Sinister: 1978 flashback, painting, album covers, girlfriends, old ears new music

[idleberry]

I was reading about what robin wrote.
I have to agree. 
The storytelling thing does:
look like a cross between IYFS and FISHYFLAP;
and it is Torytelling.
Tell the tories what? to vote socialist?

Its a shame, I'm sure it wasn't intended to look like
that. And whoever had to design it, and then whoever
approved it, mustn't have considered it, not like
robin does, or me either. It mustn't have caught their
eye like that. And now, and forever more, there will
be a stock of records in HMV, and Virgin, and Fopp and
Echo, and Missing and Avalanche and Our Price, with
"Torytelling" written on it. I don't know how I feel
about that. I'll buy it, but only so I can put it in
sideways to my CD rack (CDs or vinyl- I dunno which to
choose) and it won't show. unless they've done
something similar on the side of it.


My brother has got his first girlfriend, at 20.
They've been seeing each other for a few months, but,
he won't tell her he loves her becuase he wants to
mean it. I told him to say it anyway. Never did me any
harm. I've said I love you to countless chocolate
bars, and not really meant it. Only to the Norwegian
ones did I really mean it. 
Anyay, there is as always a point to my little
ramblings.
He was supposed to bring her over today, to meet us.
Shes 16, and hes a very serious young man, my brother.
He cleaned the house from top to bottom (oddly missing
my room... I dunno, he could have been gracious enough
to tidy it for me) and went out to whereever it is she
lives, all spruced up like a spruced up spruce.
And thn he called, and apparently shes not feeling
well, and he doesn't think its fair to put her through
the long journey from Glasgow to Livingston (poor
ickle lamb). I bet shes faking it. Shes chickened out
of meeting us. She could have popped an aspirin or
something. If shes really ill, she could have called
this morning and told him not to go over. What a
chicken. And I had my pokemon cards all ready to do
swopsies with her.

My old boss was asking me and my pal at work (when I
worked there) for some records to listen to, what the
youth of today are into. 
So my pal gave him some records, heres some of the
thoughts of a boss listening to it all for the first
time. My pal sent me this by e mail to read, I thought
you might like to see too.
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Hour of the bewilderbeast - Badly drawn boy - Dead
brill this, though a trifle
self indulgent at time - nice to hear a band that can
play a range of music
well rather than the same.

Biggest bluest Hi-Fi - Camera Obscura - liked this
nice and soft,
pretty lyrics, she's got a bonny voice - what's wrong
with melodies - anyway
good easy listening with the occasional bit of bite, 
Lazy Sunday music.

3-6-9 secs of light B& S - I must be getting mushy in
my old age but I like
this semi acoustic mellow stuff - recommend me a CD
please.

Quiet is the new loud- kings of convenience.  Liked
this very mellow, clever
lyrics and music was subtle at times very lovely. 
Dinner party music where the
guests are mellow rather than putting the world to
rights as well as general
listening

 Peleton - the delgados - excellent really liked this.

Your new favourite band - the hives - good old
fashioned punk liked this
although I think I may be getting past all this
leaping about with diffused
angry phase - though some of it's better then the
original stuff that was about
in the 70's.

**************************
There was a whole load of other stuff too, but this is
a sample.

I saw a shooting star on Monday night,
I made a wish
but Stuart didn't come.

Hmm. :-/

I've also come into a wee bit of money, after various
sexual favours performed for gentleman callers. So i
decided I'm going to put it into an ISA, then buy a
wee car, and be the first prostitute who does house
calls.
only joking, I'm not a prostitute.

I painted my bedroom the other day,a lovely shade of
lilac. its really nice, all crisp and clean edges. I
shoved all my rubbish under my bed Unfortunately,
theres more rubbish than bedspace, so some of it
pushes the matress up a bit. I fiure a copule of
nights of hardcore sleeping should sort out that
problem, and flatten it all nicely.
I only put it there, becuase when by the time the
paint dried and I could move all my furniture back, it
was late, and I was tired and sweaty. it was fun
painting. I wore an old t shirt and a sports bra, and
a pair of too tight-ripped jeans, which are so old,
they weren't even flared (i've been wearing flares
since 1997) and the zip kept falling down on them. It
was fun, I was a cross between Karate kid and Laurence
Lewellyn Bowen. I had a sore wrist on Monday becuase f
it.(honest, it *was* from painting).

I got given this copy of Melody Maker from 1978, from
the week of my birth, last summer. I was having a look
through. I'm shocked to see ummer nights by grease was
at number one when i popped out into the world.
Seriously, if I give birth I'm keeping my legs crossed
til something decent is in the charts at the time.


I thought I'd tell you about the Meoldy Maker in 1978,
for those of you, like me, who didn't know it then.
it cost 15p, (75 cents in the US) and on the cover of
this one, theres an article about Paul McCartney, the
Clash, and Clapton doing a tour and an LP.
Paralell Lines  by Blondie cost you £3.49. On the
front cover there was a promise of an article, which
reads
"'A LITTLE BIT KITSCH...BUT ICE COLD'
It was America in the Fifties and Britain in the
Sixties- could Germany be taking control of popular
music as the Seventies draw to a close? Christopher
Petit takes the Trans-Europe Express into the heart of
the man machine... (p39)"

The letters age was a giggle.
"I am growing increasingly weary of tales of rock
extravagance. Not so much the ludicrous promotional
excesses of the companies, although I would be very
interested to know how much the advertising budgets
add to the cost of records I buy (incluing the less
commercial records which the companies promote badly
in order to concerntrate on the obvious platinum
sellers); capitalism in action has never been a
pleassant spectacle, and I expect the worst.
N, what annoys me more are the antics of th musicians,
who find themselvessuddenly wealthy and seem unable to
think of anything to do with their money except waste
it.
Ine of the mot depressing quotes of recent months came
from The Clash, who had apprently been busy emulating
the boring old farts and smashing up hotel rooms,
thinking that the record companies paid for the
damage. Lets spell it out for them, shall we ? if CBS
had paid, they would have taken the money from the
fans in higher ticket prices"

and so on and so forth.

I thought in the 70's, everyone was a punk, who didn't
bother too much about keeping hotel bedrooms neat and
tidy?

the chappie went onto write further
"the fans do have a right to expect that the money
which they give to musicians is used to ensure that
the fans get as good a deal as possible in the price
and quality of concerts and albums".
anyway, I thought I'd leave you with those cheery
glimpses into life before 1979.

;)

Love, gropes

idles
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