Barking Spiders

I live in Glos. Any clues to this town and the nice bar? You're right though. While people are happy enough to pay money to watch a band of their choice, what they generally don't want is for some unasked for musical solo/duo/trio/quattro/ etc to intrude into their space. I'm like that myself. Any opening bars ( that is music not drinking venues) of guitar strumminess that say to me 'uh oh, blues rock peddlers / sensitive folkies /serious jazzers at one o' clock' and I'm out of there quicker than s**t off a shiny shovel.

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Certainly the case around Cheltenham/Gloucester and Leamington/Stratford areas where I mostly divide my time. Yep, there's definitely a preference for acoustic combos in all the venues I know of. Sign of the times that reflects what's popular in the mainstream and what's not.

a main reason I've not been in a band for a few years now is that with most of the ones I've checked out, at least one of the members was someone I reckon I might've exchanged a few slaps with. You might also think with being in a duo or trio there might be less chance of fisticuffs / hairpulling but history says, 'no chance' e.g. McCartney & Lennon, Simon & Garfunkel, Everlies, Police, Tears for Fears, Sam n Dave...

Baptist gospel?

I only listen CDs and don't think much of streaming or the unlamented MP3 format. I go back to family in Germany quite a bit, and unlike the UK most music shops there haven't all gone to the wall. . That said, BPI info shows CD and vinyl accounted for 75% of albums sales and in the UK last year and rising! So all this talk about the death of the CD is way overstated

I don't mean punters just carrying on talking etc while you're playing but mebbe where they've really taken against you and thrown all manner of undrinkable fluids at your heads etc or even invaded the stage and ripped out your amps plugs

A great gig, in my experience? where punters don't throw glasses of p*$$ at the stage. It's uphill after that

I used to quite like the Undertones but always skipped this track. It doesn't bug me bu it's definitely one of their weakest. + another for BoRap. I've heard some say it's a tongue in cheek song and deliberately OTT. It's less the song itself that irks but the way it's always been trotted out on music radio decade in decade out. Ditto for We Are The Champions, Another One,,, We Will Rock You. Radio show programmers are to blame

I agree Later's always been - and still is - a necessary antidote to the safe, mainstream and predictable playlists on the radio and I include DAB stations like Planet Rock there. The only exception was the now defunct Jazz FM. Most of the stuff featured on Later's never been my bag but this is probably only a reflection of viewers tastes. Something that it did wake me up to is this

When I was a teen back in late 80s Liverpool, John Peel watched a band I was in, albeit we were one of 4 or 5 that night. We'd clubbed together to get a 45 pressed which we gave him. Don't recall him actually playing it though he may've used it as a pooper scooper or frisbee for his kids

Thought I'd give ep 2 a chance but regretted it, yet again. When will I ever learn. Went back to to ep 1 and watched ToP again but was less impressed this time yet I'm a fan of their first 5 albums, well the more upbeat tracks anyway. Always felt they sounded a bit sappy with the slow soul numbers. Anyway, as ever the playing on Later was gnat's ar$e tight but for me it didn't swing enough like the best funk tunes do.

ha ha, there's a challenge here., though I agree Morrissey is extremely irksome in both voice and manner. For me even more irritating is Craig David., his over-chiselled facial hair and his contribution to this tripe

There are those shoite ads for the postcode lottery or some such that use Wing's ubertwee ' Let Them In' but an even worse version with 'someone's knocking at the dawwwawww'. Brings out my inner psycho

I had to endure some of the Eurovision. Wall to wall, ceiling to floor dreck. Worse though were the fookin irritating presenters and the 'entertainment' between the songs. Not a good advert for Portugal. + 1 x 1,000 for Sweet Child of Mine. The p**s easy guitar riff is often cited as one of the greats. Then again so is the guitar newbie/entry level Smoke On The Water + 1 for Whisky in the jar, esp the Thin Lizzy version.

He maybe better off putting a career in music on the back burner and think about attending a remedial English course

I once stood next to Curt Smith (Tears for Fears) at a zebra crossing near Oxford Street tube. Only 15 minutes later Joan Collins brushed past me in the furnishings dept in Liberty. not that she's rock n roll. Just sayin'.

hmm, disagree with you there., I've never had a problem with deliberately cheesy novelty tunes only those that are meant to be treated as proper songs but happen to be total gash. Birdie Song or something by Radiohead? The yellow feathered critter wins everytime +2 for Mr Brightside. Bluddy awful band at that

And that's exactly my point. The likes of Poison hadn't had major hits with their regular metal stuff, saw that other rock bands had broken into the top 10 with slushy power ballads and hey presto. As I said, cynical.

+2 here for hatred of power ballads, the worst offenders being those performed by metal bands in a desperate attempt to get their first top 10 single. The real cynical part of this is they usually hired professional songwriters to do the dirty business of writing the actual pish.

....although behind your aliases some of you might have already! After many attempts to crack it in my 20s by the age of 28 I realised it wasn't to be . What with the ubiquity of social media nowadays I'm glad I didn't make it. Don't think my fragile ego could put up with the downvotes and jibes on YT etc

The hatred that many have for Oasis is based on unwaranted arrogance, chippiness & a snarky attitude when in fact the Gallaghers had /have little going for them. Oasis songs are derivative and simplistic singalongs for football crowds while LG is a one trick pony with a nasal snarl of a voice.

Viz Prince does anyone here think of him as funk? OK he did some outright funk on his earlier albums but from Purple Rain his output was too eclectic what with rockers, pop, ballads,..

That's as close as anything I've seen for a definitive classic funk comp though I'd swap the two Prince songs for summat like Saturday Night or Getaway by EW&F, Galaxy by War, or I wanna take you higher by Sly ATFS

I abhor entire musical output from whole decades or generations but included among thousands of songs that have me diving for the off button every time are I dont wanna miss a thing, Crazy crazy nights, Living on a prayer, Give it away, Start me up, I can't get you out of my head (Kylie), Poker face (Gaga), Wonderwall and Walls come tumbling down (Style Council)