Re: Ed Sheeran and the charts - are they still valid?
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piggzy
Right lets all embarrass ourselves. What did you lot grow up on ?
I will admit to being a massive of fan 15 - 20 years ago of Faith No More, The Smashing Pumpkins, The Prodigy, Rage Against The Machine & The KLF
To boot I will also admit and probably edit out shortly after that my first ever Single 45 vinyl was.....
Well I was born in 1971 so when I got into music it was the 80's so that's what I grew upon
Re: Ed Sheeran and the charts - are they still valid?
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ss30
Well I was born in 1971 so when I got into music it was the 80's so that's what I grew upon
And what shameful bands are you going to admit to ?
Re: Ed Sheeran and the charts - are they still valid?
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piggzy
And what shameful bands are you going to admit to ?
Duran Duran, Blondie, Spandau Ballet, Culture Club, Tears for Fears, Nik Kershaw, Howard Jones, Frankie Goes to Hollywood, basically if it was around in the eighties!
Re: Ed Sheeran and the charts - are they still valid?
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Originally Posted by
ss30
Duran Duran, Blondie, Spandau Ballet, Culture Club, Tears for Fears, Nik Kershaw, Howard Jones, Frankie Goes to Hollywood, basically if it was around in the eighties!
haha sounds like the PlayList in my car
Re: Ed Sheeran and the charts - are they still valid?
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ss30
Duran Duran, Blondie, Spandau Ballet, Culture Club, Tears for Fears, Nik Kershaw, Howard Jones, Frankie Goes to Hollywood, basically if it was around in the eighties!
That would have been the shite my sister listened to .
Re: Ed Sheeran and the charts - are they still valid?
I think the overall standards of music have changed, although it was never that great in the 80's when I grew up.
Music is far easier to produce and can be done virtually free these days but talent is still out there, its just probably going to be harder to find in the charts since any gimp can now influence whats popular. At least back in the 80's and 90's you needed a couple of quid in your pocket to have a say in what charted and we can be pretty sure that the whole industry is massively manipulated by turds like Simon Cowell.
That was probably the same with Stock, Aitken and Waterman back in the day, but without them we wouldn't have had Kylie Minogue, and who doesn't have fond memories of wanking off to her picture in Smash Hits?
Re: Ed Sheeran and the charts - are they still valid?
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TJB
Fuck, we all sound like our parents did when we were growing up. Having said that, music is shit now. I often have to endure Capital when I take the kids anywhere in the car and they play the same 10 songs all day. It's always someone & someone else feat. .
Same here, kids in the car 'Dad can we have Capital on?'
Soon as they're out, back on Radio X. Although that isn't as good as when it was XFM now. Half the time I wish Johnny Vaughn/Chris Moyles would just shut the fuck up and play the music.
Re: Ed Sheeran and the charts - are they still valid?
I don't listen to the charts anymore so hold no opinion on Sheeran, but i did find this amusing and there is no doubt the man is talented!!
https://youtu.be/YM_ev-03164
And yes, before anyone says it, i saw the Axis of Awesome vid years ago:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pidokakU4I
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOlDewpCfZQ