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Re: Artists you only know one song by

Postby ChrisB » 29 Apr 2022, 07:21

There she goes : The La's

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Re: Artists you only know one song by

Postby trans-chigley express » 29 Apr 2022, 07:47

Nervous Ned wrote:
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Nervous Ned wrote:Blur - Parklife

How did you manage that? :o


I think it might have been playing when I went ten pin bowling. Although I seem to remember seeing the video so I could be wrong.

What I meant was how did you manage to only ever hear one of their songs :D . I wish I could have managed that

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Re: Artists you only know one song by

Postby Nervous Ned » 29 Apr 2022, 08:05

I know ... I'm just being funny ... humour being subjective of course! ;)

I had stopped listening to music on the radio by the mid 90's. So unless someone leant me a cd I just wouldn't have heard Blur, Supergrass et al. Finding Parklife utterly irritating caused me to make a strong effort to avoid them entirely. Seeing interviews with Damien Allbran didn't make me change my mind obviously.
I've actually never heard anything by Suede, Verve et al. The ex rather liked Oasis, so oddly I've heard their first 3 albums ... I lost those in the divorce settlement ... it was tough, but I coped.

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Re: Artists you only know one song by

Postby Rorschach » 29 Apr 2022, 09:23

The Slider wrote:You surely knowTokoloshe Man by John Kongos even if you don't know that you know it


Surprisingly, it doesn't ring any bells. I recognise pretty well everyone in that chart run-down except for him.
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Re: Artists you only know one song by

Postby C » 29 Apr 2022, 11:04

slightbreeze wrote:There she goes : The La's


What fantastic track and an absolute brilliant album

It featured in a Prog Synch Listen a year or so ago

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Postby The Slider » 29 Apr 2022, 11:58

Rorschach wrote:
The Slider wrote:You surely knowTokoloshe Man by John Kongos even if you don't know that you know it


Surprisingly, it doesn't ring any bells. I recognise pretty well everyone in that chart run-down except for him.


It is a little surprising - it was a big hit obvs
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Postby C » 29 Apr 2022, 12:41

Nervous Ned wrote:I had stopped listening to music on the radio by the mid 90's.


As late as that?

I've never been a radio listener - I want to listen to what I want to listen to now and not listen to something that is not my cup of darjeeling. Life is too short

I occasionally listened to Radio Caroline in the 1960s
Alan Freeman, John Peel and Tommy Vance on the 70s and that was about it

Then Peel started slagging off PinkFloyd and all the bands he loved/elevated and promoted. I didn't like that

Once a band got famous he'd ditch them like a red hot potato - Tyrannosaurus Rex always comes to mind

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Postby Minnie the Minx » 02 May 2022, 14:24

pcqgod wrote:To my knowledge I've only ever heard "Red Red Wine" by UB40.


Well, you’ve missed out on a handful of great songs! I say handful because I think it was a rapid downhill slide, but the album ‘Signing Off’ is a fucking classic and well worth your time. I was always really partial as well to ‘Don’t Break My Heart’ - especially the 12 inch- maybe as I have really great memories of it playing at parties in Camberwell at the time - I’m on my phone so it’s fiddly to post but go and have a listen and see what you think!
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Postby Minnie the Minx » 02 May 2022, 14:26

In fact I just went to listen to Don’t Break My Heart Now and welled up and got chills. Happy, squatty times!
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Re: Artists you only know one song by

Postby pcqgod » 04 May 2022, 03:40

slightbreeze wrote:There she goes : The La's


I think I did listen to that album but it didn't make any impression.
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Re: Artists you only know one song by

Postby pcqgod » 04 May 2022, 03:41

Minnie Cheddars wrote:
pcqgod wrote:To my knowledge I've only ever heard "Red Red Wine" by UB40.


Well, you’ve missed out on a handful of great songs! I say handful because I think it was a rapid downhill slide, but the album ‘Signing Off’ is a fucking classic and well worth your time. I was always really partial as well to ‘Don’t Break My Heart’ - especially the 12 inch- maybe as I have really great memories of it playing at parties in Camberwell at the time - I’m on my phone so it’s fiddly to post but go and have a listen and see what you think!


I'm kind of interested just to hear what they sound like on other songs.
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Postby The Slider » 04 May 2022, 10:49

They started out as a regular roots reggae band
The whole of the first two albums are aces.

Playlist for the first one
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=beLy82B ... _rRqEa-lyM

and the second
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ja1XMBF ... vVMuZ6t5De
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Re: Artists you only know one song by

Postby Neige » 04 May 2022, 11:23

Rorschach wrote:
The Slider wrote:You surely knowTokoloshe Man by John Kongos even if you don't know that you know it


Surprisingly, it doesn't ring any bells. I recognise pretty well everyone in that chart run-down except for him.


There's quite a few British MoR artists in that rundown I'm fortunate to be totally unfamiliar with... and then there's Benny Hill at number 1!! :shock: :shock: :shock: :lol:

He fits the bill.
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Postby The Slider » 04 May 2022, 11:30

To be fair it may have been the only record he ever released
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Re: Artists you only know one song by

Postby Neige » 05 May 2022, 06:49

The Slider wrote:To be fair it may have been the only record he ever released


Probably, but I'm pretty sure that the "sped-up jumping-up-and-down-and-running-around" saxophone that was ubiquitous in his show must exist on a record with his name on it. :lol:

Edit: there's a 1972 follow-up single called Fad-Eyed Fal that sunk without trace... andf there's this:

https://www.discogs.com/master/382661-Benny-Hill-Benny-Hill-Sings
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Postby The Slider » 05 May 2022, 10:47

Neige wrote:Probably, but I'm pretty sure that the "sped-up jumping-up-and-down-and-running-around" saxophone that was ubiquitous in his show must exist on a record with his name on it. :lol:


Boots Randolph ;)





Jesus this is poor:
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Re: Artists you only know one song by

Postby Tom Waits For No One » 05 May 2022, 11:54

Neige wrote:
The Slider wrote:To be fair it may have been the only record he ever released


Probably, but I'm pretty sure that the "sped-up jumping-up-and-down-and-running-around" saxophone that was ubiquitous in his show must exist on a record with his name on it. :lol:

Edit: there's a 1972 follow-up single called Fad-Eyed Fal that sunk without trace... andf there's this:

https://www.discogs.com/master/382661-Benny-Hill-Benny-Hill-Sings


He has a whole hour of 'tunes' at least.

I have a copy of this :oops:

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including his first couple of singles.
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Re: Artists you only know one song by

Postby pcqgod » 06 May 2022, 19:18

The Slider wrote:They started out as a regular roots reggae band
The whole of the first two albums are aces.

Playlist for the first one
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=beLy82B ... _rRqEa-lyM

and the second
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ja1XMBF ... vVMuZ6t5De


Thanks. I listened to some of the first link. Not the kind of thingthat excites me, but certainly very listenable when I'm in a certain mood.
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Postby Rayge » 07 May 2022, 13:04

The Slider wrote:To be fair it may have been the only record he ever released

Nah, he had several other hits, I've got a few of them, bought second-hand in the Sixties. Transistor Radio and Pepys's Diary come to mind.
Just checked out discogs - eight singles in all, three or four albums, one of which apparently features him singing.
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