Rock - what are you listening to?

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Sloop John B
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Squeeze were dead cool way back when.

Cool for Cats.........
The Sweeney's doing ninety
'Cause they've got the word to go
They get a gang of villains
In a shed up at Heathrow
They're counting out the fivers
When the hand cuffs lock again
In and out of Wandsworth
With the numbers on their names
It's funny how their missus
Always look the bleeding same
And meanwhile at the station
There's a couple of likely lads
Who swear like how's your father
And they're very cool for cats
They're cool for cats - Cool for cats

and the missus always did look the same!

East Side Story is for me their best and their first Hits "45's and under" just one stupendous slice of Pop (in its most positive sense) after another.

BBC4 is repeating Top of the Pops week by week over the last few years (same time, Thursdays 7:30) and is now at 1980. Brass in Pocket is #1, Madness hovering close, The Clash there or thereabouts, and the Beat, Bowie's even in there - what a time! We had Up the Junction last year so if memory serves we'll be have "pulling muscles from a shell", and "another nail in my heart" coming up shortly from Squeeze.

well worth taping, there is a bit of disco pap to fast forward through.



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There was a very good documentary on BBC4 last November "Squeeze: Take Me I'm Yours" when it comes round again it's worth catching.

Some flavour here.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01n8kmq
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Derek wrote:There was a very good documentary on BBC4 last November "Squeeze: Take Me I'm Yours" when it comes round again it's worth catching.

Some flavour here.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01n8kmq
I caught that a the time, very good, like a lot of BBC 4 music


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An Amazon purchase to bulk up the cost to free postage.

As good as I've heard Costello in many many years.

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The above is one of my favourite albums and is not, of course, rock. I put it in here because of the link below to the photographer who took the photo for the album sleeve. He also took many more, some of which are shown in the link which should be of general interest....


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Sloop John B wrote:
An Amazon purchase to bulk up the cost to free postage.

As good as I've heard Costello in many many years.

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and a great system test album as well... yeah I like that album... grows on you.
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Just to kick the morning off to a bright start.
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Picked up the deluxe vinyl reissue this evening
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