How Much I Lied - Gram Parsons

Rural rock from the man who brought country music to the attention of the West Coast free-love counterculture community in the sixties.

Classic Country was made by the white working classes for the white working classes and celebrated the lives of working class heros (farmers, factory workers, single mothers), but the critical community (largely white and middle class) has given the genre a hard time over the years and in 2003 genuine working class heros are few and far between.

Who would a modern Honky Tonk hero be? Dave, the IT man at work with the mobile phone clipped to his belt and the Fruit of the Loom t-shirt? Or maybe Pikey Tony down the pub who has seen all the latest cinema releases "on pirate, three months ago"?

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Don't Let Me Down - LUV

Back by popular demand, the all-girl troupe of ABBA copyists from the Netherlands with another 'big summer hit in the resorts' from the days when the great British public started travelling abroad with Cosmos Summer Sun.

'Big summer hit in the resorts' is one of the most welcome phrases of the summer holiday season along with...

"We met this lovely couple from Leeds." "Goats cheese? I don't fancy that much." "She bangs, she bangs." "Something bit me last night." "Is this real leather? Will you take 40 for it?" "I could quite easily live here" "I'll have the Shepherd's Pie." "She moves, she moves."

"We were drinking Lemon Fanta 4 years ago in Fuerteventura. It's only just come out back home. "

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Manifesto & Book News

If it's ever been on K-Tel or Ronco, it's in. If it features hand claps, cow bells, syrupy orchestration, walls of sound, wrecking crews, sha-la-las, toothy teen idols, candy-based metaphors for carnal acts or lyrics about hugging, squeezing and rocking all night long, it's in.

If you like it so much why don't you just marry it?



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