Hit parade ram-raid with Neasden Postlethwaite

[hirez]

So I'm staring gormlessly at FTV this AM, as anyone with a brain might when confronted with enough vacuity to pull lawn-bowls up a metre column of mercury, when the music swaps from cranked-by-the-yard techno to someone trying very hard to be Joy Division.

I have no idea who it was, but it sounded like it might have been Depeche Mode. I know that post-punk-pastiche is the new Tractor, but the only way it could be more mired in the 80s would be... No, I can't think of it.

Meanwhile, some joker's (Hooky, probably) managed to swap money for the right to use 'Blue Monday' in a Mars advert. Other than pitching the BPM up a bit to suit Internet Time, it's unchanged since 1983. And entirely timeless. But then I would say that.


Elsewhere, multiple security patches. That's a whole bucket of cat-wax.

Comments

[squiddity.livejournal.com]

vacuity to pull lawn-bowls up a metre column of mercury

How many Lovelaces is that?

[amanda-pink.livejournal.com]

At least the Mars advert isn't as bad as the Sunkist one they changed the lyrics for... Barney singing 'How does it feel, when you're drinking in the sun'... Still makes me go cold!

As for Depeche Mode, they still got it :D

[inulro.livejournal.com]

There was a comment about that in last week's Jarvis Cocker-edited Observer Music Monthly. Apparently the only way he could do it was to have a big piece of paper with the amount of money they were getting paid taped up on the glass in the vocal booth.

[amanda-pink.livejournal.com]

Yeah, thats on the 'NewOrderStory' documentary... It was £250,000 I think.

[sarah-mum.livejournal.com]

Someone trying hard to be JD would probably be The Editors then.

[hirez.livejournal.com]

I may be old and out of touch, but even I can spot them.