<p>Anybody else here like the group Bebop Deluxe? I bought their albums and saw them in concert. I thought they were very good - excellent music & witty lyrics and wonderful guitar playing. I could never understand why they weren’t bigger.</p>
<p>lsp–I love my Brian Setzer Christmas album!</p>
<p>Jym–I’d be really annoyed if my kid uninvited me from Smiths/Morrisey–would love to see them.</p>
<p>First concert my D went to, at 13, was me and my sister taking her to a Toad the Wet Sprocket and Cranberries concert–great music!</p>
<p>We have often gone to U2 with the kids (sometimes they’re down in the pit , while we’re up at the top–I got to watch S shake Bono’s hand on the big screen once.) Also saw REM with them twice.</p>
<p>I do admit, though I really like Green Day, I may be too old for that scene.</p>
<p>OTOH, we get to Springsteen with whatever kid is available any chance we can. I’m really glad they don’t mind going to concerts with the old folks.</p>
<p>I liked the earlier seventies bands at the time, but these later ones, for me, just resonate in a way that the older stuff doesn’t–maybe because it reminds me of junior high (sorry Leal, but if I never hear STairway to Heaven again, that’d be okay with me!)</p>
<p>Yes, I love BeBop Deluxe! Especially ‘Axe Victim.’ I was into a LOT of obscure bands like that…many were so good. That’s why you can’t go by mainstream popularity or record sales.</p>
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<p>I think a lot of people got burnt out on really great songs because they were over-played. My boss at work has ‘We are the Champions’ as his ringtone and it drives me nuts - I’ve heard that song so many millions of times that I’d rather not ever hear it again.</p>
<p>I’ll probably not ever play ‘Stairway’ again for many, many years, except maybe the live version.</p>
<p>But that doesn’t take away from the brilliance of the song. Even though I’m tired of it, I still appreciate it for the masterpiece it is. Most of the classic 70s rock got overplayed - remember when Boston’s 1st album came out? We all thought it was brilliant. But they played it into the ground and now it’s just so ‘old’ that people forget what great music it is. Our kids didn’t hear this stuff like we did, so for them, it’s discovering great music for the first time.</p>
<p>There is a distinction between being tired of something because you heard it too much, and saying it’s not good music. One can be really tired of something and still acknowledge what great music it is. That’s what I mean about Stairway.</p>
<p>Oh wow! A UFO fan!!! I saw them at least 6 times circa 1978-1981, and got to meet them backstage. I still have Michael’s autograph on a scrap of paper. He is definitely one of the most underrated guitar players!</p>
<p>Please tell me more about their current shows - do they still have it or are they going thru the motions? Does Pete still wear those striped outfits? Is Phil back with them?</p>
<p>Ah, one of my fav bands. Lights Out and Obsession - perfect albums both! And the solo on Rock Bottom (Strangers in the Night version) should go down in history as one of rock’s finest moments.</p>
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<p>What a coincidence. WashMom and I were planning to go see A Chorus Line at a local theater last Saturday. Two of TallSon’s acting friends are in the cast, even though it is professional theater and not a student production, so TallSon was planning independently to go. When he found out we were going – I hope you are following this – he freaked out and told us we couldn’t go the same night he was. After explaining to him that I didn’t care if he went or not, he caved. Of course, he wasn’t the source of tickets in this case, and was planning to us the season passes that I pay for. Yeah. Guess what happened?</p>
<p>Do you remember the number in Chorus Line where one of the characters sings about “dance ten, looks three?” TallSon told his friends how happy he was to be sitting next to his mom during this song. Heh.</p>
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<p>I have a pretty good meter for this in my wife, who would be perfectly content never to listen to anything recorded after about 1982, except that everyone else in her family likes to hear new stuff. She will only adopt a fraction of what the rest of us drag home, but she occasionally does. Among the relatively recent additions to her travelling library (she has a lot of long drives): Wilco, Ryan Adams, Lucinda Williams, Kelly Willis, Aimee Mann, Josh Ritter, Neko Case, Feist, Joss Stone, North Mississippi Allstars, and a local group called Slo-Mo (which doesn’t sound like the 70s at all, but is still really entertaining). Granted, that stuff isn’t going to please many Led Zeppelin or Pink Floyd fans, but she was never a Led Zeppelin or Pink Floyd fan.</p>
<p>doubleplay, we saw Moody Blues recently. the show was great. (couldn’t help thinking "who are these old guys?)</p>
<p>Roger McGuinn (The Byrds) is also good, even though he’s slightly toasted. Nothing beats the 12 string…</p>
<p>JHS: Recognize some of them from D. I can’t explain; so many sound like whining to me. Makes her very annoyed. I liked that my parents didn’t like my stuff, but she keeps plugging away to get me on board. I usually have to lie. Sigh.</p>
<p>S plays music like Avro Part (contemporary Finnish classical composer), and that I really like.</p>
<p>I, however, like rap, which D detests. Yes, the words are awful, vulgar but there is something about the vitality and the beat I really like. I actually got “It’s Hard Out There for a Pimp” stuck in my head and was prohibited from ever singing it out loud again. Sometimes I do though. Alone in my car.</p>
<p>Edit: Have to admit that I never really liked “Stairway to Heaven,” or rather, thought it was just okay.</p>
<p>JHS–we like a lot of stuff on your list–it’s kind of more to the folky side of newer music.</p>
<p>My musical test is reflected in my two favorite radio stations, neither of which come through clearly in my area, but both available over the internet:</p>
<p>WFUV–basically, would play all of JHS’s list and stuff like it–contemporary folk, blues, acousticky rock, bluegrass.</p>
<p>WHTG (“Modern Rock on the Jersey shore”) alternative music, from Clash/U2/REM to the present.</p>
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<li><p>garland: Yes, my wife’s taste is heavily influenced by WXPN, which is a lot like WFUV except somewhat rockier. We are a little bit the alt-country family. My daughter had little shrines to Jeff Tweedy (make-believe dad), Ryan Adams (make-believe bad boyfriend) and Rhett Miller (make-believe good boyfriend) in her bedroom. (They have all since been eclipsed by Will Sheff, I think.)</p></li>
<li><p>mythmom: My son and I both like some hip-hop, although mainly foreign and out-of-the-mainstream: grime, baile funk, reggaeton. I suspect when we all do our top-10s for the year, both he and I will include Calle 13, Residente o Visitante; Dizzee Rascal, Maths + English; M.I.A., Kala; and Bonde do Role, With Lasers. But they don’t sound like the '70s, and my wife can’t stand any of them.</p></li>
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<p>Since you are a lit person, if you can understand Spanish, I couldn’t recommend Calle 13 more. The rapper, Residente, has honest-to-God literary talent (and a fair degree of education, too, I’ll bet – too much self-consciousness there for it to be an accident). Everything is simultaneously about sex, food, and language; it’s hilarious.</p>
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<li> You know what else new should satisfy classic rock lovers? The current White Stripes single, which I think is called “Do As You’re Told”. Great classic rock backbeat, guitar-riffs, and Robert Plant-worthy vocals. (Not to mention the actual Robert Plant vocals on his album with Alison Krauss.)</li>
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<p>Washdad-
I am living vicariously through your experiece with your son. I am jealous!</p>
<p>BTW, how was “A chorus line”? I think I saw that in NYC xmas of 1971, when home from my first semester of college. The show was still pretty new, and it was <em>impossible</em> to get tickets. Well, turns out that a close family friend was one of Joe Papp’s " personal assistants" (close, close friend, shall we say, if you get my drift). Three days later we had seats - 3rd row center!! How cool was that?!!?!?!</p>
<p>I saw “A Chorus line” in NYC in the early seventies too, then with my daughter in San Franciscco a few months ago. A memorable event, both times!</p>
<p>Seeing A Chorus Line was my high school graduation present from my parents in 1975 (the year it opened, BTW, so jym626 you must have seen it later than '71- and what great seats you had!) Growing up in NYC I had seen a lot of theater up to that point, but that night blew most of the rest out of the water.</p>
<p>First-ever Broadway show for me was the Broadway revival of Candide in the mid-70’s. I still love the soundtrack.</p>
<p>Loggins & Messina - Vahevala!</p>
<p>Booklady-
Well, my memory stinks-- I thought I saw " A Chorus Line" was when I was home from my first sem. at college, but it must have been my fuirst semester at grad school (Dec 1975). Either way, the seats from Joe Papp wer INCREDIBLE! Thank heavens for a “hook” in the theater, eh?? 
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<p>Shrinkrap-
Wish I could see it with my boys, but they are… boys and dont care. :(</p>
<p>garland-
Yes, I was bummed at being “uninvited” but… not much I could have done (though he told us later there were lots of scalpers a the venue)</p>
<p>deniceC-
LOVE Loggins and Messina!! Now I have that song running in my head. Want to laugh?? I had that tape on 8 track! :eek:</p>
<p>Ah, first top flight professional musical!!</p>
<p>I saw Hair in NYC winter of 1969. BEFORE the crackdown so the performers both came into the audience nude AND the patrons could come on the stage clothing optional for the finale. I was with my GF and her family so we were spectators only. Her parents saw Oh, Calcutta!, but we weren’t invited.</p>
<p>Loggins and Messina always makes me think of “The House at Pooh Corner.” I took a painting class the summer it came out and I think I must have heard it several times every day.</p>
<p>My parents took me to see Hair when it first came to Washington DC. The main thing I remember is that there was a young woman next to me who was wearing my current nightgown as a granny style dress! I have fond memories of painting bellies for a college production.</p>
<p>Humble Pie - I don’t need no doctor!</p>
<p>Anyone remember this? (I know at least one of you does) This was popular at … not that I actually attended any, ahem…beer blasts… </p>
<p>I love Loggins and Messina… House on Pooh Corner, Angry Eyes, Your Mama Don’t Dance and Danny’s Song…</p>
<p>jym626- We played Vahevala on a combo 8 track/turntable deal. We must have used the turntable though, because it skipped a lot when we danced.</p>
<p>30 Days in the Hole. Enough said!</p>