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Off Topic Saints Not606 Music Thread

Discussion in 'Southampton' started by Saints_Alive, Jun 13, 2017.

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Do you want a stickied music thread ?

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  1. ChilcoSaint

    ChilcoSaint What a disgrace
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    Neville Livingston, aka Bunny Wailer, the last surviving Wailer, has died at the age of 73. Here he is as most of us first saw him, just before he left the Wailers in 1973:


    RIP Bunny <rose>
     
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  2. Le Tissier's Laces

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    "Discovered" this track by a young artist I didn't know called XamVolo the other day, and I absolutely love it.

    It's from 2019, and he hasn't done anything since. Well, actually, he has, he's decided to learn coding and says "I might go back to music, I don't know. I'm just really enjoying learning coding right now".

    I hope he does, cos he's very talented!

     
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  3. ChilcoSaint

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    My mate Keith Horler just put this up, I think it’s so evocative of times gone by. The North Somerset coalmines were all gone by the early ‘70s, this song is about the last miner in Whitelands, one of the Radstock mines. The photos are brilliant too. He’s done a YouTube if this but the Facebook video is better I think.

    https://fb.watch/3-9dUMWIh1/
     
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  4. davecg69

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    Very good. Love these kind of songs and must admit (shamefacedly) that I was unaware of Somerset as a coaling county - don’t remember being taught that in school - they always concentrated on midlands and the north.
     
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  5. ChilcoSaint

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    Nowadays the only evidence of them are the batches, the local name for the spoil heaps which are still dotted around the landscape. We have one in Chilcompton which is a over a hundred feet high, and nowadays covered in trees.

    In the valley beyond the top of my road there is the entrance to a mine from Roman times, so it’s been going on a fair while!
     
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    Was listening to Loretta Lynn today and reminded of this great cover of her song Rated X, about the public perception of divorced women.
     
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    It's 30 years (<yikes>) this week since the release of R.E.M.'s breakthrough album Out of Time which transformed them from a cult college rock band into a massive global act.
    Although the singles Shiny Happy People and Losing My Religion garnered the most attention these are my particular favourite tracks...





     
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  8. davecg69

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    Hard to believe that this track on the classic album (quite possibly, in my opinion, the weakest track on the album) was finalised at Abbey Road on this day in 1967 <yikes>

     
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    Happy 75th birthday to the world's greatest living guitarist, and all round lovely bloke, David Gilmour.

    Here he is playing the two best guitar solos ever, in one song (and yes, I include *that* Prince one in this).

     
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  10. ChilcoSaint

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    Just awesome and awe-inspiring. Happy Birthday David! <bubbly><magic><bubbly>
     
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  11. Saints_Alive

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    This is one the best band documentaries I've seen featuring contributions from such music luminaries as Paul Weller, Andy Partridge, Suggs, Graham Coxon and Ray, Dave and Mick themselves.
    The Kinks are possibly the most influential and unique British bands of the 60s outside of the Beatles and should really be appreciated more.

     
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  12. ChilcoSaint

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    Thanks SA, I’ll look forward to watching this later, what a treat!
     
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  13. davecg69

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    Me too - wonderful band. Have been a huge fan since the days of “Waterloo Sunset” - did you ever go see the stage show (“Sunny Afternoon”)? Totally brilliant.
     
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    One of my favourite tracks from the album

     
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    Of course, when I said it was one of the weakest tracks, I should have said that (imo) there isn’t really a weak track on the album ..... gave it another listen right through (in order - something we’ve almost forgotten to do in these days of streaming) and was as blown away as I was when I first heard it at 13 ...... :emoticon-0103-cool:
     
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    This is right up there with one of the best tracks ever. A full story in just a few verses of love, loss, ignorance and despair ..... amazing . Thanks for posting, Marv!
     
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  18. ChilcoSaint

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    No, but I wanted to. Saw Ray and his band a few years ago at Glastonbury Abbey, did pretty much every Kinks song. A fabulous evening!
     
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    Great band The Kinks. Here's onr from the 80s
     
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  20. davecg69

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    I saw the Kinks at Southampton uni sometime early 70s I think. My bro got me a ticket - bless him.
    Saw the show at the Mayflower. Best bit was the comments of 2 old dears in front of me at the halftime queue for ice cream (I know how to have a good time you know). One said to the other “are you enjoying it?” and the reply was “yes, it’s not bad. But I don’t really like the music though” :emoticon-0138-think:emoticon-0102-bigsm:emoticon-0102-bigsm:emoticon-0102-bigsm
     
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