What happened to the Songs from your Era thread?

[horrie hastings]

"Nobody else could ever know, the part of me that can't let go"

Yep, you're right.


Does this qualify as a gentle folk song?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wanJQC5KAfo

Eddie, you are putting up songs which are played often on my IPOD, Bread's Everything I Own and Joan Baez's The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down, they come up at least once a week when i play the IPOD at work.

[horrie hastings]

Sorry to hear that about your father Horrie. I’m so grateful I had a kind and caring one. My favourite ABBA songs are the melancholy ones too - SOS and The Winner Takes It All. Got to love Dancing Queen though, which is musical genius especially the way it ascends to those high notes! Clearly I also need to find the time to listen to more ELO! A New World Record is also my favourite of theirs.

HI MR, rarely would i ever use the C word but when it comes to my father it fits perfectly, enough said about that.

Dancing Queen is one of those feel good dance floor songs that gets every one dancing and singing away, some of the musical experts said they have tried to dissect the song and there are so many different things going on in it at different levels. Funny though it isn't in my top favourite ABBA songs, i like it but just others i like more, my top 5 are. 1-Summer Night City 2 -SOS 3-The Visitors 4-The Winner Takes It All 5- The Day Before You Came,there are so many other classics though as we all know.

When we first met my better half said they didn't like ELO, reckoned everything sounded the same, when we were in Europe in 2011 i bought an ELO box set in Amsterdam, was playing some of it where we stayed in Spain and a song called Getting to the Point came on and my better half commented what a good song that was, then to my surprise a couple of months ago we were sitting on the lounge listening to music and the better half said i'm glad you persisted playing ELO because i really like them now and i turned and said you don't realise how happy you have just made me, it doesn't take much to me me happy but that definitely did.

[horrie hastings]

Not really from my era but we had some fun singing along to this late last night I think by this stage I was on my 13th or was it 14th beer celebrating Leeds Uniteds survival in the Premier League.

Such a happy song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Paqe2-BCYM

I still have it on vinyl single that i bought at Grace Brothers Bondi Junction.

[redwhiteblue]

Great Elton song RWB. It always makes me sad and is a wonderful tribute. That trip to New York sounds very special. When I get to The UK one day I’m visiting the Abbey Road zebra crossing and making the trip to Liverpool. Luckily the hubby is a Beatles fan too.

Yes it really is a very poignant song by Elton. You can feel and hear the sadness and the clip is very stark, eerie and reeking of loneliness. Yes I was grateful for the extended trip for my 40th and went onto London to visit another niece. Lots of high teas in both cities..I really do hope you get to make that trip with your husband MR. It truly is a wonderful place. The old saying "He who is tired of London, is tired of life" is very true. I always felt at home in the UK.

I just was talking to someone in Huddersfield who wants me to visit next year and I have another friend in outer Manchester to visit too, plus I want to go to Warwickshire and visit the castle seeing as I grew up in the Queensland equivalent....minus the castle.... My baby niece in London will turn 2 in March 2023, perfect age for me to play with her and her dad was born in Sheffield, home of these musical acts:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmNPngpg9x0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMzyleT2FqY

[redwhiteblue]

Mum and Dad loved ABBA but they also loved this man...It's not my fault it's from my era.... it's actually quite a pretty song...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZdYiMm6m-o

[redwhiteblue]

Out of all the 11,199 songs I have on my shuffle, 2 Chantoozies numbers came up in a row yesterday, not that I mind:

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRuf8rpIgpU

[redwhiteblue]

Love the intro to this one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxXfu-Kbtbc

[redwhiteblue]

Out of all the concerts I went to, Peter Gabriel left the biggest impression on me. There is just something so charismatic about the man.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_OO2PuGz-H8

[horrie hastings]

Well I haven't been to anywhere near as many concerts as RWB or HH. It's probably because I grew up in country NSW and then moved to Canberra when I was 17, so not close enough to where all the performers go to perform. But off the top of my head I have been to the following:

Split Enz farewell tour
Crowded House - 3 times
Finn Brothers
Neil Finn solo....see a trend here?
Paul McCartney twice
Elton twice
U2
Billy Joel
ACDC
Powderfinger
Icehouse
Eurythmics
Melissa Etheridge Twice
Del Amitri
1927
John Denver - several times - I went with my Mum who was a huge fan.
There were a few other smaller bands at the ANU bar but I can't remember them lol!
My biggest regret was not getting to see David Bowie live.

Forgot i also saw Elaine Paige which i'm sure was at the State Theatre, she couldn't hit some of the notes she could back in 80's and 90's but was still a good overall performance.

Also saw Dame Julie Andrews at the State Theatre, it was more a informal chat with the audience because she cannot sing since an operation to have nodules removed from her throat damaged her vocal chords, still it was a great night and Julie was on my bucket list of performers i wanted to see.

[redwhiteblue]

Two of my favourite Kylie albums:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nUoCazO5PE

And another Abbey Road album courtesy of Horrie Hastings. I love the photo too on the album cover:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmu8...5EHabb0ENvmeYw

[redwhiteblue]

I cant say i had been to the same U2 concert as you but we may have been at the same Cyndi Lauper concert at The Entertainment centre in 1989, not sure what night i went but it was a week day night.

Yep edit, it was the Wednesday night the 17th October.

We were at Spicks and Specks too at the same time. You had said to me to look out for you as you were wearing a Roosters polo. . I'd gone to the Greek place nearby with my friend, the same one who lives not far from you and who is having that birthday in July (I'm posting the birthday card for your other half today from the same artist as the card I've bought for my friend as its not actually raining!)

I remember we didn't have each other's phone numbers back in those days as we used to chat via message on the old Wall and that was how Tones and I kept in touch too until we swapped numbers and then he gave me his email address so we used to swap all sorts of photos..Oh I remembered he invited me to go and see Hilary Duff with him but I couldn't go. Shame that as I really like Hilary even to this day and enjoy her films and TV shows too.

[eddie]

Eddie, you are putting up songs which are played often on my IPOD, Bread's Everything I Own and Joan Baez's The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down, they come up at least once a week when i play the IPOD at work.

Ma Foi !
I have no idea how. We discussed ipods when this thread started about 5 years ago, but I never went down that path. I took too long to download anything so my daughter claimed the thing.
The bread song came into my head after listening to John Denver, and Joan Baez came up as a suggestion on utube.
I hadn't heard it since I was a kid.

Anyway.........perhaps this will break the chain.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpQryiTbHo8

[mightyrooster]

HI MR, rarely would i ever use the C word but when it comes to my father it fits perfectly, enough said about that.

Dancing Queen is one of those feel good dance floor songs that gets every one dancing and singing away, some of the musical experts said they have tried to dissect the song and there are so many different things going on in it at different levels. Funny though it isn't in my top favourite ABBA songs, i like it but just others i like more, my top 5 are. 1-Summer Night City 2 -SOS 3-The Visitors 4-The Winner Takes It All 5- The Day Before You Came,there are so many other classics though as we all know.

When we first met my better half said they didn't like ELO, reckoned everything sounded the same, when we were in Europe in 2011 i bought an ELO box set in Amsterdam, was playing some of it where we stayed in Spain and a song called Getting to the Point came on and my better half commented what a good song that was, then to my surprise a couple of months ago we were sitting on the lounge listening to music and the better half said i'm glad you persisted playing ELO because i really like them now and i turned and said you don't realise how happy you have just made me, it doesn't take much to me me happy but that definitely did.

That's a lovely story Horrie. I think I've opened my other half's ears to a whole new world of music too over the years. He only ever listened to late 80's music and the Beatles. He still does haha! But he's told me that I've introduced him to so many other artists and songs he never would have even thought about.

[eddie]

Love the intro to this one:

Waterfront was cool. Makes me think of this old ZF fairlane I bought as it was the first song that came on the radio in it.
I also liked Glittering Prize, All the Things She Said, and Promised you a Miracle.

[mightyrooster]

Mum and Dad loved ABBA but they also loved this man...It's not my fault it's from my era.... it's actually quite a pretty song...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZdYiMm6m-o

Oh no Demis Roussos. We unfortunately had an album or two of his in Mum and Dad's music library when growing up. They also had Nana Mouskouri ! The less said the better