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Old 27-06-2008, 11:09 AM   #571 (permalink)
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You want funky? Try these out for size -

YouTube - Jimmy Bo Horne Dance Across the Floor

YouTube - Chic - Good Times

YouTube - Sly & The Family Stone - I Want To Take You Higher

YouTube - orange juice - rip it up

And just looking at some early 80's! check out these:

YouTube - XTC - Generals and Majors Rather appropriate for this forum!

YouTube - Landscape - Einstein A Go Go

YouTube - Siouxsie and the Banshees - cities in dust

YouTube - Pearly Dewdrops Drops - Cocteau Twins
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"The Eastern front is like a house of cards. If the front is broken through at one point all the rest will collapse."
- General Heinz Guderian

"With amazement and disappointment, we discovered in late October and early November that the beaten Russians seemed quite unaware that as a military force they had almost ceased to exist."
- General Blumentritt

"In all my years as a soldier, I have never seen me fight so hard."
Lieutenant General Wilhelm Bittrich - Commander of II SS Panzer Korps - (Commenting on the British Paratroopers at Arnhem) - September 1944


"Had Clark given more heed to Juin's views...the savage battles of Cassino would probably never have been fought and the venerable house of St Benedict would have been unscathed"
Rudolf Böhmler - 1st Fallschirmjäger Division - 1944 (After the bombing of Monte Cassino)
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Old 27-06-2008, 11:10 AM   #572 (permalink)
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Now those are tunes indeed Dead. Love That song by Hendrix, even though Bob Dylan wrote it, Hendrix does the best version.
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- General Heinz Guderian

"With amazement and disappointment, we discovered in late October and early November that the beaten Russians seemed quite unaware that as a military force they had almost ceased to exist."
- General Blumentritt

"In all my years as a soldier, I have never seen me fight so hard."
Lieutenant General Wilhelm Bittrich - Commander of II SS Panzer Korps - (Commenting on the British Paratroopers at Arnhem) - September 1944


"Had Clark given more heed to Juin's views...the savage battles of Cassino would probably never have been fought and the venerable house of St Benedict would have been unscathed"
Rudolf Böhmler - 1st Fallschirmjäger Division - 1944 (After the bombing of Monte Cassino)
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Old 27-06-2008, 11:27 AM   #573 (permalink)
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Some of Andy Partridge's artwork was still on display at Penhill Secondary School when I wa sthere.
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Old 27-06-2008, 11:34 AM   #574 (permalink)
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I was reading a Thomas Dolby interview (It was about the reissue of the Prefab Sprout Album "Steve McQueen") and he mentioned that Andy Partridge was having health issues which was prohibiting his ability to make music. Shame really.
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- General Heinz Guderian

"With amazement and disappointment, we discovered in late October and early November that the beaten Russians seemed quite unaware that as a military force they had almost ceased to exist."
- General Blumentritt

"In all my years as a soldier, I have never seen me fight so hard."
Lieutenant General Wilhelm Bittrich - Commander of II SS Panzer Korps - (Commenting on the British Paratroopers at Arnhem) - September 1944


"Had Clark given more heed to Juin's views...the savage battles of Cassino would probably never have been fought and the venerable house of St Benedict would have been unscathed"
Rudolf Böhmler - 1st Fallschirmjäger Division - 1944 (After the bombing of Monte Cassino)
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Now those are tunes indeed Dead. Love That song by Hendrix, even though Bob Dylan wrote it, Hendrix does the best version.
During my school days i used to listen to tunes like that secretly, it used to be illegal, but nowdays when its legal i can't get enough
Bob Dylan is also really good i love the Subterranean Homesick Blues
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Bad Day - R.E.M.

I'm going to see them perform live at Manchester in August...I just hope the great british weather is favourable as it's an outdoor event
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I'm going to see them perform live at Manchester in August...I just hope the great british weather is favourable as it's an outdoor event
YouTube - Creedence Clearwater Revival: Who'll Stop The Rain

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- General Heinz Guderian

"With amazement and disappointment, we discovered in late October and early November that the beaten Russians seemed quite unaware that as a military force they had almost ceased to exist."
- General Blumentritt

"In all my years as a soldier, I have never seen me fight so hard."
Lieutenant General Wilhelm Bittrich - Commander of II SS Panzer Korps - (Commenting on the British Paratroopers at Arnhem) - September 1944


"Had Clark given more heed to Juin's views...the savage battles of Cassino would probably never have been fought and the venerable house of St Benedict would have been unscathed"
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My inner campness comes to the fore with this one.
It sound slike it ought to be a big hit in gay-nightclubs, I do wonder about myself at times.
YouTube - BWO Lay Your Love On Me

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YouTube - Alcazar - Crying At The Discoteque
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