A compendium of musical delights by Alan and Margaret Ashworth
Recorded in 1965 during the sessions for Highway 61 Revisited. It did not appear on that album but was released as a single, a follow-up to another brilliant putdown, Like … Continue readingBob Dylan: Positively 4th Street
Mancunian jokesmiths caught on Tony Wilson’s late 1970s Granada music show So It Goes.
Joyous rock and roll lampoon by Viv Stanshall and the boys, live on TV in 1968, complete with nose picking and burp.
A 1976 performance from the Fat Man in the Rompersuit. Love the percussion intro.
Truly wonderful side two of the 1971 album In The Land of Grey and Pink.
Brilliant video. This is from their 2005 ‘comeback’ album Tanglewood Numbers. RIP David Berman https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2019/08/david-berman-silver-jews-and-purple-mountains-rip/595720/ .
The true story of Michael H Kenyon, who would break into women’s rooms at night and give them enforced colonic irrigation. Really. From the 1978 live album Zappa in New … Continue readingFrank Zappa: The Illinois Enema Bandit
From the NME’s 1992 album of the year, Copper Blue.
Lovely clip from 2012’s Precious Remedies Against Satan’s Devices. Listening to this in the dark I was convinced it was Sufjan Stevens.
This shuffled up on my iPod last night, from the album Sunday’s Child, and I’m glad it did. Here’s a live version from Reading University in 1978.