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Fixing a hole

Garden gnomes who was the biggest influence on their music?

Five Years same album Moonage Daydream v It ain't easy

Meeting

Can you think of any bands where their name comes from the title of a song, or lyrics from a song. It doesn’t have to be where they actually took their name. Here are a few of the top of my head: Motorhead - a song by Hawkwind Radiohead - a song by Talking Heads Deacon Blue - a song by Steely Dan Madness - a song by Prince Buster

I don’t know many female guitarists apart from Joan Jett, Sheryl Crow and Chrissie Hynde and PJ Harvey. I am sure there must be loads, I just don't seem to know that many. Do you have any favourite female guitarists? Which ones have made a great contribution to music over the years?

Not sure if this has been done before, but anyway here goes...... Can you list the 7 albums through your life (so far) that show the changes in your musical likes? They don’t have to be the best or the most famous albums, just the ones that were personal to you. America - America. When I was quite young I loved acoustic guitar music, and this album was great for that and its melodies. I just couldn’t get enough of “A Horse with no name”. Hey, I was young. This was the first record I ever bought with my pocket money, and I still have it. George Martin (Beatles) produced a few of their albums, and it shows. Beatles - Sgt Pepper’s Lonely hearts club band. When I went to college some of my first grant cash went on this album. I had heard about it, but now I owned it. It just made me feel great, most of the songs I hadn’t heard before but I felt like I knew them. Still sounds as good today, and is still voted one of the best albums of all times in polls. It would be many years before I would own all their albums. David Bowie - Ziggy Stardust and the spiders from mars. I liked Bowie the first time I heard Starman, but now I could afford to buy some of his albums, and this was my first choice. Not a single bad song on it. I still own the LP, but it’s all scratched due to the thousands of times I played it. Recently bought the CD version. I could have listed lots of his as I own a good few, but this one had the most impact. Pink Floyd - Dark side of the moon. I heard this at a friend’s house, and I was blown away. Went out and bought it the next day. Another album that sounds great from start to finish, if you put it on, you have to listen to the complete album. This was really my first album that was not “chart type” music. A big sea change for me. Blondie - Plastic Letters. First time I heard this, my music tastes changed away from the Beatles, Pink Floyd, 10CC etc, it was me starting to like new wave and then new romantic & electronic music. Human League - Dare. One of my favourite albums of all time, I think from 1981 to 1982 I must have played it 3 or 4 times a week, every week. Love every track. This led me to find similar artists like Ultravox, Soft Cell, Duran Duran, XTC, Japan etc. The Smiths - The Sound of (greatest hits). How did I miss them in the 1980’s, but somehow I did. However since rediscovering them a couple of years ago, I can now appreciate it second time around, and I would place it in my top 10 albums I own. Although I bought a few in the 1980/1990 and 2000’s, they didn’t really change my developing music taste. I think it only does that when you are younger, but maybe I’m wrong. If you don’t buy albums then singles will do just as well.

1 - A Town Called Malice / Precious JAM.....Always a bit partial to the Jam, liked this one 2 3 Golden Brown STRANGLERS....I know its a bit slow, but just something I liked about this 3 2 Oh Julie SHAKIN' STEVENS....never got him either 4 1 The Model / Computer Love KRAFTWERK....this was rather good though 5 5 Dead Ringer For Love MEAT LOAF....Liked his Bat out of hell phase, but this was a song too far 6 6 Maid Of Orleans ORCHESTRAL MANOEUVRES IN THE DARK....Got the album, so I liked it 7 7 Arthur's Theme (Best That You Can Do) CHRISTOPHER CROSS....garbage 8 29 The Lion Sleeps Tonight TIGHT FIT....appalling :puke2: 9 4 The Land Of Make Believe BUCKS FIZZ....mmmm, can take it or leave it 10 9 Drowning In Berlin MOBILES....now this was a good one 11 27 I Can't Go For That (No Can Do) DARYL HALL & JOHN OATES....liked some of their stuff 12 36 Love Plus One HAIRCUT 100....ok pop 13 12 Easier Said Than Done SHAKATAK....nah 14 8 Get Down On It KOOL AND THE GANG.....absolutely nah 15 13 Waiting For A Girl Like You FOREIGNER.....no no no 16 10 Being Boiled HUMAN LEAGUE....sound quality was a biy iffy, but liked the song nevertheless 17 15 Senses Working Overtime XTC.....can't go wrong with this band :cheer: 18 20 Say Hello Wave Goodbye SOFT CELL....another one I have the album, good track 19 11 I'll Find My Way Home JON AND VANGELIS :puke2: 20 23 I Just Wanna (Spend Some Time With You) ALTON EDWARDS 21 18 Don't Walk Away FOUR TOPS 22 14 Let's Get It Up AC/DC 23 21 Never Give Up On A Good Thing GEORGE BENSON 24 16 Mirror Mirror (Mon Amour) DOLLAR 25 19 I Wanna Be A Winner BROWN SAUCE 26 - Centrefold J. GEILS BAND 27 17 I Could Be Happy ALTERED IMAGES....loved Claire Grogan :wub: 28 22 Don't You Want Me HUMAN LEAGUE....yes it has been overplayed, but still a good song 29 41 Fool If You Think It's Over ELKIE BROOKS 30 34 Theme From 'Hill Street Blues' MIKE POST & LARRY CARLTON 31 26 Here Is The News / Ticket To The Moon ELECTRIC LIGHT ORCHESTRA 32 44 Landslide OLIVIA NEWTON-JOHN 33 33 Listen STIFF LITTLE FINGERS 34 24 Yellow Pearl PHIL LYNOTT 35 37 Trouble LINDSEY BUCKINGHAM 36 42 Mirror Mirror DIANA ROSS 37 - Turn Up The Night BLACK SABBATH 38 31 European Son JAPAN....ok 39 64 Mickey TONI BASIL.....irritatingly catchy 40 - See You DEPECHE MODE ....not bad

1. Elaine Paige & Barbara Dickson - I Know Him So Well....hated it then hate it now :puke2: 2. King - Love And Pride....liked it at the time, with his spray painted doc martins :D and his big hair,he was bald when he used to present his music videos on MTV about 5 to 10 years ago :D 3. Ashford & Simpson - Solid....least said 4. Bruce Springsteen - Dancing In The Dark....have heard a lot worse than this 5. Foreigner - I Want To Know What Love Is....at least this version is better than Mariah (s)carey's, but only just :lol: 6. Prince - 1999/Little Red Corvette....liked both tarcks, but 1999 seems so dated now 7. Howard Jones - Things Can Only Get Better....ok pop 8. Russ Abbot - Atmosphere....can't say anything about this, oh well ok, crap 9. Art Of Noise - Close (To The Edit)....this was good 10. Kirsty MacColl - A New England.....liked her version 11. Bryan Adams - Run To You....not bad for him 12. Phil Collins - Sussudio....another one that was ok 13. Colourfield - Thinking Of You....a bit wet 14. David Bowie & Pat Metheny Group - This Is Not America....super song, should have been a bigger hit 15. Billy Ocean - Loverboy 16. Tears For Fears - Shout.....I was a big fan of their early stuff 17. Commodores - Nightshift 18. Strawberry Switchblade - Since Yesterday....catchy pop song 19. Dead Or Alive - You Spin Me Round (Like A Record)....all time classic, but a bit overplayed 20. Chicago - You're The Inspiration....nope 21. Big Sound Authority - This House....I remember this one, quite liked it 22. Pat Benatar - We Belong....not bad 23. Madonna - Like A Virgin....probably one of her best 24. Killing Joke - Love Like Blood 25. James Ingram & Michael McDonald - Yah Mo B There :puke2: 26. Smiths - How Soon Is Now....sheer class 27. Amii Stewart - Friends 28. Sharpe & Numan - Change Your Mind 29. Imagination - Thank You My Love 30. Cashmere - Can I 31. George Benson - 20/20 32. Ray Parker Jnr - Ghostbusters....killed by Jedward, RIP :arrr: 33. Wham! - Everything She Wants/Last Christmas 34. Eugene Wilde - Personality 35. Chaka Khan - This Is My Night 36. Kool & The Gang - Misled 37. Grandmaster Melle Mel & The Furious Five - Step Off (Part 1) 38. Band Aid - Do They Know It's Christmas 39. Don Henley - The Boys Of Summer 40. Limit - Say Yeah

Ballad of John and Yoko

The muppets (he filled in for animal, when he was having a bad day) Where was the destination for the song "Ticket to ride" ?

Lester, Richard

Ziggy Stardust Yet more Star v Suffragette City

Happy Birthday Scott, you'll soon be as old as some of us :D

sisters

Kooks 2 famous people from the same album Andy Warhol v Song for Bob Dylan

Well their original title "Rubber Johnie" was banned :lol: why did American fans burn their Beatle albums in the mid '60's?

Hammersmith Odeon

Waterfalls

When the Australian band Men at Work sang the lyric "Do you come from a land down under? Where women glow and men plunder?" it is unlikely they expected said plundering would haunt them. The federal court in Sydney ruled today that the group's best-known track Down Under plagiarised a campfire song about the penchant of a native bird, the kookaburra, for eating gum drops and counting monkeys, written more than 70 years ago by the late Marion Sinclair, a teacher and girl guide leader. Men at Work's 1983 hit – which tells the story of an Australian backpacker's trip around the world – reached number 1 in the Australian, UK and US charts in the 1980s and was played at the closing ceremony of the 2000 Sydney Olympics. The court ordered that compensation should be paid by Men at Work's songwriters Colin Hay and Ron Strykert, and by the band's record companies Sony BMG Music Entertainment and EMI Songs Australia, to Larrikin Music, the company which owns the rights to Kookaburra Sits in the Old Gum Tree. "I have come to the view that the flute riff in Down Under … replicates in material form a substantial part of Ms Sinclair's work," the federal court justice Peter Jacobson said. The parties will reconvene in court on 25 February to work out an agreement. Larrikin Music's lawyer, Adam Simpson, said outside court the company may seek up to 60% of the royalties earned by Down Under, an amount that could total millions. Kookaburra Sits in the Old Gum Tree was penned by Sinclair in 1932. She reportedly introduced it at a world scouting jamboree in Victoria in 1934, and it quickly spread among guiding associations. Men at Work lead singer Hay told ABC News that the flautist Greg Ham used two bars from Kookaburra, but said the flute bits were added to Down Under after it was composed. "When it was written, there was no Men At Work," he said. "There was no flute in the band at all and so when you talk about Down Under, that's what Down Under is to me. I'll go to my grave knowing Down Under is an original piece of work. "When I wrote that with Ron, we took nothing from anybody and it was a musical accident that happened." Source: The Guardian Funny thing about this is , Down Under was released in 1983, now 27 years later thay decide it copies part of an old song, why such a long wait. Surely if it copies it now, it did in 1983.

Bewley Brothers Sticking with this great album Changes v Oh! You pretty things

Wings over Breast (if your eating a turkey :D ) Why was the Submarine in the song "yellow"

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Fab Four

The Draw was made at lunch time today, England & Wales in the same group. Euro 2012 qualifying draw: GROUP A: Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Belgium, Austria, Turkey, Germany GROUP B: Andorra, Armenia, Macedonia, Republic of Ireland, Slovakia, Russia GROUP C: Faroes, Estonia, Slovenia, NORTHERN IRELAND, Serbia, Italy GROUP D: Luxembourg, Albania, Belarus, Bosnia, Romania, France GROUP E: San Marino, Moldova, Hungary, Finland, Sweden, Netherlands GROUP F: Malta, Georgia, Latvia, Israel, Greece, Croatia GROUP G: Montenegro, WALES, Bulgaria, Switzerland, ENGLAND GROUP H: Iceland, Cyprus, Norway, Denmark, Portugal GROUP I: Liechtenstein, Lithuania, SCOTLAND, Czech Republic, Spain