Stayed at school 'til six this evening, marking exam papers, armed with only my iPod and endless mugs of black coffee. These two tracks came on the iPod...bliss.
Adam and the Ants -'Cartrouble.' mp3
Adam and the Ants -'Never Trust A Man (With Egg On His Face).' mp3
There's so much more to the band and the man than just the big hits...
8 comments:
Man do I feel your pain. Many a night (or even a lost weekend or two) has been spent pouring over teeenage accountings of the causes of World War II or the Great Depression. The one advantage to leaving the classroom for a Vice Principal job is no more grading papers (but the discipline part sucks quite a bit)
Keep the faith. You are involved in the greatest task before mankind...educating otehrs.
curses, woken by the cat, Jello (named after the DK's singer) at 6.30am in her inexhaustable quest for food and attention, bit improved by a post on everyone's favourite pub gun slinger, adam ant, i'm wondering what happened to my copy of this album.
Jon -cheers man. Love current job, but in any job it's the goddamn admin that sucks. But as a profession, I love it, and it beats working in a call centre, even if I don;t get the discount i did when i worked in a record shop.
Anonymous -glad to have improved your mood, whoever you may be!
Oh, I love Adam and the Ants! I used to have several of their albums. Great drumming, super beats. My first rock concert at age 13.
it was 6.30am and i was on the verge of making catflakes for breakfast, anonymous was me, i was tired
A.J
Qaro-your first rock concert? serious respect.
A.J. -A cat named after the lead singer of the Dead Kennedys...I shoulda known!
Hope you're both well, Ed
Darn, I had amnesia. Must have meant first concert without parents. First was really when my dad took me and my brother to see the KISS Dynasty tour at the Pontiac Silverdome in '79 for my brother's birthday. I helped him with his Peter Criss makeup and it looked awful. We were not the youngest kids there by a longshot. The stage was so far down it was more like a movie. It was so loud the seats were thumping and we kept tearing bits of paper off our popcorn bags to try to make earplugs but it didn't work very good. My dad bought us some for $5 each. KISS' first song didn't sound very good and the audience started chanting "Bring back Cheap Trick! Bring back Cheap Trick!" This went on for a few minutes. I couldn't believe it. Well, Cheap Trick were really great and everybody loved "Live at Budokan" and it's much easier to recreate a live album onstage than a slickly produced one. But KISS won us over, I think Gene Simmons blew flames or something. I think I remember Space Ace came down on ropes or a platform or something and my favorite song was New York Groove. Also, we lost the car and had to walk for miles through closely spaced lines of traffic and wait two hours for everyone else to leave so we could find it. Not a good time for my dad who had to do all this while listening to 2 kids whining "I'm tired!." Sorry for the long comment. I think I'll go post this on my own blog now. ;)
Nah, that's cool, qaro, always cool to hear from you.
As for gigs with parents, First concert I ever went to was with my dad, the Everly Brothers in London. It was October 1987 and I was 10, going on 11, and had a great time, and I must have been the youngest person there.
the next time I was at a gig with my parents, I was onstage with my band She Will Destroy You -there's a prize for anyone who can locate the source of that name!
Edx
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