Six Days On The Road - Day 5

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Almost in the home strait truckers but what's THIS coming up behind in our rear view mirror? An UFO??!!!????!!!!

Brush Arbor - "Trucker And The UFO"

Also as a special bonus the song that inspired this themed week:

Red Simpson - "Six Days On The Road". By a happy coincidence this song is also a perfect tune for Friday afternoon work liberation.

Is Every Band/Artist Capable Of Making A Good Pop Record?

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OK maybe a "quite good" one.

I thought about this in the wake of the "Dakota" controversy earlier this year. There are actually not v.many artists who have managed to avoid making at least one record that works as pop somehow. I think the Stereophonics might still qualify but many wd defend that song at least.

So name some and we can try to think of counter-examples from amidst their oeoeoeuvre.

Obviously this does not count i) people who've only been around for one record and are still getting their fun-hating phase out the way, ii) Wire magazine regulars.

I will be posting an important piece of evidence later today.

Pop (Not Pop) Evidence A

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Chris Rea - "Josephine (La Version Francaise)"

This is from Classic Balearic Mastercuts vol.1 - Balearic Beat was a hugely inspirational movement which essentially argued that EVERYTHING was pop if you a) remixed it a bit and b) were fvcked up enough. This vision of pop managed to encompass the Woodentops, which probably just tells us that pills were better in those days. Here though we find grizzly old 'bluesman' Chris Rea BLISSING OUT with the help of some wah-wah guitar.

EVIDENCE B is the karaoke performance of "Romeo And Juliet" by certain posters of this parish. No recording survives.