Barking Spiders

As a fan of 70s/early 80s funk I'm a big fan of slap in funk but tone is everything. Slap with a clanky tone and it sounds shyte. My fave slap players are Larry Graham, Louis Johnson and Marcus Miller and no one's done it better than them IMO. I've no time for these professional YT fretwinkers like Davie 504 and Charles Berthoud however technically proficient they are. Slap in rock generally sounds bollix unless done like Bill Gould or Tim C. I've heard it on played on several metal songs and it sounds just plain bad though that's probably more because 99% of metal sucks.

Ah 1990 was a great year for me as I was separating from mrs Spiders MK 1 🥂. I then got back into gigging, after 18 months of being unable to thanks to the mad-as-a-box-of-frogs ex, inspired by a bluddy good time for music and nearly destituting myself through myriad albums purchases; Chill Out by KLF, Violator (D Mode), Swagger (Blue Aeroplanes), Fear of a Black Planet (Public Enemy), 90 (808 State), Cowboys from Hell (Pantera), Bossanova (Pixies), Facelift (Alice in Chains), Ritual de lo Habitual (Jane's Addiction) and plenty more. What I didnt know was that the next 2, 3 years would be even better thanks largely to Grunge and the Baggy scene in Blighty.

Once we get more BCers posting vids of themselves lip-synching to Taylor Swift songs, BC could almost be as good as Tik Tok

I maybe going out on a limb year but I guess most of us here can appreciate stuff that doesn't actually float our particular boat. I recognise this band are really tight, play at a high level and look like they're enjoying themselves. All good. It's just that there do happen to be lots of very good bands in the webverse playing this style of music.

This cover was very well played etc blah but there's loads of very similar highly competant funky, soully, jazzy type combos out there with vids on YT. They all just blur into one another. The most interesting thing there is MonoLeon's dress sense.

Not a fan of the synth-pop of Speak and Spell but once Martin Gore took over the writing and when Dave Gahan become a tattooed frontman with a certain lifestyle they got better and better

As a non-muso masquerading as a bass player I'd say you're kinda right. I actually like that song but hate the proggy stuff. Anyway back to the OP. 'Missing' is nowt like the rest of Everything But The Girl's Sade-like jazz pop

I don't like the Real Thing much but FNM hit the target every time with the rest. Just don't like Patton's nasal vocals on it but what a turnaround on thereafter. Underworld Mk1's stuff was pretty uninspiring but then came Mk2 with Dubnoheadwithmybassman which is a bona fide techno, whatever classic.

those whose first is generally seen as a total stinker which almost put you off them but next came their stonking sophomore effort and from then on you've stuck with them.

Yep, I'd say I Just Called is typical of SW's ballady stuff. As for The Cure, have they made any songs that are well known and which get regular airtime on major radio stations?

Golden Brown is The Stranglers biggest selling hit so anyone trying out Rattus on the strength of that could be in for a bit of a shock

I've long been of the opinion professional music critics are a bunch of no talent winkers, reinforced 30 years ago by the slating this band got, as being 5th rate Pearl Jam copyists. Never liked PJ myself and have never seen any likeness between the two. Been playing all the Scott Weiland era albums and they still sound fresher than any new rock I'm hearing today.

I'd say that in general it's because comedy dates even more quickly than music. Not just L & H but the Goon Show, Monty Python and loads of other stuff from the 50s-80s don't tickle the funny bones of younger generations

I want to hear more banter and less music. I tune into Planet Rock in the weekdays, while I'm working, mostly for the chat while I turn down the music 90% of the time. As for Radio 2 the only presenter I bother with is Ken Bruce. If the lack of Beatleage on the wireless is due to overplaying in the past plus a shift in Radio 2's listener demographic it'd be great to hear much less of the Rolling Stones, like nothing perhaps!

I listen to a mix of radio stations including Absolute, Radio 2, Planet Rock, BBC Gloucestershire and random others. While you can hear endless Abba, other than special requests I can't remember The Beatles ever being on a playlist. Planet Rock regularly play stuff by the Stones, Kinks, Who, Doors, Hendrix and other 'classic' 60s-70s bands but the closest I've heard the Beatles getting played is Motley Crue or Aerosmith doing Helter Skelter. Why do they get next to no airplay these days?

Were The Stranglers a punk band, seeing as they were older than most punk bands and that they could actually play their instruments? They like Ian Dury, XTC, Elvis C and other not-really-punk bands just happened to have formed around the same time as the Damned, Pistols etc.

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Not Ann Widdicombe then?

But what you were expecting base don these names?

Flipping through an RIAA list of biggest selling acts in the USA I came across a music group called Mannheim Steamroller. Knowing there are many big selling hard rock bands in the US that mean little in the UK, I YT'd them to check them out. Now, from their name I expected crunching guitars and plenty of widdling but instead I found this So, anyone else checking out an unfamiliar name expecting one thing but got summat else entirely

Eh?

Not come across these ladies before. As I've said metal isn't really my bag but I can make an exception for these Japanese, all-girl metal bands as they're a refreshing change from the usual metal/hard rock fare. And they're all great players.

But no less formulaic than many thousands of metal bands formed over the last couple of decades, though I guess you could make an argument for djent bands being an exception to this.

Well I have looked and indeed you make a case for it but Lovebites are too soberly dressed compared to visual kei bands, which hark back to UK 70s glam, 80s New Romantic and hair metal looks. Lovebites aren't mentioned anywhere as being visual kei so I can rest easy.😁

You heard any Modeselektor, which comprises the two guys here other than Sacha Ring, aka Apparat, on vocals?