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As Authentic as a Balti Curry
Famed for its pentatonic scale arguably used to perfection by John Lennon on Jealous Guy, music from the Indian subcontinent has inspired many a Western artist, from the 1960's onwards.
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They Think They're Motown
Well some of them were signed to Motown with a twist, the rest covered or ape Motown.
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1987-ish
An innovative year, possibly falsely remembered as such due to being my first year living independently. Somewhat distorted by so many songs coming out of the SAW Music Factory.
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1994-ish
A year when I went clubbing every week, and was rewarded by some cracking tracks, fondly remembered to this day.
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They Think They're the Stones!
Artist ripping the Stones off, or covering their back catalogue, or inspiring the Stones themselves. Or tracks that without a great stretch of the imagination I can imagine the Stones doing.
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The Joy of Sax
Such an obvious cliched title I could only have got it from an album already on sale. http://www.songfacts.com/category-songs_with_a_saxophone_part.php
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The Golden Age of Rock n Roll
Around about the mid seventies, artists got both nostalgic for the sounds of their childhood, and cognisant of the fact that Rock n Roll wasn't just a fad, but was the basis of a modern musical phenomenon that was here to stay. What had otherwise been dubbed teenage music, had a history which they were keen to celebrate and remember. So we had both songs celebrating the phenomenon lyrically and musically, with copy cat bands springing up, 20 years past the height of the original movement. This phenomenon was repeated on celluloid with the release of films such as The Wanderers, and on TV with hits such as Happy Days- a sitcom chronicling teenage years during the 50's. It was therefore a television programme guaranteed to appeal both to those middle-agers who were there at the time, and teenagers now experiencing those years for the first time. Sometimes you got artists willing to put a post modern twist on old classics such as Roll Over Beethoven by Chuck Berry, other artists suc…
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De-stress Detox
I'm sure Madonna doesn't set out to write anxiety relieving tunes, but she should be prescribed on the NHS.
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A Night at the Late Seventies Soft Rock Opera
Not as pompous as Prog, but almost...and not bands that are remembered as cool, by and large.
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Psychedelic Soul
Funkadelic may have close captioned the phenomena, but there were plenty of artists before and after them, weirding out Funk, which was an already out there genre.
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Beginnings of the Ubiquity of Rock
A rock sensibility began to permeate quite a few tracks by about 1968. Even songs originally released as pop, got the rock treatment.
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Why did they all have a Gospel Tinge?
Well at least spiritual tinge. Tried to keep this between late sixties and 1975. Was pop music replacing the spiritual, was there a greater search or sense of loss of religious identity, or did they all come from god fearing backgrounds?
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Ladies of the Early Seventies
The ladies in between burning bras in the early seventies made great music.
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Fusty Rock
LP's sitting yellow and dog eared somewhere in the bargain bin of the local Woolworths in the 80's.
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1978 (ish) Classical/Classy-Pop
Around the turn of the decade, there was a flux of British tracks, that sat in the charts alongside punk, which were epic in their ambition, used plenty of classical instruments, and I suppose were there to make use of hi-fi musical equipment.....at least that's how it appears to my ears. And some maybe not fitting the date and country pattern. Composers such as Andrew Lloyd Webber and Mike Batt, who were writing for musicals, television and film, as well as getting into the pop charts.
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Old Lovers Reacquainted but not Reunited
They were lovers (or would have liked to have been) and reminisce fondly of their time together but they're not going to repeat it.
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Klaxons, Dachshunds, Hofner Bass and Tyrolean Brass
Apart from the Klaxons and Dachshunds, there is a sound predominately from the sixties were certain tracks used great bass and brass, heavily dominated by a Teutonic sensibility. We're talking a Hoffner Bass sound, or a muffled brass sound, maybe with a bit of a distorted quality.
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My Student Collection
Music was in short supply in the days before jobs and digital music services, so I tended to play the same albums over and over again from a limited library. This was my library of new albums around 1990.
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