GerateWohl 4,370 Posted March 9 Share Posted March 9 At last I managed to get this album in the version with all 13 songs, including "Truth, Goodness and Beauty". I guess, this is the UK version. Never was available here in Germany. I am happy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A24 4,338 Posted March 10 Share Posted March 10 GerateWohl 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naïve Old Fart 9,537 Posted March 10 Share Posted March 10 It's the 40th anniversary of ABOUT FACE, this year. 'Let's Get Metaphysical' is fantastic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thor 7,508 Posted March 10 Share Posted March 10 On 09/03/2024 at 8:34 AM, Naïve Old Fart said: My favourite 10cc will always be HOW DARE YOU!, Mine too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jurassic Shark 12,079 Posted March 10 Share Posted March 10 On 09/03/2024 at 8:42 AM, GerateWohl said: At last I managed to get this album in the version with all 13 songs, including "Truth, Goodness and Beauty". I guess, this is the UK version. Never was available here in Germany. I am happy. Nice drawings. GerateWohl 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GerateWohl 4,370 Posted March 10 Share Posted March 10 1 hour ago, Jurassic Shark said: Nice drawings. As far as I remember from an interview, Robert Smith used drawings from his nieces and nephews for the cover. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naïve Old Fart 9,537 Posted March 12 Share Posted March 12 R.I.P., Karl Wallinger Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A24 4,338 Posted March 16 Share Posted March 16 Last week I noticed for the first time that there is actually a person on the Obscured By Clouds cover. It's one of my favorite Pink Floyd albums. These days I prefer the period between Syd Barrett and their big operatic/grand style albums. Naïve Old Fart 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thor 7,508 Posted March 16 Share Posted March 16 I never thought about there being a person there either. Interesting. Great film score. A24 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A24 4,338 Posted March 19 Share Posted March 19 On 16/03/2024 at 7:45 PM, Thor said: I never thought about there being a person there either. Interesting. Yes, bare-chested and jeans. Anyway, who knew Trevor Horn has a new album? Naïve Old Fart 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naïve Old Fart 9,537 Posted March 19 Share Posted March 19 Alex, have you heard PRODUCERS? 'Made In Basing Street' is really good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A24 4,338 Posted March 20 Share Posted March 20 9 hours ago, Naïve Old Fart said: Alex, have you heard PRODUCERS? 'Made In Basing Street' is really good. No, not familiar with any of this. Are we still talking about Trevor Horn? To be clear: The Age Of Plastic > Adventures In Modern Recording > Drama Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Faleel 5,354 Posted March 20 Share Posted March 20 1 hour ago, A24 said: No, not familiar with any of this. Are we still talking about Trevor Horn? Naïve Old Fart 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thor 7,508 Posted March 20 Share Posted March 20 Whoa, a Lol Creme/Trevor Horn collab? Wasn't aware of that, for some reason. Intriguing. Naïve Old Fart 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sweeping Strings 2,363 Posted March 20 Share Posted March 20 Simple Minds gig last night - 110-minute career-spanning set, with Mr Kerr in fine form ... after one song during which he'd knelt down and then bent backwards briefly, he mimed adjusting his back and said 'Bruce Springsteen can't do that, and Midge Ure wouldn't stand a chance either'. Set list - https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/simple-minds/2024/the-sse-arena-belfast-belfast-northern-ireland-7baa1ec4.html Naïve Old Fart and GerateWohl 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GerateWohl 4,370 Posted March 20 Share Posted March 20 21 minutes ago, Sweeping Strings said: Simple Minds gig last night - 110-minute career-spanning set, with Mr Kerr in fine form ... after one song during which he'd knelt down and then bent backwards briefly, he mimed adjusting his back and said 'Bruce Springsteen can't do that, and Midge Ure wouldn't stand a chance either'. Set list - https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/simple-minds/2024/the-sse-arena-belfast-belfast-northern-ireland-7baa1ec4.html Their best album, Street Fighting Years, is heavily underrepresented in this set. Nothing there apart from "Belfast Child". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sweeping Strings 2,363 Posted March 20 Share Posted March 20 With 40 years+ of stuff to choose from, I guess it's inevitable that some albums would be underrepresented. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GerateWohl 4,370 Posted March 20 Share Posted March 20 Oh right. I just saw, they published 13 albums since then. I wasn't aware of that. I just recongnized the two follow up albums after SFY and then lost track. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Penna 3,694 Posted March 20 Share Posted March 20 Heard and shazammed a random song at a restaurant on Saturday evening and it turned out to be Ex's & Oh's by Elle King, from whom I already had the song that is on the Ghosbusters songtrack. The album as a whole takes a bit of getting used to (very countrified rock) but I like it, although a skim of one of her other albums wasn't doing a whole lot for me. Based on recent experience, something tells me I should listen to a bit more music radio Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naïve Old Fart 9,537 Posted March 20 Share Posted March 20 6 hours ago, A24 said: No, not familiar with any of this. Are we still talking about Trevor Horn? To be clear: The Age Of Plastic > Adventures In Modern Recording > Drama ... and producing: THE LEXICON OF LOVE SLAVE TO THE RHYTHM WELCOME TO THE PLEASUREDOME 90125 BIG GENERATOR STREET FIGHTING YEARS INTROSPECTIVE FUNDAMENTAL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A24 4,338 Posted March 20 Share Posted March 20 Listening to Echos right now. Every track (all covers, I think) is sung by different artist ... Meh ... It's not good. Sounds like background cover versions for restaurants or H&M. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naïve Old Fart 9,537 Posted March 20 Share Posted March 20 "Echos", Alex? What's that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A24 4,338 Posted March 20 Share Posted March 20 Echoes, Richard! Echoes! Naïve Old Fart 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naïve Old Fart 9,537 Posted March 21 Share Posted March 21 Echoes! You heard Echoes! It's a good track. Some PF fans consider it to be their single greatest song. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A24 4,338 Posted March 21 Share Posted March 21 No, Trevor Horn's Echoes: Ancient & Modern Naïve Old Fart 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MaxMovieMan 273 Posted March 21 Share Posted March 21 Shine On You Crazy Diamond by Pink Floyd is their magnum opus IMO. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GerateWohl 4,370 Posted March 21 Share Posted March 21 Unpopular opinion: My favourite Pink Floyd album is "A Momentary Labs of Reason". But I am not much of a fan. Always loved Gilmore's guitar. But I rather loved his contributions for other artists like Kate Bush, Sam Brown or Supertramp, than the actual Pink Floyd stuff. But AMLoR had great songs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naïve Old Fart 9,537 Posted March 21 Share Posted March 21 11 hours ago, A24 said: No, Trevor Horn's Echoes: Ancient & Modern Ah! Ok. 9 hours ago, GerateWohl said: "A Momentary Labs of Reason". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marian Schedenig 8,200 Posted March 21 Share Posted March 21 12 hours ago, Naïve Old Fart said: Echoes! You heard Echoes! It's a good track. Some PF fans consider it to be their single greatest song. I don't quite consider it a song (there's not enough singing on it for that), but aside from that I might agree. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thor 7,508 Posted March 21 Share Posted March 21 It's an amazing track (and yes, not really a song). I was thrilled when Gary Marlowe referenced the iconic "submarine ping sound" of it in his brilliant score for EVERYTHING WILL CHANGE -- one of my top 3 scores in 2022. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A24 4,338 Posted March 21 Share Posted March 21 54 minutes ago, Marian Schedenig said: I don't quite consider it a song (there's not enough singing on it for that), but aside from that I might agree. I prefer Side A. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thor 7,508 Posted April 5 Share Posted April 5 The 2008 Nokia studio album version, not the retail version (which is more like a compilation). Beautiful and atmospheric stuff, and the only non-film album by Rahman that I own at this point. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naïve Old Fart 9,537 Posted April 5 Share Posted April 5 "Nokia"? They have their own record label? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thor 7,508 Posted April 5 Share Posted April 5 30 minutes ago, Naïve Old Fart said: "Nokia"? They have their own record label? He, he, no. If I remember correctly, the initial album was a bonus when you bought a certain Nokia model. Don't know if it was physical CD or in-app, like the infamous U2 album that came freely with the iTunes(?) app some years ago. Naïve Old Fart 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A24 4,338 Posted April 5 Share Posted April 5 So today it has been 30 years ago since Curt 'Nirvana' Cobain died?! 30 years ago?!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thor 7,508 Posted April 5 Share Posted April 5 17 minutes ago, A24 said: So today it has been 30 years ago since Curt 'Nirvana' Cobain died?! 30 years ago?!! Yes, it's crazy. But I remember it well. Not because I was a fan (I hated Nirvana and grunge in general), but because there was such a buzz around high school at the time. A few kids even wore black arm ribbons that day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,369 Posted April 5 Share Posted April 5 His name is Kurt not Curt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thor 7,508 Posted April 5 Share Posted April 5 1 hour ago, Jay said: His name is Kurt not Curt A curt reply. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A24 4,338 Posted April 5 Share Posted April 5 Funny, I always called him Curt and he never complained. GerateWohl and Naïve Old Fart 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A24 4,338 Posted April 6 Share Posted April 6 Today 50 years ago ABBA won the Eurovision Song Contest with Waterloo. And, believe it or not, Belgium gave exactly zero points, even though the song is about a Belgian town . GerateWohl and Tom Guernsey 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thor 7,508 Posted April 6 Share Posted April 6 1 hour ago, A24 said: Today 50 years ago ABBA won the Eurovision Song Contest with Waterloo. And, believe it or not, Belgium gave exactly zero points, even though the song is about a Belgian town . Speaking of zero points, Norway has managed to receive that on a couple of occasions. That's somehow an accomplishment in itself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GerateWohl 4,370 Posted April 6 Share Posted April 6 3 hours ago, Thor said: Speaking of zero points, Norway has managed to receive that on a couple of occasions. That's somehow an accomplishment in itself. I think, in the meantime Germany is better at getting 0 points. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A24 4,338 Posted April 6 Share Posted April 6 That's an honor these days. Naïve Old Fart 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naïve Old Fart 9,537 Posted April 13 Share Posted April 13 Yes, Alex, and it's an honour that GB has had, several times - and well deservedly so. LOVE, in DTS 5.1, thank you very much. What the Martins did on this, is nothing short of astonishing. I know that there are two-channel purists, and I respect that. I also know that there are those who say: "You don't mess with The Beatles", and I respect that also, but I really like what they've done. If George Martin was the 5th Beatle, does that make Giles Martin the 6th? Oops! Gotta go. I'm coming up to the brilliant 'Tomorrow Never Knows'/'Within Without You' mashup. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Penna 3,694 Posted April 14 Share Posted April 14 Ah, time for my yearly trawl though Europe's cheesiest songs. Last year's was a huge haul but I've sampled this year's crop and not much is sticking out except Austria and Norway. However, I'm always looking for that melodic hook, while I think a lot of traditional fans are just looking for something fun and silly. Also songs such San Marino's, where the vocals are annoying but the instrumental is interesting. Unfortunately our entry, while not as absurdly awful as a few (looking at you, Scooch) is not doing anything for me at all so I just hope we can avoid the murky, discarded depths of null point. I wish we didn't have to deal with the Ukraine situation a few years ago (and the associated sympathy vote to give them first place) because Spaceman was an awesome song that should've won. (and song-wise, way better than whatever it was that Ukraine had) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jurassic Shark 12,079 Posted April 14 Share Posted April 14 There's a thread for this. Richard Penna 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bollemanneke 3,349 Posted April 14 Share Posted April 14 Question: I'm looking to buy Flashpoint by the Rolling Stones, but am I correct in saying that, for some stupid reason, a complete album was never released? They seem to have recorded more stuff that was only released as b-sides, whatever those are. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naïve Old Fart 9,537 Posted April 14 Share Posted April 14 25 minutes ago, bollemanneke said: Question: I'm looking to buy Flashpoint by the Rolling Stones, but am I correct in saying that, for some stupid reason, a complete album was never released? They seem to have recorded more stuff that was only released as b-sides, whatever those are. FLASHPOINT is a live album. It documents (in part) the Steel Wheels/Urban Jungle tour. The full concert can be found on STEEL WHEELS LIVE, released in 2000. bollemanneke 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marian Schedenig 8,200 Posted April 14 Share Posted April 14 The Flashpoint album has two extra non-live tracks, but aside from that, as Fart explained, it's compiled from live performances of existing songs. Of course, with the Stones, you could always add multiple discs of extra tracks from live concerts or discarded studio material, but as far as I'm aware, the album as presented is in no way "incomplete". Naïve Old Fart 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bollemanneke 3,349 Posted April 14 Share Posted April 14 But it still seems to be missing Play with Fire, which Wikipedia says was recorded too. Naïve Old Fart 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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