20 hours ago20 hr From the last batch, my favourites are Xanadu, Play The Game, Two Pints Of Lager And A Packet Of Crisps Please and To Be Or Not To Be.
19 hours ago19 hr Two more great #1 picks, 'New Amsterdam' was a fab rediscovery (wish it were a bit longer but still!) and 'No Self Control' is one of my best new discoveries from the series so far even if I did think the instrumental sounded a bit like a Nokia ringtone Poor brave Cockney Rejects x
15 hours ago15 hr New Amsterdam is one of Elvis' best tunes, great melody, nice lyrics, 9/10. Had a proper record sleeve, unlike one of his previous that was deliberately inside out, plain white outside, picture inside (Accidents Will Happen). Xanadu is fabulous, 10/10, an unlikely collab that worked, and my fave single and number one as I left Uni for the last time - sad it was all over, and misery awaited for the next few years. No rose-tinted spectacles for me... The film is just a bit dull, by and large, as opposed to being bad as such. Gene Kelly's last fling really. Who Wants The World is decent Stranglers, 7/10, and we had no idea about the golden brown future. I've always found Play The Game a bit dull apart from the random synth bit 6/10. Splodgenessabounds though, the anthem of anyone that's been in a packed pub and can't get bloody served, great fun and amusing social observation 9/10 for Two Pints, Simon templar's a bit of fun and 7/10. 747 is Saxon's best record, Metalpop as it should be 9/10. A bit dangerous, a bit dark, a bit threatening, but catchy riffs and vocals. Bed's Too Big Without You is largely forgotten but the single version is pretty good, uptempo and urgent, 9/10. Waterfalls I adore, moving, atmospheric, synthy, minimalist 9/10. I also love that Paul's chosen singing style is emotional not pub singer. Jump To The Beat is great disco soul and better than subsequent cover versions. 9/10. There's a lot 9's in this bunch for me! Stacy did great for 13! I'm Not Your Steppin Stone is a comedy version from The Great Rock n Roll Swindle, I think, and they were scraping the very dead barrel by this stage but at least the song became a hit at last. The Monkees B side drips venom, ironically, and is a 10/10, while the Sex Pistols' is manufactured money-grabbing cash-in 6/10. That might seem the wrong-way round to some but it's true....Odyssey's biggie is still popular, and a firm 8/10 from me, but they had classics before and after that were better, but not better-known. B.A.'s was quite sweet, he did enjoy his word-play, much like the Bard did, but I preferred the previous 3 bangers. Nice 7/10. My Way Of Thinking was a bit of a 4/10 snoozefest, but the Randy Newman cover was better, 6/10. Let's Hang On is not as good as The Four Seasons original, but it's OK as Darts career was about to fizzle. It is however better than a future Barry manilow version. 7/10. Rod's soul cover sucks all the soul out of it in favour of tedium. It was boring at the time, and it still is. 3/10 Makes Sailing and This Old Heart Of Mine, previous inferior attempts at covers, sound positively lively in comparison.
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