I usually like your songs, but I have never seen the attraction of that lugubrious duo. They take themselves far more seriously than their music merits. I’m a huge Fairport fan, and I wish he’d never left.
Lugubrious?
That’s very harsh, Bluey!
The Barrett era of Floyd is often underrated. The band created some wonderfully eccentric tracks under his leadership.
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Thanks to ABC Radio caller
Digging my 90’s pop playlist today.
I’m not sure I haven’t heard this in years, but I had no idea that’s what this song was called, or who the artist was.
Nearly skipped it.
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The Radiators! Good Lord!
I was living in Warrnambool in late 1978 when the Lady Bay Hotel (R.I.P.) put on a “punk night” which attracted a full house to witness this newish musical peculiarity.
The Radiators were first on the bill and were little more than barely adequate and nothing like the punk music we expected to hear. They left to lukewarm applause.
The headlining act were a young outfit called The Boys Next Door and the mood of the room changed in an instant. They were loud, raucous, threatening, discordant, unorthodox, weird and very much in-your-face.
I was spellbound. Alas, the local yokels didn’t take at all kindly to such confrontation and repeatedly interrupted the gig by cutting power to the amps. The whole thing had to be abandoned amid chaotic scenes of booing, cat-calling and jeering from the crowd which was met by Nick and other band members yelling abuse and calling them “Fking Nazi Cnts”.
Now THAT was punk! The Radiators … not so much.
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We as kids in the 80’s had a tape of the Radiators, it was like taped and pirated down to us at the Football oval, so we had a boom box and played it loud, Good fun on the oval whilst kicking the footy 83
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Of course Yello will always be synonymous with Ferris Bueller. This however was the first song of theirs I was familiar with and I don’t reckon I’ve heard it 25+ years. For some reason, it popped in my head today and I’ve no idea why…
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Oh yeah, I remember that and it’s probably been just as long since I last heard it too.
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