Tuesday, July 24, 2001
You know when you're chasing a particular song, and you've asked all your mates, and you know what album it's on but can't justify £14 just for one song, and you've almost given up, and then somehow you get your hands on it? THE JOY!!! This happens over and over (I always want more ;) ...), but the song in question today is Sexuality by Billy Bragg. (Acquired thanks to a chance conversation with an generous and beautiful work colleague who had a tape of Don't Try This At Home, but no tape player - my gain!) This is such a fantastic song - brilliant lyrics, catchy tune - AND Kirsty MacColl and Johnny Marr helping out - how could it fail?!
Lovely Billy, so misunderstood. Famous for his 'up the workers' stuff, less well known as a writer of beautiful, tender love songs and witty surburban tales...'One minute she says / She's gone to get the cat in / The next thing I know / She's mumbling in Latin / She cut the stars out of the sky / And baked them in a pie...' (She's Got A New Spell). This is the man who wrote Kirsty an extra verse for his A New England in return for a fried breakfast. The man who can get away with live covers of both Jerusalem and Groove Is In The Heart. The man who has had Porky the Poet (aka Phill Jupitus) as support act, singing his own suspiciously familiar composition Bestiality: 'I look like Johnny Morris / I love a penguin and her name is Doris'...
Still looking for The Ramones' version of Baby I Love You though...can anyone pleeeeaaase help??
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Lovely Billy, so misunderstood. Famous for his 'up the workers' stuff, less well known as a writer of beautiful, tender love songs and witty surburban tales...'One minute she says / She's gone to get the cat in / The next thing I know / She's mumbling in Latin / She cut the stars out of the sky / And baked them in a pie...' (She's Got A New Spell). This is the man who wrote Kirsty an extra verse for his A New England in return for a fried breakfast. The man who can get away with live covers of both Jerusalem and Groove Is In The Heart. The man who has had Porky the Poet (aka Phill Jupitus) as support act, singing his own suspiciously familiar composition Bestiality: 'I look like Johnny Morris / I love a penguin and her name is Doris'...
Still looking for The Ramones' version of Baby I Love You though...can anyone pleeeeaaase help??
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