Showing posts with label alternative. Show all posts
Showing posts with label alternative. Show all posts

Wednesday, July 23

Cocteau Twins - Pearly Dewdrops Drops



The first chart success for Grangemouth's finest export (except for petrol from the BP refinery)...

Tuesday, July 22

The Farmers Boys - Phew Wow



How did such a handsome bunch of guys never manage to have a hit?

Wednesday, July 16

Stan Ridgway - The Big Heat



Yes, there was always more to Stan Ridgway than novelty songs about ghost soldiers...

Saturday, July 5

It's Immaterial - Ed's Funky Diner



The follow-up to their slightly better remembered hit Driving Away From Home. It's Immaterial are, in true Spinal Tap tradition, currently residing in the "Where Are They Now?" file.

Sunday, June 29

The Cure - Hot Hot Hot!!!



Here's Robert Smith on Stars In Their Eyes. "Tonight, Matthew, I'm going to be... Suggs!"

Friday, June 27

Stump - Charlton Heston



"Thou shalt not bonk thy neighbour's wife!" Ideally this should have been reissued a few months ago when Charlton Heston died, but never mind.

Tuesday, June 24

Depeche Mode - Love In Itself



One of the Mode's forgotten singles from around the time they stopped being twee teenyboppers and started banging bits of metal together.

Uploaded to YouTube by a user called FanOfDepecheMode, whose description of the video is:

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