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Does anyone remember the Seventies group Mr.Big?? 'Romeo' was never off the radio at one point, and it even made it onto TOTP. Then they fizzled away and that was the end of that. I used to love that tune. I used to call them Mr.Benn (as that was my favourite kiddies programme at the time).
QUOTE(Lee King @ Mar 2 2012, 10:21 AM) 
Does anyone remember the Seventies group Mr.Big??
No, but I remember Mr. Big by Free. Now THERE was a band.
But nostalgia ain't what it used to be.
Pixie*Porsche was talking elsewhere about 90s stuff (I'm guessing she's in her early-mid 20s that being the case?) I remember a really fantastic session from a chillout band called The Orb on John Peel one night. The title of one of their tracks was A Huge Ever Growing Pulsating Brain That Rules From The Centre Of The Ultraworld and it lasted around 25 minutes. I bought the Peel Sessions Orb album when it came out in the mid 90s and it was on both sides of an LP. I really love spaced out stuff, because all of your violent thoughts can just be washed away and replaced with a sense of inner peace and scope. Sigur Ros and some zeuhl is like that too. Carrie, my soulmate up north must be Sigur Ros' biggest fan!
QUOTE(Lee King @ Mar 2 2012, 11:22 AM)
Pixie*Porsche was talking elsewhere about 90s stuff (I'm guessing she's in her early-mid 20s that being the case?) I remember a really fantastic session from a chillout band called The Orb on John Peel one night.
Speaking of the great man, Petroc Trelawny just tweeted that JP has been honoured by Auntie:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-17233677
QUOTE(Lee King @ Mar 2 2012, 11:22 AM)
Pixie*Porsche was talking elsewhere about 90s stuff (I'm guessing she's in her early-mid 20s that being the case?) I remember a really fantastic session from a chillout band called The Orb on John Peel one night. The title of one of their tracks was A Huge Ever Growing Pulsating Brain That Rules From The Centre Of The Ultraworld and it lasted around 25 minutes. I bought the Peel Sessions Orb album when it came out in the mid 90s and it was on both sides of an LP. I really love spaced out stuff, because all of your violent thoughts can just be washed away and replaced with a sense of inner peace and scope. Sigur Ros and some zeuhl is like that too. Carrie, my soulmate up north must be Sigur Ros' biggest fan!
The Orb are still going - went to see them around a year ago. Audience was full of late 30s / 40s balding ravers, it made me smile. I don't know whether an illegal substance that was popular in the late 80s early 90s has an impact on hair loss, or what.
John Peel you could say invented many a new trend in popular music, and what he didn't invent he brought to British ears. But his death saw the death in innovative British music. Even the NME nowadays is full of commercial garbage, I'm afraid the only way for me is classical jazz and world.
Misty in Roots used to be good, Peel championed them...and blunt Scots poet Ivor Cutler, and Sound Iration, and Jesus and Mary chain......I could name around a hundred of my favourite sessions on here, Blur, The Orb, Undertones, TwoTone.........
Misty in Roots used to be good, Peel championed them...and blunt Scots poet Ivor Cutler, and Sound Iration, and Jesus and Mary chain......I could name around a hundred of my favourite sessions on here, Blur, The Orb, Undertones, TwoTone.........
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