Yeah, I had the same problem Christmas shopping today. 6 gifts for others, 3 for myself.
If you want to, you can e-mail me your address and I can send you a mix CD or two of some similar stuff.
Not the Mamas and the Papas … he wanted a cross between Husker Du and Peter Paul & Mary.
Ah, right. I knew it was some 60s folk-pop combo that had nothing to do with the actual Pixies’ sound.
MyNameIsEarl, revolver_4 and marky33 both mentioned the Jam, though personally I would have named “Sound Affects” over “Setting Sons”. (It’s hard to argue with a compilation like “Snap!”.)
I attended most of a nostalgic punk gig yesterday at London’s Astoria. It featured many bands from my youth, although some were unrecognisable as such; for example, the Japanese guitarist of the UK Subs cannot have been more than 25 years old so I think he may be a replacement.
Other bands: 999, The Saints (who supported The Ramones, with the Talking Heads, at the Roundhouse in London in 1977), The Dickies (always good value live) and, lastly, The Rezillos - who were awesomely magnificent, as usual. To think I first saw them 28 years ago. That’s twenty-eight years. Oh, god I feel old!
Risha - The Jam were, of course, tremendous. But you can’t beat their first LP, “In The City”. To think, Weller was only 19 at the time.
Check your e-mail.