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May. 31st, 2009 10:14 pmOK - last one for a while. Honest. Maybe.
For a wider view of the Pete Atkin songbook, with songs from throughout the canon, go to his website, find the "Listen To" section, and click on "Smash Flops", which is an hour-long documentary made in 2000, hosted by John Peel, of songs and interviews, which gives you a lot more songs, and a lot more insights. You only get the second half of most of the songs, and many of the versions are demos, but it might still give a flavour of what has so comprehensively turned my head. [![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
burkesworks - I suspect this was the doc you were referring to. I dimly recall listening to it when it was originally on].
ETA: I am always on the lookout for terrible couplets from the popular music canon. This one, by contrast, is (I think) one of the best I have ever come across:
"I've seen the plywood cities meet their doom because of dames
Atlantis down in bubbles and Atlanta up in flames"
["Screen-Freak", Clive James]
There's such a lot going on in there...
For a wider view of the Pete Atkin songbook, with songs from throughout the canon, go to his website, find the "Listen To" section, and click on "Smash Flops", which is an hour-long documentary made in 2000, hosted by John Peel, of songs and interviews, which gives you a lot more songs, and a lot more insights. You only get the second half of most of the songs, and many of the versions are demos, but it might still give a flavour of what has so comprehensively turned my head. [
burkesworks - I suspect this was the doc you were referring to. I dimly recall listening to it when it was originally on].ETA: I am always on the lookout for terrible couplets from the popular music canon. This one, by contrast, is (I think) one of the best I have ever come across:
"I've seen the plywood cities meet their doom because of dames
Atlantis down in bubbles and Atlanta up in flames"
["Screen-Freak", Clive James]
There's such a lot going on in there...
