30 Day Song Challenge - Day 05

A song that needs to be played loud. 

I'm still convinced that the late Adrian Borland looks a bit like the late Christopher Hitchens. I remember mentioning the passing resemblance one time - probably on this blog - and the you'd have thought that I just let rip the biggest fart in history in front of The Queen and Betty White. Those fanboys of Hitchens really were fucking protective of their boy . . . at all times and in all circumstances. It's amazing the shield that is constructed all around you if you have a few witty epigrams hiding up your sleeve.

I still love this performance of 'Sense of Purpose' by The Sound on The Old Grey Whistle Test. Of course they should have bigger, but it's the business of the cheekbones and pop music again. You can't be all moody and introspective as a pop star if you're an ordinary looking bloke. It doesn't properly scan. You can only be truly tortured if you're really good looking. This also applies to female musicians, as well, by the way. Yes, Fiona Apple, I am looking at you.

PS - There's not enough punching the side of your head in pop performances, and if I've ever lose a few pounds, I'm wearing a version of that suit of his in my next life:

He never stood a chance #2

If only the poor bastard had had a set of cheekbones. They would have been bigger than Joy Division. It would have been a case of Uwho?

Brilliant clip of The Sound from The Old Grey Whistle Test. Don't know the year, but the songs off their second album, 'From The Lions Mouth', that dates from 1981.

I still think that '81 was the best year for music . . .still think the late Adrian Borland is the spitting image of Christopher Hitchens.

Friday's Playlist #19

An ongoing series:

Aztec Camera, 'Spanish Horses' (Dreamland)

Judy Mowatt, 'She Kept On Talking' (Trojan Reggae Sisters)

AC Acoustics, '16.04.2010' (Peel Session)

U2 'Out of Control' (Boy)

Prefab Sprout, 'The Ice Maiden' (Jordan The Comeback)

The Sound, 'Winning' (From The Lions Mouth)

Al Green, 'L-O-V-E (Love)' (Al Green Is Love)

Manic Street Preachers, 'To Repel Ghosts' (Lifeblood)

The Upsetters, 'A Taste of Killings' (Trojan Skinhead Reggae)

Suicide, 'Ghost Rider' (Suicide - the first album)

Spotify Playlist Link.