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by **Straw Walker** » Thu Apr 30, 2009 2:18 pm

One of the delights of senior citizenship is that pottiness is not just accepted it is an obligation

. Doubly so for fans of the Discworld Maestro.

by **superfurryandy** » Thu Apr 30, 2009 5:10 pm

Normality is for weirdos :mrgreen:

by **poohbcarrot** » Thu Apr 30, 2009 5:25 pm

How more normal can you get than UB40? Didn't they once have a number one in the charts? I bet Super Furry Animals would never sell out like that!

by **superfurryandy** » Thu Apr 30, 2009 5:27 pm

UB40 were great until they turned into a bloody karaoke band - first two albums full of politics and dubbiness - luvly.

I do have a very guilty pleasure - Level 42, but only the early albums :oops:

by **poohbcarrot** » Thu Apr 30, 2009 5:37 pm

Didn't the early late seventies/early eighties finish almost 30 years ago?

If you want politics or wall paper music from that era why not choose SLF and the Human League??

by **superfurryandy** » Thu Apr 30, 2009 5:39 pm

Cos I was a wee bit young for SLF, but I do like Human League's first two albums, especially the 'instrumental' version of Dare.

by **poohbcarrot** » Thu Apr 30, 2009 5:45 pm

The first two Human League albums were Reproduction and Travelogue. Then they split up to form Heaven 17 and the "Human League" with the two women. Dare was their "3rd" album.

The first two albums are well worth listening to (before they went all Karaoke a la UB40)

by **superfurryandy** » Thu Apr 30, 2009 5:48 pm

First three albums, then :oops:

Also liked Heaven 17's first album, but I have a soft spot for electronica, along with funk.

by **poohbcarrot** » Thu Apr 30, 2009 5:54 pm

I would love to discuss the merits of 1980s new romanticism v jazz funk more with you, but as it's 3am and I'm pissed out of my head, I might say something more silly than normal, so I won't.

Nighty night.

by **superfurryandy** » Thu Apr 30, 2009 5:56 pm

G'night

by **Bouncy Castle** » Thu Apr 30, 2009 6:17 pm

Sayonara!

by **Batty** » Thu Apr 30, 2009 6:44 pm

poohbcarrot wrote:I would love to discuss the merits of 1980s new romanticism v jazz funk more with you, but as it's 3am and I'm pissed out of my head, I might say something more silly than normal, so I won't.

Nighty night.

'More silly than normal'??? - That'd take some doing!
Pooh - I aspire to be as daft as I possibly can - without getting myself carted off - and I can appreciate daftness when I see it!

... It's a gift ...

by **poohbcarrot** » Thu Apr 30, 2009 10:58 pm

superfurryandy wrote:First three albums, then

The instrumental Dare was the 4th album and just a collection of their extended 12" mixes.

You're not a member of the Spanish Inquisition, are you?:lol:

(PS UB40 were formed in 1978. SLF's first album came out in 1978)

by **superfurryandy** » Fri May 01, 2009 12:20 am

But SLF weren't on TOTP as much - I were only a youngling :wink:

And the first 'scene' I got into was the 79/80 ska revival, so we also listened to reggae, skanking away in each others bedrooms...

There must be a better way of putting that

by **poohbcarrot** » Fri May 01, 2009 2:37 am

Aha! So you were a bedroom skanker, were you? :wink:

I'll keep your skanking a secret because who doesn't like a nice skank now and then?

Anyhoos, you've got The Fall (Totally wired) on today's list so obviously your Level 42 aberration can be overlooked just this once. Level 42 came to the Poly I was at in the early 80s and they have got to be the most boring banal bland band I've ever had the displeasure to witness.

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