The Name of this Band is Talking Heads

This is an easy one – Dump Disc 1 and keep all of the tracks on Disc 2*

*must be the vinyl version as the supposedly expanded CD version edited out the greatest intro […]

I was friends with a couple of bands back in my London days. One of them included me in a pub session wherein they were trying to decide on a name change in pursuit of their ultimate aim of getting John Peel to […]

Thanks for that. Of course Justin will always be best known as Momus’s cousin in my musical universe. Now I’m forever grateful that I have never identified any parallels between his songs and my life.

Powerful stuff. One of the most articulate and moving things I’ve ever read here. Thanks for sharing that very personal story here. For all the superficial stuff that we enjoy here, it also serves a more serious […]

I won’t be able to join the webinar but I’d be curious. Since getting the first Pfizer jab two weeks ago, I’ve had recurring tinnitus and hearing loss having woken up the day after the shot with ringing in my […]

Having given this too much thought over the years, my best effort is

RUNETOPN?

SIMNETOPN!

FUNEETOPNT?

SIF!

I can’t see the Lloyd Cole link @Kaisfatdad
Was it Margo’s Waltz? I love that album too and would rank it with Rattlesnakes were it not for the aberration that is Butterfly.

Thanks @thecheshirecat
I was at work when I joined this discussion. It’s bathtime for our youngest now so I get to browse while supervising. My wife declared early today that all she wanted for her anniversary w […]

My favourite slowie and the first dance at my wedding 8 years ago today…

I’d say you’ll find something suitable in the Barbour range. They’ve really branched out from their traditional waxed jackets including a few variations on Harringtons. Best to try them on though. I found their […]

Arlene Foster served one useful purpose. Just over a year ago when I was having a suspect mole removed and a rather attractive doctor was examining almost every inch of my underpant-clad body, I summoned the image […]

I’m in too. I always enjoy the process of compiling a compilation and the CDs I have received have introduced me to stuff from way off my radar. The guessing and the reviews are the best bits. Please be kind with […]

Okay I’ve thought about it…

I’ll post something more serious later when I’ve considered it over a few beers but this was the first thing that sprang to my mind.

It’s a Dublin thing – to me they were the epitome of south Dublin privileged gobshites and, for a time they were ubiquitous, interviewed on every show, in every publication dropping names like there was no t […]

In Ireland, the two most reliables are the aforementioned White Ladder by David Gray, possibly still the biggest selling album in Irish history and still quite good and, more satisfyingly the also-aforementioned […]

Thanks @kaisfatdad I’ve been to a funeral or two since I posted this and the thought had crossed my (simple) mind that it would crack my friends up in more ways than one were I to enter my eternal flames to this tune.

Back in the early 90s I used to wake up my hungover flatmate of a weekend morning by placing the speakers either side of his slumbering head and blasting this track at high volume from the 7inch single. Oh how we […]

Thanks lads. As I said above I still have Waiting for a Miracle on vinyl and it regularly gets an airing when I get to spend time in my den – rarely. I also have the means to burn it to CD. The other albums are […]

Technically more acapella than instrumental but I think that it fits the mood of this thread.