Pick one record

[gamble]

I have so many songems but but in my search came across this catchy little numba from 63 which I had long forgotten and found rather intriguing.
She did eventually sort out the microphone cord but some magic there.
The taming of the shrew
couldn’t get any better and post battles.
BUT WHO WINS ?
( I don’t like to do it but I have edited part of gamble’s late night ramble but have to admit they are a remarkably talented couple and I am rather smitten and she reminds me of one of the dark haired actresses in Peyton place, and in some ways they are superior to Burton and Taylor and there’s more than one song so you really get your money’s worth. They are on a roll and this is good armchair stuff and full of variety and nostalgia. I think the late Roy Hudd would approve and well worth hanging on for her solo rendition of Strangers in the night (sorry Frank) and a possible hologram tour in the not far distant ?
Who they are actually escapes me – but it doesn’t seem to matter

[gamble]

DEEP PURPLE LYRICS

Whoa whoa-ho-ho, whoa-ho-ho, whoa-ho-ho
When the deep purple falls over sleepy garden walls
And the stars begin to twinkle in the night
In the mist of a memory you wander all back to me
Breathing my name with a sigh
In the still of the night once again I hold you tight
Though you’re gone, your love lives on when moonlight beams
And as long as my heart will beat, sweet lover, we’ll always meet
Here in my deep purple dreams

Sorry to paste the lyrics but they are so fetching and worthy of a ganda. I couldn’t understand why they sort of sung independently of one another like Frank and Nancy Sinatra did
Well I found out they were brother and sister so a little bit risque if they had flashed eyes. Apparently she convinced her brother to lie about their ages to make themselves appear younger. He agreed. They are both alive – she is 93 and in the Niagra Falls and she wrote her autobiography in 2013 at 82 – I think that is pretty splash cool.
I am spending half an hour tonight rewatching the deceit with a different eye. I suggest you do too – they are fresh and they are free.
Apologies….

p.s. They are a new discovery for me – don’t seem to remember them at all – gamble evidently does.

pps. When I first saw this thread I also had a Stevie Wonder song in mind just like Clive. I could put up so many just like Matron.

[TheKryptonFactor]

Like many in this thread, I find this an impossible question to properly answer. I’m a big fan of Frightened Rabbit (the band, not Dianne Sayer’s charge). However, I only got into them after Scott’s death a bit like Ginge getting into Joy Division after Ian Curtis went.

If forced to nominate one record, I’d go for ‘Since Before Our Time’ by an obscure American band called Wolves & Machines. A good friend of mine, who really broadened my horizons with respect to music taste, introduced me to them 3 or so years ago. This is the closing track on the album, and one of my favourites.

[homersimpson]

I don’t remember Deep Purple doing that one.

Also impossible for me to pick just one.

[Illavim]

What a great topic! Like several others, i find it impossible to just pick one record, so many great records and my favourite changes with my mood, wonderful to see what a cultured lot the TRFers are.
I’m mostly in the punk/post punk/indie 80s camp too, eg Another Girl, Another Planet (The Only Ones), My Favourite Dress, (Wedding Present), There Is a Light That Never Goes Out (Smiths), Temptation (New Order), but also love old Tamla and Ska and Reggae, too many tracks to mention. Like many others, John Peel was a guiding light for many years and introduced me to so much fantastic music (eg Ivor Cutler and some weird song that i only remember being about Fish heads ???).
On the arty side, like a couple of other posters here, had not really ‘got’ Tracy Emin or Francis Bacon until finding out more about them and seeing documentaries about them which really changed my perspective on them and their work. Favourite artists probably 20th century British, particularly St Ives School, but like with music there is so much to appreciate out there, just keep an open mind!

[clivexx]

Ah the st Ives school. Barbara Hepworth was quite something. Winifred Nicholson far more talented (imo) than her insanely jealous husband ben

I also have a taste for the unique Stanley spencer

No one got the best live act in uk in the new waves days yet?

I still recall at the Nashville and marquee when a crap act was on waiting for the first plastic beer glass (often half full) t9 be chucked. Sort of giggling waiting for it. Then the avalanche. But with this act NEVER

They were solid convey island geezers you wouldn’t mess with not wimpy art students. And dynamite

Anyone got it yet?

[clivexx]

Live acts at that time were very mixed. I had tickets for the clash in Harlesden over three nights out of seven I think. And each time they were a bit crap. Harlesden was an absolute dangerous dump at that time too. What am I doing here ? They Tried hard but a mess

One wonderful act had a single big hit that referenced driving and a very engraving campaigning front man. Very big for a brief period

Any guesses ?

[Drone]

Eddie and the Hot Rods?

Good stuff:

[clivexx]

Very very close drone. I saw Eddie and the hot rods In Hounslow of all,places. They were fabulous. And there is a genuine case that that great hit single was the very first of the so called new wave.

You are very near but not quite

Another band were on every night somewhere. I must have seen them because I bought their single on week of release but like a many gigs I don’t recall if I was there They were on at the half moon Putney, Nashville and marquee endlessly. It was a sort of standing joke. They seeemed destined to be permenantly on the cicuit for life Their classic first single was the perfect homage to pub rock

Within a few years they were arguably the biggest band in the world. Guesses?

Also talking about circuit for life. There was a country/rock act well established in the mid seventies and known to be very well liked by all. Hank wangford. They were always at the half Moon putney

And they were there last week. Still going

[gamble]

As I have just completed a non existent breakfast I would rather appropriately like to chip in with The Jam.

[clivexx]

No it wasn’t the Woking boys gamble. They never conquered the world like that band

But they did release the finest single of the era imo. This is so atmospheric. Everyone just loved this without question

[clivexx]

Drone. I have to move on for the day and because you were so close I’ll divulge it. They predated punk and new wave and were completely their own men. It was bloody hard to get into their gigs because they were the best by miles. Thing is everyone wanted to see them. Soul boys teds punks the lot. They were just that good

My mate booked the lead guitarist who had a manic genius about him at Birmingham university and said he was by the far nicest guy he had met in the music business but that might not be saying much

Down to earth essex geezers.

[Drone]

I nearly suggested Sham 69 but have a feeling they were middle-class boys from Surrey slumming it

Dr Feelgood, yes, a fine group. Wilko Johnson was the unique lead guitarist who you aptly describe as manic

I have their live ‘Stupidity’ album which contains the great single ‘Roxette’ :

[gamble]

Pass the Jam back please and shame you revealed the XX menu so quickly – I was thinking the Police, one of whom lives in Putney or Dr Feelgood. I used to trot along to the Hope and Anchor in Islington in the 70s and watched quite a few punk heroes of old. I missed the Police and Joy Division. Only reason I went was it was relatively cheap about 50-80 pence. The established bands I could never afford just wish I had seen Cream ( might have been a free concert ) and the Stones. As for Deep Purple ( I remember black night ) they played at some smaller venues but again my purse rebelled.
Tickets were not easy to get for Bowie at the Croydon venue. I was registered in Sane after 1972 !

[clivexx]

Yeo wilko was the guy. I still say that my mate stuffing joy division over the fee was why ian curtis topped himself. The timing was spot on but my mate denies it to this day. You wouldn’t stiff the feelgoods though

I didn’t like sham. I saw them at a gig in Kingston and it was the most terrifying night ever. Hundreds of skins came down and it was a nonstop riot. I loathed skins and to his credit jimmy pursey did too. I seem to recall that it all drove him to a nervous breakdown

Knew a few people that knew him well and as it happens hersham where he came from was anything but middle class. Other side of sandown park semi industrial area and he was as down to earth as anyone in that scene. The clash were the genuine posh middle class band

[clivexx]

Police is a good call but they didn’t play in London much. Although I think the marquee was quite the place for them

This band were at a venue every night. Small
Pubs too

Dire Straits

Hope and anchor. A famous famous venue

I once saw the Cure at isleworth poly and there were six of us in the audience

[Matron]

@clivexx

You should enjoy this from Southend live recording:

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