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gutsygub
Joined: 15 Sep 2010 Posts: 111
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Posted: Thu Nov 11, 2010 3:00 pm Post subject: What songs make you turn the volume DOWN |
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I may get screamed at here, will take the risk, but I heard some awful cover by Amy "Whinehouse" today, volume went down, then it was followed by the new thing by Duffy. Had rather hoped she had disappeared without a trace. Radio went off. Do I need a new hearing aid or is she like a wailing banshee to anyone else? |
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Lord Evan Elpuss
Joined: 10 Dec 2006 Posts: 3417 Location: Cloud Cuckoo Land
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Posted: Thu Nov 11, 2010 3:54 pm Post subject: |
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I just have to turn these down due to their being on the over-play lists of Radio 2 & Absolute: Coldplay — Viva La Vida & Elbow - One Day Like This.
The first one I switched off this morning!! _________________ Lord Evan Elpuss, Your ideal job is a Lumberjack. |
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undiscovered
Joined: 15 Sep 2010 Posts: 650 Location: Peterborough
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Posted: Thu Nov 11, 2010 4:02 pm Post subject: |
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sussudio or however you bloody spell it by phil collins on R2 yesterday on the way home arghg _________________ You will hear gospel and rhythm and blues and jazz, all those are just labels, we know that music is music. |
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ruddlescat
Joined: 16 Sep 2010 Posts: 18010 Location: Near Chester
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Posted: Thu Nov 11, 2010 4:09 pm Post subject: |
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I actually quite like Amy Duffy and her music
I think its going a bit too far to compare her with Dusty Springfield as some people on radio seem to do but she's offering something a little different from the normal bland X Factor type dross and she does have a distinctive and unique style
I thing we need more female artists like Duffy Paloma Faith etc but just my humble opinion _________________ Are you ready for a Ruddles? |
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aviddiva
Joined: 11 Oct 2008 Posts: 1135 Location: Wakefield, West Yorkshire
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Posted: Thu Nov 11, 2010 7:01 pm Post subject: What songs make you want to turn the volume DOWN |
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Shine (Take That) as it's also used in the supermarket commercial.
Angels (Robbie Williams) - nuff said
How To Save A Life (The Fray) - calculated to appear in medical soaps _________________ We are loonies and we are proud!
- Campbell Bain in 'Takin' Over The Asylum' |
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aviddiva
Joined: 11 Oct 2008 Posts: 1135 Location: Wakefield, West Yorkshire
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Posted: Thu Nov 11, 2010 7:03 pm Post subject: What songs make you want to turn the volume DOWN |
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Sympathy For The Devil (Rolling Stones) - it's always on Planet Rock
Aqualung (Jethro Tull) - see above _________________ We are loonies and we are proud!
- Campbell Bain in 'Takin' Over The Asylum' |
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becky sharp
Joined: 01 Dec 2008 Posts: 6851
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Posted: Thu Nov 11, 2010 7:14 pm Post subject: |
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Lord Evan Elpuss wrote: | Elbow - One Day Like This. |
Didn't think I'd see such a beautiful song as that on a thread like this...
Up high on my, turn down the volume, list ...The Ting Tings ~ That's Not My Name.....I hate it with a passion |
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ruddlescat
Joined: 16 Sep 2010 Posts: 18010 Location: Near Chester
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Posted: Thu Nov 11, 2010 7:20 pm Post subject: |
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No sorry Becky I really like the Ting Tings That's Not My Name
Its just about the only thing I have in common with Chris Evans (that's a frightening thought) but I discovered it about 3 months before he did and there again even he admits he knows nothing about music
I think its the kind of track which grows on you _________________ Are you ready for a Ruddles? |
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becky sharp
Joined: 01 Dec 2008 Posts: 6851
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Posted: Thu Nov 11, 2010 7:24 pm Post subject: |
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ruddlescat wrote: | No sorry Becky I really like the Ting Tings That's Not My Name
Its just about the only thing I have in common with Chris Evans (that's a frightening thought) but I discovered it about 3 months before he did and there again even he admits he knows nothing about music
I think its the kind of track which grows on you | Not me it didn't ruddles... I did actually turn it off when it came on any radio station I was listening to... |
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ruddlescat
Joined: 16 Sep 2010 Posts: 18010 Location: Near Chester
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Posted: Thu Nov 11, 2010 7:30 pm Post subject: |
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But that's the whole point of what I was saying Becky
If you turned it off on each occasion you heard it then it would never have the chance to grow on you
I must admit I didn't like it much when I first heard it but they started playing it over the PA system at Saints rugby matches and after about 9 or 10 hearings I began to like it
I then decided to listen to other tracks by the same artists and ended up downloading a whole album _________________ Are you ready for a Ruddles? |
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becky sharp
Joined: 01 Dec 2008 Posts: 6851
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Posted: Thu Nov 11, 2010 7:32 pm Post subject: |
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ruddlescat wrote: | But that's the whole point of what I was saying Becky
If you turned it off on each occasion you heard it then it would never have the chance to grow on you
I must admit I didn't like it much when I first heard it but they started playing it over the PA system at Saints rugby matches and after about 9 or 10 hearings I began to like it
I then decided to listen to other tracks by the same artists and ended up downloading a whole album | But I had heard it enough times,ruddles, before I started to turn it off to know I hated it and would always hate it ..... |
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aviddiva
Joined: 11 Oct 2008 Posts: 1135 Location: Wakefield, West Yorkshire
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Posted: Fri Nov 12, 2010 1:25 pm Post subject: Songs that make you turn the volume DOWN |
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Comfortably Numb/I Don't Feel Like Dancing (Scissor Sisters)
You Raise Me Up (Westlife)
When You Say Nothing At All (Ronan Keating) - like the girl in question is Holly Hunter's character in The Piano! _________________ We are loonies and we are proud!
- Campbell Bain in 'Takin' Over The Asylum' |
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littlepieces
Joined: 10 Jan 2010 Posts: 1098 Location: Lowestoft
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Posted: Sun Nov 14, 2010 4:40 pm Post subject: |
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i'm sorry but anything by Queen will get me turning the off switch _________________ I found out how you can hurt an insect.It's the bees knees |
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aviddiva
Joined: 11 Oct 2008 Posts: 1135 Location: Wakefield, West Yorkshire
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Posted: Sat Mar 05, 2011 11:04 am Post subject: What songs make you want to turn the volume DOWN |
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Pack Up and Skinny Jeans by Eliza Doolittle - her wealthy relatives must be bribing Real Radio to flog these derivative novelties to death! _________________ We are loonies and we are proud!
- Campbell Bain in 'Takin' Over The Asylum' |
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John W
Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 3367 Location: Warwickshire, UK
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Posted: Sat Mar 05, 2011 11:17 am Post subject: |
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have to say I never turn the volume DOWN
It's either ON or OFF, and it will go OFF if I hear anything by Status Quo, Queen, Stevie Wonder, Bee Gees, Oasis, Michael Jackson, Spice Girls, Girls Aloud and stuff like Band Of flippin Gold, Itchy-Koo flippin Park, If I Can't Have flippin You (was on R2 just now), Baker flippin Street,
similarly on Classic FM it will go OFF if I hear 1812 flippin Overture, Air on a flippin G string, Grieg's flippin Piano Concerto, Moonlight flippin Sonata, Rachmaninov's flippin No 2.....
in fact anythin' that makes me flip! _________________ -
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Lord Evan Elpuss
Joined: 10 Dec 2006 Posts: 3417 Location: Cloud Cuckoo Land
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Posted: Sat Mar 05, 2011 2:36 pm Post subject: |
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John W wrote: | Air on a flippin G string, in fact anythin' that makes me |
I remember Bob Harris dipped his toe into the world of classical music once. Guess what he played, yes 'Air On A G String' as done by Yehudi Menuhin. It was either in the middle or last hour of his show: http://www.bobharris.info/pages/playlist.asp?progcode=s26012002 _________________ Lord Evan Elpuss, Your ideal job is a Lumberjack. |
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John W
Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 3367 Location: Warwickshire, UK
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Posted: Sat Mar 05, 2011 7:04 pm Post subject: |
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Yeah well, the piece of music is really the Air from JS Bach's Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D major.
It was German violinist August Wilhelmj (1845–1908) whose arrangement came to be known as Air on the G String.
Of course ClassicFM play the Air in it's original Bach form and still call it Air on a flippin G string. _________________ -
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Lord Evan Elpuss
Joined: 10 Dec 2006 Posts: 3417 Location: Cloud Cuckoo Land
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Posted: Sat Mar 05, 2011 7:51 pm Post subject: |
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And, of course, for me it will always be remembered as the backing music to the Hamlet cigar ads of my youth, when they were allowed to advertise such things on TV!! _________________ Lord Evan Elpuss, Your ideal job is a Lumberjack. |
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John W
Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 3367 Location: Warwickshire, UK
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Posted: Sat Mar 05, 2011 8:11 pm Post subject: |
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Lord Evan Elpuss wrote: | And, of course, for me it will always be remembered as the backing music to the Hamlet cigar ads of my youth, when they were allowed to advertise such things on TV!! |
Ah, well even THAT was another variation of the Air by jazz interpreter/musician Jacques Loussier! _________________ -
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