The Junk Box Of Popular Music History

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I've just been up in the loft to get the fictional junk box down.

It is very heavy and dusty. But it must be done!

What do we have here, ah yes, progressive rock. Something by Yes, 'Yessongs' and a few others, and what's this - 'Emerson lake and Palmer'. Did people actually buy this shit? 'Tangerine Dream'. My god. I can see why the box is so heavy. There's load sof this shite.

'Tubular Bells' Why on earth did anyone at all buy that? Utter bollocks. 'Hergest Ridge', 'Ommadawn'. It never ends.

Some 10cc albums. Pretentious twaddle. Fully deserving of its final resting place.

Gilbert O'Sullivan. Leo Sayer. Unbelievable.

Shit, the phone is ringing. Can someone else take over?
 
Some (cough, splutter, sneeze) Kylie albums,

a 12" of Blue Monday by New Order

Is this a Nigel Benn Single???

Next!!
 
Cough, splutter... Donovan? And that reeediculous cap? We really thought he was the answer to Dylan? Well, yes, if you count The Magic Roundabout.

Bonnie Tyler - the all-screeching, all-bellowing female version of Rod Stewart. And that HAIR!

Richard Clayderman - sadly, I bought one or two cassettes (remember those?) of his back in the 1700s. Lovely music for elevators, though.

Chris de Burgh - I don't really need to say any more, surely?

And may I suggest that, new or not, Amy Winehouse should be hurled into the junk box NOW, please, before she does any more over-emoted, off-key, duff impersonations of real singers?
 
Harsh Aunty K, i saw Bonnie Tyler performer amongst other songs Total Eclipse of the Heart and Simply The Best at the (1992?) Challenge Cup Final.
The best live act i've seen though i was only 7 so that might have influenced it.

Still think Donovan is Owen Hargreaves' dad.
 
I think that's where Bonnie belongs, Martin - bawling her lungs out in enormous stadiums! Not a lot of finesse, don't you think? By the way, who's Owen Hargreaves?
 
Originally posted by krizon@Mar 8 2005, 10:41 PM
I think that's where Bonnie belongs, Martin - bawling her lungs out in enormous stadiums! Not a lot of finesse, don't you think? By the way, who's Owen Hargreaves?
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Owen Hargreaves is the Canadian/English footballer at Bayern Munich who consistently gets into the England squad without doing all that much.
Not seen Bonnie live elsewhere though did see Michelle Heaton of Liberty X on Dick and Dom In Da Bungalow on CITV somehow yesterday.
 
Donovan did manage to write the line 'Sky of blue, sea of green' for The Beatles 'Yellow Submarine'.
 
Are you trying to let him off because he called the sky blue and the sea green, Terry? One forgets how infantile some of the songs were. I had a copy of John Lennon's "In His Own Write" for many years, and while it looked hysterically funny the first couple of times I looked through it, ten years on it was just plain silly. But, whatever makes you a multi-millionaire... :brows:
 
Shit but it's a mess up here - and there's bats..... :(

Dionne Warwick?????? Never!

And all that ELO & SuperTramp look very suss..

For heaven's sake - who bought this!?! W I N G S .... ????

Nah, that must have been someone else in another life..............

Next......
 
Wings aren't in the box. Not all of their stuff anyway. Venus & Mars maybe but Band on the Run is decent.

ELO definitely in the box apart from the first album.

Supertramp - the wife likes them so she'd fish them out.
 
I should very much like to rescue Donovan and ELO from the box - there's bugger all wrong with either of them!! You can send me any you don't want.
 
Koff, koff... there's a picture of this woman with Buddy Holly specs (dusts off jacket sleeve with Donovan's cap)... ohh, yes. Greece's goddess of lurve: Nana Mouskouri. (Spellcheck required!) Shall we frisbie it to the dog, Terry?

And here's - koff! - doesn't ANYone clean this place? - a big fat bloke in a striped kaftan. It's Greece's God of lurve, I think. Now, what was his name? Endometriosis? Diverticulitis? Demetrios Pappadopolous? Anyway, he's still mooning around the Partheon by night if you fancy hearing that with your taramasalata...
 
Do you like Demis Roussos, Ange?

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