Listening to a Classic album

Today it's the turn of 'NWOBHM', and we've started, with this immense classic

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheels_of_Steel

we've now moved onto this wee beasty

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wild_Cat_(album)

Anybody catch Later with Jools last night? A bit of something for everybody there, Muse, Beachboys, The X X, PIL and a girl on a piano who was amazing, really good voice, cant remember her name, definately worth watching the full version on Friday.

now onto this wee gem

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hit_and_Run_(album)

Iggy wrote:

Anybody catch Later with Jools last night? A bit of something for everybody there, Muse, Beachboys, The X X, PIL and a girl on a piano who was amazing, really good voice, cant remember her name, definately worth watching the full version on Friday.

Yeah, great show. Need more of this on TV and less fuckin X-Factor shit.

this one is next up

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borrowed_Time_(album)

^^^^^^^^ after that one ^^^^^^^^

vvvvvvvvvv it's this one vvvvvvvv

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Number_of_the_Beast_(album)

Greenjock wrote:

Iggy wrote:

Anybody catch Later with Jools last night? A bit of something for everybody there, Muse, Beachboys, The X X, PIL and a girl on a piano who was amazing, really good voice, cant remember her name, definately worth watching the full version on Friday.

Yeah, great show. Need more of this on TV and less fuckin X-Factor shit.

Ex-feckin-zackly, there is a constantly revolving Rhianna/Prof. Green show on the telly, is it MTV? Just a load of endless pop nonsense that I am sure has next to no viewing figures because it's appeal must be so marginalized and for people that love music we have 6 music on the radio and Jools. TOTP is finished, not because people don't want to watch it but because the BEEB couldn't move forwards from their 70's type format for the program and people got bored with it. If ever there is any festival coverage (apart from Glasto which apparently was invented by Radio 1 now which is feckin laughable 'cos they didn't even mention it for about 25 years) it is shown in the small hours of the morning so that no one is up to watch it barring the speed freaks and they then say there is no demand! Makes my piss boil.

Andy Williams has passed away.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=flm4xcOyiCo

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-19729630

This little gem is next

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyromania_(album)

Greenjock wrote:

Andy Williams has passed away.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=flm4xcOyiCo

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-19729630

A Legend, RIP Andy Williams

Iggy wrote:

Greenjock wrote:

Iggy wrote:

Anybody catch Later with Jools last night? A bit of something for everybody there, Muse, Beachboys, The X X, PIL and a girl on a piano who was amazing, really good voice, cant remember her name, definately worth watching the full version on Friday.

Yeah, great show. Need more of this on TV and less fuckin X-Factor shit.

Ex-feckin-zackly, there is a constantly revolving Rhianna/Prof. Green show on the telly, is it MTV? Just a load of endless pop nonsense that I am sure has next to no viewing figures because it's appeal must be so marginalized and for people that love music we have 6 music on the radio and Jools. TOTP is finished, not because people don't want to watch it but because the BEEB couldn't move forwards from their 70's type format for the program and people got bored with it. If ever there is any festival coverage (apart from Glasto which apparently was invented by Radio 1 now which is feckin laughable 'cos they didn't even mention it for about 25 years) it is shown in the small hours of the morning so that no one is up to watch it barring the speed freaks and they then say there is no demand! Makes my piss boil.

with you every step of the way Iggy

The Media hype that these glorified karaoke singers get makes my piss boil. This country could & should still be at the top of the music world, as we do have some fantastic musical ability still in this country out there busting a gut. Why don't they have these on XFactory? Because it all comes down to cost, it's cheaper to put on a small British tour for a boy/girl band, selling out with screaming girlies & their parents, than it is to stage a world tour circa a band in the stature of Def Leppard & Iron Maiden... yet those two are still the biggest British earners worldwide!!! FACT!!

we'll finish today with this monster

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ace_of_Spades_(album)

Andy Williams did one of the first records I ever bought sometime in the early 60s when I was about 12. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMPexBNsoLo

Dear oh dear. We had an elder brother that started the record buying thing hence we piggy backed off him, along with a reel to reel, we were made up.
Frank Sinatra was our family American crooner, along with Dean Martin. The first singles I actually purchased with my own money were Pictures of matchstick men with Status quo before they went all biker and two chords, Daleks Invasion of Earth 2000 and something, and Strange Brew after seeing them on Juke Box jury get a 'foive'.
Found this .... we were awsome in those days.. rock on Ginger ... strangled with perms with all that REAL creativity bursting to get out.
Strange Brew... strange hair

Strange Brew .... one of their best singles - bettered by I Feel Free.

The first two singles I bought were Stranger On the Shore by Mr Acker Bilk and March of the Siamese Children by Kenny Ball.
First LP was the Beatles "Hard Day's Night".

Listening to Roxy Music - For Your Pleasure. Get a load of this

STEVE MILLER BAND

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVA1xRrWBuk&feature=related

One of the best piss-takes of the British Blues Scene from a superb and relatively little known band - the Liverpool Scene.

RIP Andy Williams.
@ Penz and Knect; I grew up listening to music with some older cousins of mine and they introduced me to Cream when I was very young, along with Uriah Heep, Purple, Stones, Early Quo (which as you say is a different animal to 12 bar Quo) and Cream was one of my favourites.
@ Sandford, my first two proper gigs in Plymouth (about 1980) were to see Motorhead and Iron Maiden at Top Rank, Maiden had short hair and jobs! About 18 month's later they were selling out 180k stadiums in America.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tons_of_Sobs

My first record purchase, borrowed it off an older friend, didn't want to give it back to him, I had it for about a month, he did eventually get it back, then bought it for myself a week later

This was my 1st single

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gudbuy_T%27Jane

and still my favourite British band ever, was lucky enough to party with Slade in 1981 hic

Sandford_Grecian wrote:

This was my 1st single

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gudbuy_T%27Jane

and still my favourite British band ever, was lucky enough to party with Slade in 1981 hic

Spooky mine too.

Sandford_Grecian wrote:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tons_of_Sobs

My first record purchase, borrowed it off an older friend, didn't want to give it back to him, I had it for about a month, he did eventually get it back, then bought it for myself a week later

I saw Free two or three times way back in the 1960s but never bought their albums. Just for old time's sake, I recently bought their greatest hits and it was still good. Great singer. Excellent lead guitar and solid bass & drum in the background. The beginning of "Alright Now" must be one of the most recognisable.

knecht wrote:

Sandford_Grecian wrote:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tons_of_Sobs

My first record purchase, borrowed it off an older friend, didn't want to give it back to him, I had it for about a month, he did eventually get it back, then bought it for myself a week later

I saw Free two or three times way back in the 1960s but never bought their albums. Just for old time's sake, I recently bought their greatest hits and it was still good. Great singer. Excellent lead guitar and solid bass & drum in the background. The beginning of "Alright Now" must be one of the most recognisable.

Very under rated band were Free, so many great songs, and as you say a great singer, great rhythm section and a lead guitarist in Paul Kossoff any band would have died for.