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So I treat myself to a new mp3 player and start putting some of my music on there.

All is going well and I am quite content with my playlist so far ...THEN IT HAPPENS...

Sam, my youngest (14 next Sunday) asks to see what I have put on there and i show him the following play list...

One ...................................... Mary J Blige & U2
My Way.................................. Frank Sinatra
Thats Life............................... Frank Sinatra
Something Stupid.................... Frank & Nancy Sinatra
Fix You.................................. Coldplay
Nine Million Bicycles.................. Katie Mellua
Common People...................... Pulp
Ghost Town........................... Specials
Everything I own..................... Ken Booth
A Good Heart.......................... Feargal Sharkey
Enola Gay................................ OMD
Turning Japanese..................... The Vapors
Geno...................................... Dexys Midnight Runners
Letter From America................. The Proclaimers

Cue said "almost" 14 year old rolling around on the floor wetting himself laughing and calling me a sad old man !!!


The smart money is now on him admitting he likes my music before his birthday in a bid to extract more money from my wallet.


I thought it was quite a good playlist so far .... wait til i put some of my panpipes tracks on there .. then he CAN moan :)

If you lost Katie Melua and Coldplay it wouldn't look so bad....

Do you want honest opinions?    ;tk;

Slate it if you want ... you cant possibly outdo the rubdown my son has given me LOL

PS. The Proclaimers ..Letter From America is not a ploy to gain sympathy from the colonials ... I do Love that song ... And I want Big Laz and Rod to sing it at BB3 :D

Sad middle aged Adult Orientated papfish


thats what you are I tell ya

Presumably after Kev gives us a little "Modern Major General" form Penzance rendition.

I've been called worse ;)


And I just know that everyone who has read this post is now either whistling "everything I own" or "Letter from America"

:D

Here ya go Tank ;)


I am the very model of a modern Major-General
I've information vegetable, animal, and mineral
I know the kings of England, and I quote the fights historical
From Marathon to Waterloo, in order categorical

I'm very well acquainted, too, with matters mathematical
I understand equations, both the simple and quadratical
About binomial theorem I'm teeming with a lot o' news
With many cheerful facts about the square of the hypotenuse

With many cheerful facts about the square of the hypotenuse
With many cheerful facts about the square of the hypotenuse
With many cheerful facts about the square of the hypotepotenuse

I'm very good at integral and differential calculus
I know the scientific names of beings animalculous
In short, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral
I am the very model of a modern Major-General

In short, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral
He is the very model of a modern Major-General

I know our mythic history, King Arthur's and Sir Caradoc's
I answer hard acrostics, I've a pretty taste for paradox
I quote in elegiacs all the crimes of Heliogabalus
In conics I can floor peculiarities parabolous

I can tell undoubted Raphaels from Gerard Dows and Zoffanies
I know the croaking chorus from the Frogs of Aristophanes
Then I can hum a fugue of which I've heard the music's din afore
And whistle all the airs from that infernal nonsense Pinafore

And whistle all the airs from that infernal nonsense Pinafore
And whistle all the airs from that infernal nonsense Pinafore
And whistle all the airs from that infernal nonsense Pinapinafore

Then I can write a washing bill in Babylonic cuneiform
And tell you ev'ry detail of Caractacus's uniform
In short, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral
I am the very model of a modern Major-General

In short, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral
He is the very model of a modern Major-General

In fact, when I know what is meant by "mamelon" and "ravelin"
When I can tell at sight a Mauser rifle from a javelin
When such affairs as sorties and surprises I'm more wary at
And when I know precisely what is meant by "commissariat"

When I have learnt what progress has been made in modern gunnery
When I know more of tactics than a novice in a nunnery
In short, when I've a smattering of elemental strategy
You'll say a better Major-General had never sat a gee

You'll say a better Major-General had never sat a gee
You'll say a better Major-General had never sat a gee
You'll say a better Major-General had never sat a sat a gee

For my military knowledge, though I'm plucky and adventury
Has only been brought down to the beginning of the century
But still, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral
I am the very model of a modern Major-General

But still, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral
He is the very model of a modern Major-General

Turning Japanese..................... The Vapors

Never better than Ade Edmonson's cover on Celebrity Fame Acadamy last year! :D

I guess that makes it easy to age you Kev.

I am more open then most to any music - but Coldplay and U2 are too much for me.

But Frank, Vapours, Specials, DMR I applaud you.
(In fact I will listen to The Specials album now, Saturday Night - great tune.  And yes I have everyone of those tunes except U2, but thankfully no children)

Print that list and in 5 or so years I imagine you may well get the last laugh.

Comments like this worry me.  I am 26, but I really like that play list, especially Frank Sinatra.  I might be turning into a premature old man like you Kev.

Kev, do you have carpet slippers, a pipe and a flat cap?

"Turning Japanese" .....isn't that a sexual euphemism!!!!!!

Frank is a LEGEND ... Ive Just added Mr Bojangles by Sammy Davis Jr as well :)

Must add's are

The Knack - My sherona
The Smiths - Panic
The Smiths - How Soon is now
Blue Nile - Tinsel Town'
Guns & Roses - Welcome to the jungle
Boom Town Rats - I dont like mondays
The Who - Baba O'Riley
Pink Floyd - Shine on you crazy Diamond
Pink Floyd - Wish You were here
Pink Floyd - The Division Bell
Johnny Cash - Ring of fire
Rolling Stones - Paint It black.
Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs - Dueling Banjo's ( for those nasty river moments)

Wish you were here by Floyd is a cert to go on ...
Ring of fire is a cert too
The smiths will be getting a lenghty section of my playlist ... as Morrisey is GOD.  First of the gang to die is a modern classic.

I still have to add some Sham69 and Ian Dury .... jees i love music .

I've got that - plus his awesome "Rhythm of life" from the Guinness advert.

Geno by Dexys Midnight Runners an absolute classic, although I think my favourite was Dance Stance. I saw Dexy's at what was the Top Rank suite in Brighton before they were anybody and one of the best concerts I have been to. Went staright out and bought a donkey jacket and wooly hat. :D
Funnily enough Kevin Rowland lives in Brighton and I bumped in to him the other day.

Did Kevin Rowland recognise you off the telly ?? :D :D

Nat King Cole is great as well.  Straighten Up and Fly Right, Let There Be Love, Smile.  He has so many great songs.

I am currently busy collecting some old Nat King Cole stuff, not singing so much but some brilliant Jazz piano when he played with Oscar Moore - amazing sounds from the late 30's.  Well worth looking up IMO.

What's the story behind him starting to sing?  I have heard that the regular singer didn't turn up and he stood in for him. He was the piano player of the group at that time.  Is that true?

He is a brilliant singer. Him and Frank Sinatra have a really easy way of singing. It doesn't seem any effort at all. When you compare them to some of the singers on top of the pops these days, it just shows how talented they were.  I hate it when singers like Robbie Williams try to sing their songs. 

I know Michael Jackson comes in for a bit of slagging these days, but he is a really good singer.  Songs like Heal the World and Dirty Diana show this.

:D :D :D :D :D Jarvis Cockers antics at the brits summed up my feelings for Jacko.

Borstal Breakout surely?

Try this Sark   http://www.gale.com/free_resources/bhm/bio/cole_n.htm

He isn't my favorite either, but I think he can sing well.  To be honest, I am an Eddie Vedder fan when it comes to singing.  But M.Jackson does have talent.

Thanks Nakor

I'm not surprised your lad thought you were a sad git :D

Kids are united

Hersham Boys

Hurry up Harry

OH YES!!!!!!!!!!!

Would give you some advise on music Kev but I only listen to soppy songs  ::)

Oooh I love Morrisey/Smiths.  Anyone going to V this year?

I going Claw - Chelmsford.

me too :)

I PM you nearer the time meet for a beer/cider/tea/bbq whatever, if you like.

We also have a Poker comp at V each year on the Friday night, for a bracelet and everything - tent poker is cool.
There is no escape - take this as your invite.

Hehe - the poker sounds good, but I'm not camping :(

V?   

 is it a convention for fans of the 1980's TV show about aliens that come to Earth?

Almost Sark - its a pretend festival with loads of city types in inappropriate clothes moan about walking, prices, queues, bad beer, poor sound, bad bands - usually with comments like 'I saw Robbie at the forum' or old crustys (like me) sit around, moaning about the above, pi**ed on cider, complaining that its not like Mendip . . . . . . . . I hate Glastonbury fallow years - its just not fair.

Sounds fun  :D

As Noel Gallagher put it last year "sing along you middle classed w***ers"!