Posts by Joe Wylie
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Heaven 17 . . . although not to everyone's taste I'm sure...
Heaven 17: prime exponents of flink, a Murray Cammick word for that peculiarly British form of sub-funk. They certainly gave the impression that they were enjoying themselves, something that Utravox and The Human League (turn a lemon on!) could never be accused of.
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Bob Mould's Workbook
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On reflection, Ra-Ra Rasputin sounds quite appealing
. . . Russia's greatest love machine. That's what immediately sprang to mind when I read your post above. Pray they don't use the godawful Ma Baker.
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Frankly, the number of reasonably smart people I've met over the years who don't understand the difference between memory and storage, or who've lost their work somewhere on their hard disks and want me to help find it, is disgraceful.
Computers are like toilets, everyone uses them, but there'll always be those who'll pee on the floor. Unlike IT types, restroom cleaners were never under any illusion that the world was going to kiss their asses for the grubby but necessary role they fulfilled.
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"I downloaded Kick-Ass IV onto my iPad the other night -- what a dag!
I once knew a guy who really did talk like that. He'd wear the same Garfield t-shirt five days in a row.
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Just when you were feeling good about Sandie:
Well f*ck me. If only she'd done it in blackface.
It took nearly twenty years before I realised that her name was intended as some kind of pun.
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Khrist, that second video! Unknown to me until now. Never could raise much interest in the Joboxers back then.
Most of Dire Straits' videos appeared to be directed by hairdressers. So did McLaren's, post Pistols.
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I truly think that his original version of that song (from Atlantic Crossings?) is heartbreakingly beautiful.
Only a complete bastard would dare to differ. This ain't bad either:
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I even went through a very long phrase of loving Rod Stewart.
I can tell by your eyes that you've probably been crying forever.
And Hello Sailor.
No no no, this lot:
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Besides, for most people growing up in the punk and post punk eras, their defining music was Pink Floyd and Dire Straits..y'know the people who now fill the National Party and scribble vicious little diatribes on KiwiBlog :)
Me, I blame Supertramp. And Smokie. And Queen. Even Sailor, a little bit.