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Whilst doing the big shop the other day I caught the best part of The Eagles' Greatest Hits To be fair to Don Henley and the boys ,it's preferable to being hung drawn and quartered or Ringo Starr's latest offering . Then yesterday up in the mountains after a pleasant couple of hours langlaufing , our al fresco meal in the chalet coincided with the playing of "Crime of the Century " Supertramp Which I have to admit I enjoyed enormously !!
So my fellow Foxxheads ,what music have you had to endure or have been pleasantly surprised by lately

Hi Ivan,

I read ‘Hotel California’ by Barney Hoskyns recently – which gave the missus every excuse to play lots of Eagles – sadly I was not pleasantly surprised at all and have had to endure other 70s dinosaurs that I’d quite happily see extinct also.

However, I was accosted in a record shop late last year by the music of ex-Libertine Pete Doherty (Babyshambles) – and found that I really liked it. Someone got me the Dirty Pretty Things (the other ex-Libertine, Carl Barat) album for my birthday – and I’m discovering that Barat was clearly the genius in The Libertines and not Doherty (but that doesn’t detract from Babyshambles at all) – The Dirty Pretty Things album…well, it just…rocks! 12 songs in just over half an hour vs the 8 hour guitar solo of ‘Hotel California’ – Barat wins.

An elderly aunt of mine asked me to transfer some of her 7" singles from the late fifties onto CD for her. Being the dutiful nephew, I sat down last week and made a start on them and sat through over an hour of Pat Boone (ten 4 track EP's and two singles)! It's hard to believe that music evolved into what it did when you listen to stuff like this and realise how many copies it sold at the time and how popular it was. But it's not over yet, I still have the likes of Doris Day and Max Bygraves to endure before i leave for Johannesburg! :rolleyes:

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Methinks the lady doth protest too much.

I bet you have ripped an MP3 for yourself

I decided last night I was officially "old" as my teenage daughter is listening to music I do not understand . ...most notably the modern 'disco' stuff which she likes to play loudly .. never thought I'd see the day when I'd be shouting "turn that row down!!!!!!!!" ... However all is not lost as there is some bearable stuff by, I believe, a French DJ called David Guetta who does some rather nifty remixes (Enola Gay) and sampling on disco records, see Simple Minds' "Someone Somewhere .." on his own 'The World is Mine' which is quite good .. there's hope yet for this 'oldie'.

Being in my late forties , as a hip glam soon to be punk teenagerI used to despise my poor old Dad's Nat King Cole stuff Now I could happily listen to it alongside Sinatra , Cole Porter (The interpteters of his stuff I mean( Teddy Johnson and Pearl Carr ;Perry (Como not Farrell !) and BIng (If he's good enough for Davy Baumeister , he's good enough for me ) what I can't stand is "Rock n Roll" Such as Billy Haley (sp) and Buddy Holly I'm more a late 40's early 50's man music wise check out the greatest Liverpool band ever , Deaf School who were across between this and new wave )

Don't get me wrong, Ivan, I like some of that older stuff too, I love Sam Cooke, The Drifters, Connie Francis and other stuff from that era but the Pat Boone stuff just makes me want to stick needles in my eyes, it's so cheesy and overly sentimental and his squeaky clean, boy next door image just doesn't cut the mustard with me. Fair play to the guy, he had a great voice but his songs just put me to sleep.

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100% with you on that one.
I can listen to Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin but Pat Boone...ugh. Fast forward to the 60s....I cannot bear to listen to Frankie Valli and the 4 Seasons and that stuff is around alot still.

I got pleasantly surprised by Julie London recently. In fact she's smokin - I'm in love!

I bought it for my Mother in law for xmas and thought I'd give it a listen before I wrapped it - I'm glad I did!

Meeeeooooww.

My mother's had Malachi Doris (Irish pub tunes) playing on a couple of my recent visits. Well, my four year old son seems to like it :rolleyes: