An A-Z of my iPod: Part8 - H

And so we get to H.

I very nearly went with The Higsons, famous for their lead singer Charlie 'Fast Show' Higson but decided to plump for The Human League, not the chart topping Human League complete with dancing and singing girls but the all male line line up from '79 and their album Reproduction.

A classic insight to Sheffields post punk electronic music for those of you too young to have lived through these exciting futuristic times.

An A-Z of my iPod: Part7 - G

Well one week in, G.

Only one choice really.

Gabba.

According to Wikipedia "Gabba is a London-based British tribute band performing ABBA songs in the stripped down punk style of the Ramones, a style of pop punk they dubbed discopunk and claim to have invented"

 So here's their album Leave Stockholm, containing such classics as Super Shock Trooper and The Pinhead Takes It All.

An A-Z of my iPod: Part6 - F

Day 6 in the alphabetical journey through my iPod and we get to F.

A choice from Steve Caballeros band The Faction, Fad Gadget, The Fall, The Family Cat, The Fantastic Baggy's, The Farmers Boys, Fever Tree, Fifty Foot Hose, The Fleshtones, The Fuzztones and loads more.
A couple of close ones there in that list but in the end based on yesterdays blog I decided on...

The Flaming Lips, or to be more precise...

 "The Flaming Lips and Stardeath and White Dwarfs with Henry Rollins and Peaches Doing The Dark Side of the Moon". Now as previously stated I'm not, I repeat not a big fan of Pink Floyd.


So here's another cover of Dark Side Of The Moon. Enjoy!

An A-Z of my iPod: Part5 - E

Righto we've got to E.

Elastica, Eddie And The Hot Rods, Edgar Winter Group, Edwyn Collins, The Electric Prunes?

Nope, I decided to go with The Easy Star All Stars and their first album from 2003, Dub Side Of The Moon.

Now I've never really been a fan of Pink Floyd but this is great.

An A-Z of my iPod: Part4 - D

So we get to D.

Could have been Devo, Duran Duran, The Damned, The Dead Boys, Defunkt, The Delmonas, The Dictators, The Dickies or even Delta 5. In fact it very nearly was Delta 5 but at the last minute I decided to go with Dee Dee Ramone.

Not his utterly crap rap album but Greatest & Latest an album of his songs he wrote whilst with The Ramones and some cover versions including interestingly a version of Chris Spedding's 1975 UK hit Motorbikin'.

Co-incidently there is a track called Sidewalk Surfin' on here after yesterdays post.

 ;-)

An A-Z of my iPod: Part3 - C

Going well so far I think.

So C, Crispy Ambulance, The Clash, The Cure, The Creation, Count Five, Culture, nah.

The Challengers, 60's surf instrumental band.

Here's their 5th album, The Challengers Go Sidewalk Surfing!

Oh and the first track? Why Pipeline of course.



Checked today and I have 8 versions of Pipeline on my iPod.

An A-Z of my iPod: Part2 - B

So here we go with B.

So many to choose from...

B52's, Barmy Army, The Balham Alligators, Blondie, Bauhaus, I very nearly went for skatepunk band The Boneless Ones album Skate For The Devil complete with it's cover of Pipeline but in the end settled for...

1960's garage band The Barbarians and their 1966 album "Are You a Boy Or Are You a Girl"

The title track was covered by Wayne County in 74 and Jayne County in 79.

This track isn't on the album but still great.



They were famed for their one armed drummer Victor "Moulty" Moulton who had a prosthetic hand.

An A-Z of my iPod: Part1 - A

Well let's see how long I can keep this up and how infrequent it becomes due to my usual slackness.

Start at the beginning with A and work through.

So A, could have been so many from Adam & The Ants, Athletico Spizz 80, Alberto Y Lost Trios Paranoias, The Astroglides etc. but here we go with Californian surf-punk/skate-punk band Agent Orange.

I really like their 1st album Living in Darkness.



Even got the obligatory cover of Pipeline on it. What more could you want?

A Day Out

Had a day off work today.
Went down to Brighton, parked in London Road Multi Storey near Preston Circus and walked into town.
Did the usual shops before a spot of lunch in favourite pub The Mesmerist.
Had one of these to wash it down.

Brewed with Chocolate and Crystal malts to produce this deep bronze-coloured beer with a subtle malty flavour. Bittered by the traditional Golding hop varieties, and then cask conditioned with Chinese stem ginger and other warming spices to add that distinctive aromatic warmth.

Very nice it was too.

Then it was off to favourite cinema, The Duke Of Yorks to watch The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo.
The new one with Daniel Craig in it. Hadn't seen the other one or read the book so can't compare them. Enjoyed it though.
Really heavy rain on the way home made the M23/M25 interesting.

Project Death Trap part 5

Slight cock up on the wheel front part 2.

I thought I'd nabbed a bargain on ebay when I picked up some Power Paw wheels for 99p + £2.75 p&p.

Should have asked how big they were before bidding I guess.

47mm dia x 40mm wide.

Doh!