Downloading a Billy Bragg retrospective (nope - still don’t like him on the whole. At least I tried. Like sweet potato) got me on a late-eighties music kick just now. On this album he massacres “Back to the Old House” so naturally I had to go and listen to the Smiths original. Then I thought what the hell and played the whole of “Hatful of Hollow”.

One thing led to another and now it’s The Wedding Present, The Go-Betweens and next it’ll be The Sundays. Every generation has its bands that it takes oh-so seriously and will claim for evermore that nothing was proper music before or since. These are mine. Except that I’m one of the spods who still buys music like nobody’s business long after the spotty, earnest lyric-quoting phase has passed. Still, there’s always a place in my ear for these songs. Good songs.

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