Coldplay mixed news.

[ColinDouglasHandshake]

Marillion just a tad before my time but i do like Sugar Mice as a song.

[Colin C No.3]

It’s all in the ear of the beholder.

One man’s meat etc

[Petche]

Marillion just a tad before my time but i do like Sugar Mice as a song.

CDH they're not done yet, New album next month and a dozen or so albums since Sugar Mice!

[sha66y]

They've never been and never will be cool but for those not familiar with Marillion go check them out, especially live versions of Neverland, The Space and the album FEAR. Fantastic musicians with a brilliant front man.
P.s they're not an 80's nostalgia band!!

Super cool band, got the Quadruple live album from the Albert Hall for Xmas….

[sha66y]

Laibach's underlying theme is the link between innocent pop music and fascism. They have a string of cover versions where they have turned pop songs into terrifying Wagnerian fascist anthems.

Geburt Einer Nation is both hilarious and blood chilling. A cover of Queen's One Vision, sung in German in a bass baritone voice by a singer dressed in militaristic outfits. Puts "One flesh, one bone, one true religion" sung like that is horrifying.

Their cover of Get Back by the Beatles sung like that puts a whole different take on "Get back to where you once belonged".

They aren't fascists. They make people reflect on how those attitudes can be unconsciously fostered. Coming from the ex Yugoslavia where right wing populists whipped up people into a civil war makes it very poignant.

But if that's too much like hard work, their cover of Rammstein's Ohne Dich is one of the most beautiful works of chilling art in music.

The original is OK but it's a bog standard melancholy male rock love song. "Without you the birds don't sing, the seconds feel like hours ".

In Laibach's version, the lead singer is Mina Spiler who has the most achingly gorgeous female soprano voice. It's elegant and fragile.

Then the male singet comes in with his terrifying bass voice. As she sings "Ohne Dich" (without you), he sings over it in a whispered growl "Ohne Mich" (without me). f**king genius.

Controversial for controversial’s sake methinks…

[BillyStubbsTears]

Nope.
Controversial because they come from an area where they know what hell you descend into when you let fascist populists take over.

[scawsby steve]

BB and Wolfie tell me that Lord Rockingham's XL were pretty special. Especially the spine chilling way they delivered the words "There's a moose loose aboot this hoose".

[Colin C No.3]

In no particular order:

The Monkees
The Bee Gees
Barry Manilow
Barbara Streisand
Lindisfarne
Diana Ross
Don McLean
David Gray
Rufus Wainwright ll

[Bentley Bullet]

Showaddywaddy

[Colin C No.3]

Oh, & of course Slade.

[sha66y]

In no particular order:

The Monkees
The Bee Gees
Barry Manilow
Barbara Streisand
Lindisfarne
Diana Ross
Don McLean
David Gray
Rufus Wainwright ll

Mr C!
Please tell me that is the music you like!

[ColinDouglasHandshake]

In no particular order:

The Monkees
The Bee Gees
Barry Manilow
Barbara Streisand
Lindisfarne
Diana Ross
Don McLean
David Gray
Rufus Wainwright ll

Mr C!
Please tell me that is the music you like!

Well, Napalm Death it ain't. 

[Colin C No.3]

In no particular order:

The Monkees
The Bee Gees
Barry Manilow
Barbara Streisand
Lindisfarne
Diana Ross
Don McLean
David Gray
Rufus Wainwright ll

Mr C!
Please tell me that is the music you like!

I saw your list & thought………….well he started it!