bickster Posted August 28 Moderator Share Posted August 28 Radiohead offshoot The Smile must be on some sort of steroids, they’ve just announced their third album is coming out in October, the second release this year. It’s on my list already. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nor-Cal Villan Posted August 28 Share Posted August 28 19 minutes ago, bickster said: Radiohead offshoot The Smile must be on some sort of steroids, they’ve just announced their third album is coming out in October, the second release this year. It’s on my list already. Guided by Voices says hold my Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted August 28 Moderator Share Posted August 28 2 hours ago, Nor-Cal Villan said: Guided by Voices says hold my Yeah but this is Radiohead who never seemingly rush anything releasewise Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nor-Cal Villan Posted August 28 Share Posted August 28 25 minutes ago, bickster said: Yeah but this is Radiohead who never seemingly rush anything releasewise GBV released 3 new albums since I last posted 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted August 29 Moderator Share Posted August 29 7 hours ago, Nor-Cal Villan said: GBV released 3 new albums since I last posted Not a band I’ve ever paid much attention to. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nor-Cal Villan Posted August 29 Share Posted August 29 45 minutes ago, bickster said: Not a band I’ve ever paid much attention to. That surprises me, they have releases on colored vinyl Love them Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VILLAMARV Posted August 29 Share Posted August 29 On 25/08/2024 at 21:18, chrisp65 said: Seeing the chatter in the Oasis thread, makes me remember the bands that had those big formative influences on me. I guess the very first must have been Nazareth, but then quickly taken over by an obsession with The Jam. Then I guess after that, the bands were definitely favourite bands but not any longer in that obsessive early years way. I guess we got taken up in the two bands that could release a great album AND put on a great and regular gig, so it became Super Furry Animals and Alabama 3. Not least with the last two because, whatever you think of Weller retrospectively, he said he’d wrap up the Jam in a few years and never reform, and he stuck to it. It would have been very easy to just think **** it, and cash in a tour once a decade. I suppose for me, I'd think of the time before both the Madchester thing and the Seattle thing became massive influences on my teenage years as the formative times. Which would mean playing the Blues Brothers Soundtrack until the grooves on the album must surely be much smoother and deeper than people could conceive of. And subsequently searching out a briefcase full of blues and also playing that to death. A family friend lent me his Queen vinyl collection one by one (along with the required training in handling/storing etc) and I taped them all until I'd religiously built up my first anthology. I suppose, when I think of that process, so much was defined by what access to what stuff we had - in a way that would probably seem alien to the nippers of today with their spoitify's and their youtubes. My folks had a fair bit of vinyl although I would say 3 records were probably deemed interesting enough by nipper me to actually put them on the radiogram (yes I'm that old and it was a real thing in our lounge), namely: The Who My Generation courtesy of my dad. The best of Eric Clapton and The Best of Cream double vinyl both courtesy of my mum. This is almost definitely why 'White Room' was the first song my school band ever learned and played live. And of the 3, the Cream one will still get played today. It's also the album that made me fascinated with Ginger Baker, who, alongside Animal from the muppets, made me want to be a drummer. I suppose, in hindsight, it might be the most influential album in terms of my amateur music career. 7"s and 12"s were a very different beast, but again access was probably the most defining factor. Whether buying Flash by Queen and Hole in my shoe by Neil at the school fete or my bro winning Walking in the sunshine by Bad Manners at a fun fair in Pelsall were the 'first' ever 7"s is probably up for debate due to my now hazy recollection, but the BBC single of the theme from Monkey was easily the most played thing we owned (Now the a-side is sadly so scratched it's unplayable - but Gandara on the b-side works just fine). The first 12" I remember was going into a record shop on Brownhills high street with my mum so she could get her copy of Blue Monday. We played all of those all the time. Until I got my paper round and therefore my own spending money and started trawling the reduced section in Woolworths as often as I could and starting to build my own collection, and until as I said earlier the sounds of the Mondays and Roses and Soungarden and Nirvana and Pearl Jam start turning me into me, the above music probably had an amazingly formative effect on my tastes. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VILLAMARV Posted August 29 Share Posted August 29 I suppose I'm also missing out my step uncle and his robotics dancing in Taunton town centre phase, which turned me and my brother onto Depeche Mode via Construction Time Again, which now I think about it we pleaded with our mum to play the tape we had taped off him in her car everywhere we went. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rugeley Villa Posted August 29 Share Posted August 29 I remember the Grunge era. I was only around 10 but I had a good music head on me even at that age. Faith No More were one of the top bands around that time too. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted August 29 Moderator Share Posted August 29 1 hour ago, VILLAMARV said: A family friend lent me his Queen vinyl collection one by one That's an enemy not a friend 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VILLAMARV Posted August 29 Share Posted August 29 2 hours ago, bickster said: That's an enemy not a friend I'll be totally honest bicks you made me lose my bet with myself! I thought you'd say it was tantamount to child abuse 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted August 29 Moderator Share Posted August 29 3 minutes ago, VILLAMARV said: I'll be totally honest bicks you made me lose my bet with myself! I thought you'd say it was tantamount to child abuse I thought that was obvious Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rjw63 Posted August 30 Share Posted August 30 (edited) Not sure I’m the first to ever mention this, but… Go on YouTube and play the first thirty seconds of 10538 Overture by Electric Light Orchestra. Then play the first thirty seconds of Changing Man by Paul Weller. I wonder if Jeff Lynne sued? Edited August 30 by rjw63 Stupid wankpot keypad 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted August 30 Moderator Share Posted August 30 18 minutes ago, rjw63 said: Not sure I’m the first to ever mention this, but… Go on YouTube and play the first thirty seconds of 10538 Overture by Electric Light Orchestra. Then play the first thirty seconds of Changing Man by Paul Weller. I wonder if Jeff Lynne sued? Well known and it's just one of many many tunes Weller stole Start by the Jam and Taxman by The Beatles, shows he started his rip offs well early in his career 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisp65 Posted August 30 Share Posted August 30 Yeah I don’t think Weller is at all shy about his influences, he’s never denied it or anything, I don’t think he’d feel ‘found out’ if someone challenged him. I think he’d probably just name some more we hadn’t spotted. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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chrisp65 Posted August 31 Share Posted August 31 ‘Value for money’ is a weird concept in music, in that you have to bloody like something or there’s zero value, and if you want it, you want it. But I’ve spent just over £30 today and come away with two new release albums and a gig ticket. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villa4europe Posted August 31 Share Posted August 31 On 30/08/2024 at 11:38, bickster said: Well known and it's just one of many many tunes Weller stole Start by the Jam and Taxman by The Beatles, shows he started his rip offs well early in his career Funny that Weller then had such an influence on Noel Gallagher.... Or that Harrison also lost lawsuits for stealing But it does also remind me that I've still never gone and found the RS song that the verve nicked for BSS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villa4europe Posted August 31 Share Posted August 31 And on the formative bands Mine went oasis, phonics, RHCPs Then the early 00s happened and all he'll let loose Phonics were huge amongst my friends group Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted August 31 Moderator Share Posted August 31 42 minutes ago, villa4europe said: Funny that Weller then had such an influence on Noel Gallagher.... Or that Harrison also lost lawsuits for stealing But it does also remind me that I've still never gone and found the RS song that the verve nicked for BSS It’s not a RS song as such, it’s a RS song recorded by their manager Andrew Loog Oldham with an Orchestra - The Last Time. It’s the strings bit they sampled 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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