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Isn't it great .....
Posted by Huw Williams on 23 October 2009 - 5:09pm.
... when you rediscover a old favourite album you haven't heard in years. In my case it's the debut album by The Pretenders, which I hadn't heard for about 20 years until a week ago. Great songs, excellent guitar by James Honeyman-Scott (cited as an influence by Johnny Marr, no less), and if there was a better female voice in rock than Chrissie Hynde at that time, I'd like to know who it was.
Anyone else dug up an old treasure lately? (I guess there's some comedy potential in that question)
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Fables of the Reconstruction or Reconstruction of the Fables
The thread started by David Hepworth re:a photograph made me think of this 1984 album by REM, and I just played it after a long long time. Absolutely magnificent, and yet it was regarded (by REM and others) as a relatively disappointing album.
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You are the second person I've come across this year called Huw Williams - the last was the son of my last vicar. I doubt you are him though, as he isn't 16 yet, let alone old enough to know who the Pretenders are.
And this week (due to another thread) I've been listening to "A Secret History: The Best Of The Divine Comedy". Good tunes.
I am not him
It's a very long time since I was 16. 38 years to be precise.
'Kid' contains possibly the best guitar solo of all time...
short, sweet, melodic and perfect.
Not the only great one
the solo on Private Life ain't too shabby neither...
Love that album
although 30 years on I still can't understand half the words. Gonna use my - sassay?
The ones you can hear, I'm not sure I understood either. I shot my mouth off and you showed me what that hole was for. Flippin 'eck, Chrissie!
You've got to...
love her.
I'm pretty sure
it's "sidestep"...
Architecture & Morality
Listened to it again after last week's Synth Britannia documentary on BBC4. It's bloody good.
I suspect I'll be digging out Tago Mago again later this week...