Mick Carty - Alpha Fail
- Mick Carty Driving Instruction
- http://www.mickcarty.co.uk
- My Novels
- https://mybook.to/YBbE
- My Blog
- http://mickcarty.wordpress.com
- My Heroes
- http://www.dundeeunitedfc.co.uk/
Came 2nd to a civilian middle age driving instructor in 1985 UK Land Forces Young Driver of The Year Competition & still irked | DUFC & Indy Scotland | Fickle
Joined May 2022
Erasure - The Two Ring Circus 1987
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Don’t know what happened to my original copy of The Circus, but I still have the companion album, complete with chewed corner when my puppy took an interest in my collection.
Not quite as slick as The Innocents, but an electronic masterpiece nonetheless.
The Skids - Fanfare 1982
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For when you don’t have time to listen to all the albums.
The very best of Scottish post-punk.
Erasure - The Innocents 1988
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Surely one of the best pop albums of the 80’s… no, ever… surely
The Jam - Sound Affects 1980
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Little did we know at the time, but Weller’s progression away from 70’s mod appreciation into jazz-funk was already underway.
Foxton & Buckler couldn’t really play Style Council stuff, and this was the last great album with F&B up front and centre. before the horns and keyboards started taking over.
Not quite the end of the era, more the herald of a false dawn for a new Jam style.
Depeche Mode - Leave In Silence (Longer) 12” 1982
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One of my favourite DM tracks, but I have a very bittersweet love of this song.
This was a very underrated breakup song that really hit a nerve and came out at a very dark time in my life.
It stands the test of time, much like every other track on ‘A Broken Frame’.
Steve Miller Band - Abracadabra 1982
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Not a bad track on this, and still in great condition after 42 years
Talk Talk - The Party’s Over 1982
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One of the most underrated bands ever.
First heard Mark Hollis’ brilliant voice belting out ‘Today’ through the crackles of Radio Luxembourg when I was doing an army course in Bünde, W. Germany.
Such a sad loss when he died in 2019.
Heaven 17 - Penthouse And Pavement 1981
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When the Human League split we got two great bands out of it.
My original copy, still playing as well as ever.
Tears For Fears - The Hurting 1983
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Not been on lately, but have been very busy restocking my vinyl collection.
Gonna bore you all to death every day now.
My favourite TFF album.
Three excellent new additions to the fledgling vinyl collection
🎶 Keep beckoning to me
From behind that closed door
The maid and the mother
And the crone that's grown old 🎶
The Pretenders- Hymn To Her
🎶 The hale city's quiet noo, It kens that he's restin'
At hame wi' his Glasgow freens, their joy and their pride.
The red will be worn again and Scotland will march again,
Noo great John Maclean has come hame tae the Clyde 🎶
A great Scottish Folk-Rock song for a great man.
Tonight At Noon - The John Maclean March
🎶 Am I asking oh for so much?
I'm not asking to be understood
Am I asking oh for so much?
I'm just looking for a brand new friend
A brand new friend 🎶
Lloyd Cole & The Commotions - Brand New Friend
🎶 I could have been someone
Well so could anyone
You took my dreams from me
When I first found you
I kept them with me babe
I put them with my own
Can't make it all alone
I've built my dreams around you 🎶
R.I.P. Shane McGowan
The Pogues & Kirsty McColl - Fairytale of New York
🎶 Watching in a trance
The crew is certain
Nothing left to chance
All is working
Trying to relax
Up in the capsule
"Send me up a drink"
Jokes Major Tom
The count goes on 🎶
Peter Schilling - Major Tom (Coming Home)
🎶 Cannon fire
Came to call
Stood us up
And watched us fall
The way we were
And now outworn
Our costumes changed
To uniforms
Black black days
Here to stay 🎶
Echo & The Bunnymen - Bombers Bay
🎶 His days are numbered he walks round and round in circles
There is no place he can ever call his own
He seems to jump at the sound of the phone
Staring out the window there's nothing he can now do
All he wanted was to remain sane
He can't remember his own name 🎶
Madness - Michael Caine
🎶 Our one source of energy
The ultimate discovery
Electric blue for me
Never more to be free
Electricity
Nuclear and HEB
Come fuels from the sea
Wasted electricity 🎶
OMD - Electricity
🎶 Young at heart
Yet not a chance
To be a child at all
They told us tales
They told us lies
Don't they know
They shouldn't have told us at all
How come I love them now?
How come I love them more?
When all I wanted to do when I was old
Was to walk out the door 🎶
The Bluebells - Young At Heart
🎶 If you want the fruit to fall
You have to give the tree a shake
If you shake the tree too hard
The bough is gonna break
And if I can't reach the top of the tree
Mary, you can blow me up there
What I wouldn't give to be
When I was Mary's prayer 🎶
Danny Wilson - Mary’s Prayer
Mick Carty - Alpha Fail
- Mick Carty Driving Instruction
- http://www.mickcarty.co.uk
- My Novels
- https://mybook.to/YBbE
- My Blog
- http://mickcarty.wordpress.com
- My Heroes
- http://www.dundeeunitedfc.co.uk/
Came 2nd to a civilian middle age driving instructor in 1985 UK Land Forces Young Driver of The Year Competition & still irked | DUFC & Indy Scotland | Fickle
Joined May 2022