Barking Spiders

In your opinion yes. It's not mandatory to have to think certain bands/albums are the greatest, the epitome. There are several BCers who don't like The Beatles and that's fine. Their choice, their taste.

As a teenager I was well into The Smiths, Joy Division, Echo and the Bunnymen etc big time. Now I look back and think but why? Mind you, I still continue to play the Jesus and Mary Chain and House of Love. Viz the Smiths, I still like the bass lines though.

Yes, seriously, in the scenario that's my taste in music. On the subject of Guns n Roses, Appetite is one seriously overrated album too, basically Aerosmith on better drugs

I never got all the rage directed at St Anger. I admit the snare's a bit upfront in the mix but I appreciate the lack of guitar solos. Then again I think both Load and Reload would've made a cracking single album, with the weaker fillers dumped, and better than the overrated pre-black album years.

Yep, sadly too. When Little Mix win best British group, you know all hope is gone. I'm not being a snob here as I have Dua Lipa's Future Nostalgia and it was good to see it win best album, ditto The Weeknd for best international artist. But Little Mix?! Bring back the Spice Girls! As for 80s British pop, looking back it was a golden age though TBH I always had time for a few tunes by DD, Spandau, Wham and Simply Red.

Yep, I've a soft spot for her. A long time ago me and my then missus were out for a long country walk but we got lost and found ourselves having to take a short cut through some private fields. In the distance we saw a figure approaching who then asked if we were lost and kindly walked and talked with us to show us the right way out. After we went our separate ways, me and the missus looked at eachother as if to say 'no way, surely not!'. We later spoke of this to others living nearby who confirmed yes indeed Sade was the owner of the land we'd been trespassing on.

I still don't like anything by Bon Jovi I've heard but feel a bit bad about it as John BG is actually a pretty decent bloke. Prog's still something of a long lived pet hate but I do have Yes's 90125 on CD and for the first time I like Jon Anderson's vocals, though prog die-hards will say it's not a prog album and I can't really disagree. Also I think Discipline by King Crimson is a cracker though it's got more in common with Talking Heads ( a long term fave of mine) than all the previous stuff

For many years I used to really dislike the Red Hot Chili Peppers. But ever since joining Talking Bass I've been learning all the Flea lines Mark Smith's put up and actually now like many RHCP tracks like the (better than the original ) cover of Higher Ground, Dark Necessities, Behind the Sun, Venice Queen Suck My Kiss, Sir Psycho Sexy, Subway to Venus... Still can't stand Californication and Give It Away though. And the moral of the story? Don't write anything off for good and always keep your mind open as you'll never know when your brain will suddenly do an about turn. Then again I'm still waiting to hear anything I like from KISS and ELO.

Mandy Smith would've had to've found another sugar daddy

Ha ha. So true. I once had to smuggle a copy of Bass Player magazine out of the newsagents hidden inside a copy of Razzle

in a 'girl group' mebbe?

My mrs thinks my 3 basses, 3 guitars and drum kit is a lot. I invited her to look at pics of some BCers bass-only collections that run into multiple tens to see what 'a lot' actually looks like!😊

Open yourself up to your feminine side and join in the chats about cross-dressing husbands and pregnancy diets 😁😉. I've been on there to moan about snarky teens and got comfort knowing others have been going through the same shyte

As a rug rat of the early 70s I missed out on the heyday of punk but just about caught the tail-end of the post punk thing. Been recently listening to a lot of Undertones, Buzzcocks, Stiff Little Fingers, Ruts, Generation X and Wire. Right now it's the latter's excellent Chairs Missing

In Gloucestershire, several of the few in-town pubs I know of that used to put on gigs are now up for sale or are being converted into housing. Those pubs/bars that are now making some sort of recovery are generally larger family ones in/near villages with dining and large outdoor spaces but have never hosted gigs and I don't think they'll start doing so either. Maybe in the bigger towns and cities there are more opportunities

Yup, not sure what music he listens to as rhythm guitar is very noticeable in funk, disco, metal, soul, certain types of jazz e.g. gypsy and reggae. In fact, in a band context, most of the guitar playing is rhythm with lead usually limited to 20-40 seconds. I've not beef with auto-tune. After all, find me an electric guitarist who only plays clean with no effects. That would be the equivalent of a singer without any studio help

Back on a 80s indie/post punk tip. As a teen Peelie's show was essential listening for me, the only place I could really hear indie rock that never got daytime airplay. Here are top tunes from three of my fave (woefully underrated/overlooked) finds

erm except this is the original

Thing about the AD/DC vs SQ thing going on here is that AC/DC are estimated to have sold 200 million albums worldwide with BiB doing 25 million alone in the US. SQ have hadn't any album go platinum in the UK while they're virtually unheard of in the US. Both bands have gone 40 years plus without ever breaking their formula yet one is one of the biggest selling acts in music history and the other is some way off that. Odd that.

What's that vid doing in a thread about SQ? I'm confused. I looked at it for a couple of mins and that was 1 minute 58 seconds too long. Back to Quo, seems with the original line-up they were more interesting live while I've heard several of their studio efforts but to my ears the sound is limp. The Live album's pretty good with tracks like 45 Hundred Times, Roll Over Lay Down, Backwater/Just Take Me and Big Fat Mama being well superior to the studio versions. Dunno how they managed to morph into a Butlins cabaret act after the original rhythm section left. As for worshipping them, ermm!

Now that'd I'd pay to watch !

One of the few bands I've been listening to regularly since I heard Upside Down on Peel. Plenty about them back in the 80s to upset music purists, grannies, pets etc. Here's the great Never Understand

Ha, I'm also getting on a bit but finding myself increasingly drawn towards the sonic assault of twin guitars crunching out riffs in drop D. I enjoy metal more now than when I was a yoot, maybe because in the 21st century there's been little of all that demons and wizards tosh. Outside of electronica and downtempo it's the only current sub-genre of rock I bother with.

Having to work this morning so I generally have ambient/downtempo electronica type stuff on, this currently spinning around

Yeah, I can't abide that either. Just sounds ragged and messy.