Spizzenergi - Where is Captain Kirk?

So, it took decades, but Spizz finally found Captain Kirk:

Where's Captain Kirk? Spizz finally meets Shatner.

By the way, the best line in Fight Club? "Shatner. I'd fight William Shatner."

Thomas Dolby - She Blinded Me With Science

Joe Walsh played this song on his show tonight.

This song got me into Thomas Dolby. I bought this album and played it over and over and over. This, and One of Our Submarines, are my favorite tracks by Thomas Dolby.



My favorite lines:

"Good heavens Miss Sakamoto, you're beautiful!"

and

"There she goes again! She's tidied up, and I can't find anything!"

I've been in both situations.

Turns out the second line is also Joe's favorite line.

The Kinks - State of Confusion

Happy Birthday Ray Davies!

"It gets worse, the older that you get."

The Dead Kennedys - Police Truck

This seems topical.

Also, it's the birthday of my friend Tom, who kept playing DK for me until I liked them. It took a while, but I'm glad I finally got what was so good about them.

Death - Politicians In My Eyes

I first heard of Death in an article in a newspaper - I want to say it was the New York Times. How this band went forgotten for so long is really hard to understand when you hear them. They're incredible - one of the earliest proto-punk / punk bands. Like the MC5 and The Dictators in power and intensity, and with lyrics I'd find so drawn to from The Clash and Stiff Little Fingers . . . as refined as later punk groups like Rancid . . . they're just amazing.



Listen to anything by them. Listen to everything by them. It's all good.

Pete Shelley - Homosapian

I first heard this song in the 90s on a collection of 80s New Wave CDs. I knew Pete Shelley as the lead singer of the Buzzcocks but not his solo work.

This song is amazing.

I still remember hearing a Buzzcocks song for the first time - it was "Orgasm Addict" and it grabbed me and never let go.

Equally I still remember hearing the Buzzcocks on the radio back in December of 2018 . . . and then another song right after. I just went, "Oh no . . . "

Sad to lose him, so great to have had him.