These are a few of my Favourite things - Part 1..Music

It was mentioned that my previous blogs were rants, ( not all of them actually) which is a bit harsh as they are not meant to be, so I am going to be indulgent and revisit things I like.

 My first favourite is music, I love singing into my hair brush playing air guitar and jumping off the couch rock star style.

In the days of my teens the music charts were a big deal and there was only one official chart which was played on a Sunday night with the no1 being chosen the Tuesday before so it was great excitement to hear what was going to be played.

One of my all time favourites from my teens is :

Mr David Essex, My first album I bought was a greatest hits, I also use to buy the 7 inch singles of every song of his that came into the charts and went on to buy a lot of his albums right up in to adulthood. I first went to see him in concert when I was 17 with a work friend: OMG it was soooo exciting. I was also lucky enough to see him do a gig in Durban, my most recent was in October 2012   He is still so divine looking and still sings fabulously. I will forever be a fan and feel like my teenage self every time no matter how old I get.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQ2OkLQL3ZE

Also in my days of pop music I loved the Osmonds swooning over Donny, I even joined their fan club and got badges and mini posters and news of all of them, it was just so enthralling getting all of this. I never got to see them in concert as a teen but they did a concert with David Essex in 2003 and also in the tour were David Cassidy and One of the Original Bay City Rollers.I wasn't fazed about them and it was obvious that DE and The Osmonds were the ultimate favourites. It was fantastic and the Osmonds absolutely rocked the place. It was awesome to see them and relive some teenage time.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2WJt6Cpwus

There were plenty of 1 hit wonders or maybe 2 hit wonders and some of them were really catchy or just dam good tunes (to me) one of these which I still love hearing to day and its not a genre of music I follow is Play That Funky Music White Boy by Wild Cherry. I have no idea if they ever did anything else but this tune just stuck with me and when I hear it just make me want to get down and boogie 70's style and I make no apology either!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qe1ScoePqVA

As I progressed through my teens I explored more music other than what was in the charts, now as I am half a century on this earth, there was no internet or smart phones not even google existed, we had to get our info from books, newspapers, but best of all for music was the radio, there were some cool stations to listen to.

I started flirting with Punk as I got older as I loved the anarchist view they showed just because they could! But before serious punk took over the charts for a bit there was a pop/punk song which you just had to pogo too

.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PITnJAnmjqw

Another one hit wonder which I couldn't help enjoying it was a band called 5000 volts and this was the song I couldn't forget.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_s6DfAl1l4

There were many other bands like Blondie, my all time favourite from them is a song called Denis Denis, but most of their songs were really good throughout the 70's. There was the Boomtown Rats, Adam and the Ants,The Clash, The Runaways, Sex Pistols. 

Also we had Glam Rock  which was such fun T-Rex Slade, Gary Glitter, Alvin Stardust, Wizzard, Suzi Quatro, Hot Chocolate to name but a few.

Once I was in my late teens the genre of music which I drifted in to was rock and it started off with a fairly commercial rock band called Status Quo, I have been mocked mercilessly for being a loyal fan of this band but their earlier stuff was pretty cool especially some of the songs that have not been radio play. I have so many favourites with these guys, one particular song from their Rocking All Over The World Album-1977 is a song called 'Who Am I', alas I can't even find it on You Tube to post the link, but, it is most definitely one of their better songs. One of my all time guitar intro riffs is from What Ever You Want.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=drxcNiEyAyU

I did get in to much more heavier rock metal music and did the whole biker rock chic thing Rock was the genre I preferred and still do, they're are some awesome bands past and present. But that can be for another blogg!!!