IOBadN, just in case you forgot how bad a high school (Jr. High?) band can be....

2001 A Space Odyssey titles school performance

This had me both laughing and cringing....

eta: OK, this was not a high-school band:

The Dish's Smearing Of Public School Orchestras

We stand corrected and ashamed. About that last MHB. A reader writes:

That recording was actually by The Portsmouth Sinfonia, "a real orchestra founded by a group of students at Portsmouth School of Art in Portsmouth, England, in 1970 -- however, the Sinfonia had an unusual entrance requirement. Players had to be either non-musicians, or if a musician, play an instrument that was entirely new to them."

Another writes:

I recognized it immediately because it was on Dead Parrot Society, a compilation album of British comedy dominated by Peter Cook and the boys of Monty Python.

Another:

Brian Eno was a member for a while and played the clarinet.

That's kinda' cool. Still sounds like a Jr. High band, though....

Hiya. This isn't usually a thread I follow, because my music love tends to be pretty shallow and fleeting. But there's a song that's been in my head all weekend, and I just can't remember enough about it to find it on YouTube and play it half a dozen time to get it out of my head.

(I worked in a CD store way back when, and I'm having flashbacks to customers coming in for a country CD by some guy singing about his lost love. Oh, and the cover might be brown. *sigh*)

Anyway. If someone can figure out the song from this bare-bones description, please, that would be wonderful.

It starts off with a rumble of thunder (but it’s not “This Corrosion,” although I’m not ruling out Sisters of Mercy). It’s very lush and has sort of sweeping melodic lines throughout, as well as the sound of rain. The last line of the chorus is something like “It’s true for you.” The vocalist is male with a fairly lyrical baritone voice.

I think it’s from the late ‘80s, to very early ‘90s—no later than ’91. And I can tell you a few other things it’s not:

London After Midnight – Sacrifice
The Same Deep Water as You – The Cure
Kingdom of Rain – The The

Anyone?

I'm famliar with two different "Bad Boy" songs, one by Miami Sound Machine and one by Inner Circle.

It isn't in the title, but the Shangri-Las explain the difference between "good," "bad," and "good-bad, but he's not evil" in "Give Him a Great Big Kiss."

"Bad Word (for a Good Thing)"-The Friggs (I think)

London After Midnight – Sacrifice The Same Deep Water as You – The Cure Kingdom of Rain – The The

Anyone?

Well, I am now earwormed with two of them but I can't think of what your mystery song is. Which is sad, because I am certain once it's discovered I will know it.

How bad can that Dylan Xmas album be? Pretty f'ing bad: [link]

It starts off with a rumble of thunder

Garth Brooks - "The Thunder Rolls" ?

I'm going through my husband's CDs and listing them on half.com (at his request), and he's got a copy of "Relics" by Pink Floyd, except it has almost twice as many tracks as any other listings I can find. I don't suppose anyone knows about some comprehensive pink Floyd site?

Dana -- This might be helpful: [link]

oh Dana, did you look at secondspin.com first as a place to sell? I think they had better prices for lots of stuff and it is a guaranteed sell.