Monday 26 November 2007

Tales From My Youth 3

Further old stuff, this time from my evangelical period as a Britpop era musicologist (originally written in coloured felt, entirely in CAPITAL LETTERS):

Oh my god, that's the funky sh*t
or the definitive guide to the new listener to jumpy shouty music

  1. Find a decent couple of blokes to go to a student night-club with.
  2. Come home.
  3. Wake up the next afternoon with an aching head, sore neck muscles, bruised legs, splinter gut, a strange whistling noise in your head that just won't go away, and a feeling of complete euphoria at having the first great night of your life.
  4. Rush out armed to the teeth with cash trying to obtain the tunes you heard last night. 
  5. Return home with tears streaming from your eyes, realising your plan to buy Our Price with 48p, failed.
  6. After a week of scratching around, you come across a blank cassette, and give it to a chum who has gone through the whole experience before.
  7. Realise you are holding ninety minutes of pure, unadluterated fine music that will blow your nan's pants off even if she dared to think about saying "That's nice, dear".
  8. Contemplate putting your new new TDK D90 in the machine.
  9. Eat a steak and kidney pie instead.
  10. Clear your bladder, this will be a pants wetting experience.
  11. Go down to the shop to see if they've sold out of FHM's already. Failing that, buy a copy of GOAL magazine.
Do you know what? This all gets too autobiographical too soon. I don't think I know you well enough to let all of this out just yet.

Tales From My Youth 2

This is The Dorch - The Album. Don't worry if the time seemed to have stopped in late 1995 - it might have actually have done.

Consolidated/Crack MC - You Suck
Stealers Wheel - Stuck In The Middle With You
Emf/ Reeves And Mortimer - I'm A Believer
Black Grape - In The Name Of The Father
Levellers - One Way
Oasis - Don't Look Back In Anger
The Offspring - Come Out And Play
The Beastie Boys - Sabotage
Body Count - Body Count
Rage Against The Machine - Bullet In The Head
Babylon Zoo - Spaceman (Radio Edit)
Josh Wink - Higher State Of Consciousness (Original Tweekin' Acid Funk Edit)
Blur - Country House
The Monkees - Daydream Believer
The Chemical Brothers - Leave Home
Run-D.M.C. - Walk This Way
The Beatles - A Hard Day's Night
Pulp - Common People
Skunk Anansie - Weak
The Presidents Of The United States Of America - Lump
The Presidents Of The United States Of America - Peaches
Paul Weller - The Changingman
The Jam - Going Underground
The Clash - Should I Stay Or Should I Go
Cypress Hill - Insane In the Brain (Explicit Album Version)
Supergrass - Going Out
Supergrass - Alright
Free - All Right Now
Various Artists - Are You Gonna Go My Way
Menswear - Daydreamer
Green Day - Basket Case
Cast - Fine Time
The Prodigy - Firestarter
Oasis - Roll With It
Ocean Colour Scene - The Riverboat Song
The Offspring - Self-Esteem
The Offspring - Nitro (Youth Energy)
Black Grape - Reverend Black Grape

Sunday 25 November 2007

Tales From My Youth

Evening,

I've just been looking through a pile of old papers, and found my list of tunes for "The Dorch - The Album". For anyone who doesn't know, The Dorchester was the centre of the universe for indie types who could dance for hours and liked 'retro' football shirts and enjoyed ridiculously cheap alcohol, in and around 1995.

A Google (click here to repeat search) only returned two relevant links to the place. Surely, everyone who survived its charms can't have not written about it online? Astonishing. But what has shown up is a Dorchester Reunion on New Years' Eve. Possibly see you there...if they could recreate The Deep, The Chill Out Room, The Caff (with chips for apparently 20p), the cages for exhibitionist dancing and bouncers who will insist on asking you for ID, even though the attendees' average age will be about 30.

To follow...the listings for "The Dorch - The Album".