You’re probably wise to be skeptical, as I believe the original lyric/title was “Midnight Plane To Houston”, and Knight herself suggested “Train” and “Georgia” would scan better…

Mine is a once-removed example, in that the Record Mirror full-page review of Bowie’s “Scary Monsters” album, referring to the first & last tracks being “It’s No Game”, made mention of the circular narrative o […]

You are correct of course, Mick, I was thinking of the contemporaneous “Three For All”, an even worse Brit teensploitation movie, even if it did star my major crush, Adrienne Posta…

Welles is my forever answer to the imaginary dinner party guest game… I probably watch his “Sketchbook” series once a year, marvellous stuff…

I have a soft spot for “Take Me High”, with Cliff as the trendy stockbroker living on a barge and (spoiler alert!) inventing the “Brumburger” … I first saw it at the cinema in a double bill with (IIRC) “Never To […]

True story – they had to change the sleeve in Ireland, not because it was banned, but because the women in the pressing plant refused to pack it… (“Down with this sort of thing” etc.)

See also the Undertones compilation, “Cher O’Bowlies” (is it an Irish thing?)

I will defend the Zappa sleeve (a bit) by dint of the fact that the doodle resembles the “ZA” of Zappa, which at least shows some kind of logic…

My forever answer to this question is “Tony Hatch Hits The Road To Themeland”… it’s not just the stunningly lazy idea of taking a photo of Hatch beside a road (geddit?!), it’s not just that it’s the dullest str […]

This kind of low-level enshittification is rife and getting, er, rife-er… AI books, AI videos all over YouTube, AI music on TV programmes (for instance), all making everything x% worse all the time… … and the c […]

Good call on Steve Milliband’s “Abracadabra” further up, I’d also nominate “All That She Wants” by Ace Of Base, or literally anything by Black Eyed Peas. My personal off-centre choice would be “Sweet Bird […]

Foetus (AKA Jim Thirlwell, an Aussie himself since you mention it) had a whole raft of Nommes de guerre, including Scraping Foetus Off The Wheel, Foetus Under Glass and Foetus Uber Frisco… his later project M […]

Excellent pick… “Wilder” tends to get lost in the shadow of “Kilimanjaro”, (geddit?), but for me the former is a better album, not least due to that track (trivia: “The Great Dominions” was the original albu […]

1) The Rutles are a great shout when you fancy listening to The Beatles but are a bit jaded by overplay… 2) I will die on the hill that “Let’s Be Natural” is a better song than putative inspiration “Dear Prudence”…

“Sell Your Books” was formerly Ziffit, the change in name tells you exactly where they think the money is… as already commented, expect a pittance, but for the same effort as a trip to the chazza you might just […]

I would recommend contacting Joel at https://www.brighterdayvinyl.com/, he bought my entire collection a few years ago at a good price, cash transferred into my bank account on the spot, and he’s a nice guy, t […]

Certainly one of my favourite albums, and I’m always happy to paraphrase the quip from (IIRC) one of The Coral: “everywhere in England you get given a bike when you turn 14, in Liverpool you get a copy of Forever Changes…”

I am reminded of an old Q interview with Enya, who said she found it incredibly difficult writing, performing and producing new music, and hated the whole experience, but every few years, someone from Warners […]

It’s not a great record, but Jane Morgan’s “Romantica” was one of my Mum’s somewhat limited number of 7” singles, so is disproportionately imprinted on my brain…

Like the old conundrum “When exactly does a kitten become a cat?”, the continuum from “Rock & Roll” to “Pop” to “Rock” and so on is blurry at best… for instance, I believe The Rolling Stones still take to the […]