It's a shame they didn't finish "It's All Too Much" in time to include it on Pepper, it would've sounded fantastic climactically crossfading into "A Day In The Life". We might've had to lose "When I'm 64" to cram it in though, oh dear (ahem).
December 16, 2025 at 12:07 PM
It's a shame they didn't finish "It's All Too Much" in time to include it on Pepper, it would've sounded fantastic climactically crossfading into "A Day In The Life". We might've had to lose "When I'm 64" to cram it in though, oh dear (ahem).
Singles aside, that was the first New Wave record I owned - I even liked the (somewhat incongruous) Nick Straker Band track! I'd never heard Magazine before and they're still one of my favourite bands nowadays. It was advertised on the telly at the time IIRC?
December 16, 2025 at 10:43 AM
Singles aside, that was the first New Wave record I owned - I even liked the (somewhat incongruous) Nick Straker Band track! I'd never heard Magazine before and they're still one of my favourite bands nowadays. It was advertised on the telly at the time IIRC?
p.s. Before you ask, it's Valerie & Her Week Of Wonders.
December 16, 2025 at 10:36 AM
p.s. Before you ask, it's Valerie & Her Week Of Wonders.
I was brought up in a blissfully irreligious household so it all seems utterly daft to me but each to their own fairytale I suppose?
December 15, 2025 at 11:08 PM
I was brought up in a blissfully irreligious household so it all seems utterly daft to me but each to their own fairytale I suppose?
I visited Rushton Triangular Lodge (the cover pic) once and ever since I've had an occasional anxiety dream where I'm back there again but it's full of piled-up skulls. Eek.
I haven't heard Temples' other LPs - any good?
I haven't heard Temples' other LPs - any good?
December 15, 2025 at 11:06 PM
I visited Rushton Triangular Lodge (the cover pic) once and ever since I've had an occasional anxiety dream where I'm back there again but it's full of piled-up skulls. Eek.
I haven't heard Temples' other LPs - any good?
I haven't heard Temples' other LPs - any good?
Definitely one of this year's best LPs - top 3 for me!
December 15, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Definitely one of this year's best LPs - top 3 for me!
Come Christmas morning, I usually sling this one on to wake up the neighbours...
Santa Claus Go Straight To The Ghetto
YouTube video by James Brown - Topic
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December 15, 2025 at 10:53 AM
Come Christmas morning, I usually sling this one on to wake up the neighbours...
Please don't project.
December 14, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Please don't project.
Destroy the symbols then.
December 14, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Destroy the symbols then.
Certainly in his memoir there are moments that made me think "What? Really?" but bands are weird hermetically sealed domains that operate by their own puzzling, self-lacerating logic. Their old tambourine self-published a book too, which is worth a look if you're not a BG fan...
December 14, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Certainly in his memoir there are moments that made me think "What? Really?" but bands are weird hermetically sealed domains that operate by their own puzzling, self-lacerating logic. Their old tambourine self-published a book too, which is worth a look if you're not a BG fan...
I expect he would've been on a retainer, and would've been paid for live performances and studio sessions? He played for other bands too - he was a jobbing musician. Unfortunately bands of PS's "stature" don't sell that many records any more...
December 14, 2025 at 3:54 PM
I expect he would've been on a retainer, and would've been paid for live performances and studio sessions? He played for other bands too - he was a jobbing musician. Unfortunately bands of PS's "stature" don't sell that many records any more...
The people at that PS show knew exactly who & what the band were protesting about - it's lazy halfwit content providers (no, I don't mean you) filling news sites with their sensationalist third-hand drivel who didn't/don't. But... whatever.
December 14, 2025 at 3:51 PM
The people at that PS show knew exactly who & what the band were protesting about - it's lazy halfwit content providers (no, I don't mean you) filling news sites with their sensationalist third-hand drivel who didn't/don't. But... whatever.
I read Duffy's son's statement when it was originally released. It's understandably raw because it was written during a period of grief & emotional upset, but it failed to acknowledge that the band were trying to keep Duffy out of temptation's way by not taking him (an alcoholic*) on tour with them.
December 14, 2025 at 3:44 PM
I read Duffy's son's statement when it was originally released. It's understandably raw because it was written during a period of grief & emotional upset, but it failed to acknowledge that the band were trying to keep Duffy out of temptation's way by not taking him (an alcoholic*) on tour with them.
Duffy reportedly had encroaching alcohol issues that had begun to have a detrimental effect on his live performances, so was temporarily excluded from touring with them while (Gillespie presumably hoped) he sorted himself out?
December 14, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Duffy reportedly had encroaching alcohol issues that had begun to have a detrimental effect on his live performances, so was temporarily excluded from touring with them while (Gillespie presumably hoped) he sorted himself out?
Apart from the slightly-too-neat (and of-its-time, so understandable) farcical denouement, it's completely brilliant. I prefer it to The Rebel.
December 14, 2025 at 9:41 AM
Apart from the slightly-too-neat (and of-its-time, so understandable) farcical denouement, it's completely brilliant. I prefer it to The Rebel.
If anything it's iconoclasm, not racism.
But it actually isn't either.
But it actually isn't either.
December 14, 2025 at 9:32 AM
If anything it's iconoclasm, not racism.
But it actually isn't either.
But it actually isn't either.
It's rock'n'roll, not dialectics.
December 14, 2025 at 9:31 AM
It's rock'n'roll, not dialectics.
I've no interest in Judaism, or any other religion, just people.
December 14, 2025 at 9:29 AM
I've no interest in Judaism, or any other religion, just people.
Oh, I get it... it's the "wrong kind of protest" so it must be rejected. You're chasing your tail into oblivion.
December 14, 2025 at 9:26 AM
Oh, I get it... it's the "wrong kind of protest" so it must be rejected. You're chasing your tail into oblivion.
AS non-Jews, they have at least tried - for literally years now - to highlight the Palestinian situation, long before the media or their contemporaries could be bothered to take much notice. The song of theirs that has caused so much argument this week was written & first performed by them in 1999.
December 14, 2025 at 9:19 AM
AS non-Jews, they have at least tried - for literally years now - to highlight the Palestinian situation, long before the media or their contemporaries could be bothered to take much notice. The song of theirs that has caused so much argument this week was written & first performed by them in 1999.