Your 3 favourite bands

[FLYING BLUE]

A band here not that many may remember, King Crimson a lovely cover here of "Starless"

Enjoy..

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And anyone remember Emmerson, Lake and Palmer now long gone, but recordings remain of their great volcalist Greg Lake..

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And that track from 1971 as good now as it was then:)

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Plato's spawn cold ivyed eyes
Snare truth in bone and globe
Harlequins coin pointless games
Sneer jokes in parrot's robe
Two women weep, dame Scarlet screen
Sheds sudden theater rain,
Whilst dark in dream the midnight queen
Knows every human pain

In air, fire, earth and water
World on the scales
Air, fire, earth and water
Balance of change
World on the scales
On the scales

Bishop's kings spin judgment's blade
Scratch "faith" on nameless graves
Harvest hags hoard ash and sand
Rack rope and chain for slaves
Who fireside fear fermented words
Then rear to spoil the feast
Whilst in the aisle the mad man smiles
To him it matters least

Heroes hands drain stones for blood
To whet the scaling knife
Magi blind with visions light
Net death in dread of life
Their children kneel in jesus till
They learn the price of nail,
Whilst all around our mother earth
Waits balanced on the scales

Excellent choices Mr Dunn

[Watts.E.Dunn]

Well thank you kindly Mr FB many sucessfull flight cycles to you Sir!.

And who suggested Steely Dan?, rather appropriate for this forum!.

The name itself comes from a steam-powered sex toy in William S. Burroughs' novel Naked Lunch, reflecting their dark humor...

[Jonestown]

Cowboy Junkies
Lambchop
Wilco (jay Bennett era)

Honourable mention: James, Cardigans, Jayhawks

Best live act: Decemberists, J Hendrix Experience, Moody Blues (Denny Laine era)

[webpunter]

If You Leave Me Now by Chicago was an enormous hit. Number one in 7 countries and top 5 in 17 countries. I love the song. Peter Cetera's voice is so good.

 
I'll raise you with Just Another Day Jon Secada

[foreverchanges]

Thought Love might have been in there judging by your name.

My favourite album of all time but Arthur Lee was way too inconsistent.

[I like natural boobs]

I'll raise you with Just Another Day Jon Secada

Yessss!!!, that is very good. I love that song.

[webpunter]

Yessss!!!, that is very good. I love that song.

Moi aussi one of my abs faves

[I like natural boobs]

My favourite album of all time but Arthur Lee was way too inconsistent.

Yes Forever Changes is very good. What a year 1967 was. So many great albums that year and Forever Changes is one of the best in my opinion and yours obviously.

[maxQ]

The Rolling Stones - I’ve seen them 28 times

I was offered tickets to a Stones gig a few while back and turned it down, because I don't really like stadium gigs, would have paid yuge money to see them live at a small venue. people who only know the Stones from the songs played on the radio, have no idea how good they are, the window on their live career seems to be closing  If i get another chance to see them I won't turn it down. their best songs are just so perfect

Blur - I’ve seen them 8 times, they are a great live band

Saw Blur 3 times, and yeah great live

[Colston36]

Louis Armstrong - the first band I ever saw.
Count Basie, with Ella Fitzgerald
Duke Ellington. I believe he used to have a fuck before playing

[mr.bluesky]

I was offered tickets to a Stones gig a few while back and turned it down, because I don't really like stadium gigs, would have paid yuge money to see them live at a small venue. people who only know the Stones from the songs played on the radio, have no idea how good they are, the window on their live career seems to be closing  If i get another chance to see them I won't turn it down. their best songs are just so perfect


Saw Blur 3 times, and yeah great live

Never got into blur's music, back then it was either them or Oasis and I preferred Oasis. I still like Noel Gallaghers solo stuff with his band High Flying Birds. I wouldn't pay the ridiculous prices to see Oasis in concert though and Liam Gallagher is still a knob head

[ulstersubbie]

Louis Armstrong - the first band I ever saw.
Count Basie, with Ella Fitzgerald
Duke Ellington. I believe he used to have a fuck before playing

Wonderful selection Colston, as a Jazz lover myself those choices are monumental and you saw Satchmo live you lucky devil. May I add Benny Goodman and Gene Krupa to your list, my late father saw Krupa live in Glasgow back in the fifties, said he was an outstanding drummer.

[mills_and_bhuna]

Wonderful selection Colston, as a Jazz lover myself those choices are monumental and you saw Satchmo live you lucky devil. May I add Benny Goodman and Gene Krupa to your list, my late father saw Krupa live in Glasgow back in the fifties, said he was an outstanding drummer.

And Ella Fitzgerald. AND the Duke    Almost sounds like bragging 
Not that I wouldn't myself

[pbrown355]

I think  it was a better version, more passionate. I saw them in the 70's , at Wolverhampton Civic Hall. Seen The Who several times, first time being at Bingley Hall County Showgrounds, Stafford (first ever music event to be staged there), in 1974. Full line up ! 

Bloody hell Alabama, I was there. Saw loads of bands there. Remember SAHB as being "unusual" but pretty good. The Civic Hall I mean.

[alabama1]

Bloody hell Alabama, I was there. Saw loads of bands there. Remember SAHB as being "unusual" but pretty good. The Civic Hall I mean.

Bloody hell, really ? Talk about it being a small world ! 

[bhudda]

best live bands I saw were

ian dury and the blockheads (still well worth going to see the blockheads to this day)
magazine
motorhead
peter gabriel

though apart from the latter I rarely if ever listen to their records 

[Bhamguy]

The blockheads brilliant
Hit me with ur rhythm  stick hit me hit me
Classic tune n band

[Wayno]

Some proper old codgers on here 😄

The Smiths
The Strokes
Arctic monkeys

With a special mention to the old RHCP and Queens of the Stone Age.

[Rick2468]

Some proper old codgers on here 😄

The Smiths
The Strokes
Arctic monkeys

With a special mention to the old RHCP and Queens of the Stone Age.

I like these!

I've been listening to The Strokes a lot over Christmas. I watched their Reading 2011 set (which I was at) and it was awesome. The singer barely moves, he is glued to his microphone stand the whole set, he barely talks to the crowd, people may hate that but I think it shows he just lets the music do the talking. You can hear the crowd singing away to each song and they are loving it. As a music fan I respect that sort of performance over Coldplay who do all the fancy lighting and jumbotron stuff (I like Coldplay a little bit too, but just as an example). Is This It is a brilliant album and I have very fond memories from hearing it the first time. I also like their later stuff but Is This It is the tops for me.

Used to love Arctic Monkeys. I never clicked with their more recent stuff, tried listening once and it didn't click. Sounds like the sort of music you need to hear a few times to get into but I just didn't have the patience. I loved their first 2 albums and AM is a sensational album.

The Smiths is also a fine addition. Just before my time so I probably have more of a connection to the other two bands mentioned.

[Wayno]

I like these!

I've been listening to The Strokes a lot over Christmas. I watched their Reading 2011 set (which I was at) and it was awesome. The singer barely moves, he is glued to his microphone stand the whole set, he barely talks to the crowd, people may hate that but I think it shows he just lets the music do the talking. You can hear the crowd singing away to each song and they are loving it. As a music fan I respect that sort of performance over Coldplay who do all the fancy lighting and jumbotron stuff (I like Coldplay a little bit too, but just as an example). Is This It is a brilliant album and I have very fond memories from hearing it the first time. I also like their later stuff but Is This It is the tops for me.

Used to love Arctic Monkeys. I never clicked with their more recent stuff, tried listening once and it didn't click. Sounds like the sort of music you need to hear a few times to get into but I just didn't have the patience. I loved their first 2 albums and AM is a sensational album.

The Smiths is also a fine addition. Just before my time so I probably have more of a connection to the other two bands mentioned.

Agree with you completely on the strokes, they just get up and belt it out, loved them.

I’m not a massive fan of Coldplay music but saw them live a couple of years ago, it was probably the best concert I’d been to in terms of the actual event, something I’ll never forget.

Agree on the more recent arctic monkeys too, you need to give it a chance! I was stuck in a camper van travelling oz with someone playing it incessantly, kinda stuck and now I prefer the more recent stuff if I’m being honest.

I was a young uncouth teen when the smiths were around and didn’t appreciate them at all until I was older.

[Cactus]

The Clash
The Yeah Yeah Yeah’s
The White Stripes/Jack White

With honourable mentions to:
The Rolling Stones
The Strokes
Idles
Talking Heads

[Rick2468]

The Clash
The Yeah Yeah Yeah’s
The White Stripes/Jack White

With honourable mentions to:
The Rolling Stones
The Strokes
Idles
Talking Heads

Ah Yeah Yeah Yeahs are another band very close to my heart. Y Control is one of my favourite ever songs and I listen to the acoustic version of It's Blitz! fairly often. Another one that is part of that early 2000s post punk scene. I loved that scene because I had just moved to London and I was able to see all these bands live. I was massively into Oasis as a teenager but I was too young to see them live and only saw them later in their career (and last year which was amazing). I felt more of a part of the post-punk scene because I went to so many gigs and made a lot of friends into the same music and we all dressed like them.

Are you into Interpol? They are one of my favourite bands from that scene.

There is a book called Meet Me In The Bathroom by Lizzy Goodman which is about the post-punk scene which I really enjoyed if you were interested. They made a documentary based on the book which I haven't seen yet but would like to.

[mr.bluesky]

One of the best live bands I've seen was ZZ Top. When they performed their hit single " Legs" about twenty leggy lovelys came on stage wearing black leotards playing neon saxaphones which lit up   
( a well known fact of the three members of the band the only one who didn't have a long beard was the drummer who's name is Frank Beard  )

[ulstersubbie]

Talking Heads

 

[dubs]

It's interesting that most of these bands are from the 70's & 80's and there's hardly any bands these days that are in the charts.  It's all crap written by 10 people, sampling old songs and sung by some girl twerking  in her underwear.

[mr.bluesky]

It's interesting that most of these bands are from the 70's & 80's and there's hardly any bands these days that are in the charts.  It's all crap written by 10 people, sampling old songs and sung by some girl twerking  in her underwear.

Have to agree, I can't imagine many of todays bands being around in 5 years time let alone 15 or 20 years time.

[I like natural boobs]

I just read that Bernard Sumner celebrated his 70th birthday a few days ago. That guy's been in some good bands. Joy Division, New Order, Electronic with Johnny Marr and guest appearances from Neil Tennant. Even did songs with 808 State.

I like this song. Getting Away With it by Electronic
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[Cupid Stuntz]

Rush
Scorpions
UFO

[PepeMAGA]

Rush
Scorpions
UFO

Xanadu by Rush I can listen to over and over.

Sails of Charon by Scorpions is a masterpiece as well.

[PepeMAGA]

It's interesting that most of these bands are from the 70's & 80's and there's hardly any bands these days that are in the charts.  It's all crap written by 10 people, sampling old songs and sung by some girl twerking  in her underwear.

I don't think I can name a modern band tbh, Tame impala is probably the latest one in aware of, and they/ or rather he has been around about 15 years

[Cupid Stuntz]

best live bands I saw were

ian dury and the blockheads (still well worth going to see the blockheads to this day)
 

Norman Watt-Roy is an awesome Bass player.

[Colston36]

Wonderful selection Colston, as a Jazz lover myself those choices are monumental and you saw Satchmo live you lucky devil. May I add Benny Goodman and Gene Krupa to your list, my late father saw Krupa live in Glasgow back in the fifties, said he was an outstanding drummer.

Thanks. I saw all the ones I mentioned live. But the most exciting was Lionel Hampton's Band. I saw them in Manchester. They simply would not stop playing. They had to turn everything off to stop them.

I've spent a lifetime enjoying music. Three of my children are professional musicians but I lack the talent. Not the only thing I'm useless at.

One of my wives went with her best friend on a date with Count Basie and Joe Williams, his singer. My wife's pal ran a brothel in Sydney.

[simon07]

My 3 favourites are:

Peter Gabriel
Roxy Music
Yes

[Prince]

Earth Wind & Fire
Azymuth
Mandrill

[Georgedaviesok]

Love the who too
Probably  the best gig I've been too the  quadraphina  tour
But can't beat a sham 69 gig still act as I'm in my 20s lol

1 very talented  singer n don't think he gets the respect  he deserves  is Marc almond absolutely  talented

Other groups like are
Dfe
Angelic upstarts
Bowie

Jimmy Pursey doesnt get much respect cos he isnt a very nice person and has pissed a lot of people off over the years. Hes another one who over the years has slagged punk off yet still continues for the love of coin not the genre. I have known him a very long time. The first time round they were great but were finished off by the British Movement. Fame defnitely went to his head.

[mr.bluesky]

Iron Maiden,
Megadeth,
Nightwish.
Just a small selection of the plethora of bands I like. Don't get me started on Japanese girl metal bands, almost to many to mention.

I quite like a bit of Iron Maiden and have some of their CD's ( yes I'm old school and still listen to music on CD's  ) but not familiar with Megadeth or Nightwish's music 
Thunder are another band who I quite like, they have been around for donkeys years without achieving the popularity gained by most other rock or heavy metal bands. Add Saxon to that list.
I'm not just into rock music though and feel quite comfortable listen to artists like Barry White.

[Snipper]

I have varied and eclectic musical tastes or I listen to a load of shite depending on other people's opinions.. Difficult to select only three but I will go with:-

Muse
Tuba Skinny
Flogging Molly

Thanks MBS for reminding me of Saxon. Luv Princess of the Night coz I luv steaming engines.

[Colston36]

Earth Wind & Fire
Azymuth
Mandrill

Earth Wind & Fire must surely be unmatched. The group I wish I'd seen was the Gap Band - Charley Wilson was still doing well relatively recently but the other two brothers died young.

[Stevelondon]

Too many to mention.

I was 19 when I came to the smoke and loved the bands playing in pubs all over the capital. Saw Ian Dury and the Blockheads at the (Then) Nashville Rooms in West Ken.
Funnily enough it is the pub closest to HoW now 
Blackfoot Souix at the Red Lion Fulham Broadway.
Great times.

The bigger venues Wembley of course. Elton John, Clapton (Albert hall too)
A ‘Yes’ concert at Wembley Pool …., stoned 😂

I kinda miss those days.

[alabama1]

Too many to mention.

I was 19 when I came to the smoke and loved the bands playing in pubs all over the capital. Saw Ian Dury and the Blockheads at the (Then) Nashville Rooms in West Ken.
Funnily enough it is the pub closest to HoW now 
Blackfoot Souix at the Red Lion Fulham Broadway.
Great times.

The bigger venues Wembley of course. Elton John, Clapton (Albert hall too)
A ‘Yes’ concert at Wembley Pool …., stoned 😂

I kinda miss those days.

Biggest i saw was Queen, Wembley 1986 

[mr.bluesky]

Biggest i saw was Queen, Wembley 1986 

One band I wished I saw live but never did  Have the DVD of that concert, watched it many times.

[alabama1]

One band I wished I saw live but never did  Have the DVD of that concert, watched it many times.

They were there 2 nights. I was at the one that wasn't featured on the DVD, though there are some clips in the box set. I know this because there was a massive thunderstorm the night that i saw them. Freddie, having had a sip of water out of his cup, preceded to throw it over the front row of the crowd with the words ' are you lot wet enough' ( or similar) lol. The full line up of bands that night, in ascendance... The Alarm, INXS, Status Quo, Queen. I was well impressed with INXS

[stampjones]

Pixies
NWA
Clash

[ulstersubbie]

Pixies

 

[Rick2468]

Pixies
NWA
Clash

I have seen Pixies a few times and I rate the time I saw them at Brixton as one of my all time favourite gigs. We got close to the front and Pixies started with Winterlong which I think was a B-Side but I knew it and loved it and clearly the hardcore fans at the front also did. The setlist was banging. Frank Black didn't say a word between any songs at all they just played banging tunes. I randomly saw Jonathan Ross in the crowd at one front and he was jumping around like a mad man, I think he was just trying to be funny rather than genuinely moshing but it made the night a bit more interesting. The concert is available on Spotify (June 2, 2004) and featured on Tim Burgess's Listening Party once so I listened along that night.

Pixies are a band I go back to maybe once a year and just have a day or two when I go through all their songs.

[stampjones]

I have seen Pixies a few times and I rate the time I saw them at Brixton as one of my all time favourite gigs. We got close to the front and Pixies started with Winterlong which I think was a B-Side but I knew it and loved it and clearly the hardcore fans at the front also did. The setlist was banging. Frank Black didn't say a word between any songs at all they just played banging tunes. I randomly saw Jonathan Ross in the crowd at one front and he was jumping around like a mad man, I think he was just trying to be funny rather than genuinely moshing but it made the night a bit more interesting. The concert is available on Spotify (June 2, 2004) and featured on Tim Burgess's Listening Party once so I listened along that night.

Pixies are a band I go back to maybe once a year and just have a day or two when I go through all their songs. As

Yes Ive seen them a few times in Brixton. I think I may have been at the gig you mentioned. My fave gig was the bossanova tour which started with Rock Music, one of my favourite of their songs. Thatcwas back when Kim Deal was still in the band. Even though she probably isnt objectively good looking I always found her so sexy. Joey Santiago was an absolute genius of a guitarist. The gig I mentioned is available on you tube somewhere

[ulstersubbie]

Yes Ive seen them a few times in Brixton. I think I may have been at the gig you mentioned. My fave gig was the bossanova tour which started with Rock Music, one of my favourite of their songs. Thatcwas back when Kim Deal was still in the band. Even though she probably isnt objectively good looking I always found her so sexy. Joey Santiago was an absolute genius of a guitarist. The gig I mentioned is available on you tube somewhere

I wish Kim had stayed, but she did pretty well for herself after leaving the Pixies.

[stampjones]

I wish Kim had stayed, but she did pretty well for herself after leaving the Pixies.

Yeah me too. They werent as good without her. The first Breeders album with Tanya Donnelly was really good even though it didnt do that well commercially

[ulstersubbie]

Yeah me too. They werent as good without her. The first Breeders album with Tanya Donnelly was really good even though it didnt do that well commercially

Totally agree with you stampjones, that first Breeders album was class, Deal and Donnelly were super cool rock chicks along with the other female in the band Josephine Wiggs (she did bat for the other side though  ).

[Vice Admiral]

1.  The Wombles
2.  The Wurzels
3.  The Chipmunks

I was thinking of going for St Winifred's School Choir.  “There’s No One Quite Like Grandma” is, after all, almost as iconic and ground-breaking as “I Got a Brand New Combine Harvester” and "The Chipmunk Song (Christmas Don't Be Late)".  But I was worried people might look at me funny.

Mind you, Wombles are a bit of a grey area...