Better than Steely Dan tho’.

The harmonies are a little too wispy for my liking and with knife crime in the UK being what it is we shouldn’t be talking about brass stabbings.Comment awaiting moderation unlike this tune https://youtu.be/j8fSymv-5R8?si=48cnWTPK946UL8nD

I won’t stop, you were warned. Crap video, great song.

I know, I know,  I’ve seen it.

If you don’t post, you know what you are going to get. Apparently this “begins with an elastic reggae beat before becoming consumed by sheets of guitars, wispy harmonies, and stabs of brass”. What’s not to like.

Think we had a dead heat two weeks in a row on UC @hunnybunny. I’m missing OC. The replacement chess programme is mildly entertaining but who knew that there were so many double entendres in the game.

And this as well on Stiff in 1977! An unknown record label just exploded with talent.

They also produced early Costello singles before Jake Rivierra stole him including this beauty…https://youtu.be/snPDoXl9ZPs?si=vXbyZSMS1FrEmnS6

And the Nick Lowe produced this, also coming out on Stiff, widely regarded to be the first charting UK punk single. Written by Brian James, who died 2 weeks ago.

Backtracking a little here’s the very first Stiff release…https://youtu.be/YEpr8kaczck?si=tMKGBCEE0MFcFIjJ

@vuelva, the story of the Appalachian Trail is that in mid January 2024 my friend Jenn said that her Fitbit (or equivalent) had congratulated her on completing a challenge walk of some description (can’t remember which) and that now she was beginning the Appalachian Trail, 2198 miles.  I said that Twiggy and I would race her to the end and that…[Read more]

Hoe is het met je? @vuelva always glad when you pop out of your wormhole to say hello(I’m afraid I had to google the Dutch greeting)(Ooops is Dutch a word the people of The Netherlands are comfortable with?)

There are quite a few expressions in English pre-fixed by the word Dutch that have negative connotations( uncle for instance-great band but…[Read more]