What are you listening to at the minute?

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For some bizarre reason someone at work has a CD with Winston Churchills greatest speeches on it so i've been listening to that for the last couple of hours.....

I think the boredom has finally sent me over the edge into insanity!

-- Anonymous, July 05, 2001

Answers

Awesome Premier?

What are you lot listening to?

-- Anonymous, July 05, 2001


I've got that very tape myself Gav! Can't say I've played it much but I did want to aquaint myself with one or two of his more famous speeches.

Currently listening to the traffic going past the window and this neat little wav file of Bruce Hornsby's "The Way it Is", what I downloaded this very morn.



-- Anonymous, July 05, 2001

Richard Ashcroft ..... Money to burn, I wanna burn it on you

-- Anonymous, July 05, 2001

Rediscovering Neil Young after his fantastic concert last month. HMV had a load of stuff in their sale so got 4 albums for less than £20! Got speakers on my work PC at last so blasting Rust Never Sleeps around the office!

-- Anonymous, July 05, 2001

Jesse Cook - Free Fall (awesome guitarist - flamenco /samba style)

-- Anonymous, July 05, 2001


Radiohead 'Amnesiac'.

-- Anonymous, July 05, 2001

Wimbledon's on the telly, but am about to go make lunch and then watch my tape of yesterday's soap episode. Then I'll probably put the radio on.

Boring, I know. ;-)

-- Anonymous, July 05, 2001


Just been re-acquainting myself with some of my "lost" Floyd albums. I think "The Final Cut" is one of the best, along with "Wish you were here".

As for Winnie's greatest speaches (Jonno, surely you remember them forst time roond??), I reckon YBR must have that tape too, juding by tonight's Ronnie, he's preparing the forst team squad to "fight them on the beaches". Anybody for volleyball?

-- Anonymous, July 05, 2001


No Screach - when Churchill first made those speeches my hearing aid was on the blink and so I never got to hear them. My hearing has always been dodgy since my service at the siege of Mafeking.

-- Anonymous, July 05, 2001

... you must have found it all a 'Boer' Jonno?

-- Anonymous, July 05, 2001


Ronald or Frank?

-- Anonymous, July 05, 2001

Doh!

I've just watched the greatest documentary series I've ever seen: Jazz, on British TV over the summer. I'm not even a big Jazz fan to be honest however, 'Kind of blue' recorded in '59 by Miles Davis sounded cool, so I popped into town and bought it. It's simply the most beautiful music I've ever listened to in all of my 40 years.

-- Anonymous, July 06, 2001


With you there heed, I lived through all of that but never got closer than Sidney Bechet, Lionel Hampton, Dave Brubeck etc. and now I'm wondering where my brain went that I didn't stay with it.

The series was absolutely brilliant. The tapes are already on my crimbo list.

-- Anonymous, July 06, 2001


Been revisiting UF Orb and turning up the bass on Towers of Dub...superb ;-) Oh, and Test Match Special..f**king Aussies (soz lads)

-- Anonymous, July 06, 2001

Winston Churchills greatest ever speeches?

No way.

-- Anonymous, July 06, 2001



John Martyn - Solid Air. Zappa - Stairway to Heaven. Live Dead - Grateful Dead. The No. 1 Ska Album.

-- Anonymous, July 06, 2001

Every night as I sit here talkung to mys......... you lot, I listen to the mechanical hum of this bloody PC

-- Anonymous, July 06, 2001

Stereophonics.

Got their new album the other week and then went back to their older LPs to rediscover the classics.

-- Anonymous, July 06, 2001


Finally got round to getting out vid of 'High Fidelity' tonight. Delighted to find out it kicks off with The 13th Floor Elevators. And after, I felt moved to listen to the VU's 'Loaded'. Splendid.

-- Anonymous, July 06, 2001

I'm into Hearsay and Disco fever

When I'm in wor lasses car

U2's latest album when i'm in mine.

-- Anonymous, July 07, 2001


Just dismantled my multigym to the accompaniment of the Who. Fantastic every time ("I can see for miles and miles, I can see for miles and miles, I can see for miles and miles and miles..."). If you've been listening to it for 25 years you'll probably be listening to it 25 from now, and why f***ing not?!?!

-- Anonymous, July 07, 2001

Never get tired of the Who! THE best Who compilation ever is Hooligans. Not even sure if it's in print anymore. If it is, I'd love to find it on cd. I've only got it on cassette, and that won't last forever. Last time I listened to it was driving through the monsoon to North Carolina to see U2. If the Who don't keep you awake and alert, nothing will! :-)

-- Anonymous, July 07, 2001

Who's finest moment: A Quick One, live at Leeds.

-- Anonymous, July 07, 2001

LaL. Magic! - Magic Bus!! Aah waan it, aah waan it.

-- Anonymous, July 07, 2001

If the Who don't keep you awake and alert, nothing will!

Hmmmm I wonder if our defence could take to the field wearing walkmen? Perhaps this has already been tried but the coach's instructions have been misunderstood as simply - "Walk Men"

The Who - wonderful. Substitute, Pictures of Lily, Pinball Wizard, My Generation, Won't get fooled again etc.

I remember my sadness the day Roger Daltrey, the man who had fronted the band who smashed their gear up on stage, a voice of "My Generation" of 60's revolution, ("Hope I die before I get old") appeared on TV one day doing the American Express ad. A chilling reminder (almost on a par with Lennon's death) that an era, and my youth, were over.



-- Anonymous, July 08, 2001

Just finished listening to the last show in the series (sob) of "I'm Sorry I haven't a Clue". Absolutely brilliant. No idea what to do between now and Autumn when it returns - perhaps I'll start some ISIHAC games on the BBS, always assuming there is no crackdown on the "non-footie" threads. :-)

Today's show included :-

- the full Crockfords gambling version of Mornington Crescent preceded, of course, by a letter from "a Mrs Trellis of North Wales" which had "flooded in".

- Pick up Song where the team have to sing along to a record, volume is turned down but they keep singing, the record is then turned up again and they must be "within a gnat's crotchet of the original" to get points - "and what do points mean? PRIZES. This week's prize will suit the Elvis fan with a taste for antiques - it's this pair of mahogany sideburns." Humph explained that Samantha the gorgeous scorer ("settled in her usual position on my right hand") does a lot of research in the BBC archives to select the records for this game. "The archivists are concerned about their older records and fear scratches and so on, so Samantha kindly made them a present of a new turntable mat. The archivists are very excited about having felt under their old 7-inchers."

- Sound chirades. "Based" explained Humph,"On the TV game which featured Lionel Blair. Who can forget his marvellous two handed effort when he pulled off "One Man and His Dog" in under 24 seconds?" (The studio audience were helpless after this one.)

- Swanee Kazoo where they duet on Swanee whistle and Kazoo. "Swanee and Kazoo" says Hump reverently, "Two words which go together like 'Marks' and 'Spencer' - or 'down' and 'toilet'.

- Dating lines for musicians "I suppose a pluck's totally out of the question" was Sandy Toksvig's opening contribution and then it went downhill from there! I still remember a "Dating lines for Old Age Pensioners for which Willie Rushton offered "Your place or back to the sheltered accomodation?" (No I've not had the opportunity to use it yet!)

This programme should be available on the National Health as a cure for depression although it's side effect of probably causing hernia's may prevent this.



-- Anonymous, July 08, 2001

Jonno - I have to agree, this is oneof the best progs on the Beeb, but one I constantly forget to listen to :-( However, during my recent house move, I did find a double cassette of the show. I agree - brightens up many a dull moment. I think you should start a thread - say one related to "late arrivals"??

-- Anonymous, July 08, 2001

Today's packing tunes were mostly provided by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. I was just losing myself in the glory of Full Moon Fever and had delivered my usual off-key rendition of Free Fallin' when I became aware that my 10.5month old son was sitting in his play pen with a rapt expression swaying in time with Won't Back Down: it's official, the boy's a rocker. I mean, he likes classical, but he loves this.

-- Anonymous, July 08, 2001

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