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TonyAsh wrote: Sun Feb 20, 2022 10:53 am Lately I haven't been able to stop listening to Def Leppard's High n' Dry album and...it honestly feels sort of gross and embarrassing, but I can't deny my love for this record anymore.

This all started when I was watching the season four finale of Cobra Kai recently and heard a cool sounding instrumental track during the closing credits. Lo and behold, it was "Switch 625." And then I was hooked.

Sometimes...

It is wild just how tightly some folks insist on being wound.

Up until Pyromainia?

This band is perfectly solid, and High 'N' Dry is the best part of that era.

It's one of the first thing I thinks of when I try to come up with "Blueprint..." record that are exactly how you should be doing something. It's right up there with Ramones/ Slayed?/All.

Never mind that Steve Clark was one of the "Blueprint..." players in a "Blueprint..." band.

I thought about this thread after hearing a Lemonheads song on the radio and finding myself powerless to do anything about it.

I don’t like the band as a whole, but this is Details magazine-era Lemonheads we’re talking about. None of it should appeal to me, but more than none of it does.

There are times I just love listening to the waltzes of Johann Strauss Jr., particularly the arrangements that Schoenberg and Webern did for chamber groups.

(cough) They Might Be Giants (cough)

Wood Goblin wrote: Thu Mar 03, 2022 12:09 pm I thought about this thread after hearing a Lemonheads song on the radio and finding myself powerless to do anything about it.

I don’t like the band as a whole, but this is Details magazine-era Lemonheads we’re talking about. None of it should appeal to me, but more than none of it does.

I liked them all the way up until "Come On Feel The Lemonheads". Lost interest a bit afterwards, but that was more due to my tastes having taken a turn towards electronic music than any dislike of the subsequent stuff.

Also met Evan Dando in the audience at a Rollerskate Skinny gig and chatted with him for a bit during the interval (he was on his own and not being continually hit on by female fans, much to my surprise). I know he has a reputation for being a douche but he was quite nice to me.

Mine would be the Grateful Dead (at least up until 1970 or so when their drug of choice was still LSD rather than coke/heroin) and Welsh psych/prog outfit Man.

I know they both have big Marmite-band cult followings amongst the elderly hippie set, but even though I'm 51 I've only ever met one person in my own age group who likes either of them.

I'd also give an honorary mention to Cardiacs. They seem to have undergone a degree of rehabilitation since Tim Smith passed, but everybody outside of their hardcore fanbase hated them with a passion bordering psychosis whilst they were still extant.

The Metallica and Lou Reed collab, Lulu. No idea why, but I put it on a few weeks back just as background noise and found it clicking with me in a way it definitely hadn't previously.

The Police

Phil Collins

The Gun Club

I was too young when they were around to be embarrassed by the hairspray and affectations, but I really like the records.