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A quick advert...

Yesterday, I waddled off to visit Auntie and hear The Now Show recorded. If the live performance was anything to go by, the broadcast will be very funny indeed: it goes out tonight at half six on Radio 4. If you've not heard it before, it's basically 30 minutes of topical satire and silliness from Punt & Dennis, with sundry assistants and guest-ranting by Marcus Brigstocke.

I don't know how the show will have been edited, but I imagine quite a large chunk will be taken up with them talking about (by which I mean "ripping the piss out of") Bonekickers. And they barely mentioned Max Mosley; I'm sick of him already.

I was running late for a night downtown

On Fridays this year, we ask...

( What's in the Box? )

Today in The Box we have:

Thunder - Backstreet Symphony

You must remember that the primary purpose of my tape collection is to keep me entertained on long car journeys. And, pretty much regardless of your opinions of hair metal, there's nothing like a bit of late 80s rock for a singalong as you charge up the motorway.

Backstreet Symphony has all "the" Thunder songs on it - in fact, I did just go to Wikipedia to check that it was a proper album and not a best-of. So I know now that it's their first album, and that it was released in 1990. I don't care. It's still late 80s music if you ask me.

I bought this album a while back, and, on its first playing, warbled along happily to She's So Fine, Dirty Love and the title track. Then a more ballady intro started, and I figured it was a song I didn't know. It trundled on for a while, and suddenly reached the chorus...

"That's when LOVE walked IN through my DOOR..."

Fortunately, I had no passengers. Love Walked In is an orgiastic excess of wanky guitar solo, big chorus and fat chords. Oh, and daft words:

That's when love walked in through my door,
That familiar feeling I'd had once before.

OK, so far. A bit contrived, but we'll let that pass.

Love walked in through my door,
And it felt so strange.

Eh? Is it strange, or is it familiar ?

Like a long-lost friend

Oh, make your bloody mind up. OK, so it's not up there with the great excesses of lyrical inconsistency, but it's always vaguely got on my nerves.

Thunder - Love Walked In [link expired]

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