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Added more to the Liminanas collection yesterday. More movie soundtrack work from Lionel in collaboration with David Menke It's a double album with soundtracks from two movies, The Ballad of Linda L & The Devil Inside Me I've not listened to the second right now but I've listened to The Ballad of Linda L disc a few times. It's brillliant. I have no idea what the movie is like or even what it's about but Lionel's scores have moved on from The Liminanas doing a soundtrack and it just being the Liminanas. There's all sorts in here. Three tracks in a row reference the 80s, 80's score Parts A & B and Friends on Fire. The bass linethat goes across the first two is either Peter Hook (he has appeared with the Liminanas before) or a very good pastiche, there's a Casiotone reference to Trio's Da Da Da and some euphoric '80s electronic Euro Disco. He also seems to have picked up bits from the bands previous colaboration with Laurent Garnier. As ever there are also nods to Morricone and other references I know but can't pin down. It's a really varied score for a film that I imagine is set in the '80s I may report back with the other disc later but on this evidence Lionel has followed up last years brilliant score to The World We knew with another superb effort where he's really pushed his boundaries further

The Slits debut album Cut A 1979 Post-Punk classic. This is the 40th Anniversary version with a bonus track. The Slits magnificent cover of I heard It Through The Grapevine There's obviously a couple of On-U connections here with Dennis Bovell producing (mentored the early Adrian Sherwood) and of course Ari Up who was a member of the New Age Steppers and really became the voice of that collective but there's lots more beside that Part of the London post-punk squat culture that spawned so many bands including PIL (John Lydon was also Ari Up's step father even though they were of a similar age and background) Palmolive gets a writing credit for all the songs but she'd left by the time it was recorded, replaced by Budgie who then left to join Siouxsie - replaced by Bruce Smith of the Pop Group who also was part of New Age Steppers Also features Ari Up's mother Nora (Lydon's wife obv) and Don Letts somewhere on here So after this album was recorded and Budgie left, The Slits teamed up with Prince Hammer (recorded with AMS on ON-U forerunner HitRun and toured with Bim Sherman and Price Far I - both On-U artists) AND... AND Jazz legend Don Cherry. Don Cherry's teenage step daughter also joined briefly you might have heard of her, Neneh (who was also a New Age Stepper as well as being in Rip Rig and Panic and Float Up CP (both Pop Group offshoots and Don Cherry Involved here too) You want connections, this album has them in spades I can't post the cover because it breaches the guidelines Anyway, this album is ace

Did you think that with the last bloke too?

Oh I don't know, he seems quite cold

Mine's missing in action too. I will replace it if I ever see a decend copy second hand becuse its a good album. It was recorded before they went huge, it was remixes of stuff like Wrote For Luck that launched them higher and that song in particular on the album is very different in its original form

Do it,

The Dream Syndicate's latest - Ultra Violet Battle Hymns and True Confessions Completely unfashionable band who were one of the Paisley Underground scene that also spawned The Bangles, The Three O'clock, Gren on Red, The Long Ryders...

Anyways from the late RSD 2022 releases, first proper release on vinyl for this score from the maestro

Nope, we insulate our lofts to keep the heat in. Only poorly insulated houses would get any behefit

Saw that SFA in town earlier and had a maybe / maybe not moment, I didn't in the end

"Give us another chance, we're sorry for Riverdance!"

make celebrity GIFs like this at MakeaGif

He was due to speak to the Red Wall Tory MPs at their cocaine party, sorry, Northern Research Group COnference, they are furious

Well it makes sense, requires less sanitary bins and there's a cost to emptying each one, in fact cut costs further and have a single time of the month cubicle

The Mr Creosote phase

I am most certainly not jealous of anyone that attempts to bathe in a toilet

Only in the workplace

Except in Ukraine this isn't true. They were ordered to do it. Intercepted phone calls prove this and the systematic way it was done from house to house in places like Bucha also prove it. It's happened on a mass scale. These aren't a few bad eggs in an otherwise normal military, it has been systematic and widespread.

Thats pissing me off for starters

its just started raining so appropriately I'm listening to this oddly packaged cash in on the Nuggets album. Come to the Sunshine: Soft Pop Nuggets from the WEA Vaults Hippy shit

Kate Bush is so stoned she won't even notice

Yes, I remember they actually set out to lose

Didn’t winning Eurovision three years on the bounce nearly bankrupt Ireland because they had to host it every year and it cost a fortune?

Unfrickin believable Jeff. I'm eating my tea, there's a knock at the door, I answer, it's some food delivery guy, clearly at the wrong address but... He's seen fit to park on my sodding drive and now he's sat there whilst he phone's whichever take-away it is he's delivering for What is wrong with you know, the perfectly adequate space on the road directly outside my house How often does this happen? Has someone put a park your car here sign up that I just haven't seen? Twice in one day! And it just happens to be the day I took off work to pressure wash the drive