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Friday, November 7, 2008 at 10:33PM Second and final choice for the week....! A number to relax and unwind to...
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Brilliant stuff !
Hank Williams and now Joey Ramone. Different ends of the musical spectrum but both legends sadly departed from us.
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You are eclectic, David.
I absolutely can't stand The Ramones. You can't do either of the two fundamental things that music demands - dance, either vertically or horizontally.
God’s teeth David. What can I say?
I’m rejuvenated after my lengthy post at 11.53 and feel like I’m fourteen years of age again!, [saw them in ’81 in the Ulster hall.]
What can be said to better The Ramones? Both Sid Vicious s and The Undertones favourite band
Hey Ho Let’s Go!!
David
I much prefer this.
Before I was born of course.
You people have awful taste in music.
Or even this
Really, awful, terrible taste in music. All of you.
Man, that crap makes my ears hurt.
Who raised you people?
Ha ha! Don't knock the Ramones too hard, Daphne.
True, you can't "dance horizontally" to their music, if I get your meaning there! But it has to be acknowledged that it was USA bands such as the Velvet Underground, who provided the mood and ambience, and then the Ramones/New York Dolls who provided the sheer amphetamine rush, which, once the two elements were blended together, became the inspiration for the UK punk scene of the late 70's.
I don't really rate the Ramones musically, they were just a "won, two, free, foaar" pub-rock band with very little subtlety to their songs. But they had an energy. British bands listened to that raw USA energy, and they fused it with the stark, brutal honesty of LP's such as 1967's "Velvet Underground and Nico", and from out of that fusion of styles, wonderfully inspired music such as that of Joy Division was borne.
"It was USA bands such as the Velvet Underground, who provided the mood and ambience, and then the Ramones/New York Dolls who provided the sheer amphetamine rush, which, once the two elements were blended together, became the inspiration for the UK punk scene of the late 70's."
Wont disagree there Tom 'cept to say that Patti Smith and The Tubes may also have had a Yank :-0 influence on the Brit Punk movement,[and it was a movement!!].
Pub Rock?
Ahh Tom. Surely you're showing your Eddie & The Hotrods, Dr Feelgood, Lurkers age for a bygone era :0)
Hmmm... OK, I liked "Prime Time" by the Tubes, other than that I can't say (I was only a kid at the time!)
Dr Feelgood though....I liked their late 70's hits, such as "Long as the Price is right". Pub-rock, by all means, yet I wouldn't wanna mess with Feelgood's singer, somehow. He's the sort Mark E Smith of The Fall meant when he wrote "I'm the sort who gets up out of a bath with a dirty face"!