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T.V.'s popular Loni Anderson plays hostess in what promises to be a fun-type FoamFeaturette™! Note kitchen melding traditional-style elegance with futuristic accents! Note album emerging tantalisingly from Lidsville™ lunchbox! Can you recognise it, subscribers? Leave a smart clue-type comment in the comments! Don't name album/artist! A clue! To help the nogood bums what ain't gots college smarts like youse!
While you're cogitatin', take a trip to Lidsville:
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Got any junior acid bob? I think I'll take a joiney there tonight with my evening glass of sherry. Were all makers of childrens television given Philocybin before they started work? The Dougal and the blue cat film is worth an hour of anyones time.
DeleteNever been to Lidsville before. Hoo Doo seems to have a Bilko meets Beetlejuice vibe going on.
ReplyDeleteWhatever vibe is going on, it looks wilder that what's happening over here.
ReplyDeleteI got them college smarts, hoss.
ReplyDeleteI just ain't got no clue.
Story of my life.
Hmmmm.... I can make out what the dominant thing is that is depicted on the cover, and the proper orientation to look at it. Also the last 2 letters of the top line. Otherwise, I got butkus.
ReplyDeleteI have tried to identify the image. I just can't focus fast enough to follow it. So, this is harder than previous editions. I don't have a clue as to what I am seeing. But, I do appreciate the strategic angle on the objective. I wind up wanting to drink from the thermos that I believe is tucked into Loni's tank top.
ReplyDeleteOoga ooga ooga chaka!
My difficulty with this is similar to Kwai Changs'...............
ReplyDeleteThe Mystery Album is one of a handful from a wretched decade that could qualify as a "classic". Sounded great back then, possibly greater today. It's beautifully paced and cohesive, and unimprovable by adding or subtracting tracks. It's their second and effectively last album, and some (inevitably) prefer the first, which is thinner on melody and dynamics.
ReplyDeleteWas my clue too subtle?
DeleteIt's perfect.
Delete.. thought i saw a fist like on "power in the darkness"
ReplyDeleteNah - I have no clue as to what album it is, but the thing depicted on the cover (that we can see) is most def not a fist. In fact, its the opposite of it.
DeleteLike most here, I haven't the faintest. But I did notice that your nifty GIF FX play in time with just about any Jamaican medium-tempo skanking sides I put on. Well done, Farq.
ReplyDeleteSorry I'm late - I can't cope with these kosmische quizzes during lockdown.
ReplyDeleteCheers, Peanuts Molloy.
Cope. Geddit?
DeleteCheers, Peanuts Molloy.
You and Huge get up on the dais and pat each other on the back in a hail of piss-bottles from the dumbasses who hadn't a clue!
DeleteGee - color me disappoint wit' youse bums. I thought this was too easy! It's "Wilder" by The Teardrops Explodes, from '81. Huge Candyass even gave away the title (in blatant contravention of the rules). I'll it loadup later, because if two or three of the four or five ain't familiar with it, they should oughta be, on account swellness. The unlikely product of a bunch of Scallies who hated each other (all Liverpudlians except the Beetles hate each other, and a single Scally can start a fight in an empty room), Wilder didn't sell anywhere except Fernando Po, where it stayed at the top of the charts for thirteen years.
ReplyDeleteAnyway, it's been on heavy rotation here at th' IoF© recently.
That's exactly what I thought, only I couldn't remember it. The font choice and flower power cover looked like the eighties, but Echo and the Bunnymen (definitely not Gnu Ordure) was as close as I could recollect incorrectly. A Kwik Trip up the stairs confirms I have but one Teardrop Explodes LP, and this ain't it. No Julian Cope solo excursions, either. Mr. Cope (as the New York Times might refer to him) seems like an entertaining fellow, I must say, curating, IIRC, some nice collections of obscurish stoner hard rock back in the dark ages of the worldwide Webb. So many mysteries lurk in old hard drives, many of which are still functioning. This new one will enjoy their company. Can't get enough of that forty year old music, except of course, for that which I had plenty of already. Wait, how did that beer glass get empty?
DeleteLet us know where this registers on your Swell-O-Meter©, Hazy. I get a reading in the high eights most days.
DeleteI'll give this a full audition tomorrow. I'm inclined to like it, but have to dock a few points for the brass on the first couple songs. I suspect trumpets may have something to do with why I didn't pursue their discography much past "Kilimanjaro" in the first place. Not that contemporaries like Soft Cell, Haircut 100, Human League, and so on were models of gritty, spare, unadorned geology.
DeleteThis ain't Bay Area brass rock, Hazy! Learn to love your inner embouchure.
DeleteDid the homework of playing Kilimanjaro this morning, which has recalibrated my ears a little. Last track on side one is the one I recognize, from putting it on a cassette which got a lot of plays back in the olden days. Wikipoodia claims their "post-punk version of West Coast pop music... gained the nickname of 'bubblegum trance'..." While leaning more toward baroque pop instrumentation (oboes and fake harpsichords), I recognize that some of the massive quantity of trumpet owners cranked out by the nation's high school pep bands will inevitably find employment in popular music, occasionally profitably. This ain't a Midwest horn band, either, nor a Top 40 band getting overdubbed brass excitement courtesy of their professional producer exactly, or even skinny white kids in suits backing a faux soul singer, so they have all that going for them. On the whole, I gravitate toward intermediate level guitarists arpeggiating through $99 stomp boxes instead of loud bilabial fricatives, but this has enough of each to merit more spins. And I like Julian's voice and songcraft. There are also times where I can't tell if it's real trumpets or some semi-competent keyboardist trying out the "Brass section" patch on the latest Casio, which always gives me ambivalence. Just the same, I'm open to seeing more of Loni on the Isle.
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ReplyDeleteTake a wilder guess!
... never heard them. don't know why ...
Deletebtw. thanks for the hidden link
I was going through the Madchester bands...I was kinda sorta thinking in the right direction, just a decade too late. Oh well.
ReplyDeleteNever, ever, confuse Manchester with Liverpool. One is a rain-sodden depressing shithole full of chip-on-shoulder, pissed-up gobshites, and the other is the cultural centre of the universe.
Delete... you mean L. is A. and M. is B. or the other way round ...
DeleteA rather late cOmment on behalf of The Cosmonauts Of Inner Space
ReplyDeleteI`m Out of head on Cope & Reed
Like the cut of your jib, Bazmania. Hearing good things about you from HR. There'll be an opening soon in Accounts Receivable and I have my eye on you for that! Not making any promises, but don't let me down, now!
DeleteDidn't Zippy the Pinhead once say that Loni Anderson's hair "looks like hardened Cool Whip?
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