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Posted: December 28 2016 at 23:04
Ha! I did eventually hear it on that `Rumours' album years later, and although I cringed, it wasn't like a gnashing of the teeth, foaming at the mouth affair...much to my disappointment, really!
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Posted: December 28 2016 at 22:58
Aussie-Byrd-Brother wrote:
I don't know if I'd even consider them a bad band in that pop period, Tom. I mean, not very interesting (at least for many of us prog-snobs!), but they've enjoyed death by complete and utter radio over-exposure over the decades, though to be fair they were pretty good commercial pop/rock songs. I just thought their albums from that period sounded like compilations of different bands as opposed to one single group. I've only ever had the double `Tusk' album from that period and always thought it was occasionally great, but I wouldn't have listened to it in about twenty years at this point, and can't say I have much interest in going back to it.
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Posted: December 28 2016 at 05:21
So.......btw, my ramblings here are often incoherent, due to whatever it is that influences my ideals........so, get a professor Freud to analyse my nerdy responses......
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Posted: December 28 2016 at 05:09
I remember a a more than strange similarity beetween Hocu Pocus, the classic from Focus and a Altan Urag song..... was really the mongolian Hocus Pocus.... I don't remember the title..... when I'll be home I investigate (a couple of hours)
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Posted: December 28 2016 at 05:03
......you must follow on from the previous......like - 'blah blah blah......' And then the 'yeah, and ?' ..........but if you don't get it, doesn't matter. You should know how skewed my mind operates.........
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Posted: December 28 2016 at 04:22
Oooooooooh it's start to be better now :D
So I can announce that "LADIES AND GENTS, FROM A GREAT INTUITION OF Mr. LARKSTONGUE41 Rapanoid and KING PRIMUSSON a little less shamely than few posts ago, PRESENT: Jerry was a race elephant talking taxi driver (take two)"
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Posted: December 28 2016 at 02:49
^ I hear what you mean by the 'compilations of different bands.......' as the records I have and have heard in the past really mix it up from track to track. Down to different drum sounds, bass tones, vocalist etc. Almost like each song was produced differently, though on the same album, and without a conscious 'flow' or relation to the songwriting. Clever and eclectic if you ask me.
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Posted: December 28 2016 at 02:36
I don't know if I'd even consider them a bad band in that pop period, Tom. I mean, not very interesting (at least for many of us prog-snobs!), but they've enjoyed death by complete and utter radio over-exposure over the decades, though to be fair they were pretty good commercial pop/rock songs. I just thought their albums from that period sounded like compilations of different bands as opposed to one single group. I've only ever had the double `Tusk' album from that period and always thought it was occasionally great, but I wouldn't have listened to it in about twenty years at this point, and can't say I have much interest in going back to it.
Edited by Aussie-Byrd-Brother - December 28 2016 at 02:37
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Posted: December 26 2016 at 23:21
Oh, Thomas, I was only being snarky, but Tom Ozric knows my passionate dislike for that song! Years and years ago when I was younger I worked in a supermarket, and they had these tapes that would replay on relay in-store every day or two, and that song would constantly show up, although I had no idea what it was (this was also pre-internet/Google, so no luck there!). I'd be like `What is this plinky-plonky crap, so chirpy and pretty?!', and that jangly acoustic guitar!! It drove me CRAZY! It was only years later that I was able to do an internet search for the lyrics that it came up, cue me - `WHAT?!'
Heh, I hadn't heard the `Rumours' album at that point, but oddly I did have the double `Tusk' and quite enjoyed it. It would have been pretty funny if I'd decided to grab `Rumours' at some point and been casually listening and then suddenly it came on....pretty sure my mind would have shut down to protect itself! I'd be like `Ohhh, son of a.....'
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Aussie-Byrd-Brother wrote:
Years and years ago when I was younger I worked in a supermarket, and they had these tapes that would replay on relay in-store every day or two, and that song would constantly show up, although I had no idea what it was (this was also pre-internet/Google, so no luck there!). I'd be like `What is this plinky-plonky crap, so chirpy and pretty?!', and that jangly acoustic guitar!! 
It drove me CRAZY! It was only years later that I was able to do an internet search for the lyrics that it came up, cue me - `WHAT?!'
