Craig White’s Comments (group member since Oct 04, 2017)

Craig White’s comments from the Amazon exiles group.

ach aye,

demons by 23

PIES! by 17

cheers Val

efterduke,

Mind Your Own Business - Delta 5
Canzon Duodecimi Toni - Giovanni Gabrieli (Empire Brass)
A Girl Like You - Edwin Collins
Bring It On Home To Me - Sam Cooke
Me And My Shadow - The Mills Brothers
Mockingbird - Inez & Charlie Foxx
Despair And Traffic - Slaves
Night Of Hunters - Tori Amos
Minnie The Moocher - Cab Calloway & His Orchestra
Oh, Happy Day - The Edwin Hawkins Singers
Girls, Girls, Girls - Mötley Crüe
Big Bird - B-52's
Starbird - Manfred Mann's Earth Band
The Banana Boat Song (Day-O) - Harry Belafonte
You Shook Me - Led Zeppelin
Song Of Blood - Poet And The Roots
Sinsemilia - Johnny Slaughter & Tipper Lee

https://youtu.be/wCeX69gzTNk
https://youtu.be/iJACsBXQWN8

"projectile vomiting 3/4 of a bottle of it down Mum's loo on Tuesday night"

managed to keep the other 1/4 down?

........but the really amazing thing was...........she was in her own house! 😁

When it comes to Fleetwood Mac, Blastro,...........I'd rather jack! 😁

(courtesy of The Reynolds Girls, 1989)

My selections from the latest batch of Corn-Fed Productions releases,

Dr. Alimantado - Kings Bread/Kings Bread Dub - 2 disc set, the first containing both the above albums, the second a comprehensive set of JA singles and versions - This was Doc 'Tado's 2nd album which apparently sunk without trace because it was not 'Best Dressed Chicken In Town' pt.2. What it is is a superb roots album, sung rather than deejay'd, conscious and direct!

Big Youth - Progress/Reggae Gi Dem Dub - Excellent overlooked 1979 album, its dub counterpart, and a couple of rare extra tracks.

and one from the back catalogue, a long time favourite,
discogs.com/release/13601496-Lone-Ran... - "You never know pupa Ranger coulda sing" - Iconic and essential toasting from 1981,

pereubu.bandcamp.com/album/im-alive

Bandcamp Friday release from Pere Ubu's bootleg page, a 2004 performance by David Thomas And The Two Pale Boys (Keith Moline and Andy Diagram), which Mr. Thomas insists is the finest example of their live shows. You know i'm usually very dismissive of live albums, but he's not wrong - unique and compelling!

"A wider, more disorientating terrain that exists way beyond the stifling, intimate concerns of rock 'n' roll... a feeling of faint existential terror." (The Wire)

efterkjs,

I Can't Tell The Bottom From The Top - The Hollies
Cruel To Be Kind - Nick Lowe
I Can't Stand Up For Falling Down - Elvis Costello & the Attractions
What's The use Of Getting Sober (When You're Gonna Get Drunk Again)? - Louis Jordan & the Tympany Five
All Day And All Of The Night - The Kinks
Heroes And Villians - The Poets Of The Fall
Sumthin' For Nuthin' - Mötley Crüe
In And Out Of Love - Bon Jovi
I'd Rather Be An Old Man's Sweetheart (Than a Young Man's Fool) - Candi Staton
Thin Line Between Love & Hate - The Persuaders
(She Is) Beyond Good & Evil - The Pop Group
My Love For You (Has Turned To Hate) - Hank Williams

https://youtu.be/l9BjtT0_KsE
https://youtu.be/I0354vpxwXE

here comes the turnaround!

(is it ****!)

1 - arsenal +9 - DP
2 - man city +10
3 - tottenham +8
4 - leeds utd +7
5 - newcastle +4
6 - brighton +3

18 - southampton -7
19 - everton -5
20 - west ham -9

cheers, Sussex

The Pies turned me into a bad boy! 😁

so as the chief punt here,

tigers by 5

demons by 17

cats by 17

dockers by 17

cheers, Val

definitely not the 1st. at least once before.

the only stats i've kept are winning this year - had i mentioned that before, y'know that i'm the winner and stuff? 😁

people ain't no good

parp! F*****' George Formby was still alive! 😁

Just checking in to make sure i still won......

check

carry on! 😁

ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha! 's funny!

Whit can ye dae, Blastro? a new age? All the best for it!

efterduke,

Billy’s Got A Gun - Def Leppard
Love’s A Loaded Gun - Alice Cooper
Guns Fever - The Valentines
Frankie's Gun! - The Felice Brothers
Revolver - Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan
Miuzi Weighs A Ton - Public Enemy
Stick To Your Guns - Bon Jovi
Sixty Eight Guns - The Alarm
Blues From A Gun - The Jesus And Mary Chain
Bullet In The Gun (Saturday Mix) - Planet Perfecto
Barrel Of A Gun - Depeche Mode
Happiness Is A Warm Gun - The Breeders
Shotgun Wedding - Roy "C"
Shotgun - Jr. Walker & The All Stars
Happiness Is A Warm Gun - The Beatles
Machine Gun - Portishead
Black Gunn - Augustus Pablo
Throw Away Your Gun - Prince Far I

https://youtu.be/Ibn0fFQhVfc
https://youtu.be/OLmTwy0A-fI

Who bet all the PIES? ooooooh, yeah!

Congratulations to all those coughing and spluttering in the wake of my dust!

On a run of nightshifts at the moment, but i'll be back with more unbearable one-liners later!

Cheers Val

Just arrived, signed copy,

Re-sisters: Recordings of Cosey Fanni Tutti, Delia Derbyshire and Margery Kempe

very much looking forward to reading.

Amongst others, this box that still sounds as fresh and vibrant as it did in 19canteen,

amazon.co.uk/Island-Years-Ultravox/dp...

here's a piece i did for 'Reservoir Droogs' facebook site,

facebook.com/reservoirdroogs

An Occasional Series - The Outsider's Outsiders Club.

No.1 - Taking Bites From Every Kiss - Ultravox!

Why didn't the hard core of punk take Ultravox! to it's rancid, fetid heart as much as it could have? The answer to that question has always been beyond me......because looking at the template, they had it all - high octane songs that shredded both on record and in performance - a sack load of ideas - the look - themes and feelings of isolation and desolate dystopian wastelands - of alienation and angst directed toward a hopeless future....so, why? why not?
Let's first look at that template, and then let's look at the band again and it's clear it was a template they weren't prepared to squeeze into. They appeared to be relatively well behaved young men who didn't feel the need to set up scenarios of disgrace and disrespect, caused no sensational headlines, and on recorded evidence, were proficient in their instrumentation (and what's wrong with that....you can play you can play, it's the vision and the execution of the vision that count!)......... the thing was to let the music, and the ideas therein speak, and speak to me it did - I was hooked from the moment a friend insisted I take 'Ultravox!' home and play it till I love it! Didn't take long.
Many big record labels at the time seemed to be in a hurry to sign a 'punk' band because, A/ they feared missing out if this thing became big, and B/ they were keen to replace big name bands that had moved on or weren't shipping records like they used to. In the same way that Harvest signed Wire as the new Pink Floyd, Island were hoping to replace Roxy Music with Ultravox! In truth, you can hear that as an influence on the first two albums. Eno having producing the first. This union obviously didn't bring the fruits of a big hit single, despite the brilliant 'Young Savage' being unleashed on the public, and not featured on the first album. Housed In a luxurious gatefold sleeve, the band working a glam-punk look on the front with John Foxx in bondage on the back, it was a very forward thinking and energetic set of songs that dealt in the above themes.....there's not a weak track on show. Did the punk hordes not like the distant, futuristic aspect? Perhaps, but they were everything a 'punk' outfit should have been - fresh (and still sounding so today), innovative, dark and unique!
The development continued with the Steve Lillywhite produced 'Ha! Ha! Ha!', early copies coming with a bonus 7" of 'Quirks'. The irresistible single 'ROckwrok' sadly failed to set the charts aflame, but the iconic and menacing 'Hiroshima Mon Amour' closed the album, and this proved to be a highly influential piece, with one eye on the fast approaching 1980s. Worth noting that both these records were released in 1977, both very much in sync with the times!
It was on the tour to promote Ha! Ha Ha! that I was fortunate enough to see their brilliant live show (for the only time) at the Glasgow Apollo ,early 1978. This was an almost 3,000 seat theatre that The Clash or The Stranglers, amongst others, could sell out with ease, so if the 400 or so in attendance disappointed the band that night, they certainly didn't show it! A blistering show, captivating, energetic........a commited performance that I have strong positive memories of - The fact that they played 'Young Savage' twice sparked a very rare incidence of vandalism in me, in that upon the announcement they were playing it again, I tore the back off the seat in front of me and let it drop into the row (I also still have the arm of my seat in my loft, as we speak, tut, tut!). After the song, a seemingly irony-free individual handed me the seat and asked 'Is this yours?' Said an irony-free me, 'Aye, ****in' geez it!' So it goes..........and it really struck me that punks should be liking this much more than they are!
However, original guitarist, Stevie Shears left before Foxx's last album as vocalist (I guess I don't need to go over what happened to the other 3 members), 'Systems Of Romance', which took a further step toward the European electronic sound that would go on to dominate the 80s - That it was produced by Conny Plank helped in this area, but the record still had its, for want of a better word, 'punkier' material, such as 'Someone Else's Clothes' and 'Quiet Man', Billy Currie's synthwork combining perfectly with the sharp guitar. So many bands that followed (including Ultravox) were to adopt that sound and approach over the next decade or so.
But, for Ultravox! (the ! used to be a distinction from Midge's version of the band, but it had disappeared after Ha! Ha! Ha! - maybe they used up their quota of !s!), that was that, Foxx moved out, Midge moved in, and to be honest, although i liked much of Foxx's solo material, for me it was never the same again, and Ultravox! have remained as a vital component of my punk experience.
How to shop Ultravox!
Couldn't be simpler. One stop shop. This.
https://www.discogs.com/.../1040178-U......
A 4 disc set for £20 or under, the three studio albums (no extras) and a further 20 track disc with everything else on it - all you could possibly need outside of tracking down the original vinyl releases, which can be had 2nd hand at not unreasonable prices.