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they were another favourite at my school in the west when i wz young

― mark s (mark s), Saturday, 26 February 2005 00:24 (twenty-one years ago)

i realise stormy davies will be dressing me down for inattention momentarily!! and that chuck hugely loves "hocus pocus" (as who does not)

(actually it's a very club freaky trigger song also, i must get it to them)

― mark s (mark s), Saturday, 26 February 2005 00:26 (twenty-one years ago)

buy the live album. The pocus is even hokier on that version.

― scott seward (scott seward), Saturday, 26 February 2005 00:28 (twenty-one years ago)

but is the hamburger concerto better or worse than cheeseburger in paradise??

― chuck, Saturday, 26 February 2005 00:30 (twenty-one years ago)

i remember!! focus were played a LOT at school (30 years ago eep)

― mark s (mark s), Saturday, 26 February 2005 00:33 (twenty-one years ago)

somewhere i have the notes of a POLL i did of all the ppl prepared to speak to me of their favourite five records (this must be 1975) (i mentioned it in wms once): i shd write that up for ilm if i can find em

― mark s (mark s), Saturday, 26 February 2005 00:35 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah, "Moving Waves" is cool.

for something a bit different, track down the "Focus con Proby" LP on Harvest, featuring the Focii and PJ Proby. Half stuff with Proby singing, half just Focus. I'm not sure who came up with the idea. Proby does not yodel any, which I find perplexing.

― edd s hurt (ddduncan), Saturday, 26 February 2005 00:52 (twenty-one years ago)

they still play "Hocus Pocus" at sports stadiums in the US! I'm not entirely clear as to why!

― Stormy Davis (diamond), Saturday, 26 February 2005 00:55 (twenty-one years ago)

YODA: "Eurydice" on Moving Waves. More beautiful musio? None there is.

― Joe (Joe), Saturday, 26 February 2005 02:28 (twenty-one years ago)

YODA: Or "music", so too.

― Joe (Joe), Saturday, 26 February 2005 02:29 (twenty-one years ago)

The parody of Focus as part of National Lampoon's "Art Rock Suite" is hilarious but you need to have been there in the '70s, smoking pot and listening to that stuff, to get the references.

this must be a contributing factor to my inability to keep a 27-yeaer-old girlfriend.

― Dan Aloi (67Dano), Saturday, 26 February 2005 14:09 (twenty-one years ago)

national lampoon and focus are part of a (not very long) continuum!!

also: parody is TOTALLY ALWAYS WHERE THE LOVE IS (w/o the love, the parody will stench of feeble envy) (cf zappa doin "disco")

"i am so obsessed with [x] i have taught myself carefully and insightfully to IMITATE it"

― mark s (mark s), Saturday, 26 February 2005 14:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Why does ILM get all Focus-ed out at this time of the night?

― Ferlin Husky (noodle vague), Saturday, 26 February 2005 14:34 (twenty-one years ago)

"it was friday night and harsh and cold, and unbidden my childhood burst back in upon me, unspoiled by experience or calculation or compromise, or failed dream. For once I refused to conform or resist."

― mark s (mark s), Saturday, 26 February 2005 14:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Ever try to get a room full of LA homo semi-hipsters to dance to "Hocus Pocus"? It can work if you play it right before last call. It goes well with "Little Green Bag", too.

― Guitarthur and the Ecstasy Defecators (Arthur), Saturday, 26 February 2005 16:02 (twenty-one years ago)

"Hocus Pocus = GREATEST NOVELTY SONG EVER!!

The drums on that song are AMAZING.

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Saturday, 26 February 2005 17:28 (twenty-one years ago)

focus were played a LOT at school (30 years ago eep)

yeah, "Moving Waves" is cool.

wo-hoo, i totally had the moving waves lp 30 years (or so) ago m'self, too.

mm, i have some four, or so, other focus lps somewhere still, i believe. 3 & live & in and out of focus & humb.concerto... and the ship of memories cd also.
i think what i loved best then, and to an extent like even now, were/are the "early music/ pre-baroque"-like-sounding rhythms and stuff.

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Saturday, 26 February 2005 20:11 (twenty-one years ago)

"3" has slabs of freaked-out blooz rock and raunch being a two rekkid set. Must've made Mike Vernon very happy while producing it, parts sounding like Savoy Brown in the usual extended jam.

― George Smith, Saturday, 26 February 2005 20:16 (twenty-one years ago)

five years pass...

http://www.stjohns-edinburgh.org.uk/uploads/images/mural_dec03.jpg

― xhukx, Thursday, 25 March 2010 05:24 (fifteen years ago)

The love, it's right here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpV5InLw52U

When he gets all rat-faced trying to hit that last high note whistling through his broken tooth and his eyes bug out...

Awesome.

― Cricket riding a tumbleweed (Plasmon), Thursday, 25 March 2010 05:40 (fifteen years ago)

one year passes...

LOL. Listened to Focus on the way to work today!

― Duncan Disorderly (Tom D.), Wednesday, 17 August 2011 09:05 (fourteen years ago)

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