For the love of god, please noooooo.

I am deeply Carpenters intolerant. No matter how old I have become, this has remained a constant. I find her voice almost repugnant – the aural equivalent of being forcibly […]

As a relative newby, it seems all sweet and dandy to me. My only real issue is when viewing the site on a phone, posts with numerous replies cram the responses way over to the right, meaning that the replies then […]

Godzilla v Kong 2, wherein Mothra shows up to repair the washing machine, and one thing leads to another…

If it doesn’t include a Japanese businessman looking behind his shoulder and screaming “Aieeeee!! Godzilla!!” , well, I’m just not bothering with it.

Both Godzilla and Kong are basically good guys who are […]

Yes! Wait! No! Sorry!

Mildly embarrassed to admit this first came to my attention as a heavily edited version in a TV ad for KFC chicken, but it’s rather good isn’t it?

Some of us still have our ape fur. Any tattoo on most of me would probably require continual body shaving to make it visible, and I can’t be arsed with that nonsense.

Apparently built up a local following with extensive gigging around north-east America, they
were around for three years and then broke up the year after Woodstock. Only released one album. There’s a very […]

This is a terrific bit of catchy post-punk Scouse portentousness dating from 1981 by Modern Eon. Probably getting lost amongst all the Teardrop Explodes / Icicle Works / Wah Heat stuff at the time, the single […]

Bilko? Who he?

Strawberry Switchblade or Shonen Knife?

Herman’s Hermits or The Trammps?

The Monkees or Gorillaz?

The Pussycat Dolls or Atomic Kitten?

Them Crooked Vultures or Eagles of Death Metal?

Flanders And Swann or Cheryl Crow?

Neu! or Van McCoy

Or Spoon.

Can or Duran Duran

Steely Dan or Steeleye Span

Charles Aznavour or Goatwhore

Arf

A man called Drain. Possibly the oddest middle name ever. Apparently also his dad’s middle name, so one wonders what his grandparents were thinking.