Paid Members Devon Malcolm Posted September 17, 2012 Author Paid Members Share Posted September 17, 2012 My mum STILL listens to shite (Whitney Houston) and my dad isn't much better (Lighthouse Family). Their record collection is like a chamber of horrors. Pet Shop Boys were very much my own discovery, and I'm just amazed that I got through my childhood without once hearing my dad call them "Them poofs!" Â It was only recently that I realised I had reasonable taste as a kid. There were some missteps in single buying (Mike And The Mechanics, Brother Beyond) but most of the stuff I liked when I was 9 or 10 was dance like Bomb The Bass and Paul Hardcastle. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members ColinBollocks Posted September 17, 2012 Paid Members Share Posted September 17, 2012 The first CD that was purchased for me was a Disney album, it was banging. I bought Automatic For The People and Blood Sugar Sex Magik as part of a deal at the local music shop, so they are collectively my first purchases, and fine ones at that. Can't remember the first single I got, I know it was some BBC song made for a football tournament. I played it twice. Â My Mum specifically listens to rubbish. My Dad, on the other hand, has an amazing CD/vinyl collection. He's got hundreds of old vinyl records at my Grans, and some of it is really rare/special addition stuff. I was well impressed when he pulled out a Metal Box by PiL vinyl (yes, with the metal box). He was an old Punk back in his early years, but started to get into all sorts in the mid-80s. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Devon Malcolm Posted October 3, 2012 Author Paid Members Share Posted October 3, 2012 How has this happened? Especially in America?  Mumford & Sons' Babel has become the fastest selling album of the year in both the UK and the US. The group's second album sold 159,000 copies in its first week in the UK to hit No 1 on Sunday, and 600,000 copies in the US to secure them their first US chart topper.  In the US, the band also smashed Spotify's record for streams from an album in a single week. Users streamed "around eight million listens" from the album in its first seven days of release, Spotify chief content officer Ken Parks told Billboard, beating the previous record by a factor of three. According to Parks, one out of every 10 Spotify users in the US listened to a track from Babel last week. The ad-driven streaming service claims 15 million users worldwide.  Mumfords' dual success has dented the argument that subscription services cannibalise sales of CDs. Acts including Coldplay have withheld their new albums from Spotify and competitors like Rdio and Rhapsody during the week of release. Spotify has also been criticised for offering lower royalty payments to labels and artists than they would receive from album sales.  "Spotify is a huge form of exposure, and they're not stealing," Daniel Glass of Mumfords' US label Glassnote Records told the LA Times. "It's retraining people to buy music through streaming services. Could we be getting better compensation? Yes, but I'm not going to hold it back from them. That's old thinking."  http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2012/oct/0...2?newsfeed=true  This comment made me chuckle, though:-  moffifox 3 October 2012 1:00PM As if the devil spunked on a sock and it was used to inpregnate the wifes of a shit pub skiffle band.  But seriously, how has this happened? It's not just that they're fucking, fucking shit, but the type of music that they're shiteing out. Absolutely baffling on every level. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guy Bifkin Posted October 3, 2012 Share Posted October 3, 2012 They are like a GCSE music project to soundtrack a cider advert gone wrong. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators PowerButchi Posted October 3, 2012 Moderators Share Posted October 3, 2012 They've had some Country music airplay in the states, which has probably helped. Kix Brooks has been championing them on the US Country Countdown on syndicated US radio for ages.  Butch's song of the day - Man of Action - The Les Reed Orchestra  Probably be something by The Mike Sammes Singers tomorrow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Surf Digby Posted October 3, 2012 Paid Members Share Posted October 3, 2012 They're just one of those bandwagons that people jump on to show their friends that they're different. Like when everyone was suddenly into swing music, or line dancing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richie Freebird Posted October 11, 2012 Share Posted October 11, 2012 Just heard the first play of the Rolling Stones new tune. I like it. Classic Stones. It almost has a bit of Jumping Jack Flash in there at some points. Jagger sounds exactly the same as he always did. Proper rock and roll it is. Go listen to it: Doom & Gloom, it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Arch Stanton Posted October 12, 2012 Paid Members Share Posted October 12, 2012 Yeah, the new Stones tune is great.  Check this out by the Black Keys and RZA. It's from the soundtrack to The Man With The Iron Fists, which features Big Dave Batista.  Baddest Man Alive  I can definitely see myself strutting down the street with that on my iPod.  I don't condone spitting in crocodiles faces though. That's not bad, it's just a bit scummy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richie Freebird Posted October 12, 2012 Share Posted October 12, 2012 Yeah, the new Stones tune is great.Loved it on first play, but the fact that I then had to hear it a total of 5 times in that day rendered me prettty sick of it by home time! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikey Posted October 13, 2012 Share Posted October 13, 2012 It has to be said that when he's off the sauce, Ronnie Wood is a fine guitarist. It's probably the only song I've ever heard to reference "fracking" and it surprisingly works. The whole thing surprisingly works, which couldn't be said for pretty much everything they tried on A Bigger Bang.After the Paralympics catapulted Public Enemy to their biggest ever UK hit, I was discussing with somebody how I'm both pleased and dismayed that Chuck D is still going and rapping about the same stuff he was when he started out. It sounds like he has no growth in his world but the fact is that all the injustices he's rapped about in the past still exist and the worst part of it is a chunk of the formerly disenfranchised have bought into the system and turn a blind eye to the problems they face. I feel similarly about the Stones. This country's music buying is now so obsessed with "now sound" that no artist gets a chance to mature and start talking about real stuff. Instead, we get vapid, empty platitudes written by professional producers and conveyed through the autotuned mouths of average-looking young women. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richie Freebird Posted October 16, 2012 Share Posted October 16, 2012 (edited) Just heard Leona Lewis Edited October 16, 2012 by Richie Freebird Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Devon Malcolm Posted October 16, 2012 Author Paid Members Share Posted October 16, 2012 Leona Lewis always has been and always will be crap. Run was a crap cover of a crap song in the first place. She is incredibly boring and the quicker she pisses off into obscurity and doing cruise liner headlining or something, the better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeanoTheGame Posted October 16, 2012 Share Posted October 16, 2012 To be fair, she only appears one month a year during X Factor's live shows. Every year around about now she releases a shitty single and then disappears for eleven months. Â Bleeding Love was good though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Devon Malcolm Posted October 16, 2012 Author Paid Members Share Posted October 16, 2012 I couldn't remember which one of her soulless dirges that was and having just refreshed my memory on YouTube (15 seconds was more than enough) I realised that was the one that started off my hatred for her. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Fatty Facesitter Posted October 16, 2012 Paid Members Share Posted October 16, 2012 I've rediscovered a love for Electric Six. Fire is an absolute corker of an album and although no albums since have come close to it, Senor Smoke is fantastic to cruise along to down the A47. Bite me and Future Boys are absolute riots. I like how they try and use the cheapest possible synth gear and also the inherent silliness and downright vulgarity of their lyrics ("Are you ready for my bloody bloody?"). Â I imagine they don't cater for most folk's taste, but for anyone interested their touring the UK this winter and their set is basically the entire first album nearly ten years on. Smashing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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