Who do you listen to that never gets mentioned on Heartland?

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James Blast wrote:file under ~ progressive rock
Slightly more metal than rock, if there is such a distinction. But you can definitely hear the prog influences (especially Rush, I thought).
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still don't get it Dave sorry
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Another group I've recently discovered is Dire Straits. As a young punk rocker I never would have listened to them, but that first LP (which is all I've heard) is pretty damn good. And I'm also a huge-ish fan of Shriekback, though I'm not alone in that here. I'm probably alone in championing The Immortal Lee County Killers. Oh, and a Japanese band called King Brothers. If they happen to play in your town (assuming they're even together anymore), see them--one of the best shows I've ever seen, played about 30 minutes after they landed at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport on borrowed equipment. Amazing. Words fail me, I've never seen anything like it.

I am confident, however, that I am the only Heartlander who has Ideas Are Bulletproof by The Pist on vinyl. It's good old fashioned punk rock from sometime in the 90's. Fun stuff.
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I still love "Sultans of Swing" and play it quite often... Incredibly uncool, but I don't care. ;D
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SINsister wrote:I still love "Sultans of Swing" and play it quite often... Incredibly uncool, but I don't care. ;D
No way, completely cool. I'd never heard the song until yesterday. This first record, at least, is fan-tastic. Oddly enough, the sultan2075 moniker came from a gal who was a huge Dire Straits fan. I've used it for years, yet I'd never heard anything except Money for Nothing until just the other day. I'm really impressed with them.
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sultan2075 wrote:
SINsister wrote:I still love "Sultans of Swing" and play it quite often... Incredibly uncool, but I don't care. ;D
No way, completely cool. I'd never heard the song until yesterday.
:eek: Holy crap, man. It's a nostalgic staple of my childhood!
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sultan2075 wrote:Dire Straits
Try "Making Movies". :notworthy:

Very uncool, but very good.

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Dear Gawd Mike that was awful :(
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limur wrote:Try "Making Movies". :notworthy:
...still love "Skateaway"...
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SINsister wrote:
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SINsister wrote:I still love "Sultans of Swing" and play it quite often... Incredibly uncool, but I don't care. ;D
No way, completely cool. I'd never heard the song until yesterday.
:eek: Holy crap, man. It's a nostalgic staple of my childhood!
I never heard much of the mainstream music of the 70's and 80's until adulthood (unless you count the Johnny Cash Greatest Hits cassette that my parents had--everyday, when I came home from school, I would lay down in front of the speakers of their stereo and listen to it. Eventually, it broke :( ). When I was 9 or 10 someone gave me a tape with the Misfits on one side and the Exploited on the other. It was all downhill from there. I lived right outside NYC at the time, so a lot of my formative years were spent listening to local punk, hardcore and crossover stuff. Most of which is pretty bad in retrospect :)

I will try more Dire Straits.
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Dire Straits is most definately a no-no :eek: :urff:

They played that during PE classes at school => Traumatised :urff: :lol:
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:lol: :lol: :lol:

That truly is bizarre!
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sultan2075 wrote:I never heard much of the mainstream music of the 70's and 80's until adulthood (unless you count the Johnny Cash Greatest Hits cassette that my parents had--everyday, when I came home from school, I would lay down in front of the speakers of their stereo and listen to it. Eventually, it broke :( ). When I was 9 or 10 someone gave me a tape with the Misfits on one side and the Exploited on the other. It was all downhill from there. I lived right outside NYC at the time, so a lot of my formative years were spent listening to local punk, hardcore and crossover stuff. Most of which is pretty bad in retrospect :)

I will try more Dire Straits.
...whereas, my childhood was completely saturated with it (largely detrimentally, I might add), because I grew up in small towns all over CT. Commercial radio in CT back then was almost solely about Led Zep, The Doors, The Who, Yes, the Rolling Stones, etc. I grew to absolutely loathe all of those bands, as a result - it's only been in the last 5-10 years or so that I've begun to have any appreciation whatsoever for any of the music from that era. One strange bit of enlightenment occurred in '79, though, when one of the major pop stations played Gary Numan's "Cars" - serious turning point in my impressionable young life! ;D

As for music at home, my mom was from a family of singers (some professional), and always had something going on the stereo, to which she'd inevitably be singing along (;D); because of her, I was exposed to, and gained a great appreciation for, Elton John, Roberta Flack, Gladys Knight, Carole King, Stevie Wonder, Otis Redding, and the like at a very early age...
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SINsister wrote:I grew to absolutely loathe all of those bands, as a result - it's only been in the last 5-10 years or so that I've begun to have any appreciation whatsoever for any of the music from that era
I could've written that :eek:
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no dissin Led Zeppelin or The Who please
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OR WOT?
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Imagine, if you will, being trapped in the family car on the way to the beach...a long, long drive, hotter than hell with no A/C, stuck in bumper-to-bumper traffic for much of the trip. A captive audience, forced to listen to the endlessly-repetitive, grating, monotonous sounds of "Light My Fire" and its ilk... That stuff really made me want to go play in traffic. Thankfully, though, there was *some* respite in those days, in the form of stuff from the likes of Cheap Trick, Heart, Dire Straits, Gerry Rafferty, and, of course, Pink Floyd (:notworthy:). I think I'd have lost my mind without the 'Floyd... At any rate, MTV came along in the summer of '81, and after my family got cable TV, I rarely listened to the radio again.
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I still listen to way more radio than I watch telly, thing is, I get the radio for free and I'm paying about thirty quid a month for swathes of pish and The Simpsons and some Discovery channels. I probably could watch my video collection for the next three years and still not get to the end of it.

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James Blast wrote:I still listen to way more radio than I watch telly, thing is, I get the radio for free and I'm paying about thirty quid a month for swathes of pish and The Simpsons and some Discovery channels. I probably could watch my video collection for the next three years and still not get to the end of it.
I listen to more "radio" on the TV now (through my digital box) than I ever used to listen to on the radio! :eek:
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