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Feb 25, 2017 - 11:30 AM
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Rameau
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Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel.
Last year I bought a five album box set (really cheap, about £10, it's gone right up now, it must have gone OOP). I've had the greatest hits album for a few years, I thought instead of listening to all the albums in one go, I'd get to know them one at a time, as if I were back in the seventies & they were being released, so I've been listening to the first one on & off The Human Menagerie, & have got to really like it, & I've started on the second, The Psychomodo, love it! Beautifully produced, lovely seventies sound, great songs, lyrics & singing a bit art-school pretentious, but I quite like that. Next is, Best Years Of our Lives, then Timeless Flight then Love's A prima Donna. I do love the seventies 
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Feb 25, 2017 - 11:41 AM
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Octoberman
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Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel.
Last year I bought a five album box set (really cheap, about £10, it's gone right up now, it must have gone OOP). I've had the greatest hits album for a few years, I thought instead of listening to all the albums in one go, I'd get to know them one at a time, as if I were back in the seventies & they were being released, so I've been listening to the first one on & off The Human Menagerie, & have got to really like it, & I've started on the second, The Psychomodo, love it! Beautifully produced, lovely seventies sound, great songs, lyrics & singing a bit art-school pretentious, but I quite like that. Next is, Best Years Of our Lives, then Timeless Flight then Love's A prima Donna. I do love the seventies
A man after my own heart.
I LOVE COCKNEY REBEL!!!!
Before moving on to the 3rd record, replay "Ritz" about 5 times, it's that good.
Can't get enough.
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Mar 2, 2017 - 3:24 PM
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Rameau
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Further to what I was just gushing about, if anyone wants to hear what is probably one of the best love songs written in recent times, Harley did something a few years back ('01? '02?) called "A Friend For Life".
It is quite mainstream considering what Harley's writing is usually like, but it still retains a kind of off-center approach that marks his work.
It has, of course, been appropriated by Rod Stewart (for Roderick SO LOVES that kind of song), but accept no substitute--stick with Harley's.
Ah, that song is not on the five albums I've got, I might have to get the three disc compilation before it disappears.
Sod it, I bought it
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