Having it installed is like having any other programme installed that you don't use much. It's an icon on your desktop it only adds to your overheads when you launch it then ceases to be when you close it. GC works best here so I use it just for that. I really need to shut up I'm beginning to sound like a Google Chrome sales rep 

Woohooo!  Cheers Promulard! 

& there be a whole new thread...  

cringiest  song on your ipod/mp3 player...  current playlist.... 

*looks at current playlist*

yeah... maybe not...  there are way too many dodgy tracks there (the ones I only play with the car windows up )

OH no no no. Youtube only. 

Same here. My kids listen to some amount of crap but I hear a bass line and I'm asking THEM who it is so I can get it on youtube 

Anybody like Jamirquai?

I do! 
Was this a trick question 

Nope 

I'm still talking about bass guitar.

Hands up who likes The Human League?

Check out Simple Minds before they became crap. Best basslines of all time (Derek Forbes I think it was) or early Joe Jackson (Graham Maby?).

Liked their 'don'tchoo won't me babee'..after that..not so much..You ?

I loved most of the Dare album. My post was mostly Rik from The Young Ones oh God I feel old 

hahahaha!  yeah....  I know that one!

my daughter listens to some right old crud ..... but I forgive her it all for introducing me to Chase & Status

I love Simple Minds. My taste is so varied (I go from Runrig to Westlife to WASP) but I always go back to my personal fave. 80s rock and heavy metal. IMO heavy metal is quite often overlooked. We're not all greasers 

Wick was great...best of the lot if you ask me!
Guess I must nearly be as old as yoo 

17 here. You? 

Just neary sweet sixteen 

Had to google them 

I've forgotten the question. 

We need to be voted as best liars on GaGa of all time but knowing how horribly unfair life is we probably won't be 

Do you like my music? If not....why not? 

I'm sure that was it

Ah, yes! 

Any music that is highly rated is generally over rated, IMO. 

Bummer int it..oh well ce la vie...we knows our limitations 
Nitey nite! x

ah.. no need for the     I wouldn't have heard of them if it wasn't for daughter.

Pieces, End Credits & Let You Go  are fab tracks! 

(Let you go has a fab video .... totally having a pop at Jeremy Kyle)

the police and sting........

Human League for their first three albums were very good.  The Human League post "Dare" went downhill pretty spectacularly, especially when they discovered cheesy US commercial soul in mid 80s and got Janet Jackson's producers in.  The one where they try to sound like Alexander O'Neil, "Human" I think it's called, is dire - as is the aptly named "Crash" album it came from.

I don't know whether to include them as they're fairly derided these days, but Oasis. 

I say that as someone who has about five of their albums.  I suppose Oasis are over rated by, ahem... Oasis more than anyone else. 

Their reverence for the Beatles and 1960s imagery has proven to be their musical straight jacket over the years and Liam Gallagher is a very limited vocalist, who's long become a parody of himself.

Even when they were good and getting plaudits all over the place I thought of them as good musicians and song writers but quite musically unadventurous compared to bands such as Primal Scream.  The Quoasis tag is very apt IMO.

What a great post - I wish I could have put it like that.

Oasis = loved first two albums...  loved the time when the first two albums had been released.  Went to see them at Earls Court - and they were cack!   totally cack!   biggest gig disappointment ever.    Not to worry though... cos didn't like any of their stuff after the first two albums anyway.

I had a similar experience with Fleetwood Mac. Though TBF they were imploding at the time. This was before they returned as a faux US band producing some of the dreariest music ever.

Like q a few on here that others think are over-rated, but the one I most disagree with is Dire Straits. Mark Knopfler, imo, is absolutely not over rated, he has the full package of musical talent and is a fantastic guitarist

Even so! You could have laughed at my Dire Straits joke. ^^^^ Way back. How is the 4A86 (anag) Soops? I have to get the car out and go to HQ tomorrow. Me  Dad has been in the Hospital during teh week.

I missed this post yesterday...   

Annie Lennox...  could take her or leave her... however, recently released album of her singing (very earnestly) christmas carols  cancels out anything good she may have previously done.   From now on I am giving all credit for Sweet Dreams to Dave Stewart (he had 90% of it anyway)... 


She also can't do a three point turn in a very small car, on a wide empty road either!   Me & hubby stood laughing at this little car making a complete balls up of turning round outside his flat in Kilburn...     then hubby said "bloody hell its Annie Lennox"     She had her window down and must have heard him (also must have heard us laughing at her)...  and gave hubby a wave! 

she didn't even need to do a three point turn... the road is wide enough just to do a u turn!

Missed it GJ but I'm sure it was v funny, I'll go have a look Think it should be ok GJ, haven't ventured out since Tues, but the road here today is MUCH better so I'm going to go into HQ this afternoon and will let you know. Sorry to hear about your dad, if there's anything I can do, like get them some shopping or whatever while I'm in town send me a dialog. happy to help out

Thanks! I appreciate that. The neighbours have rallied round. My Dad has macular and is getting very forgetful. My Mum isn't too good on her feet but between 'emselves they manage. If one is taken out of the partnership they are in trouble. Anyway he's home now. We'll take 'em for lunch and I  think he should be OK in the lounge while we shop!

Is this it?  Oh dear I don't get it Something to do with the Road To Hell perhaps

Rather like quoting I am unable to send you a  dialogue!! Hence the subterfuge.



Meanwhile........... It was a variation on the old, "What would you call a band made up of Dire Straits and Chris Rea?


Answer: Chris Straits!! HaHa  Geddit? etc.

Ok GJ, but if there's ever anything you want me to do to help out you know where to find me

No!!!!
Goes to pop on Mr. Rea's Blues guitar album...love it....BTW Did I ever tell you that the scarf he wore on the Benny Santini album was knit by me and a few mates in the VI form canteen? It wasn't his, it was his brother Mike's

took me AGES... but I do now!

(Soops...   say the alternative combo of their names out loud)