For the last 20 years or so, I’ve really wanted to own a Technics turntable. I’d always resisted this, but gave in a year ago and bought one on ebay. It arrived without a stylus, which was a considerable disappointment that it took me nearly a further year to fix. But fixed today it was. Now I have a sexy technics turntable, together with the strobe light thing to get the speed right. I find that strobe light thing really ace for some reason.
So I shall spend the next few weeks making friends once more with the inexcusable shite that I listened to in the 1980s. A brief run-through of some of the records (especially the greatest hits compilations) really proves beyond reasonable doubt that ephemeral pop of the 1980s really was as bad as you remember it to be.
Tears for Fears (OK), Go West (one good single), Tanita Tikaram’s second album (shocking), Howard Jones (surprisingly OK) and the Thompson Twins (who I shouldn’t have mentioned because you’ll now have “Hold.
1 comment:
But do you have smalltown boy by bronski beat or even i cant wait by Nu Shuz to play on it? I have!
While i am at it, can you explain why the boys from erasure are skipping through white bed linen on clothes lines in Sometimes? I saw it the other night which warmed my heart I have to say, but then for the first time in my life I questioned the bed linen in the video!!
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