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Recorded #OnThisDay 41 years ago:
The Housemartins - Flag Day (Peel Session)
Flag Day by The Housemartins, taken from the Peel Session recorded on 21 July 1985.
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And then, whilst supping a cup of tea with milk I think of this:
Half a lifetime away.
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The Beautiful South - "From Under The Covers" (1989, Go! Discs)
#TheBeautifulSouth were one of the odder success stories in the history of #Britishpop. Literate, heavy-drinking northerners with roots in Hull's #TheHousemartins, they paired lightly soulful, near-MOR pop with some of the most bitterly vicious lyrics ever to burn up the charts. And burn 'em up they did: their best-of collection, Carry On Up The Charts, went #1 in 1994 and eventually 6x platinum. Sing along everyone:
"It's 7am, and we're coughing up the phlegm / Spitting out the taste of night before / And we'll vomit and we'll choke just to climb their tatty rope / Well, this city has its charm and its claw"
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The Housemartins - Now That's What I Call Quite Good - 1986
#Music #AlbumSuggestions #NowPlaying #NowListening
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Amazing interview with Norman Cook on
The Retro Hour PodCast:
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Recorded #OnThisDay 38 years ago:
The Housemartins - Peel Session 1987
The complete session recorded by The Housemartins on 3 November 1987 for the John Peel show on BBC Radio 1 and broadcast on the 11th of that month.
Tracklist:
1. There Is Always Something There To Remind Me (0:07)
2. Sunday Isn't Sunday (3:38)
3. Build (5:44)https://vibracobra23.blogspot.com/2016/06/the-housemartins-peel-session-1987.html
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"Think for a minute" - The Housemartins
To promote this single, The Housemartins played a game of football and a concert at Sheffield United's Bramall Lane ground.
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πΊπ¦ #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #SteveLamacq The Housemartins: π΅ Five Get Over Excited #6music #TheHousemartins βΆοΈ πͺ Automagic π show π» playlist on Spotify βΆοΈ Song on #Spotify:
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πΊπ¦ #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #LaurenLaverne The Housemartins: π΅ Happy Hour #6music #TheHousemartins βΆοΈ πͺ Automagic π show π» playlist on Spotify βΆοΈ Song/Cover on #Bandcamp:
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πΊπ¦ #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #HuwStephens The Housemartins: π΅ I Smell Winter #6music #TheHousemartins βΆοΈ πͺ Automagic π show π» playlist on Spotify βΆοΈ Song/Cover on #Bandcamp:
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πΊπ¦ #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #HuwStephens The Housemartins: π΅ Me And The Farmer #6music #TheHousemartins βΆοΈ πͺ Automagic π show π» playlist on Spotify βΆοΈ Song on #Bandcamp:
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πΊπ¦ #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #CraigCharles The Housemartins: π΅ Happy Hour #6music #TheHousemartins βΆοΈ πͺ Automagic π show π» playlist on Spotify βΆοΈ Song on #Bandcamp:
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On video, The Housemartins with the pub-and-plasticine video for "Happy hour".
Fun and poppy and optimistic, and behind the lyric is a withering attack on the pervasive office sexism of the time.
It's what Billy Bragg could be, if he set his talents to entertainment rather than agitprop. It's what Paul Weller could be, if he had an ounce of the Housemartins' talent.
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Recorded #OnThisDay 39 years ago:
The Housemartins - Peel Session 1986
The complete session recorded by The Housemartins on 6 April 1986 for the John Peel show on BBC Radio 1 and broadcast on the 14th of that month.
Tracklist:
1. Over There (0:07)
2. Happy Hour (3:00)
3. Get Up Off Our Knees (5:24)
4. Caravan Of Love (8:34)https://vibracobra23.blogspot.com/2014/07/the-housemartins-peel-session-1986.html
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In the studio, The Housemartins "Think for a minute". It's a song asking people to reflect on life as it is now, compare it to what had gone before, and see how things have been improved.
Once heard a station play this out of the 11 November silence, which is a power move.
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The year is 1986; #Kodak drops its instant camera business after losing a patent battle with #Polaroid; Short Circuit is on at cinemas; #TheHousemartins release their debut album; Zammo says βjust say noβ; and youβre wearing your new Spantime Perpetual Calendar Calculator Watch.
Functions inc:
Time 12/24hr
Date (uniquely has the ability to switch format between US or EU)
Perpetual calendar (1901 to 2099 allowing you to scroll through any month during this period to find out the days and dates)
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As chosen by survey (the 30th album starting with βTβ), todayβs spotlight is on number 816 from The List, submitted by pjohanneson. Though perhaps βstoryβ is a better word for it. Gather βround, classβ¦
Once upon a time, there was a group of Martins who decided to live in a House, instead of with a Ricky, or with a Dean (and certainly not with a Hannett). The group came to be known in the neighborhood as βthe House Martinsβ (or, if one was in a hurry, βthe Housemartinsβ).
These Martins liked to make a bunch of sounds together, and liked to give names to short collections of their sounds, like βHappy Hourβ, βThere Is Always Something There to Remind Meβ, or βThink For A Minuteβ.
Then, one day, during happy hour, something there reminded one of the Martins, and he thought for a minute: βIβm far too Fat and far too Slim to be a Martin in a House. Perhaps I should instead live as a Boy, not in a House.β And so, the Fat Slim Boy (or, as the other Martins started to call him, βFatboy Slimβ) moved out of the House, and the Martins who still lived in the House stopped making a bunch of sounds together.
But then, perhaps again during happy hour, perhaps again because something there reminded them, two of the Martins who were left behind thought for a minute that they still really liked to make a bunch of sounds together. They had heard of a Beautiful place, somewhere down South, where they could continue to make a bunch of sounds together as ex-Martins, perhaps even with others who were not Martins. And so, the ex-Martins moved to the Beautiful South, where they joined some not-Martins, and continued to make a bunch of sounds together.
One day, this new group of ex-Martins and not-Martins decided to make an entire collection of short collections of sounds in honor of sex hotlines and sexy instruments such as the glockenspiel. To ensure the wrong idea was not given by this collection of sounds, they decided to give one short collection of sounds the name β36Dβ. However, in the end, this short collection of sounds made one of the not-Martins, who was called βBrianaβ, move away from the Beautiful South, to make her own bunch of sounds.
In 2007, the ex-Martins and not-Martins who were left behind would permanently move away from the Beautiful South, due to βmusical similaritiesβ.
- Songwhip: The Beautiful South β 0898 Beautiful South
- Discogs: The Beautiful South β 0898 Beautiful South
- Wikipedia: The Beautiful South β 0898 Beautiful South
((This ridiculous write-up is courtesy of my dog absolutely hating the song β36Dβ (or, more accurately, hating me singing the song β36Dβ). Well, that and me also not liking it/the album. And then me having a not-so-crisis-ey crisis in which I didnβt know if I should be sharing my opinion of albums I donβt like on The List. It is true that the lyrics of β36Dβ (and of some other songs) are partially to blame for Briana Corrigan leaving the band, as is the fact that the entire band has since stated that the song β36Dβ hasnβt dated well. But the album isnβt just one song, and the band isnβt just one album, and lots of bands/albums we love have cringe-y songs, and my tastes donβt necessarily reflect the quality of an album, etc., etcβ¦ And so, my only advice here is, if youβre a dog person, perhaps avoid singing β36Dβ to it.))
[Alt text for accompanying image: The album artwork is a perhaps a photo, featuring 5 doll faces with various expressions, with each face placed upwards on the back of a striped turtle. The album name is in black font at the top center, and there is a cream-colored background.]
https://1001otheralbums.com/2024/04/23/the-beautiful-south-0898-beautiful-south-1992-uk/
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That's a pretty rare tape to find at resale. In this part of the world at least.
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