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General Category => Literature, Music, Art & Entertainment => Topic started by: Humph Warden Bennett on September 23, 2018, 01:24:17 PM

Title: Brum's musical finest!
Post by: Humph Warden Bennett on September 23, 2018, 01:24:17 PM
OK not just the City of Brum, but the whole of the Wez Middle Ans region (they are always calling me a bluddy Londoner, so I am returning the compliment).
Title: Re: Brum's musical finest!
Post by: Shaker on September 23, 2018, 02:45:02 PM
50% of Led Zeppelin for starters.
Title: Re: Brum's musical finest!
Post by: Humph Warden Bennett on September 23, 2018, 02:57:13 PM
50% of Led Zeppelin for starters.

Quite correct. But a half group? OK perhaps half a vote for Led Zep.
Title: Re: Brum's musical finest!
Post by: Gordon on September 23, 2018, 03:01:28 PM
I voted other - The Move are the chaps.

As for the ones on the list - the least said the better!
Title: Re: Brum's musical finest!
Post by: Humph Warden Bennett on September 23, 2018, 03:12:02 PM
My own vote went to the Moodies, classic era rather than the eighties. The late Ray Thomas received a fair amount of stick for the line "Hurry hi, ye butterfly" ("Om"), which was unfair since  Ray just sung the line, the song was written by Mike Pinder,

I played in a group in the early eighties, we recorded a song with the guitarists sisters boyfriend guesting on electric piano. He was balding with long hair and a beard, so we credited him as "Mike Spinder".
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Post by: Steve H on September 23, 2018, 05:51:13 PM
The Bloody Moos are well ahead at the moment, but since only three people have voted (including me, for them), anything can happen.
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Post by: jeremyp on September 23, 2018, 06:00:32 PM
How could it be any band other than Black Sabbath?
Title: Re: Brum's musical finest!
Post by: Shaker on September 23, 2018, 06:11:09 PM
I doubt that Slade - a Black Country band - would be doing cartwheels of joy at being lumped in with the Brummies yet again.
Title: Re: Brum's musical finest!
Post by: Rhiannon on September 23, 2018, 08:10:16 PM
Well some might say Duran Duran.

Not that I would.

Dexy's.
Title: Re: Brum's musical finest!
Post by: Humph Warden Bennett on September 24, 2018, 11:01:24 AM

Dexy's.

How could I have forgotten Dexys ? :o

I remember in 1982 one of my work colleagues was from Brum, and yes she really was named Eileen. Whilst we genuinely tried not to annoy her, it's funny how ubiquitous is the phrase "Come on".
Title: Re: Brum's musical finest!
Post by: Sebastian Toe on September 24, 2018, 03:12:36 PM
ELO
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Post by: Robbie on September 24, 2018, 05:05:17 PM
Moody Blues for me (& yes I do know who they are  :) ).
Title: Re: Brum's musical finest!
Post by: Steve H on September 25, 2018, 05:47:45 PM
ELO
Yorkshire greeting.
Title: Re: Brum's musical finest!
Post by: Shaker on September 25, 2018, 06:13:36 PM
Yorkshire greeting.
No, that was that other legendary band, A-Up.
Title: Re: Brum's musical finest!
Post by: Robbie on September 25, 2018, 06:33:00 PM
I'm quite fond of 'Other please specify'.
Title: Re: Brum's musical finest!
Post by: Harrowby Hall on September 25, 2018, 09:37:36 PM
I know that she is not the kind of "musical finest" we should be considering, but what about Lauren Zhang?
Title: Re: Brum's musical finest!
Post by: Steve H on September 26, 2018, 09:49:42 AM
The Bloody Moos are still in the lead! Hooray!  :D
Title: Re: Brum's musical finest!
Post by: Gordon on September 26, 2018, 10:19:46 AM
The Bloody Moos are still in the lead! Hooray!  :D

Boo  >:(
Title: Re: Brum's musical finest!
Post by: Rhiannon on September 26, 2018, 10:22:15 AM
No, that was that other legendary band, A-Up.

The one with the singer named after the little town of Morten Harket?
Title: Re: Brum's musical finest!
Post by: Humph Warden Bennett on October 05, 2018, 04:51:57 PM
OK the Moodies win

https://youtu.be/5-lGKnIbNbw
Title: Re: Brum's musical finest!
Post by: Steve H on October 05, 2018, 05:39:09 PM
OK the Moodies win

https://youtu.be/5-lGKnIbNbw
Hooray! (I loved Slade as well, though.)
Title: Re: Brum's musical finest!
Post by: Humph Warden Bennett on October 06, 2018, 01:27:15 PM
I remember reading an interview some moons ago with Dave Hill, he said that "Cum on feel the Noize" was written as a "proper" song, but "Skweeze me pleeze me" was the group sending themselves up and was not intended to be taken seriously.

FTR I quite liked Fuzzbox, the drawback was that their record company did the the same to them as was done with The Bangles, a scruffy looking band who wrote their own songs were glammed up & one of them turned into a sex symbol.