Ordinary BlokeThe Legendary Abingdon Skittle Alley.
Booze (beer, Irish Whiskey, Scotch Whiskey, Cava, Champagne, Red Wine), music (obviously), laydees, my VW Golf (bless its poor old cotton socks), dancing like a twat (ocassionally), going out, staying in.
Tut Tut, Bad Girl
ALL OF YOU... but especially if you are remotely interesting and have a slight hedonistic bent!
Or are a bit mad. And definitely if you have yet to grow up. Welcome to the club!!(Would have loved to have gone on the piss with Oliver Reed and George Best - and maybe Shane Macgowan, but I can usually get myself into enough trouble without his help...)
And Abi Titmuss out on a bender with a couple of her mates might prove a nice diversion.
PLEASE: IF YOU ARE OF A SENSITIVE NATURE OR EASILY OFFENDED - you'd probably prefer some other friends.
(Although I'm not that scary really...)
Swinger??? Moi??Well.... Probably not really a Swinger, but MySpace doesn't have an option for 'Typical Fucking Chancer'!!
THE 6 CD's IN THE CAR AUTOCHANGER TODAY:-
(Changes at last - must be all those CD pressies!)
1. UNDERWORLD - 6 MONTHS OFF
Loving the new album so much I've chucked this one back in - and I'm re-loving it all over again. Trippy and bouncy, you could almost recline on the back seat of the car, spark up a big fat spliff, and CHILL! Wicked stuff.
2. PRIMAL SCREAM - SCREAMADELICA
Still sounding as good as ever!!
3. VARIOUS - DOWNLOADS
Yet another blob of silver found lurking in the glove compartment. With Audio Bully's, Body Rockers, Fischerspooner.... wicked! And bouncier than the fucking dodgy suspension...
4. UB40 - LIVE
Nearly 30 years on and it still sounds bloody good - and you STILL can't understand a fucking word Ali Campbell is singing...
5. SOUNDS OF THE SEVENTIES - SUNDAY EXPRESS GIVE-AWAY
Don't fucking laugh. This is only there 'cos it has Gil Scott Heron's 'The Bottle' - the first time I've EVER had that track on CD. You'll have to kill me to get it!!!!
6. UNDERWORLD - OBLIVION WITH BELLS
Still there - and still the more I listen, the better it gets. And Beautiful Burnout is just about as good a piece of music as has ever been chucked onto a slab of vinyl.
I am liking this a fucking lot! And my kids hate it - even more reason to love it. Pass that bloody spliff!!!
WITH A GLASS EYE ON YOU.... ELECTRIC EYE ON YOU!!And now back to the original list -In The Beginning:
It started with a bunch of old 78's - Johnnie Ray and Guy Mitchell. Doris Day.
'Walking in the Rain' and 'Singing the Blues' - unforgettable tunage. And I remember vividly Duane Eddy's 'Because They're Young' .
The old chaps Lonnie Donegan records and Mum's Cliff and Frank Ifield 45's.
And an Adam Faith album that got caned to death!Way Back In The Day:
Growing up in the sixties meant The Beatles and a little bit of Stones - and The Dave Clarke Five. Not forgetting 'Have I The Right' by The Honeycombs and lots of Searchers records.
And an old valve radio in my bedroom where, with a lot of twiddling, I could pick up Radio Luxembourg.The School Years:
There were Top of the Pops albums - hits of the day by unknown session musicians.
Pretty crap but you got to hear songs by Stevie Wonder, The Four Tops, Smokey Robinson and
lots of reggae tunes that you probably wouldn't otherwise hear. A girlfriends older brother had a Kinks album that we played all the time.There were the first parties - Junior Walker's 'Shotgun', Skinhead Moonstomp, James Brown, Dave and Ansell Collins, Stax Records, T-Rex, Slade.
My mate had Curtis Mayfield's 'Superfly', which I recorded onto an old reel to reel via a microphone and played until the tape broke.
My brother was older and I had to endure Creedence, Bob Dylan and some bloke called Neil Young. Plus the Stones 'Goats Head Soup' and later Thin Lizzy "Live".I'd moved on from T-Rex to Bowie and 'Ziggy Stardust' , Rod Stewart's 'Every Picture' and Roxy Music. Like many, after 'Ziggy' we went backwards to discover Hunky Dory
and The Man Who Sold The World - Bowie was to remain a favourite for a lot of years! And introduced me to Lou Reed as an artist.
Me and my mate took great pride that we were the only people we knew who had a copy of Burundi Black.After School:
Marvin Gaye, Stevie Wonder, Jazz Funk, even a bit of Disco.
Albums by Brothers Johnson, Hamilton Bohannon, Cameo. Lots of dancing.
Northern Soul and baggy trousers. All Nighters and All Dayers.
Then along comes punk!
Punk To Rave:
Pistols, The Damned, The Clash. Punk paved the way for a whole new batch of 'proper' bands. The Stranglers, The Jam, Elvis Costello.
I remember D.J.'ing at the local football club and being able to play The Jams 'All Around The World', Eddie & the Hotrods 'Do Anything You Wanna Do' and Jonathan Richmans 'Roadrunner'.
It was surely the death of disco!!
The chronology gets a little blurred from hereon in.
The Police, UB40, The Beat, The Associates, Thompson Twins, Soft Cell, Depeche Mode,OMD, Scritti Politti, Deacon Blue, Simple Minds, Bob Marley, most definitely the wonderful The The, U2, Style Council, Michael Jackson, Bobby Brown, Soul II Soul, Talking Heads, The Pet Shop Boys, Madonna, Bruce Springsteen, The Pogues,
Ordinary BlokePrince, Human League, Tears For Fears, Squeeze, Prefab Sprout, Aztec Camera, Tom Tom Club, Orange Juice's 'Rip It Up', Chaka Khan, The Eurythmics, The Cure,
discovering a bar in Soll, Austria that played House.
And two of the very, very best - New Order and The Smiths.
All in the decade where fashion took the piss and big hair was normal!
Ordinary BlokeRave On and Onwards:
Prodigy, Underworld, Faithless, Josh Wink's 'Higher State', Oasis, Primal Scream, Stone Roses, R.E.M., The Fugees, Paul Weller, Eminem, 50 Cent,
Happy Mondays, DJ Tiesto, KLF, Technotronic, The Verve, The Manics, Stereophonics, UK breaks, Electro, Gwen Stefani, Daft Punk, The Streets, Franz Ferdinand,
The Legendary Abingdon Skittle Alley plus Mark Bosley, Twizz, Redox, Rooster and all its inhabitants, Bjork, Coldplay, Nirvana, Sean Paul, Linkin Park.....
It could go on forever - apologies to any great artists that have been left out. But you get the idea.......
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Angel Heart, Seven, Silence of the Lambs, The Kill Bills, The Sound of Music, The Omen, Titanic, Robin Hood Prnce of Thieves, Taxi Driver, Don't Look Now, Jacobs Ladder, Straw Dogs, The Devils, anything with Sean Penn in it.
Ordinary BlokeFuck off Bill Oddie!!
It's not fucking Spring - muppet.
And Alan Sugar is fast approaching being added to my Heroes list....
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One for the slightly kinky... the erotic comics of COQ, including (and maybe especially) The Punishing of Bella Postic. Now that's what I call art!
(If you have any trouble finding 'em, message me and I'll point you in the right direction....)
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I've stolen someone's copy of Bel Du Jour's Diary. Mmmm. Interesting - but not exactly wildly exciting. And not too 'man' friendly either. Reckon that girl needs her arse spanked. FOR FREE!!!
And just picked up The Autobiography of Johnny Cash. VERY revealing. What a caner......
Helmut Newton 1920-2004Jamie Cotmore, My Mum, D.J. Yoghurt, John Wayne, Clint Eastwood, Mickey Rourke, Paul Weller, Shane McGowan, The Clash. Hard as fuck. The lot of 'em.
I have been in love with Jenny Agutter since I was about 14 - so she's a kind of heroine.
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