CD Singles - Comments by biffbampow

CD Singles - Comments by biffbampow

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Member	Item		Review/Comment
biffbampow 18th May 2015		CD Single Robson Green, Jerome Flynn - Unchained Melody (1995)	I don't know why I clicked on this... possibly wondering if being able to vote zero is yet possible, but to see the names Stock and Aitken being behind this explains a lot. Everybody goes on about 1995 as the year of "Britpop" in the same way that people go on about 1967 for "flower power" and all that, yet what sold the most during each of those years? MOR pap like this in 1995 and Engelbert Humperdinck in 1967. These two really angered me as they seemed to be glued to the number one spot for small eternities and every week there they would be gathered round one of those old styled microphones acting all oh so sincere and I'd look at that microphone and imagine the ways I would had liked to have stuffed them in select orifices of Robson and Jerome.
biffbampow 10th Jan 2013		CD Single River City People - Special Way (1991)	I remember buying this one. They were one of the only bands I liked during this awful era. The first single from their second album, I was rather alarmed by the words "remix" on the second track. Got it home, loaded it in the player and hit play. The main track was rather average - pretty poor by this fine bands' standards. Then came the dreaded remix and to my astonishment it had a life about it that the overproduced A side didn't and I was shocked to find myself really enjoying it. Unfortunately my copy of this single was permanently damaged in a flood, but I still have a copy of that remix... still sounds cool. Years since I've heard the rest and if I remember rightly, "Cuando Era Joven (Acustico)" was a Spanish acoustic version of the older song "When I Was Young"
biffbampow 9th Jan 2013		CD Single Mick Ronson With Joe Elliott - Don't Look Down (Edit) (1994)	I miss Andy's Records very much - was usually my second port of call when I visited Hull - would do Norman's first, then Andy's then Sydney Scarboroughs. It depresses me none of them exist now. As for Ronno... it's strange seeing this again and reading Joe's notes. It wouldn't be till about a year after this that it finally emerged that Mick was not on any of The Rats singles (and worse, Parchman Farm listed here was not by the Hull Rats!) and it would be another year or two after that that we finally got to hear what Mick did in that band with unreleased material on a retrospective CD devoted to the band - his recording debut having been "The Rise and Fall Of Bernie Gripplestone" in 1967 which had never been played onstage yet alone heard outside of the bands inner circle which was sad because it's a great piece of psych. Another great thing about that song is the distinctive Hull accents to the fore as they chant "Bernie Gripple-STEEERNNNN"! :)
biffbampow 9th Jan 2013		CD Single The Stranglers - Golden Brown (1995)	Yes, I remember Old Gold released various CD compilations... CD singles were fewer from what I recall but there were odd ones. Seeing this one... well... I'd certainly remember if I saw any singles looking like this and I don't. You couldn't get anything more basic, tacky and crappier could you?