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  1. Hubert Parry - Jerusalem (The Honley Male Voice Choir & The Band of HM Royal Marines)
  2. Dexys Midnight Runners - Come on Eileen
  3. Van Morrison - Someone like you
  4. Craig David - 7 Days
  5. Tiffany - I think we're alone now (his wife’s favourite)
  6. Undercover - Baker Street (for me, one of the most tin-eared cover versions ever, but there you go)
  7. Paolo Nutini - Last Request
  8. Coldplay - Fix you
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On 06/10/2022 at 09:33, Wolford6 said:

Funny how Lancashire pinched Saddleworth and Delph from the West Riding in 1974, just to give it some unheard-of rates income and use them on brochures.

 

Saddleworth under Lancastrian rule:

Community scheme returns in Saddleworth after toilet troubles - Quest Media Network - Tameside Radio, Tameside Reporter, Oldham Reporter, Glossop Chronicle

 

Note the Parish Council still flaunts the White Rose.

As someone who lives in their ward I see these two jokers around and on local social media all the time -  come to this forum to escape reality not to see them pop-up here too!

Saddleworth Rangers have the right idea having both a red and white rose on their badge to stop border wars 🤣

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4 hours ago, Futtocks said:
  1. Hubert Parry - Jerusalem (The Honley Male Voice Choir & The Band of HM Royal Marines)
  2. Dexys Midnight Runners - Come on Eileen
  3. Van Morrison - Someone like you
  4. Craig David - 7 Days
  5. Tiffany - I think we're alone now (his wife’s favourite)
  6. Undercover - Baker Street (for me, one of the most tin-eared cover versions ever, but there you go)
  7. Paolo Nutini - Last Request
  8. Coldplay - Fix you

For #%£@& sake.

I was just about to have a go at these choices when I remembered that I had called johnny a cultural snob for criticising other people's music taste in another thread recently. 

Really backed myself into a corner on that one.

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great bloke and a rugby league legend - wouldn't want to invest in his new mobile disco venture though - the original version of i think we're alone now a great song - bet he doesnt even know it exists

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see you later undertaker - in a while necrophile 

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7 hours ago, Futtocks said:
  1. Hubert Parry - Jerusalem (The Honley Male Voice Choir & The Band of HM Royal Marines)
  2. Dexys Midnight Runners - Come on Eileen
  3. Van Morrison - Someone like you
  4. Craig David - 7 Days
  5. Tiffany - I think we're alone now (his wife’s favourite)
  6. Undercover - Baker Street (for me, one of the most tin-eared cover versions ever, but there you go)
  7. Paolo Nutini - Last Request
  8. Coldplay - Fix you

undercover-Baker st -what a load of bilge.Gerry Raffertys every time.

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4 hours ago, Chrispmartha said:

However his taste in Music is terrible.

No it isn't; it's just safe and a bit MoR, like a lot of sportspeople's picks. You know, artists and bands that are popular and sell well. People who have committed the crime of writing songs that the public likes.

I wouldn't listen to much of it myself, but the only truly offensive one (to me) is the Undercover track, which may have a special meaning for some moment in his youth.

The only track I hadn't heard before was the Paolo Nutini one, and that was quite nice.

 

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4 hours ago, Wolford6 said:

Kevin Sinfield is only 42. I don't think there's one song there from this century.

Strange.

There are three from this century.

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24 minutes ago, Mr Frisky said:

Maybe because popular music and Rock music finished in 1999 mate.

Translation: "I stopped caring enough to search for new music I'd like after 1999." :kolobok_wink: 

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4 hours ago, Chrispmartha said:

However his taste in Music is terrible.

His taste in music isn't your taste in music. 

32 minutes ago, Futtocks said:

No it isn't; it's just safe and a bit MoR, like a lot os sportspeople's picks. You know, artists and bands that are popular and sell well. People who have committed the crime of writing songs that the public likes.

Agreed.

Was anyone really expecting him to pick anything by people like Olivier Messiaen or Thelonious Monk?

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10 minutes ago, Stuff Smith said:

His taste in music isn't your taste in music. 

Agreed.

Was anyone really expecting him to pick anything by people like Olivier Messiaen or Thelonious Monk?

When you spend your childhood obsessively trying to excel in any field, such as sport, you tend to spend a lot less time in gigs, nightclubs and record shops than us regular slobs. They are often a little dull for the same reason they are successful - intense focus on their goal.

That's why it was always the standing joke in the Nineties that footballers only listen to Simply Red. And probably in the Noughties that their record collection consisted entirely of Oasis albums. And, when you think about it, that's kind of snobby.

That said, it does make the outliers more of a pleasant surprise, like Steve Davis' obsession with the outer/lunatic fringes of prog rock or Stuart Pierce's obsession with punk.

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15 minutes ago, Futtocks said:

Translation: "I stopped caring enough to search for new music I'd like after 1999." :kolobok_wink: 

 

 

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5 minutes ago, Stuff Smith said:

Yeah, Steve Davis: mad Magma fan. The mind boggles.

Plus he does some psychedelic DJing with his mate Kavus Torabi.

 

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1 hour ago, Stuff Smith said:

His taste in music isn't your taste in music. 

Agreed.

Was anyone really expecting him to pick anything by people like Olivier Messiaen or Thelonious Monk?

As part of my subscription to a season at the Opera in Vichy, some years ago I acquired this CD wich included work by Messiaen. There is some controversy over his wartime links with the occupying forces. His music is an aquired taste, that I have not aquired. Monk is genius.

 

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Messiaen's most approachable work, in a lot of people's opinions, is Et exspecto Resurrectionem Mortuorum. If you don't like that, you can safely ignore the rest of his output.

 

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He's a very hard person to dislike, it was a very enjoyable listen.

I can confirm 30+ less sales for Scotland vs Italy at Workington, after this afternoons test purchase for the Tonga match, £7.50 is extremely reasonable, however a £2.50 'delivery' fee for a walk in purchase is beyond taking the mickey, good luck with that, it's cheaper on the telly.

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