, was bestimmte Zielgruppen amüsiert. Kraftwerks-Etappe war sehr minimalistisch. Vier Männer auf ihre Hammond-Orgeln und einige alte deutsche Bilder. Obwohl die deutschen Straßen australische Straßen zu beschämen.
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Tony Abbooot, of course, speaks Mandarin, German, Dutch, Malaysian and Swahili. Even ocker, when the occasion demands 😉
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I here he is fluent in busllshit as well.
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That should read bullshit
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Isn’t that ocker?
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Roads Girdle the Globe according to XTC and Kraftwerk were an essential part of the German zeitgiest of the 70’s.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8OZ9bUPeYY
The autobahns are of course a legacy of Nazism. They were originally built as economic support projects, but also to provide for the rapid deployment of the Wehmacht as the military planners developed the concept of Blitzkrieg, and there’s nothing minimalist about Blitzkrieg. As some wit on Youtube offered, Autobahns are the worst case of road rage Europe’s ever seen. (Some offerings on this subject also include substantial slabs of neo Nazi hate speech. You’d think that would be moderated out by Youtube.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDWfqTYsEXQ&feature=related
That soundtrack is of course ersatz Wagner.
(I don’t think they were Hammonds. More likely they were just triggering keyboards for a whole lot of VCA’s and VCO’s off stage. I never saw them in their early days. Wish I had now.)
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“Isn’t that ocker?”
Well it depends whose saying it. In Tony Abbotts case, bullshit is more appropriate.
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As a favour JL, can I ask you not to defile my love of music with references to that bat eared bastard. Sadly for me the very mention of his name and his continued existence on the planet have, according to my doctor’s, been significant contributors to my current predicament. You will recall that that great oncologist, Joe Jackson’s central premise is that “Everything Gives You Cancer”. In my case it just turned out to be Bat Ears, the sounding brass.
As a tit for your tat, I promise not to mention any personality or idea even remotely related to progressive social or cultural ideas. It’ll be just like Molong in 1955.
Turned out nice again.
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The very mention of the seat warmer’s name, even accounting for my jocular distortion of it, seems to send you and Algy into apoplexy.
On the other hand my comments on your music presentations go ignored, in favour of a remark that I am ‘anti progress and culture’, some of the things that I am indeed famous for promoting.
Par example: We should give up reliance on exporting fossil “fools”. We are taxing locals, but shovelling it out the door. If that’s not hypocrisy, I’ll eat two volumes of The Encyclopaedia Britannica 🙂
To call the carbon tax progressive, when it is no more than passing around the collection plate at Sunday school, is a terrible misnomer in my view.
You will not convince me otherwise than, that it is money to pay for civil servants quangos.
We need to address this problem with severe and unremitting action. As they are in The UK.
Everything… Everything, is going green there. The government and councils have changed regulations to impose the strictest of rules on new construction and development. No pussyfooting with a silly little tax: the worst of its features, being that the population will be duped into thinking that they are actually combating it (climate change).
Of course it’s rather unpalatable to think of doing away with our ONLY industry.
My fervent hope is that ******* , causes the demise of these teamsters; followed by a coup, to install Malcolm Turnbull. An intelligent man: the like of which Combet, Shorten( mummy’s pet) Swan & Gillard aren’t fit to lick the booots of.
There’s my 2 cents worth. Although I would have rather discussed the mellotron or tubular bells.
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Oh, not Tubular Balls, VL… the same riff, repeated over and over again, ad infinitum ad nauseum… And then his next album, “Hergest Ridge”… just more Tubular Balls! Talk about music that sounds all the same!
I know, it wasn’t a popular opinion even at the time! But you have to understand that it came out only a few weeks after Led Zeppelin’s ‘Houses of the Holy’… Now THERE was a fine album (with the single exception of ‘the Crunge’, which was designed to turn everyone off anyway! The only Led Zep song I ever hated!) But I remember hearing “No Quarter” for the first time on the ‘Old Grey Whistle Test’, featuring ‘Whistling Bob Rabbit’ as host…
Blew me away… Hang on a sec and I’ll find it for you… Oh, there it is!
🙂
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Sorry, I meant of course, ‘Whispering Bob Rabbit’…
🙂
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So I guess that means you’re not interested in obliging me on this.
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Well, I WAS discussing it, wasn’t I? Anyway, I just couldn’t post ‘No Quarter’ without also posting the ‘Rain Song’; Oh the memories this brings back!
http://youtu.be/S4v-_p5dU34
🙂
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Tubular bells was a big leg up for Virgin T2. And of course the music for the excorsit or one of the scary ones. That’s what I meant by seminal.
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Oops! Sorry Warrigal; you were talking to VL weren’t you? Oh well… I was gonna post the Rain Song anyway!
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That’s not fair Warrigal.
I was surely due a right of reply.
I didn’t bring his name up
I moved the discussion to The Dot. However, perhaps you had not read that when you posted.
I’ve had my say now.
You could oblige me, by discussing the music that you post.
If you don’t want me to comment on the music, I can be ignored elsewhere.
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Well… I can’t deny that it earned its place in musical history VL… but I used to get it played ‘at’ me so often when it first came out that I got so BORED with it very, very quickly… Only other album this happened to me with was Genesis’ ‘Selling England by the Pound’, and that WAS a good album too… (I learned to like it after it became a little less ‘fashionable’).
🙂
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There wasn’t too much really good music during the Eighties, Helvi, (or maybe I was just too busy studying to get round to listening to it, if there was!) But Blondie WAS always worth listening to… and watching… Debbie Harry was a fox!
😉
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Try this one
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This one ain’t bad either
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=esZ15n6_5JY
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Or this one
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NU0MF8pwktg
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Hung! There you are!
I was beginning to think you weren’t talking to me for some reason or other…
Anyway, you’re right of course, and as usual, your taste is flawless…
But surely this song and band really belongs to a different decade? I’m pretty sure I saw Little Feat at Bickershaw Festival back in ’71… And in any case, it’s a blues inni’ mate? And thus its genre at least belongs to a different decade…
I suppose there were a couple of good bands around during the eighties, but compared to the previous three to five decades, the eighties were a musical desert… Good bands from the eighties that I remember were Spit Enz, AC-DC, Metallica and maybe one or two others whose names I can’t quite retrieve from the old data-bank… though as I said I was too busy studying during the eighties to really get into them anyway, which is probably a pity… but as Ned said when they topped him, ‘Such is life!’
I suppose in fact that I was just a bit spoilt by the richness of the previous few decades…
🙂
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Very busy at the moment Ace, extra shifts and stuff. Will be in touch soon for a jam.
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Looking forward to it… make it soon!
Of course, you have no need to convince me of the talents of Led Zep, or SRV… and your choice of ‘Pride and Joy’ is spot on!
(In fact I’ve actually downloaded the tab for this and even lessons on how to play it from Griff Hamlin’s blues guitar website… One of these days I’m gonna get round to learning how to play it!)
But these guys aren’t strictly ‘eighties’ bands either… they’ve been around much longer than that! (Though it’s true at least that the Zeppelin’s ‘Nobody’s Fault but Mine’ was, I think, released in the eighties…)
🙂
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Hung, I just checked out the date on John Bonham’s headstone and it’s 1980… so even this track can’t really be said to be a ‘eighties’ track…
😉
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We are Devo
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We are?
That explains this red flower pot on my head. I thought it was part of my treatment.
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Devo? I thought they were Bill and Ben, the Flowerpot men!
😉
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Great list Waz, Got half these around the place somewhere.
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I have Autobahn – on vinyl – can’t play it though as player stuffed. But go their Tour De France CD. Not a bad list there.
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I kinda feel a bit the same way about ‘Autobahn’ as I do about ‘Tubular Balls’ Vivienne, though at least the ‘Autobahn’ riff was an interesting one…
It’s nice to see some comments on the music blog from the fairer gender; there’s been something of a dearth of ladies on this music blog which reminds me far too much of far too many parties and discos I attended during the early seventies…
I do hope my unfortuntately negative reaction to your comment will not frighten you off… You are, of course, entitled to like whatever songs/albums you choose…
🙂
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No worries mate. Hubby actually bought Autobahn. I bought their Tour De France CD. I still say Midnight Oil forever. My current fav is Architecture of Helsinki – been in the car for nearly 3 months!
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Viv, I have always liked Midnight Oil too. Our ‘car’ music seems to be stuck on Gerard’s classical station, which I like too, but when we are driving back home from Sydney, I usually ask for something more upbeat…Grandson T used to beg Opa for something ‘more cheerful’, and after some time of cheeriness, J took charge and said: You can put it back on ‘classic’, Opa.
What , what, Architecture of Helsinki…with a title like that I’ll have to look it up…
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