Ladies and Gentlemen. Boys and Girls.
I draw your attention to a website mentioned in a sidebar to the blog – The Great Jock’n’Roll Single.
Dave and The Cat await your visit. All you have to do is list your all-time favourite Top 10 singles by Scottish artists. Believe me, you’ll go through hours of mental torture trying to do so. Especially when you’re only allowed to put one entry per band or singer. All the rules are on the site. Oh, and I almost forgot – you’re being asked to put your all-time worst Scottish single.
Apart from anything else, the site is very clearly a labour of love (and not in any Hue & Cry fashion), with photos of old record sleeves that will take you back to different places and make you think of different people you haven’t seen or heard from in years.
As well as spending hours, maybe days or even weeks trying to get your Top 10 into shape (and when you do, I can predict with near certainty that you will change your mind at the 11th and a half hour), there’s loads of Scottish pop facts and trivia and plenty of updates on how the voting is going so far. There’s also a Message Board which some people are using as a confessional booth.
Great Fun.
And over the next few days, the Top 10 of your humble blog-lord and that of Jacques The Kipper (someone who has left a bad smell around the blog with his random comments attached to certain posts) will be put up here. If you can be bothered, you can then let me know who has the better taste. If either of us has any taste that is.
Happy Listening.
The Number 10s
JC : Obscurity Knocks – The Trashcan Sinatras (4:12) (mp3)
JTK : Legal Man – Belle & Sebastian (2:42) (mp3)
The Number 9s
JC : Smalltown Boy : Bronski Beat (5:00) (mp3)
JTK : Loaded : Primal Scream (7:02) (mp3)