let it be bradcast from the roofs of buildings the world over: the duke would fill, and i quote verbatim, 'Isobels' um, orifice' with one thing and ONE THING ONLY. He also hopes she's not reading this cos he gets embarassed very easily, poor bloke. He's also a bit sad because he had to say that he doesn't much like 'The Gate' on the new B&S record very much at all. Except the trumpet, which is rather fine, but that would be the Cooke boys handiwork, wouldn't it? Um yeah, issy sounds for all the world just TOO much like someone out of Talulah Gosh or Tiger Trap or someone and although i'm not slagging that per se, i'm just saying that for me, today, it's not what i want to hear. If the duchess were to hear it she'd be off on a rant about stupid girly singers, so i'm programming it out of the playlist. On the other hand, 'I Know Where The Summer Goes' is gorgeous, as i knew it would be, and if i've been listening to 'Modern Rock Song' in this guise as well as the radio version for a year now, well that's just because i've been lucky and i'm one of those elitist few that laugh at all you poor wee newcomers. Ha ha ha. And in case you wonder, or are really dim, there's 'irony' or something similar in that statement. Which means that 'Modern Rock Song' STILL sounds like the Velvet Underground for the new millennium. Sorry for mentioning that word. You already know that 'Slow Graffiti' is genius cos you've all got it on the Acid House soundtrack record. It makes me want to explode. And did you know that Biff Bang Pow! had a compilation LP called 'The Acid House Album'? The cover was all hand-sprayed paint swirls. It was brilliant. And who is really responsible for the B&S sleeve concepts? Is the Symington man under the barrel of Murdoch's big gun or something? Forced with fear of his Divine empire crumbling under the might of the Belle mafia to make sleeves which unremittingly look like they once belonged to The Smiths? I mean, this really is taking the piss. And if it is taking the piss, well that joke isn't funny anymore. (They who said the Duke had no sense of humour (or humor) were oh so spot on.) Even the orange colour is right off of 'Louder Than Bombs'... so with no official US release, will Matador do like Rough Trade UK did and buckle under fan pressure? The reverse parallels are too spooky to ignore. keep the faith, the duke WeeJay wrote:
Ah, back to normal... The return of the Duke (to quote a beach boys song I've had to listen to about a million times) - I never knew that he'd been gone (it wasn't me that was rude about him - I only said that he'd minced my kitten and filled Isobels' um, orifice with the resultant bloody sludge)
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