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i guess most of us are of a certain age....grew up in the 80's and all that.

when a toddler i was subjected to elvis & glenn campbell.....but i survived

got my own taste of the future listening to kraftwerk in the early 80's when i was teen, how futuristic did this stuff sound back then? from another worold! i couldn't get enough.

still love it.

1977.

enjoy



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXa9tXcMhXQ

fancied a bit of hip hop tonight, not heard this album for a few years, one of my all time fav hip hop albums.

disposable heroes of hiphoprisy, early 90's.

enjoy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBAkOifDeSw

well?

you're full of surprises mate you!

I've always known your music taste was diverse, but didn't realise it was quite that far reaching


I was mental into hip hop and rap back in the day, nowadays i use it to explain the early onset of baldness,

It was all the headspins on lino!



I tell you what, the first thing you'll need for your new unit is gonna have to be a capable sound system, hopefully a bit of DAB or online channels,

you can't beat it for days when you just want to itch and old scratch or just fancy the same thing all day long, no messing about.

I use TuneIn and Internet Radio, and they have every obscure genre you can fancy or remember, its awesome!

very diverse mate, used to love listening to the late night folk show with mark radcliffe whilst building VJM's engine late at night down the shed.

first heard the angellic rachael & beccy unthank then, hugely talented ladies

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i58JxB8ZqLQ


talking of stereo systems down the shed, need some leccy distribution first

yep, i'll be on it like car bonnet!

give me a holla tomorrow, let me know when you're up there this week and i'll come and suss things out

back to nine inch nails this week.......

from the pretty hate machine album from the late 80's....best on a proper stereo system with decent base and the surround effect

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vG_veFxRuvc

In the 80s I would be listening to this in my Sud

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5vIIZydXDqg

Brgds
Simon

KevJTD wrote:i guess most of us are of a certain age....grew up in the 80's and all that.

when a toddler i was subjected to elvis & glenn campbell.....but i survived

got my own taste of the future listening to kraftwerk in the early 80's when i was teen, how futuristic did this stuff sound back then? from another worold! i couldn't get enough.

still love it.

1977.

enjoy



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXa9tXcMhXQ

Fantastic. That brings back memories. How about some Devo!

https://www.google.co.uk/search?client= ... isrNXcZC88

Brgds
Simon

80's Sud music - 2nd half of eighties for me....check out the dodgy hair cuts and don't tell anyone I admitted to the last one, it's our secret......

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYH8DsU2WCk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFsHSHE-iJQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTGbfbttJys

It's a bit dark Tim.

Soon be at the Spicey Girls Shrew.

This was a classic:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=V4moluN80cI

They were at the height of their fame and massive in the US until the yanks finally worked out it wasn't a girl!

Does this count??
Taxed and out for a blast..........window open, no stereo.

That'll do nicely - done the same myself.

Cool !! summer is coming.

Very nice. I bet a lot of hard work has gone into this car.
All the best
Simon

this song on the radio took me back today, bet all you guys remember this one

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tRU8aIjlkg

Soooooooooo much better than that awful Beats International hash .
Dug out a bit of Tubeway Army out the other night !!
Replicas

Kegsti66 wrote:Soooooooooo much better than that awful Beats International hash .
Dug out a bit of Tubeway Army out the other night !!
Replicas

funny you should say that kieth, younger lads at work reconned the opposite about it!
had a look through some old cd's tonight to dig something suitable out, replicas is an awesome choice mate

funnily enough i'm just enjoying some boxer rebellion. they supposrted gary numan at rock city a few years back, i actually really enjoyed them and went on to buy some of their stuff. worth a look

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_cyH0gvX0o

Hmm, tricky one this. I like the punk edginess of early Tubeway Army, but what I like more is Numan's dystopian vision on Replicas and the Pleasure Principle (Cars in particular, obviously). The dark side of the Moog!

OK, howabout Basement Jaxx for a random Numan sample?

https://youtu.be/5rAOyh7YmEc

Can't decide which version I like best!

Lauren

PS - my favourite 1980s electronica is still John Foxx's Metamatic - Ballardian is the word!

numan has had a lot of influence and been sampled by many artists lauren as you say, from nine inch nails to the sugababes!
a lot of US hip hop guys attribute the betas to numan

Very true, and i think the best thing about sampling, occasionally, is that it sometimes keeps the original alive longer than it would have been naturally, and if it was good in the first place, i'm more than happy for the first artist to continue to earn from it too.


It would seem appropriate that i mention some of my favourite electronic artist of the past. Being born in 71, the golden era of electro, and hip hop were soon in my lugholes, and although of course no parent could see any talent in there whatsoever, here are a couple of clips of two of my favourite tunes of the time,

and look out of me at around 2.11 to 2.17!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykK0uEjSsqY



and to prove all that "pushy button" music can be done live, by talented folk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TN5ltss0NMA

and just for fun, one of the most sampled beats and breaks of all time, absolutely fantastic

i'm sure i'm too young for this really, but Grandmaster Flash got his hands on it and it was on one of my Electro albums i think, and i just adore it and everything it spawned


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WY-Z6wm6TMQ

I like your style!

I remember seeing Herbie Hancock on The Tube, with a set of mechanical dancing legs made by some automaton constructor... clearly made an impression!

And as for GMFATF5, well, it's like a jungle sometimes, ahuh huh huh...

Spacenut wrote:I like your style!

And as for GMFATF5, well, it's like a jungle sometimes, ahuh huh huh...

i get the MESSAGE Lauren!

petrolhead wrote:

Spacenut wrote:I like your style!

And as for GMFATF5, well, it's like a jungle sometimes, ahuh huh huh...

i get the MESSAGE Lauren!

close to the edge there....

Oh crikey!

close to the edge eh,


are we about to cross a white line?

heard this on the radio today....brought back some memories I can tell you....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lfph3043yZU

You old "new romantic" kev!


Back to your mispent youth with that musical era I'm sure.


Ive gone forwards and backwards with just one band recently, re-fascinated with the absolute cream to come from the Seattle grunge scene, Soundgarden.

They had a new album out this year, which i bought of course, but it prompted me to replace their back catalogue again, some of which is remastered too.

My original cd's were either partly missing or jumping thanks to a careless guitar learning teenage son!

But at least he's got taste, and now has his own copies of some of it.



Nirvana can sling their hook, no-one made a noise quite like Soundgarden!


And the spin off band Audioslave, made up of Soundgarden front man Chris Cornell and the remains of the singerless Rage Against the Machine, is similarly brilliant!

A lot like your favourite Newman and Nine Inch Nails kev, they work together as if they always were!

Come on Shrew, put the link up to "Cochise" or "Show me how to live".
Great videos that go hand in hand with the music.
I can not work out how to put the links on
Turn it up to eleven

Think I will dig out the "Vanishing Point" DVD .

new romantic stuff was right up my street mate, loved all that stuff.

inspired to get some Cocteau twins stuff out today for the ride up to ludford

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_Tj4bJ0VFw

or

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j65v7OqlW6I


or a classic massive attack track with liz frazer (of Cocteau twins) on vocals

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yftOy8kz7aE

I was more into early Cocteaus stuff like Garlands (loved Robin Guthrie's screaming guitar counterpoint to Liz Frazers vocal), but I did see them on the Bluebeard tour way back when, and I must say I enjoyed the experience very much.

Don't forget Liz also did the vocals on FSOLs Lifeforms EP (awesome)...

https://youtu.be/Sup3HBNZFns

Amusingly, I was in a New Romantic band once, albeit briefly. But coming from punk roots it was always leaning towards Bauhaus, I wasn't into all that Spandau Ballet nonsense

Lauren