For the second year running, the rather wonderful 5CD New Age Steppers collection, Stepping
Into A New Age 1980-2012, gets a look in. There have been some fabulous CD box set reissues in 2022. My favourites have included Satellite Life, collecting Billy Mackenzie's recordings between 1994 and 1996 on 3 CDs. The Times' run of albums from their first incarnation were represented with a ton of bonus tracks on the 6CD set My Picture Gallery: The Artpop! Recordings. It actually came out in 2021, but I didn't buy it until May this year. Ironically, neither artist features in today's selection.
Researching respective posts got me going back to several artists from my teens, notably The Jesus & Mary Chain, Ramones, Orbital and David Sylvian. David Holmes' new album with Unloved this year also prompted me to belatedly buy the soundtrack to Series 1 and 2 of Killing Eve, which includes a fair few 1960s and 1970s nuggets, including out there husband and wife duo Ramases and Selket (Kimberley and Dorothy to their neighbours).
There are a couple of artists from my birthplace, Bristol: Babyhead, who I rediscovered when reminiscing about the annual festival at Ashton Court and Emily Breeze, who I heard for the first time this year and have been a huge fan of ever since.
To bring things to a close, The Abyssinians with an unreleased 'extended mix' of a 1982 song, courtesy of the 27 Leggies music blog during the summer after yet another postponed gig. Fingers crossed it's sixth time lucky in 2023, Ernie.
Today's photo was taken in the Gloucestershire village of Wotton-under-Edge a couple of weeks ago. It's the tried-and-tested hairdresser/barber shop staple of using a bad pun for a business name, but this one made me smile. I've never visited, so please don't take this bit of free advertising as an endorsement. I've also not eaten at the Indian restaurant with the garish orange frontage a few doors down. Parking's a nightmare, though.
More 2022 highlights tomorrow.
1) Тютюнник (Tiutiunnyk) (John Peel Session): The Wedding Present (1987)
2) Clay Pigeons: Blaze Foley (1977)
3) Move Ya Loin: Roots Manuva ft. Lotek (2005)
4) Pulling Punches (Album Version): David Sylvian (1984)
5) Call In Sick Today (Album Version): Emily Breeze (2019)
6) Good For My Soul: The Jesus & Mary Chain (1992)
7) Drown: Karen O & Danger Mouse (2019)
8) Chime Crime (Remix): Orbital (1992)
9) Distraction (Radioactive Man Remix By Keith Tenniswood): C.A.R. (2020)
10) Good Voodoo (Gaudi Remix By Daniele Gaudi): Ganga Giri (2011)
11) The Bottle (12 Inch): The Tyrrel Corporation (1992)
12) My Whole World: New Age Steppers (1981)
13) Killing Time: Babyhead (2003)
14) I'm Not Jesus: Ramones (1987)
15) Screw You (Single Version): Ramases & Selket (1970)
16) Withered And Died: Richard & Linda Thompson (1974)
17) Praise Him / Praise Him Dub: The Abyssinians (1982)
Call In Sick Today: Emily Breeze
When I was young I thought I’d bring the world to its knees
Smoking skunk in the daytime, skim reading Socrates
Please....
Jesus said, I should get out of bed and I replied
Fly me first class to heaven in a neon pink cocktail dress
I don't get up for less
Because these are the strangest days I’ve ever seen
So give me C.B.T and sertraline
As I sashay through the decades on a vast indifferent sea
Lets get high in the cemetery,
Call in sick today
Waste a day with me,
I'm gonna start a cult
And you'll build a time machine
Let's go rob a bank
And go on a killing spree
Because these are the strangest days I’ve ever seen
So give me C.B.T and sertraline
Did you catch my million dollar movie?
It went straight to T.V
But I still believe, I still believe
That it's easy to bury reality
But hard to dispose of your dreams
So I still believe, I still believe
When I was young I thought I'd bring the world to its knees
Call in sick today baby waste a day with me
When I was young I thought I’d bring the world to its knees
And I still believe, I still believe
Call in sick today baby, waste a day with me
Cos I still believe, I still believe.
Smoking skunk in the daytime, skim reading Socrates
Please....
Jesus said, I should get out of bed and I replied
Fly me first class to heaven in a neon pink cocktail dress
I don't get up for less
Because these are the strangest days I’ve ever seen
So give me C.B.T and sertraline
As I sashay through the decades on a vast indifferent sea
Lets get high in the cemetery,
Call in sick today
Waste a day with me,
I'm gonna start a cult
And you'll build a time machine
Let's go rob a bank
And go on a killing spree
Because these are the strangest days I’ve ever seen
So give me C.B.T and sertraline
Did you catch my million dollar movie?
It went straight to T.V
But I still believe, I still believe
That it's easy to bury reality
But hard to dispose of your dreams
So I still believe, I still believe
When I was young I thought I'd bring the world to its knees
Call in sick today baby waste a day with me
When I was young I thought I’d bring the world to its knees
And I still believe, I still believe
Call in sick today baby, waste a day with me
Cos I still believe, I still believe.
I have made a note to myself to get that New Age Steppers box set. I made the same note when you recommended it last year but then forgot.
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DeleteYou know it makes sense, Ernie.
DeleteI also made a note to myself to get that Adrian Sherwood Presents: Dub No Frontiers when you previously recommended it, then forgot. Thanks for the nudge/reminder in your 2022 highlights over at 27 Leggies. I suspect it would have made my selection too if I'd actually bought it!
DeleteJust when you think you've seen every hairdresser pun there is...
ReplyDeleteJohn, I live in hope that somewhere in the world there is a barber shop specialising in Elvis Presley styles, named Hair 'Em, Scare 'Em.
DeleteGives new meaning to flyaway hair! *tish-boom* Wotton-under-Edge eh? can't get more rock & or roll than that! I recall (maybe, memory being what it isn't etc..) wandering around there one Xmas many (many!) years ago listening to Roxy Music Greatest Hits as my Dad looked to purchase a wheel of cheddar! Thanks for your blogging endeavours & All Best for 2023! anwe
ReplyDeleteAh, I was wondering where my comedy cymbal had gone, thanks, anwe! Roxy Music, Wotton-under-Edge and a wheel of Cheddar, you can't get much more Xmas (or rock & roll) than that! Thanks for your comments, anwe, always good to hear from you. Have a very Happy New Year!
DeleteAh, I love Hair O Dynamics! Up there with the best fish-and-chip shop puns too. I wonder when that all started; I don't remember such a thing when I was growing up. Slightly off on a tangent, but there's a lovely litttle short and quite poignant documentary from 1994 featuring three ladies' hair salons in Blackpool, that's recently been added to iPlayer. Worth a watch if you have a spare half hour (called 'Three Salons At The Seaside'). I find it hard to think of it as 1994, it looks as if it comes from another age altogether, far far earlier! I guess that's the thing with getting older :-(
ReplyDeleteThanks, C. It was definitely around in suburban Bristol: haridressers, fish and chip shops and pet shops were the usual suspects; I think hairdressers also had a thing for portmanteau titles, combining the names of their children or spouse.
DeleteI haven't seen "Three Salons..." but I coincidentally spotted a tweet about it from Tracey Thorn, so with two such recommendations, I will definitely check it out. The last comment resonated, where I live often looks and feels like it comes from another age altogether and not always in a good way!
Re ;3 Salons..' . earlier this year, Documentary Now! S4 ep "Two Hairdressers in Bagglyport" did a very fun spoof if you can find it. anwe
ReplyDeleteThanks for the tip, anwe! I'd not heard of Documentary Now! but it sounds great. And Cate Blanchett too! Seems like it's only available on Apple TV at the moment, I'll keep looking.
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