Well as it happens, I am a bit confused -- the times on the messages on the Fforum seem to think it's an hour later than it really is . . .

Usually this bothers me. but as I've now been awake for about 42 hours, I'm past caring.

But I am confused -- if it's doing GMT, surely that's an hour earlier?

to quote PSD, some parts of the above post may be less true than others . . .



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Yes belochka (or can I call you squirrel? -- see I have been paying attention)
spot on I'm 37.

And yes I know what you mean -- a lot of the music I listen to has nothing to do with my age, I think -- Hildegard of Bingen, Thomas Tallis, Gemma Hayes, the Dandy Warhols.

But those three kind of define when I feel my musical tastes became differentiated from my peers, my brother etc (which rather negates my point) the beginning point (1978) being when I felt first started noticing current rock music and whether I liked it or not and the latest (Debaser 1989 I think?) when I still loved what was going on, but started noticing other stuff more whenever it was written or published. But couldn't help thinking Debaser was one of the most invigorating rock songs I'd ever heard.

So I'm not saying those things are true for everyone, I'm just saying that there is stuff for everyone that is probably defined (or at least influenced) by when you were born. So favourite was probably the wrong word (hey. it's always the wrong word).

But you're also very right -- it doesn't work with everyone (maybe only with predictable ole me!). I have a friend who was born in 1977, whose favourite songs are by Frank Zappa, Captain Beefheart and the Incredible String Band. No, she really means it -- I've seen her record collection.

So you win a Grizzly Bar -- shall I bring it to Uffington?



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I think Guy needs to lay off the Stout and Grizzly Bars! Anyone second that notion? LOL

nah, seriously, I would guess that you're approximately 37 years, and two months old....just based on your musical tastes...

Hmmm to the very day. I suspect someone my have been cheating . . . ;)



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well, this is what happens when you guys appoint me keeper of the birthday list!

No fair AAC, you have the inside track!

I will gladly claim the grizzly bar and any other snack treats going, if you can carry that much stuff to Uffington :)

I get your defining moment in music though Guy. I wish I could claim such worthy precedents. Being an early 70's child my first tentative awareness was Blondie (Union City Blue is my all time favourite) and, rats, the Bay City Rollers. I will joyfully skip over the chart madness I experienced and reclaim a modicum of credibility with the first gig I went to, Run DMC with the Beastie Boys as support in 1987. BBs were not viewed as ironic in that incarnation when I saw them, people really did think skating across the stage on Bud was a cool thing. Then we all got blown away by Run DMC being just amazing. I still like the BB's but more for things like 'Sabotage'.

Squirrel is fine btw, my favourite rodent.

Oh yeah, 'Debaser' is a fine track, my prefence though is "Here comes your man'



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I think my defining moment in musical taste was the day I suddenly realised (during my teens) that a piece of music I'd never heard before was clearly by Dvorak. (Sorry about the lack of accents there.) I could correctly identify a composer's musical style... wow!

I still like Dvorak, though he was deposed from his place as my favourite composer by Bach a long time ago.



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Ah, 'Here comes your man', my other favourite Pixies track.

If you like the Pixies and all those other late 80s American bands on 4AD, you may find this amusing:

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Sadly I knew that two of the bands were the Undertones and Steve Harley and Cockney Rebel. Even more sadly, those were released before I was born...

You can't age me by my favourite songs, as most people haven't even heard of the artists. Actually, I'm intrigued as to how many of them anyone could guess (even with the aid of Google, frankly). Here's thirty of my favourite songs that I have going for most of the time I'm online. How many can you get? There's an offer of a pint for the first person to get all thirty...

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1: Patio Song

2: Can't Help Fallin' In Love (B-side, cover version, just to complicate matters, but very good it was too)

3: How Much I've Lied

4: Streets of Philladelphia (not the original version)

5: Glorious (cheesy, but brilliant...)

6: Pockets on Fire

7: Without You (no, not that one...)

8: Brick

9: Way Over Yonder in the Minor Key

10: Andrew Ridgely

11: Not Even Stevie Nicks (okay, not so good - but great title)

12: Leavin'

13: She Fell Into My Arms (a soundtrack to a love affair this one)

14: How It All Started In The Kitchen (there's a story here - it did all start in the kitchen, but we were listening to Patio Song at the time... Does anyone else live their lives as a seies of songs, or is it just me?)

15: Walk Away (yup, lived this one too... I'll accept the artist whose version I prefer, or the original composer. Be warned - it isn't the song you're thinking of)

16: Certainly

17: All My Life (have I already listed this bloke?)

18: Natural One

19: Polyesterday

20: Spirit of Man (Duballadub) - (Composer or artists accepted)

21: Outta Space

22: Nice Weather For Ducks

23: Stripper Vicar (in the words of Glenda Slagg - crazy title, crazy song!)

24: It's a Girl Thing

25: The Ballad of Robert Moore & Betty Coltrane

26: All Around the World or The Myth of the Fingerprints

27: Complainte de la Butte

28: Cold as Ice (XFM Session - yup, another cover)

29: The Weight (either version - cover or original)

30: Bumble Bee Boy



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hee hee, that's very good. I think I may have gone temporarily blind from the yellow text/red background though :) Nearly as complex as Motorhead line ups.

Gosh Sarah, I don't think I could spot Dvorak unless I had a programme in front of me, although I can recognise Aaron Copland's work quite quickly.

Holy semibreves, I only got *two* of those (The Beatles and Paul Simon) ... that's what you call eclectic taste. I could retaliate with a list of obscure prog-rock and jazz numbers, but I'm too nice to do that to you all.

And am I the only person who sings very sad songs when I'm feeling particularly cheerful?



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Jon: Interestin' - there isn't a Beatles one in there... Told you they're obscure (interstingly, at least two count as prog rock, I think...)



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I didn't think there was a beatles one! scrolled up to check before I read psd's message.

Patio Song is Gorky's Zygotic Mynci, and a wonderful song it is too. I sing along to the Welsh bits, even though i'm just making the approximate noises...

I can sing the chorus of "Glorious", but have no idea who it was by...hmmm....

Streets of Philadelphia - I@m thinking Bruce springsteen, but he might have been the original.

Walk Away - Cast? or is that the one you're not thinking of?

Stripper Vicar - Mansun. What was the other one they did with a funny name? Hmm...

That's all I can get. Might have to post some of my own, later.



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Oh. It's another song called 'The Weight', then. Drat.



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Stripper Vicar? Are you a Mansun fan PSD?

(i have a t-shirt with a bit of the lyrics I got at the convention 3 years ago)

Not a big Mansun fan, but I like a few of their songs. Stripper Vicar is a glorious romp though.


Dante - no, not Cast. I have some pride, you know (although my friends used to be convinced that I looked like Jon Power, and I did see them live once - crap, completely upstaged by the Nicotines, a support act).

Forgot the Beatles did a song called 'The Weight', there's another one that is regularly covered by a band-who-shall-remain-nameless-for-the-moment during their live gigs, and once on Jools Holland, which is when I discovered it. A mighty fine song it is too...



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psd - well, yes, cast were disturbingly bland and terrifying, but I did quite like Walk Away.

I'm trying to come up with some of my favourites, and am pretty much blanking on my cd collection.



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You were talking about this a few posts before, and I am A LOT younger than all of you, which is not to say I don't get the subtler jokes in the books.

Well, here's some song titles....guess the age I really got into music from them! And identify, obviously...

1. I wasn't built to get up
2. wig in a box
3. a drinking song
4. the summer wasting
5. when she cries
6. suicide is painless (cover)
7. strangeways inside
8. karaoke queen
9. hey hey michael you're really fantastic
10. my cousin kevin
11. let's misbehave
12. eddie's teddy
13. goddess on a highway
14. oblivion
15. she don't use jelly
16. hometown unicorn
17. girl from mars
18. rest in peace
19. lolita elle
20. long live the uk music scene



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1 = Supernaturals
6 = Manics
13 = Mercury Rev
14 = Terrorvision
15 = Flaming Lips
16 = Super Furries (as a guess - I'm not entirely sure)
17 = Ash

20 is either Verrucca Salt or Helen Love, but I can't remember which and keep getting them confused, for reasons that remain unclear.



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