…..then the voters across the UK will have given the Tories a right good and long-overdue kicking. Being something of a life-long political nerd, anorak or any other derogatory term you may wish to throw at me, I cn guarantee I’ve been sitting up through the night watching the results come in, and it’s probably around the time this post gets published that I’ll have finally crawled into bed for a bit of sleep.
This is the tune I might well be humming when I finally wake up for a Friday feeling that’ll hopefully last for a wee while yet.
mp3: The Cure – Friday I’m In Love
Another sign of the ageing process is my refusal to accept that this song is now 32 years of age, first showing up on the album Wish and then coming to the wider attention of the public when it was released as a single on 15 May 1992.
It reached #6 in the UK, and while nobody would have known it at the time, proved to be the last time The Cure would enjoy a Top 10 hit single.
Here’s the extra tracks as made available on the 7″, 12″ and CD releases. And if you happen top have any of the vinyl, then you could put it on the second-hand market and make a nice profit.
mp3: The Cure – Halo
mp3: The Cure – Scared As You
mp3: The Cure – Friday I’m In Love (Strangelove Mix)
Halo is yet another example of Robert Smith‘s uncanny ability to write the most wonderful of love songs celebrating his relationship with his wife, Mary. Scared As You didn’t make the cut for the album, which simply illustrates just how rich a vein of form he was going through in terms of songwriting, while the remix of Friday simply takes the song to another level of loveliness.
As my great friend from Germany would say, enjoy!!!!!!
THE NEW VINYL VILLAIN 
The Tories have been completely wiped out here in Wales, including in the safest of safe seats Monmouthshire where the execrable David TC Davies, the leader of the Welsh Conservatives, has held onto it for 25 years (the TC, by the way, probably stands for Total C—. if it doesn’t, it should…).
I used to have Friday I’m In Love on colured vinyl 12″. It went in the Great Vinyl Cull of 2001, so I’m £40-£50 worse off than I should be on that item alone… I do retain a fondness for the song. My old band would throw it in to fill out longer sets. It was one I really enjoyed playing as I mastered the riff (not difficult) and made it sound like I actually knew how to play guitar….
The only song I have with an appropriate title which will be on repeat today – The Manics and ‘Life Becoming a Landslide’
Middle Aged Man
It’s actually none of my business, but the following song is running through my head:
The Bug Club – Lonsdale Slipons Bandcamp
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I feel a Popguns A-side coming on…
Strangeways