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I love those cheesy ?80s videos like that one for Legs. They were always packed with characters: villains, heroes, underdogs who come out on top and pretty girls who are hard done by. A bit like ?80s films really.


This one has to be the ultimate. Done like all of their stuff, with tongue firmly in cheek:


Zodiac Mindwarp ? Backseat Education

Seeing Edwyn Collins and the previous movie related posts prompted me to try to find the ?A Girl Like You? sequence from Empire Records.


All my search brought up was some stuff about ?Masons, Satanism and the Illuminati? (first I thought it may be an iron maiden track) did you know that the queen mum was really a lizard who ate people? Fascinating!

Listening to the new Stars album that I didn't even know was coming out.

So far a bit dissappointed, not the catalogue of purest power pop that was Set Yourself on Fire, here's hoping it's a grower.


But we'll celebrate the event with some old

You're ex-lover is dead

and some new

Take me to the Riot

There's some great riffing going on here. Well I love it anyway. The Faces with Keith Richards doing Chuck Berry's Sweet Little Rock N' Roller at the Kilburn State Theatre at Xmas in '74 with Rod in ridiculous satin pyjamas. Turn it up LOUD!


The Faces

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