Sorry to be a fly in the ointment here but every time you wash a fleece, you’re putting lots of plastic microfibres into the water supply. There are ways around this according to my well informed wife. You can […]

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Love Shack – B52s
Groove is in the Heart – Deeelite
Jump Around – House of Pain
Happy – Pharrell Williams
I Will Survive – Gloria Gaynor

Guaranteed floor fillers.

Single – Something by ABBA possibly Name of the Game
Album – 20 Wombling Greats – I could still sing most of the tracks from memory.
CD – Hippopotamomus by Momus – the start of his decline from greatness IMHO […]

That was great. Thanks for posting. My wife is a major Josh Ritter fan. I wouldn’t have picked up on this otherwise.

“I bought myself a tee-shirt, it was €19.99!”

Join in if you know the words.

Personally I think that anyone who uses the Booey version is quoting the pronunciation used by a member of Parliament in the classic track P-Funk (Wants to get Funked Up) Fast forward to 3.11 on this to check it out…

Mark Morriss of the Bluetones does some lovely covers. This is a favourite…

That’s the problem with the Dropping Derek Forbes solution. He played the bassline on Waterfront. Actually I like Waterfront but the rest of the album is poor.

An unlikely candidate but James Blunt’s finest moment on Twitter was in in response to people who mixed him up with James Blake “that’s like not being able to tell the difference between cake and c*#t”.

Jaysus. I was just listening to New Gold Dream again this evening and trying to remember my thesis on Simple Minds, one of my most in-depth postings to this site ever… Or maybe the old place. Anyway I think it […]

The first series is on Spotify but, alas, will not play here in Ireland. I presume it would work in UK.

I was in our local charity shop SVP (for Irish readers) today as my wife lost her phone and last remembered using it outside their shop. Anyway, no trace of the phone. Charity shop booty included two Wii games […]

Aliens for me. I saw it in the Ambassador cinema in Dublin when it came out and the whole audience was standing up cheering Ripley on in the climactic fight like it was a boxing match. I’ve never experienced […]

Oh that’s from a film is it? I thought that was Dean Ashton announcing his premature retirement from football.

(very niche reference)

Have you heard this version @gary?

My nomination. I came to know this via the Siouxsie & the Banshees version. Sooooo cooool!

I love minidisc as a format and still have three working decks and a minidiscman. It was always great for putting together compilations or best ofs with 30 or more tracks with the advantage that you could edit and […]

I’ve long regarded Cammell Laird Social Club as their finest hour and probably the most accessible album for novices. It was the only album in my car the first time I dropped my (now) wife home. Listen Honey, […]

Two spring to mind. I’m sure there were many more. Taking the leap to move to London in 1987 in vain pursuit of the woman I loved. It didn’t work out at all and, to be honest, it wasn’t the spectacular romantic […]