What are you listening to?

Forget that as I missed your joke I know a good local firm not far from you who will do you a good deal on a digger, just tell them Dave sent you.

Teardrop - Massive Attack
Only The Young - Brandon Flowers (I don't really like the Christian Rock/Country bent he went on for his solo album but this song is awesome)

I was naming no names, as they say. Although I must cinfess to being surprised at your comments about the Glee club!

Queen, I would have to say were better in their earler days - Queen II being my favourite album. Saw them in Paignton in 1974, surely must trump your Take That concert

Going to put on Rod Stewart, Sessions (1971 - 1998) Disc 1 with a great early version of Maggie May with different lyrics.

Strangely enough that’s my favourite album as well and agree the older stuff was better. Although I did like some of Freddie’s later stuff, Barcelona & the show must go on brings shivers down my spine. I often wonder what these singers would be like now and what sort of music they would be writing/singing now without their untimely deaths.

Are they immortalised through death or were they just great anyway? Buddy Holly (love his music), Marc Bolan (the same), Freddie, John Lennon (ditto), would they still be seen as legends if they were alive now? I think so but there is no doubt that through death their music has been taken to a different level. I suppose one gauge would be Paul McCartney, awesome in the beatles, same with wings and a fantastic solo career and whilst the last few years have been a bit barren I still enjoy listening to pretty much all his stuff. And with the increasing amount of bands getting back together in recent years, what price that Lennon and McCartney would have got back together at some point if Chapman had not needlessly taken his life.

I was only 9 in 1974 so it was just before I was really into them but my Brother in law tells he was there, probably just to wind me up, but yes that does trump my Take That concert. Don’t suppose you can remember what they played??

As for glee, apparently they have had some ‘success’, see below;
“The Glee cast had 25 singles chart on the Billboard Hot 100, the most by any artist since The Beatles had 31 songs in the chart in 1964. In total, Glee has placed 104 songs on the Hot 100 weekly chart, second only to the 108 entries of Elvis Presley, though fewer than one-fourth have charted for more than one week”

That last statistic says it all really, only ¼ have stayed in the top 100 for more than a week. Goes back to what we were saying the other week, if the forum got together and recorded a song we could probably get it in the charts for 1 week. We already have a talented musician running the site ;D

Watching SILENT WITNESS eh Stu?

Nowt wrong with a bit of Emilia Fox, old chap!