"a wide range of musical tastes, from Mark Knopfler to David Gray"...but what comes in between?

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From FAP discussion last night re. dating sites; a woman posted stating that she had an extremely wide taste in music, the parameters at either end being Mark Knopfler and David Gray. The question is: what else could possibly fall between these two polar opposites to make her taste so wide and, er, eclectic?

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Friday, 29 July 2005 09:15 (twenty years ago)

Chris DeBurgh, obv.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 29 July 2005 09:19 (twenty years ago)

Dido?

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Friday, 29 July 2005 09:19 (twenty years ago)

i've heard that very same quote a couple of times recently. is it possibly an urban myth?

― stirmonster (stirmonster), Friday, 29 July 2005 09:21 (twenty years ago)

Coldplay. Eric Clapton. She played Tears in Heaven on repeat for three days. Probably some Celine Dion. Some Elton John. Candle In the Wind was her Tears in Heaven II.

― nathalie's body's designed for two (stevie nixed), Friday, 29 July 2005 09:26 (twenty years ago)

David Knopfler? Maybe she mapped it out like one of those word-link puzzles.

― bg (creamolafoam), Friday, 29 July 2005 09:29 (twenty years ago)

No, his name sounded terribly exotic.

― nathalie's body's designed for two (stevie nixed), Friday, 29 July 2005 09:30 (twenty years ago)

Trane's Ascension (3 new answers, 20 total)

― Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 29 July 2005 09:31 (twenty years ago)

Weirdly, Mark Knopfler has been quoted more than once saying that Pharaoh Sanders' Karma is his all-time favourite album - not that there's much evidence of that in "MUNEE FOR NOTHIN' COLOUR TEE-VEEEH!" etc.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Friday, 29 July 2005 09:37 (twenty years ago)

Really? It's John Martyn's favourite album too!

― Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 29 July 2005 09:38 (twenty years ago)

Maybe her tastes travel in a circular motion around the entire parameter of music, excepting about three bands, and end up at David Gray

― DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Friday, 29 July 2005 09:39 (twenty years ago)

I've been putting *way* too much thought into this , but I've been trying to work out a direct link between these two fellers and I've come up with... BJ Cole, who's done sessions for both. Kids, this is what watching too much Jools Holland will do to you - be warned! Nurse, are those Merzbow tablets ready yet?

― NickB (NickB), Friday, 29 July 2005 09:50 (twenty years ago)

You mean, Nurse (With Wound), are those Merzbow tablets ready yet?

― Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 29 July 2005 09:52 (twenty years ago)

BJ Cole, the only person to have worked with Luke Vibert, the Wombles, the London Improvisers Orchestra and the Two Ronnies

(obv if you took Luke Vibert out of the equation then fully half of the London Improvisers Orchestra have also worked with the Wombles and the Two Ronnies but anyway).

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Friday, 29 July 2005 09:53 (twenty years ago)

Labradford too! He's good for linking just about anybody to anybody.

― NickB (NickB), Friday, 29 July 2005 09:56 (twenty years ago)

Well he was virtually the only Limey that could play pedal steel for most of the 70s/80s/90s (Gordon Huntley was the other one I believe)

― Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 29 July 2005 09:58 (twenty years ago)

(BTW was working the Mel Collins angle to start with, but hit rocky ground somehwere in the Bucks Fizz zone)

― NickB (NickB), Friday, 29 July 2005 09:59 (twenty years ago)

BJ Cole is the Kevin Bacon of music!

With Bucks Fizz, Pete Sinfield would be the better bet - the missing link between Keith Tippett's Centipede and Celine Dion.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Friday, 29 July 2005 10:00 (twenty years ago)

BJ Cole's solo albums are oddly magnificent, so far from what I expected. It inspired me to write a pedal steel symphony. Perhaps I'm the missing link.

― Huey (Huey), Friday, 29 July 2005 10:02 (twenty years ago)

Mel Collins played with King Crimson too didn't he? That's the link to Pete Sinfield and Bucks Fizz.

― Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 29 July 2005 10:04 (twenty years ago)

Yes, Mel Collins was one of those strange chaps who played improv-y sax but only in rockist environments and was never actually part of the jazz/improv scene (see also Dick Parry with Floyd and the Bonzos).

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Friday, 29 July 2005 10:07 (twenty years ago)

He also did the sax on "Baker Street" and "Let's Stick Together" fact fans.

Anyhow, is the woman in question my mum? If so, Status Quo are the missing band.

― NickB (NickB), Friday, 29 July 2005 10:10 (twenty years ago)

My dog-eared copy of City To City sez Raphael Ravenscroft did the sax on "Baker Street."

Your mum and Status Quo...?

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Friday, 29 July 2005 10:12 (twenty years ago)

Oh I do beg yr puddin'. Think that Mel Collins is on that record though. And Morris Pert!

― NickB (NickB), Friday, 29 July 2005 10:19 (twenty years ago)

And Liam Genockey on drums, also at the time a member of Amalgam, along with Trevor Watts and Keith Rowe.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Friday, 29 July 2005 10:22 (twenty years ago)

Later to play with Steeleye Span!

― Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 29 July 2005 10:28 (twenty years ago)

Whose violinist, Peter Knight, subsequently joined Trevor Watts' Moire Music!!

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Friday, 29 July 2005 10:34 (twenty years ago)

Oh get outta here!

― Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 29 July 2005 10:37 (twenty years ago)

Mind you, when I saw Steeleye Span playing at a community centre in Partick or Maryhill about 8 years ago (with Liam Genockey), Peter Knight did his own solo spot of avant-garde fiddling/ noodling (foodling?), much to the incomprehension of everyone gathered there

― Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 29 July 2005 10:42 (twenty years ago)

And therein lies another Womble link 'cos the Tory Mike Batt produced their top five IRA singalong "All Around My Hat"!!!

But moving swiftly back to the original premise of this thread - would a lady with such wide tastes purchase ten CDs per year, if that? And would she be better and nicer to know than a lady with, say, 300 Sun Ra bootlegs?

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Friday, 29 July 2005 10:44 (twenty years ago)

"what else could possibly fall between these two polar opposites"

Since they are so close together that it's possible that actual penetration is involved, my official answer is "a condom."

― Hunter (Hunter), Saturday, 30 July 2005 03:10 (twenty years ago)

She's severely deluded.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 30 July 2005 03:17 (twenty years ago)

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