Is it the anniversary of Rod Hull’s death or something? Seems odd to be suddenly talking about him.
Err… I don’t like Beyonce. To be honest I actually can’t fucking stand her.It’s like saying you don’t like Beyoncé.
That is an amazing track, it's still on my Spotify playlist nowOh she was so stunning in Twin Peaks.
My favourite thing about Twin Peaks was, and still is, Julee Cruise's Falling. That song is so atmospheric, and manages to be both depressing and uplifting. As a teenager it made me feel Big Feelings
Nobody I know thinks Beyoncé is any good, just overhyped crap, so there’s a lot of us in that clubErr… I don’t like Beyonce. To be honest I actually can’t fucking stand her.
Should I expect to be struck by lightning or deported?
I used to watch Friends every week until sometime during season 4 I noticed it was a load of unfunny crap.I was like that with Friends. I loathed it with a passion. Had the temerity to admit it and was met with incredulity and disdain.
i've hated her since i was 11! and i am in my mid 30s lolErr… I don’t like Beyonce. To be honest I actually can’t fucking stand her.
Should I expect to be struck by lightning or deported?
I bloody love Kath and Kim (as if that's not obvious from my profile pic....)Loved Kath and Kim
As I’ve mentioned before I was a specialist nurse in HIV/AIDS palliative care back in those early days .Olly is tolerable in small doses, but he is irritating. I wanted to love It's A Sin, but RTD's misogyny just glared through the whole thing. Ritchie's mum was just a horrible caricature of an evil mother who Doesn't Understand and wants to punish him in some weird way. RTD made some comments about young gay men dying alone in childhood bedrooms which was just utter mother-blaming. A good proportion of these supposedly vile women were just trying to protect their precious and loved boys in horrific circumstances.
I adore Sparks ! So many amazing songs .I love Sparks as well though I jumped on very, very late on that bus (when 'When Do I Get To Sing My Way' was all over MTV Europe in the early 1990s) and they've had a much rougher time of career-wise - being white-hot famous for a year or two in the 70s to not being able to give their records away by the late 1980s.
I'm tempted to think there's a tinge of envy there, but who knows....
Not sure exactly of the situation with Pet Shop Boys but I think it's something along the lines of Sparks bearing a grudge about Neil and Chris not acknowledging them (?). I mean, that hardly sounds like crime of the century and not everyone is influenced by their most obvious comparison. Synth pop duos were not that unusual in the 1980s - think Eurythmics, Soft Cell, Yazoo (fucking love Vince Clarke - with an e, seeing as everyone misspells his name! - see also Erasure and The Assembly), Blancmange. Maybe even Tears For Fears but they were more teetering on the power pop side.
Perhaps it's about Neil and Chris (Chris particularly) not playing the pop game and being mysterious and seemingly 'cold' when on camera. Ron definitely did this, though he was a bit more weird and comical (tales abound of him terrifying kids into hiding behind the sofa in the 1970s, and then there was the Hitler moustache, which was quite a brave gimmick). Neil isn't exactly particularly animated on stage either, whereas Russell really is - he dances and bounds around and is much more physical than Neil will ever be.
I don't really think the two duos are that comparable - and Sparks only really did 'europop' for a brief phase in the late 1970s with Giorgio Moroder - and again 10 years later, but they've produced everything from classical-themed albums, to even a surf-rock album (which is quite good, actually, was a flop at the time - Introducing Sparks). I'd say they're far more experimental than PSB.
'Propaganda' was (maybe still is) Martin Gore's (Depeche Mode's main songwriter, after Vince left) favourite album and the first album I bought when I started becoming curious about them. Sparks also did some amazing album covers in the 1970s and 1980s (won't spoil it, but worth a Google). Ron Mael is a really witty and erudite person, and lyricist.
'The Sparks Brothers' is also highly recommended (watched it in a cinema on release at the Glasgow GFT, just after COVID panic was dying down!).
Actually, I fluffed that, listening again, the Boy George joke is, Why Doesn't George Michael have a girlfriend? ...oops. Suppose it's more barbed as the word 'girlfriend' is used. And Boy George would've known exactly what he was doing.As Neil Tennant's time at Smash Hits was mentioned (and potential gossip), this covers quite a lot of ground:
Frida, George Michael, ABBA, David Bowie, Joni Mitchell, Marc Bolan, Boy George and Jon Moss - and others - discussion about identity and the current-day allegation of 'Smash Hits not having black cover stars' (they all dispute this) are all mentioned (takes a while to get to Smash Hits in the first part, as it talks about Neil's background career-wise):
(With Mark Ellen and Dave Hepworth, from a few weeks ago, 'Word In Your Ear' podcast)
Part 1:
Part 2:
By the way, there's even an ancient Smash Hits-era Boy George joke shared: directed at George Michael (I assume this is one of the tamer ones they could print, Boy George was always making jibes about him - supposedly they became friendly over time):
Why is George Michael always single?
Because you can only get one person in a sunbed.
His Mick Jagger story is one of my all-time favourites!The man has a story about everything.
Maybe I should have a lie down and the heat is getting to my brain today - David Bowie actually said 'repellent' instead of 'abhorrent'. Sorry! Same thing, reallyDavid Bowie also watched the rehearsal of that infamous Brits appearance (with Neil around) - where Michael Jackson performed 'Earth Song' ** and called it 'abhorrent' backstage.
** (where Michael Jackson portrayed himself as a messiah healing or blessing children, or something - vomit-inducing to watch at the time - and Jarvis Cocker stormed the stage and took the piss out of him - LEGEND).
I say it to my dogLook at meeeeeeee
I say it to my own kids.
The book is silly money but if you have Kindle unlimited it's free on thereBig massive taboo fan, I didn’t know there was a book by Sue Tilly. I will look it up!
Heat, what heat?Maybe I should have a lie down and the heat is getting to my brain today - David Bowie actually said 'repellent' instead of 'abhorrent'. Sorry! Same thing, really
Boiling in the Highlands (west coast) .. for once!Heat, what heat?
It is strange. Wonder if there's legal reasons, but the media would be quoting his wife, and not making assumptions.Jay Blades' sister-in-law posts cryptic message after marriage split
Teresa Zbozen, whose sister Lisa Zbozen married Jay Blades in Barbados in November 2022, made reference to 'using code words on messages and calls to be sure it's safe to ring'.www.dailymail.co.uk
Why won't the press mention the domestic abuse wife beater allegations against Jay Blades? They are obsessed with the failed marriage but not mentioning the full statement his wife made.
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