The name of a song by Tower of Power, as I seem to recall. But more to the point, and more urgent, seems to be the question what is a hipster? There seem to be so many conceptions:

Someone who wears sunglasses at night. Someone who wears very skinny pants with an unusually styled beard. Someone who manages to like Captain Beefheart, The Velvet Underground and Igor Stravinsky, but not the Beach Boys. Someone who was born too late to have heard of any of the above but who says the word ‘dope’ a lot (as noun and adjective). Anyone you don’t like. Anyone who likes stuff that you don’t understand. Someone who’s into Foucault, postmodernism and being non-binary. Someone who knows what it means to ‘take an insurance piss’. Someone who pretends to like progressive jazz, but can tell you that prog rock is crap. Someone who despises anyone that likes anything s/he used to like just last year. Someone who says ‘cool’ a lot, but who will stop doing so as soon as it starts to seem uncool. Anyone who’s mentioned by Doug Henwood in connection with gay porn. Doug Henwood. Someone who only ever wears black and » Continue Reading.

After looking through the Do you really like that? Honestly? thread I finally understood that this blog is all about what you don’t like. Why didn’t I realize that before?

So now I think that my dislike of the stupid cult of the holy trinity (B-Boys, Beatles & Bob) needs to be stated here. It belongs here. Especially here. It’s a veritable manifesto, not just a cranky opinion.

So I say it again. Ha!

Crimson’s live album gets a deluxe reissue in November. Details are on the SDE site – I won’t copy the link as it always seems to cause problems – but looks like Colin H has already been there 😉

Bought myself a black filter at the leisure centre while taking the boblets to their swimming lesson.

Boblet 2 returns from her lesson.

Her: “I can smell your coffee.”

Me: “I see. I myself cannot. You use Evyan skin cream, and sometimes you wear L’Air du Temps. But not today.”

Nearly did a victory lap of the place.

Any good moments from the lives of Afterworders lately?

As my mum lives reasonably close to my office I usually pop in for a bacon sandwich once a week. Following the bacon sandwich and to accompany my cup of tea she usually asks me if I would like a bar of chocolate. They are stored in a Tupperware container and last week her selection included Fry’s Peppermint Cream bars. It is so long since I saw these that I had assumed there had stop making them. I have to say it was a delight. But the question is whatever happened to the Fry’s Five Centre bar?

I know this is an old track, but for some reason it’s been on the local radio a lot these past few weeks. Everytime it comes on though, I automatically think it’s a World Party track (even though I do actually know it’s by the New Radicals)

Is it just me or were they really separated at birth ?

And feel free to use this thread as an excuse to post your most favouritist World Party track (or other tracks that sound like them)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DL7-CKirWZE

Can I save this and come back to it?

Can I save this and come back to it?

In my Turtles listening marathon (don’t ask) I was reminded of this wonderful song, and it of course includes the fabulous immortal line “You’re my pride and joy, etc.”

Now, are there any other songs with such office routine poetry? Love songs that sound like they were written by an accountant? The only one I can remember is a sentimental German schlager which includes the German equivalent of “as I’ve mentioned above”.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBBCarZWL1M

.. traffic on t’Afterword seems to have increased quite a bit in the last week.

As the kids say, I am “super excited” about this. Hopefully I can beat the secondary sales bots and secure tickets for the 2018 Albert Hall gig.

Please see info from today’s The The mail out…..

Finally, having last performed live as guests at David Bowie’s Meltdown at London’s South Bank in 2002, THE THE announce a pair of headline shows for June 2018: the Heartland Festival in Denmark followed by a concert at London’s Royal Albert Hall.

1st June 2018 – Heartland Festival, Egeskov Castle, Denmark

Tickets on sale Monday 11th September 2017 HERE

5th June 2018 – Royal Albert Hall, London

Tickets on sale Friday 15th September 2017

Unfortunately, artists cannot prevent prevent touts buying up tickets to fleece the audience. It is strongy advised therefore to purchase your tickets as soon as the links go live.

Be seeing you!

All at www.thethe.com

First, I think, documentary about the MPFNH. I, for one, cannot wait… Sky Arts, Oct 7th

http://diffuser.fm/xtc-this-is-pop-documentary/

To go along with http://theafterword.co.uk/things-we-could-live-without, what about the things you just cain’t quit, no matter how much you wish you could?

In my case it’s Amazon. I don’t disapprove of Amazon or anything – as I’ve said before, the fault is with the law, not with them. It’s just it’s so bloody easy to spend money on the thing.

(And yes, I have just checked my bank balance. And yes, I have just shit meself.)

Watched some boxing last night and listening to hip hop right now. Both seem to have a superfluous member of the team, namely the fat bloke who stands behind the boxer ranting whilst the ring announcer introduces the boxer, when you can’t hear what he’s saying anyway, and the bloke, probably the same fat bloke because there seems to be one in each hip hop ‘crew’, who keeps muttering things like ‘word’, ‘what he’s saying’ and ‘yeah’ or ‘aha’ low down in the mix. I reckon we could manage without those two chaps.

Then I started thinking about other things I could live without, such as:

– the menu in the Dil Raj in Dodworth (I have ordered the same for at least 10 years and I can’t imagine a time this will change) – side 2 of Blur albums – the behaviour chart we write with our kids that seem to go out of the window 2 days later – any more Bob Dylan standards albums – the little salads they shove on my plate when I order a sandwich or a burger – the first chapter of showbiz autobiographies or the first 10 minutes of showbiz documentaries, which » Continue Reading.

Key largo or the wizard of oz?

A new album out this week and it is rather good.

I was a big fan back in the day and the new album has made me go back and rediscover how good they were.

Poor Misguided Fool was always my favourite tune.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGZJg4uo3-k

I heard this on the radio yesterday and the phrase “Pure Synth” popped into my head from nowhere. It has been my earworm ever since and to these ears is a joyous 5 minutes of pop music. I think there are no other instruments used than synthesisers, I’m no expert and of course Alison Moyets voice. So can we have a chat about pure synth? Good thing? Bad thing? Best and worst examples? 80’s, non 80’s.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_D3udbawA1Q

Surely this blog should have a two week residency at No.1 at least?