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Haven't you heard ? Don't believe a word! Your best friend loves me too.
On Fridays this year, we ask...
What's in the Box?
The Box in question is the glovebox of my car, home to my extremely motley tape collection. By the time I owned a car with a tape player tapes were on the way out and most of my music was in CD format. However, charity shops were practically giving tapes away, which meant that I bought rapaciously and eclectically. A half-remembered 80s band who once released a single I'd liked a little ? A band I'd vaguely heard of ? An unknown group with good cover art ? Bring them on.
Of course, the net result is that I've ended up with a tape collection which any music-lover would be slightly ashamed of. There was a relatively narrow window (late 70s to later 80s) when tapes were big news, and my horde represents that. However, in amongst the terrible pop I've found some gems and I reckon its time to come clean about my guilty musical secrets.
In The Box this week we have:
The Exponents - Something Beginning With C
Picture, if you will, a small yapper-type dog. Imagine the dog is on the beach, and has just found a particularly interesting-looking thing lying on the sand. The small yapper-type dog is running round and round in tiny circles, barking ecstatically, sand and pebbles flying in all directions under its paws.
Well, that was pretty much what I looked like when I found a copy of Something Beginning With C in a charity shop in Whitby a couple of years ago.
The Exponents are a New Zealand band, who apparently moved to Britain in the late 80s, failed to get so much as a record contract, and removed back to NZ in the early 90s. They're now defunct, and I've even had trouble locating albums in record shops in NZ. Suffice it to say, I didn't expect to find an album for 50p in North Yorkshire.
Once I'd stopped running round in yappy circles, I gave the rather bewildered elderly lady behind the counter a quid for it and scampered off in search of a tape deck.
The Exponents are, on the face of it, a lads' band. Theirs are the sort of songs you can imagine a bunch of mates singing along to drunkenly on the way home from the pub; songs about things teenagers would write songs about. But they seem peculiarly pervasive in New Zealand; when I've been at parties full of Kiwis you can guarantee that Victoria or Why Does Love Do This To Me? will have everyone on the floor, singing their heads off.
One of the mourned losses from my recently defunct hard drive was the mp3s of the now-deleted Once Bitten, Twice Bitten compilation. However, I do notice that the lovely people at Smoke CDs now have several albums back in stock, including a new 2 disc Best-Of - which lets you listen to samples if you're interested. Best get another order in to them, then.
The Exponents - Why Does Love Do This To Me?
[Poll #1142508]
What's in the Box?
The Box in question is the glovebox of my car, home to my extremely motley tape collection. By the time I owned a car with a tape player tapes were on the way out and most of my music was in CD format. However, charity shops were practically giving tapes away, which meant that I bought rapaciously and eclectically. A half-remembered 80s band who once released a single I'd liked a little ? A band I'd vaguely heard of ? An unknown group with good cover art ? Bring them on.
Of course, the net result is that I've ended up with a tape collection which any music-lover would be slightly ashamed of. There was a relatively narrow window (late 70s to later 80s) when tapes were big news, and my horde represents that. However, in amongst the terrible pop I've found some gems and I reckon its time to come clean about my guilty musical secrets.
In The Box this week we have:
The Exponents - Something Beginning With C
Picture, if you will, a small yapper-type dog. Imagine the dog is on the beach, and has just found a particularly interesting-looking thing lying on the sand. The small yapper-type dog is running round and round in tiny circles, barking ecstatically, sand and pebbles flying in all directions under its paws.
Well, that was pretty much what I looked like when I found a copy of Something Beginning With C in a charity shop in Whitby a couple of years ago.
The Exponents are a New Zealand band, who apparently moved to Britain in the late 80s, failed to get so much as a record contract, and removed back to NZ in the early 90s. They're now defunct, and I've even had trouble locating albums in record shops in NZ. Suffice it to say, I didn't expect to find an album for 50p in North Yorkshire.
Once I'd stopped running round in yappy circles, I gave the rather bewildered elderly lady behind the counter a quid for it and scampered off in search of a tape deck.
The Exponents are, on the face of it, a lads' band. Theirs are the sort of songs you can imagine a bunch of mates singing along to drunkenly on the way home from the pub; songs about things teenagers would write songs about. But they seem peculiarly pervasive in New Zealand; when I've been at parties full of Kiwis you can guarantee that Victoria or Why Does Love Do This To Me? will have everyone on the floor, singing their heads off.
One of the mourned losses from my recently defunct hard drive was the mp3s of the now-deleted Once Bitten, Twice Bitten compilation. However, I do notice that the lovely people at Smoke CDs now have several albums back in stock, including a new 2 disc Best-Of - which lets you listen to samples if you're interested. Best get another order in to them, then.
The Exponents - Why Does Love Do This To Me?
[Poll #1142508]
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