What music are you listening to? (2025)

rascal said:
I like presidents of the USA ramones green day. Killers.
I missed a lot of music in the 90s as I worked to build my business up .

Russ
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I had tickets to see the Presidents in Nottingham a few years back. Stupidly I booked a diving course the same day and it massively over ran so I didn't make it to the gig. I am still angry with mysrlf.
 
The Velvet Curtain said:
Will you indulge me? Over on facebook I am starting to catalogue significant moments from my life as a record for when I am gone. As part of that I am listing day by day 30 songs that mean something to me. I would like to copy the posts here, are you up for it?
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I think you’re stock here is high enough to ask for pretty much anything and the answer would be yes 😂
 
Song #1

The Jam - Down in the Tube Station at Midnight.

The first record I ever bought with my own pocket money. The Jam quickly became the first band I obsessed about, as you do at that age, and I got to see Weller perform as a solo artist and with The Style Council several times. One thing though, Paul never got the hang of lip syncing on TV.

View: https://youtu.be/RzpsHLYg1ms?si=G0WSzbx4j2m1EQfc
 
Song #2

Beck - Heart is a Drum

In 1996 Beck released his breakthrough album Odelay and I along with everyone else bought it, briefly making him the hottest artist on the planet. He faded back again and completely fell off my radar.
In 2014 I was on a Thai Airways 777 on the 12 hour journey between Heathrow and Bangkok. Out of boredom I was surfing through the album listings on the seat back screen in front of me and came across the new offering by Beck, Morning Phase. I clicked on it to give it a go and ended up listening to it from start to finish three times over as I peacefully hurtled across Afghanistan and Pakistan. It was beautiful without a bad song on the album, and some of it had a vaguely familiar sound. Returning home I immediately bought it and discovered that some of the tracks were the result of a colaboratuon with the French duo Air (more of them another day), hence the familiarity.
Since then the record has been a massive favourite for me and Lu, going very well with a late night bottle of red and some quality chocolates on a regular basis. The whole album is if course up on Youtube if you want it, but here is Heart is a Drum

View: https://youtu.be/_6Zp84XH6Eo?si=dl7repYxJ4DMG2fEqq
 
The Velvet Curtain said:
Song #1

The Jam - Down in the Tube Station at Midnight.

The first record I ever bought with my own pocket money. The Jam quickly became the first band I obsessed about, as you do at that age, and I got to see Weller perform as a solo artist and with The Style Council several times. One thing though, Paul never got the hang of lip syncing on TV.

View: https://youtu.be/RzpsHLYg1ms?si=G0WSzbx4j2m1EQfc
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I dunno he seemed to remember the majority of the words 😂
 
The Velvet Curtain said:
Song #2

Beck - Heart is a Drum

In 1996 Beck released his breakthrough album Odelay and I along with everyone else bought it, briefly making him the hottest artist on the planet. He faded back again and completely fell off my radar.
In 2014 I was on a Thai Airways 777 on the 12 hour journey between Heathrow and Bangkok. Out of boredom I was surfing through the album listings on the seat back screen in front of me and came across the new offering by Beck, Morning Phase. I clicked on it to give it a go and ended up listening to it from start to finish three times over as I peacefully hurtled across Afghanistan and Pakistan. It was beautiful without a bad song on the album, and some of it had a vaguely familiar sound. Returning home I immediately bought it and discovered that some of the tracks were the result of a colaboratuon with the French duo Air (more of them another day), hence the familiarity.
Since then the record has been a massive favourite for me and Lu, going very well with a late night bottle of red and some quality chocolates on a regular basis. The whole album is if course up on Youtube if you want it, but here is Heart is a Drum

View: https://youtu.be/_6Zp84XH6Eo?si=dl7repYxJ4DMG2fEqq
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Did Beck get a harmoniser for his birthday perchance? 😂
 
Song #3

Pink Floyd - See Emily Play

The first of two from this lot. I did not enjoy my teenage years for several reasons, however there were a few evenings with a couple of school friends involving music like this, dodgy home brew cider, cheese toasties at dawn and more than the occasional Camberwell Carrot, that I look back on with untarnished joy. I won't out the two guys, but I do hope they are reading this and accept my thanks for their part in it.

Original films of this song are not very good quality, so instead I will use it as an excuse to put up this version by Nick Mason's Saucerful of Secrets. His band involves several members of the Pink Floyd stable including bassist Guy Pratt, the effective replacement for Roger Waters. Guy is a natural comic, the devoted father of Richard Wright's grandchildren and a colaborator whose work with many artists is more famous than most realise. His memoir "My Bass and Other Animals" is definitely worth a read. Also in this band is a lead singer/guitatist who seems at first to be utterly unlikely, but who is now one if the best prog frontmen working today. This lot were the last gig I saw before my diagnosis last year.

View: https://youtu.be/E9AFBZrJfpU?si=AePww8HbusLVfctk
 
Song #5

Blondie - Denis

When I watched this performance on Top of the Pops in 1978, my first encounter with Debbie Harry, I was certain I wasn't going to grow up gay.

I managed to see Blondie a couple of times later in their career, and even in her 60s Debbie had a presence that meant you couldn't take your eyes off her.

View: https://youtu.be/i8O3xCpC6M8?si=hgzbXTs_3FxANesI
 
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