15 May 2010
Slightly orgasmic at the thought of vampire lust
Reasons To Be Miserable (Part 10) is an early example of a song with a spoken-word verse in it, of the kind we’d come to know and love a lot more later. “Reasons To Be Miserable” is also the title of an earlier, unrelated (and terrible) song released on the back of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy and an even worse version by Stephen Fry released when his quality control department was on holiday. Thanks to EskimoEric
See lyrics to Reasons To Be Miserable (Part 10)
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Dave Cooper
Can’t find fault with the lyrics but I do have some related trivia:
The fella off the Turkish Delight advert is Tony Lewis who now runs The Black Eagle pub in Hockley, Birmingham. It is, by the way, a fantastic little back street boozer, four ever-changing real ales and excellent food, lovely secluded back garden for those upcoming summer days. It’s also om the Midland Metro route (Soho Benson Road stop), for those going to the September Bilston gig it would make a good intermediate stopping off point before The Olde White Rose!
May 16th, 2010
s.g.d A Shropshire Lad
Dave Cooper I salute you, to know his name was trivia enough but to find him running a pub less 10miles from a gig – superb!
May 16th, 2010
Dave Cooper
If you go I’ll bring Barbara along so we can refer you to the blackboard.
May 17th, 2010
Mac McColgan
We’ll make that a date then Mr Cooper.
May 17th, 2010
Peter Gandy
On a different tack, I remember reading in one of ex Charlton player Gary Nelson’s books – “Left Foot Forward” I think – that he put peaches on his cornflakes.
May 17th, 2010
simon smith
I do know John McGovern said he had peaches and cornflakes in a Shoot questionaire in the late 70s. Bloody footballers. I can`t think of a strong enough link between Nelson and McGovern to find the bugger who pioneered this quirk.
S’pose it’s better than having Peaches Geldof and her flakes.
May 17th, 2010
Third rate Les
Gosh – I was going to say it was “to wile away”, not “while”, but a bit of Google research suggests I’m wrong. Although apparently “wile” is common enough to be accepted as also correct (as it’s used as such by Dickens, Scott, Conan Doyle and others).
Well well.
May 18th, 2010
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