I was too old to be devastated when Take That split up but heard some of the tracks from this album on the radio and picked it up at a car boot sale
Robbie Williams - Road to Mandalay From his Album Swing When You're Winning 2001
Chris Difford - Cowboys are My Weakness from the album I Didn't Get Where I am from 2003, Back in the early 2000s we didn't watch much TV but in the evenings we would listen to Three Counties Radio where the presenter - whose name I can't remember was really good and played all sorts of interesting music - not just things from their playlist. He was forced to leave in the end which was sad. Anyway, one of the people I was introduced to by his programme was Chris Difford. He'd been a member of Squeeze and I liked their Up The Junction track but nothing else of their music. After Squeeze broke up Chris Difford wrote for other people but finally produced the album of his own music in 2003. Its full of good tracks.
The Divine Comedy -Absent Friends From 2004 From their album of the same name. Another piece of music I first heard on the radio back then. I don't think I'd ever heard of them before this although they were formed in 1989. But I loved the voice of Neil Hannon straightaway. Now Ken Bruce occasionally plays their track " The National Express. Quirky
I wrote a post about Josh Groban back in September when he was on TV promoting a new CD.
So She Dances is a track from an early album Awake which came out in 2007. It's one of the lesser played bits of his music.
To bring things right up to date. I would have to add this............... one of Colin's favourites and played at his funeral back in June. Disturbed and "The Sound of Silence" from 2015. I don't know where Col first came across this - he used to listen to stuff on the laptop with earphones and would sometimes say" listen to this" and unplug the earphone so I could hear it. Some of what he listened to I didn't like (Heavy Metal and Rock) but this was so different.
Back To Normal Tomorrow
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I absolutely love that last one, David Draiman has a very distinctive voice and the way he sings the old Simon & Garfunkel song is absolutely spine tingling.
ReplyDeleteI tried listening to other tracks by them but it's too heavy rock for me
DeleteOh I loved Up the Junction as well.You are naming quite a lot of my all time favs!.I find this on You tube cause I havent got the record.Ive still got most of my singles and LPs that I bought when I was a teenager,because Ive got a record player.Simon and Garfunkel..another of my favourites!.Ive got their greatest hits LP.I wonder if the songs these days will still be remembered 50 to 60 years on?..Im turning into my Dad now,lol,xx
ReplyDeleteMy mum's favourite thing to say during the 60's when I was listening to pop was"but you can't hear a word their saying and it's all Yeah and Luv!"
DeleteI think all the tracks I've picked are ones where you can hear exactly whats said so I must be turning into my mum!
I loved The Sound of Silence by Disturbed but perhaps not as much as by Simon and Garfunkel. It's a very haunting song. Thankyou for sharing it. x
ReplyDeleteIt will always be special now after the funeral
DeleteI love The Sound of Silence by Simon and Garfunkel and you have made me think about songs I would like about my funeral.
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Oh dear, hope that's not for a very long while
DeleteLove anything of Simon and Garfunkel especially Bridge over troubled water. I often do my cleaning up to their CD.
ReplyDeleteI'm not keen on Simon and Garfunkel although Col liked them
DeleteJosh Groban voice is so beautiful. I like Col’s choice of music very much-so spiritual.
ReplyDeleteI love Josh Groban singing anything but I think this is my favourite - or maybe "Raise me Up" but that's more well known and I prefer lesser know pieces
DeleteI really like the Disturbed version of Sounds of Silence. It means more today than it did when it came out. Josh Groban could sing the phone directory to me and it would be marvelous. I love to listen to him sing "Anthem" from Chess. Marvelous voice.
ReplyDeleteSounds of Silence is one of my favourites. I have never heard this version before. Thanks for sharing.
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Oh wow - Thank you for sharing that beautiful version of Sounds of Silence. I can't imagine the emotions it must bring up so double thank you.
ReplyDeleteThis version of The Sound of Silence stopped me in my tracks the first time I heard it, I liked the original ... but I love this.
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