The Music Video & YouTube Dump thread

[Ride the Lion to Zion]

Tinderbox is my favourite Siouxsie and the Banshees album. Reviews in the British music press were lukewarm. General consensus was that the band were treading water. Trouble with music journos is that they need something to write about whereas music fans only care about the sound coming out of the speakers.

By 1986, the Banshees simply sounding like the Banshees afforded limited scope for new critical insights into life, the universe and everything. Reception for the next album Peepshow was more enthusiastic. Probably because the lead single "Peek-a-Boo" was a radical departure.

In 1987, I read a terrible review of Calenture by the Triffids. Retrospectively felt perverse gratitude towards the writer. The album was given 4 out of 10 and depicted as an ill-advised bid for pop stardom after the more substantive works of Treeless Plain and Born Sandy Devotional. Money was tight chez moi and the disparagement deterred shelling out for a time. When Calenture belatedly landed on my turntable, the experience strengthened a resolve against the undue influence of critics.

 

[Det.Wojciehowicz]

The Buzzcocks have a lot of really great songs but this ones the best.

 

[horrie hastings]

I absolutely adore Kate Bush. Like I said Hounds of Love is my alltime favourite album. It's one of those albums if I'm going to listen to I have to listen to the whole album from start to finish. It has such an amazing flow from one track to the next. Huge Madness fan too. Never got to see them but me and a couple of Rude Boy mates saw a Madness cover band in a small club and loudly sang along to every song.
Being from Bolton I guess you're a Wnaderers fan?

Speaking of Kate Bush, i always look forward to this day in August where people don a red dress and dance to Wuthering Heights and Running Up That Hill. Happens in quite a few spots around the world and luckily this one happens just up the road from where i live, love seeing all the red dresses descend on Sydney Park and go through many practises of Wuthering Heights before the main event.


Last years

 

[horrie hastings]

I love Running Up That Hill and the haunting The Man With A Child In His Eyes but my favourite Kate Bush song is Babooshka.

 

[Det.Wojciehowicz]

I'm a big fan of everything shes done but if I had to pick one song it would probably be Cloudbusting. How can you not love a song that has Oddball in it's music video? Experiment IV is an awesome music video and song as well.

 

[horrie hastings]

Have these two been forgiven for wearing Carlton vests in Abba the Movie?

Those girls could be forgiven for just about anything.

 

[Det.Wojciehowicz]

Those girls could be forgiven for just about anything.

I feel the same about Jo and Susan from Human League ( especially Jo!)

 

[Generalzod]

 

[Ride the Lion to Zion]

Those girls could be forgiven for just about anything.

Wise words. Hard to argue. Here's a hoary old routine for your delectation -

Who do you fancy in Abba?

The blonde one

Be more specific

 

[Ride the Lion to Zion]

The Buzzcocks have a lot of really great songs but this ones the best.

Buzzcocks were formed at Bolton Institute of Technology. Which no longer exists. Pete was a native of the rusted-on Rugby League town of Leigh.

 

[Det.Wojciehowicz]

Yeah, I knew they started out at the Bolton Institute of Tech. What is your favourite Buzzcocks song? Theres some really great ones to choose from.

 

[horrie hastings]

Wise words. Hard to argue. Here's a hoary old routine for your delectation -

Who do you fancy in Abba?

The blonde one

Be more specific

When i was younger it was Frida ( the brunette ) all the way but now in my older years it is Agnetha ( the blonde ), she has aged very naturally .

Have a mix i downloaded of youtube and its not there anymore, it mixed two songs, SOS and one of the new ones Keep An Eye On Dan, it was interesting to hear Agnetha's 21 year old voice next to her 70 old voice.

 

[Det.Wojciehowicz]

I'm with you Horrie, it was always Frida that floated my boat.

 

[horrie hastings]

I'm with you Horrie, it was always Frida that floated my boat.

Frida was stunning, didn't really have a lot of time for Agnetha back then but she has aged naturally and i reckon she is more beautiful now than back in the early days.

Both women are class acts though, i love them both.

 

[Ride the Lion to Zion]

Yeah, I knew they started out at the Bolton Institute of Tech. What is your favourite Buzzcocks song? Theres some really great ones to choose from.

Impossible to pick one. The first two albums are consistently stirring right the way through. Track after track of seemingly effortless brilliance. Plus there's all the material collected on Singles Going Steady.

Edwyn Collins took the plunge in the lyrics of the Orange Juice song "Rip It Up" -

"And my favourite song's entitled Boredom"

Followed by a version of the 2-note guitar solo from the track on the Spiral Scratch EP.

 

[Ride the Lion to Zion]

When i was younger it was Frida ( the brunette ) all the way but now in my older years it is Agnetha ( the blonde ), she has aged very naturally .

Have a mix i downloaded of youtube and its not there anymore, it mixed two songs, SOS and one of the new ones Keep An Eye On Dan, it was interesting to hear Agnetha's 21 year old voice next to her 70 old voice.

There's a pay-off line in the aforementioned routine about "the one with the beard", but I'll not go there.

Unlike with Buzzcocks, I am prepared to name an Abba top 3 -

3) Summer Night City
2) SOS
1) Eagle

 

[horrie hastings]

There's a pay-off line in the aforementioned routine about "the one with the beard", but I'll not go there.

Unlike with Buzzcocks, I am prepared to name an Abba top 3 -

3) Summer Night City
2) SOS
1) Eagle

Like minds there for 2 and 3
Mine are
1 - Summer Night City
2- SOS
3- The Visitors
4- The Day Before You Came
5- The Winner Takes It All

 

[horrie hastings]

There's a pay-off line in the aforementioned routine about "the one with the beard", but I'll not go there.

Unlike with Buzzcocks, I am prepared to name an Abba top 3 -

3) Summer Night City
2) SOS
1) Eagle

SOS would have to be one of the purest pop songs ever.

Have two other guilty pleasures off the Voulez Vous album

As Good As New
Lovers Live A Little Longer.

 

[horrie hastings]

There's a pay-off line in the aforementioned routine about "the one with the beard", but I'll not go there.

Unlike with Buzzcocks, I am prepared to name an Abba top 3 -

3) Summer Night City
2) SOS
1) Eagle

Wont derail this thread with to much ABBA but will list my top three albums of theirs.

1- Super Trouper - a beautiful balanced album with the title track a beauty, the brilliant The Winner Takes It All, Frida's diction in Me and I is just beautiful to listen to,Andante Andante is a slow burner, the disco inspired Lay All Your Love On Me and their last top 10 single here in Australia On and On And On.

2- Voulez Vous- Another top album filled with plenty of disco delights, especially the title track and gems like As Good As New, Lovers Live A Little Longer, Angel Eyes and the beautiful driving force of Kisses Of Fire.

3- Voyage - Almost 40 years on and it was like meeting an old friend you had not seen for a really long time, after a very short time it felt comfortable and familiar again after a long absence.
The first two tracks were recorded in 2017 but weren't released till 2021 due to difficulties getting their for want of a better word their ABBAtas show working and also COVID.
Frida's voice in I Still Have Faith In You was like an angel again and Agnetha hadn't lost anything voice wise in Don't Shut Me Down. While all the stalling with the show the four decided to record a couple more songs and in the end they released another album. Agnetha's voice in Keep An Eye On Dan recorded in 2021 was still great and another track No Doubt About It harked back to the good old days. All in all it was great return after 39 years. Benny said their were two more tracks that weren't quite finished that could have made it on the album but didn't in the end, i hope we get a chance to hear them sometime.

 

[Ride the Lion to Zion]

SOS would have to be one of the purest pop songs ever.

You're in good company. Robin Gibb, Ray Davies, Pete Townshend have all said something similar.