lost indie corner

desert island discs... it's not anyone's desert island discs is it it's let's go through your life chronologically with the top hits of the day the most obvious flipping things you know backwards.... or you don't know backwards cos you've had the bloomin sense to turn that horror off the second you'd heard it twice.... i'm looking at you oh gawd help us ... everyone... i have a long long long list of the famous/influential/inspiring that would be roasting on a spit along with their "discs" five seconds after i was marooned with them.... this is the kind of fuckery my insomniac ruined noggin grasps at to blank out the true terrors it really wants to get into through all the wriggling hours so i'm forever grateful... everyone really knows the desert island discs are impossible to choose... it might even be better to have no songs than just eight... and besides all the ones you truly love every scratch and crackle and 1234 are always there to whistle and to bawl.... but... if really pressed i'd want things i've still not ever quite got to grips with... the jazzers that go deeper than i've ever dared... the swingers that the words still escape me after a million goes.and a hipswaying fringe flicking tremelo trembler to boot...

the raw herbs - so wired 

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modal monday

another of the astounding wonders hiding in the huge pile of astounding wonders shared by the long gone inspiration informationers ... could've been a wordless wednesday smash but hell at my age who can wait till wednesday? 

wishing you every comfort petals

yusef lateef - titoro

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beat girl

am i the last to know?  all those times at the stockport vintage village scooter rally full of fat anything but modernists (apart from a handful of beautiful old dandies) with their xxxl parkas full of patches of groups they've forgotten stood against everything they've turned into .... as we sneered and played impressions records when they asked if we'd got any "mod music" it turned out one of those patches was even more astoundingly amazingly revolutionary than they (and me) could ever have imagined... and the wankers would've hated it... 

that beat girl beat logo ... the girl pictured dancing with prince buster... brigitte bond... a trans woman...

how absolutely wonderful

gawd how i wish i'd known all those years ago

how absolutely wonderful

she even had a record out on blue beat... this is the b-side...

brigitte bond - oh! yeah baby

all this revelationary/revolutionary news is all down to the amazing work of miss upsetter... watch and learn dear hearts...

https://youtu.be/A7RNzArsQx8

(still can't get the enbed thing to work... bugger)

oh and seeing as it's you here's the beat off the c81 cassette...

the beat - twist and crawl (dub)

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oh tony

still playing tony bennett records... the above is one you should all have a charity shop classic an absolute tear you aparter and such a wonderful wonderful go at quiet nights (corcovado)... but .. (stop me if you've heard this one before)... 

"my world was dull each minute

before i found you

innit"

can't not hear it ... enchanted wondermented all the way till then and then it's gone gone ruined ruined

tony bennett - quiet nights (corcovado)

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(we've definitely had this before but i'm not looking it up if you're not)

lost indie corner

 

always a sucker for a country tinged heartbreaker a backing singer the singer singer should've let sing it song... 

another of those i've no idea where it came from another gift from the shakers and sharers... actually looked up the group and it's some family cat connection another lot who despite being around and about folks i knew i've never knowingly heard so oh told you before and you should know by now there'll be no yr heart out insight and learning and all here... 

it's a lovely song a grower and a very fine way to start lost indie corner

jack adaptor - everyone talked about us

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oh tony

 

oh tony... fucking hell you were ace... (eloquent as ever but heck he was) ... two of the most wonderful shows i've ever been at... my only visit to the albert hall... the show at madame jojo's i mssed and still haunts me... the beautiful beautiful beautiful beautiful beautiful records... oh tony... that muppet show for gawd's sake... thankyou mr bennett x

tony bennett - maybe this time

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oh mister bennett

 

(oh tony bennett... going to take a breath before we even think of really talking about tony because oh hell you know,,, what amazing joy he brought us...)

as ever thank heaven's for football (which today's whatsit was supposed to be about)...  i don't really care about the teams the leagues the all sorts expept when i do... but the radio noise distraction of choice is always football... on talksport today they were all what a brilliant trans ally neville southall is ... and in a isn't that ace way.... imagine that... well done hawksbee and jacobs (the best show on radio)

but the main thing is the joy of the match commentary how it takes me away from the grim foul horridness of news and events and rotters and most of the time when it's finished having absolutely no idea what went on at all...

which brings us to the greatest football song ever...  

gordon banks and friends - we'll be together

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