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RockitRon



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PostPosted: Mon Apr 06, 2009 10:41 pm    Post subject: Now 72 Reply with quote

You can always tell when it's the start of the school Easter and Summer holidays (and the time in mid-November when you really ought to start thinking about Christmas shopping) by the tv commercials and release of the latest Now compilation CD.

Thus Now 72 has hit the shops, priced between £10.81 (Tesco) and £13.99 (HMV).
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Now-Thats-What-Call-Music/dp/tracks/B001T0HH6K/ref=dp_tracks_all_1#disc_1

Looking at the list of 43 supposed chart tracks on it, I realise I have finally outgrown the thing, because I can only recognise about half a dozen of them. The other noteworthy statistic is that our once-great British record company, EMI, whose brand Now is, only supplies three of those forty three tracks.
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PostPosted: Mon Apr 06, 2009 10:51 pm    Post subject: Re: Now 72 Reply with quote

RockitRon wrote:
Thus Now 72 has hit the shops, priced between £10.81 (Tesco) and £13.99 (HMV).
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Now-Thats-What-Call-Music/dp/tracks/B001T0HH6K/ref=dp_tracks_all_1#disc_1

That's Steve Wright's playlist, that is.
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PostPosted: Tue Apr 07, 2009 7:28 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Is Brown-Eyed Girl on it then? Laughing

Does SW still play that every half-hour?
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PostPosted: Tue Apr 07, 2009 9:05 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

MadeinSurrey wrote:
Is Brown-Eyed Girl on it then? Laughing

Does SW still play that every half-hour?

Ha! I don't listen as much as I used to but caught half-an-hour the other day... and he did indeed play Brown Eyed Girl!
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PostPosted: Tue Apr 07, 2009 10:55 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Ian Robinson wrote:
Ha! I don't listen as much as I used to but caught half-an-hour the other day... and he did indeed play Brown Eyed Girl!


Yes, I'm sure I heard him play it yet again recently when I caught a snatch of his "show" whilst I was driving. When you think of all the really good stuff that Van The Man has produced it's quite pathetic that it always comes down to Brown Eyed Girl or Bright Side of The Road.

I love "Real, Real Gone" and it's such a good stirring track but I never hear it on daytime radio.

In fact, I'm going to play it on iTunes right now, so there!
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PostPosted: Tue Apr 07, 2009 4:23 pm    Post subject: Ivan the Belfast Ccwboy..... Reply with quote

'4% Pantomime' by The Band with Van Morrison never gets an airing either! 'Oh Richard' Van sings, and Richard (Manuel) sings back in answer 'Oh Belfast Cowboy!' Hey maybe he could see into the future and Van doing Country songs! Laughing
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PostPosted: Tue Apr 07, 2009 8:28 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I remember listening to Gerry Anderson's show on Radio Ulster a few years back and on one particular day it was obvious he wasn't in his usual studio and had very little choice of CDs to play as around half the tracks on the show were all on the most recent Now album..
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PostPosted: Thu Apr 09, 2009 9:12 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

virtually nothing on there i'd want to listen to
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colby



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PostPosted: Thu Apr 09, 2009 9:17 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Looks good to me. The superb Lily Allen, the gorgeous Alicia Dixon, Kelly Clarkson, The Saturdays, Leona Lewis, Katy Perry (ooooh er!), September...... etc.

Yep! I might have to rip somebody's 2 CD set into my iTunes!

Smile

BTW - currently listening to my original "Grateful Dead Europe '72" live double LP. How about that for eclecticity (or whatever the word should be!)?
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PostPosted: Thu Apr 09, 2009 9:23 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I liked it... I liked it... not
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PostPosted: Thu Apr 09, 2009 9:25 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

BTW - currently listening to my original "Grateful Dead Europe '72" live double LP. How about that for eclecticity (or whatever the word should be!)?
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I like eclectism too, Graeful Dead, Taylor Swift, Simon & Garfunkel, Darius Rucker, Pentangle, Guns N Roses side by side
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PostPosted: Thu Apr 09, 2009 9:29 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Clive55 wrote:
Grateful Dead
Now you're talking!!


Too right. I was listening to "Workingman's Dead" in the car earlier. Love it. I saw the dead at Ally Pally back in 76 when PigPen was with them and Garcia was still alive (at least he looked alive up there on stage! Smile ) and it was a bit weird.

I do like a lot of today's stuff as well. Lily Allen is a lovely, original songwriter/singer and Alicia Dixon is, er, mmmm, well, sexy!!!!!!!!!
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