CHEWITS - the monster muncher

with huge thanks to simon james via a comment on i like. these adverts make me giggle like an i don't know what.

Chewits

terrys ten

just for the coincidence of 'what do i get?' really. and i bet 'take five' isn't one of his favourite bits of music anymore. charles aznavour though...well done terry


charles aznanour - she

funny how there's nothing on the list that would lead me to think of the specials or the fun boy three, but it kinda makes some sense of the colourfield (terry's couple of alright singles but generally uninspiring pop act).
i saw terry in boots on upper street a couple of years ago and got so stupidly excited i had to rush home before i started blabbing 'you're terry hall you , you're great you are...'. it was quite a shock.

time's up mr mcclane

there are days i would make a brilliant film baddie. i was going to say bond villian but i'm thinking more die hard 5 because we love bruce , and they always have excellent baddies who can't do accents. i can't do accents, and i have a mean cat and some murderously pointy shoes so i think the role is mine. ideally the base for my nefarious doings would be here

but it could also be here

or here


if bruce wouldn't come to blighty i'd be more than happy to do my plotting and scheming from a sunnier location.
maybe here

here

or here


the lengths i will go to for sparkly treasures know no bounds and the targets of my greed this week are so marvelous i'm not sure you could stand to look upon them.
they currently live in the manchester music archive , but not for long...
oh go on then, look, but don't forget they're mine.





buzzcocks were (well, are) everything you could ever want from a pop group. there's the super enigmatic weird disappeared one, the camp one, the bit of rough, the pretty one, and the one you can't quite picture (but when you look it turns out he's a real sweetie), all making singles of unrellenting excellence.
you'll all have 'singles going steady' (obviously) so here's 'time's up' off of spiral scratch. everyone knows that 'boredom' is untouchable but this has one of the world's greatest opening lines...

buzzcocks - time's up

and 'what do i get?'

polari time

so here we are at week two already - i hope you've been practicing and spent the whole time sat on your aris...


b is for ...

bona meaning good, grand, nice, lovely
as in the bona school of polari, and 'how bona to vada your dolly old eke'.
and instead of the dull old 'good night' let's try ' bona nochy' sweeties.

b is also for

bugger!
if i had to count the number of times i say this every day i'd spend all day counting. it goes very well with arse!.
apparently popular with footballers.

and b is also for

bill evans who everybody digs.
'peace piece' got old gilles peterson sacked from jazz fm on the eve of the last gulf war and sadly is just as apt today.



bill evans - peace piece

BOB

at last there's a proper BOB myspace with a whole bunch of tunes covering their horridly blighted career. i wish i wasn't to blame for a small chunk of it, and had at least made sure the covers for the sombrero releases were nicer, but what you gonna do?
they were going to be the turn featured under B in the next polari lesson, but now you can just head over to myspace instead - BOB house of teeth



they're probably best remembered in a monkees without a tv show kind of way, and for a couple of years their live shows were the happiest places in town, but the slightly darker stuff they went on to do has weathered much better. i was going to play you my favourite - 'i don't know', but it's on the myspace, so instead here's a spanking b-side
BOB - time and again

once upon a time