Rod Stewart - Every Picture Tells A Story
Rod the Mod finds his solo footing, headed for stardom, with the Faces in his wake.
6:00 AM GMT 22/06/2011
Features Disc of the day
Half Man Half Biscuit
Back In The DHSS
(Probe Plus, 1987)
No more heroes: just rubbish telly and belly laughs from 1985.
This week is Indie Week on MOJO, and every Disc Of The Day will reflect that theme.
The suburban comprehensive school for girls that defined the parameters of my world in 1985 was well and truly Into The Groove by the time I heard John Peel playing Half Man Half Biscuit. There was very little perceptible anomie, just a lot of rubber bangles and Sun In streaked hair. My teen experience was a world away from life on the dole in Birkenhead but HMHB’s debut still resonated with me like the biscuit tins they seemed to be smashing out these songs on. While few of my mates understood the attraction of Psychocandy or even The Smiths, we’d all been bought up watching the same three channels and we knew that hating Nerys Hughes was inherently funny. Awash with cultural references and deadpan sing-a-longs about rictus TV and sports ‘personalities’ maybe Back In The DHSS was a prophetic glimpse into the celebrity-obsessed future (“an ominous example of the power of TV”). Or maybe it was just irreverent and funny at a time when pop music was as po-faced as it ever got. Whatever. (As I’m sure they’d agree).
Jenny Bulley
Posted by Danny_Eccleston at 3:00 PM GMT 04/02/2008
Further Listening
I, Ludicrous – 20 Years In Show Business (Castle)
John Cooper Clarke – Disguise In Love (Rewind)
Half Man Half Biscuit – McIntyre, Treadmore And Davitt (Probe Plus)
What’s YOUR favourite UK indie album? Enlighten us below...
Previous Disc of the day
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Earl Brutus - Larky
Last salvo of Ginsters Pasty-Warholism from Britpop ramraiders.
12:04 PM GMT 08/06/2011
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Loudon Wainwright - T-Shirt
An overlooked small wonder from an unpredictable career.
6:00 AM GMT 03/06/2011
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Landscape - From The Tea-rooms Of Mars… To The Hell-holes Of Uranus
Dry computer club Futurists, upon hitting implausible chart paydirt.
6:00 AM GMT 17/05/2011
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Causa Sui - Summer Sessions Vol 1-3
Epic Danish jams, for when the neighbours get you down.
6:00 AM GMT 12/05/2011
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The whole back catologue is pure genius. Live they never dissapoint. They are playing Rock city Notts (they get locked in there in one of their songs!) in April check them out. Nigel Blackwell should be knighted.
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