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Claim your artist
Posted by pedr0 on 11 January 2012 - 12:24pm.
How about a Danny Baker style giveaway. You can claim your artist or band, when its gone its yours. You can then adopt them in your profile & are expected to be the expert that we will all defer to in relation to them. I will kick it off with Roy Harper. I will compile the list when it looks full. Over to you
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R.E.M.
Please.
I'm fairly sure
that there won't be a queue for this one
but I'll have Oasis please
Grateful Dead for me
Ooo Kate Bush is mine!
and I'll punch the man who says she's not
You've got
a lot of people to punch methinks
Glam Rock!
Though I suspect I'm not alone.
If I was to bag Fairport Convention I think there might be a scrap.
You might as well bag Fairport
No one else has, as far as I can see.
If you read that last post out loud
the effect is that of Tim Turner's narration. *carefully gets and folds Fairport-branded anorak*
Thanks for the reminder
I’d forgotten all about my namesake’s minuscule role in folk-rock history!
Please sir!
May I have Frank Zappa?
I'd like
Prefab Sprout please.
Velvet Underground
I'm yet to meet anyone who could out-bore me on this band.
Bruce
Springsteen
Marillion, ta.
I doubt there was much need to be quick, but hey ho.
Nice idea.
Not trying to pour cold water on it. I've had a good think about who I'd like, and there isn't a single artist I'd claim to be enough of an expert on. This sort of surprises me, since outside of work I've thought and read about little else but music for the past 25 years. I've just never done the obsessive thing... I get really hooked for a while then I move on. Butterfly mind, perhaps. I'm like that. Also I'm terrible with detail - nothing sticks - ah well. I probably know more about The Beatles than any other group, but I know less about them than at least 50% of the people who post here. So good luck you experts. I'm just not ever going to be one.
Gary Numan
(including Tubeway Army)
Cressida
I have both albums, on various formats, and love them equally.
Can I take either The
Can I take either The National or James? Two of the many artists I have had unhealthy obsessions with.......
Quick, someone claim
The Mahavishnu Orchestra before Colin H. When pressed for an expert opinion, say that it's all self-indulgent nonsense.
(*belatedly notices thread*)...
...sorry Brookmeister, it HAS to be me... :-D
Breaking news: Mahavishnu Orchestra NOT self-indulgent nonsense! No sirree Bob...
Ooh, ooh, Pink Floyd for me, please sir!
There are only three things I don't know about them!
RT
for me. Surprised he wasn't taken.
RT
for me. Surprised he wasn't taken.
Sorry.
The last guy got him.
I thought about it
Then decided that I couldn't bear the weight of responsibility. I'll just snipe from the sidelines instead ;-)
Supergrass
They edge it by virtue of their longevity as an obsession. What a band. Sadly missed, as has been pointed out recently on the blog.
Well, someone has to....
The Beatles for me. It's a nasty job, but someone's got to do it.
How long
do I have to wait before publishing a thread with my new Rules To Be Obeyed in all things Beatle-related? It'll be a very long post with no comments because no-one will be allowed to disagree with me.
Number 1: From now one, you say BEATLES, you do not use that pseudonym-that-dare-not-now-speak-its-name-but-begins-and-ends-with-H. It's an old joke and I'm retiring it.
Ooh, I can feel the power going to my head already...
seconded...
I hate to see the HJH moniker attached, its become very 'so last year'!
Well
I'm going to keep calling them the Fantabulosas.
So there.
Love them deeply and always will but the idea of an endorsement from Julian and Sandy is irresistible
Oooh...
... innee bold?
Bona!
I wonder where he
spends his evenings...
One of my favourite exchanges was -
"Me and Sandy were on a yacht and this huge wave washed us overboard"
"Did you drag yourselves up?"
"Oh no, just casual"
My dad worked over the road from the Paris Cinema as a young man and used to go to the recordings. I've got happy memories of him crying laughing listening to the repeats when I was growing up
The Polari Beatles
I've Just Seen an Eek
Bona Day Sunshine
You're going to Lose that Polone
Anna (Troll With Him)
Baby, You're a Rich Omi
Octopus's Lattie
I'm Vardering Through You
"Scrambled eggs / Baby how I love your lallies"
Excuse the misquote
But I remember hearing a Round The Horne which featured Julian and Sandy in something like 'Escape From Stalag Lavender'
KH 'Why was it called Stalag Lavender?'
Julian 'Well, it was just a little camp...'
Bona law
"We have a criminal practice which takes up all our time"
"Portuguese Man of War?"
"Well, I never saw him in uniform..."
Coincidentally*
The Beatles and Round the Horne were at their best in 1967.
[*or is it? mingle-mangle , mingle mangle...]
HJH
I still haven't worked out what HJH means. Help please before it disappears.
Short for
'Hey Jude Hitmakers' - The Beatles
Thanks Doc
.
I think it was in the Sun
And I think it was when Macca Wacky Bacca was on X Factor
I'll be the Beatles expert, then...
Oof! Good luck with that one mate! Why can Paul clearly be heard laughing doing the backing harmonies on 'If I Fell' on the cassette version of 'A Hard Day's Night', but not on any other subsequent issues on other formats?
Oooh, I hope we're not supposed to be experts.
... Hopefully merely holders of the flame. (Because I know naffing)
I thought the role involved
both flying the flag as well being the resident expert and go-to man for dispute resolution.
Zoiks!
Can I avoid that question by offering you the job of my second in command?
daunted by the size of the canon and the length of the career?
nah.....not at all...
David Bowie
Love (and/or Arthur Lee)
Either that or the Byrds (don't suppose I can have two...?)
The Blue Nile
please. They are so enigmatic my lack of expertise won't really be that noticeable.
Nick Cave (up to 1994)
The mad junkie years and a little beyond. If someone wants him from "The Boatman's Call" onwards, feel free.
Handing on the Cave baton
Yup, I'll take over
Young Nick, Old Nick.
Good. I respect what Nick's done since, and completely understand why he went in that direction, but can't seem to get into it much. Maybe it's just due to my age - I can't work up the levels of obsession that were a feature of my younger years. Or maybe it was the heroin. (His, not mine).
Pilot
;-) ;-) :-)
I shall claim Blue Öyster Cult
before Lenny does. Admittedly he's met Buck Dharma - something I am hugely jealous of, but I've got the cufflinks (see Xmas present thread).
Damn...
The cufflinks are proper cöol, though.
I'll claim Japan/David Sylvian please...
seeing as though most others on here probably won't - and i;d hate to see an artist sit out in the cold!
I'm having Genesis
so they're mine, right? I own them. I can't wait to get Mike Rutherford to sort my loft out
Sparks
I'll take Sparks and if they're not available I'll have The Waitresses ... which is considerably easier to be expert on!
Really?
I thought you'd be in the queue for Nick Lowe.
Consider your Mael order in the post.
Nick Lowe
Hmm... Nick Lowe... The Wilderness Years! Even he's rather hazy on not only the details but often the plot. Nick Lowe expert would be a tough job maybe best left to one of the creative members rather than an fact based engineer!
OK
I'll take the job. Just don't ask me for my opinion of Pinker and Prouder... and Party Of One though. Though there is rather a lot of years to cover if you include Kippington Lodge and Brinsley Schwarz as well not to mention Rockpile so a division of labour might be in order.
I'll have
Orville The Duck (incorporating Cuddles The Monkey and Dippy The Dinosaur). Ta.
The Decemberists
I heart them. And the rhythm section look like they'll be handy with a hammer and saw and our back garden fence is down. I'm not an expert mind, as can be seen by the fact I used the phrase 'Rhythm section' and not their names.
I'll take the Super Furry Animals
It was either that or Our Daughter's Wedding.
[EDIT: I've just swapped from The Smiths to Super Furry Animals. More Fun! Less Baggage!]
Jackie Leven...
Because no-one else has improoved the quality of my life as much.
(Clash and TG come close though)
Can I
be the supersub for JL for the times Doug is unavailable though illness or suspension
Of Course...
Plenty of the big man (may he r.i.p.)to go around.
John Martyn
dont claim any expertise on the man...just a deep affection for his music1
I call Anal C**t
As I am likely to be deluged with enquires about this band, please be patient when awaiting a response.
I shall be the voice of Fife
Big Country for me.
The temptation to take Del Amitri was almost too much.
New Order for me...
...But just New Order, someone else can do Joy Division
Joy Division
I couldn't chose between NO or JD, but you seem to have made the choice for me, Jez. I'll happily take the earlier incarnation: at least the discography is smaller!
I thought...
...about doing both but that seemed a bit greedy. Freebass are still available if any other New Order heads want to help out.
Not forgetting
Electronic
Revenge
The Other Two
Monaco
Bad Lieutenant
Someone else can have them!
Loudon Wainwright iii
heartfelt, comic and crap at realtionships....im home
And still no-one brave enough to take
Dylan.
Nah, me neither - I'm only obsessive, which makes me an amateur.
This is like watching...
...the formation of the United Nations. You will need a security council with five permanent members - presumably Beatles, Dylan, Bowie... Who else?
Kajagoogoo, Bucks Fizz
.
Wot no Florence?
Can't be Kajagoogoo
They'd be "too shy" - eh readers? Chortle
The Housemartins
Christian Marxist Regionalism 4 - Rest of the world 0.
For the present
I'll take Chuck Prophet.
However pedr0 I'd like to challenge your right to Roy Harper. So, without looking it up what was the B side of the only single to be released from the unreleased Commercial Breaks album?
Oh I think Chuck Prophet
is a great choice but if you want Roy you can have him! I didn't imagine there would be a queue. Trouble is Pilot has already gone but I might check he's credentials. Cherishing The Lonesome by the way.
No sir
I am satisfied you are sufficiently imbued with Harper spirit to carry on with him. I'll stay with Chuck.
Somewhat predictably
given my nom-de-blog, I'll have Scott Walker
Neil Young, please
Then no matter what I say, I'll always be able to argue with myself and say I'm wrong
Surprised no-one's taken
Steely Dan
Mine.
I'll have Del Amitri
Only joking. I claim the 'I am the Fly' hitmakers Wire please...
Pet Shop Boys, please...
...though I wouldn't normally do this kind of thing.
Go on. I'll play
Thea Gilmore
Spinal Tap!
Definitely not an expert but I would REALLY enjoy becoming one
Julian Cope
Now who's the Laughing Boy?
Did you get the last album...
... the 'Black Sheep' one that is, reportedly, a 45-minute recording of Cope and a chum in a neolithic cave banging stones together and droning unintelligibly over the top?
I'm not taking the piss.
Is it called Orcadia?
Part of being a true friend and discerning fan
Is knowing when to say 'No'.
For the sake of career context...
... I'd like to hear it.
Out of curiosity (I've not been listening closely since Autogeddon, really) I bought the 'teaser' digital e.p. - Grain House - which was 15 minutes of similar "communing with a higher power / trouser-coughing into a mic and seeing if it sells", but recorded in... erm... the ruins of a grain house.
I listened to it just the once, and filed it away on my hard-drive. Despite the fact that I will surely never be of the mind to listen to it again, I was pleased to have heard it - it has provided me with anecdotal power amongst the "early 80s" crowd (era, not age) down my local far in excess of the £1.79 I paid.
And, you know, I've probably contributed to keeping Julian's tennis court clean-and-trim.
Post Autogeddon
20 Mothers is well worth a listen. When he toured that album, for my money he was at the top of his live game.
Interpreter, which followed, isn't half bad either.
Seconded on 20 Mothers
I hosted a Cope PA in Portsmouth just before Interpreter came out. My abiding memory is of him trying to explain the box the album was going to come in to me, not getting very far, and summing it up by saying "It's... just a vibe"
Any Trouble
I don't see a great deal of overtime piling up, frankly.
i dont know
as i will charge you with the task of finding out where on legal earth i can find CD's or downloads of the third and forth albums...
Im waiting!
Yep
*joins queue*
Are we including 'Live at The Venue'?
If not, then Beat Goes On reissued Wrong End of the Race (I still claim it was my idea btw) on BGOCD295 a while ago. Their website tends to be a bit clunky, but if you email Mike at the warehouse he should be able to help you out. If not, there are a few on Amazon at the moment.
Is that the sort of thing?
apes, ivory and peacocks to your door
I will check out BGO web. Any news on the eponymous third album, originally on EMI america and now seems all but lost.
We live in hope.
but no.
Is everyody on the floor?
I'll take Scooter. Someone needs to stick up for them around here.
Maximum respect to the whole Vandelay posse
.
David Byrne / TH
When they were miserable. Though I remember a poster on here claiming they never were. Encore une autre reve disparu.
Failing that, Motown. Can't guarantee any accuracy but it will at least prompt me to have a dance round the living room
Unsurprisingly
I'll take Elvis Costello
(althou The Rutles are tempting) no, Elvis
Gah!
I was hoping for EC! I challenge you to a TRIVIA DUEL!!
thats fighting talk where i come from*
I choose Steve Turner as my second and the battle dress to be green shirts with new lace sleeves and red shoes
* or anywhere really
Wot?
No trousers?
Pixies
ta
Weller
I'll take him in The Jam and The Style Council, and up to and including Wild Wood and post Floorboards Up (say 1994-2005?). That bit in the middle where he became Mr Dad Rock somebody else can have.
Time Share!
Simon
can you recommend any good Jam related sites especially ones with photographs, i often search them out but haven't come across a really decent one yet, thanks, ps. love the blog!
cheers
Dont know theres a huge number out there, lots of 'mod' things around the place mind, and a lot of them may have Weller things hidden away as well as decent live bootlegs etc. This is a good starting point for all sorts of things though:
http://musiccornershop.blogspot.com/
.
many thanks
Hope..
.. that Yann appreciates the publicity Simon !
Can I be as bold as to challenge your claim to three quarters of PW career ? Surely you can only have The Jam Or The Style Council OR Paul Weller Solo ? To claim all 3 is just selfish.
To be pedantic I'll have the Paul Weller Movement, King Truman & Johns Boys
Heh
Like I said, time share.
Or a 'council' of Weller?
Ha Simon,
Your Weller periods exactly match my own, love it all except the dad rock years of heavy soul etc for me got better again from 22 Dreams.
Ploddy
It was all a bit knackered sounding, some really good singles, but the rest just sounded tired. Whereas Floorboards Up, with it's Dr Feelgood sound, right down to the Wilko guitars just sounds like Weller was going back to his roots, and I think he's been really good ever since. Have You Made Up Your Mind is officially now one of my top ten Weller songs of all time, which isn't bad for a tune written about 30 years into a career.
Give me Daryl Hall (please please)
I'll look after him for you.
Since Bob hasn't taken them
I'll have The Hold Steady.
Even though they don't come from Liverpool.
Couldn't decide.
It was between R.E.M., THS and Pixies. But R.E.M. are the band I know most about.
Morrissey
Excellent game. Can I Just take the solo years please? I was too young for the Smiths...
And if we do authors I'd like Douglas Coupland. Ta.
The Smiths
I suppose I'd better have The Smiths, then. *sigh*
XTC, please
We've got an Uffington White Horse painted in our kitchen, so they should feel at home...
Well I've got one on my upper right arm
No really, I have.
But, it's OK. I went for near neighbour Copey.
I've often thought
that if I ever got myself inked, I would do exactly that. My favourite place in the whole world.
Wot?
My upper right arm is your favourite place in the whole world?
What a strange place this blog is becoming.
Tattoo
Oh, fab! Wish I had the bottle to go and get that done.
Had thought of cutting one into our lawn, and filling it with white gravel...
Since Bruce is gone...
... I’ll take Southside Johnny & the Asbury Jukes. Yes, all of them.
Baggsy
me the who- if only for memorising the catalogue number for the my generation single when I was 14. It's been downhill ever since really.
The Fall, thanks very much
I'll have Heppos favorite band.
Even more genius here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b018z344
I was going to go for The
I was going to go for The Fall but I worry I might have blinked last year & missed 3 albums & 6 lineup changes :)
U2
may as well stick me oar in, i won't be defending their output post Pop but i know a thing or two about them.
The Waterboys
I'll take them.
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
please.
The Monkees
Snubbed by the Rock'n'roll Hall Of Fame, but not by me.
The Monkees for me
No, seriously.
Barry
Beat you to the furry ones. How about Gorillaz?
Sorry MAM
I am prepared to let you have Davy Jones on a free transfer though.
Or he could have
... Papa Nez?
I'm afraid not
Nez is non-negotiable.
Jimi Hendrix..
please. Still love him a lot.
I'll have Grace Slick
Oh alright the rest of Jefferson Airplane can come along as well!
Decisions, decisions
I suppose it will have to be STACKRIDGE otherwise I will be forcibly ejected from the Rhubarb Thrashing Society forthwith.
I'll take Joe Jackson
Jumping Jive, symphonic albums, the whole shebang...
I've been unable to come here all day
But felt confident that nobody else would want JJ, yet here you are. Damn you.
Bah!
As I scrolled down I was thinking if there'd one artist I'd get by default it's him.
Radiohead or Waits
No one's seemed to have claimed either. Radiohead maybe a bit too Pitchfork for the Word and Waits a bit too much of an enigma, but I'll have a go at both if you would like.
All together now
"I'll tell you all my secrets but I lie about my past, won't you send me off to bed forever more..."
Come on
play the game! Only one allowed. Tough choice but I think Tom needs representing.
How about, you take Waits & I'll take Radiohead badger?
It was a toss-up between them & Elliott Smith for me, but either'll do!
Ok Waits it is then
*Mumbles incomprehensibly*
Ok, here's a good one, apparently a cockroach can survive for two weeks without a head, whereas a common house fly can only live a maximum of two weeks.
You heard it from the man himself. It must be true.
I want Waits
to add to my mid-to-late period Cave. I want the set.
Nick Drake
As I'm feeling mellow. Happy to bat for Laughing Len if need be.
Cathal Coughlan
in all his incarnations, please - Microdisney, Fatima Mansions, Bubonique and solo. Ta.
Hmmm
Late to the thread so it's a drag to see Costello, The Beatles, The Monkees and Sparks already gone. I was about to choose my current obsession of Move/Roy Wood/ELO/Jeff Lynne, but I don't know enough about them (yet) so...
After minimal thought, can I have the solo, wacky-baccy Sir Macca of thumbs-aloft himself please?
{PAUL MCCARTNEY}
Right
I'll have Prince (I take it we are allowed black artists? I wasn't sure), up to and including Diamonds and Pearls.
Or Stevie Wonder up to and including Hotter Than July.
skinny white boys with guitars
Lol had noticed that. Considered Prince too, but know more bout Weller. Not many women in The list either.
Two birds with one stone
I guess I'll have to join in your little game then and improve both statistics by choosing Taj Mahal (who else ?)
Please note that I have promptly forgotten just about everything that I've ever learned about Mr Mahal, and all your questions will be answered with complete fibs. It will however be a lot more entertaining than the dullness of truth.
Also note that I know nothing about Indian palaces.
As Wire
have gone as I expected, Dr V I'm looking at you. Then I will take the band I idolised as a grubby teen.
The Wonder Stuff and Miles Hunt solo.
Any questions?
*hello, is this thing on, etc*
Sorry! China Crisis
are still going begging,
I have a question
Is there going to be a re-recorded 21st anniversary edition of Never Loved Elvis, or has Malc Treece's flounce put the kibosh on that?
The Church
Not the ecclesiastical dope peddlers, although you have to admit they've had a few good tunes along the way, but the Australian band of the same name, all 30 years and 23 albums. Surely the only band ever to have a drummer named 'Ploog" and song titles that read like a Dulux catalogue: Aura, Ripple, Paradox, Lustre...
Please don't ring the helpline until I've had a chance to hire extra staff to deal with the volume of calls.
Steven Kilbey's corner shop
"Where are your snickers kept, mate?"
"Under the milky ways"
Brilliant bagpipe solos-a-ragua
and cruelly underrated.
Hey Captain!
Leave em alone....they`re mine. Actually, I can help out part time school hours only.
Ah, was going to jump in with this one myself...
...though secretly glad someone else has, I probably devote too much of my time to this subject already.
Dylan
As Slick seems to have opted out of this awesome responsibilty.
Stand by for
one upmanship via obscure questioning.
My first being - Why does The Dylan Encyclopedia http://www.amazon.co.uk/Bob-Dylan-Encyclopedia-Michael-Gray/dp/082646933... not have an entry for Richie Havens ? When you consider how many people get a listing for "once walked in front of a car that Dylan was travelling in whilst it was stopped at traffic lights" how come this cat has been overlooked ?
This is where you reveal yourself to be Michael Gray :-(
Not Michael Gray
but the answer, my friend, is blowing in the wind.
Wilco
I'll also field enquiries about Tweedy solo and Uncle Tupelo until someone claims them (some chance!)
I shall have
The Electric Light Orchestra, in all their glory.
Still bizarrely unclaimed
Bogshed
Manhattan Transfer
Graham Central Station
Red Box
Matumbi
Meat Beat Manifesto
Stump
The Ovaltineys
Awesome Dre and the Hardcore Committee
Severed Head and the Neckfuckers
Come on. Any takers (I've already got mine)
... on reflection, this is the best Jools line-up ever (apart from the made-up one, of course)
Bogshed!
I'm happy to double up with them, if no-one else is interested.
Altogether now: "Fat Lad Exam Failure! Fat Lad! Fat Lad!"
Regina Spektor
Had to make a quick call for the sake of the game, surprised myself but happy to stick with Reggie
Eric Dolphy
He's my man.
There's a book coming
I've backed it.
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/keithhenrybrown/jazz-graphic-novel
I was just gonna watch
But I'll have to take Elliott Smith as no-one's got him so far.
My own, personal...
...Depeche Mode, please.
Crowded House
and Sexy Ronsmith seem to still be up for grabs. I'll take 'em, please.
well
I've looked through the list and it appears Elvis Presley hasn't been picked. So thats my choice. If he has already gone I'll have Serge Gainsbourg.
Please can I have..............
..............Half Man Half Biscuit
Taking the biscuit
I was amazed it took so long for someone to bag them.
Thin Lizzy please
I wish I had similar in-depth knowledge in other (more useful) areas of my life.
don't know where I will put them.....
...but can I have The Go-Betweens
My all time favourites please...
...Creedence Clearwater Revival and then all things Fogerty...
Can you tell me
is John Fogerty the grumpiest rock 'n' roller of them all ? And so very very unbending - I think I'd have seen my own brother on his death bed, even if we had had a bit of falling out over the band.
But CCR - what a band ! (see this month's Uncut for a good new interview with Fogerty).
Tough one that...
I always feel Van is the grumpiest of them all but he isn't really a rock n' roller. I think Chuck Berry has to beat Fogerty to the title. Readng the Uncut interview, however,gave me some sympathy for Doug Clifford and Stu Cook for the first time.
Not much of a surprise this one:
Stiff Little Fingers
and as a secondary subject: Sex Pistols
Game without frontiers I guess
Peter Gabriel is my man
In that case
I call Queen.
The Chameleons
Ta very much.
People!
How can we have reached this far and not mentioned The Rolling Stones?
It's a tough job, but someone's got to do it. All 50 years of it.
Dr Feelgood
Up to the death of Lee Brilleaux
He did it right. No looking back.
All you do to me is
Talk Talk.
Ta!
If There Is Something
to say about Roxy Music and/or Bryan Ferry, I'll be your Bogus Man.
Gotta be
Public Enemy for me. Changed my life.
*Does threatening S1W marching routine in front room*
Enigmatically, I'll take
Tones
The
I'll take Counting Crows
On the basis that they are my favourite band and I'm probably the only one on here who likes all of their albums!
You
Are not alone james.
Haven't read the whole thread
but I am fairly confident in guessing that New Model Army haven't been claimed yet. I'll have them please.
Joni
I'll take Ms Mitchell if she's not already been claimed
Bowie gone
I'll take Anthony Newley.. unless Danny wants to step in...
What kind of fool are you?
Actually I have just recorded my parents copy of "Stop The World I Want To Get Off" to MP3. Some of it is really good. Some of it causes me to lose the will to live, not least that his character throughout is called 'Littlechap'. I mean why would you advertise that fact?
The Band
I'll take good care of them.
Can I have Jellyfish
please....
Plenty of Folk acts left...
So can i have Kate Rusby please.
Wow, has nobody claimed the Manics?
Can I have them please?
I think I shall have
The Men They Couldn't Hang. The boss says she wants Fiat Lux.
In future
please direct all your Belle and Sebastian queries to me please.
On Saturdays, I'm also responsible for Nicola Roberts trivia. Thank you.
Ah. Bad call, Joe. I've got B&S already.
And I did a big wee on the bit of paper. Whilst laughing. And then I wiped my bum with it for extra measure.
Ha!
A Big Twee Wee On T.V.
.
as we've got this far
and nobody's claimed them, AND they're on Sky arts right now, I'll have The Bunnymen please (but will also happily sub for any 80's Liverpool band questions, see if I'm as good as I used to believe I was)
Matthew Sweet for me.
No-one else has claimed him? Surely not.
I'll have Big Star as well. And Teenage Fanclub.
And Chaka Demus feat. Pliers.
Edwyn
He's mine, all mine.
Nobody claiming
The most influential artist of all time.. James Brown
First I'll take Manhattan
Transfer then I'll take Berlin
Seriously though
I'll go for Nico. That particular, alienated, dark little corner will be mine.
The Handsome Family
The answer to all your questions is 'Yes, they ARE fantastic.'
The Giant of Illinois
Died from a blister on his toe
(crying already)
Oh God
What an amazing song. *Also weeps*
High wide and Handsome Family
Yes they are
Nana Mouskouri
but ONLY when performing Laĩka in Greek. Now if I can just locate my rather slimmer-framed reading glasses to peruse the sleeve notes...
Lambchop, please
Form an orderly queue with your questions, ladies and gentlemen.
Johnny Clegg (including his bands Savuka,and Juluka)
It's always possible that someone else has heard of him, and might even ask a question in a few years' time.
No relation
to "Nick" in the previous post.
What as in
The Scatterlings of Africa? Didn't he beat Paul Simon to it by several years?
Scatterlings
Yes, that's the one. And yes, his first album (Universal Men) was in 1979, seven years before Graceland. I was lucky enough to be seeing him perform as an amateur several years before that, too.
I have Scatterlings of Africa
on Africa shaped vinyl somewhere.
I have this on a 12" single
....always loved it and often gets a spin when in a vinylish mood!
Duke Ellington
Loving you all madly
John Barry
the names Barry .... John Barry
KAPOW!%@^*
Van the Man
Tales of harmonicas and mistaken-as-taxi-driver misadventures excepted.
Gnidrolog
.
Guided By Voices
Thanks.
I'll have the best singer in the country
Christine Collister.
Can I have the Manic Street Preachers??
Don't think they've gone yet and can't imagine much of a queue for the FDTWH!! (go on, have a go!)
I claim my £5
From Despair to Where
Too easy in retrospect...
Was toying with PCPH or IFWATTTFODIWWFAH...
Sorry
Milkybarnick has the Manics
D'oh.....
Have The Stone Roses or The Clash gone yet?
No
take your pick
The Roses...
please Mr Pedro.
Muchos gracias
Ah
The second and the final tracks from The Holy Bible
Let's have a bit of Glastonbury footage to celebrate
Josh Rouse
please.
Area?
Can I be the New Orleans and Louisiana correspondent?
I imagine...
that rock'an'roll locations will be a later raffle. When that happens I'll probably go for Swindon's Oasis. Or Uffington (although the messages above indicate that others have a better claim to that than I)
Maybe we should do this next week.
Yes
we will do areas, films books etc later. Then your profile will be revealing.
Frank Turner
Please?
The Durutti Column
I will have The Durutti Column please
Please, Sir,
Can I be The Replacements? Although I might need to refamiliarise myself with with Gary's Got A Boner...
Western Australia's finest
I'll have the Triffids please.
Searching for the Young Soul Rebels?
Seek no further for I am now open for Dexys Midnight Runners' (Dexys from now on - as well as funky - it seems) consultancy.
Reasonable rates.
Estimates free.
Distance no object.
Cool
I'm the musical director for the only Dexys tribute band, anywhere (Dexys Bootleg Runners) and I can field muso or techie questions.
Ah!
Then it was you who told me that a certain tall trombonist had moved back to his home village, after your August gig in the town where The Famous Dixons played their second last ever Caledonian gig to date. According to the fragrant Mrs Tall Trombonist this is innaccurate.
..and she should know although I don't think she is Italian.
Aberdeen gig?
I must have been misinformed.....
Yes, the very one....
...and we loved your version of Big Time Operator.
Tall trombonist and kidnapped former JB saxman in cahoots with offshoot singer have released a US album which I can only seem to get on download. Previews sound fabulous but I'm sure you know that.
What of "the Officer's" latest release in your opinion?
Pete?
I haven't actually heard it yet. Nor the other one. Just been a bit busy.
Pete's new one
Bloody great, and he's doing some live dates, you should go
Like The Tall Trombonist...
...I am laying low in the North of Scotland and Major's privatisation of BR means I can no longer bunk trains in the style of them Famous Dixons, so cannot attend the shows. Pete has said he will be coming north of the border, though, so I'll take the opportunity then.
See you in Glasgow Jorrox!
One Day I Will Soar.
Bagsy....
The Go Betweens.
So Far
Anal C**t backwards7
Anthony Newley Gurney-Slade
Any Trouble skirky
The Band fatmanjez
The Beatles Stephen Merrick
Belle & Sebastian JoeR
Big Country sitheref2409
The Blue Nile Leedsboy
Blue Oyster Cult fortuneight
Bob Dylan wezz
Bruce Springsteen Hot Cider
Cathal Coughlan bartdogboy
The Chameleons Malc
China Crises Dr Volume
Chuck Prophet Carl Parker
The Church Captain Underpants
Christine Collister Rosbif
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah kb
Counting Crows James Taylor
Creedence Clearwater Revival AlinCumbria
Cressida Vulpes Vulpes
Crowded House jhastings
Daryl Hall Fangie
David Bowie Vorgongod
David Byrne Fake Geordie
The Decemberists Mike todd
Depeche Mode Austin
Dexys Midnight Runners 57vintage
Dr Feelgood Beezer
Duke Ellington Henderbeast
The Durutti Column markip
Echo & The Bunnymen Ian s
Edwyn Collins Johnny Topaz
ELO titmus
Elvis Costello DogFaceBoy
Elliot Smith madfox
Elvis Presley Andy Mackenzie
Eric Dolphy duco01
Fairport Convention Five-Centres
The Fall ip29
Frank Turner rhubarb69
Frank Zappa mojo working
Gary Numan XTDS
Genesis Simonperrins
The Go Betweens JJH
The Greatful Dead Stimpy
Grindrolog Patrick Crowther
Guided By Voices doomah
Half Man Half Biscuit Southstand
The Handsome Family Specs_Beard
The Hold Steady Paul Waring
The Housemartins Moose the Mooche
Jakie Leven DougB
Jellyfish NEI
James Brown Gourney-Slade
Japan uber-uber
Jefferson Airplane Gordon Kerr
Jimi Hendrix Declan
Joe Jackson whitehorsehill
John Barry plumb 1909
Johnny Clegg Old_Nick
John Martyn carabara
Joni Mitchell Nick Duvet
Josh Rouse niallb
Joy Division Red Umpire
Julian Cope thecheshirecat
Kate Bush herringbrother
Kate Rusby irp99
Lambchop Nick
Loudon Wainwright simontyler
Love man.of.soup
Mahavishnu Orcheastra Colin H
Manic Street Preachers milkybarnick
Marillion Fraser M
Matthew Sweet Lenny Law
The Monkees Barry Vaughan
Morrisey JohnH
Nana Mouskouri DLM
The National seanioio
Neil Young Oscar Patterson
New Model Army maggieloveshopey
New Order jezk
Nick Cave Nick While
Nick Drake MartinSimmonds
Nick Lowe donttellhimpike
Nico Sven Garlic
Oasis Chimney Singing
Orville The Duck minibreakfast
Paul McCartney DrJ
Paul weller SimonL
Peter Gabriel Ivanovitch
Pet Shop Boys Banbury Cake
Pilot Happy Castle
Pink Floyd Sting Ono
Pixies Davis Sutherland
Prefab Sprout garyt
Prince Jo Lean
Public Enemy PaddyH
Queen matthew
Radiohead andilou
Regina Spektor alankngal
REM bob
The Replacements russellh
Richard Thompson Robbie 112
The Rolling Stones Newbos
Roxy Music Black Type
Roy Harper pedr0
Scott Walker Humphrey Plugg
Scooter Art Vandelay
The Smiths Tippy Wonder
Southside Johnny Tim Turner
Sparks JohnW
Spinal Tap Fazackerly
Stackridge Beany
Steely Dan Pete Wingrave
Stiff Little Fingers Rigid Digit
Super Furry Animals Lying Doggo
Supergrass The Muswell Hill..
Taj Mahal Locust
Talk Talk bogl
Thea Gilmore Gatz
The Men They Couldn't Hang happy harry
The Triffids PaulJ
The Tones Dipsy
Thin Lizzie rhinoneil
Tom Waits badger-king
U2 Kay Lester
The Velvet Underground Brookster
Van Morrison Dudwardo
The Waterboys Uncle Wheaty
The Who fatdan
Wire Dr Volume
Wilco NeilDyson
The Wonderstuff jimmyshoes01
XTC GCU Grey Area
Remember you could be tested at any time
Dr Volume
China Crisis.
Ha ha. That'll learn you for stealing Wire.
I've got Wire as well ner ner!
I actually didn't claim ver Crisis, I just mentioned them in passing! I'd better start swotting up.
Now get back to the Wonderstuff desk, the phone could ring at any minute!
I think someone...
...took the Stone Rones, Mr Secretary-General. I know, you have a thankless task. :/
Impressive work
...but Bartdogboy? heh.
Can I nominate
on behalf of someone? He's being timid I think.
Uncle Monty - The The
220+ responses
and no-one's taken Blur. I'd have expected them to go in the first fifty.
Sorry I'm late
It was hard to reach a decision. There are 2 bands who act as kryptonite on my critical faculties - The Ramones and The Fleshtones.
But after much pondering, I decided to take a different tack, so I am proud to announce that I represent Alice Coltrane.
Amazingly
Beach Boys still up for grabs!
Amazingly
Beach Boys still up for grabs!
No takers
for Midlake, John Grant, Silver Seas, that bloke from the day on the river (whatisname - Steamboat Willie or something?) or indeed Eliza Carthy. We must be a terrible disappointment to the management.
I am astounded
that no one has already bagged Soft Cell. So I stake my claim now!
The Soundtrack of Our Lives
Didn't see CAN taken...
So that will be me..;-) I'll even buy this out of print book so that I'll become a proper expert.EDIT: Just got it off Amazon.. 35.00GBP well spent.
this 'll shock you
can I claim Cliff but only from 1958 to 1963 ?,if no ,Buddy Holly please.
At a push i'll have Quintessence and Colin's phone number so he can text me the answers.
Have I missed it
or am I still in time to take Brian Eno. Please.
I'll take The Coral
seeing as my other choices (Manics, Decemberists, Radiohead, Nick Cave, Beatles, Belle and Sebastian) have been claimed already.
This reminds me of being at school.
Captain Beefheart
for me please.
My qualificatons being:-
I've been inside Trout Mask house.
Drumbo's a mate, so I'll give him a transatlantic bell if any tricky questions come up.
Eric Clapton................i'll take him....
....The Roosters, Yardbirds, John Mayall's Bluesbreakers, Cream, Blind Faith, Delaney and Bonnie, Derek & The Domino's and solo.
Since my top two are already gone...
I'll have half a pound of your finest Aimee Mann, please
PS I was too late for Lizzy and ELO, sigh...
I know Hannah is busy moving house
so can I suggest George Formby and his little ukulele?
Furs
Ok, stick me down for M E scrappers The Psychedelic Furs.
I'll have the Cocteau Twins please Bob
just don't ask anything about the lyrics
Bugger..
The Greatest American rock and roll band ever, Creedence have gone. So to has Van the Man (though good luck - he'll probably sue you). So I'll take Bjork. I'm not an expert, but it'll curry favour with the good lady wife...
SInce Marillion, Zappa and the Dan are already claimed...
..I'll take the mighty King Crimson then.
The Crowes, please
Black Crowes for me, none more Rock and (or) Roll!
Madness
Thought someone would have claimed the 'Our House' hitmakers before now....
Little Feat
Obviously.
Fat man in the bathtub
Can I share? There's enough of Lowell to go round
No one
Has taken the Sex Pistols.
I am not afraid and will.
(Probably because Josef K was a bit of a cop out)
Lou Reed
I will take Lou because it seems no one else likes him here and it's a wee shame...
The backlash is in full swing,
but I still love Elbow, so I'll take them thank you very much.
Backlash?
Must have missed it. They seemed well-represented in the Festive 50. Maybe the silent majority of Word readers like them more than the views of a couple of the bloganistas would have us believe.
Me? I love 'em. Unashamedly.
Ah well, it's a dirty job but someone's gotta do it
ELP for me.
That's Emerson Lake and Palmer to you.
Tarkus is really good, honestly, if you really listen to it, you see the first section is in 10/8, divided up into a bar of 4/8 and two bars of 3/8, and the melodic shape is based on the interval of a fourth, a common Emerson compositional device, and - oh never mind...
Can we have more than one?
I'm a man yet I can multitask, you know.
Well once everyones had a chance
we might do a backhand!
Level 42
Please (the pre shark jump incarnation)
That'll be the first album
plus The Early Tapes then? :-)
Almost There
Anal C**t backwards7
Alice Coltrane el hombre malo
Aimee Mann Trevor_Ragatt
Anthony Newley Gurney-Slade
Any Trouble skirky
The Band fatmanjez
The Beach Boys Dr Eisenhower
The Beatles Stephen Merrick
Belle & Sebastian JoeR
Ben Folds rhubarb69
Big Country sitheref2409
Bjork blueboy
Black Crowes LovingCup
The Blue Nile Leedsboy
Blue Oyster Cult fortuneight
Bob Dylan wezz
Brian Eno grahamt
Bruce Springsteen Hot Cider
Buddy Holly Sour Crout
Can ablewalker
Captain Beefheart Ianess
Cathal Coughlan bartdog
The Chameleons Malc
China Crises Dr Volume
Chuck Prophet Carl Parker
The Church Captain Underpants
Christine Collister Rosbif
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah kb
Cocteau Twins billy bonkers
The Coral Tom
Counting Crows James Taylor
Creedence Clearwater Revival AlinCumbria
Cressida Vulpes Vulpes
Crowded House jhastings
Daryl Hall Fangie
David Bowie Vorgongod
David Byrne Fake Geordie
The Decemberists Mike todd
Depeche Mode Austin
Dexys Midnight Runners 57vintage
Dr Feelgood Beezer
Duke Ellington Henderbeast
The Durutti Column markip
Echo & The Bunnymen Ian s
Edwyn Collins Johnny Topaz
Elbow heshofcheese
ELO titmus
ELP Mousey
Elton John JudeMaccready
Elvis Costello DogFaceBoy
Elliot Smith madfox
Elvis Presley Andy Mackenzie
Eric Clapton Almost Simon
Eric Dolphy duco01
Fairport Convention Five-Centres
The Fall ip29
The Flaming Lips kidpresentable
Frank Zappa mojo working
Gary Numan XTDS
Genesis Simonperrins
The Go Betweens JJH
The Greatful Dead Stimpy
Grindrolog Patrick Crowther
Guided By Voices doomah
Half Man Half Biscuit Southstand
The Handsome Family Specs_Beard
The Hold Steady Paul Waring
The Housemartins Moose the Mooche
Jakie Leven DougB
Jellyfish NEI
James Brown Gourney-Slade
Japan uber-uber
Jefferson Airplane Gordon Kerr
Jimi Hendrix Declan
Joe Jackson whitehorsehill
John Barry plumb 1909
Johnny Clegg Old_Nick
John Martyn carabara
Joni Mitchell Nick Duvet
Josh Rouse niallb
Joy Division Red Umpire
Julian Cope thecheshirecat
Kate Bush herringbrother
Kate Rusby irp99
King Crimson oops
Lambchop Nick
Level 42 Jim M
Little Feat Twangothan
Loudon Wainwright simontyler
Lou Reed Stephen G
Love man.of.soup
Madness Stratosphear
Mahavishnu Orcheastra Colin H
Manic Street Preachers milkybarnick
Marillion Fraser M
Matthew Sweet Lenny Law
The Monkees Barry Vaughan
Morrisey JohnH
Nana Mouskouri DLM
The National seanioio
Neil Young Oscar Patterson
New Model Army maggieloveshopey
New Order jezk
Nick Cave Nick While
Nick Drake MartinSimmonds
Nick Lowe donttellhimpike
Nico Sven Garlic
Oasis Chimney Singing
Orville The Duck minibreakfast
Paul McCartney DrJ
Paul weller SimonL
Peter Gabriel Ivanovitch
Pet Shop Boys Banbury Cake
Pilot Happy Castle
Pink Floyd Sting Ono
Pixies Davis Sutherland
Prefab Sprout garyt
Prince Jo Lean
Psychedelic Furs johnnyartist
Public Enemy PaddyH
Queen matthew
Radiohead andilou
Regina Spektor alankngal
REM bob
The Replacements russellh
Richard Thompson Robbie 112
The Rolling Stones Newbos
Roxy Music Black Type
Roy Harper pedr0
Scott Walker Humphrey Plugg
Scooter Art Vandelay
Sex Pistols drilltime
The Smiths Tippy Wonder
Soft Cell mark0510
The Soundtrack Of ~Our Lives Retro Man
Southside Johnny Tim Turner
Sparks JohnW
Spinal Tap Fazackerly
Stackridge Beany
Steely Dan Pete Wingrave
Stiff Little Fingers Rigid Digit
The Stone Roses Six Dog
Suede Jon Whitney
Super Furry Animals Lying Doggo
Supergrass The Muswell Hill..
Taj Mahal Locust
Talk Talk bogl
Thea Gilmore Gatz
The Men They Couldn't Hang happy harry
The The Uncle Monty
The Triffids PaulJ
The Tones Dipsy
Thin Lizzie rhinoneil
Tom Waits badger-king
U2 Kay Lester
The Velvet Underground Brookster
Van Morrison Dudwardo
The Waterboys Uncle Wheaty
The Who fatdan
Wire Dr Volume
Wilco NeilDyson
The Wonderstuff jimmyshoes01
XTC GCU Grey Area