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Conference marvin::uk_music

Title:The UK Music Conference
Notice:Welcome (back) to UK_MUSIC on node MARVIN.
Moderator:RDGENG::CROOK
Created:Mon Mar 28 1988
Last Modified:Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:1381
Total number of notes:39269

305.0. "Santa bring you any good music??" by HYEND::SCHILTON (Sue Chilton dtn 297-5154) Tue Jan 03 1989 20:17

    Anybody get any music for Christmas or did you treat yourself for
    being such a good person?
    
    I got:
    
    On CD - Clapton's Crossroads collection, Fairground Attraction,
     Rattle & Hum, and Fisherman's Blues
    
    On cassette - Hothouse Flowers' People, The Cars Greatest Hits,
     Escape Club's Wild, Wild West, Sinead O'Connor, Rick Astley :-)
     and Meat Loaf's Bat Out of Hell
    
    Oh, yea, and a Walkman (finally)
    
    Sue (hoping everyone had a great holiday)
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305.1Just the one.SHAPES::STREETRBeer today, gone tomorrowTue Jan 03 1989 20:203
    Just Chris Rea's New Ligt thru Old Windows..... good stuff!
    
    Ray.
305.2Fleetwood MacLARVAE::BRIGGSThey use computers don't they?Tue Jan 03 1989 20:264
    Fleetwood Mac's Greatest Hits on CD. Great if you are low on their
    stuff (I only had Rumours). 65 minutes playing time.
    
    Richard
305.3YUPPY::BUSHa man with a missionWed Jan 04 1989 05:534
    
    A wonderful Glenn Miller CD, also Dire Straits - Money For Nothing
    CD.
                Tony B.
305.4Hopefully more to comeWELMTS::GREENBReality? Civilisation? Where....?Wed Jan 04 1989 12:129
    Travelling Wilburys, Human League Greatest Hits, Tom Waits 'Heartattack
    and Vine, Greatest Hits of Steve Harley and Cockney Rebel - this
    mans songs are classics, a vastly underrated and maligned writer...
    
    and then the record tokens ran out!
    
    Still, birthday in 3 weeks ;^)
    
    Bob
305.5SUBURB::DALLISON3 hours 20 minutes maybe 400 beersWed Jan 04 1989 15:358
    
    Fleetwood Mac - Greatest Hits
    Brian Ferry - Ultimate Collection                  
    Kings of the Sun - Kings of the Sun                 
    Joe Satriani - Dreaming #11                       
    Guns n' Roses CD single    
    Soft Metal CD           
    Udo - Animal House              
305.6You're much too young...SHAPES::FIDDLERMWed Jan 04 1989 16:028
    
    8 legged groove machine - Wonderstuff
    Short Sharped Shocked - Michelle Shocked
    Bummed - Happy Mondays
    Surfer Rosa - Pixies
    
    All of the above are wonderfull - Happy Mondays are going to be
    MEGA!!
305.7I saw the light...ODIHAM::JOYCE_AAndy Joyce, UK.SRACThu Jan 05 1989 12:388
    
    INXS - Kick (pretty good)
    
    Pink Floyd - Delicate Sound Of Thunder (brilliant)
    
    Jeff Healy - See The Light (pure genius)
    
    
305.8real foggy green peaceful comedy45466::OGDENMon Jan 09 1989 19:5715
    Fog on the Tyne   -- Lindisfarne (now a little dated, but really
                         good folk rock)
    In Real Time      -- Fairport Convention (a really decent live lp)
    Green             -- R.E.M.(brill !!!)
    Peace in our time -- Big Country (a change in style, much appreciated
                         by yours truly)
    Comedy            -- Black (inconsistent)
                                       
    All the best,
    
    Johnny
    
    
                      
    
305.9Erasure!SUBURB::SCOTTVHeavy Plant CrossingTue Jan 10 1989 15:098
    Erasure- The Circus
             The Two Ring Circus
             The Innocents
    
    (Do people think I like this gruop d'you think??)
    
    Vicky
    
305.10my new additionsRTOIC2::HHALISCHAKStrangeways here we come...Wed Jan 11 1989 12:3113
    The Smiths 	       - The Queen Is Dead (one of the few I didn't
    			 have yet...)
    
    and several tapes: - The Cure - Live
    		       - The Wonderstuff - The 8 Legged Groove Machine
    		       - Enya - Watermark
    		       - The Waterboys - Fisherman's Blues
    		       - Billy Bragg - Workers' Playtime
    		       - Cabaret Voltaire - The Covenant...
    
    Hoping for a good year for us all...
    - Hannelore -
    		       	
305.11loadsagoodiesAYOV27::IBROCKThu Jan 12 1989 19:3031
    
    Xmas and birthday coincide during the holidays therefore the collection
    was improved with the following :-
    
    Xmas
    		
    		My Bloody Valentine	-  Isn't Anything
    		Various Artists		-  A Vision Shared (Woody Guthrie/
    					   Leadbelly interpreted by
    					   U2, The Boss, Dylan etc.)
    		The Go-Betweens		-  16 Lovers Lane  
    
    		Various Artists		-  Stay Awake (Walt Disney tunes
    					   interpreted by Tom Waits,
    					   Michael Stipe/Natalie Merchant,
    					   Los Lobos etc)
    
    
    Birthday
    
    		Cocteau Twins		-  Blue Bell Knoll
    		Sandie Shaw		-  Hello Angel    
    		Sonic Youth		-  Daydream Nation
    
    also in Woolies sale
    
    		Ry Cooder 		-  Jazz              (0.99p)
    		Eric B. & Rakim		-  Follow The Leader (1.99)
    		                                                    
    
    	Plenty to be getting on with.
305.12UmmmmMUNTRA::TOWNSHENDMy Doctor says...Fri Jan 13 1989 19:0023
    All on CD :-
    
    Copperhead Road	-	Steve Earle
    Pretenders		-	Pretenders
    No Parlez		-	Paul Young
    1st Album ( ?)	-	Simply Red
    No Heart (?)	-	Tanita Tikaram	- This is brilliant
    Stop !		-	Sam Brown - Nearly as good as above
    				I can't understand why it hasn't been
    				released in England yet.
    Six Pack		-	ZZ Top
    1st album		-	Bangles
    
    Others new to the household were :-
    
    Singles		- 	Squeeze
    Hits		-	Blondie
    ?			-	Scorpions	( Rubbish !!! )
    Sunshine on Leith	-	Proclaimers
    
    Byeee
    
    PS.	Why does WOM always run out of any hit albums i ask for ?