Unlikely good al***s

What about this one,
UP...Right said fred!

I can feel the cheeks of my botty clenching now.

Ian.

A Show of Hands for Rush then....

Rasher

Hold you fire, I think you should exit stage left before your Counterparts lose their Grace under pressure and cause moving waves to send signals to roll your bones off this forum

Go geddy your peart little butt out of here and get a life-son.

Bob Dylan - Saved
Elton John
AC/DC
Jesus Christ Superstar Soundtrack
Paul McCartney


I'd never do Linkin Park though, that's the hard stuff.

Glad to see people standing up for Rush, me too, although after Grace Under Pressure I think they lost it a bit. I think Hemispheres is my fav so yip, I'm sad. I even confess to having a pic disc of it that used to be a clock on my wall!!

Also what's wrong with Gary Numan? For someone who can't sing he sure does play good stuff, but again he lost the plot after the mid 80s. Dance and I Assassin are also great.

I guess Jean Michel Jarre aint that cool but I still enjoy his first 4 albums.

e'nuff
b

Who here is good at graphics? We need a Raised Eyebrow icon pretty rapidly...

"After Grace Under Pressure I think they lost it a bit. I think Hemispheres is my fav"

I prefer all post "Grace" albums to pre-Grace albums with the exception of Moving Pictures (pre) which is my fave, and Test for Echo (post) which I found disappointing

The only real problem I have with rush is the recordings. They all sound like the enginner forgot to turn the bass up and is very difficult listening.

All this talk of Geddy Lee puts me in mind of Bob & Doug McKenzie. Where are they now....? Still in "The Great White North"...?

Rasher & Bosh, if i mentioned Justin Timberlake down my local town on a friday nite no-one would hear me 'cos the pub music's too loud so I'd be saved! Also My closest Naim dealer isn't the one I use, but in the interests of not slandering his good name I won't mention it on this forum... lol
One to add to this list is 'Clues' by Robert Palmer - on Lp. really good tracks and Gary Numan on it!

Richard - I find it very hard to think of you playing an ELO album, never mind getting onto this Rush thing.

Mentioned already, but I love the Haircut 100 album, my wife and kids laugh at me when I play it but they're tasteless and I'm not.

Also love Sister Sledge esp. my fave single of all time "Thinking of you". It's that 70/80's groove thang.

Colin Lorenson
Showing my age

Thanks Rasher. Takes me back...

I'll "take-off" now....

Richard

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Originally posted by garyi:
The only real problem I have with rush is the recordings. They all sound like the enginner forgot to turn the bass up and is very difficult listening.

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What's the album with "Spirit of radio" on - I have it and it doesn't seem THAT bad... Mind you, I had Hot City Nights on (80s cheese in the house!) last night on vinyl, and while Spirit of radio on that was a bit thin, the drum kit still sounds excellent - had to play it really loud just for the hell of it...

Urm, what's wrong with Enya - especially Watermark and Enya (BBC - NOT the Celts, which is the BBC one put through a "automatic sound crapper upper" filter....) - have the Enya BBC one on CD AND vinyl now thanks to some flukey Ebay/charity shop purchasing...

I'll put my hand up for Muppet Show Volume One - I *love* this LP - pure class - especially the locked run out groove. Mind you, I got it given to me as a present for being good, after I'd had my head stitched from cracking it open when I was 6, so maybe the crack knocked ALL my sense out of me...

Also, I bought (last month!) the "Remember you're a Womble" LP for the title track - I *love* the fiddle playing on it even though the recording is SHOCKINGLY bad - he he he...

And like I say, I own the Best of Sam Fox - now THAT'S low (although I LOVE the version of "Satisfaction".

And whilst on that plane, I also own Rolf Harris' "Rolf rules OK!" CD - it also has a version of "Satisfaction" on it - and to hear it is to die laughing - it's so bad it's good! And yep, it also has the infamous "Stairway to heaven" cover on it...

When the music's over turn out the lights

The Spirit of Radio is on Permanent Waves and also the recent compilation of the same name.

Whilst here, I'd also like to stick my hand up for Tubeway Army/Gary Numan, as well as...<blush> ELO. Unique in their time, rose from the ashes of one of the all time great Brum Rock bands, The Move and a better live act than most people would imagine. Yes, once they got big the heavy dollops of glam and the somewhat slavish tendency to processed chart material grew tiresome, but their first 5 albumns were clever and different. I could say the same about Simple Minds.

Cheers

Harry

HTK

Simple Minds were very good for their 2nd, 3rd and 4th albums (Real To Real Cacophony, Empires & Dance, Sons & Fascination/Sister Feelings Call), OK for their 1st and 5th (Life In A Day and New Gold Dream) and utterly shite thereafter. God, they were embarrassing!

A real shame, as they were once SO good.

Kevin

If I (god forbid) ever had to pick my top 10 and lose the rest of my collection, Real to Real Cacophony would be in there.

Gosh HTK, that's strong! I have a copy of Real To Real Cacophony and I found it a bit bollocks really. Maybe I should give it another whirl after what must be 10 years of collecting dust because it seems we have similar tastes for things like ELO/Gary N.

But I really dig NGDream and Sparkle (Street Hassle is brill). After that yes, it all went downhill (although I have to confess, I quite like cranking up the vol for Alive and Kicking...had to confess)

Me also hands up for ELO.

Got:

New W Record
OFTB ( - this is so ace)
Discovery
Time

but what else is good for them?

cheers
b

Well Brucie, looks like we're not quite dopplegangers! My fav ELO is down the other end of their evolution: ELO1, ELO2, On The Third Day, Eldarado and Face the Misic. After that it's a cherry picking exercise for me but there's no doubt that Jeff Lynne is a genius. Just my opinion.

As to R2R Cachopony, I don't know what part of my CNS it taps into - it just does. Can't explain it.

Cheers

Harry

HTK,

Are those ELO albums you mentioned pre-New World Record? ELO1 - their first album perhaps?

Also, what about their very latest stuff?

Thanks,
Bruce

Yes they are.

I think ELO1 and ELO2 got bundeled together in one CD called "First Movement". The track by the same name has some good speaker testing cello work. I stopped buying at Discovery. I have great admiration for Jeff Lynne but I prefered them when they were more "underground".

I bought the Zoom tour DVD and loved it. New stuff wasn't brilliant to my ears but I didn't give it a chance. I was far more interested in all the early stuff.

Saw them live about six times (including with Roy Wood when they first toured) and with the exception of the last gig (Discovery, Wembly) I thought they were a very good live act. First time I saw them the power failed about 20 min into the gig. The road crew got a practice amp working and they treated us to one and a half ours of jokes, impressions, acustic guitar stuff and barber shop quartets! When the power came back on they said "OK - now you're really gonna get your money's worth" and played until the police turned up sometime after midnight.

Happy days.....

Quick update. I found both albumns on Amazon UK.
ELO 1 is being sold as "first Light" and contains a second disk of bonus material.
ELO 2 is available as a 30th anniversary edition and also contains a second disk of bonus material (there don't look to be any duplications with the possible exception of the introduction).

Looks like it's remastered (enhanced) and will appeal to the die hard early ELO fan like me. Don't know if you would consider it to be VFM. Looks like ELO 1 and the third albumn (On The Thirsd Day) isn't available on CD at the moment. Regular ELO 2 without all the bonus stuff looks to be available.

In case that's of any interest.

HTK,

Thanks for all that. The power outage gig sounded great. I will definitely look into their early stuff. I may plump for those CDs or wait until I find a second hand LP somewhere.

Bruce

I've got all their output up to Discovery on vinyl. They started out on Harvest then went to Jet (not 100% sure at what point). My memory of all my ELO vinyl (now in storage) is positive. No duff recordings or pressings. I did have to buy ELO 2 twice because I scratched it!