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Posted: Sep. 30 2011, 18:36

Chris Rea - blue
Metallica - black
Beatles - white
Pink Floyd - purple
David Gilmour - blue
Rick Wright - pink
Roger Waters - black
Pet Shop Boys - orange
Tangerine Dream - orange
Deep Purple - guess
Kate Bush - red
Michael Jackson - grey
Coldplay - yellow

If I was forced to choose for Mike Oldfield, I think I'd say greenish.
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Posted: Sep. 30 2011, 21:42

;) ....i think he is more than only one color , he is all the colors of a rainbow .....that is what i feel in my heart when i listen to his music
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Posted: Oct. 01 2011, 00:21

I agree Phil, Maybe by album is better.

TB..Steel Blue Grey
HR..Green
Om..Deep Blue.

Any Others??

O.M.D  Orange.
Duran Duran  Crimson.
Pink Floyd  Any Colour You Like  :laugh:
Bob Marley  GangGreen.
Procol Harem  White, but quite a pale shade.
Jeff Wayne  A Weedy Red.
Black  Well Black, It's a wonderful wonderful colour.
Annie Lennox  Whhhhhhhyyyy te.
Paul McCartney Hi Hi Hi Vanilla Sky Blue.
Peter Gabriel  A rained out Red.
Murray Head  Deep Blue...does anyone else get this??
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Posted: Oct. 01 2011, 04:06

Quote (Olivier @ Sep. 30 2011, 23:36)
If I was forced to choose for Mike Oldfield, I think I'd say greenish.

Green with a blue hue.

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Posted: Oct. 01 2011, 04:25

Kate Bush - burgundy
David Bowie - orange
Genesis -  magnolia
Depeche Mode - black and Red
Sigur Ros - slate blue
The Cure - golden brown
U2 - grey and red  
David Grey - white
Coldplay - glitter
Brian Eno - platinum
Muse - rainbow


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Posted: Oct. 01 2011, 14:43

Quote (Olivier @ Sep. 30 2011, 18:36)
Chris Rea - blue
Metallica - black
Beatles - white
Pink Floyd - purple
David Gilmour - blue
Rick Wright - pink
Roger Waters - black
Pet Shop Boys - orange
Tangerine Dream - orange
Deep Purple - guess
Kate Bush - red
Michael Jackson - grey
Coldplay - yellow

If I was forced to choose for Mike Oldfield, I think I'd say greenish.

hehe...most of your colour associations have their explanation:

Chris Rea is a blues person.
Metallica did "the black album"
Beatles did "the white album"
Pink Floyd - it's in the name really
David Gilmour - another blues guitarist.
Rick Wright - wears the pink T-shirt on the Masters of Rock comp LP + wrote "Pink's Song". And the Zee album is pink-ish. Plus he's the one from Pink Floyd which I most strongly associate with the group's identitiy.
Roger Waters - black bass guitar, black t-shirts.
Pet Shop Boys - did that ugly all orange album.
Kate Bush did the Red Shoes.
Michael Jackson - it's his skin colour.

I have no explanation for your Tangerine Dream and Coldplay connotations though. Coldplay sounds like the greyest band in the world.

To me Mike's music is red and green. I think I got that from the original virgin labels where side 1 was green (with a red stripe) and side 2 was red (with a green stripe).


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Posted: Oct. 01 2011, 20:04

Quote (Tubular Tos @ Sep. 30 2011, 21:42)
;) ....i think he is more than only one color , he is all the colors of a rainbow .....

Like the end of Tanner's Boy with Goldfish?
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Posted: Oct. 01 2011, 22:15

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I have no explanation for your Tangerine Dream and Coldplay connotations though.

Probably because a tangerine is usually orange and Coldplay had an ultra-mega-smash hit single called Yellow?

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Posted: Oct. 02 2011, 08:24

I always perceived Mike (or at least most of his music) as being white. Because white is the sum of all colors. :) The Beatles are a dark rainbow to me, because the shady sides of their music are often superior to their lighter ones. I can't think of any color associations for most of the other acts you all are mentioning here, as most of the associations you have made seem to be based on album covers, song titles, song lyrics or musical genres.  This is not something I normally do. To me, color associations are more emotional than physical. As such, in spite of what has been said before here, I think that David Gilmour is fiery red but also grey, Roger Waters is beige (cream white) and Rick Wright is somewhere in between bright yellow and bright green. Don't ask me why, it's a purely emotional thing. :)

@ nightspore: is anyone in here really familiar with Boy with Goldfish except for me? :laugh: And from my point of view, I can tell you that you're perfectly right.


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Posted: Oct. 02 2011, 08:38

Quote (Ugo @ Oct. 02 2011, 08:24)
@ nightspore: is anyone in here really familiar with Boy with Goldfish except for me? :laugh: And from my point of view, I can tell you that you're perfectly right.

The odd thing about Tanner's music is that nothing else he wrote sounds remotely like BWG.

With regard to colour, the possibility that some people are tetrachromats is interesting:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetrachromacy
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Posted: Oct. 02 2011, 10:00

Quote (Ugo @ Oct. 02 2011, 13:24)
I can't think of any color associations for most of the other acts you all are mentioning here, as most of the associations you have made seem to be based on album covers, song titles, song lyrics or musical genres.  This is not something I normally do.

Ugo - To do this I think you have to let your mind go into 'free association' - and don't over think it, or be too logical about it.

Some of mine have turned out to be album covers - but some not - it's just a colour that comes over you when you think of a band and their music.

I'd like to do the colours of the musicians who post on here. Already I'm getting lots of shades of blue. I don't know why - but why doesn't matter. :)


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Posted: Oct. 02 2011, 10:19

Quote (wiga @ Oct. 02 2011, 16:00)
Ugo - To do this I think you have to let your mind go into 'free association' - and don't over think it, or be too logical about it.

Okay, let's try. Just with my favourites :)

Mike Oldfield: bright white, as above.
Paul McCartney: sky blue. But sometimes he is unrelieved black.
Kraftwerk: alternating between steel grey and pulsating red, like the pulsing LED on Pink Floyd's P.U.L.S.E. CD.
The Beatles: darkened rainbow, as above.
Pink Floyd: this may be obvious, but they sound like the colors on the Oh, by the Way box, i.e. dark brown, dark blue and dark pink. But they they've got Gilmour, who, as I said above, is fiery red.
The Alan Parsons Project: Various colors, all shaded. Pastel green, pastel purple, pastel violet and a bit of cyan. All mixed up. :)
Pet Shop Boys: bright and sparkling like an old-fashioned disco ball. Even their black things are shiny. :) Red, yellow, green, bright blue. The fundamentals. Also the so-called "dark light" color fits for them.
Bruce Springsteen: red and orange with shades of very dark brown.
Eric Clapton: black and brown just like his guitars.

Finally, I'd like to attribute a very light brownish hue to my favourite film composer, Hans Zimmer. He is another guy who never manages to get totally black, no matter how hard he tries. :D


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Posted: Oct. 02 2011, 11:15

Great post Ugo!

I can also relate to Sir Paul being sky blue and Bruce being red and very dark brown. :)


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Posted: Oct. 08 2011, 05:53

Starting list of musicians (as the colour comes to me) :)

Jesse - ruby red
Tubular Tos - deep blue sea
Ugo - yellow
Sir Mustapha - gold
Lars - navy blue
Milamber - aqua blue
Smilsoid - black denim
Ginger Daddy - purple
Klaus Fischer - green
Terrible Theuns - black
Viper - scarlet
Dude - coffee brown
Distant Earth - royal blue
Olivier - white
EeToN - emerald green
Michael Hilton - duck egg blue
BobTheScreamer - copper
Martin Eve - platinum
Hairy old hippy - forest green
Hph - chocolate brown
Lunarian - aluminium
Kevin Sumner - brown denim
Tubularman - orange
Tihon Tibor - red
Dreamland - chestnut
Rileman - slate grey
HR lover - violet

to be continued...


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Posted: Oct. 08 2011, 07:35

:D First i'm not a musician ! Only a simple guy driving trucks and loving Mike Oldfield's music !

Are you a " medium " ?.... my favourite color is the blue ,yes , it's true but the Navy Blue color ! ...and it's true , not only because of French sport teams , i really love the Navy Blue color !
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Posted: Oct. 08 2011, 13:20

Ugo, I love the fact that you think of the Beatles as a dark rainbow. That is poetic for real (no irony!).

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Posted: Oct. 08 2011, 17:38

@ wiga: is there any particular reason why you think I'm yellow, or are you just free-associating like me? ;)

@ lars: I think I've explained in my post above why I think of the Beatles as a dark rainbow. I also think that The Dark Side of the Rainbow would have made an excellent Beatles album title. What a shame that fans of the Pink Floyd/Wizard of Oz synchronization (which I've never believed in) appropriated it before Paul McCartney or John Lennon (or George Harrison) had a chance to. :D


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Posted: Oct. 08 2011, 17:47

Mike Oldfield - green. I think I have always had that association, maybe because it is my favourite colour.

@wiga: copper... hmm.. I like that :)


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Posted: Oct. 08 2011, 18:20

Milamber, it all depends how long Gary Kasparov was in Bangkok.  How well do you know him?

I think the main question has to be red, blue or amber?  At a stretch, also black, gold, silver or platinum.  And a bit of green for good measure.


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Posted: Oct. 09 2011, 04:11

Tubular Tos - :) I've changed yours to deep blue sea - that is pretty much navy.

Ugo - yes, have just been free associating. Visuals might have influenced me - your yellow shield and smilie faces. We have a new supermarket in the UK called 'Ugo'- and it's got a yellow logo. :)


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