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The other thread is mostly full of the usual crowd: Bowie, Elton John, Prince, Jagger/Richards, etc. They're great but it's not as if we didn't already know that.


So who is a favourite of yours that no-one else (or few others) know about? Who deserves more recognition?


Not necessarily the Best of All Time, but who do you like that generally gets overlooked?

Leonard Cohen - I am always amazed at how people dismiss him as some suicide-inducing gloom-monger. There are many artistes whose music is much more dreary and yet never receive the same label. He has been around for ages and is still producing utterly jaw-dropping stuff.


Neil Hannon as well.

For me, when I lived in Stoke, we used to see a ska band called the Skalinskis. I think a good way to describe them would be a bit like the Specials crossed with a bit of Brecht & Weill (yeah, a bit oompah), and wrapped up with a kind of Eastern European vibe.


I used to go see them often in a pub called the Talbot, in Stoke, and the Full Moon, in Newcastle-under-Lyme. Good memories! Not been back up that way for ages, and when I started seeing them in 2000 or so they had a female singer, but she left. Still great fun though. There are MP3s and stuff on their site


www.skalinskis.org.uk

YES yes yes yes Cassius and what's more I used the opening of JUST DRIFTING in my play to introduce the theme of painful love....


For myself - XTC and Andy Partridge. I absolutely love them. I am a member of their forum, too!



Cassius Wrote:

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> Genesis P Orrige and the awesome Psychic TV and

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PeckhamRose Wrote:

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> YES yes yes yes Cassius and what's more I used the

> opening of JUST DRIFTING in my play to introduce

> the theme of painful love....

>

> For myself - XTC and Andy Partridge. I absolutely

> love them. I am a member of their forum, too!


Thanks PeckhamRose - thought I was alone with this one....

mockney piers Wrote:

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> Is the Full Moon the one opposite Sainsbury's? Did

> it used to be call something else, the Drowned Rat

> or something?


Indeed it is! Before it was the Full Moon it was called The Holy Inadequate and was a proper rock/biker pub. Before that I don't know...

Ann Peebles - great soul singer with a bigger back catalogue other than "I can't stand the rain". Check out this cover of Don Dryant's "99lbs"


Candi Staton - ditto and again only remembered for "Young hearts..." Here is a great cover of the country classic "Stand by Your Man"


Susan Cadogan - great female reggae vocals.


Adam Masterson - young British singer-songwriter who now mainly works iin the States but is currently touring. Catch him if you can.

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