What are you listening to? The world really needs to know. #6
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Hey man...
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Skygazer
And in the end...
:D That's a beautiful track from The Slider album - practically perfect in every way, not so destined for the singles chart, but all the better for it.
Didn't think T Rex was so well known in the US.
Two proper bona fide:) poems put to music, that do the poems justice, I think:
Abel Meeropol's Bitter Fruit and John Cooper Clarke I Wanna Be Yours (second stanza changed but, with permission):
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Didn't think T Rex was so well known in the US.
Two proper bona fide:) poems put to music, that do the poems justice, I think:
Abel Meeropol's Bitter Fruit and John Cooper Clarke I Wanna Be Yours (second stanza changed but, with permission):
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The only track that made any real noise here was Get it On (what we lot refer to it as), and that was all over FM radio in '71 and '72 and still gets significant play on classic rock stations (if I can bring myself to listen to the same 50 songs over and over, which is rare). Truth is, while I've known of T. Rex since '71, I didn't realize until just a couple of days ago how many tracks I knew and just didn't realize they were by T. Rex. Songs like Metal Guru, Jeepster, Telegram Sam, and 20th Century Boy; all good to great tracks that got some play but never any real traction. I'm almost certain that I had never heard Ballrooms of Mars until the other night when I posted it here after surfing youtube for a bit. I saw the title of the song and thought "that has to be a great song." I wasn't wrong.
PhillyDave
“The essential doesn't change.” Beckett
T Rex are excellent. Classics are "Electric Warrior" and "The Slider", those albums and the tune "20th Century Boy".
I've ordered those two from ebay, so those are on the way. 20th Century Boy was a single-only track for a while, but it's included in the re-released Tanx CD. I'm just doing some research to figure out which one to buy.
I'm still trying to figure out how I missed the boat on them for so long. Then again, I resisted the "Dylan is really awesome" comments in high school and college and only came around in Autumn of '85 - I was driving around somewhere and A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall came on the radio and the light went on very brightly. I nearly drove off a bridge. Same with Zappa, but that took many more years.
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PhillyDave
“The essential doesn't change.” Beckett
A little late but this lp just hit it's 30 year anniversary:
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PhillyDave
“The essential doesn't change.” Beckett
"Automatic" didn't hold up very well for me. I liked it at the time but now I prefer "New Adventures in Hi Fi"
@PhillyDave both are cool with me, good call with New Adventures in Hi Fi though...probably my favourite REM album to listen to as a whole.
Are the rest of you able to view these videos here? Since Saturday, they've not appeared and just show as blank white rectangles with a small O with a diagonal line through it in the top left corner.
@Purple Stickpin no issues viewing the videos on my end brother.
Thanks, I'll bother the mods (I'm good at that). :rolleyes:
I've used IE for the past 15 years with very few complaints. And up until this past weekend, I had no problems accessing embedded videos. I'm not sure I'd even know how I could "try" chrome or Firefox. I had to have Firefox installed on my work computer to properly use a virtual 32-bit computer on my computer, but I don't have it here at home. If Chrome = Google Chrome, I found that to be the most user unfriendly thing I've seen in some time (tried it on my wife's laptop when she had it "upgraded;" that being an extremely relative term).
Maybe I'm out of luck, but I can't believe that I'm the only one having this problem. I'm just not that special.
Maybe I'm out of luck, but I can't believe that I'm the only one having this problem. I'm just not that special.