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Slick wrote: Tue Aug 27, 2024 8:56 am I bounced around quite a bit when I was younger, both residentially and musically. My earliest memories are the BeeGees from ex pat life in Saudi Arabia. First song I ever bough was Uptown Girl by Billy Joel then wasn't really that into music until a friend introduced me to Blues and we bought harmonicas.

The soundtrack to my early youth (16,17,18) was undoubtedly Happy Mondays - Pills n Thrills and Bellyaches. Played pretty much non stop over 2 years as we all learnt to drive and that led to Stone Roses, Inspiral Carpets, Wonder Stuff etc

Later years and Oasis took over and I'm fucking buzzing this morning.

Sinkers wrote: Tue Aug 27, 2024 10:55 am

Slick wrote: Tue Aug 27, 2024 8:56 am I bounced around quite a bit when I was younger, both residentially and musically. My earliest memories are the BeeGees from ex pat life in Saudi Arabia. First song I ever bough was Uptown Girl by Billy Joel then wasn't really that into music until a friend introduced me to Blues and we bought harmonicas.

The soundtrack to my early youth (16,17,18) was undoubtedly Happy Mondays - Pills n Thrills and Bellyaches. Played pretty much non stop over 2 years as we all learnt to drive and that led to Stone Roses, Inspiral Carpets, Wonder Stuff etc

Later years and Oasis took over and I'm fucking buzzing this morning.

Is one of these fellas you?

TedMaul wrote: Tue Aug 27, 2024 4:14 pmIt’s fun revisiting Peels Festive 50 any time.

Macclesfield will hold its first ever Joy Division Day next month, to celebrate the town’s links to the band.

The lead singer Ian Curtis grew up in the Cheshire town, and after his death in 1980 aged 23 his ashes were buried in Macclesfield cemetery.

inactionman wrote: Tue Aug 27, 2024 4:29 pm It's a very good question

Not sure I could isolate one particular band or song - growing up I have, at various points, been utterly infatuated with:
Suede
Blur
The Wonderstuff (christ, that hasn't aged well)
Carter USM
Nirvana
De La Soul
The Cure
Depeche Mode, Yazoo and much of what Vince Clarke has done in general
Stone Roses
Joy Division/New Order



On that last one, seems a good place to post this:

Macclesfield will hold its first ever Joy Division Day next month, to celebrate the town’s links to the band.

The lead singer Ian Curtis grew up in the Cheshire town, and after his death in 1980 aged 23 his ashes were buried in Macclesfield cemetery.

https://www.theguardian.com/music/artic ... urtis-band

The Cure’s Roger O’Donnell reveals ‘rare and aggressive’ blood cancer diagnosis

Band’s keyboardist says he initially ignored symptoms until his ‘devastating’ lymphoma diagnosis, but ‘the prognosis is amazing’

Cancer CAN be beaten but if you are diagnosed early enough you stand a way better chance, so all I have to say is go GET TESTED, if you have the faintest thought you may have symptoms go and get checked out.