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Russ of the BML
10:21 Thu Dec 18
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My input is a Scandinavian band called The Whitest Boy Alive.
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Gloucester Iron
9:54 Thu Dec 18
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Monk~koknee 4:56 Thu Dec 18
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Underrated is a strange concept. A band who, surprising in my opinion, never gained commercial success were Tomorrow of My White Bicycle fame.
Would have loved to have seen them live Monk, but too young. Still have both their singles and the album on Parlophone, though.
Keith West's short lived solo success with Excerpt From A Teenage Opera did for 'em in the end.
Steve Howe obviously had the most commercial success of them all with Yes, but the drummer, John "Twink" Alder released the fantastic single, 10,000 Words In A Cardboard Box, with the bass player, Junior Wood, as The Aquarian Age in '68 before joining The Pretty Things in time to help them complete S F Sorrow.
He influenced their set immediately as The Pretties included My White Bicycle in their sets during '68 - '69.
He went on to be release and ace solo album, Think Pink, backed by various members of The Deviants and Pretty Things early in 1970, before becoming a founder member of The Pink Fairies.
Twink converted to Islam a numbers of years ago, and now lives in Marrakesh, Morocco, but is very active on Facebook these days, and is quite happy to chat to anyone who remembers these bands from back in the day, while regularly posting up memories, photographs and other memorabilia from this period ...
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Iron Duke
9:49 Thu Dec 18
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The Chameleons
Grandaddy
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violator
8:28 Thu Dec 18
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The Drums
British Sea Power
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Monk~koknee
4:56 Thu Dec 18
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Underrated is a strange concept. A band who, surprising in my opinion, never gained commercial success were Tomorrow of My White Bicycle fame.
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zebthecat
4:08 Thu Dec 18
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Cardiacs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vP1r1DCz6w
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keddy
2:34 Thu Dec 18
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I've been playing Looking on and Message from the Country a bit, recently. It's a pity that Jeff Lynne and Roy Wood didn't collaborate more. The earlier poppy stuff is alright, too, with the excellent Carl Wayne but I think they got better as they got older and their last album ;Message from the Country' is their best.IMO Didn't Bev Bevan, the drummer, .try to get them going again at some point?
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SurfaceAgentX2Zero
1:32 Thu Dec 18
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Shazam! from 1970 is a brilliant (if slightly weird) album.
The Move were probably a little overshadowed by the similarly quirky Kinks and more commercially successful Who.
Roy Wood's is probably not far behind the influence of Davies and Townshend. Jeff Lynne fell out with him but was hugely influenced.
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Far Cough
9:54 Wed Dec 17
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Blagg, the Americans
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Billy Blagg
9:52 Wed Dec 17
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Nice attempt at a thread Far but the Move underrated...? Really? Who by?
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Takashi Miike
8:34 Wed Dec 17
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Shed 7, never got the credit or sales they deserved and still brilliant live
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgDMOhdlHS4
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On The Ball
8:30 Wed Dec 17
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Embrace
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDjOdcvXr5Q
EOT
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