What's your taste in music then?

Bits and Pieces was banned from the Mecca Ballroom Chris,

When it came out everybody were stamping on the floor to the music and you could see the floor going up and down like the tide coming in,

So after a couple of weeks they never played it again.

Quoted from grimsby pete

Bits and Pieces was banned from the Mecca Ballroom Chris,

When it came out everybody were stamping on the floor to the music and you could see the floor going up and down like the tide coming in,

So after a couple of weeks they never played it again.

Brilliant that Pete, after hearing the song hundreds of times I can totally see why, my Mam always says to me it was that song that made me a mad man haha I used to go mental when it was on our record player - it just sounded so much better on an old vinyl though mate.

Quoted from cmackenzie4

Waterloo sunset is up there with the best Les there's no doubt about that mate, I didn't think it would be too long before you posted on this thread mate.

Depeche Mode, agree but Punk?

I don't really have a favourite genre or style...

But some I do like


Simon and Garfunkel - Bridge Over Troubled Water, Sound of Silence, Mrs Robinson and many more are all absolute amazing songs, Simon and Garfunkel were absolute geniuses when it came to music.

The Hollies - He ain't Heavy He's My Brother is another favourite of mine

I like Spandua Ballet, True, Gold etc

Madness - pretty much every song by them

Christopher Cross - Ride Like The Wind is another favourite of mine

Zoom by Fat Larry

Rivers Of Babylon by Boney M

Elton John - Your Song, Rocket Man, Sacrofice, Ready for Love, candle In The Wind

I like Jefferson Starship, Jefferson Airplane and Starship an awful lot.

Cherish by Kool And The Gang

Almost everything by Phil Collins

Candi Staton- Young Hearts Run Free

Candi Staton with Young Hearts

Total Eclipse Of The Heart

Primeal Scream with Moving On Up

Belinda Carlisle with Heaven is a place on earth and Leave a Light on For me.

Waiting for a Star to Fall by Boy Meets Girl

I must confess to liking Abba.

And many others

Some good choices there Dave.

The singing postman was good  

Quoted from grimsby pete

The singing postman was good  

Ave ya got a loyt boyyy?

Wasn't he really from Grimsby? Seem to remember reading summit to that effect on CA's Famous Grimsby folk page.

Close he was a Meggie.

The Singing Postman, Alan Smethurst, was actually born in Lancashire but raised in Norfolk near Sheringham. Hence his accent. He was a postman in Grimsby when he got his reputation for singing on his rounds and he died in Grimsby, I think he was living at the Sally Army hostel.

I was thinking (not a good thing), where are all the instrumentals? I can't remember the last time I heard a good new instrumental - probably Brighouse & Rastrick with The Floral Dance.

We used to have some brilliant ones in my youth. There were the obvious ones like the Shadows stuff but you also got things like Duane Eddy with Shazam, still one gf my favourites. Here's a few more -

Telstar - The Tornados
Apache - Bert Weedon's version
Rumble - Link Wray
Pipeline - The Chantays
Wipe Out - The Surfaris
Rocking Goose - Johnny & The Hurricanes
Walk Don't Run - The Ventures
On The Rebound - Floyd Cramer
Nut Rocker - B Bumble & The Stingers
Midnight In Moscow - Kenny Ball
Raunchy - Bill Justis
Let There Be Drums - Sandy Nelson
Sylvia - Focus
Green Onions - Booker T & The MGs
Chariots Of Fire - Vangelis
Autobahn - Kraftwerk