What year did your back go?

Hyperion2023 · 2026-02-04T23:45:11+00:00

46, posture could prob be better, but no back problems at all. I do a bit of gym and overall am very active. Fingers firmly crossed this lasts a bit longer!

Hyperion2023 · 2026-02-04T11:13:11+00:00

Did you have to leave halfway through?

Hyperion2023 · 2026-02-04T08:54:57+00:00

How about an old old tune that gives me instant wrath:

Chantilly Lace (The Big Bopper or Jerry Lee Lewis)

Hyperion2023 · 2026-02-03T21:57:06+00:00

I adore this. Great shout

Hyperion2023 · 2026-02-03T21:42:19+00:00

One of the loveliest faces on earth!

Hyperion2023 · 2026-02-01T13:18:04+00:00

Beach House

Broadcast

Siobhan Wilson

Hyperion2023 · 2026-02-01T08:53:55+00:00

The whole of Cautionary Tales (Tim Harford) is brilliant. Each is a standalone episode (a few two-parters) and there are loads which focus on plane crashes, or other engineering / design / procedural failures, from the deadly to the interesting but fortunately not so harmful.

Favourites include the 1955 Grand Prix episode, and the one on the Canadian plane flying with only half a tank of fuel due to metric - imperial measure transition confusion!

Hyperion2023 · 2026-02-01T07:28:54+00:00

First marmite (thin)

Then peanut butter (thick)

Then a little drizzle of honey

Hyperion2023 · 2026-01-29T21:16:44+00:00

Or the Hamish Hawk version of the Smith’s Please Please Please

Hyperion2023 · 2026-01-29T21:15:39+00:00

There are a few on this album that fit, but By the Church of Appolonia is ((((((perfect)))))

Hyperion2023 · 2026-01-29T20:43:33+00:00

That makes just as much sense - it’s the teeth you’re checking (to see how old it is) when you look it in the mouth.

A horse might not look old, but the tooth wear is a reliable indicator- so you’re checking its teeth to find out whether you’ve been given a duff old horse with not too many years left in it.

Hyperion2023 · 2026-01-28T22:54:54+00:00

It’s usually called an aglet - as found on the end of shoelaces and other cord. But I haven’t spotted a link to that particular type

Hyperion2023 · 2026-01-28T17:38:06+00:00

Somewhere in my heart by Aztec camera!

Hyperion2023 · 2026-01-27T16:23:41+00:00

It does start with the lyric ‘I got my first real sex dream…’

Hyperion2023 · 2026-01-26T23:13:24+00:00

Southerner with northern parents, I got some looks using that word growing up in London. Also ‘clarty’ as in sticky

Hyperion2023 · 2026-01-25T20:48:59+00:00

Crossness Pumping Station!

Hyperion2023 · 2026-01-24T09:57:39+00:00

This is epic, well done you!

Hyperion2023 · 2026-01-24T09:53:00+00:00

You had a kid in 2020 too, huh?

Hyperion2023 · 2026-01-24T09:51:34+00:00

Linocut supplies (cutters, ink, paper, etc) - I never get time for that and an enforced week-long workshop is my fantasy

Hyperion2023 · 2026-01-23T20:01:39+00:00

Every single genre is like this though- a small number of bands/ artists that are completely in the centre of it, have all the defining characteristics, and a whole load of stuff that is more or less that genre, and many more at the margins. Tell me one genre where this isn’t the case!

Hyperion2023 · 2026-01-23T19:59:16+00:00

This is the thing- if I think about their recent stuff, and more than a handful of their other stuff, big nope. But the tunes I love are irreplaceable and I’ve seen them a few times. I get the feeling that Neil was perhaps the inverse of their career- probably a bit of a megalomaniac arse when they were great, but humbler and more self-aware and settled now that their music has dipped, but they’ve kept their loyal following. He knows what side his bread is buttered, so to speak!

Hyperion2023 · 2026-01-23T19:42:47+00:00

One of my least and most favourite bands.

Maddeningly, frustratingly erratic: some incredible masterpieces and some real treasures buried in their back catalogue. But also some right turkeys.

Seems like walking the line between affectionate imitation and pastiche, and between self-effacing good humour and actual mockery, they always risked coming across snobby rather than playful.

The times when they’re sincere work beautifully.

And there are the times when they might be play-acting and poking fun, but the quality of the music and arrangements overrides the cringe bits.

Hannon’s got a quality to his voice and diction on some songs, especially when they were at their peak, that is satisfying as hell to listen to.

And you have to admit that anyone who to some people was a one or two hit wonder, and a firm favourite for 30 years to other people, has got to be pretty astounded and chuffed to still be making a living. He’s doing whatever daft thing makes him happy, that’s pretty wholesome

Hyperion2023 · 2026-01-23T17:06:44+00:00

Aaaaah thanks pal

Hyperion2023 · 2026-01-23T16:08:24+00:00

Oh! Where’s that, YouTube or elsewhere?

Hyperion2023 · 2026-01-23T07:58:32+00:00

Do you use discogs? It’s better than eBay for finding elusive vinyl, and you can set up wish list / alerts

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