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11 Oct 2009

whats the oldest / and or dodgiest music you like?

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Posted By : Rob Redfern, Black Rose,more flange..and more cowbell.. | Comments : 33

we often listen to music older than our years, what do you like and whats your guilty pleasure music

and dont forget to split what you say into

the oldest music you like and

dodgyest music

unless the one you mention is both!!

for me for quite a long vintage its probably the Shadows,first song i learnt to play was Apache, watched Summer Holiday on TV the other week, Hank is still so so cool!!!!!!!!!

and i really like classic Motown songs, a lot of that music is before i was even born, great music is timeless

and i love in a huge huge way Creedence clearwater Revival and the Beatles that music stretches far far back but will last a long long time

Andy Williams how many good songs has he sung on?, cool guy as well

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dodgy / guilty pleasure music

come on heres a chance to put you "cool" reputation the line and have a laugh at some of the guff you may listen to..

where do i begin

but these are pretty dodgy for a rocker.................

George Michael , some of the ballads are great ................Jesus to a child.Father Figure great toons, what a voice!!

80s pop, love all those 80s pop cheese anthems,

my Mrs has got some A-ha stuff and what a great pop band

ABBA got brought up on ABBA not my fault, great superbly crafted melodic pop music

and tough to admit for a rocker those 90's dance anthems, Rhythm is a dancer, ride on time etc etc great music

Comments

# Posted by Scott - Metalleeka - 11/10/2009, 22:34 (GMT)

BREAKING NEWS!!!!!

Metalleeka looking for new lead guitarist

:-D

# Posted by SKP - 11/10/2009, 22:36 (GMT)

haha! what can of worms have you opened here!!
Trad Jazz all the way for me, Chris Barber, Acker Bilk, Kenny Ball etc..
Then gotta be motown - though too many classic atrists here to choose

# Posted by Rob Redfern, Black Rose,more f... - 11/10/2009, 22:37 (GMT)

careful there scott we know how people misinterpret stuff on here

thats if youre joking

ps people youre not allowed to comment on this blog unless you put some of your own favourite vintage/dodgy music listing

over to you Scott, and remember ive seen the contents of your Ipod, that Austin Powers style, "thats not mine!!" answer will not wash..

Rob (thinke he's Kirk Hammett Now) Redfern

# Posted by Keef - 11/10/2009, 22:41 (GMT)

This one is a real problem. Not many muso's older than me and still around.

Etta James/BB King and Muddy Waters and from a somewhat earlier era, Mussorgsky,Elgar,Chopin.

Dodgy? Has to be (OOOOOH S**t there goes me rep) The Nolans and David Essex. Had to listen to them every sunday bloody morning whilst my then better half prepared Lunch) Found meself singing along sometimes. Aaaaaaargh the shame of it !

# Posted by Rob Redfern, Black Rose,more f... - 11/10/2009, 22:43 (GMT)

number one the week i was born was "hold me Close" by David Essex, the horror

i looked it up on one of those fancy new internet jukeboxes

# Posted by nothing - 11/10/2009, 22:49 (GMT)

Absoluteley love 'mahavishnu Orchestra' (Early 70's with John Mcglaughlan on guitar) and er.......Adam Ant...(Kings of the wild frontier is just Fantastic).

Kev.

# Posted by Scott - Metalleeka - 11/10/2009, 22:50 (GMT)

That wasn't my Ipod Rob, er....I stole it.

OK OK OK
Confession time

I was raised hearing nothing but The Beach Boys and ABBA

So, unwittingly, I find myself singing along whenever their songs come on.

Talking about ABBA, I got out of the shower today and with my hair and tash I wouldn't have looked out of place in ABBA , or a German porn movie pmsl

The wife is still taking the piss 12 hours later

# Posted by viking - 11/10/2009, 22:51 (GMT)

gulp-here goes- dolly parton-"jolene", don williams-"i recall a gypsy woman", bobby gentry-"ode to billy joe"- i'll go and have me horlicks now, i think!! :-0

# Posted by Bad Horsie (Mick) - 11/10/2009, 22:53 (GMT)

I love Classical, especially Paganini etc.

I like Madrigals and Plainsong.

I also prefer the Big Band sound to anything from the 50s

# Posted by The Cottonhouse Shakers - 11/10/2009, 22:57 (GMT)

Oldest - (classical and traditional folk music aside) Django Reinhardt, Woodie Guthrie, Lonnie Johnson (all 1920's)

Guilty pleasures - Boney M, Doctor Hook, The Wurzels

# Posted by Rob Redfern, Black Rose,more f... - 11/10/2009, 22:58 (GMT)

damn yeah forgot classical, gotta be Barbers Adagio for strings,(the music at the start of the Platoon movie, love it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

# Posted by G-IT-22 - 11/10/2009, 23:15 (GMT)

Paganini(good violinist-great guitar workout) Wagner(mind the politics) Tcaikovsky.....Beatles of course ..nearly 50 years old ...T Rex................and i listen to alot of country stuff 9is that dodgy??) Mary chapin Carpenter,Trisha Yearwood etc ..great guitar stuff .........and of course the Mighty Quo....

# Posted by Duke Bocks - 11/10/2009, 23:36 (GMT)

this is quickly becoming the basis for the set list of my new cheezy venture..lol

# Posted by Bad Horsie (Mick) - 11/10/2009, 23:38 (GMT)

"# Posted by MinIm - 11/10/2009, 23:36 (GMT)

this is quickly becoming the basis for the set list of my new cheezy venture..lol"

If you can incorporate Lullaby of Broadway complete with Flappers you will be my hero for life. 8o)

# Posted by Duke Bocks - 11/10/2009, 23:40 (GMT)

I dont intend dressing as a frogman !!!...oh...flappers !!..oops

# Posted by Duke Bocks - 11/10/2009, 23:43 (GMT)

ok Mick ..its in the set list..now...c'mon along and listen to...

# Posted by NIGHT TRAIN - 11/10/2009, 23:44 (GMT)

I really like old music hall songs! Downloaded a bucketful a few years ago...all scratchy and hissy and with really 'old' sounding voices...if you know what I mean
Also listen to Palestrina a lot!
Dodgy..well...I once got reluctantly taken to a Gary Glitter concert and thought it was shit hot!Also really go for them 50's and 60's country and western stuff..Roy Acuff, Bill Monroe etc etc...cheesier the lyrics, the better LOL

# Posted by Duke Bocks - 11/10/2009, 23:49 (GMT)

Alec..ever heard one called "Don't Ang our Arry" ?..had it on a tape that got mixed up with mine from a club I used to work at..was bloody hilarious!

# Posted by Bad Horsie (Mick) - 11/10/2009, 23:52 (GMT)

"# Posted by MinIm - 11/10/2009, 23:43 (GMT)

ok Mick ..its in the set list..now...c'mon along and listen to..."

Good man. 8o)

# Posted by DAKOTA - 12/10/2009, 00:14 (GMT)

George Formby for me

HE HE ! Turned out nice again Yah motherfucker

# Posted by Coldplayer - 12/10/2009, 00:39 (GMT)

I properly love La Isla Bonita by Madonna.

# Posted by Steve Dixon (The Subliminals) - 12/10/2009, 01:00 (GMT)

oldest recording artist i listen to is Al Bowlly, who was a 30's crooner... 'Hang Out The Stars in Indiana' was used on the 'Withnail and I' soundtrack, and I just liked the sound of it... very evocative and strange and distant... it brings up all kinds of daydreams and imagery about what popular music was before rock'n'roll changed everything

you can't headbang to Al Bowlly... it's more like leafing through a dusty old photo album

oldest composer... probably Bach (JS, not JC)

# Posted by Big Drummer Boy - 12/10/2009, 01:28 (GMT)

winnifred atwell

# Posted by Rob Redfern, Black Rose,more f... - 12/10/2009, 13:54 (GMT)

yep Marguerita Time and Burning Bridges by Quo, i like those songs i have to admit, although they only play the 2nd one live

# Posted by Unfinished Business - 12/10/2009, 17:45 (GMT)

I have a few very old blues songs.
John Brim doing the original version of Ice Cream Man, covered in later years by Van Halen.
I have a Bay City Rollers c.d. in my collection. I still love Bye Bye Baby.
David Cassidy was another favourite whilst growing up. The Last Kiss from the 80's album Romance is a classic. An ex girlfriend was into Barry Manilow, and we went to see him at wembley many years ago. Oh the shame of it all.

# Posted by Duke Bocks - 12/10/2009, 18:13 (GMT)

Im still writing this down :0)

# Posted by Sandwich Slayer - 12/10/2009, 18:46 (GMT)

Some of the oldest I listen to is John Lee Hooker. Old and slightly dodgy too is The Incredible String Band; acoustic guitars and hippy type vocals but brilliant lyrics and sometimes funny. Not so old but dodgy to most is Duran Duran, the first album is great. And from what I read on here and hear in general, Oasis are dodgy but I like them too.

# Posted by 'BLUE SLICKERS' - 12/10/2009, 20:23 (GMT)

"you can't headbang to Al Bowlly" would make a grand album title...

# Posted by THE STIG - 12/10/2009, 20:24 (GMT)

i absolutely love the platters, blame my dad for that, and big band swing,always wanted to play in a big band dance swing band, ah well, back to the dc.

# Posted by 45's - 12/10/2009, 20:38 (GMT)

As the baby of the family with six sister and one brother - all I used to hear in our house was either Tamla Motown or Soundtracks of Musicals - and they have both stuck with me !

" Happy, happy, happy, happy talk - talk about things you like to dooo "

" Going to a-go go, la la la la hey hey "

Rick.

# Posted by 'BLUE SLICKERS' - 12/10/2009, 21:01 (GMT)

My Ma made me listen to Ella Fitzgerald and the vocal group called The ink spots for which I'm eternally grateful... also Nat King Kong (he was big in the 50's) and Matt Munro, not as pretty as his sister Marilyn but smooth as silk over the notes and boy! Could he drive that bus! Hell of a route too all the way from Russia (with love)

# Posted by Rob Redfern, Black Rose,more f... - 14/10/2009, 22:50 (GMT)

ah yes vintage music, im a severe James Bond geek, so love all the bond tunes, but From Russia with love is one of my favourites, love it

i really like old motown and soul, and Steve Cropper is one of my favourite guitarists amongst many

for dodgy music admissions, i like Shania Twains "youre still the one" good album actually, and she was married to the legendary producer Mutt Lange (who does quite a lot of backing vox on the album too

# Posted by Drum Bloke™ - that bloke that... - 16/10/2009, 12:31 (GMT)

'Pickety Witch' and before that Gregorian chant

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