In the latest hurl-inducing Tory Party broadcast, Boris is asked twelve questions, one of which is who is his favourite band. He answered, “The Clash…or The Stones.” Too London-centric to win the crucial Northern Brexit vote.
52% of The Afterword prefer The Beatles to The Stones. I expect that proportion to increase once the full horror of Boris’s announcement sinks in.
Incidentally, he has helped me solve that other conundrum: Marmite NO!!!
Oh God.
He listens to You Can’t Always Get What You Want on repeat while dreaming of Making Britain Great Again. Or, failing that, being endorsed by the KKK.
Britain – in this Irishman’s opinion – is already great. The few remaining KKK sad sacks would keel over if they knew the amount of Papists, Jews and ‘coloured folk’ that Johnson had in his cabinet.
I’ve lived my whole life where generally speaking things just kept getting better (just look at the world stats re poverty, diseases, wars etc).
Now apparently the planet has got twelve years before it’s fucked forever and here’s a video where an orange buffoon is asked if he prefers The Stones to The Clash.
Man, I’m glad I’m 94
He doesn’t look orange to me. Must be your screen settings. Trump is the Orange one. He isn’t the same person but I understand the confusion.
Orange was auto-corrected. As this is a family pub that’s probably just as well
Ah! You meant ‘Farage’.
My autocorrect once changed Nigel Farage to Nicely Forage.
I feel vindicated.
That might explain why the half-speed-mastered Stones box set halved in price today.
And I bought it. Shit.
Thanks for the heads up Steve.
Just ordered -Bargain !
Received my box set today.
What a thing of absolute beauty !
What a bargain !
Purchase of the year for me.
Just settling down to “Sticky Fingers”.
Sounds fantastic. The half speed mastering certainly makes a huge difference to the sound quality.
Just as long as he doesn’t get his Ya Ya’s out.
They’re seldom in, Steve. Hence the baggy suits.
Ugh I’m off to take a shower…
What’s his view on a safe European home?
If this fuckwit had any sense other than a selfish regard for his own flabby ass, he’d know that:
Oh, a storm is threat’ning
My very life today
If I don’t get some shelter
Oh yeah, I’m gonna fade away
War, children, it’s just a shot away
It’s just a shot away
War, children, it’s just a shot away
It’s just a shot away
Ooh, see the fire is sweepin’
Our very street today
Burns like a red coal carpet
Mad bull lost your way
War, children, it’s just a shot away
It’s just a shot away
War, children, it’s just a shot away
It’s just a shot away
Rape, murder!
It’s just a shot away
It’s just a shot away
Rape, murder!
It’s just a shot away
It’s just a shot away
Rape, murder!
It’s just a shot away
It’s just a shot away
The floods is threat’ning
My very life today
Gimme, gimme shelter
Or I’m gonna fade away
War, children, it’s just a shot away
It’s just a shot away
It’s just a shot away
It’s just a shot away
It’s just a shot away
I tell you love, sister, it’s just a kiss away
It’s just a kiss away
It’s just a kiss away
It’s just a kiss away
It’s just a kiss away
Kiss away, kiss away
Is this one of those ‘shitposting’ things where they put in popular culture references (marmite, favourite band) and then we all re-post it to take the piss and end up spreading their message for them? (Posters saying ‘20,000 new police officers’ behind him as he talks about loving The Stones)
Well spotted! That’s exactly what The Team do. Those posters on the doors were the main point of that shit show.
Man, I’m glad I’m 95
He sees a red door and he wants to paint it blue.
I did worry about that, chiz, but decided The Afterword is a discerning audience not easily taken in.
I was concerned by this too but, relax, his favourite Stones’ album is Goats Head Soup so, as you might expect from this clown, it’s not proper Stones.
The winner in this field is still John Redwood who, in his campaign for the Tory leadership, lumped (completely against type and against the core Tory support whose fave 60s acts are The Carpenters and Abba) on the Golden Age.
Reporter: “So, John, the 60s. Favourite pop groups?”
Redwood: “Oh yes, erm, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Jimi Hendrix and … Herman’s Hermits.”
Don’t dis The Goat.
That’s odd, because at school he always preferred Gilbert & Sullivan.
You just know that even if you put a gun to his head, the only Clash song he’d be able to name is London Calling, because some PR agency will have used it in a stunt when he was mayor.
When politicians make glib statements like this, they should be forced to name either two B sides or the name of the band in question’s third album, and if they can’t do so they should resign (or take the Chiltern Hundreds, to keep Rees-Mogg happy).
There’s a Tim Lovejoy clip for that:
I would love to see Boris smashed at this election, but you can’t always get what you want.
Or no satisfaction.
I’m surprised he didn’t reply “I’m not going to tell you my favourite band until two weeks before the election.”
Of course the Brexit Party don’t have a favourite band at all.
Corbyn secretly prefers The Stones, but he’s going to hang around near the Beatles’ LPs in the record shop, occasionally reading out the Let it Be cover notes. “Ooh, a new phase Beatles’ album,” he’ll say, loudly. Everyone will be sure he likes them better than The Stones. Then when no one’s looking he’s going to run over to the ‘S’ section and buy Aftermath.
This could be the final nail in the coffin for the Stones’ career, like how Tony Blair did for Ezio, and Gordon Brown did for, um, the Arctic Monkeys.
I can’t remember Cameron’s faves, apart from The Jam, and they were over already.
Cameron tried to express his love of The Smiths but this was forbidden by Johnny Marr. It wouldn’t have mattered though since the lead singer became a white supremacist twat and trashed the reputation of his own band quite successfully all by himself.
Boris is an admirer of Brian Jones apparently. Favourite song? Have I had another baby, standing in the shadows?
Nice one.
That Lovejoy clip brings up the question “where do people get all these Ramones’ T-Shirts?”
Do M&S include them in their sandwich/crisps/soft drink combo or something?
Bizarre, in the same way that WH Smith stocks 3 (T.H.R.E.E.) CDs, that of the 20% of the population who may wear a pop group T-Shirt, 95% of those T-Shirts are of the f***** Ramones!
In fairness to Lovejoy, and I rarely am to dodgers, not even the Ramones know anything about the Ramones.
It’s not even pleasing to the eye.
What is that all about?
Hey! Ho! Waitrose!
Hey! Ho! Waitrose!
Oh yah, I’ve always liked the Ram Ones, especially their Blitzkrieg Bap
Talking of Waitrose, my local branch has refurbed its cafe and renamed it Waite and Rose. Too SW3 for words.
“What we now know as Waitrose began as a small grocery store in Acton, 115 years ago. Founded by Wallace Wyndham Waite, Arthur Rose and David Taylor, it was then known as Waite, Rose & Taylor and sold a wide array of fine-quality foodstuffs. Waite was in charge of buying, Rose took care of the accounts and Taylor worked on the shop floor. When Taylor left in 1908, the other two formed the Waitrose Ltd – with the name inspired by a combination of their own.”
https://www.lovemoney.com/gallerylist/80196/waitrose-the-story-of-how-it-started-and-why-its-become-a-british-high-st
I did not know that, never even thought to wonder.
I bought mine in Tesco.
The Ramones are not in a position to know anything about anything, poor sods.
Bravo!
Tea now on monitor and keyboard, and dribbling out of nostrils.
Interesting idea, guessing and gauging the fave raves of politicos. And the difference between the favourite they say in public, and what they play at home. Corbyn would probably deny any great love of modern music, maybe citing Billy Bragg as someone he has admired, yet playing the Pet Shop Boys at home. Swansong looks an out and out dance around yer handbag Abba and Motown girl, but would have her advisers commend Ed Sheeran. La belle Nicola will, clearly, have Runrig as her official music, compulsorily given the erstwhile guitarist is one of the Westminster SNP MPs, but I bet she has the full Bay City Rollers uniform at home in her wardrobe.
Farage would probably say the Band of the Grenadier Guards, while secretly grooving at home to the Horst Wessel Song.
Of course the two Green party leaders like The Unthanks.
As I said before, nazis breathe air, I won’t stop breathing some air for that.
Trump like the Rolling Stones, that’s not mutual, I have read. Boris may like the stones, that won’t change my mind for that.
When he did his two letters about Leave or Remain…I wonder which Clash song he used to help him decide on his position? Probably Train in Vain or Rock the Casbah.
Hmm which Clash song best encapsulates the dilemma of two opposing positions, leave or remain, and the various pros and cons of each? One course of action resulting in trouble, and the other double.
Is it Safe European Home?
Lost in the Single Market?
I Fought Delors?
I’m So Bored of the ECB?
Farageland?
Police (Commissioner) on My Back?
(Don’t) Listen
This is Little England
Shitsville UK
Ivan Meets GI Dominic
(Don’t) Knosw Your Rights
Extremely white Riot
(White Man) In Westminster Palace
I think English Civil War is probably the one we’re looking for…
I’m So Bored With B.R.E.X.I.T
I refuse to voluntarily watch any video of that twat. On a broader theme, he doesn’t seem to be having a great campaign so far – when he is forced to meet the great unwashed (because, look Boris, you can’t be seen to ignore people in the north with water in their homes and just make a speeech referring to wanking), he just mumbles and looks for an escape route. Oh for a decent leader on the other side….
Had it not been broadcast with the warning message that it was a party political broadcast I would have thought it was a spoof. In fact I pretty much thought it was a spoof anyway. My wife and I spent most of the broadcast trying to work out where it had been filmed and decided it was possibly in the Cabinet office.
The man is a buffoon – mind you as all the other leaders are too what choice does it give anyone ?
Matt Lucas re-Tweeted it with a complaint that he hadn’t been paid.
I honestly honestly thought when I first saw it on Twitter that it was a Michael Spicer-type spoof
And lo and behold!
Hi Gary!
Hi Lodes. I’m feeling a tad narked. I just lit up a doob and I’m a bit disappointed with the quality. I’ve been with the same pusher, Bax, for a couple of years now. He’s a nice enough young lad from somewhere in Africa (not sure where – can’t understand a word he says. He doesn’t speak Italian or English and I don’t speak French or whatever language they speak in the country he’s from). He’s sold me dodgy quality once before, has Bax, and then he graciously and generously gave me a freebie the next time. Which is all well and good, but I’ve got some degenerates coming over at the weekend and having to talk to them is the last thing I want.
Some degenerates? Bri’s got remand then?
Probably not, no.
But on the cheerier side, I’ve gone and discovered Vashti Bunyan Some Things Just Stick in Your Mind – Singles and Demos 1964 to 1967.
I really liked Vashti Bunyan’s three albums, each one even better than the last, imho. I don’t know why I never paid much attention to this 2007 compilation. Perhaps because I saw the word “compilation” somewhere, or perhaps because I listened to a few tracks on CD1 and wasn’t interested (some of them have big band accompaniment – with drums, even! Who wants Vashti with drums? Not me. The combination fills me with haughty disdain). Anyway, yesterday I was fidgeting around on Spotify and I started to listen to CD2: her then recently rediscovered first studio demo session from 1964.
Total revelation! Like, wow!
Her very best!
Extremely intimate and bare, with stunningly pretty melodies beautifully sung. It’s her Pink Moon, her Nebraska, her Piano And A Microphone. It’s only gone straight to the coveted number one spot in my “favourite album ever by an English female solo singer-songwriter” list!
You know what, I think you’re a better record reviewer than Tiggs. Shall I get Bargie to give you a ring?
ps until now I thought Vashti was a bloke. I’m going to listen to him (or her) right now
I agree. Give Bargie a bell.
Don’t wait up for a reply from Gary. The duff doobie has just kicked in. He’s been standing with the fridge door open for the last forty minutes