Don’t mention the second album … I mentioned it once, but I think I got away with it. Released in a wave of expectation and hype, common opinion is it failed to deliver. I like it – OK it’s not the equal of […]

Excellent song with an excellent title. Almost like he came up with the title, tried to lever it into a song lyric and wrote a song (a mini-play?) around it. And 1973 doesn’t feature greatly in the history of […]

Faces – You Can Make Me Dance, Sing or Anything (Even Take the Dog for a Walk, Mend a Fuse, Fold Away the Ironing Board, or Any Other Domestic Shortcomings) When I first heard the full title, I thought the DJ […]

More Floydian Pig shenanigans … to stave off Waters claims when Pink Floyd starting re-using the pig, they stuck a pair of bollocks on it.

I do like the standing, wandering, getting different vantage points, but … Mrs D had some complimentary tickets for a gig at Shepherds Bush Empire. “do you want standing or sitting?” the box office […]

I thought it was Right Said Fred trying to sneak in to the Traitioring based action

Indeed, there’s nothing bad about the album. But there isn’t anything truly great or original in the takes either. Perfectly listenable as a stand alone thing.

In the 80s, when you couldn’t watch it there was a certain mythical nature about it that you just wanted to watch it. (and when Stingo and Mark sang “I want my MTV”, it built on the desire to finally watch […]

Cobblers!

or Swedish Hair Metal performed on a kazoo

It was for me – my parents only owned the Red, it was another 3 or 4 years before I heard the Blue

Rain (in retrospect, because I wouldn’t have known it at the time) does seem an odd omission from the Red. A bit like the inclusion of Old Brown Show on the Blue.

English Rose – is it a great track? I think so, maybe it’s “nearly great” … but it don’t fit on All Mod Cons

When the DVD documentary was becoming a “thing” – just after Julien Temple’s Oil City Confidential, Cockney Rejects got there very own film treatment. I bought it … don’t know if many others did Most of […]

more Stranglers … Tank

If Blur are mentioned, then Oasis won’t be far behind. Married With Children, last track on Definitely Maybe. Shorn of the bombast and multi tracking of the rest of the album, and closes things out nicely

I really don’t need to hear Come On Eileen again … but in the context of the Too-Rya-Ay album, it just works pugged away at the end

All the best for recovery, but on the downside you will need to buy a new clothes line now.

French horn interlude nicked from Sibelius Fifth Symphony. Later nicked again by Strawberry Switchblade on Since Yesterday – and he gets a writing credit on neither.