Legion World Forums LEGION COMPANION The Anywhere Machine So, what are you listening to?

Bit of classical today:

The Cadillac Three. sometimes I gotta let my country freak fly.

Dorothy. Good sound to them.

Reverand Parsons Big Damn Band.

My son showed me a group named UGO. Or maybe that's the name of an album or song. He's into the current psychedelic scene. They were okay. I like Kraughbin more, though. And he's really turned on to them.

Since he was name dropped in the Kill this thread, thread, It's Mike Nesmith and Rio. And I know my dad likes it too.

[video:youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WnpcTsy10dE[/video]

So, with all the talk of ELO in the Shoutbox, I just discovered this super-cool high quality version of "lost" ELO track "Beatles Forever" was recently posted on Youtube!

Beatles Forever

Thanks for that. I don't remember hearing it before.

Delightful! Thanks, EDE.

I can't believe Jeff Lynne thinks so little of that song that he suppressed it for decades!

Yeah, the fact that they've released a "double album" version of Secret Messages and *still* left it off is frustrating.

I mean... I get that it's kind of fanboyish but who doesn't realize that Jeff is a huge Beatles fanboy?

Exactly. Every fanboy and fangirl should fly their particular flag from time to time.

Reminded me of Jeff Lynne's single....

Doin' That Crazy Thing

I still like it.

One of my favorite ELO songs I could never find when I was younger, then they invented the internet and I found out it wasn't by ELO at all!


Love is like oxygen

Forget all of this guy's awful whitewashed R & B cover versions. This song freakin' rocks!

https://youtu.be/Vo3v64xZqi8

Well, right now I'm back to listening to my books on cd in the truck. Alternating between Discworld, MHI, and Harry Dresden right now.

I finally read the first few Discworld novels earlier this year and really enjoyed them. Clever writer. Haven't read the Dresden Files but they sound like fun.

A song so great, I had to post two versions:

Mott the Hoople, "The Journey"

Joe Elliott's Down n Outz, "The Journey"

I've been passing time at work and doing computer stuff at home by trying to bring up every 1980s song which skated briefly across MTV when I was just a bored teen fascinated and irritated by this new thing-- both at the same time. A lot of them I didn't even like all that much. I was just trying to test whatever remains of my memory at this late date. lol.

Aaanyway, even if you're not wild about this one, you've gotta' admire the panache it took to love on Motown at a time like 1982.

[video:youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PjPa_NqN0vE[/video]

Ah, Little Steven. An automatic deal-breaker for me, due to his association with Brute Shitbrains.

Having not had anything to listen to when working, I've put on the radio for the last couple of weeks, while I'm seconded to another area. It's '80s too. Some of my favs...

1. Eurythmics - It's All right (Baby's Coming Back)
2. Swing Out Sister - Breakout
3. Fergal Sharkey - A Good Heart
4. Tears For Fears - Everybody Wants to Rule the World
5. Talk Talk - Life's What You Make It
6. Thompson Twins - Hold Me now
7. INXS - I Need You Tonight
8. Jane Wiedlin - Rush Hour
9. Fleetwood Mac - Everywhere
10. Bangles - Walk Like An Egyptian

Nice list, Thoth! I like all but one song on it. And that would be "Walk Like An Egyptian." But I do get some comfort out of my conviction that that piece of poo is the *real* legacy of the overrated Slits (eff Viv Albertine and her book of lies and her horrible facelift.)

Well, it was the last one on the list when I was going...um... so it's likely to be replaced easily enough. I'd be super interested to hear more about your thoughts on Viv Albertine's book. I've not read it.

She's basically Geri Halliwell with superficial lefty politics instead of out-and-out Thatcherism. They're both obnoxious, self-obsessed, product-placing, name-dropping ramblers. She's also like, "Oh, Sid and Johnny and all them were just regular kids, regular blokes." No, they weren't. And she's just as irregular as them. Which would be okay if she could back it up with actual talent. Finally, I can appreciate that she's had some truly terrible life experiences, but her public persona is such that I find it almost impossible to sympathize with her, much less empathize. Other people's mileages may vary.

Well, now he's more remembered as Tony Soprano's right-hand man.

I guess it's a bad time to bring up Southside Johnny then. o_0 I dunno', this has very Huey Lewis-like overtones, but the sweetening of the female chorus sets it apart... makes it a bit less ponderous.

I'm sure I've said before that the only Springsteen song I really like is "Tunnel Of Love," which all his fans hate because it doesn't sound like him at all.

[video:youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bvxe_nns4TE[/video]

I'd easily replace the Bangles one with Big Audio Dynamite's E=MC2. Here we are in the '80s and here's Mick Jones now... who's he with...oh, hi Viv...um....


EDIT: I can't think of a Springsteen one I like more than Tunnel of Love.

Someone made me a B.A.D. tape when we were in NYC art school and I played it pretty much daily. I don't know why I drifted away from them, but I did remember to add that song when I was doing my 80s obscurity walk.

mr_cleome asked me why I didn't just put together a YouTube playlist and make it permanent. My response, "Oh, yeah that's just what I need. Another slapdash, half-finished project to finish out the year."



By the way, I've noticed that Memory likes to play the trick where a song from the start of a decade is remembered as being part of the previous decade. This, for example, is (The Blessing's *Let's Make Love*) 1991 but it should really belong to the late 80s, pre-Grunge era:

[video:youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7AZLjnWKeo[/video]

I also always mis-remember Smokey Robinson's incredible "Cruisin'" as being a Seventies hit but it's technically from 1980.

I thought the Stone Roses album was 1990, but a single was on the '80s channel. I thought Gary Numan's Cars was '70s, but that was on there too.

Cars made a big impression on me, when I first heard it. It was the first synth pop I'd heard.

I bought the BAD II album for Rush. I've never listened to the rest of it.