I think the problem with GHS is that the opening track and closing track are both clunkers and that means that (a) you’re frustrated from the start and (b) you leave with a funny taste in your mouth. Which is a […]

Similarly, the “eins-zwei-drei-vier” at the start of “Showroom Dummies” is a reference to the Ramones.

I love Kraftwerk.

1 – Li’l Beethoven – Sparks
2 – Commune – Goat
3 – Black Mountain – Black Mountain
4 – Espers II – Espers
5 – The Mighty Rearranger – Robert Plant and the Strange Sensation
6 – De Stijl – The White Stripes […]

I remember the Spitting Image book in the 80s had an advert for Subbutteo Table Swimming (“Flick to swim!”).

The Barca 1974 kit is a great call. The Barca kit always looks better when the colours are darker.

I used to have that QPR kit and I’m a Celtic fan, so you can imagine how good it must be for me to want to wear a blue and white kit from a team with Rangers in their name.

Pink has sporting associations in Italy – it’s the colour of the leader’s jersey in the giro d’Italia as well as the paper on which la Gazzetta dello Sport is printed.

It’s a great kit. I have a friend from […]

Great stuff. Celtic were number 25. Along with Shamrock Rovers.

Fiorentina will have to share their number these days with Perth Glory.

Ah now that is pretty cool. I would have gone with black socks though. That’s two innovative away kits from Coventry on this thread. Must be the Jimmy Hill factor.

Funnily enough that was the main competitor to the WBA kit for the “last great British cotton kit” accolade. Along with the Liverpool Hitachi kit. The Villa away kit from that time was great too.

Thought about that one, although I prefer the chocolate brown Coventry City away kit version.

Dundee also had it in navy blue.

While we’re on the topic of the NWOBHM, lots of Afterworders (well ok, Rigid and Freddy) may be interested to know that the first 20 or so issues of Kerrang! are available on the internet archive as PDFs.

In that case, you may be interested in this:

I’ve got this, and it’s pretty good, but I think that the Lightnin’ to the Nations box set that was released a few years back was better. In fact, a lot of the tracks on this are the B sides to the singles that […]

When I lived in Spain in the late 90s the local radio station used to play Battleships with listeners. The listener would phone in and go “A3” and then you’d hear this sound effect of a splash and “AGUA!”.

If this all too thrilling, you can have a go at “Desert Bus”, Penn & Teller’s video game designed to be the worst video game of all time. You need to complete a 8 hour drive through unchanging scenery in real […]

Maybe in the UK, but probably not in the US, where Apostrophe and Sheik Yerbouti were bigger sellers. Plus he did have a hit single over there with Valley Girl.

Elf were Ronnie James Dio’s band. when Ritchie Blackmore made the first Rainbow album he basically used Elf (minus the guitarist) as the backing band. That’s why he’s mentioned i guess.

I love Zeppelin but never listen to Stairway to Heaven these days. And by these days I mean the last few decades to be honest. I really don’t think it’s aged that well. The rest of the album is great.