Morrisey is looking increasingly like Jim Bowen, don't you think? How long before my gay friends start having Bullseye parties instead of gathering around recordings of the Eurovision Song Contest.....
I'm miserable now, Barbara. That would be a blog beyond blogs. The alternative title for that was the First Of The Gang To Die, but frankly, Mr Shankly, I think he lost it with The Boy With The Thorn In His Side which was either unwitting self-parody or a huge pisstake. Anyway, here's what you could have won....
What you say is certainly true to a point in that rock music is an essentially American idiom, which is why it was rightly banned by the Soviet bloc. It is also cultural imperialism in that it was black music stolen by whites. How it ever got to Kent and the Rolling Stones is a mystery and why a middle class white boy like Jagger (wasn't he on Blue Peter in his youth?) would labour under the illusion that he was a) American and b) good at being black is also something I would love to be explained. Richard Ashcroft's only good song was, as a court decided, nicked from the Rolling Stones anyway. The bands you mention, Mr Reddleman, transcend that and produced, at one point, truly British music wich actually had fuck all to do with ripping off Little Red Rooster.So that is good. But it is also true that the very act of picking up a microphone or a guitar somehow engenders a belief and an accent that one was born in the USA. The Rolling Stones, by the way, have not produced a decent record since Some Girls, and that was mostly a pisstake of country. They should all, of course, have been shot.
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I'm miserable now, Barbara. That would be a blog beyond blogs. The alternative title for that was the First Of The Gang To Die, but frankly, Mr Shankly, I think he lost it with The Boy With The Thorn In His Side which was either unwitting self-parody or a huge pisstake. Anyway, here's what you could have won....
That is a truly great concept....
What you say is certainly true to a point in that rock music is an essentially American idiom, which is why it was rightly banned by the Soviet bloc. It is also cultural imperialism in that it was black music stolen by whites. How it ever got to Kent and the Rolling Stones is a mystery and why a middle class white boy like Jagger (wasn't he on Blue Peter in his youth?) would labour under the illusion that he was a) American and b) good at being black is also something I would love to be explained. Richard Ashcroft's only good song was, as a court decided, nicked from the Rolling Stones anyway. The bands you mention, Mr Reddleman, transcend that and produced, at one point, truly British music wich actually had fuck all to do with ripping off Little Red Rooster.So that is good. But it is also true that the very act of picking up a microphone or a guitar somehow engenders a belief and an accent that one was born in the USA. The Rolling Stones, by the way, have not produced a decent record since Some Girls, and that was mostly a pisstake of country. They should all, of course, have been shot.
And they have brought back Bullseye on Challenge TV with Dave Spikey, no less, as compere. You could not make it up, as they say.
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