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The Pinefox, as is his wont, made me a copy of the new Lloyd Cole lp the other day, which didn't surprise me greatly (I will get back to you about the lp, btw, PF). What did surprise me was the choice of tunes he put on the other side, namely:

1) 'Whole Again' - Atomic Kitten 2) 'Dirt Road Blues' - Bob Dylan 3) 'Some Sunny Day' - Dean Martin (?) 4) 'Some Slow Afternoon' - The Pinefox (?) 5) 'Bells of Rhymney' - The Byrds 6) 'Stronger' - Britney Spears 7) 'A-Tisket A-Tasket' - Ella Fitzgerald 8) 'Stay Young' - Oasis 9) 'Cheek to Cheek' - Anita O'Day (?) 10) 'Long Tall Sally' - Little Richard 11) 'This Girl's in Love with You' - Petula Clarke (?) 12) 'This Charming Man' (weird reverby version) - The Smiths 13) 'I Poured My Heart into a Song' - Rosemary Squires (see the PF's peerless discussion on FT) 14) Manhattan Chase - Lloyd Cole (?)

The whole thing is interlarded with football commentary (Martin Tyler?) from a Spurs/Forest cup final, back when Spurs and Forest got to cup finals.

Does this selection surprise anyone else as much as it did me? And does it lend itself to deconstructing the PF's idiolectic taste?

― Edna Welthorpe, Mrs, Monday, 7 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Where did he get #s 1 and 6 from?

As an aside, something we're planning on FT is a new feature whereby people review a compilation tape theyve been sent, writing during the time the tape takes to play (it neednt be their first listen to it). People wanting to do this should get in touch with me - tapes not provided.

― Tom, Monday, 7 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Well Tom, over Christmas I re-read a previous attempt at a similar feature, from back in the days when the interweb was just a twinkle in our future. Step forward the culprits, Eno Wig (TM) and Lo! Hot Sex Man.

― alext, Monday, 7 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

yeah, stick me down for that shit

― gareth, Monday, 7 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

I'll do one myself to sort out the format and then throw it open.

Now back to the Pinefox!

But actually a wider question - if someone makes you a tape do you assume the songs on the tape are meant to tell you about their taste or yours?

― Tom, Monday, 7 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

i fink i shall post the um hilarious response to the last blindfold i did

― mark s, Monday, 7 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Are you sure he hadn't just taped over someone else's attempt to get him into contemporary pop by stealth?

― N., Monday, 7 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

if someone makes you a tape do you assume the songs on the tape are meant to tell you about their taste or yours?

kind of both, if a tape arrives it is obviously their tastes, and is about them (a decent tape should be personal), but often it is skewed to your (the receivers) personality. so a good tape is kind of what links people.

― gareth, Monday, 7 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

gareth = nick hornby alert

― mark s, Monday, 7 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

right thats it you motherfucker, i'm going to burn your house down now!

― gareth, Monday, 7 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

And he lives in Highbury!

― N., Monday, 7 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

I find the inclusion of Little Richard quite surprising. I'm also disappointed that 'Pinefox Comp' doesn't mean 'Pinefox Competition' - you know, win a signed railing, that kind of thing. On which some poor girl has used her hair as a paintbrush.

― Peter Miller, Monday, 7 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

i. Yes, it surprised me. I'm very disappointed in his lack of principles.

ii. No, because some of it must be based upon your taste. Otherwise, how could he put Britney Spears after the Byrds?!?!?!

― Kara Fig, Tuesday, 8 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

I don't know about being surprised by music tapes, Edna, but I am certainly surprised to find you 'putting yourself about' in public like this. I'm sure the arty boys can get on with their controversies without you loitering in the background like a youth at a public convenience.

No, not at all the sort of thing I expect from a married woman, especially when she happens to be married to me. I request that you return home immediately. There's a gammon in the larder and it won't cook itself.

― Albert Welthorpe, Mr, Thursday, 10 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

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