Cleveland Jeff has a nice write-up of the new Lemon Twigs album, which had mysteriously passed me by. However, after spending a frustrating week-end going blind trying to find a StealthLink© over at Like Dancing About Architecture, I decided to make the album available to th' Four Or Five Guys© in a special edition. Why is it special? Because, like last time, I've gone the extra yard for them and replaced their dull, stoopid cover with something that doesn't look like an Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark album. I like to think the new design [above - Ed.] taps into that whole Saturday Morning TV vibe.
Their previous album [left, whoopsie, I mean, like, above - Ed.] got a drooling review here, which I can't now find. Perhaps I dreamed it? So here it is again, for possibly the first time! They're both absolutely primo First Tier harmony pop albums, with incredibly hooky songs, sparkling production, and I can't recommend them too highly, and now they have great covers, they get the coveted Perfect Ten award!
You certainly won't regret downloading today's Deliverables O' Excellence™!
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From 2020, and surprisingly fun.
And here they are, four guys who aren't the Beach Boys, live, no overdubs, doing the impossible, and doing it well:
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I don't think we quite talked about cars enough last time, so let's keep that going until it "runs out of gas" LOLROFL!
ReplyDeleteFavourite car I ever owned: MGB convoitibull. I liked to drive it with the top down and tonneau cover snapped into place, making a WW2 pilot cockpit ambience for the driver.
BMW Z3 - Forest Green with a rag top. Great looking car that also never had any type of issue the 6 years I owned it. Got rid of it after my 2nd kid was born. With 2 youngsters, owning a 2 seat vehicle was just not feasible.
ReplyDeleteWhat's the trunk for? Gee whiz.
DeleteI know, but their mother (my ex) "they'll get hurt back there!" Hey, bumps, bruises, broken bones, concussions and stitches all build great moral character!!!! Look at me!
DeleteYeah, not one of my better closing arguments.
59 TR3. Then my MGB.
ReplyDeleteOboyoboyoboy. I have to say my favourite TR was the 6, still a timeless piece of auto art. The stance, the size of the wheels, the simple power of the thing.
DeleteThe 6 wuz/is tits! Great sled, not lead!
DeleteI never owned a car, and I have driven one, once, no twice. in 33 years.
ReplyDeleteAre you happy with this, or do you occasionally suffer a vague sense of yearning, even loss?
DeleteYes, quite happy. And sometimes, when a vehicle of sorts is needed I can rent one for a day, or phone a friend. I think that on a yearly count I ask two or three times, a friend to drive. Over here everything is quite nearby, buses and trains ride on time. Never did things not, just because I did not have a car.
DeleteGood for you, Richard!
DeleteLike many a Californian, I've driven a lot of cars a number of miles...
ReplyDeleteHard put to select a true fave... My current one is "a runner": VW Diesel Beetle with XXX,XXX miles on it. But still gets great fuel mileage (which, at CA fuel prices...!!!), responsive to the wheel and five-speed gearbox, and not offensive to my eyes.
Honorable mentions to the "Mars Car" (a red Toyota two door), the red Renault 16 with a sunroof, and my parents' Rover 2000TC in British racing green. Each served me well and took me to several of the better adventures of my life.
D in California
My Dad had a Rover 3500 ("three thousand five"). That was a lot of engine back then. Still is.
DeleteThis is not to diminish your twin carb 2000. Class whip!
DeleteYes, it moved. I didn't know what a five speed transmission was like, so I was very happy with the four. Plus, driving a Rover in L.A. was a lot different than driving one in the U.K., I imagine.
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Ah, probably my '55 Chevy, although it was just for a few months. Bought it for $150.00, dropped in a rebuilt short block, sold it, and made a small profit. Great radio....still using tubes...we could pick up Los Angeles 400 miles away when the ionosphere was right.
ReplyDeleteI love the offhand "dropped in a short block", like you were spooning coffee into a mug! The most mechanical I ever got was changing a battery. And that was in a flashlight.
DeleteIn two years we bought, sold, traded...a '52 Studebaker truck, '53 Chevy panel truck, '53 Plymouth wagon, '55 Chevy wagon, '49 Studebaker coupe, an Austin Healy Sprite, '69 Opel GT, four Karman Ghias, seven VW bugs, and one VW bus. That's I remember, there may have been more; who remembers a car they owned for a week? Plus, drugs. How do I know you again? Where are we? What the ****, how did we end up in Bakersfield?
DeleteAt the end, we could drive a VW into the garage and swap out the engine for a rebuild in two hours. We got good at it.
It don't mean f***-all, though, it's like knowing how to repair a typewriter. "What's that you say, sonny? Your keyboard's not working? When was the last time you lubricated the carriage assembly? Have you checked the platen?"
But if you need someone to install an oil-bath air filter, I'm your man.
I forgot the 1967 Barracuda.
Delete'55 Caddy Fleetwood. Power everything. 2-tone green, acquired in late '69, I named it
ReplyDelete"The Lizard King".
In many ways, you're everything I'm not. Occasionally, like a here, in a good way. Kudos!
DeleteWhite Renault. Lost it in Sainsbury's car park. Tragic
ReplyDeleteNo, no, no. Losing a Renault is not "tragic", it's the best thing that can happen.
DeleteOh, wait - you "lost" it, right? Try to be a little more expansive in your comments. And give yourself a name, for fuck's sake. How hard can it be?
DeleteIt was a white Renault in a massive car park full of white cars. I couldn't find it. In other words, I lost it.
DeleteOhhh ... right. I deliberately "lost" a shitty Golf (early model) in a multi-storey car park once. Took the plates off and walked away. Good feeling.
Deletefor sheer it took a lickin' and kept on tickin', a third hand 1974 Datsun B210 hatchback I got the summer of 1980...
ReplyDeleteIs Lucy Lastic's Laundromax de Luxe©, LA the one on Highway 1 down near Grand Isle?
Nothing too wrong with a Datsun.
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1935 Morris Eight 4 seater Tourer. It had the optional extra "doors flying open on corners."
ReplyDeleteNow we're talking! Our first family car was a Standard Nine. Sundays were the worst - "going for a drive" with my sister and me in the back, hating every second, and each other.
DeleteYeah, but you had a roof, and windows...
Delete... kept us from leaping to freedom.
DeleteTWO swell albums, sonically enhanced to @193khzb!!! PLUS!!!!!!! You get a FREE life-size cut-out and stand-up model of the band with every deliverable!! Oboy! Imagine the gangs faces as you introduce them to your favorite band right there in your clubhouse!! Simply print out at life size, bond to half-inch marine ply, and cut around dotted line with hand-held jig saw! WOW! Some fun, huh guys!!
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SNORKY! The link is in the comment above this one!
DeleteD-u-u-u-d!..before I even asked?...
DeleteDatsun 160J SSS Mk.III - great engine, shame about the rust!!
ReplyDeleteNothing too wrong with a Datsun. Except the tin worm.
DeleteBack in the early 90s I had a red 64 Ford Galaxie convertible that looked great as long as you didn't look underneath.. the gas tank dropped out and was hanging by a bracket while I was driving home from work one day. Luckily there was a gas station yards away when it happened. I'm lucky it didn't explode or else I doubt I'd be here today. Good times!
ReplyDeleteBack in the 80’s and 90’s various old VW Golf’s, the best one was a Golf CS I think, I drove them all until they died. Currently a 16 year old Honda Jazz for pootling about in occasionally - there is no pleasure in driving here in my part of England, the roads are over busy, full of holes and now petrol is getting expensive. I can walk most places or get about on buses and trains.
ReplyDeleteI only drive a car if going to one of the "big towns" up and down river. Maybe once a fortnight. Getting around my hometown I use my motosai, or bicycle if my knee's up to it.
DeleteI leased a Tesla Y two years ago. Best thing I ever did. It practically drives itself, and I recharge overnight in my garage on cheap rate electricity. Recommend everyone to go electric.
ReplyDeletePlenty of electrics and hybrids here in Siam, all built of solid Chinesium.
DeleteI can't decide. MGB/83 Trans Am with T-top/ 1990 Mitsubishi Eclipse. All have reasons to be best or fav. Tonight I am going with the TA. Rainy night date and you recline seats and watch the rain hit the glass T-top. Mood setter.
ReplyDeleteMGs featuring strongly here - I'm surprised!
DeleteOne never forgets one's first (though in this case I'm tempted): a hellacious yellow 2-door AMC Hornet with no a/c, only an AM radio, and the get-up and go of an old lawn mower (the push kind). 'twas a parental castoff to this young 'un, but it drove and I was free(ish) in my piece of automotive buffoonery/bad taste. --Muzak McMusics
ReplyDeleteIt was a '71, soon after AMC had morphed from Rambler. --Muzak McM.
DeleteSongs for the General Public (love that title):
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More seventies than sixties, rather more synth than guitar. Some of it is quite bonkers.
1974 Pontiac Firebird in Limefire Green. Brand new - $4,650 USD drive out price. The color was definitely a product of the time. Ripped out the crappy standard radio and installed top of the line AM/FM with cassette (Alpine?). Sister car with the Chevy Camaro. It was just a TON of fun.
ReplyDelete"Songs for the General Public" is a keeper! There are some very interesting songs, along with a few nice earworms. Thanks for the enlightenment.
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