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“I got bored of “bands ” in the 90s”
Boy! Have you missed a lot!
Certainly in the indie (in its true meaning) and underground scene, in my opinion. Bands don’t really crack the charts now, and those that do tend to be over-produced like their pop compatriots. See Imagine Dragons, quite possibly the blandest band in history. Fitting when so much of the charts are bland singer-songwriters like Sheeran, the worse George Ezra and Tom Walker or singers screaming their lungs to convey emotion over a dull synthetic beat and annoying grime music about how flash their car is and how many women they attract.
All a matter of opinion, but the charts is so bad. Some might say it was always this way, but in the past gems became household names, even if they weren’t all initially well known, like Bowie, Iggy Pop etc.
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On a musical note … how’s this for some gallows humour. Some of you will know that I was in hospital a couple of days ago for an op. I was on the slab waiting for anaesthetic to kick in. There was some v bland .. supposedly soothing music playing … so I asked the surgeon if it was the anaesthetists choice. The surgeon was a chirpy, confident type … entertaining the nurses etc as he prepared. So his response to me was ‘What. Don’t you like it? OK. Someone put on ‘Another one bites the dust!!’ Now THAT’S edgy. I actually laughed at the cheek of it. I thought afterwards … if it went wrong I could have sued. …. But then, who would know?
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DM, I’ve a soft spot for Lisa S. too, after seeing her at a warm-up gig in a small club in London, prior to a tour a few years back. Renditions of all her big songs were faithful to the originals and sung from the heart, but ‘Change’ brought the house down, with loyal fans singing along like they wanted to be on stage themselves…
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Enjoyed that SAS Rogue Heroes drama. They missed a trick not including bits of this in it though. Prog / punk rock.
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