This is a cornucopia of retro delights:

Whaaaat?! Soundcloud ebedding! New forum is awesome 😆

Not sure if its old enough to be classed as retro, but I am loving listening to these lot again.

@trailwagger- my definition of retro when starting this thread was anything you hadn’t heard in a while, so Shed Seven is fine, besides some of us haven’t been around long enough for retro to be older than the late 90s!

Detroit Cobras have been sorting my afternoon.

My mate’s daughter made a decent covers album (in my view anyway):

You know Thea?! I’ve met her a bunch of times at various gigs, such a great singer and songwriter, and a really lovely person with it. Nigel’s a smashing bloke too. You obviously know about Thea’s album ‘Don’t Stop Singing’, her interpretations of songs the sadly missed Sandy Denny wrote over thirty years ago but never finished. I can’t think of anyone who could have brought those songs to life like Thea, she’s completely captured what Sandy was about.

Best played loud:

I never imagined Talk Talk would look like that.  I imagined them as a minimalist electro-pop band.  Instead they look like like a cross between the Dexys Midnight Runners and Level 42.

Touring soon:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yq9x-ff0fXs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edmDN11BxCY

You know Thea?!

Since before she was born. I worked with her parents at Pergamon Press and stayed in touch with her dad ever since, been each other’s best man and that kind of stuff. I saw her first ever gig when she played in a N Oxfordshire pub whilst still at school. I think she still has my Yamaha WX-7 Wind Controller…

Anyway back on track, this thread has given me some great ideas as I’m busy filling up my 64GB ipod after deciding to get rid of the usual suspects on there. Thanks to all.

Another reissue, for some reason. Sounds ok though. Mick Karn died didn’t he? Used to love his bass playing

And another

Still as relevant to politics now as it was in the 80’s! Also a great listen!!

Sometimes the the simple stuff is the best!

Loving that Bob Mould and Dave Grohl track.

Dave looks like Animal playing the drums.

My retro tune – The Senseless Things ‘Easy To Smile’

An occasional guilty pleasure

Listened to REM Out of Time, last night. I had forgotten how much I liked early REM stuff. Here’s the opening track.

I never imagined Talk Talk would look like that. I imagined them as a minimalist electro-pop band.

They were, as their albums progressed. What they’re wearing doesn’t look too different to what a lot of bands wear now, jeans, ordinary shirts, Hawaiian shirt, bare-chested drummer…
Very sad, since I posted that video, Mark Hollis has passed away; much has been written about him, and whether the band would reform, which was a wish of mine, but the reality is Mark had probably achieved everything he set out to musically, and had no further interest in the band.
He left a great legacy, though.

Been listening to these guys again recently. If they ride bikes I think it will be single speed cruisers, on or off road, old school like.

Been listening to these guys again recently. If they ride bikes I think it will be single speed cruisers, on or off road, old school like.

Rivers Cuomo is still writing stuff – latterly with AJR