Another example of some wonderful propaganda from the Evading Standards. Scum, subhuman scum!
Saturday, April 26, 2008
Wednesday, February 13, 2008
More shame
The Divinyls - I Touch Myself
I know it's awful, I know... but it oozes the sort of obvious desperate sexuality that gets you when you're a teenage boy and after that, well, you kind of forgive...
C'mon, when you're 12 or 13 that's enough to make any song great :(
Moving on... Art Garfunkel - Bright Eyes
Goddam this is a great record, sappy, ridiculous, overblown, pompous to the point of cringeworthyness. How anyone could dislike it is beyond me.
What number are we up to now? Fuck knows, uh Aerosmith - Love In An Elevator
Why I can't bring myself to send this on its why I don't know. Many a time has it been slipped into a "to go" pile before being slipped back again. All I can say is that I'm sorry.
I know it's awful, I know... but it oozes the sort of obvious desperate sexuality that gets you when you're a teenage boy and after that, well, you kind of forgive...
C'mon, when you're 12 or 13 that's enough to make any song great :(
Moving on... Art Garfunkel - Bright Eyes
Goddam this is a great record, sappy, ridiculous, overblown, pompous to the point of cringeworthyness. How anyone could dislike it is beyond me.
What number are we up to now? Fuck knows, uh Aerosmith - Love In An Elevator
Why I can't bring myself to send this on its why I don't know. Many a time has it been slipped into a "to go" pile before being slipped back again. All I can say is that I'm sorry.
Monday, February 11, 2008
Another Music Post
7. Barry Manilow - Bermuda Triangle.
Yeah yeah, Barry Manilow is shit. This tune involves the unironic use of a glockenspiel. On the front cover he looks like someone has used photoshop to make him look like a mutant and he's dressed like a pimp. All of those reasons are why this is very good. Included limited edition free poster too, bargain. Check out these lyrics...
Bermuda Triangle
Makes my woman disappear
Bermuda Triangle
Don't go too near
Looking At it from my angle
Do you see why I'm so sad
Bermuda Triangle
Very bad!
6.
This is actually going to get really tricky... what next, so much to choose from...
Transvision Vamp - Baby I Don't Care
Once upon a time, before the days of the internet, this sort of scenario used to happen now and again. You'd see a record in a charity shop and suddenly remember the excitement of the band from when you saw them on Top Of The Pops. Then you have a little snigger because you used to fancy the singer but actually she looks awful. So you buy it and take it home. You listen to it with this look on your face. You really cannot believe what it sounds like, it was rawk, it was sex, it was excitement. Then you play it to all your friends who all remembered it as being great. You all cackle like idiots. Then you pack it in your record bag in the hope that one day you can have that effect on an entire roomful of people. You never play it.
Yeah yeah, Barry Manilow is shit. This tune involves the unironic use of a glockenspiel. On the front cover he looks like someone has used photoshop to make him look like a mutant and he's dressed like a pimp. All of those reasons are why this is very good. Included limited edition free poster too, bargain. Check out these lyrics...
Bermuda Triangle
Makes my woman disappear
Bermuda Triangle
Don't go too near
Looking At it from my angle
Do you see why I'm so sad
Bermuda Triangle
Very bad!
6.
This is actually going to get really tricky... what next, so much to choose from...
Transvision Vamp - Baby I Don't Care
Once upon a time, before the days of the internet, this sort of scenario used to happen now and again. You'd see a record in a charity shop and suddenly remember the excitement of the band from when you saw them on Top Of The Pops. Then you have a little snigger because you used to fancy the singer but actually she looks awful. So you buy it and take it home. You listen to it with this look on your face. You really cannot believe what it sounds like, it was rawk, it was sex, it was excitement. Then you play it to all your friends who all remembered it as being great. You all cackle like idiots. Then you pack it in your record bag in the hope that one day you can have that effect on an entire roomful of people. You never play it.
Sunday, February 10, 2008
This is a music post
Some of my favourite blogs have been falling victim to the latest meme challenge, and I want to play. So without further ado, here is a list of the 10 Records That I Like That I'm Most Ashamed Of. Please note, I'm only including music I've actually paid for!
10. Days Of The New - Touch Peel & Stand.
The grunge cash wagon is joined by tossers in designer facial hair strumming acoustic guitars in a way clearly designed to be reminiscent of Alice In Chains. It's toss, and the band disappear for ever. Trouble is I buy it. And it has this desperate charm to it, this sheer try-so-hard lack of skill, finesse, art, talent etc etc. Everyone else loathes it.
9. Marilyn Manson - Personal Jesus.
The absolute low point of Manson's career, unimaginative from start to finish. In my defence, I hadn't heard it when I bought it. The prosecution will note I still own it. Protip: Marilyn Manson is a fucking god. This record is fucking fail.
8. Ivor Biggun & The Red Nosed Burglars - The Winker's Song (Misprint)
No excuses, no justification, simply a complete sense of humour bypass. I convinced myself that it would be funny in a cringe inducing way to play this in fashionable Old Street venues. Really, it absolutely wasn't.
What a fucking cunt.
more shame tomorrow
10. Days Of The New - Touch Peel & Stand.
The grunge cash wagon is joined by tossers in designer facial hair strumming acoustic guitars in a way clearly designed to be reminiscent of Alice In Chains. It's toss, and the band disappear for ever. Trouble is I buy it. And it has this desperate charm to it, this sheer try-so-hard lack of skill, finesse, art, talent etc etc. Everyone else loathes it.
9. Marilyn Manson - Personal Jesus.
The absolute low point of Manson's career, unimaginative from start to finish. In my defence, I hadn't heard it when I bought it. The prosecution will note I still own it. Protip: Marilyn Manson is a fucking god. This record is fucking fail.
8. Ivor Biggun & The Red Nosed Burglars - The Winker's Song (Misprint)
No excuses, no justification, simply a complete sense of humour bypass. I convinced myself that it would be funny in a cringe inducing way to play this in fashionable Old Street venues. Really, it absolutely wasn't.
What a fucking cunt.
more shame tomorrow
Thursday, January 31, 2008
Park Strife
Voices from the demonstration. Bad anarchists, no cookie. Jesus christ, this country is pathetic innit.
Sunday, January 27, 2008
..Sent Cops Home
If only they'd sent more cops home innit. Perhaps we'd have got something done that day!
Saturday, January 26, 2008
I wish i hadn't...
Heh, bad class war, bad SWP. Of course, CW and the SWP weren't actually heavily involved, CW never represented more than a couple of hundred and at this stage probably not three figures. The SWP never start it.It was people. Lots of angry people. Not evil terrorist organisations but unaligned people who showed up to have their say.
finished later...
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