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Consecutive Compendium of Culture – Hip Hop, Happy Hardcore, Handbag House, Heavy Metal, Highlife, Honky Tonk – Hey, hepcats – hand over your heavenly hoards of hits!

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The alphabet rolls on, and it’s now ‘H’.
Post anything connected to the letter, not just music – happy to have heaps of highly honed horror films, hardboiled, humorous historical fiction, Hockneys, Holbeins, Hogarths, Hirsts, Hepworths.

Here’s one to start it off:
Happy Mondays – Hallelujah

and some art by Howard Hodgkin:

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  4. Well, if I don’t post this one, nobody will!
    Middle-age, middle-class music from my childhood that I’m finding myself more and more drawn to…I used to loathe this once upon a time!
    Hansson De Wolfe United; “Yes Box Allright”

  6. One of my all-time favourites in the Absolutely Bonkers category; the Czech singer Hana Hegerová singing “Pro Kiki”! I own this single, and I regularly play it loudly and mime my way through the thick consonants and expressive vowels of this tune, while gesturing wildly…stay for the extra barmy ending!

  13. Another aitchy American duo who are constantly experimenting and broadening their musical palette. A Hawk and a Handsaw. A very entertaining live band.

    The man who sold his beard.

    Serbian Cocek

  18. Let the sun shine in! Hair!

    Which, strangely enough, I went to see on an outing with the Boy Scouts! No Girl Guides allowed of course. They’d just get lots of improper ideas!

  20. Just because I’m now a sophisticated Afterworder with my ambient jazz, goatee beard and lumbersexual shirt, I’m not going to forget my youthful enthusiasm for the Don’t You Want Me Hitmakers!

    Human League!

  26. The Hitch-hikers Guide To The Galaxy! I actually only finished rereading the first four books this week after picking up a cheap omnibus in a charity shop. It was the first time in a while I’d read them, but thirty years ago my young self went through the first two so many times they are permanently printed on my soul. So many great jokes and ideas, but one that stood out for this time was Marvin on why he’s not making something up: “Life is bad enough as it is without inventing any more of it”.

    • Thanks for posting this, @deviant808 – Not a band I’d heard (of) before, but hyponotic, mesmerising and right up my street. Coincidentally, I watched ‘Let the Right One In’ last night, and the mood of the song and the film match rather well. I’m now going to listen to more of their songs.

      • Glad you liked it @salwarpe (this tagging thing could catch on I reckon…).

        They’re a band I regularly push on people as they’re nowhere near as well known as they should be, despite having a song in a Sopranos episode.

        I only stumbled on them while on holiday in Tallinn of all places, where we had European MTV on in the hotel for some background noise while getting ready to go out, and this caught my ear so that I made the long-suffering Mrs D wait until it finished so I could catch who it was!

        I saw them in Birmingham on an under-attended Sunday night a couple of years ago and they were really good live.

        You might’ve already been exploring (if so, how did that go?) but the album that “Nightless Night” comes from (“Ghost Is Not Real”) is their best, but the debut (“Country Falls” isn’t far behind). The next two aren’t quite as good, but still worth a listen if you liked the first two, though the latest does feature a different lead singer.

  36. Going through a bit of a House Of Love phase at the mo.

    Having only dipped my toe in their water the first time round, with stuff like Shine On and Christine, it turns out their back catalogue is an embarrassment of riches.

    Here’s one for a kick off.

  40. Clifford T Ward – Home Thoughts From Abroad

    May be a bit “soft and soppy” – still a corking song

    (and I say this a lover of all things loud, noisy, almost atonal and with an air of aggression about it)

  45. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
    (whether it be in Book, Radio or TV form – shown here in TV form because that was my first encounter)

    The Film? Was it any good?
    Well, if you’d never read, heard or seen it before then I’m sure you’ll enjoy it (my step-daughter absolutely loved it, and still does).
    However, if you have any background knowledge, it falls short (its OK, but not outstanding)

    • The book, radio show, tv programme and computer game were all splendid. Does your posting give me an excuse to play the extended original of the theme tune? Yes, I think it does:

  47. Hammett, Dashiell
    Haldeman, Joe
    Huxley, Aldous
    Hogarth, William
    Hollies, The
    Harmonia
    Hillage, Steve
    Hammill, Peter
    Happy Mondays
    Hepburn, Audrey and Katherine
    Holm. Ian
    Hackman, Gene
    Hurt, John and William
    Hamlet
    Henry V
    Homecoming, The
    Harold & Maude
    Heaven Can Wait
    Hell Drivers
    His Girl Friday
    Heart of Darkness
    Hound of The Baskervilles, The
    Hotel New Hampshire, The
    Handmaids Tale, The
    Huckleberry Finn, The Adventures of

  50. Helsinki!

    And here are local band, Le Corps Mince de Francoise, taking a cycle ride around it.

    I’ve spent all bloody day trying to remember their name! They now call themselves LCMDF, by the way.

  55. Joe Harriott.
    I know I’m not the only Afterworder who admires the great Jamaican/UK alto sax man. Very little film footage exists of him. This is from 1969, with Harriott playing with Stan Tracey. It’s a very different style from the groundbreaking free form/abstract music which made his name in the early 60s, but it’s still a compelling 4 minutes.

  59. The Headphone Commute podcasts.

    More like mixtapes actually, as there’s no talking, just a lengthy usually-ambient-ish soundscape.
    Just the sort of thing I could have done with in the days when I used to travel into That London every day on the tube to earn my daily bread. Gliding smoothly through Kings Cross from the Victoria Line to the Metropolitan line (and vice-versa) would have been so much more possible with this stuff in my earbuds.

  66. I have an unhealthy amount of love for this motley group led by Kevin Cormack. He could sing to me in his dulcet Orkney brogue all day long. Think I spot some o’ the Earlies playing in there too. A fine band. Half Cousin – The Absentee

  69. Knut Hamsun, the crazy Norwegian novelist who wrote “The Growth of the Soil”
    Harold Hardrada, the crazily named Norwegian who tried to become King of England
    Harry Chapin, “Hello honey, it’s me…”, on “W.O.L.D”

  70. A FEW FROM “DOWNHUNDER”
    HARD ONS
    HAPPY HATE ME NOTS
    HARRY VANDA & Co AKA EASYBEATS
    DEADLY HUME
    HELLO SATELLITES
    BEN HARPER (I think he’s a ring-in – just lives here)

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