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Party Music For Gay Angry Sluts
Like all good LPs Who Let The Dogs Out starts with a police siren, its a sound that never fails to stir my punk blood*. The siren morphs into ‘Bad Apples’ a furious tirade inspired by everything...
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Mr Snuffleupagpunkus
Dear reader, on the off chance you are thinking about getting the name of a favourite LP tattooed on a soft part of your body that doesn’t often see the light of day, may I gently deflect you away...
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Lost And Found
‘The first gig we did in London was at Dingwalls and it was magnificent … It was so packed, I thought … Oh boy, we’re gonna be the next Beatles. Of course, the last Beatles weren’t wildly...
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Oeuf!
There is a school of thought that posits that the egg is the most beautiful shape found in nature. Over aeons reptiles and birds have evolved* their eggs for maximum efficiency and practicality,...
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It’s Dee Dee’s Fault I Am This Way (Slight Return)
Ladies and gentlemen let me present at no additional expense to yourselves, included in your basic 1537 membership package, with no obligation to purchase* a mini bonus review. Ramones Sundragon...
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I Thought The Law
The law don't mean shit if you've got the right friends That's how this country's run Twinkies are the best friend I've ever had I fought the law and I won I fought the law and I won I fucking love...
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Ripsaw Rock
‘I’m Not A Sicko, There’s A Plate In My Head’ Very sadly, I don’t have a plate in my head and so I just have to fess up to being a sicko. Damn, outed myself again, mind you actually owning a copy of...
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Punktuation
It’s Saturday night, time to take everything down a notch, dim the lights, slip into something less restrictive around the midsection and get all lovey-dovey-dovey. From Edinburgh with love: The...
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I Need A Drink, I Can’t Think, I Like The Kinks
Oooh, I like a hostile LP and LP’s don’t get a lot more hostile than Pere Ubu The Modern Dance; absolutely user unfriendly, no-fucks given, ‘let’s see you listen right through to the end of this one,...
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Nostalgia For An Age Yet To Come
So to begin at the beginning: It is an Autumn, moonless night in Manchester, starless and bible-black, the cobbled streets silent and the hunched, courters’-and- tramps’ railway arches limping...
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Dance To The Beat Of The Living Dead
There’s nothing in my dreams Just some ugly memories Kiss me like the ocean breeze (Gimme Danger) I was only just 17 when I got napalmed for the first time. In the cheap LP rack at Boots in...
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Yobz II Men
Christmas, eh? What’s it all about? A time of togetherness, family, the giving and exchanging of Yuletide gifts; a time to be thankful for what we have; a time to gather our loved ones close to us and...
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The Pulsebeat
Sooner or later You’re gonna listen to Ralph Nader With those lines in the first song on their debut LP I swooned and fell in love with the Buzzcocks for ever more. I already liked them a lot, there...
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I Disagree
Authenticity, meaning it, not ripping your fans off, doing it for the kids – all a bit overrated in my view, give me a cheapo cash-in to buy any day, especially if it comes in a shite cover and I’ve...
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Got A Concrete Skull
Here’s my joint favourite band ever, creators of my favourite LP ever, makers of my favourite 5 seconds of music ever, doing what they do best at the very height of their powers*: Here’s my joint...
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76 Going On 77
I don’t want love ’cause it’s a bore I found more love with a 3rd Street whore I don’t want love ’cause it’s a waste of time But don’t forget that you are mine‘Cause I’m a fascist dictator That’s what...
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When You Look Me In The Eye
This is one of the very few bootleg LPs I own, it always messes up my compulsive cataloguing system – it doesn’t have a proper name! It doesn’t have a clear release date! How can this be ! It is wrong!...
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Question Everything You’re Told
Stiff Little Fingers never get their dues it seems to me. If they’re remembered at all, it’s as politically angry young punks from Belfast, which they were but I really think they were so much more...
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Jesus This Is Iggy
See a black Eldorado Oh, rolling along down below my window That black girl in the back looks pretty good Christ! She’s beautiful You know how soft she is Just what you feel like Oh, I’m so far away...
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Shave Your Soul
Doing the whole 1537 thang, I’ve come to realize I own far more compilations than I ever thought I did*, here’s another one God Bless America (Posh Hits Vol.1). Given the title I know you’re all...
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