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kengeo
Joined: 21 Sep 2010 Posts: 278 Location: Gloucestershire
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Posted: Sat Oct 16, 2010 1:19 pm Post subject: Pick Of The Pops 16th Oct |
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Was looking forward to the 1980 chart, but what the heck was that version of OMD's Enola Gay he played?
It sounded like a poor budget rerecording, doesn't anybody check the output first? |
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ruddlescat
Joined: 16 Sep 2010 Posts: 18010 Location: Near Chester
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Posted: Sat Oct 16, 2010 1:45 pm Post subject: |
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Yes to me it sounded like an oversynthesised cover version
Not a patch on the original even though I'm a great fan of the synthesiser in the right place _________________ Are you ready for a Ruddles? |
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ColinB Guest
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Posted: Sat Oct 16, 2010 2:49 pm Post subject: |
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I'm not into 80s music really, but even I could tell that it sounded a bit limp.
I have to say that the chart rundown that Dale read at the end contained some really naff rubbish. |
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aviddiva
Joined: 11 Oct 2008 Posts: 1135 Location: Wakefield, West Yorkshire
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Posted: Mon Oct 18, 2010 1:32 pm Post subject: Pick Of The Pops 16 Oct |
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The day after, Johnnie Walker played a version of You Can Get It If You Really Want that bore no relation to the Desmond Dekker original I remember from the 'Harder They Come' soundtrack.
Has Philip Swern been getting CDs from service stations? _________________ We are loonies and we are proud!
- Campbell Bain in 'Takin' Over The Asylum' |
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kengeo
Joined: 21 Sep 2010 Posts: 278 Location: Gloucestershire
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Posted: Mon Oct 18, 2010 2:07 pm Post subject: |
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Didn't catch the show, but as The Harder They Come OST was the featured album did any other tracks sound sus?
Interestingly the POTP's track listing doesn't give the source of the music played, but other show's seem to give the album the tracks are lifted from.
Apart from the current Cee Lo Green single that is, the single its taken from seems to be called something else! |
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RockitRon
Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 7646
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Posted: Mon Oct 18, 2010 9:26 pm Post subject: |
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I'm almost certain that the recording of Enola Gay used was from the second of three Peel Sessions the band did for Radio 1 between 1979 and 1983. The CD isn't generally available at present - it's only listed on Amazon's US site through their third party market
http://www.amazon.com/Peel-Sessions-1979-1983-Omd/dp/B00004RCAN
but you can download it from itunes. _________________ Ron |
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RockitRon
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Posted: Mon Oct 18, 2010 9:40 pm Post subject: |
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kengeo wrote: |
Apart from the current Cee Lo Green single that is, the single its taken from seems to be called something else! |
Naturally enough, there are two versions of the track available. _________________ Ron |
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kengeo
Joined: 21 Sep 2010 Posts: 278 Location: Gloucestershire
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Posted: Mon Oct 18, 2010 9:58 pm Post subject: |
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Quote: | Naturally enough, there are two versions of the track available |
But the radio version seems to lack the impact of the original! But just imagine it somehow hitting the R2 airwaves, I can see the Daily Mail headline now!
Quote: | I'm almost certain that the recording of Enola Gay used was from the second of three Peel Sessions |
But why would a show that is chart based play such an obscure recording?? |
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RockitRon
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Posted: Tue Oct 19, 2010 7:41 am Post subject: |
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Because Phil "The Collector" Swern loves to justify the daft label and show off the dregs, I mean, rarities in the nether reaches of his cellar at least once in every SOTS or POTP. _________________ Ron |
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aviddiva
Joined: 11 Oct 2008 Posts: 1135 Location: Wakefield, West Yorkshire
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Posted: Tue Oct 19, 2010 3:54 pm Post subject: Pick Of The Pops 16th Oct |
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The other tracks from The Harder They Come seemed okay apart from the Desmond Dekker track.
Phil Swern's 'The Collector' alias always makes me think of 'I assassin - the collector!' in Marillion's 'Assassing'! _________________ We are loonies and we are proud!
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Lord Evan Elpuss
Joined: 10 Dec 2006 Posts: 3417 Location: Cloud Cuckoo Land
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Posted: Tue Oct 19, 2010 6:54 pm Post subject: |
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Phil Swern was also Bob Harris' producer on his weekend show for a long while. To Bob he was always known as 'super swern'. _________________ Lord Evan Elpuss, Your ideal job is a Lumberjack. |
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jimmy mac
Joined: 20 Sep 2010 Posts: 21 Location: st neots
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Posted: Wed Oct 20, 2010 2:01 pm Post subject: |
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RockitRon wrote: | I'm almost certain that the recording of Enola Gay used was from the second of three Peel Sessions the band did for Radio 1 between 1979 and 1983. The CD isn't generally available at present - it's only listed on Amazon's US site through their third party market
http://www.amazon.com/Peel-Sessions-1979-1983-Omd/dp/B00004RCAN
but you can download it from itunes. |
Your right Ron...they played the session recently on 6 Music and i recorded it....thats where its from
Jim |
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