THIS is one of the best tunes of the 80s, and I'm grizzled enough to remember it first time round... but I never knew what it was called until Gary Crowley played it on the radio just now and namechecked it...
... nobody seems to watch my videos any more. But please, someone, clickonthis and tell me if you remember it and if you like it too...
BRONSKI BEAT: SMALL TOWN BOY
Jimmy Somerville is a fav of mine not only do I remember it and love it but it's a constant on my playlist
ReplyDelete... as is him singing with the Communards.
Jimmy Summerville must have been a real leftie: BronSKI Beat, COMMUNards...
ReplyDeleteI love that kind of synth pop. I just really wish I'd collected more of it in the day
he has a great voice ...
ReplyDeleteCourse I remember that one! Sure brings back memories...wow - a lifetime ago
ReplyDeleteI'm not so keen on the voice... I like the backing a great deal...
ReplyDeleteWas it a hit in America?... O yeah I remember I looked it up and they said something about that...
Also Bronski-beat has nothing to do with him being a Russian communist ~ the keyboard player was called Steve Bronski or something
but that still doesn't explain why his next band was called the COMMUNARDS
I've still got the original 12" extended vinyl of the track :-)
ReplyDeleteThis is the message I want to drop in Nick's comments but the computer won't let me:
ReplyDeleteI love that before/after cat thermometer pic... I mean how degrading not to be able to shove it under the tongue/under an armpit like ordinary people... or in the ear like nowadays (what a spoilsport system ~ all those old British films where the patients used to drop the mercury into a cup of tea to get an extra day away from the nagging wife...)
(note to self)
ReplyDeleteHere's a message about guns I'm not sure whether to drop in:
Interestingly there are some scriptures telling the Mosaic law ~ I think that's the phrase ~ somewhere between Exodus and Deuteronomy of what you can and can't do re intruders. I think the law went if someone's in your house uninvited after dark (and in those days of course people completely shut and shuttered their home with all people and even perhaps even animals inside, maybe the dogs were outside, so there was no question of receiving a casual visitor without all sorts of to-do: lighting lamps, unshuttering, unbolting etc)... anyway, if I remember correctly you had every right to bludgeon a midnight intruder; however if it was daylight and if the person was running away not so... So I think the British cases would probably have been OK under that system, but the Texas one would have had to answer in court
I still do a mental "hurrah!" when I think about that one ~ serves the dirty tea-leaf right
do you know for years the police here went unarmed? I remember being on holiday in Malta, marvelling at the armed guard in the bank ~ something you still wouldn't see here...
We have a special fire-arms squad that comes out VERY quickly, even if someone's waving a water-pistol threateningly (& that's been in the news, too)
in a way I'm glad to live in a relatively gun-free society; on the other hand I do think it's ridiculous that someone on their own, male or female, in a remote house should NOT have the right to see off an intruder in no uncertain terms ~ shooting the b*****d if necessary ~ and that's the situation now. Until they clarify the situation nobody really knows how our lettuce-leaf-limp law actually stands!
Finally, someone else learning Dutch & lovin' it!!
ReplyDeletehttp://www.newelty.com/2010/04/27/next-stop-dutch-fluency/
Note to self:
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http://grismoire.blogspot.com/
aBortive comment to anna g
ReplyDeletedidn't know whether to send it
prattling too much anyway
sorry i 4got to say: yes Gled is my name!
the idea i had involved us meeting in nyc but there is more to it than that
i don't know how that can possibly happen, but it's an idea for some time future
i long to see new york, i have had a thing about the place for years
somehow i don't think i will get to travel until clean
when on earth that will happen, God only knows