Terribly Uncool Music 1965-1985

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Fantastic live at the SAP ... [i]43[/i] years on!

[size=18pt]Things of quality have no fear of time.[/size]

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A [u]third of a million[/u]?!  WTF!

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With all due respect to Magnificent Moustache Chris, this was a pretty good acoustic cover:

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Ya can't have Major Tom without some Peter Schilling:



I hope Arlo doesn't see the bit where the Space Shuttle enters cloud.  It
would be embarrassing for the NASA pilots to be charged with a contravention
of CAR 602.01

Not as bad as heading on a road trip with a steak knife wearing a diaper, but ...

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And here's an old favorite of mine, a song about a B-29 flight on August 6, 1945:



You can go see it in Chantilly, VA.  The B-29, not OMD.  OMD is currently touring
the UK, playing tonight in Sheffield.  All their shows are sold out through Nov 9,
because they're terribly uncool, being from 1965-1985.

http://www.omd.uk.com/shows/

Released 1980.

[url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enola_Gay_(song)]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enola_Gay_(song)[/url]

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This kids probably don't play as well any teenager from Toronto, but I think
they're fucking awesome, probably because I'm not very bright.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sultans_of_Swing

Released in 1978.  You know.  1965-1985.

[quote]Writing in 2013 on the impact of the song, Rick Moore of American Songwriter reflected:

With "Sultans of Swing" a breath of fresh air was exhaled into the airwaves in the late ’70s. Sure, Donald Fagen and Tom Waits were writing great lyrics about characters you’d love to meet and Jeff Beck and Eddie Van Halen were great guitar players. But Knopfler, he could do both things as well or better than anybody out there in his own way, and didn’t seem to have any obvious rock influences unless you try to include Dylan. Like his contemporary and future duet partner Sting, Knopfler’s ideas were intellectually and musically stimulating, but were also accessible to the average listener. It was almost like jazz for the layman.

"Sultans of Swing" was a lesson in prosody and tasty guitar playing that has seldom been equaled since. If you aren’t familiar with "Sultans of Swing" or haven’t listened to it in a while, you should definitely check it out.[/quote]

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Released in 1978:



A Master at the height of his powers.  A lifetime spent preparing for that.