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Essential Listening: New Wave – The Auteurs (1993)
Recently I’ve been trawling through a lot of nineties music. I couldn’t tell you why I’m doing this, or doing this now. I suspect it’s a subconscious hankering to retain fading memories married with the entirely conscious rationalisation of aging. … Continue reading
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Tagged 90's, Aspiration, Blur, Britpop, En Vogue, Essential Listening, Getting old, Luke Haines, New Wave, Not Britpop, Oasis, Pulp, Teens have bad taste in music, Thatcherism, The Auteurs, TLC
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Song Of The Day – Making Plans For Nigel by XTC
From the album ‘Drums and Wires’ (1979)
Song Of The Day – I Remember That by Prefab Sprout
From the album ‘From Langley Park To Memphis’ (1988)
Posted in Song Of The Day
Tagged 80's, From Langley Park To Memphis, Prefab Sprout, Song Of The Day, Underrated
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Does leafleting work?
I’ve been getting quite a few leaflets from various political parties through my letterbox recently, more than seems normal. I’ll concede that my sense of what constitutes a normal quota of leaflets is completely notional. Leafleting is a habitual element … Continue reading
Posted in Politics
Tagged Alex Salmond, BNP, Green, Labour, Leaflets, Scottish Conservatives, Scottisn Independence, UKIP
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