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And also covered lower down the charts:

* The Wedding Present's Peel Sessions, including their cover of Orange Juice's "Felicity" (Sir Keir Starmer smiles for the first time in weeks)
* The Go-Betweens reissue of "Lee Remick"
* The Chesterfields "Completely and Utterly"
* The Shamen's debut entry

I do think that one of the reasons "Just Can't Get Enough" didn't go further was an inability to perceive demand (then subsequently cater for it). The number of different outsourced pressings for that record indicate a scurry going on. It didn't seem to happen again.
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I always thought he was saying something like "Sounds like the fuckin' Housemartins". Why, though? It obviously doesn't!

The England World Cup Squad's 1982 single "This Time We'll Get It Right" got in the indie charts as well, because they shoved it on their own label and it was distributed by Spartan. There was obviously some sort of change of heart between 1982 and 1990, though. Or perhaps mistrust of Tony Wilson.

Bernard Sumner doing his best "Can you spare me £10 for a train ticket to see my Mum who is ill in hospital" pose, there.

Ha ha ha! Factory are so odd and funny, producing luxurious looking and sounding records, then coming on like Crass.

I can almost *see* Edmonds bringing his mic close to his mouth and talking quietly, then letting out an airy laugh at Styles's embarrassment.

I suspect we'll get on to it in time, but "World In Motion" was a joint Factory/MCA release - I've always wondered if that was FIFA arguing "Well, you can fuck up the pressing and promotion of normal New Order records, but you're not spoiling England's chances, thank you very much".

It's such a strange thing, because I've always regarded my brother as being a fairly conservative man musically speaking (his liking of 80s jazz funk aside) but when he heard "Substance" he loved it. Them not being Radio One playlisted was a massive mistake really.

When I started this blog I really wanted to talk about the labels a lot more, but it just proved to be too much. I do think that strands of amateurism and business naïveté runs through most of them to a certain extent - I even suspect that Mute screwed up on some of the early Depeche singles.

I've not read it yet, no (but several friends of mine have). I always remember that Hook used to roll his eyes or make sarcastic comments in interviews when anyone lectured him on the music business, giving the impression he already knew about the ins and outs more than they possibly could.

The mid-eighties were strangely unkind to New Order.

I honestly think his method is to sow doubt into people's minds about the legitimacy of the democratic process - a slow drip-drip effect. This was funny at first, but the more the British tabloid press go along with his nonsense, or even repeat it, the more disturbing it becomes.

A useful record of Farage’s failure and his inability to cope with it. A cheat and a very bad loser who would happily trash democracy to get the result he wants. And then remove our rights to stop us holding him to account.
Such a corrupt, egomaniacal liar should have no hope of getting power.

I have to wonder if Factory somehow screwed up on this one as well. They were known for their disorganisation.

That's a perfectly fair bit of pedantry, and I must have known that at one point (I owned "Tommy" and would have looked closely at the credits at the time). Fact-checking baked-in assumptions is really something you have to do more as you get older.

"Everything is politics...You don't get to make art in a fascist state"

CMAT delivering, mar is gnách. 👏

(Same goes for sport btw)

#Speirgorm

90. New Order - Bizarre Love Triangle (Factory) All the singles to top the NME Indie Charts since its launch in 1981, complete with an overview of the other music in the charts each week.

Blog update: New Order's "Bizarre Love Triangle" topped the NME Indie Charts in November 1986, but was less fortunate in the official charts. Offcuts and remixes aside, it would be their least successful single for the next 29 years, even though it sounds like an absolute smash. What went wrong?

A mug depicting KC Green's This Is Fine dog comic, but tragically faded

I've had my This Is Fine mug so long that the dog has become a ghost and all that remain are flames

Ho ho. I'm still slow at buying physical copies of LPs (unless it's some old warhorse group whose work I absolutely have to have, but usually turns out to be faintly disappointing).

Thoughts about Drummond and Cauty nipping round to Mick Hucknall's house every other week because it was their turn to have the award.

This is a fascinating story if you're not aware of it. Essentially crowbarred into the Billboard charts by their manager despite them not having a physical release out, or any airplay to speak of. Vote rigging worthy of Mugabe.

She reminds me slightly of my wife, which (I have to be honest) had previously applied to no other pop star I can think of.

It's not going to be my night, is it?

Go on, PinkPantheress. #Brits

That's my wife's view. I get told off for throwing "perfectly good food" away. Sadly, I also have the stomach from hell which will also happily punish me for the day if I so much as eat too much wheat or have anything that's slightly more than 2% citric.

He's 2 years younger than me. And being pushed as a relic. I mean, I get it....

Well, there you go. She doesn't mind.

I actually belatedly bought CMAT's album today. Can't see her walking off with this, though. #Brits

He's going to turn into some kind of Jools Holland type figure, isn't he? JH will gracefully retire and it will become Later With Mark Ronson or something.