SouthernExile

SouthernExile commented on the post, Your first……. 2 weeks, 6 days ago

I don’t think I’d heard the annihilation Mix for 30years and I can actually remember every word.

well ‘ard
SouthernExile commented on the post, Your first……. 3 weeks ago

First Single – Back Of My Hand – The Jags
First Album – Smash and Grab – Racey
First CD – Disco -Pet Shop Boys
First Gig The Jam – Wembley Arena Dec 1982. Their last London gig, supported by Big […]
SouthernExile commented on the post, Double A side singles 3 weeks, 4 days ago

The Jam – Going Underground / Dreams of Children
SouthernExile commented on the post, Unlawful 3 weeks, 6 days ago

Wasn’t Mr Pooter PM from 1990 to 1997?
SouthernExile commented on the post, Things we don’t eat any more 3 weeks, 6 days ago

Perhaps weed counted as one (all) of your five a day
SouthernExile commented on the post, ATM – Wales? 1 month, 1 week ago

Thanks for this suggestion. Was there today and had a very nice sandwich and, as you say, no chips. Very friendly staff
SouthernExile commented on the post, Top of the Pops re-runs lately… 1 month, 3 weeks ago

I understand that the problem was that he failed to sign the release form before he died, so they don’t show them. I suspect it was more of an oversight than a deliberate act
SouthernExile commented on the post, Musicians’ Witticisms 2 months, 2 weeks ago

Richard Hawley: “I read the other day the drinking is bad for you. Sod that I thought. So I’m giving up reading”
SouthernExile commented on the post, Come in, sit down, my you’re looking well. 2 months, 2 weeks ago

Can’t help but feel Billy Preston added something to this one from the HJHs.

https://youtu.be/od5JD5t41uA
SouthernExile commented on the post, Musicians’ Witticisms 2 months, 2 weeks ago

Didn’t someone (possible also George Melly) also say of the similarly wrinkled W H Auden ‘Imagine the state of his b**ls’ or words to that effect
SouthernExile commented on the post, The perennial appeal of a prim, Belgian pedant: Hats off to Hercule! 2 months, 3 weeks ago

Have you read this? https://www.amazon.co.uk/Golden-Age-Murder-Martin-Edwards/dp/0008105987/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=golden+age+of+murder&qid=1564489290&s=gateway&sr=8-1

It is a history of the Detection Club and the […]
SouthernExile commented on the post, Dismal Lyrics in Pop Music 6 months, 2 weeks ago

No bonds could ever tempt me from she
SouthernExile commented on the post, Genuinely Good Christmas Songs – another list 10 months ago

It’s an oldie, but it is a googie:

Davitt Sigerson – It’s a big Country

https://youtu.be/QDXZsydJU2c
SouthernExile commented on the post, Family game suggestions 11 months, 1 week ago

Bananagrams is a favourite chez Exile
SouthernExile commented on the post, Encounters with Civilians #2 11 months, 2 weeks ago

And of course Audlem was a victim of the ever charming Dr Beeching. As remembered in this beauty

Flanders and Swann – The Slow Train

https://youtu.be/U6OHD2uCpfU
SouthernExile commented on the post, White album preview 1 year ago

The Esher Demo is lovely. And I’d say, given George’s love of the uke, he might have been listening to George Formby. And that, in my book, is no bad thing
SouthernExile commented on the post, That thing you wish you’d said 1 year ago

Isn’t there a (probably apocryphal) tale of Kelvin McKenzie sacking the psychic on the S** by sending them a letter beginning “as you will already know”
SouthernExile commented on the post, Best Opening Lines Of Everything, Ever 1 year, 1 month ago

The past is a foreign county; they do things differently there. LP Hartley, The GoBetween
SouthernExile commented on the post, All That Reckoning 1 year, 3 months ago

I was always quite pleased with our version of To Live Is To Fly:

https://youtu.be/dHjeIBrBKEA
SouthernExile wrote a new post, The Rolling Stones – every album ranked! 1 year, 5 months ago

I’m not going to argue with the top two, except maybe for the order. But I would perhaps make a case for the inclusion of Big Hits (High Tide and Green Grass)
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