Happiness Stan

Page from “Nick Drake: The Life” by Richard Morton Jack, featuring Mark Wing-Davey’s recollection of being picked to play in a string section behind Nick Drake at Cambridge in February 1968.

I was today years old when I found out that one of Nick Drake’s earliest gigs featured violin played by… Zaphod Beeblebrox.

Can’t wait for Marina to regale us all with the tale of what she did to stop noted abuser and colleague, Nick Cohen…

If we note that Mandelson is an unflushable turd, these are the plumbers who not only tinker with the water flow to the cistern but have re-routed the waste pipe right into our living rooms.

framing Lolita as a “great and tragic love story” speaks volumes about Rowling’s worldview, but it is also fascinating to me that she doesn’t seem to understand what an unreliable narrator is

They have a great reputation - good choice!

What brand did you go for? Currently thinking about replacing my ancient Line6 interface with either a Universal Audio or Audient, but struggling to decide.

I never met a seemingly beat-up copy of With The Beatles (most of which presumably got masses of play on all sorts of appalling quality record players) that didn’t still roar out of the speakers.

That was one *dirty* record!

You do illustrate a common issue here, in that grading records solely by visual appearance simply doesn’t reflect the reality of actual play testing - I’ve lost count of the number of visually “perfect” albums which sound like a mic’ed-up Rice Krispie bowl…

At least make us go through the motions of wrestling with a moral dilemma of whether to boycott or not…

*The* Magna Carta?

The Prince's Trust album from the 1986 concert

Headbands! Potato-headed drummers! Rod The Mod! Majeur!** Wacky Thumbs-Aloft Macca! It can only be the Prince’s Trust Concert 1986, courtesy of
@brighterdayvinyl.bsky.social - thanks Joel, for the freebie.

(**I’m blaming James Corden for forever shortening poor Midge’s name)

"It was the 70's, _M'Lud_"

Can confirm: January is over.

Repeat: January is over.

Still a long, long way to go, but play like that a few more times and we’ll be fine. #LFC

Absolutely onions everywhere here. #Ibou #LFC

We’re winning this 6-2???!!

Caption saying, "Jesus thinks he's scored"

This is a *very* twisted view of the Mary Magdelene story.

YouTube video by TopPop Mud - Show Me You're A Woman • TopPop

Ha! I’ll give you this - as a song, at least it’ll never require a police investigation…

youtu.be/v8GVyp_M19Q?...

"Lads - what we need from Mud right now is faux-Puerto Rican disco."

Said no-one ever. #totp

...and just like that, I switch over and there's Richard & Linda Thompson on (with Richard in the most *hideous* sports jacket!)

It's the sight of a show running on fumes and the pull of a few big media names of the period (Porter, Middlemiss, Theakston etc.)

Only trouble is, the 70's shows they can show are the Yewtree-free ones & there ain't a lot of them...

So basically, they just moved the recordings around and repeated last week's episode, but with Porter fronting it this time? #totp

Has this plane been mothballed since it famously found all the Iraqi WMD's of 2003...?

YouTube video by aerofan2007 Paul McCartney - Temporary Secretary - Philadelphia 07-12-2016

In a world where there’s actual live versions of *this*, there’s always hope!

youtu.be/1-Vztvi2b1Q?...

I’d imagine that they’re hoovering up the 76-80 year olds who bought a copy of Sometimes You Win ***and** the 50-somethings forced to listen to it constantly through their bedroom floors (along with The Sound of Bread, War of the Worlds and other gems of the era).

Goodwin’s Law is where the first person to be Matt Goodwin instantly loses the argument.

Some of us are old enough to remember his Spotify boycott.

a man in a suit and tie is laughing and smiling . ALT: a man in a suit and tie is laughing and smiling .

The Arsenal game.

Whoop! DM sent - thanks Joel.