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Your A to Z of Bands and/or Artists

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Should be a favorite band/artist, or at least has produced a favorite song of yours..... This all stems from a question that was on local radio the other day, which had me thinking.

As I have c*ck all to do these days (thanks China :roll: ), I thought about making a list.... I'll have missed many I know, but it's groups/artists that I've favoured, even if only one song. Below to date, what can you guys remember....?

AC/DC and of course ABBA! ALISON MOYET, ANNIE LENNOX
BRIAN ADAMS (EARLY DAYS), B52’S, BEVERLEY CRAVEN, BIG COUNTRY, BILLY IDOL, BOB MARELY, BOB DYLAN (oh Christ too many “B’S”!!)
CHRIS ISSAK, COLDPLAY, CRANBERRIES
DIRE STRAITS, DAVID BOWIE
EURYTHMICS, ELTON JOHN
FINE YOUNG CANNIBALS, FLEETWOOD MAC
GEORGE EZRA, GEORGE MICHAEL (NOT WHAM!), GUNS ‘N’ ROSES
H
ISRAEL “IZ”, IAN DURY
JUDAS PRIEST, JIMMI HENDRIX
KATE BUSH
L
MADNESS (All through school…), MARC BOLAN
NORAH JONES
O
POLICE, PLASTIC BERTRAND (That ONE song!), PRINCE (a couple..), PRETENDERS, PHIL COLLINS, PINK FLOYD
QUEEN
RUSH (EARLY DAYS), RAINBOW, R.E.M.
STEREOPHONICS, SQUEEZE
TOM JONES (Who else?). TEXAS, TOTO, TEARS FOR FEARS
ULTRAVOX,U2
VANASSA PARIDIS (OH come on, I was her age’ish for THAT video/song), VAN “THE MAN” MORRISON, VAN HALEN (EARLY DAYS).
X
WHO (THE)…..
YAZOO
ZZ TOP
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Chris Rea
pink floyd
Beegees
Rolling stones
Eric clapton
Cream
Deep purple
Howling wolf
Muddy Waters
Roy Orbison
Buddy Holly
Andre Rieu
Blondie
The Kinks
Jimi Hendrix
Adele
Beautiful South
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lindosfan1 wrote: Sun Jan 10, 2021 3:35 pm Chris Rea
pink floyd
Beegees
Rolling stones
Eric clapton
Cream
Deep purple
Howling wolf
Muddy Waters
Roy Orbison
Buddy Holly
Andre Rieu
Blondie
The Kinks
Jimi Hendrix
Adele
Beautiful South
I will stop there having to think now lol
That's a funny looking 'A to Z' . :D

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Annie soundtrack 8)
The Beatles
Coldplay
Deep Blue Something (Jst one song)
Eminem
Fat Boy Slim
Green Day
Hanson ("🎵Mmm bop ba do ba do ba... 🎵)
Imagine Dragons
Jackson (Michael)
The Killers
Lemonjelly
Marley (Bob)
Nirvana
Oasis
Prodigy
Queen
R.?
Skrillex
T.?
U.?
The Velvet Underground
Williams (Robbie) :oops:
X.?
Y.?
Z.?
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2 posters and no mention of a little known quartet from Liverpool?

My list is way too long to mention so here are some of my musical influences through the decades....

60's

The Beatles (cough cough Pharvey and Lindosfan) :laugh:

Swinging Blue Jeans

The Hollies

The 70's

T Rex

Gary Glitter (Yes I Know!!)

Fox (Only You Can)

John Miles (Music)

Wings (Saw them in concert 1979, Liverpool)

The 80's

Bit of a wasteland for me other than

OMD (Numerous Manchester Concerts)

A Flock Of Seagulls (great haircut that Donald Trump later emulated :laugh: )

Pink Floyd ( A momentary Lapse of Reason and the Division Bell)

The 90's

The Stone Roses ( I was very stoned at Spike Island :rasta: )

Oasis

Pearl Jam

Nirvana

The 00's

Matchbox Twenty

Goo Goo Dolls

Third Eye Blind

Angels And Airwaves (Post Blink 182)

Beth Hart


Lots more but these would be top of my list.
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pharvey wrote: Sun Jan 10, 2021 10:17 am Should be a favorite band/artist, or at least has produced a favorite song of yours..... This all stems from a question that was on local radio the other day, which had me thinking.

As I have c*ck all to do these days (thanks China :roll: ), I thought about making a list.... I'll have missed many I know, but it's groups/artists that I've favoured, even if only one song. Below to date, what can you guys remember....?

AC/DC and of course ABBA! ALISON MOYET, ANNIE LENNOX
BRIAN ADAMS (EARLY DAYS), B52’S, BEVERLEY CRAVEN, BIG COUNTRY, BILLY IDOL, BOB MARELY, BOB DYLAN (oh Christ too many “B’S”!!)
CHRIS ISSAK, COLDPLAY, CRANBERRIES
DIRE STRAITS, DAVID BOWIE
EURYTHMICS, ELTON JOHN
FINE YOUNG CANNIBALS, FLEETWOOD MAC



GEORGE EZRA, GEORGE MICHAEL (NOT WHAM!), GUNS ‘N’ ROSES
H
ISRAEL “IZ”, IAN DURY
JUDAS PRIEST, JIMMI HENDRIX
KATE BUSH
L
MADNESS (All through school…), MARC BOLAN
NORAH JONES
O
POLICE, PLASTIC BERTRAND (That ONE song!), PRINCE (a couple..), PRETENDERS, PHIL COLLINS, PINK FLOYD
QUEEN
RUSH (EARLY DAYS), RAINBOW, R.E.M.
STEREOPHONICS, SQUEEZE
TOM JONES (Who else?). TEXAS, TOTO, TEARS FOR FEARS
ULTRAVOX,U2
VANASSA PARIDIS (OH come on, I was her age’ish for THAT video/song), VAN “THE MAN” MORRISON, VAN HALEN (EARLY DAYS).
X
WHO (THE)…..
YAZOO
ZZ TOP
Did you omit Bobby Crush, Richard Clayderman and Liberace out of embarrassment? :laugh: :laugh: :duck:
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Matchbox Twenty
Oooh good shout Sateeb! Missed them out!

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Some of my early influences that don't feature above:

The Allman Brothers
Yes
Leonard Cohen (Yes I know, but it was only briefly during my teen angst year...)
James Taylor
BOWIE/Ziggy Stardust (Come on guys, how could he have been overlooked??)
The Clash
Sinatra (when I was old enough not to care about being cool)
Elton John
Simon & Garfunkel
The Moody Blues
Cream
Santana
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+ one that wasn't really an influence, just a memorable experience when I saw them aged 18 at Hastings pier with a nude dancer :laugh: :laugh:
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DM..Good choices but I can't say that any of them influenced me in any significant way. The nudey dancer may have though, but you didn't state if it was a male or female dancer :laugh: :laugh:
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If it was a bloke, he had great tits...

I used the word influences too casually. Now that I think about it, the biggest musical influence I've ever experienced was when a girlfriend introduced me to Baroque music when I was about 30, Albinoni, Pachelbel, etc. Come to think of it, she had great tits too!
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dtaai-maai wrote: Sun Jan 10, 2021 6:48 pm If it was a bloke, he had great tits...

I used the word influences too casually. Now that I think about it, the biggest musical influence I've ever experienced was when a girlfriend introduced me to Baroque music when I was about 30, Albinoni, Pachelbel, etc. Come to think of it, she had great tits too!

Seen many a "Bob the builder" with great tits here :laugh: :laugh:

As for Classical I would have to plump for the punk rocker of his day Wolfie Mozart and the pizza pioneer Verdi :naughty: :cheers:
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I’d like to add the Electric Light Orchestra (ELO)
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Due to my age, my list is long and too esoteric to post. Maybe I can sum it up with a few people & catagories.

Charlie Parker and all who followed in his wake.
Early music. Pallestrina, etc. and his progenitors up through the 20th. C.
Ravi Shankar and those who came before and after.
The music of Africa, European Gypsies, & the Middle East.
Bob Dylan, Paul Simon, Leonard Cohen, Randy Newman, Joni Mitchell, John Prine, the entire pantheon of Mississippi Blues musicians.
That's enough. Alphabetical order would take the use of algorithms and I'm a analogue guy.
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Emerson Lake and Palmer
Eva Cassidy
Mountain
I also think Matt Monroe has a great voice. Sinatra rated him!,
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