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Keef Wrote:

> Blur - Not sure "unwanted reunion" is fair, being

> that they've sold out the gigs in a matter of

> minutes. That said, I liked them lots 10 years

> ago, don't think I'd rush to see them now. Would

> go if someone gave me a ticket though.


Yeah, I'll be going to see them at Hyde Park. I don't think they were overrated. After the whole "country house" versus "roll with it" debacle they weren't really the most attention seeking of bands, and they've got a great back catalogue to make a gig good.


I've been to see a few too many bands at festivals that have only had one or two albums - I don't want to hear the filler material someone has padded out an album with when I see them live, I want all the good stuff, and blur have plenty. Saw them some 10-11 years ago and they were pretty damn good live.

Keef Wrote:

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> *Bob* Wrote:

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> > Or - to put it another way, between Shayne Ward

>

> Who??

>

> I think he won x-factor or pop stars a few years

> ago.

>

> Under rated, Crash Test Dummies. Everyone just

> knows Mmm mmm mmm mmm, but they had some

> brilliant, and very funny songs.


I agree with Crash Test Dummies. I think American Music Club is very under rated and Aimee Mann too.

HonaloochieB Wrote:

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> I saw him at the Festival Hall too, the audience

> was so full of good will we even gave David

> Hasselhoff a round of applause in the interval.


How funny. I wish I had seen that. I saw a really disturbing video of the Hoff a few months ago. He's a recovering alcoholoc and had fallen off the wagon. He was completely pissed and crawling on the floor. The video was shot by his daughter who kept on asking him "why do you keep doing this to yourself and to us". Car-crash footage. Heartbreaking. She sounded really young as well.

Keef,


Here's some mindless trivia.


Did you know that when Nirvana wrote Smells Like Teen Spirit, they actually set out to emulate a The Pixies? They sat down to write a Pixies song.


Years ago I read that someone once said to Cobain that "..... (something) smelled like teen spirit". He rather liked the phrase but didn't realise that "Teen Spirit" was/is actually a branded deodorant for teenage girls. He found out too late and I think it added to the many reasons that Nirvana wouldn't play the song live. I'd forgotten all about that but today I was out shopping and I came across some "Teen Spirit". It's just as cutesy, princessy little girlie as can be. And to think it spawned a thrash classic. How amusing. My first thought was "must share this with Keef". So I'm sharing. Sorry.


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HonaloochieB Wrote:

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> I saw him at the Festival Hall too, the audience

> was so full of good will we even gave David

> Hasselhoff a round of applause in the interval.


I realise you have a fertile imagination Looch but really there are limits to what one can believe(!)(6)

Hi gigirl, to add to your anecdote, Kurt saw the legend 'smells like teen spirit' scrawled across a dressing room wall in Olympia while playing a gig there. I think (from memory) that it was Kathleen Hannah of bikini kill who was said graffiti artist, and also Kurt's better half before Courtney butted in.
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But Sean, that is exactly my point. we are talking about them 40 years later. and to my ears they still sound good, they were prolific songwriters and changed the face of music. Elvis wanted to assacinate them.


Oasis are an ok band and I like some of their songs.


Geneius has a longevity far beyond 40 years. a bit like hendrix, people will be talking about them in hundreds of years time.

I really don't think they will Mike - I'm not saying that's a good thing, but there are swathes of people who couldn't sing you a Beatles track if you paid them. You and I might be talking about them but many won't


I will take the Beatles over Hendrix any day mind you. Him and Morrison.. save me

His record collection is eclectic and rather good. It is also intriguing because it's uncannily similar to mine, minus the half-man-half-biscuit and beatles albums.


Mind you I don't think they'll be remembered in quite the same way as Mozart and Bach, I'm inclined to agree with him there.

I think they'll stand the test of time and will continue to be remembered and played, but once they pass from living memory I think it'll be more as facets of this culture rather as the pinnacle of musical genius that Mozart and particularly Bach represent.


Now Take That...that's another matter entirely!!!!

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