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Music to sort coins to

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I don't know about anyone else, but I have to have music on when I am working with my coins. Pink Floyd is my absolute favourite but quite a few other groups and artists figure frequently in my (randomised) playlist. Here are my top twenty, in no particular order (after Pink Floyd):

Pink Floyd
Tangerine Dream
Led Zeppelin
Muse
Adele
Gorillaz
King Crimson
Mike Oldfield
Moody Blues
Fleetwood Mac
Emerson Lake and Palmer
Dire Straits
Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel
Suzanne Vega
The Strawbs
The Beautiful South
Thin Lizzy
Chris Rea
Pentangle
David Bowie

What does everyone else listen to? Modern or Classical?

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The Strawberry Hill Boys (Strawbs) were the resident band at the Green Man Folk Club in West Ealing which I helped a friend mismanage in the early sixties, and Dave Cousins lived a pint's spit from the White Bear Folk Club in Hounslow which I later ran. Paddy's post has made me realise that I've got nothing of theirs to listen to unless I try to resurrect some old cassettes.

Regardless of which, Windows Music Player tells me that I do a lot of this:

 

David Bowie
Roxy Music
Incredible String Band
Planxty
Reverend Gary Davis
Ry Cooder
B B King
Postmodern Jukebox
Robert Johnson
The Cranberries
Little Feat
Carolina Chocolate Drops
Oscar Peterson
DakhaBrakha
Clapton & Cale
Little Willies
Norah Jones 
Jussi Bjorling
acapellascience
Cajun & Zydeco compilations

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In no particular order:

Beatles

Who

Genesis

Steely Dan

Grateful Dead

Mercury Rev 

Goldfrapp

Father John Misty 

John Grant

Oscar Peterson

Miles DAvis

Queen

Pink Floyd

Misty In Roots

Sly & Robbie (dub)

Nick Drake

Sleaford Mods

Joni Mitchell

Neil Young 

David Crosby

Zappa

Leonard Cohen

Chic

Buzzcocks

Magazine 

Dire Straits

The Beat

The Specials 

Madness

…and many more I've missed at first think

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Jesus I thought that said Bing Crosby :lol::P

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Warren Zevon. That is all. ;)

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There's a hell of a lot of Peck's list that resonates with me and also, the incredible Warren Zevon. Lawyers, Guns & Money is blasting through the house as I write. Roland will be next.

 

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And it had to come eventually MrBE:

 

 

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Quality. :D

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Obviously I am going to have to try this Warren Zevon - I have to admit I had not heard of him before.

What genre?

P

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OK, so you've probably heard Werewolves of London on the radio. Warren was a story teller, and a bloody good one at that. Genre? Rock with a twist. And some serious musicianship.

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Sounds great to me - I am on it!

 

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Mozart

Purcell

Stones (Jones era)

Bowie (1968-73)

Desmond Dekker

Toots and the Maytals

Velvet Underground

Chuck Berry

Pergolese

Gluck

Bessie Smith

Cab Calloway

Hank Williams

Gram Parsons 

Byrds

Laura Nyro

Ute Lemper

Steve Earle

Emmylou Harris

Beatles

Bach

John Dowland

George Formby

'Hey-hey. Turned out nice again…..'

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Toots is on in the background when I'm not sorting coins and stuff.  Can't keep still to Mr Hibbert, very bad policy when handling proofs.

 

Nice to see another John Downland  afficion.

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George Formby ? "When I'm cleaning Widow's "perhaps ?:lol:

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Starset

Pink Floyd

3 Doors Down

Nickelback

Iron Maiden

Theory of a Deadman

Dire Straits

Genesis

Shinedown

Puddle of Mud

Marilyn Manson

Seether

Rev Theory

 

it goes on and on (many new ones found due to spotify's "play similar")

 

 

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18 hours ago, Michael-Roo said:

 

Purcell

Bowie (1968-73)

Cab Calloway

Hank Williams

Laura Nyro

Steve Earle

John Dowland

Those would have made my list too - and I'm amazed that I missed Bowie and Laura Nyro, two of my favourite artists.

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For sorting coins to? Got to be classical. Maybe a little Debussy (Arabesque springs readily to mind), or perhaps William Walton's "Crown Imperial", Edward Elgar's "Triumphal March". Possibly even "Jupiter" from Holst's planet suite. Something inspiring, any rate..

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Or for all the crap, a good dose of the Sex Pistols. Something to Pogo to and capable of distributing the dross far and wide ;)

 

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8 hours ago, Rob said:

Or for all the crap, a good dose of the Sex Pistols. Something to Pogo to and capable of distributing the dross far and wide ;)

 

... or maybe "My old man's a dustman"...

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Surely The top 3 should go to

  • ABBA - Money Money Money
  • Pink Floyd - Money
  • Dire Straits - Money for Nothing

 

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6 hours ago, Unwilling Numismatist said:

Surely The top 3 should go to

  • ABBA - Money Money Money
  • Pink Floyd - Money
  • Dire Straits - Money for Nothing

 

Surely, "Three Coins in the Fountain" ... or does the prospect of drowned coins make you shudder?!

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Or Penny Lane (Beatles)? Or Kiss Me by Sixpence none the Richer?

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In the Hall of the Mountain KIng for anybody excitedly looking through a mass of pennies for one dated 1933.

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On 4/21/2018 at 8:35 PM, Paddy said:

Sounds great to me - I am on it!

 

Have a look on YouTube for his Letterman interviews. ;)

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