Never hearing bands or music you’d absolutely love before you die

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I love collecting music. It’s my thing. I have way over 2,000 CDs at this point and well over 3,000 titles in all formats overall. It’s a great hobby. Relatively inexpensive and provides hours of pleasure. I’ll even go as far as saying my collection is akin to a time machine. I can play a given album and I’m immediately transported back to the time when I first played it and re-live the emotional highs and lows of what was happening in my life at that time. Music is truly a wonderful and powerful thing.

The other day I was browsing in my local used record/CD store. A guy who works there (Dave – who I didn’t know) happened to stroll past and noticed I was wearing a Gary Numan tour T-shirt. He made some comment about the ‘Holy One’ and engaged me in conversation. During our chat I learned our musical tastes overlapped to quite a degree and he mentioned a few bands I might like none of which I’d ever heard of before. Quick as you like, Dave whipped out his ‘phone and played me some clips and one in particular sounded very interesting to my ears. As luck would have it, the store had new copies of that band’s 2nd and 3rd albums in the rack. I decided to take a punt (that’s how you end up with a ton of CDs in your collection) and asked Dave of those two, which would he recommend. He suggested their third album.

An hour or so later I’m back home and ready to give my new purchase a spin. First track and I’m absolutely blown away. It’s dark, heavy, atmospheric, jangling guitar, swathes of electronics with a haunting male vocal line that repeats:

Don’t say you love
If I don’t say I love who you are now
Who are you now?

The whole album is quite exceptional. It’s a rare treat to be this mesmerised so quickly by something completely new to me. I’ve since ordered their entire back catalogue (another way you end up with a ton of CDs in your collection). Yeah, I think they’re THAT good.

My point is, I just happened to be wearing a Numan shirt, Dave the store guy just happened to walk past, noticed it and had sufficient time on his hands to stop for a chat. All of which lead to me discovering a new band I now absolutely love. If I’d worn a different shirt that day or Dave wasn’t working that day or hadn’t walked past or …. none of this would have happened. How many other bands am I not going to discover who I’d love if I heard them? I suppose it’s silly and irrational, but I find that thought sad and depressing and a bit of a cunt. Dave has over 8,000 CDs in his collection which is also a bit of a cunt. I’ll never get close to that before I peg it.

The Band: Drab Majesty
The Album: Modern Mirror
The Song: A Dialogue

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Nominated by Imitation Yank.

149 thoughts on “Never hearing bands or music you’d absolutely love before you die”

  1. There is a great desire for “tribute bands” – for the popsters faux Elvis Preistley’s for the big band lover, Glenn Miller, and in between some of the great bands of the sixties have imitators. We used to have a band called the Lovin’ Spoonfull, and I am sure you will be as delighted as I was to hear that David Lammy, Diane Abbott and Emily Thornberry have formed their band called The Lovin’ Shovelful. Their manager is a tribute act, too – Mandy Epstein.

    They will shortly be starting a UK tour which starts at the Lesbian Labour Ladies Social Club, which, as you know is in Great Queen Street. Just a pound to get in. Fifty to get out again.

    • Fun Fact: The Lovin’ Spoonful were so called because the volume of the average human ejaculate is one dessert spoonful.
      The same reason for 10CC’s name.

      I’m going to a pub quiz tonight. I hope that comes up.

      • Pub quiz question:. How many spoonfuls of spunk was pumped from Marc Almonds belly back in the 80s?

      • Good luck with your quiz Geordie. God knows how much jizz spews out of hammy Lammy’s organ – enough to drench Emily, Diane and Mandy I suppose!

    • Never seen a tribute act but there are some SᑎIGGᕮᖇ-TᗩSTIᑕ alternate-named bands around … here is a small selection (all genuine) …

      Not Chocolate
      Malice Cooper
      The Beach Bums
      The Crazy World of Arthur Beige
      Bentangle
      Long John Baldy
      9CC
      The Nude Seekers
      Jeff Lynne’s EGO
      The Boomtown Mice
      Eric and the Dominoes
      Rod Stewart and the Faeces
      Take This and That
      The Preserves (a combo of The Jam and Marmalade)
      Red Hot Chilli Pipers (bagpipes only)
      The Ian Duncan Smiths

      And lest we forget to be aware of inclusivity, Lez Zeppelin (yep, all rug-munchers).

      + many, many more.

      • You forgot The Reeves Sisters, Sam – the new streamlined Beverley Sisters – thirty stone of rythym.

      • Brilliant Sam.

        Buzzkcunts
        The Inspiral Armpits
        Dum Leppard
        Quran Quran
        Shit Bites
        Cunture Club
        The Shite Stripes
        The Moulding Bones
        Fat Lizzy
        New Whoreder
        Oarses
        Cunts ‘N’ Roses

  3. Given ISAC’s been a bit of an echo chamber about our usual favourites as of recent, this is a wholesome and most welcome cunting. Nice one!

    Cover bands can fuck off, though.

  4. Everybody collected something, but I have a stack of cash, bought 80’s and 90’s. Never listen to them. Waste of space…..

  5. I think Dave was grooming you.

    He said that to me I’d tell him to fuck off and go back behind the counter.

    I wear a t-shirt that says

    LED BLOODY ZEPPELIN
    THAT’S WHO

    Bands I’d like to of seen, hmm,
    Led Zeppelin
    Stooges
    Joy Division
    Sex pistols

    There’s loads.
    But I’m not really arsed.

    Id like to go to the Oasis reunion but only to heckle Liam and try and make him cry by shouting out

    “Parklife!”

    Between lyrics.

      • No don’t do that Odin.

        It might go to his head.

        He’s never complimented my removals skills why should I compliment his guitar playing?

        Fuck him

    • Saw Joy Division. Fucking mighty. Ian was unstoppable at his best. God rest his soul.

      Other bands I saw around that time…

      The Clash
      The Jam
      The Stranglers
      Buzzcoks
      PiL
      A Certain Ratio
      The Police
      The Damned
      Motorhead
      Dire Straits

      Never did catch the Pistols though.

      My dad was a prog fanatic. He saw Pink Floyd, ELP, Queen, Genesis, Yes, Van der Graaf Generator, Caravan. And his favourites, Jethro Tull.

      I’d have loved to have seen the following acts in their prime.

      Led Zeppelin
      Free
      Deep Purple (Mk II)
      Black Sabbath
      Thin Lizzy
      Faces
      Badfinger

      • That’s a strong list, Norm.

        I saw The Stranglers back in ’86 (ish). The one thing I clearly remember was the first several rows all leaned forward and stared intently at Hugh when he played the guitar solo for Golden Brown. Maybe to see if he if was really playing it or if he could play it live. He nailed it. I think a cheer went up when he finished.

        Seen PiL a couple of times. Not the same without Keith Levene and Wobble though.

        And being an incredibly lucky sod (for once), I saw the Sex Pistols when they reformed and toured in ’96. Saw them in Houston and it was GREAT! Loved it.

        Not sure if it’s an age thing (late 50s) or a reaction to how live shows have been ruined by younger cunts who just stand there holding up their mobile ‘phones to record the show for their fucking YT channel, but I don’t go to live gigs anymore.

  6. Most memorable song…… White Wedding / Billy Idol. Blasting out of the sound system in The Bulldog Café, Amsterdam.
    That always brings back memories.

    Best live performance…… David Bowie at The Sundown, Edmonton.

    Best opera production….. Carmen at The Earl’s Court Arena, produced by Harvey Goldsmith and performed in the round with Maria Ewing in the title role. Spectacular!

    • My most memorable song is an odd one.

      I was travelling across France to Germany with my then German girlfriend. The weather was glorious and I couldn’t belive my luck. That I was in this car with this gorgeous German girl. Lobo’s ‘Me and You and a Dog Named Boo’ came onto the car radio at that moment.

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMSnhCuQVjU

      Best live act. Joy Division at the Factory, Manchester.

      Best live musical. Jesus Christ Superstar. Paul Nicholas was good in the title role.

      • Most memorable album.

        Business As Usual by Men at Work.

        Played endlessly on the then undeveloped Maldive island Baros in the early 80’s.

        I think that it was the only cassette that they had.

      • She Sells Sanctuary by The Cult is like a time machine for me. As soon as I hear it, I’m back in the student union bar playing the rebel with a pint of coke and a bag of Prawn Cocktail crisps.

  7. I agree with this interesting and provocative nom.

    As an admitted old school audiophile I’m always looking for new listening material. Any type of genre that isn’t what I consider commercial.

    I’m also very retro in my listening habits. Old school Country and Western, Rockabilly, Jazz, early and Classic Rock and Roll.

    I particularly like some modern reinterpretations.

    David Graham and the Eskimo Brothers are one of my favorite bands that have been around for a while. Here they are with a modern take on an old Ernest Tubb classic:

    WARNING: This video contains images that might be exciting or arousing to members of the Horn Section:

    https://youtu.be/-jx4tWvhBFA?si=gqEeFMRPqEeVji2T

    By the way, the musical link posted is very 1980s to me.

    • I used to like the days of EPs – when you want more than a single but don’t feel up to a full 10 or 12 inch. Four tracks just about right to sum up a band – and the imaginative titles “Mantovani Volume 1″and “Mantovani Volume 2”. “Four Songs From Moira Anderson”. They got more edgy though “Pinky and Perky Live At Smithfields”, Jimmy Shand “The Swirl of the Kilt”. Sleeves printed by Garrod and Lofthouse – in the U.K.

  8. Told this on here before but I’m a repetitive cunt.

    Out drinking with a mate.
    We come through the pub doors,
    There’s a cover band playing.
    The Doors.

    I’m a fan, my mate isn’t.

    I’m loud, not shy, I join in

    “The human race was dying out
    No one left to scream and shout!”

    The singer beamed! A fan!

    I went the bar to order us drinks my mate finds a table.

    The singer encouraged by me joining in, now prowls the tables singing and holding the mike for punters to finish the line.

    He approaches my mate.

    Come on baby light my fire, try to set the night on…

    ” Can you fuck off please”

    Hehehe 😂
    He looked crestfallen.

  9. That’s the best thing about having a baby-boomer Dad who was born in 1950! I was raised with some of the best music of the 20th century and I don’t even give a shit about music.

      • When I met Nick Rhodes of Duran Duran in 2004, he told me how the ‘Blitz Kids’ were the most cold, up themselves and snobbish cunts. He said Blitz was a horrible place.

        Met three of the Duran lads in Deansgate’s Living Room, the night before their 2004 Manchester gig. Nick Rhodes, Simon Le Bon and Roger Taylor They were all sound and they all got their round in. Even when I made a fruity remark to Simon Le Bon about his wife Yasmin, he took it with great humour. They were top lads.

        Mick Hucknall, on the other hand, was also in the same bar at another time. And he was a complete and utter cunt. A proper velvet rope keep out take over the place twat. A total bastard.

      • I bet he’s right too Norman.

        That Steve Strange was a snotty little cunt.

        Those Blitz kids were mostly the original punk hangers on.
        The arty farty types who flocked around Vivienne Westwood

  11. Some current bands I’m really mad on that some of you might not know…

    Lucifer (Germany)
    Wucan (Germany)
    Dorothy (USA)
    Amyl & The Sniffers (Australia)

    Check ’em out!! 🤟🎶

    • I know Amyl & The Sniffers.

      Saw the Primitives for about the eighth tine recently.
      Tracy Tracy is still lovely.

      • Those I listed are all contemporary female fronted rock bands of varying sub genres mate. Absolutely fantastic bands.

      • Another good feamle fronted band, The Joy Formidable.

        And Curve were good, with the gorgeous Toni Halliday.

  14. I have no cds by people I have never heard of, as far as I know. Mrs Twenty and I have a large collection including an album by David Hemmings – its not bad! Although we agree on quite a lot, Mrs Twenty doesn’t like my massive collection of Judy Garland albums. A bit of a cunt, but I have headphones.

    Good afternoon, everyone.

    • I used to love off the beaten track 45s usually put out by small companies like Ember (Jeffrey Kruger’s label). Take this one from 1963. You will need to remember the Profumo scandal to really appreciate it. The singer – Miss X is actually Joyce Blair the very attractive and talented actress and singer sister of Lionel. I just love the L.A. percussion. It reminds me of the conga drum I bought back from one or our voyages but that’s a story for another day:

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jexT4hAigAU

  15. I bought Roxy Music and For Your Pleasure in 2005. Both albums were a revelation, so I continued with Stranded, Country Life, Siren and Manifesto.

    Never heard much of them until then, except for the later disco/pared down albums of Flesh and Blood and Avalon, which I remember from the time.

    All the earlier albums are a revelation IMHO.

      • Hi Paul –
        Yea, The Pleasure Principle is my fave Numan album by a country mile. I’ve told Mrs. Yank that I wish to be buried with a copy of TPP and a copy of Brighter Than a Thousand Suns by Killing Joke. I’ll be needing those in the after life to distract me from the heat.

        You too have great taste, Paul. Good on ya!

  16. Sometimes I wish I’d been born a decade earlier to go see some of the icons of the 70s..

    Sabbath,Motorhead,Tull..

    then I remember I’m a boring cunt and probably wouldn’t have bothered and gone to the pub instead.

    Ah well,fuck it.

    • Timing is everything, Uncle.

      I was born in the 60s and didn’t discover music until the mid 70s. I should have realised where much of my disposable income would go when I bought my first singles. Yep, the first time I bought a record, I actually bought 2 at the same time:

      – Life’s Been Good by Joe Walsh
      – (Don’t Fear) The Reaper by Blue Öyster Cult

      Still got them. Still love them.

      On that basis I should have grown into rock music, but I didn’t. Punk happened and shook everything up, followed by New Wave. My early singles collection being added to with X-Ray Spex, Sex Pistols, Public Image, The Stranglers, etc. Then I heard Are ‘Friends’ Electric? on the Radio 1 top 40 run down show on a Sunday evening. My world changed forever. Electronic based music became my thing from that point forward. Still is really, but I’ve a lot of other genres in my collection now.

      Not much in the way of 60s stuff though. I can’t go back that far. To me 60s music sounds very lightweight, superficial and ‘poppy’. I don’t really like pop music per se. I prefer something with depth, an edge and something slightly disconcerting. Almost sinister and haunting. It makes perfect sense that Tubeway Army’s Are ‘Friends’ Electric? caught my attention and ‘She loves you yeah yeah yeah’ makes me want to vomit.

      • I love the later Beatles though, when they took a psychedelic acid rock turn. But that was mainly Lennon. You can always tell a Lennon composition from a McCartney one. McCartney’s were more catchy pop songs whilst Lennons were more imaginative, haunting and original.

  17. Classical music is more to my taste I would prefer to hear before I go and whilst I’m going.

    • Back in school I used to do the sound and lights for school plays. Before curtain up, during the interval and afterwards as the mums and dads filed out having been thrilled and delighted by the play’s lighting, I’d play classical music. Always selected by the Head Master of course. Anyway, one particular run of plays I played Symphony No. 6 by Beethoven – The Pastoral.

      I grew to really like it. It is my favourite piece of classical music.

      A few years ago Mrs. Yank took me to see a performance of it by the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra. I don’t mind admitting it was so beautifully performed I had tears streaming down my face as I re-lived those crazy school nights. A truly wonderful experience.

      A lot of classical music leaves me cold as it just seems to meander around and doesn’t go anywhere. But the good stuff (Beethoven, Vivaldi, Mozart to name a few) is just fantastic.

      Do you have a favourite piece, Sammy?

      • Mainly the composers such as Bruckner, Shostakovich, Janacek, Mahler, I could go on. Indian classical. I chose the name Samuel Scheidt because it amused me.

  18. I don’t know about you lot, but I often end up in a musical limbo land where I can’t think of anything new to get me going.
    When I was in my teens I couldn’t get on with much contemporary stuff, so delved into years past, but as I get older I struggle for inspiration.
    Noms like this are great for opening up one’s eyes, or should I say ears.
    I shall take a listen to some of the above suggestions.

    • When I was younger, I used to discover new stuff through various means:
      – radio
      – television (especially music shows like TOTP, The Tube, etc.)
      – music mags
      – associations (e.g. a singer’s previous band)

      These days I rarely listen to the radio, don’t watch much telly and music mags seem to be a thing of the past. Even Q magazine seems to have disappeared.

      These days, movies can provide a source of inspiration especially when a film has used clips of lots of songs by different artists. They’ll all be there in the end credits. Another way to discover new stuff is Pandora. You can create a channel (or station I think they call it) based on a band/artist you like and Pandora will play songs by that artist and by other similar bands/artists.

      I buy music from bandcamp.com from time to time. There’s always a ‘other artists you might like’ section when you find something you’re interested in.

      Or you could just do an internet search for a genre you like and see what comes up. Try searches like ‘best indie rock albums of 2024’ or whatever genre you enjoy. You never know what you might discover. YouTube will often have songs or whole albums you can sample to see if you really like what you hear.

      HTH.

      • Thanks for the advice. I usually try YouTube if I have a bit of inspiration.
        Bloody ads are annoying though.

  19. Interesting nom.

    Chrome is easily the best band I know that most people don’t know about.

    Their first three LPs, The Visitation (1976), Alien Soundtracks (1977) and Half Machine Lip Moves (1979) are classics and belong in all discerning cunters collections.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZfGrdRcTyc

  21. One of my favourite Albums was discovered by accident when I went to see my favourite band in 2013. Got in early at the Stade de France to see Depeche Mode. Supporting act was Douglas J McCarthy. I’ll be honest I’d not heard of Douglas before. I was blown away by his performance, his unique voice and the songs from the Album ‘Kill your Friends’. It’s all electronic, no drums, guitars etc but it’s brilliant. Not one bad song, I highly recommend it.

    • Ooooooo……will check that out, Bob.

      For all my love of electronic music, I have never seen DM live. I have a checkered past with the Essex boys. When they first appeared I thought they were absolute shite. At the time I was a rabid Numan fan and if anyone used a synth on a record that wasn’t Numan, I immediately hated it on principle for he was and is the chosen one and all should bow down and worship his greatness…..sorry got carried away there.

      Anyway, let’s be honest singles like New Life and See You don’t compare well to Numan’s output at the time (Are ‘Friends’ Electric?, Cars, We Are Glass, I Die:You Die, etc.). I pretty much ignored their superficial pop drivel until the Violator era when I heard Enjoy The Silence and Policy of Truth. Hmmm….the boys had matured and got darker. Me likeee. Songs of Faith and Devotion for me features some outstanding songs (Walking In My Shoes, In Your Room, Rush, Higher Love), but their next album Ultra blew me away. I think Freestate is my favourite DM track. Everything about it is so well crafted. It’s the work of genius in my opinion.

      Since then it’s been downhill for me. I don’t much like Exciter, Playing The Angel or Sounds of the Universe. I kept buying their albums hoping for another Ultra but gave up with Delta Machine which I think is truly awful. What a band though. Martin Gore, Vince Clarke and Alan Wilder all in the same band. Amazing!

      • Evening Imitation. Totally agree, nothing could ever beat Violator. Depeche’s later albums are hit and miss. Alan Wilder was a great miss on the later albums. He had a huge input until he left the band in 1995/6.

      • Yep. It’s Ultra, Violator and SOFAD for me. Fantastic albums.

        Fronting a band doesn’t come much better than Dave Gahan. What a talent. I can’t think of another band where almost everyone in it is/was supremely talented. I’m sure other cunters will come up with more examples, but DM….wow!

        I was quite saddened by Andy Fletcher’s passing. Also agree Alan Wilder was a big miss for subsequent albums. His band Recoil should be more famous and more recognised than they are.

  22. Thanks to all who have joined in with this nom. There’s some stuff mentioned that I will check out to see if it floats my boat.

    Drab Majesty’s back catalog duly arrived and I’m making my way through it. I do like what I’ve heard so far and can see (hear) how they’ve evolved. The main man, Deb Demure, has said he’ll be adding live drums to their sound which I think will help. Drum machines are all well and good if you have limited personnel, programming skill and budget, but you can’t beat a live drummer when it comes to dynamics and feel. Favourite drummers anyone? Neil Peart (Rush), Matt Cameron (Soundgarden), Big Paul Ferguson (Killing Joke) and Steve Jansen (Japan) for me.

    My local used CD/record store had its tractor beam on again yesterday. Picked up a couple of China Crisis albums I didn’t have, an album by Fastball (remember their song “The Way”? Thought I’d check out the album that came from – might be good, might be shit – we’ll see), Men At Work’s first album which features the brilliant “Down Under” single and believe it or not, I finally picked up a copy of “Heroes” by David Bowie. Never heard the whole album so I’m looking forward to that.

    I also bought several dark ambient albums off bandcamp.com too this weekend. Spooky stuff if you like that sort of thing. So much music…..so little time.

    • It’s a great no, IY. Nice one.

      On the funny side, My sister had that Duran Dursn video album. And one time, my younger cousin Stanley was sleeping over. One night I got in around 2am, and there was Stan having a Thomas the Tank to that uncensored Girls On Film video.

      As a man of the world, I said nothing and left him to it. Never said a word, until now. Stan won’t mind now.

      • Hey Norm –

        I didn’t know there was an uncut Girls on Film video. Might have to look into that. I recently picked up Duran’s first album (bit late to the party I know) only to be surprised Girls on Film is on it. I knew Planet Earth was on it (which I think is a bit pants). For some reason I thought Girls On Film came much later once they’d hit the big time. Shows how much I know….in my defence I was a rabid Numan fan at the time so hated anything and everything that wasn’t by him at that time.

        In the years since I’ve picked up a number of Duran albums. My favourite is Big Thing. It’s a college days thing. Bitter sweet memories listening to All She Wants Is, Do You Believe In Shame and Land. I need to take Le Bon’s vocals in limited doses because to me, he sounds a bit whiney pitch-wise. I have the same issue with Sheryl Crow and Morrissey. Good stuff but I can’t listen to albums back to back by them or I’ll get a headache.

      • I only have one Tool album (Lateralus) and to be fair, the drumming is not shabby. A solid suggestion, Sir Mali.

        Tool are one of those bands which I should really be more into but I’m not. I have more time for A Perfect Circle which as you know I’m sure, is really a Keenan side project. Saw them in London following the release of their first album. Keenan spent almost the whole gig with his back to the audience. Saw them again years and years later in Minneapolis and disappointingly, they all looked absolutely bored out of their minds. It was really odd.

  23. I got rid of all my CD’s and stored everything on my Classic iPod. I love my iPod – it’s a marvel of engineering and convenience and is never far away. But I regret dumping my CD’s – at least they are physical and have sleeve notes. I had to do it though, to make way for more books.

    If you discover anything serendipitously, whether it’s music or a writer, it becomes more valuable and memorable.

    • “If you discover anything serendipitously, whether it’s music or a writer, it becomes more valuable and memorable.”

      That is so true, MMCM. My mum had a boxset of 5 or 6 novels by different authors which I think she got as a free gift from some book club she belonged to years and year ago. Anyway, I nicked it off her 30 odd years ago. Never been a big reader until the last couple of years and eventually read a couple of those books. One was called M Is For Malice by Sue Grafton. Loved it! Then discovered she’d written her ‘alphabet’ series with a book for each letter of the alphabet, except Z (she passed away before she could finish it). Over the last couple of years I’ve bought them all and am currently up to P Is For Peril.

      For those who might be interested, it’s the continuing story of a sassy and gritty private detective called Kinsey Millhone who, through various means, gets involved in all kinds of shenanigans (murder, disappearances, fraud, etc.). Witty, heart warming and utterly charming – a fantastic read and highly recommended.

      • Yeah it is, MMCM.

        I’m one of those who thinks…I really like this, what else have they done? And then buys it. 🙂

        I was gutted when I discovered Sue Grafton had passed away. Long that long before I read her M novel. I hate that most of my favourite authors are no longer with us. Sue Grafton, Richard Laymon and James Herbert to name a few.

  26. Free are a band I feel are lost to time. Spirt an US band are another I doubt will be remembered at all.

    Modern music? Hard to find anything that’s not very derivative, the last group that I thought were bringing something new were the Prodigy and that’s back in the 90’s.

    I expect there’s a lot of good bands around but they are struggling to get into the limelight.

    I’m looking forward to the Oasis reunion solely because I’m convinced if they get past the first couple of gigs by the third the reunion will implode and I’m expecting Liams mic to get wrapped around Noel’s head.

    • For the longest time, I thought Oasis were a sort of rave/EDM band. It must have taken ages before I actually heard something by them. Probably Roll With It or Wonderwall. I do like the album those songs come from – (What’s The Story) Morning Glory. Though the track She’s Electric is utterly dreadful.

      Saw Oasis several years ago. Liam either had voice issues or was deliberately fucking about because he didn’t hold a note for long before snapping his head to one side to cut off the vocal. It was quite distracting. The stage production was nothing memorable either, so we left about half way through. Never regretted it.

      The reunion will be interesting. The press so far only features the Gallagher brothers. Without the other musicians, it’s not really Oasis. I saw Simple Minds a few years ago. Well, I didn’t really. I saw Jim Kerr and Charlie Burchill with a bunch of black tarts. Not really the same thing.

      Despite what the mono-brows say, the tour is being done for financial reasons. I’m OK with that as I won’t be going. I do wonder how long the brothers can keep it together. I’d imagine a world tour is quite an endurance for any band, even more so with those two in the mix. I don’t think any of us will be surprised if, 3 or 4 dates in, there’s a massive falling out and either or both of them quit the tour. For the fans I hope it doesn’t happen, but I think it’s somewhere between possible and likely.

  27. Well, unless you are into them, you probably won’t appreciated it, but back in 78/79 I was starting to get into AC/DC (the band- not some pervy practice) and way buying their current and back catalogue of albums with Bon Scott as the lead singer……decided in early1980 I would do my best to see them live…….then the cunt fucking dies choking on his own puke after a bender. I was devastated….loved what he brought to the band, and to my mind that was the end of the ‘proper’ AC/DC sound. Brian Johnson was (and still is) a very poor replacement and haven’t entertained anything they have made since the Bon era. That’s my big regret not seeing them with Scott on vocals

    • AC/DC belong to a genre that I rarely entertain. Big guitar and aggressive delivery are all good though – I have plenty of that in my collection. I knew Bon Scott was the original singer but I don’t think I’ve heard anything by them with him singing. What putsme off the AC/DC that I have heard is Johnson’s screeching. The drums, bass and guitar lines are all fine, it’s just that vocal. Yikes!

      • To be fair, Bon wasn’t the original singer. He was the second. The original singer was only with them for a very short period of time, and didn’t record an album with them. The Bon era (only about 5 years) was the epitome of AC/DC…..anything since has just been a pastiche.

  28. Oh…..and I still really want to see Steve Miller live, but he’s knocking on now, and to make it worse he never seems to tour outside the USA.

      • I’m no fan of Oasis,
        But want them to do well simply because they upset the Guardianistas.

        Check out this by a writer for the Guardian

        https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/aug/28/stop-the-celebrations-oasis-are-the-most-damaging-pop-cultural-force-in-recent-british-history?CMP=share_btn_url

        That’s enough to make me wish the Burnage monobrowed brothers well.

        Ps

        I remember seeing Liam Gallagher walking down the road in Heaton Moor
        (He had that walk before he was famous)
        He looked like a Ian Brown clone.

        We both got barred from the Elizabethan pub. Around the same time,.so I feel some kinship with the cunt.

        Fuckin Guardian know about Rock n Roll?!!

      • Been in the Lizzie myself a good while ago, Miserable.

        I recall Liam Gallagher – the supposedly mad City fan – in a Celtic shirt in 1993. The little cunt.

        But – as you say – they well upset the Grauniad loonies. One daft journo bitch last week said Oasis represented ‘toxic masculinity’. The Femstapo hacks are spazzing about over the Oasis comeback. Like a bluebottle sprayed with WD40.

        So, if Noel and Liam wind them up, and also slag off shite like Ed Sheercunt, Fatty Capaldi, Adele and Taylor Swift, then they get my blessing.

      • Lest we not mock Adele. I read somewhere earlier today that she’s taking an extended break from the music biz and pursue a different life/lifestyle.

        Let’s hope she has a fine time away from the biz and stays away. We don’t need any more of her crap infesting the airwaves.

      • I wonder if we’ll see the Gallaghers sucking up to Starmer over cocktails in No.10.
        Like they sucked up to Blair.
        “Cool Britannia” my arse!

  29. Liam Gallagher.

    The human Pringle.

    Once you punch, you just can’t stop.

    Can’t stand the cunt.

    But do like some Oasis music.

    Same with Jagger and Richards.

    Funny old world.

    Good evening. 👍

  30. Mariah Carey is all that is awful about modern music. As an artist and as a person.
    Beyonce is the same. A total cunt, who would make Louis XIV look meek and mild.

    That said, the Mariah Carey of 1990 would have been done with gusto.

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