^So...was she blonde?

Some bands that have not been listed yet:

The Police
Talking Heads
REM

10 Favourte Bands (yes, it is musically quite correct to use this term):

Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra
St Petersburg Philharmonic
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Cleveland Orchestra
Czech Philharmonic
Staatskapelle Dresden
The Kirov Orchestra
L'Orchestre Revolutionaire et Romantique

10 Favourite band leaders:

Wilhelm Furtwängler
Bruno Walter
Hermann Scherchen
Oskar Fried
Nikolaus Harnoncourt
Otto Klemperer
Karl Böhm
Herbert von Karajan
Pierre Boulez
Charles Munch


On the short list for the latter were Arthur Nikisch and Anton Webern.

My playlist changes often!! I will always be listening to old Soul/R&B and Jazz .... But, this is who I'm listening to currently.


The Small Faces (Decca Years)
The Artic Monkeys (The energy!!!)
The Stone Roses (The first album, obviously)
Booker T & The MG's (I will never tire of this band!)
The Pretty Things (Dirty R&B)
The Four Tops (The Greatest Hits album with the gold cover)
The Birds (R&B From West Drayton!!)
The Five Aces (The current Jazz scene's finest)
Sly & The Family Stone (Dance to the music)
Them (Them Again LP, Quality)

In chronological order:

Count Basie's band c. 1938
Buddy Holly and the Crickets
The Sonics (Pacific Northwest early 1960s rock and roll mayhem)
The Bobby Fuller Four (mid 1960s Buddy Holly influenced rock and roll)
Toots and the Maytals
The Clash
The Undertones (Ireland's best band--you hear that Bono?)
Minor Threat (American hardcore)
Scruffy the Cat (my friend Charlie's first band)
Sleater-Kinney

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Bubbling under:  The Pogues (but only with Shane MacGowan), Prince, Madness, The Wedding Present, the Shop Assistants, Buzzcocks, Yaz, Everything But the Girl....I could go on and on