Originally Posted by Partially discharged (Post 11067532)

To each their own...standard top 40 makes me hit the off button...c and w is too parochial for me......hair band rock/classic rock offers no surprises in general, dance music can be very lightweight.

My tastes range from Miles Davis, to Dylan, to Roxy Music, to Leonard Cohen, to the Jam, to Bob Marley, to Hendrix, to Blur to post-Rubber Soul Beatles to Cowboy Junkies.

I agree that Miles Davis does take some work to get into but I enjoy the complexity of it. I do understand why you never hear it on 'best of the 80's/best of the 90's, best of today' type radio stations.

:thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup:

Originally Posted by mandymoochops (Post 11067985)

I tend to listen to 1st Wave all the time on sr.

Well until hubby gets in the car and starts complaining.

I don't think early new romantic / late punk really ever hit rural Canada. My money is on him not knowing who Steve Strange is ;)

Originally Posted by Shard (Post 11068004)

Yeah but I bet he knows who Ted Nugent is !

Originally Posted by Shard (Post 11067978)

Is jazz still popular? I listened to a bit back in the day (ok, the 80's) but I listened bits of your Miles Davies track and it does sound so dated, in a way. Obviously no music ever dies, but jazz does seem to have faded in popularity?

Originally Posted by mandymoochops (Post 11067985)

I tend to listen to 1st Wave all the time on sr.

Well until hubby gets in the car and starts complaining.

I don't think early new romantic / late punk really ever hit rural Canada. My money is on him not knowing who Steve Strange is ;)

Originally Posted by Partially discharged (Post 11067532)

My tastes range from Miles Davis, to Dylan, to Roxy Music, to Leonard Cohen, to the Jam, to Bob Marley, to Hendrix, to Blur to post-Rubber Soul Beatles to Cowboy Junkies.

I agree that Miles Davis does take some work to get into but I enjoy the complexity of it.

Originally Posted by Novocastrian (Post 11068172)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2kkr0e_dTQ

Originally Posted by Partially discharged (Post 11068098)

I moved to Canada in 1981 at age 17 and bands like the Jam had not really hit these shores (Town Called Malice was a minor hit in 1982), Madness was a non-entity...and Visage certainly never hit the back 40 of rural Alberda.

If you couldn't slow dance to it in a plaid shirt it wouldn't be a hit.

Originally Posted by dbd33 (Post 11068677)

I saw the Jam at the Masonic Temple in Toronto in 1981 or 82. That was so long ago that Paul Weller hadn't started dressing like Val Doonican.

Originally Posted by Partially discharged (Post 11068699)

According to this it was May 1981

Originally Posted by R I C H (Post 11068347)

Is Jacques' ditty reflective of BE meet ups in Toronto?

Originally Posted by Novocastrian (Post 11068172)

If you subtract Cowboy Junkies and add Jacques Brel, our tastes are surprisingly congruent.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2kkr0e_dTQ

Originally Posted by Partially discharged (Post 11070521)

How about switching your Jacques Brel for a bit of Brian Eno and Scott Walker? This francophile thing is going to be your undoing!!!!next you're going to be telling us you find that Jonny Holiday and Serge Gainsbourg are the greatest:thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup:

Originally Posted by Novocastrian (Post 11070744)

No need to switch, I'm happy to add Eno to the list. And Dire Straits.

<It's Johnny Halliday>