Big Al chirruped.... 'And in The Beginning there was 'Rattlesnakes'. Now let's not beat about the proverbial here, this was, still is and ever will be one of the single most perfect incarnations of The Pop Record ever to have graced that strange, contradictory decade known as the 1980s.And in The Beginning there was 'Rattlesnakes'. ...and I have to agree with the sentiments. 'Rattlesnakes' was a classic pop record, with intelligent, thought provoking, literate and slightly smart-arsey lyrics. Sound familiar? The music was steeped in guitar oriented Americana, country, bluesy, with strains of harmonica and accordion thrown in for good measure. This was a consistent evocation of America as a backdrop for Lloyd's dramas of Uni life and (imagined?) international characters. For me, the overall vibe is as redolent of Glasgow as B&S music, possibly something to do with Glasgow (and the Uni) being a melting pot / crossroads for disparate peoples. Cole himself is English and hooked up with Lawrence Donegan etc whilst studying at Glasgow QED classic, timeless pop music. I saw the video for 'Rattlesnakes' whilst waiting to watch 'Ghostbusters' back in (fuck!) 1984 at the Odeon in Renfield Street and it was great, a hand held shot out of a car window just panning along an American highway, the perfect visual complement to virtually any of the songs off of the album. The same trailer featured the vid to Bronski Beat's version of 'It Ain't Necessarily So", yet another great pop song. "Not the whole world, mate." Eh? And as for the cream buns 12m signing spree, I can only say 'knee jerk reaction'. Teamwork and leadership won the game for the hoops, not 'world class players' ** yawn **. These same qualities took a previous Celtic team to dizzying heights, and you know EXACTLY what I'm talking about.... Finally, Sinsterines, for a laff, check out the following site. If you want an idea of the type of people who make life hell for the twee kids in Glasgow, make for the following site and check out the sound files....... www.mucker.co.uk Priceless! Bona fide old school ecto hugs to everyone. Marty. _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com. +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the undead Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister@missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo@missprint.org. WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "peculiarly deranged fanbase" "frighteningly named +-+ +-+ Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ ++++++ ++++++ ++++++ August 27th Sinister Third Birthday Red Underwear Day ++++++ ++++++ ++++++ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+