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PAULYBEE already mentioned TV Personalities' Part Time Punks (they'd like to buy the O Level's single [...] but they buy the Lurkers instead [...] but they always got 2.50, to go and see the Clash - tonight).
TVP titled one great album They Could Have Been Bigger than the Beatles.
TVP songs :
Posing at the Roundhouse (I flirted with the idea of creating a t-shirt for the DDN stop there, with some reshuffling of the lyrics, but found it was too much trouble and time) - they mention Billy (Idol).
I Know Where Syd Barrett Lives
Where's Bill Grundy Now? - reference to the Sex Pistols on television.
Sad Mona Lisa - "She likes to go shopping on saturdays, especially to Kensington Market, for acid house records her mother hates, and posters of Morten Harket" (A-Ha singer)
Salvador Dali's Garden Party - lyrics would change if they played live, on the studio version Debbie Harry was there, live Jesus & the Mary Chain were there, Iggy Pop was there, TV Personalities were there and so on.
Evan Doesn't Ring Me Anymore - Evan being Evan Dando.
Goodnight Mr Spaceman - "Oh, the train's gone past my station, oh bloody hell, I wish I'd signed to Creation [...] I've taken three e's but I still can't dance like Bobby Gillespie"
Gainsbourg wrote Beau oui comme Bowie for Isabelle Adjani.
Thee Headcoats - I Hate the Fucking NME (David Bowie, Jarvis Cocker, Sting, Paul Weller, Beck, Rocket From the Crypt, the Clash, Boyzone, Spice Girls, even me in the NME...)
Jonathan Richman recorded a song called Velvet Underground about the group, on a jolly nice record called I, Jonathan.
The Launderettes, from Oslo - WWJJD, What Would Joan Jett Do?
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