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Aug 2018
2:54pm, 10 Aug 2018
4,706 posts
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Dooogs
>> In terms of musical ability "first rate pub-rock band" might be a fair description. However, no other band or solo artist has written so many songs of quality.
Hmm, a matter of taste obviously but you could argue that Paul Simon, Leonard Cohen or Joni Mitchell from that era have a songbook to match Lennon/McCartney - esp. if you look over the last 55 years rather than just at their peak. The obvious counterfactual is what John Lennon's output might have been after 1980.
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Aug 2018
2:55pm, 10 Aug 2018
4,707 posts
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Dooogs
As somebody who loved 90s indie /Britpop, OCS were rubbish. I remember them selling millions of albums without knowing anyone who admitted liking their work (see also David Gray)...
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Aug 2018
2:56pm, 10 Aug 2018
29,446 posts
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Diogenes
The range and quality of their output over such a short period of time is unmatched. They are far more accomplished than a first-rate pub band
I'd rather listen to nails scraping down a blackboard than Joni Mitchell (although the two sounds are not disimiliar)
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Aug 2018
3:01pm, 10 Aug 2018
4,711 posts
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Dooogs
I half agree - I like her songs, but not necessarily with her singing them...
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Aug 2018
3:06pm, 10 Aug 2018
37,160 posts
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GlennR
The problem is her lyrics are like someone consciously trying to write lyrics.
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Aug 2018
3:10pm, 10 Aug 2018
4,713 posts
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Dooogs
Heh - or as it was known in the mid-80s, Tanita Tikaram syndrome.
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Aug 2018
3:11pm, 10 Aug 2018
37,163 posts
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GlennR
Careful, Greppers might know where you live. I don't think TT was quite so prone to the use of superfluous adjectives as JM.
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Aug 2018
3:13pm, 10 Aug 2018
34,786 posts
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McGoohan
Whaaaat?
Look my eyes are just holograms
Look your love has drawn red from my hands
From my hands you know you'll never be
More than twist in my sobriety
Those are all words. Definitely words. Some of them even go together in a logical order.
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Aug 2018
3:16pm, 10 Aug 2018
20,058 posts
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Maclennane
You leave tanita alone! I’ll fight you! All of you!
Tanita tikaram is from Basingstoke
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Aug 2018
3:19pm, 10 Aug 2018
34,787 posts
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McGoohan
Ha! Her wikipedia page says she moved to the bright lights, big city of Primrose Hill as soon as she found fame. She turned her back on Basingstoke! After all it had done for her!
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I guess that's why they call it an Elton John Deathmatch (21-03)
Mar 2021