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Another hive mind experiment... on 23:19 - Aug 13 by Perublue
Even more scarily their concert at the Gaumont Ipswich as it was called at the time was my 2nd ever….. what saves me was that my first was the boomtown rats at the same venue.
Blimey i was at the Rats gig!
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Another hive mind experiment... on 00:57 - Aug 14 with 518 views
"If you had to pick one song, and one song only, to represent the past 50 years of British Chart Music history..."
Think I've put way too much though into this...looking at this in terms of musicology (not in terms of what I like...), checklist would be a) British Artist, b) Chart Success, and c) if it's representing the last 50 years, something from the middle of that period (late 90's / early 00's) that wouldn't sound out of place in the 70's or more recently...
I've come up with...
Don't think it would sound out of place on a late 70's Elton John or more recent Ed Sheeran album, so that's what I've come up with
Another hive mind experiment... on 09:07 - Aug 14 by norfsufblue
26th Oct 1978...according to my research..... that was a good year!
I was 6 … maybe it was a birthday present ? as my 7th was the week after and indeed a great year , I actually lived opposite Roger Osborne and remember his house being decorated with blue and white balloons for his triumphant return to his humble new build mid terrace semi.
Ghost Town by The Specials. This song is incredible. It's absolutely of it's era, but sounds fresh today, and could almost (musically) have been recorded at any point after it was released. And The Specials were one of the trailblazers amongst multi-racial bands.
My two reserves are:
Because it's from the era when the video started to become as important as the song itself, which is one of the main trends of the past 50 years. It was also the biggest selling single of the year, if I remember right.
And my second reserve is:
Because it is a cover version, and loads of great songs are cover version, and because in it a white band respectfully draws on a black artist's legacy (Labbi Siffre features in the video, and was discovered by a generation of new fans as a result of this release) and the story of British Chart Music of the last 50 years is very much the story of the interplay of Black and White cultures. And it's a song that gets played at weddings and three or four generations will dance to.
Those going for Bohemian Rhapsody are probably right, though I do like the shout for Rick Astley- cultivated "boy next door" singers and mega producers are a big part of the story of British Chart Music over the last 50 years.
And it passes the "multi-generation" test.
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Another hive mind experiment... on 00:56 - Aug 16 with 91 views
Another hive mind experiment... on 00:39 - Aug 16 by ArnoldMoorhen
So my first has been covered:
Ghost Town by The Specials. This song is incredible. It's absolutely of it's era, but sounds fresh today, and could almost (musically) have been recorded at any point after it was released. And The Specials were one of the trailblazers amongst multi-racial bands.
My two reserves are:
Because it's from the era when the video started to become as important as the song itself, which is one of the main trends of the past 50 years. It was also the biggest selling single of the year, if I remember right.
And my second reserve is:
Because it is a cover version, and loads of great songs are cover version, and because in it a white band respectfully draws on a black artist's legacy (Labbi Siffre features in the video, and was discovered by a generation of new fans as a result of this release) and the story of British Chart Music of the last 50 years is very much the story of the interplay of Black and White cultures. And it's a song that gets played at weddings and three or four generations will dance to.
Those going for Bohemian Rhapsody are probably right, though I do like the shout for Rick Astley- cultivated "boy next door" singers and mega producers are a big part of the story of British Chart Music over the last 50 years.
And it passes the "multi-generation" test.
Rather than Rick Astley, Stock, Aitken and Waterman's finest moment was this underrated classic
Musical snobs won't like it but it is pop perfection.
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Another hive mind experiment... on 07:30 - Aug 16 with 34 views
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I was 6 … maybe it was a birthday present ? as my 7th was the week after and indeed a great year , I actually lived opposite Roger Osborne and remember his house being decorated with blue and white balloons for his triumphant return to his humble new build mid terrace semi.