Funnily enough, "Fear of Music" opened a complete new musical world to me when I just turned 17. Before then, it was The Jam, TSC, The Specials and Bruce Springsteen. And all of that music is good, but "Fear" was something else: outsider funk for nerds. Still is.

Still love it, I've got the 5.1 version on DVD-Audio and the live versions of the tracks on "Stop Making Sense" and the Rome concert in 1980.

When, to my discredit, I was doing a lot of coke with whisky my drug chum and me use to give "Fear of Music" and "Stop Making Sense" on DVD plenty of air play. Also Reed's "Coney Island Baby". Great music to do those drugs by, probably a lot of those songs were written on narcotics. Drugs/Electricity being the most obvious one.

I remember a freaky gay hairdresser telling me once that David Byrne had taken that much MDMA, he was left in a permanent state of tripping. Utter BS of course.

Some punk by `sick of it all':
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ek-Qt_1rMOA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fvu951up_0

Last edited by The_Shooman (2010-12-15 04:51:11)

The master of Hard Bop: Hank Mobley, "Ultramarine" with Milt Jackson on vibes, Horace Silver on piano, Art Blakey on drums and Doug Watkins on bass.

The perfect antidote to being snowed in with only a wide selection of Belgium ales in the house, most of them Trappist and not one less than 6.3% alcohol.

I'm generally wary of Belgium ales on the principle that they're overtly sugared due to a lack of hops and become sickly after two or three. Not to mention they're not suitable for session drinking.

In saying that, being flat broke until pay day, I allowed the missus who was in Lidl to buy me two 6 bottle boxes of Belgium ales from the Petrus family brewery. Some interesting aged ales and sadly, some sugar caned Dubbels that are a fast track root to diabetes.

Most of my altercations with drinking chums occurred after imbibing several pints of Stella Artois and tequila chasers. I remember one evening in an Indian restaurant one of my friends walking out of the lavatory with the toilet seat around his neck. Also coming to my senses running through the middle of Chester one evening, with one of my shoes off and being held as I ran sockless past two bemused coppers.  "Rioting!" I exclaimed, "They're rioting! Run like billy-yo!"  I managed to jump in a taxi and waxed lyrical to the taxi driver about some weird shit involving royals, gangsters and tabloid journalism. Then there was the time I did my knuckles in punching the windows in of Marks & Spencers as a dare.

Such was the power of Stella Artois at 5.2%.  There was something all together darker and more powerful than simple alcohol in that lager beer.

Last edited by Big Tony (2010-12-20 12:11:30)

And of course me old favourite: Jake The Peg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJleJbn9G6Y

l remember going to New Years Eve parties as a kid, and an old guy that looked like an older version of Rolf got up drunk every year and sang that song. lt was always a hoot, he was good too.

Last edited by The_Shooman (2010-12-29 19:02:41)

Today...

The dandy highwayman himself...

Yep...

Adam & his Ants....

Kings of the Wild Frontier.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSSzlLfmpRE

Jesus....

A serious rare blast from the past, Serge Chaloff's "Boston Blow-up!" and then lined up is Zoot Sims "Quartets" from 1951, pure modernist delight.  And goes well with tea and kippers.

Ms FXH has got me listening to White Mice - Versions.

Can anybody tell me a bit more about this? I call it dub

"White Mice, born Allan Crichton around 1970, came up through the ranks on Sugar Minott's Youthman Promotions sound system, Jammy's Hi Power and the smaller Ticka Muzik sound from his birthplace - Montego Bay, rising to local celebrity whilst performing with Tenor Saw at Sunsplash 85."