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Fri, 25 Nov 2005 11:23:43 -0500
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Re: [idm] spot the sample...
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Brian.Power@cso.ie wrote:
quoted 7 lines Nice one Jeff. It's been bugging me ever since I first heard it.>Nice one Jeff. It's been bugging me ever since I first heard it. > >Was but a wee whippersnapper back in the late 70's/early 80's ; I wouldn't >be surprised if 60's vintage soul/r'nb tunes were still getting heavy >rotation on Irish radio back then > >
In the states, we have stations that only play oldies; in other words, they're still in rotation. I like a lot of that stuff (being on the cusp of 50 years myself), but, well, not all of the time. Clear Channel/Viacom/Murdoch and things equally ugly rule the airwaves here these days, unless you're listening to public or college radio. The Motown stuff is mostly incredible - dunno if that's an objective thing in the music or just my constructed ears, but one can say that the instrumentation in those tracks takes the writing to a new level, which isn't shabby to start with. It still sounds good to me.
quoted 9 lines You see the Ireland of my youth was poor, debt riddled and depressed ;>You see the Ireland of my youth was poor, debt riddled and depressed ; >nobody had any money for new records... nowadays, we're joint fifth >heaviest cocaine users in Europe, ahead of both the French and the Germans >even. And yet everybody STILL has no money for records ! > >It's all a little bit Irish ye could say. > > >
Nah - bad financial decisions exacerbated by pharmacology are the domain of no one region. I can make bad financial decsions without drugs. Just look at my eBay lists! jeff --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: idm-unsubscribe@hyperreal.org For additional commands, e-mail: idm-help@hyperreal.org