Jo!

[Osc]

As our resident Green Day expert - what do you think of the album made by Billy Joe Armstrong and Norah Jones called "Foreverly" - singing Americana songs which the Everly Brothers recorded back in the late '50s? I know nothing about Green Day (except that you are prepared to travel anywhere to see them ) and am not a great Norah Jones fan, but as a big Everlys fan, I love the tracks I have heard and am seriously thinking of buying it.

[JoM]

Osc, I've heard a few tracks but I'm not buying it. It's really not my kind of thing, maybe if it was just Billie Joe I might have done because I love his voice but I'm not a huge fan of duets (or Norah Jones for that matter). It's getting a very 'Marmite' reaction amongst fans

[saundra]

the everly brothers i love them
saw them in my teenage years once
probably screamed my head off

[Osc]

Ah you see, I'm not bound by fan feeling for either singer and can understand that it would not be your thing. I don't like Marmite but think I could really like this album Saundra, we've seen the Everlys twice in the last 20 years or so, and they were fantastic, just love that close harmony sound.

[JoM]

Osc, it really couldn't be much further removed from what he does with Green Day - they're probably best described as punk/pop punk.

There's a contest appeared today to win a copy on the Idiot Club, the GD fan club and yes I'm an Idiot, so I've entered. My Mom would probably like it!

Saundra, my Mom used to be a concert goer (must be where I get it from), I used to love looking at the concert programmes that she'd kept when I was little - I remember the Johnny Ray and Bill Haley ones in particular.

[Kaz]

My mum used to play The Everly Brothers a lot, so I know and like their music

[JoM]

I didn't think I knew anything by them but I just looked at their discography and I do! I just don't know any on the Foreverly album.

[Osc]

My mum used to play The Everly Brothers a lot, so I know and like their music

Go on, make me feel ancient why don't you I'm not really old enough to be your mum well not quite xxx

Jo, I would know some of them (I was rather young when that Everly album came out in 1958 ) but they always sing Barbara Allen in concert, plus I think Long Time Gone was one of their hits or maybe a B side - anyone remember them??

[Kaz]

Nowhere near Osc!!!! Ten years or less difference with us I think!!!

[Osc]

Nowhere near Osc!!!! Ten years or less difference with us I think!!!

And I wasn't that mature