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Hugh Janus commented on the post, Good Night and Good Riddance 18 minutes ago
I feel that many of the comments, both in the main piece and the subsequent replies, do Peel a huge disservice. His main quality was that he had a genuine hunger for innovative new music and completely ignored the […]
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Hugh Janus commented on the post, Lynyrd Skynyrd – Live at Knebworth '76 1 hour, 16 minutes ago
The first one with Pink Floyd was a lifetime highlight, although it wasn’t until they came on that I could really hear anything properly. I was sitting with a group of trainee teachers, including the girl of my […]
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Hugh Janus commented on the post, Album Discoveries That Changed Your Musical Direction. 2 weeks, 5 days ago
Ooh – good one.
Without a doubt, the most dramatic one was the Island sampler called Nice Enough To Eat. As a long-term Beatles fan I’d just started buying Melody Maker and beginning to hear aout all these […]
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Hugh Janus commented on the post, Non-alcoholic alternatives 2 weeks, 6 days ago
retropath2 said, “Am slowly drinking more “tea”, preferably the ones without any actual tea in them”,
That was enough to provoke a reply. 😀 For the past few weeks I’ve hardly been able to step outside wit […]
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Hugh Janus commented on the post, The Cure – 40 Live 3 weeks ago
I’m quite sure the ‘world’s scariest granny’ look is quite deliberate – probably two fingers up to anybody who suggests he should make himself more marketable. What seems so strange to me is how he really d […]
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Hugh Janus commented on the post, King Crimson – In The Court of The Crimson King 50th Anniversary Edition 3 weeks ago
I would have thought that 21st Century Schizoid Man stands up far better than the title track. I could never understand what on earth possessed them to include that ridiculously pretentious wibble-fest throughout […]
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Hugh Janus commented on the post, David Bowie – Conversation Piece 3 weeks ago
You’ll really love this then 😀
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Hugh Janus commented on the post, Only After Dark – Mick Ronson 3 weeks ago
I really think they should have found an excuse to include the live version of Billy Porter by Terry and the Idiots, from the film DOA.
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Hugh Janus commented on the post, WHO 3 weeks ago
I thought I might get into trouble on here if I voiced my feelings about The Who, but thankfully it seems I’m not alone. The best Who album is always going to be one that has all their chart singles on it, ending […]
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Hugh Janus commented on the post, David Bowie – Metrobolist (2020 Remix of The Man Who Sold The World) 3 weeks ago
This and previous comments have shown me up then. I had always assumed Bowie was mimicking Marc Bolan, but then read more recently that it actually was Bolan himself who provided the backing vocal.
This album has […]
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Hugh Janus commented on the post, Ouch! 3 weeks ago
Having just answered the question with reference to statins, I now remember my former episodes with gout, which I suffered for far too long without getting treatment. When I first limped into the doctor’s surgery […]
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Hugh Janus commented on the post, Ouch! 3 weeks ago
One of my pet hates is when you go to any kind of doctor who says, “How would you rate your pain on a scale of 1 to 10?” What a bloody ridiculous question. How are we supposed to know what a 10 is? Being fed […]
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Hugh Janus commented on the post, Non-alcoholic alternatives 3 weeks ago
I completely agree with everybody who says avoid the 0% or low-alcohol beers and wines, which almost invariably taste awful and are cynically over-priced for gullible consumers. I’d rather go for something like a […]
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Hugh Janus commented on the post, 12 Bowie albums in 12 months: The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars 3 weeks ago
Good old Bowie. You can rely on him to divide opinions and that’s exactly how he would have wanted it. I’d have left off Soul Love for a start, mainly because it doesn’t quite seem to fit in. I felt the same about […]
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Hugh Janus commented on the post, The Man Who Sold The World 3 weeks, 1 day ago
I count myself as a huge fan, yet I’ll probably fall out with the majority by saying that I really can’t stand Diamond Dogs. I think it’s partly the dated instrumentation and production, but I don’t think the […]
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Hugh Janus commented on the post, A Lifetime Of Aladdin Sane 3 weeks, 3 days ago
I remember buying this album because it seemed obligatory, although post-Spiders, I had doubts in my mind as to what I was actually investing in.
I remember thinking that Watch That Man seemed more of less a […] -
Hugh Janus commented on the post, The Man Who Sold The World 3 weeks, 3 days ago
Crikey – some odd ideas there, but that’s perfectly okay, as the whole idea is to hear somebody’s opinions from an entirely new perspective. However, the big mistake with this whole project was to begin with T […]
