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The Music Thread Strikes Back

lemonjelly said:
Guns n Roses doing hyde park in summer, and the cheapest tickets are over £110, plus fees.
Kiss announce UK dates next year, with cheapest tickets starting at £76 plus fees, and they will be right at the back with a terrible view.
I mean if you're a huge band, then you'll sell tickets, but fuck me there is a lack of awareness as to how much people have spare right now.
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I guess we'll find that out when the tickets don't (or do) sell out.
 
I dont do Spotify as I support the artists..

My top 5 listened to artists this year are in no order..

EMF, Wonder Stuff, Inspiral Carpets, Blur and The Prodigy.
 
Kenny said:
ooooooh get Mr Morals Intact here...

How's that hard drive full of downloaded films/TV/porn and your IPTV box thing to avoid paying for Sports not on Sky...🥸🤠

xx
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The film industry and the millionaire footballers get enough.. :ROFLMAO:
 
I bet you watch the National League on BT for free don't ya...
 
Taking money off ex Wolves players who have had to drop to Non League to keep their careers alive...
 
Neil Barnes of Leftfield did a really interesting interview on five live earlier. Talked about his own physical and mental health issues, as well as his music. They've also announced new tour dates today, including a summer show for 2023 at the civic.
 
bit late with this as they've already posted the answers but for anyone bored with eating and drinking, here's a music based quiz. I'll post the answers in a couple days.

1. How did a Salvation Army property in Woolton become famous and how is it linked with Central Park, New York?

2. Which band had a famously fraught band therapy session in the early 00s?

3. Which band followed up a big selling album influenced by Arthur Koestler with an even bigger selling album influenced by Carl Jung?

4. Who combined an Indian guru and a minimalist composer?

5. The big songs on which 1980 album were nearly People Are Turning To Gold and Jamaica?

6. The title of which classic rock album from the 70s refers to the artists’ status as tax dodgers?

7. What song saw Michael Jackson in a chart battle with Micheal Jackson?

8. Which two bands associated with the 1977 punk explosion were involved in a battle for the number 1 spot five years later, and why did the runners up (or at least their record company) complain about the outcome?

9. How did a disastrous 1971 gig by Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention turn out well for another band?

10. Which singer-songwriter despite a long successful career has had only two UK top 10 hits both of which were inspired by experiences of being stuck in traffic?

11. Who is the odd one out and why – Cliff Richard, Misty In Roots, Blue, Bonnie Tyler?

12. What first in the UK charts did the band Koopa achieve in 2007?

13. What links the following records – My Coo Ca Choo; Ça Plane Pour Moi; Girl You Know It’s True?

14. How did Echo & The Bunnymen and manager Bill Drummond supposedly make a pair of rabbit ears in 1983.

15. Which three former members of Thin Lizzy have had UK top 10 solo singles?

16. What unlikely combination of goth and hip hop came off the road in 1991?

17. What links the following – The Beatles – Revolution; The Stranglers – No More Heroes; Dead Kennedys – Holiday In Cambodia; Bros – When Will I Be Famous?

18. The Overload, a 1980 track by Talking Heads, was inspired by Joy Division. Nothing unusual about that, but what was unusual about the way it was inspired by Joy Division.

19. What do the following bands have in common – Girl Band; Lady Antebellum; British Sea Power; Slaves?

20. Which band were frequently compared to the Beatles in their heyday due to their popularity; recorded their best known song during a heatwave in New York – a song which the Performing Rights Society once estimated had been heard by 42% of the world’s population; and had a career revival in part due to Ozzy Osbourne’s failure to get a band together?
 
in case anyone wanted those quiz answers..
1 How did a Salvation Army property in Woolton become famous and how is it linked with Central Park, New York?
It was a children’s home by the name of Strawberry Fields where a young John Lennon used to play. A memorial to Lennon in Central Park was named Strawberry Fields.

2 Which band had a famously fraught band therapy session in the early 00s?
A) No doubt many successful bands have had fraught band therapy sessions, but the famous one is Metallica because they decided to film theirs and release it as Some Kind Of Monster.

3 which band followed up a big selling album influenced by Arthur Koestler with an even bigger selling album influenced by Carl Jung?
A) The Police – The albums were Ghost In The Machine and Synchronicity.

4 Who combined an Indian guru and a minimalist composer?
A) The Who. Pete Townshend was a follower of guru Meher Baba , and his experimenting with early synthesisers was influenced by composer Terry Riley. He combined the two in the song title Baba O’Riley. The synth loop in the track was influenced by Riley and was the result of inputting Baba’s birth date into the synth settings.

5 The big songs on which 1980 album were nearly People Are Turning To Gold and Jamaica?
Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps) – David Bowie. People Are Turning To Gold became Ashes To Ashes and Jamaica was nearly abandoned because Bowie couldn’t think of any lyrics until he changed it to Fashion.

6 The title of which classic rock album from the 70s refers to the artists’ status as tax dodgers?
Exile on Main Street by the Rolling Stones a reference to their tax exile in France.

7 What song saw Michael Jackson in a chart battle with Micheal Jackson?
A) Blame It On The Boogie – originally written and recorded by one Micheal Jackson better known as Mick Jackson. The Jacksons, featuring another Michael Jackson of course, released a version which they had recorded without Mick Jackson’s knowledge so he released his own version and both were in the charts at the same time.

8 Which two bands associated with the 1977 punk explosion were involved in a battle for the number 1 spot five years later, and why did the runners up (or at least their record company) complain about the outcome?
A) The Stranglers with Golden Brown and The Jam with A Town Called Malice. Town Called Malice was released as a 7″ featuring studio versions of the A side and AA side Precious, and a 12″ with live versions of the songs but not the studio versions, so many loyal Jam fans bought both versions, boosting the sales.

9 How did a disastrous 1971 gig by Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention turn out well for another band?
It provided inspiration for Deep Purple’s Smoke On The Water. It describes the occasion Frank Zappa’s band played a gig at the Montreaux Casino which was abruptly ended by a punter with a flare gun setting the venue on fire.

10 Which singer-songwriter despite a long successful career has had only two UK top 10 hits both of which were inspired by experiences of being stuck in traffic?
Chris Rea – the songs being Road To Hell and seasonal irritant Driving Home For Christmas, both of which have reached no 10 in the UK singles chart. Allegedly when he had major heart surgery Chris Rea’s thought was a horrified “If I die I’ll be remembered as the person who did Driving Home For Christmas”.

11 who is the odd one out and why – Cliff Richard, Misty In Roots, Blue, Bonnie Tyler?
A) Misty In Roots. The rest have all been British Eurovision entries. Misty In Root’s debut album was Live At The Counter Eurovision 79

12 What first in the UK charts did the band Koopa achieve in 2007?
The first act to have a Top 40 UK Singles Chart hit based on download sales only, and the first act to have a charting single without being signed to a record label, with Blag, Steal & Borrow.

13 What links the following records – My Coo Ca Choo; Ça Plane Pour Moi; Girl You Know It’s True?
A) The named artist (Alvin Stardust, Plastic Bertrand , Milli Vanilli) did not sing on the record. Milli Vanilli is obviously infamous. Alvin Stardust actually turned out to have a very similar voice to Peter Shelley, which was handy as it meant he could sustain an actual career on the back of it.

14 How did Echo & The Bunnymen and manager Bill Drummond supposedly make a pair of rabbit ears in 1983.
A) By touring the Western Isles. When asked about the odd tour route Drummond pointed out that actually there was nothing odd, if you linked up the tour destinations on a map it made a pair of rabbit ears.

15 Which three former members of Thin Lizzy have had UK top 10 solo singles?
A) Gary Moore – Parisienne Walkways ; Snowy White – Bird of Paradise ; Midge Ure – No Regrets, and If I Was.
Phil Lynott did not have a solo UK top 10 hit, though he did have a joint one with Gary Moore (Out In The Fields). Phil Lynott , along with Brian Downey also played on Parisienne Walkways, but it was credited as a Gary Moore solo record.

16 What unlikely combination of goth and hip hop came off the road in 1991?
A) A co-headlining US tour by Sisters of Mercy and Public Enemy, which was abandoned when promoters began to pull out fearing trouble that had not actually materialised on the dates that had taken place.

17 What links the following – The Beatles – Revolution; The Stranglers – No More Heroes; Dead Kennedys – Holiday In Cambodia; Bros – When Will I Be Famous?
They all mention famous and in some cases infamous communists – Chairman Mao; Leon Trotsky; Pol Pot; Karl Marx.

18 The Overload, a 1980 track by Talking Heads, was inspired by Joy Division. Nothing unusual about that, but what was unusual about the way it was inspired by Joy Division.
A) They hadn’t actually heard Joy Division, they’d only read music press reviews.

19 What do the following bands have in common – Girl Band; Lady Antebellum; British Sea Power; Slaves?
A) All have changed their names for reasons that might be deemed “woke”,
Girl Band have recently become Gilla Band as the original name was “misgendered”.
Lady Antebellum changed their name to Lady A to break away from slavery associations , but unfortunately in the process took a black artist’s name and refused to back down, so they haven’t ended up looking too good out of it.
British Sea Power became Sea Power to avoid associations with rising nationalism.
Slaves have just announced they have changed their name to Soft Play.

20 Which band were frequently compared to the Beatles in their heyday due to their popularity; recorded their best known song during a heatwave in New York – a song which the Performing Rights Society once estimated had been heard by 42% of the world’s population; and had a career revival in part due to Ozzy Osbourne’s failure to get a band together?
A) Slade. Huge in the early 70s with 6 UK no 1s. Merry Christmas Everybody was recorded in a heatwave in New York in Sept 73; after their popularity nosedived a revival in popularity began with a performance as a last minute stand in at 1980’s Reading Festival after Ozzy Osbourne pulled out because he hadn’t got a backing band together in time.
 
i didn't do any better, though might have guessed a few. answers were already out when i posted.

anyway, here's my 2022 playlist. might have a couple more to add. one per band as ever.

 
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