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Geoffrey Aitken @8cakey.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Couldn't believe the words the first 'time' I heard this song - hell people knew this stuff. And I'd pretty much chained myself to a workbench as a prospective Metal Fabricator. Sheesh.

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Geoffrey Aitken @8cakey.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Riders on the Storm flashes into my mind. The Doors, eh.

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Geoffrey Aitken @8cakey.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I going with The Eagles who were almost peaking here in downtown Adelaide South Australia - something about the company I was keeping.

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Geoffrey Aitken @8cakey.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Dire Straits. All over it. Another game changer. Played too often but, Sultans of Swing, man where were these guys hangin' out. Pure magic.

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Geoffrey Aitken @8cakey.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Only 3 I know but 'The Supremes'?

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Geoffrey Aitken @8cakey.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Wow, that's a long way back but earliest memories were the jazz, blues synthesis from both 'Chicago' and 'Blood, Sweat and Tears'. Horns and rich big band sound. They were good listening.

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Geoffrey Aitken @8cakey.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Too many to remember - 'Scarecrow' still holds a special place. 'Human Wheels' likewise, as albums.

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Geoffrey Aitken @8cakey.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

begun to be over - the swamp must be boiled. No oil on the surface to calm the water.

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Geoffrey Aitken @8cakey.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Private money is also selective or so sees and hears my very public eyes and ears

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Geoffrey Aitken @8cakey.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I let my one [?] album go when returniung home 10 years ago so I'd have to go with anything that was a hit as a single. The Police were never really a loungeroom LP on the stereo sort of band for my mates.

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Geoffrey Aitken @8cakey.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Not sure where this all went pear-shaped but I wasn't as keen on Led Zeppelin as those in the mosh pit and things have gone too far now. I've also ignored way too many posts - probably means this is why I'm spilling my guts.

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Geoffrey Aitken @8cakey.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Do I go with Jack Bruce? Suzie Q; Tina Weymouth; Paul McCartney. Earlier? Later?

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Geoffrey Aitken @8cakey.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

'Funeral for a Friend' played background while we watched footage from our surfing safari [stoned] and I became so deeply locked in I was back in the ocean swimming. Came out of fast enough as the tempo changed. Also loved 'Saturday night's the night I like,' etcetera

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Geoffrey Aitken @8cakey.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Stuck in my mind for decades - a hallway, in my aunt's home, looking towards the front door - 'the paper holds their folded faces to the floor, And every day the paper boy brings more' - speaks to me over and over of nothing arriving yet we wait and we wait.

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Geoffrey Aitken @8cakey.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Yep, 'Don't Stand So Close...' cracked open my awareness as a mature-aged neophyte in my early days teaching

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Geoffrey Aitken @8cakey.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Nostalgia - 'Walking on the Moon'; 'Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic' & 'Can't Stand Losing You'. Solo, really didn't follow him beyond the band so yeah / nah. I'll keep watching posts.

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Geoffrey Aitken @8cakey.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Went a little nutsy for Bob Welch's 'Ebony Eyes' back in the day. Purchased the album as soon as I had money - the follow up not nearly as strong.

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Geoffrey Aitken @8cakey.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I want to slip closer to Britpop's inexcusable late love for Dusty Springfield who challenged the unacceptable beliefs of men, aligned with sexual identity politics.

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Geoffrey Aitken @8cakey.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I was living in a vacuum and surprised when Midnight Oil found my consciousness turning my thinking onto the events of the day - changed my 'take each day as it comes' into 'step by step / forwards preferably' as a public school senior class English teacher. Trust was reborn and now maintained.

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Geoffrey Aitken @8cakey.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Apologies but that means summer, blue skies, warmer and warmer weather, plus the beach. Slow down, children crossing.

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Geoffrey Aitken @8cakey.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Salesmen each one - terrible product they're trying to shift.

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Geoffrey Aitken @8cakey.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

'Black Cow', Steely Dan. First cab for me this morning.

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Geoffrey Aitken @8cakey.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Nothing like being over-prepared. I do it all the time. Laugh a minute / not. 🤪

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Geoffrey Aitken @8cakey.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Gonna be honest. Spent a little time institutionalised during the 80s but found these between discharges. 'Rock the Casbah', The Clash; 'Echo Beach', Martha and the Muffins & Aussie band Midnight Oil with 'US Forces'.

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Geoffrey Aitken @8cakey.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Probably. I need some more time to go through my memory. Crosby, Stills and Nash won't be far away though. Cream. I start well back. Nah fuck it - 'Cream'. Too many great songs. Early as well.

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Geoffrey Aitken @8cakey.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Same for me who loved the deeper sound of Guess Who. I drifted away from Randy's work after the split.

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Geoffrey Aitken @8cakey.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Yeah, Psycho Killer, has so much to say about where we were up to. Mind, 'Clockwork Orange' kicked it off earlier for me. Then add Cuckoos Nest for almost the box set.

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Geoffrey Aitken @8cakey.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Gilbert O'Sullivan, 'Alone Again [Naturally]. I have a few more from the late sixties. You don't need to know.

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Geoffrey Aitken @8cakey.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I'm a little older so [no images] probably 'Revolver' [Beatles; 'What Were Once Vices' [my first] from the Doobies; 'Aja' Steely Dan & 'On Every Street', Dire Straits and no west coast country rock but close by and a host of others - I've had a few years.

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Geoffrey Aitken @8cakey.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

So many. This morning I'm thinking 'Radar Love', Golden Earring only because for a time I was on the road, hours at a stretch in remote country and I could have used it.

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Geoffrey Aitken @8cakey.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Pretty much the same although Eric Clapton and Jeff Beck were in the early mix and then Carlos Santana added weight as well.

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Geoffrey Aitken @8cakey.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

He came to my little city in the 70s. I went with companions. Stoned to the back row. What a blow out.

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Geoffrey Aitken @8cakey.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Residents must be happy - surely - all that colour. What a sight. Hardly suburban 'fade'.

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Geoffrey Aitken @8cakey.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I'm at an age when I remember this to be true and now it's today - 'Yesterday', Lennon/Mcartney; The Beatles.

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Geoffrey Aitken @8cakey.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Atop an earlier Jimusic post I'm going with 'The Sad Cafe'. If the guitar intro doesn't sway you, Henley's vocals nail ears to a slowly unravelling narrative. This is such a reminder of times after my return from Europe - lost and searching as if I'd never travelled.

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Geoffrey Aitken @8cakey.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Awkward. I'm going with the Eagles because America changed gear and the west coast sound became every conversation in my friendship group. They had accomplices of course, but the Eagles had centre stage. I saw them here before the mid-point of the decade. Beautiful.

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Geoffrey Aitken @8cakey.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

With you there. The music was also haunting. So exclusively different from Brit pop.

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Geoffrey Aitken @8cakey.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

'Born to Run' just says it so brilliantly - 'a death trap / a suicide rap' Fucking Hell 'runaway American Dream', man it doesn't get any closer than that.

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Geoffrey Aitken @8cakey.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

This might sound corny but when Mcartney released 'Band on the Run' and the mull wasn't punching our brains out the backs of our heads I loved the way that album 'reprised'. Even better on CD - no flipping in the middle.

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