Ady wrote,

I notice John mentioned Big Country and their Country Club from the 80's, oh dear, I also succumbed to this, much to my disbelief today, still I was only young!

Big Country were great for a few years, i've got the first three albums but after that it went rapidly downhill. I notice from this weeks NME that they've got a rarities album coming out soon called "Restless Natives", so presumably it'll have they're contributions to the fantastic soundtrack of said film on it. Great film as well.

Somebody else asked about embarrassing records, well apart from some Big Country (they really did seem quite good at the time), I've got a few classics....Cutting Crew, Curiosity Killed The Cat, even bloody Thriller, but they're all in extremely good nick, cos they never get played. God weren't the 80's just great? ;o)

Oh I think I can just about top that, how does the theme tune to Auf Wiedersehen Pet sound to you, or all bar the last Alarm album, Queens Flash Gordon lp ?. While i'm at it, i'll own up and admit to once taking part in a free for all barney on a coach coming back from somewhere equally embarrassing over who's debut album was better, Tears For Fears or Whams (this was in 1983 by the way, my musical taste hasn't quite deteriorated that bad .....yet). I still say The Hurting is a great record, even though it is possibly a criminal offence to do so. Worse still though is the record I most cringe over, thankfully it's no longer in my collection here, I left it at my parents when I moved out, erm, it's Showaddywaddys greatest hits, vol 2 I think, the blue one anyway*. Then again I noticed the 20odd legged groove machine got a mention in here this week, so maybe it's not so bad after all. * Message to Sarah, remember the record I refused to name when we were talking about our first records that time .......

Which brings me on to Dexy's Midnight Runners, who once appeared on >ToTP miming to Jackie Wilson said, with a bloody great picture of darts legend Jocky Wilson behind them - bloody great eh?

I saw that on Nevermind the Buzzcocks, couldn't believe my eyes. Jocky Wilson Said, doesn't quite sound right somehow does it. Maybe someone should have a crack at rewriting the lyrics based around Jocky though. "Urrrgghhhhgh, Jocky Wilson Said, 10 pints of lager and a new set of flights please, how many do I require, oh by the way, anyone seen me dentures". Gary ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister@majordomo.net". . For subscribing, unsubscribing and other list information please see . http://www.majordomo.net/sinister . For questions about how the list works mail owner-sinister@majordomo.net . Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa -----------------------------------------------------------------------