The way they woz

Cracking post over at Crying All The Way To The Chip Shop music blog.

Shout-a-long tunes, canny pictures and musings that prompts a few thoughts:

How come 9/10 black and white photographs depicting kids from Britain of yesteryear make me think of Oscar Marzaroli? Doesn't matter if its 1967 or 1977, Thamesmead or Toryglen, I think of his wonderful black and white prints and I have to resist the urge to listen to a Deacon Blue album.

Reminds me once again that I have a hankering to see Stephen Frears's 'Bloody Kids' but I've got more chance of finding a copy of Alan Bleasdale's 'Scully and Mooey' at a stoop sale in Greenpoint. (i.e No bastard chance.)

Makes me think of Ian Walker and the New Society's 'The Other Side of Britain'. But then again, the current primaries in New Hampshire make me think of that book. It's on my mind 12/7.

The number 333 and the 1979 Panini sticker album. Barry Daines, you broke my heart.

Skinny Ties and Jean Jaures Shoes

Morphing Into A Music Blog (1)

A recommended 'on this day in post-punk history' blog, The Post Punk Progressive Pop Party, is my new daily must read.

A labour of love, where someone does all the labour, and I can supply the love and admiration from afar, it's for all of us who wanted our Simon Reynolds 'Rip It Up And Start Again' in digestible bite size chunks. (I came away from that book as 1 Angry Man, mimicing Henry Fonda, with Devo & Pere Ubu placed on trial . . . Cleveland was going down for a 25 stretch.)

Love the wee snippets of history, and my misbegotten nostalgia is kicking into overdrive with the record sleeves lovingly uploaded but come on lads, where's the mp3s for sampling purposes? Grainy YouTube clips are vastly overrated unless it's for a lost classic that you foolishly passed onto some smirking wanker in Notting Hill Gate's Record and Music Exchange about 9 years ago for the price of a hot bagel and butter. (The wanker rubbed salted butter into the wounds by immediately playing the CD on the shop's sound system at full blast. Never found that track again on vinyl, Cd or mp3.)

That blog is just screaming out for its daily posts to be piggybacked with mp3s placed on this blog . . . for sampling purposes, of course . . . but I'll leave it for now.

In the meantime, a few links to posts of interest from the blog:

Wah! - The Story Of The Blues

The Jam - This Is The Modern World

M - Pop Musik

Theatre Of Hate - Original Sin

The Pretenders - I Go To Sleep

ABC - Tears Are Not Enough

Heaven 17 - Let Me Go

A Flock Of Seagulls - Wishing (I Had A Photograph Of You)

The Associates - The Affectionate Punch

The Undertones - Teenage Kicks

The Ramones - The Ramones

Lene Lovich - A New Toy

Beats Dead Socialist Watch any day of the week.

Solomon Grundy listened to P.I.L on Thursday

Once upon a time I had an idea for a music post, but I left it hanging.

Thankfully, the World Won't Listen Music Blog wasn't the shirker that I was, and came up trumps with an excellent series of downloads to cover everyday of the week.

Sunday and Wednesday are my favourite days of the week, but I would have also plumped for Monday if The Jam track of the same name had been included.

Apologies for being two and half months late in spotting these excellent downloads.