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Yes, Queen. Pretty unequalled on stage live but...

Scaramouche, Scaramouche can you do the Fandango?
Thunderbolt and lightning, very very frightening.
Galileo, Galileo, Figaro. Magnifico.

Well I could go on.

IMO, the real masters of lyrics are the Police.

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Malcolm W.
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Agreed Malc But your post has just made me think of something which has hit me like a wet fish in the face; perhaps the point I should have made in my O/P.

I can think of many albums which I could play from start to finish because every track is a gem but I am struggling like hell to think of a single one from the past five or even ten years! So maybe that's the true barometer of how good or bad things are today?

You’ve mentioned a good one already I could add: Pink Floyd, The late Michael with Thriller, The Carpenters, Brian Adams, Rainbow, Journey! I could go on...

Or to put it another way, who from the past five years will be around making good stuff in five or ten years?

I rest my case melud

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I'll stick with Foo Fighters for the last 10 years. Oasis before they fell away badly, The Verve's "Urban Hymns", Springsteen's new stuff is still good.

I've varied tastes.



You all know I sing in a choir .. well . we do all the classical stuff . but we also do "modern medleys" Beatles go down well


You should hear our choir belt out Rolling Stones Classics though. I can do the "pout" too We include a huge range . .. and have been known to do some rap/reggae..
But I think our most powerful medley was the Bing/Sinatra crooning" :lol;


EDIT. we occasionally have CDs





OK . faves.. Beatles.. Stones.. Kinks ... Donovan.. Led Zep.. Deep Purple . ACDC.. Yes.. ELP .. Asia.. Aphrodyte's Child . Fleetwood Mac .. (early stuff in particular ) Pink Floyd.. Doobies.. Suzanne Vega. Tori Amos (early work) .. Kate Bush.. Carpenters.. early Billy Joel.. .Marc Bolan (early Bolan) .. Bowie.. Rick wakeman projects from 6 wives of Henry vIII to his Riund Table.. Mile and Sally Oldfield . Karen Black . Bert Jansch.. ,,early Oasis .. Blur.. Simon?Garfunkel/Al Stweart/Cat Stevens //


I love Mozart/Beethoven/Wagner/Brahms/Liszt/Vivaldi/Greig/ and the like.

I enjoy Ella fitzgerald . Satchmo. Glenn Miller . Dame Vera Lynn. Perry Como etc

I guess I have varied tastes and very open mind - I hope ., and I also hope I am always embracing a new harmonic sound - but still find the din of R1 and similar "moderns" quite a din and assault on my ear drums


I have told Ted's sisters Jazz and Julia to consider registering to this site as they've some good points to make. Neither's the best driver in the world .. but both more than competently able.. but not quite as enthused as Ted and Wildy. Both are also on the "dark side" as a magistrate and thus more likely to say "but if you were an idiot . then you deserve me fining you"

BUT ..

We worry lest this site become "the family forum" as most of that Swiss family and extended question speed cam policy and ethics Jazz is a teacher and plays the sax and trumpet in a jazz band. Julia also teaches and plays the violin in a string quartet.

Lovely women. Magistrates. Samaritans .. Great tastes in music too.

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Drive without COAST and it's all your own fault!

A SMILE is a curve that sets everything straight (P Diller).

A Smiley Per post
FINES USfor our COAST!

Approach love and cooking with reckless abandon - but driving with a smile and a COAST calm mind.

But that was pure opera my dear

Ahem, I give give you my version...

I See a little silhouetto of a scam

Scamaratzi scamaratzi, will I get a little NIPo

Thunderbolt and lightning - Very very taxing me!

Galileo, Galileo,

Galileo, Galileo

Galileo Figaro - Magnifico - oh, Oh, Oh, Oh.

I'm Just a driver, nobody loves me..

He's Just A driver, from a poor Family. Spare him his life from this Monstroso-Tax

Easy dough, easy go, will you let me go?

Bismillah! NO, guilty as accused!

Let him go!!!

Bismillah! NO, guilty as accused!

Let him go!!!

Guilty as accused!

Let him go!!! Will Not Let You Go. Let me go (never, Never, Never, Never, Never Let Me Go!)

Will Not Let You Go - Let Me Go, Oh, Oh, Oh, Oh -

No, No, No, No, No, No, No!

Oh Mama Mia, Mama Mia - Mama Mia let me go

Beelzebub has the Big Gov. put aside for meee - for meeee – FOR Meeeeee!

(Enter Brian)

(Now Fred...) (Okay, you try and get a better smilie! )

So you think you can fine me and spit in my eye

So You tell me I’m dangerous with no proof of why....

Ohhh baby - Can't do this to me baby...

Just Gotta get fined, while real crims get right out of here...



Big Fred's little brother - Big Tone

And that's all you're gettin' from me tonight. (Thank God, I hear you say )


Stay safe and remember - safety cannot be measured by the speedometer...

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You will be branded a threat to society by going over a speed limit where it is safe to do so, and suffer the consequences of your actions in a way criminals do not, more so than someone who is a real threat to our society.

Tone . I forgot QUeen and you have just surpassed and rewitten a CLASSIC there. You have cheered me up on a blue day for me.

I know Ted once strummed a rework of Neil Young's Ohio on his guitar. (He plays it well. Vrenchen is a pianist . and all their kids play something. Their Lukas is rather gifted with a flute.


I think it may be judged unwise for me to repeat it ..


But



Back to Queen .. truly talented and appreciated more now than in heyday.

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Take with a chuckle or a grain of salt
Drive without COAST and it's all your own fault!

A SMILE is a curve that sets everything straight (P Diller).

A Smiley Per post
FINES USfor our COAST!

Approach love and cooking with reckless abandon - but driving with a smile and a COAST calm mind.

OK I'll bite. Rap's kinda died anyway, so this is from Johnny's archive:

Something from the 80s:

Public Enemy - Louder Than A Bomb (audio only)

90s:

Cypress Hill - Throw Your Set in the Air

2000s:

Whats The Difference - Dr Dre, Bad language alert!

As someone (Malc?) suggested, rap is urban poetry set to music, which is kind of true, but either (a) you have to be a masterful music producer (if not such a great rapper) like Dr Dre or (b) be astonishingly verbally dextrous like Chuck D of Public Enemy (try saying any of his lines from this track without getting tongue-tied), or (c) have some of both like Cypress Hill, and acres of style.

The musical backdrop of all good rap is very simple, and it's just some guy talking, but don't let that fool you into thinking anyone could do it.

PS I love Queen up to Jazz after which they jumped the shark IMHO.

Ah, cheers JTB.

I know it’s all very subjective; one man’s meat is another man’s poison. But I don’t think I could open my mind to that even if I was a ‘more receptive’ eighteen.

Funny enough I just opened one of them at work and a guy behind me said “What’s that $h1t you’re listening to?” (He is a middle aged white man though, to be fair).

To be fair to me, I did say I like some rap stuff, like Snap and others I can't remeber now.

Back in the late 80s and early 90s I was working next to a black guy who always had a radio station playing called PCRL. It was actually quite anti-white but I remember many of the things they played were very good and I miss them.

There was one I remember which kinda made me laugh which went “And Martin Luther King make me proud to be black. And Whitney Houston make me proud to be black” etc. and another which just sounded like a man shaking his face while expelling air. Aint got a clue what that was called.

Hey I just Googled PCRL. I wonder if I can find some of the good old stuff...

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Rap if done well . fine. I have an opem mind and very varied tastes. I think some acts from 50s to present will still be enjoyed long after our time on the planet has expired. These acts reflect the age. . the era .. and are a time capsule of creativity and talent in their own right . same as Mozart etc.

And so long as we have the Proms etc . we will continue to encourage lasting talents and I equate writers/novellists/playwrights and musicians in equal esteem to the scientists as memorable teastament to our generation's stewardship of the planet.


I take heart in that my own kids actually like the music which I played over and over on that iconic "music system of my early teenage years" The "Dansette Gramphone with dual speakers"

I still have this wonderful record player and the Fidelity Braemar Tape recorder "collectors items" I have them in my loft. .

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Take with a chuckle or a grain of salt
Drive without COAST and it's all your own fault!

A SMILE is a curve that sets everything straight (P Diller).

A Smiley Per post
FINES USfor our COAST!

Approach love and cooking with reckless abandon - but driving with a smile and a COAST calm mind.

I am humbled by your post IG and, if I am honest, feel like I have insulted JTB whom I respect.

It's just that I don't like that stuff or get it, and I'm wishing I'd never started this thread now TBH.

Maybe I should add music to the list of things never to be discussed, along with politics and religion

Looks like I picked the wrong night to stop sniffing glue...

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You will be branded a threat to society by going over a speed limit where it is safe to do so, and suffer the consequences of your actions in a way criminals do not, more so than someone who is a real threat to our society.

Tone .. Hey mate. I did not mean to upset you? PLEASE forgive me if I have

I am sure Johnny is not offended either .. He comes across to me as someone I consider as jolly decent .. as do you.


Hey . we all have different tastes. I will listen but I am mindful of the late and great Perry Como stating that he and his children could not understand "what made music to the their ears" and admitted to finding "progressive rock" as "incomprhensible" whereas I see a link to Mozart and Beethoven in the keys/notes and guitar licks Ho hum as the lengendary Roger Daltrey sang

MY GENER_RAY _TION!

Sorry Townsend/Daltrey?Entwhistle/Moon/Starkey etc.. Also a timeless icon pf musicoans . with absolute CLASSICS and one which moves with the times too Their music .. like Kinks/Beatles/Stones can all be reworked and re-interpreted to new audiences . just as the Mozart/Millar/Ted Heath & orchestra etc., and this makes the classic which will extend out into the future and make our mark as appreciative of such talents Akin to Shakespeare/Dickens as we re-tell the stories and adpat even to our modern era

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Take with a chuckle or a grain of salt
Drive without COAST and it's all your own fault!

A SMILE is a curve that sets everything straight (P Diller).

A Smiley Per post
FINES USfor our COAST!

Approach love and cooking with reckless abandon - but driving with a smile and a COAST calm mind.

No no! You didn't!!!

I'm over-sensitive in real life too and always weary of what I say! I've said things to, or about, weepej which I regret but there are two types of people who will tell you the truth about yourself: Your best friend and your worst enemy. I don't hate you weep but maybe there's a third category

I don't feel like I have any enemies here and I don’t hate anyone, although I’ve met very hateful people.

For the record, (little pun there ), I will support ANY argument based on real road safety without profiteering!!!!

As The Beetles said, 'All you need is love'

The last time I went along this type of posting someone posted something like “hey you guys, get a room!”

I am gunna have to see if I can find that one ~2 years ago now

Looks like I picked the wrong night to give up smoking...

Luv

Tone

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You will be branded a threat to society by going over a speed limit where it is safe to do so, and suffer the consequences of your actions in a way criminals do not, more so than someone who is a real threat to our society.

Ah don't be like that, now I'm here to back you up, friends will be friends eh. Some of the old stuff mentioned are a kind of magic even if most don't like them but you'll have to save me from that rap crap, IG, you great Pretender, you don't fool me, I bet you hate that stuff. I know it's a hard life but even when I'm under pressure I still can't stand that stuff. Most of it anyway is one hit wonders, just flash-and they are gone, never to heard from again.

And whoever was complaining about music today, let me live in my own generation and enjoy our music. I want to break free from just todays pop but I'm always told these are the days of our lives so I want it all, although to get it will be the miracle if I get it. To hijack this thread a bit, I'm soon going to be living on my own out in Australia. Really throwing myself headlong into it and taking risks but who wants to live forever right? Hopefully it will be heaven for everyone and it works out ok. I want to break free of my parents so don't stop me now, after all too much love can kill you. I'm looking forward to playing the game. I'm going slightly mad here. So I might be the invisible man around here for a bit while I'm off enjoying the fat bottomed girls on the beach. It will be a real breakthru if I can get a job, can't wait. Anyway back to topic

Happy Arthur's day everyone!! (I haven't had any to drink yet just in case your wondering)

Nowt wrong in being sensitive and caring. Hell the Mad Cats cared and hurt like hell over what some folk posted. I am like a duck.., r my grease proof pan .. or the one I seasoned with oil and salt and pepper It fails to stick


Ho hum. I'd not be able to do the job if I took stuff over-seriously. I am not as "touchy" as the mad Cats who felt the spite might undermine their fostering etc.


Mind Driver . I think you have me sussed. I am like Perry Como and Margot Leadbetter in that I do "not quite understand the din"

But | do try. I fail most of the time It has to be GOOD with a fimr beat/rythm and meaningul lyric to pass the IG muster test








Hey Tone/ The Mad Cats were gobsmacked at the pm/e-mail wishing them only nice things . even from those they thought "did not like them". I have posted Ted's confirmation of "happy landing" on his behalf on the basis he's way too jet lagged

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Take with a chuckle or a grain of salt
Drive without COAST and it's all your own fault!

A SMILE is a curve that sets everything straight (P Diller).

A Smiley Per post
FINES USfor our COAST!

Approach love and cooking with reckless abandon - but driving with a smile and a COAST calm mind.

I seem to have many varied likes in music from Yes, Queen, Police, Supertramp, Genesis, Mike & the Mechanics, and so on up to new people like Mika, various women singers who's names escape me ...
but some music is good at the time but doesn't withstand that test (springs to mind the old grey whistle test - test!)
Then some music is good for long term enjoyment or like King Crimson challenges you and are good for sitting listening to !n a concentrated form.

Some Country sits in my varied list too along with some classic too.
Yet I have very rarely ever been to a concert ! Been to about 5 in my life which I think is pretty sad really.
I haven't got it going, (not enough power!) but have a good stereo, and one day it would be good to sit and listen to it - at least I have no near neighbours !
I do love music it can help so many moods.

It is probably helpful to point out the great music camera songs created a few years back in this forum ! They should be put to record ! Perhaps now place don You Tube with a link to Safe Speed.

BT there is no good time to stop smoking - the best time is when your brain is motivated and determined

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That almost sent me Ga Ga Mind Driver Very nicely done sir

Good luck on your adventure and say hi to MFL when you get there. “Who?” Another poster here Of course you may be a few thousand miles from him…


Ah drink! Just kiddin about the smoking, like the glue, but I did have a brief love affair with and you’re right about having your brain motivated and determined Claire. It's actually quite easy to give things up but you really have to want to. The strange posts at times are just the normal me

I’m like Michael Caine now when he said “I didn’t give up I slowed down” so…

Now I can enjoy a glass of red red wine or two pints of larger and a packet of crisps please when we're goin' down the pub feeling mighty real and I’ve used my white bicycle to get there.

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The views expressed in this post are personal opinions and do not necessarily represent the views of Safe Speed.
You will be branded a threat to society by going over a speed limit where it is safe to do so, and suffer the consequences of your actions in a way criminals do not, more so than someone who is a real threat to our society.

I never really know what music[*] I am going to like, sometimes when hearing it for the first time I do and sometimes not and occasionally I will change my mind. I never liked The Police as a teenager, but like most songs now except for Walking on the Moon. Recently I have found myself enjoying Not Fair by Lily Allen, up until now I have hated the mockney and the Jeremy Kyle stories behind the Lyrics of her songs, for some reason I suddenly started to appreciate the irony of the whole piece along with the melody.

Has it all been done? I was at a friends fiftieth birthday party a few weeks ago, he is Nigerian and some of the music being played reminded me of Paul Simon's Graceland album and some of it was unlike anything I had heard before. It makes me think that there is still plenty of scope for combining different musical traditions and producing something which has recognisable antecedents but is like nothing we have heard before. The combinations of different rhythms and scales hopefully still have more pleasing combinations to give.

Loved the Bohemian Rhapsody lyrics Tone.

[*]The same applies to art

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Wasn't there a report in the 80's that said that all musical 'combinations' had been done ?
Mind I think that they had not allowed for all foreign shores music accolades ! That seems to have given even standard songs a new twist. Can't say that I have even liked 'rap' but there have been a couple of songs so classed that are quite catchy.

Mind Driver have a great time ! Wish you well. Is this a permanent or temp move ?

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If no work I'll be back in a few months, if I get any type of job (hopefully an engineering one) will be a few years at least.

Anything for you. You my best friend now!!!