Sometimes for me, that dud- track three side two- suddenly starts breathing and two years after it’s first hearing, long after the others have attained mundanity, I’m obsessed with it. I used to get annoyed […]

All Dire Straits albums have to have something dire on them. Speaking of which: where is the love for Simply Red?

I can remember buying a phone with internet access and pressing the icon only to find I had to type in a subject. Later discovering I needed to be connected to WiFi. It seems so long ago that the hope for the […]

Making Movies should be in more of these lists imo.

Thanks, really I should buy it-in some format. My copy is on the b-side of a C90 tape. Even to listen to it I have to cycle through Morrissey’s Your Arsenal to get back to the start!

Agree. Those early records have Lynott’s best writing- though maybe they don’t have the same appeal for the later fans.

I’ve been listening to that 10,000 Maniacs album a lot this year. I have it on tape but haven’t had access to a player until recently. Once I’d played it, I returned to it again and again.

I think it was Altered Images- I Could be Happy, without any means of checking.

That was covered last night by the band playing in my local.

I grew up with Elvis, had no choice as my dad loved him. Back then everyone else’s dads loved him too; dressed and styled their hair in imitation of their hero; we knew all the records, the soundtrack to our […]

Two broken legs.

I had just left school and, directionless, took a temporary job in the local chicken factory. My best friend was hosting a sale at his house. A lifetime of disappointment and disillusion held no appeal, so he was […]

I thought it strange that no cocktails had been mentioned, and now you have – and my favourite too. Still, for the actual buying of, mine is a pint of bitter.

It’s a grievance that wouldn’t make the national news in any other workplace. And it points to a self absorbtion among these workers, that they believe their working environment is of preeminent importance.

I recognise that workplace. And OK I wouldn’t want to go back there. The Sticks and Stones mentality that it incubates, I think of as an asset. But maybe it just anaesthetises to whatever comes along.

I was more annoyed that these people actually believe we(me) have any interest in their tedious workplace grievances. ITV led with this. Sometime later; that Martial Law had been declared in South Korea. Someone […]

Perhaps he’ll start calling himself Donaldo, The GOAT.

No. What I am saying is that the belief that all immigrants will vote for immigration is simplistic.

Well I’m joking. I loved it as a child. But it’s up there with Ten Green Bottles for me now.

If they are, as so many claim they are, escaping persecution; then wanting to keep the persecutors where they are seems logical.