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Hi Marian.  I haven’t heard of Depeche Mode mentioned in quite some time.  My younger sister was a huge Depeche Mode fan, and I think was all she listened to for a while.  Nice sounds for sure.  She will be happy to hear there is a fellow Depeche Mode fan.  In the 80’s I remember Duran Duran was huge too.  They are one of the few 80’s bands I enjoyed.  I was heavily into ACDC in those days, but I enjoyed a lot of the Duran Duran stuff then.

Isn’t MonaLisa Twins a breath of fresh air for awesome music these days!!!

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You’re right Howard, Coke would’t be my first choice, unless that is all there was in a panic within reaching distance.  My thing would be more a Ginger Ale, Winter Ale, or just a piping hot black tea.   Thanks for the video.  Coke and Santa are certainly icons of commercialization, which is the problem when the focus is on the commercialization of music or art, creativity is lost, and mediocrity prevail.

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Hi Michael.  I just took a yonder to the current Top 100 Billboard and listened to a sample of what the record labels are pushing, and it is akin to going to a bad Asian fusion restaurant where they use the same sauce for everything.  Everything kind of tastes the same and after a while you start feeling a little whoozy and need a coke or beer to wash away that bad after taste.  As you say there are a lot of good stuff, old and new out there, but it just gets buried in all the noise.

For me in the 90’s I enjoyed sounds from bands like U2 and Sheryl Crow, before I abandoned modern music and got into classical music with a passion.  Most of what was coming out of the modern pop stations just all sounded the same and I lost interest in pop rock music, unless it was classic 60s or 70s rock.  When I discovered MonaLisa Twins and returned to modern rock/pop music, it was a breath of fresh air for sure.  First time I heard Orange and the studio work they talked about, immediately reminded me of albums like Pet Sounds, Sargent Peppers, Seventh Sojourn, Wish You Were Here, Even in the Quietest Moments (it was nice having an older brother who bought a lot of awesome albums) that had artistry in creating diverse great music.  The Wide Wide Wide Land, All About Falling in Love, I don’t Know Birds That Well, Nothings In Vain, Sweet Lorraine, Count on Me, Club 27, Still a Friend of Mine…are modern pop/rock songs I can love again.

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Very nice, thanks Jacki

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Thanks Howard for checking out the video.  I guess at this time of year it had a bigger than normal impact for me.  🙂

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Hi Jacki

That was the cutest and grooviest Christmas gift I’ve seen in a long time.  You are a band of one.  Thank you for brightening my day.

Jung

Happiest of Christmas wishes to you.

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I can empathize with your dad.  You don’t know how many times growing up I had “Row, row, row, your boat” sang to me, by friends meaning well, but I ended up hating that song. 🙂

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It looks like Zombies came in 7th out of 15 nominees for 2019.  I feel good the collective votes from the MLT fan base (including many of mine) had a part in getting them inducted.  Well deserved.

The Cure
Def Leppard
Janet Jackson
Stevie Nicks
Radiohead
Roxy Music
The Zombies

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Howard, yes the 70’s if you think about it was pretty diverse musically.  From Beatles 1970 “Let It Be” to Blondies “Heart of Glass” and “Rapture” (Rapture was technically 1980).  I remember Blondie was something else when I first heard her as she kind of started the 80’s sounds in the late 70’s, quite ahead of the times.  Was great to see MLT meet Blondie recently.

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I was lucky because my older siblings bought a lot of records before me that I could listen to; Moody Blues, Pink Floyd, Supertramp, Beatles, Chicago, Hendricks, Led Zeppelin, Carpenters, Monkeys 45s etc.  My first album that I went out and bought for myself was I think when I was about 13, and it was the Beach Boys 15 Big Ones album that was released in 1976.

I always liked the Beach Boys since a Grade 4 school party, when the teacher played a”Surfin USA” 45, and I remember that was the coolest thing I ever heard.  Then in 1976 the Beach Boys remake of Chuck Berry’s “Rock and Roll Music” was a big hit on the radio at the time on the 15 Big Ones album, and it kind of sounded like Surfin USA again, so I got it.  The Beach Boys wave really started for me at that point.  Kids at school were into Beatles, so my early teens was a lot of Beach Boys and Beatles music.

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Mike, yes I think it would make for an awesome video.