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Offline valleyboy

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« Reply #10 on: August 05, 2011, 22:42:42 PM »
Cracking name fair play !



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« Reply #11 on: August 05, 2011, 23:14:47 PM »
I did think about these but they didn't make it into the top 5.
Elastic Rock - Nucleus
Duck Rock - Malcolm McLaren
A Christmas Gift for you - Phil Spector
Blood on the Tracks - Bob Dylan
#1 Record - Big Star
Different Class - Pulp
Tomorrow the Green Grass - The Jayhawks
Look sharp - Joe Jakson

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« Reply #12 on: November 13, 2011, 14:25:15 PM »
I think my all-time faves could be:
Dog of two head - Status Quo
Axis-Bold as love - Hendrix
Sweet Child - Pentangle
Past Present & Future - Al Stewart
Aqualung - Jethro Tull

There are so many that had to be left out to narrow the field down to 5. Can I have another go later??

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« Reply #13 on: November 13, 2011, 15:03:17 PM »
quote:
Originally posted by thebillet

I have livened up many a party with "There's a riot going on"
For your next task, can you liven up a riot by starting a party?

And for my list, I didn't know whether this should be the best remembered LP or the ones most played recently (since most of what used to be my favs are up in the loft on vinyl). So I decided on a mixture of the two.

1. East Coast Blues 1926-1935 by Various Blues Artists (and including the simply wonderful ragtime guitar solo, Blind Arthur's Breakdown by Blind Arthur Blake.

2. New Orleans Street Singer by Snooks Eaglin (unfortunately not including the wonderful 12 string blues guitar version of Malaguena).

3. Gracelands by Paul Simon.

4. Fresh Cream by Cream.

5. Red, Hot and Blue: A Tribute to Cole Porter by Various Artists (because that is what I am playing most now).


P.S. My first choice also contains the track Myrtle Avenue Stomp by Chicken Wilson and Skeeter Hinton, an instrumental for guitar, washboard, and cow bells. Anyone else finding a similar instrumental line-up in their top 5 can have a pint on me. (If you don't believe me about the track, it is available on YouTube. Haven't heard anything like it since jug band music faded out - unless you are listening to the Lovin' Spoonful, who didn't manage to make my top 5 but would have done if all the tracks were is as good as Jug Band Music is).
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« Reply #14 on: November 13, 2011, 20:22:47 PM »
Colwyn you are in pretty good company there as didn't a certain Mr Zimmerman also draw on Arthur? Personally I can only take a track or two but I couldn't eat a whole album. The most I can take in terms of authentic blues would be Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee and that's only because I saw them live. Thanks for the heads up I'll fork out the 79p Arthur's track.

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« Reply #15 on: November 14, 2011, 16:26:35 PM »
Billet, Ralph McTell played Blind Arthur's Breakdown on an LP (a bold thing to do) that I have on vinyl, also up in loft. At the end of the track you can hear him laughing because his fingers simply can't keep up with the driving pace of the instrumental - good try though.

Haven't sussed the Zimmerman reference yet. Probably my age.

EDIT: Ah, I think I have it. Reference to Bod Dylan, but I don't think he played any Blind Blake - wasn't it Blind Willie McTell (no relation to Ralph!).
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« Reply #16 on: November 14, 2011, 19:41:05 PM »
1. Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures
2. The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses
3. Ozzy Osbourne - Blizzard Of Oz (RIP Randy Rhoads)
4. Pink Floyd - The Wall
5. The Velvet Underground And Nico - The Velvet Underground

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« Reply #17 on: November 14, 2011, 20:05:15 PM »
The Rolling Stones - Exile on Main Street
Led Zeppelin       - Led Zeppelin 4
Simon & Garfunkel  - Bridge Over Troubled Water ------ I do have a mellow side !!!
The Sensational Alex Harvey Band - LIVE
SLADE              - Slade Alive

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« Reply #18 on: November 14, 2011, 20:11:49 PM »
After much thought - as it changes at least monthly - and also in no particular order:-

Quadrophenia - The Who
Band on the Run - Wings
Ziggy Stardust ( or any Bowie LP before 1979)
Liberty of Norton Folgate - Madness
Jungle Blues - CW Stoneking

and from the 14s/6p section

Tighten Up Volume 2 - Various Artists (Trojan) ;)



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« Reply #19 on: November 15, 2011, 17:09:14 PM »
Colwyn, try "Good as I've been to You" credited to Bob Dylan but also recorded by Arthur in 1927; I guess copyright laws allow that.




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