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To Nkroachment: Yarbles.
From Smash Hits, 1979 - reviewer: Ian Cranna
#FallFriday
7 days ago
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Smash Hits takes no prisoners! (#2) I like S25, and this LP in particular, but the ACR / EW&F crack = actual LOL.
12 days ago
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Today's chazzer booty, £1.50. On CD, Mr. Cutler's 1st album for Virgin, who quickly signed him up after hearing his cameo on Robert Wyatt's peerless Rock Bottom. Dandruff features some of the earliest instalments of the Life In A Scotch Sitting Room saga, amongst other Ivor-ian tidbits...
12 days ago
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More people remember this single for the intro than the song itself I reckon but, man, I could use some sweltering 1965 sunshine right now...
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Summer Fun
YouTube video by The Barracudas - Topic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOaEFoUlGu4&list=RDyOaEFoUlGu4&start_radio=1
17 days ago
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Mondays, eh?
25 days ago
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A rare pic of Mark Smith being given a big hand - from New Musical Express, November 1980.
#FallFriday
28 days ago
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45th anniversary. 35p! David Sylvian on the cover, and an early (for me) sighting of Fad Gadget. Long live Smash Hits!
29 days ago
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John Barry meets Martin Rev? Soft Cell - who were always the best of the Brit synth bands (the ones that charted anyway) - had as much in common with Throbbing Gristle as the Human League. Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret was released the week after my 15th birthday - what an education! R.I.P. Dave Ball.
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Heat (Live On The Oxford Road Show / 1983) [REMASTERED] · Soft Cell
YouTube video by Soft Cell - Hits & Pieces
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3E5WDx4ggjE&list=RD3E5WDx4ggjE&start_radio=1
about 1 month ago
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Tom Cox
about 1 month ago
To celebrate the rerelease of my short story collection Help The Witch via
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I’m giving away TWO signed copies each with a beautiful original linoprints by my mum, from the book (now v rare & worth £40). To enter you just need to repost this and pop a reply below.
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#Last4Albums
Slapp Happy - Sort Of John Maus - Later Than You Think Art Objects - Bagpipe Music R. Stevie Moore - What's The Point? Slapp Happy features most of Wümme-era Faust as its backing band, and the Art Objects released their sole LP shortly before evolving into the Blue Aeroplanes.
about 1 month ago
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So, ask yourself... ...where has this song been all your life?
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R. Stevie Moore ~ Part Of The Problem (1979) HD
YouTube video by rstevie moore
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSHWq9paxUk&list=RDNSHWq9paxUk&start_radio=1
about 1 month ago
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An excerpt from Lee & Herring's Fist Of Fun book, c.1995. "Stew" also warbles on about the West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band and John Zorn on the same page, which must've baffled the show's teenage fans at the time but hallelujah to that.
#FallFriday
about 1 month ago
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Breaking news.
about 1 month ago
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If I could freeze time at the flick of a switch I wouldn't hesitate, no. Early Chameleons on Belgian telly, whup!
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The Chameleons - Up The Down Escalator, Generation 80, Belgian TV 12.11.83
YouTube video by TravisBickle1963
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qs5rp1I0j1w&list=RDqs5rp1I0j1w&start_radio=1
about 1 month ago
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The myth persists that these dour-looking '80s Factory Records bands were a joyless lot, but No.68 definitely had perfect comic timing.
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Section 25 - New Horizon (1981)
YouTube video by Indie Top 20
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKuHaEAxe5M&list=RDhKuHaEAxe5M&start_radio=1
about 2 months ago
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Today's chazzer booty, £1. I found an old Beano annual in a charity shop earlier this week and was surprised to discover that I'd completely forgotten about Billy The Cat. This "coming soon" ad was published in the weekly Beano comic in March 1970 - drawn by David Sutherland.
about 2 months ago
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"I remember the times this was the beginning of a permissive new age, but it's the same old cabbage."
#FallFriday
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The Fall - Mess Of My (Peel Session)
YouTube video by Vibracobra23 Redux
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwJPNT_Oquw&list=RDvwJPNT_Oquw&start_radio=1
about 2 months ago
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Now playing /// First listen, and it's reminding me of '70s Eno, peak Cocteau Twins, and (of course) Cate f*cking Le Bon so far. She's singularly brilliant and I don't understand why she isn't HUGE but I'm happy for her to remain "our little secret" for a while longer...
about 2 months ago
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The shouts of the boys in the factory.
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Composition Of Sound /Depeche Mode/ - Ice Machine - Demo
YouTube video by Branislav Sopúch
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ulbd2TWfPFs&list=RDUlbd2TWfPFs&start_radio=1
about 2 months ago
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Punch in punch out.
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Minutemen - This Aint No Picnic
YouTube video by chimpomaticdotcom
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Lnv8GX3qGA&list=RD5Lnv8GX3qGA&start_radio=1
about 2 months ago
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A big fave in the '90s but I honestly can't remember the last time I listened to it - time moves on, etc - but it's playing now and it (still) sounds fantastic... headphones on, submerging. Q: What does your soul look like?
2 months ago
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Herr Smith addresses snarky NME hacks - May 1986
#FallFriday
2 months ago
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Smash Hits takes no prisoners! Harsh, but...
2 months ago
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Now playing: Are there any other bands who, half a century after their inception, are still releasing music as good as the Mekons? Best British band of the last 50 years? I'm probably biased but, almost certainly, yes.
2 months ago
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Smash Hits (of course), 1982.
2 months ago
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De-Evolution is real...
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Burger King Have it Your Way 1974 Commercial
YouTube video by RBLXMario5422
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FkY2hRCb0PQ
2 months ago
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One of the very best DJs I've ever had the pleasure of dancing to, second only to The Chairman (Weatherall). RIP.
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JD Twitch, esteemed Scottish DJ in duo Optimo, dies aged 57
The producer and DJ, real name Keith McIvor, had been diagnosed with an untreatable brain tumour earlier this year
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2025/sep/20/jd-twitch-esteemed-scottish-dj-in-duo-optimo-dies-aged-57
2 months ago
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When you look at the pigeons The crippled pigeons And the litter The wind-blown litter And the wing mirror The whacked-off wing mirror And you see beauty in it all You know you’re in trouble.
2 months ago
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Beneath the rule, a country hides.
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Map Ref 41 Degrees N 93 Degrees W
YouTube video by Wire - Topic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0S5mx0Jex8&list=RDZ0S5mx0Jex8&start_radio=1
2 months ago
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Poets Against The Bomb (1981) - inc. readings by Ivor Cutler, Adrian Henri, Pete Brown, Phyllis King, Brian Patten, Harold Pinter, Adrian Mitchell, and several more I don't recognise.
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Poets Against the Bomb (1981)
YouTube video by BFI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vYjEKWq970
2 months ago
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Now playing: an iceberg in a jungle. I've had a swift lunchtime beer so I'm tempted to jump around the living room to this - but I have creaky floorboards so I don't think the neighbours would approve. Released 42 years ago. I don't believe it!
3 months ago
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Today's chazzer booty, 50p. I watched the film again last year, for the first time since the '90s - tough viewing, but (still) brilliant. Slint, Daniel Johnston, and lots of Lou Barlow on the soundtrack CD.
3 months ago
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The Graun just published its list of the 20 best ever Floyd songs and can you guess which one they didn't include? The silly sods... Grumpy postcard from Nottingham:
3 months ago
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The contentious "Papal Visit" - The Fall at their spectral, hallucinatory best. Imagine if they'd released an entire LP of tracks like this one, "WMC-Blob 59", "Iceland", and "Medical Acceptance Gate"?
#fallfriday
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Papal Visit
YouTube video by The Fall - Topic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R43h9DE-fM0&list=RDR43h9DE-fM0&start_radio=1
3 months ago
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Chatham Town welcomes desperate men (and women).
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Demolition Man
YouTube video by The Chatham Singers - Topic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54Er71Wa5Og&list=RD54Er71Wa5Og&start_radio=1
3 months ago
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Oh dear. How sad. Never mind.
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John Lennon’s killer denied parole for 14th time
Mark David Chapman, 70, is serving 20-years-to-life sentence in New York after fatally shooting Beatle in 1980
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2025/sep/10/john-lennon-killer-parole-denied
3 months ago
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Bobby Peru don't come up for air.
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Luna - Bobby Peru HD
YouTube video by The Arkive
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZ9t869USqs&list=RDjZ9t869USqs&start_radio=1
3 months ago
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Yesterday's chazzer booty, £3. Believe me when I say rock and roll is here to stay.
3 months ago
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Hector Berloiz - Highlights From La Damnation De Faust (Classics For Pleasure LP, 1973) - cover illustration by Harry Clarke.
#FallFriday
3 months ago
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Yesterday's chazzer booty, £1. No cover artist credit unfortunately.
3 months ago
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MES in Central Park, NYC, 18th May 1990 - photographer: Ebet Roberts
#FallFriday
3 months ago
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To Maureen, with love and squalor.
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New Age (Live At The Matrix, San Francisco 11-24-69)
YouTube video by The Velvet Underground - Topic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=erGg1tZyAv4&list=RDerGg1tZyAv4&start_radio=1
3 months ago
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"The OUTSIDERS GROUP" - Pre-Fall letter from MES to bassist Tony Friel, January 1977. Was ist "Chile's Dead", "Paranoid Baby"? Happy memories & a bitter taste? It took them nearly 30 years to release their "I Can Hear The Grass Grow" cover but they managed it eventually!
#FallFriday
3 months ago
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Joe Totale vs. Mere Music Mag. Hack - from Sounds, August 1980.
#fallfriday
4 months ago
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Nez says: Buy This Record (wink).
4 months ago
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Q: What is your greatest fear? A: Insanity. I am on a recovery programme – clean from drugs & drink for many years – & if I stopped doing all that stuff I’d go crazy pretty quick & pick up drugs again, because I was a real f*cking addict. I'm currently half way through his memoir & it's a cracker.
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Kevin Rowland: ‘If I could bring something extinct back to life it would be the Labour party’
The Dexys Midnight Runners singer on being arrested 15 times, a crushing comment from his dad and a lesson from Shakespeare
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2025/aug/09/kevin-rowland-dexys-midnight-runners-interview
4 months ago
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Tough crowd! But a terrific clip... I'm so grateful that recordings like this one still exist. 24K Dylan gold.
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Bob Dylan - Talkin' World War III Blues (LIVE FOOTAGE 1964)
YouTube video by Swingin’ Pig
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFWQaLUNEdA&list=RDVFWQaLUNEdA&start_radio=1
4 months ago
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I'm on a Dylan roll at the moment, exhaustively reacquainting myself after watching *that* film through my trembling fingers (for some of it anyway). I've got as far as Planet Waves and had no idea about this until now...
4 months ago
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"Brix prepares to save the nation" - from Sounds, September 1985.
#FallFriday
4 months ago
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"There's a new club in town Plenty of space to posey around It's a copy of the Peppermint Lounge." Live take with pre-cog Creepers guitar riff. Take that, Hacienda!
#FallFriday
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Room to Live (Live)
YouTube video by The Fall - Topic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJAFdohn2nA&list=RDCJAFdohn2nA&start_radio=1
4 months ago
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