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| From | "Michael Curry" <mikecurry@hotmail.co.uk> |
| Subject | Re: Info please regarding The Chords |
| Date | Sat, 08 Jul 2006 17:38:00 +0100 |
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>...."One More Minute" was decent but "Turn Away Again" their final 45 was
>awesome.....
Both of these tracks appear on this 38-track best of:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B000051TSK/026-6625124-8697206?v=glance&n=229816
Mike.
>From: TwangBoy@aol.com
>Reply-To: audities@smoe.org
>To: audities@smoe.org
>Subject: Re: Info please regarding The Chords
>Date: Sat, 08 Jul 2006 12:01:16 -0400
>
>In a message dated 7/8/2006 7:19:45 AM Eastern Daylight Time, "Brad Harvey"
><billionbrads@att.net> writes:
>
>As a potential buyer, I'm looking for a few good opinions on The Chords,
>who
>emerged in England during The Jam's mod heyday.
>
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>
>i LOVED the Chords!
>
>The semi-recent cd of their first LP on Captain Oi! is a great
>release.....to be sure, they were Jam-like, but with more of a power pop
>side, and less strident than Weller definitely...
>
>Great crashing power chords and most of the songs are dang good-"In My
>Street" is one of my all time faves (bought the import single in 1981, so
>it has sentimental value too).....their last 2 singles on UK Polydor, with
>a new singer, are still waiting to be re-released...."One More Minute" was
>decent but "Turn Away Again" their final 45 was awesome.....
>
>There are few live cd's, like one at the BBC, and another live in Paris,
>which are ok, but go for the Captain Oi reissue first I say.....
>
>You could do worse, and I think they were the most consistent of all the UK
>mod bands of the era-some like Killermeters and the like are really uneven
>to my ears....
>
>jim
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