This LP was a huge teenage fave of mine - ta for the reminder @jm60.bsky.social. Another cheapo Selectadisc purchase. Unfortunately, after two scorching days off, it's time for me to Quit Dreaming & Get Back To Work. Meh.

"You'll forget about dying, you'll forget about time" The perfect remedy. Gotta get me some.

The first time I heard this was c/o a bootleg cassette a friend dubbed for me in the '80s and it was mislabeled as "Who Do You Think You're Feeling?" which seems wryly appropriate.

I stayed with my folks over the Bank Holiday. Dad's been up in the attic having a clear out, and I've been reunited with the first record I ever owned. Reader, I have no shame:

Now playing: Michael's nervous and the lights are bright.

Jimi's boudoir, trés groovy:

Happy but melting.

From Smash Hits, July 1980: #FallFriday

They may be drinkers, Robin, but they're also human beings.

Beatnik newsflash. Forgotten Nico-era V.U. live footage discovered in San Fran television archive. Only a minute or so but (eek) it's in full colour. Reportedly the whole thing is going to be released in a few days' time...

Sank without trace back in 1987. Still sounds pretty effin' great though. And there's a video too...

I'm a shock-trooper in a stupor yes I am.

19 minutes on the Beeb with Damo - rec. 20th February 1973. Originally titled "Spare A Light?" until Peel set a comp on his show for a listener to (re)name it - the winner received a copy of the Ege Bam Yasi LP (see BTL comments). p.s. Jaki's on fire on this one!

From NME, May 1981. Initial reaction being: "Who the f*ck were Wild Horses?" n.b. Undertones raking it in at a whopping £3.50!

Midnight trawling for something to wriggle to led me to this ace low-key set by French vinyl-tickler Sibil who, I admit, I'd never heard of before. Her folks pop up at the end which is just perfect somehow - dad looks like he would've preferred to wait in the car but mum's obviously a closet raver.

And so, to bed:

Just off screen, Cream's manager is pointing a gun at Clapton's head and hissing "Mime, you c*nt".

"Rest assured, this will not last, take a turn for the worse." Fellow travellers, dig in.

Bank Holiday mood:

Yep, I'm a day early but this afternoon's shift was my last until Wednesday, I've opened a bottle of Newcastle Brown Ale, and I'm sitting in the dark looking out at the stars and watching the traffic creeping by while this terrific Charlie Gillett compiled LP (from 1973!) spins on the turntable...

Pterodactyl cackle. #FallFriday

Lipstick traces on a cigarette.

Neil beats Noel.

Without the gun you have to give them something to respect.

1971 - Oi grebo, heavy scene going down in Torbay...

Keef's harmonies, oh my.

It is happening again.

Current mood! Thanks for the reminder @cici6923.bsky.social.

Keep the country moving with production. A lilting Monday morning ballad.

Bizarre and amazing. The parrot looks traumatised, mind...

No RSD for me because I rarely buy new vinyl nowadays - but I had a terrific afternoon in the chazzers instead. You know those charmed mornings when you head out on a casual charity shop safari with a few random titles in mind & find all of them for peanuts? Well, today was one of those... i.e.

New Boards Of Canada and Massive Attack (with Tom Waits!) on the same day - I feel like 2026 may've just turned a very promising corner...

Tuesday is the new Monday.

NO TIME TO LOSE.

Not quite as ghastly as I was expecting... Tbf if it turned up on disc 4 of an expanded Metal Box reissue, labelled as a "December 1978 demo" or something, you'd probably give it the benefit of the doubt:

From Flexipop magazine, 1982: quite possibly the very first photo of Mark I ever saw anywhere, apart from a couple of grimy band pics in the NME? Both the article and his appearance (the shirt! the hair!) made a big impression on the 15 year old me... #FallFriday

Yer Fabs kicking 'em out in July '69.

I haven't listened to this EP half as much as I ought to've done - & I really wish they'd appended it all to their Cousin LP rather than charging me an additional tenner for the (CD) privilege - but it's another blue-chip Cate Le Bon production job so I guess I'll forgive 'em. American's best, yes?

The sun's out and I'm on holiday, so I'm off to visit some old Ladies...

Dear American citizens, whatever you wish more German citizens would have done in 1933, do that now.

Where the pyramid meets the eye... ...the greatest Roky cover ever!

You want a f*cking time capsule? I'll give you a f*cking time capsule! In the future, all 20th century cultural history will look like this, i.e. beautiful degraded VHS... If D Boon were still alive he'd probably be PUSA by now.

Hey you, Horror-Face.

"The Fall used to be exciting, stimulating and the best night out that dole money could buy." A bad review for Good Friday, plus bonus Felt ("A degree of latent insanity") - from Sounds, 18th December 1982. Photographer: Tin Tin. #FallFriday

More like a handjob than a hand-jive.

Best thing I've seen on Youtube in ages... and surely the only time Kevin lip-synced to one of his songs for a TV pop show?

I know a place where we can hide from the human race outside the count down's started & your bags are packed we leave this planet tonight, my dear let's ride (yeah) (Cringey '80s promo vid incoming...)

Weep to water the trees.