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9. Steve B’s chart quiz

Please repost so others can play !

A nice uk chart .what year is it from
Try to do it without using google or Grok . Some great tracks here . #music #popchart #thursday pic.twitter.com/2DnXCBPrws

— steve (@bagshaw2112) October 2, 2025

8. My fave Shadows song

… once they got rid of that singer. One happy drummer up there:

7. This from IYE

I can see is going to be an iconic piece, so I’m running it here (from comments), on X and saving it in an IYE file at UHC-WP for quick later reference. Also one of Yuri Bezmenov’s later.

I’d been on about the AFD declaring TPUSA a terrorist group and I asked: “Whaaaaa?

6. On Quora, a guy called Marc Towersap

… was looking at bands or artists people have lost all respect for:

“Loss of respect meaning, I did like/love them, but over time, the band or key members of the band said/done things that, well, I disagree with to say it diplomatically. It won’t be KISS neither, while I liked some of their songs, I didn’t really love the band, so losing all respect for really didn’t mean losing a lot!

So no, Rolling Stones aren’t here, they are still out touring and killing it live.

For me, my opinion ONLY! The answer is… U2

Now, I wasn’t a true fan when they were starting out, I was aware of them (going to college in Colorado Springs, how could I not be aware of Under a Blood Red Sky. FYI, it was filmed at Red Rocks amphitheater, a little over an hour drive north. Amazing venue, if you love concerts, you gotta go see a concert there!!!) I was a metalhead back then, so no, songs from War and before I mostly was unaware of.

Then, I got tired of metal. Iron Maiden went a direction that I really didn’t care for.( I did go back though and realized I missed out!!!). Metallica, I did love the black album but kinda burned out on the songs. Judas Priest, while I admit to myself I loved Turbo Lover (the song), I didn’t care for the other songs. Black Sabbath, Ozzy to Dio to Gillan to ??, I stopped listening after Born Again. And I freakin hated hair metal.

So what to listen to? I am and will always be a music lover, but I do get bored, I have to find new music. So I switched from metal to punk and alternative. And discovered U2! OMG, freakin loved The Unforgettable Fire!! Went back and discovered War, OMG! Then when Joshua Tree came out, played it so much I got tired of it.

Saw them live the first time, great show! Rattle and Hum, I started to fall out of love, did like a lot of the songs, but it was a mix of live songs, covers, and some new songs. Saw that tour too, great show! But Achtung Baby? nope. And Bono seemed to let things get to his head, and that I really detested. Maybe it was an act, but if it was, he did it quite well, because I detested him more and more!

Then that whole push our new album out whether we wanted it or not. Never seen them again after Rattle & Hum tour. I’ve never listened to anything after Rattle. Kinda don’t listen to earlier U2 as well.

FYI, I did go back and re-discover what I missed metalwise! love slipknot, gojira, jinjer, mastodon, lamb of god, sepultura, and meshuggah. always seeking new stuff! just not U2 apparently!”

Thing with Quora is it seems to be about music in this corner of the sphere … largely “sort of lefty Boomer era, reminiscing” … hardly overtly political though probably agenda deluded all the same, unknowingly. Thus these would be the last ones to wake up to people like Bono, Phil Collins, Bob Geldof.

As for metalheads? That’s another post.