Quote from: Bealman on July 10, 2026, 09:55:31 AMEngland?

My Prediction now:
Winners: France
Runner-up: Argentina
3rd: Spain
4th: England

(Sadly... )

Just a wee glimpse into some of my 45s

Argent
Black Sabbath x 2
Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band x 3
Alice Cooper x 3
Crosby, Stills and Nash
Curved Air
Fleetwood Mac (early) x 3
Free x 4
Genesis x 4
Jethro Tull x 2
Love Sculpture
Led Zep
Nazareth x 3
Gerry Rafferty x 3
Strawbs x 2
Cat Stevens x 4
Tourists x 2
Who x 3

There's an awful lot of New Romantic and synth stuff I like but it's mostly compilation CDs
Music was never appealing thereafter apart from the odd release

England?

Quote from: cmason on July 10, 2026, 02:02:13 AMIf I do this every few weeks I get perfect running round the back there. If I let things go I get many sticky moments.

Yeah - I hate it when you get sticky moments round the back

You guys have great memory. I can only remember a few. The one that sticks out is Shannon by Henry Gross. Then it's Bread, ELO, Doobie Brothers, Kansas for the most part. The rest would be Hawaiian stuff like Kalapana, Cecilio and Kapono, Olomana.

And then the disco phase, then Journey rolled through.

I wonder who'll be meeting France in the final?  

I too have one of these Tomix track cleaners although it was sold under the Atlas label. On the matter of cleaning fluids, MRH a year ago had an article on what cleaning fluids were optimal. If my memory serves me correctly, they suggested using non-polar solvents. White spirits or Shellite fit the bill. I took their advice and now I use nothing but white spirits (in a CMX track cleaning car). Excellent!!

Webbo

 

Dukes Rule

Quote from: Moonglum on July 09, 2026, 07:32:30 PMWell done Scott @scottmitchell74 for joining in! The sad thing is I can recall most of your list (and you were just a nipper then) but totally clueless with todays pop music. Coincidently, I watched Ridley Scott's "Bladerunner" last night with Vangelis's evoking soundtrack (Dick Morrisey on sax).

Tim

I'm a few years older than Scott and my early 7" singles years (1980 - 1982) included everything by The Specials, The Selecter, The Beat, Madness, The Bodysnatchers, Bad Manners, quite a few by UB40 up to One In Ten, Cars by Gary Numan, Working for the Yankee Dollar by The Skids, amongst others. After that time I moved towards bands like Blancmange, Human League, OMD, Japan, Soft Cell, Simple Minds, Big Country, then went Batcaver/Goth with people like Specimen, Marc & the Mambas, Bauhaus, etc.
I grew up in a musical house, my brother was into prog in the 70s, and bought huge numbers of singles to be a school disco DJ. My eldest sister was into The Police, Genesis, Bowie, Elton John. My other sister was into 2-Tone, then Adam & The Ants but then took me with her into New Romantics and then Goth.

Hello all.

A quick tour of the Kookaburra facility with Dr Karl.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPHWmtTdGsM

Mark