A mixtape I found in an old Christmas issue of NME. I havn't compiled it 'cos I refuse to have any Kingmaker records in the house! Oh well, play it at your Christmas Party and have some fun.
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Sexmas
Side A
1. Velvet Underground: Real good Time Together
Listen to in bedroom whilst preparing for evening ahead.
2. Hawkwind: Silver Machine
Listen to in fast car on way to party.
3. Cabaret Voltaire: Nag Nag Nag
This is playing whilst you convince door person you have been invited.
4. The Knack: My Sharona
Notice ex-partner snogging in corner durin this song. Promising start.
5. Happy Mondays: Step On (12" Version)
Shrug it off and move onto dancefloor.
6. War: Lowrider
Danger: Alcohol running short.Major trip to local off licence.
Side B
Spot a really fanciable person and the titles of the next five songs chart the progress of your canoodling from mere flirting to serious snogging.
Hah, I've got a soft spot for Kingmaker. They were kind of my first indie band. In some ways they were the prototype for a lot of aspects of Britpop, which might have partly been why they became the least cool band on the planet as soon as Britpop came along. Although the fact that Queen Jane (their biggest hit) was, in the cold light of day, a bit embarrassing probably didn't help either! Ten Years Asleep was great though.
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"Yes I saw her in the chip shop / so I said get yer top off"
I suppose at the very least Loz was a character but he always came across as arrogant, ignorant and very unsympathetic. I have just watched Really Scrape the Sky as it's the song of theirs that has the most memories for me and I still think it's rubbish!
I dunno - they had three or four top 20 hits, music paper front covers, all that sort of thing. All but written out of history after 1993 though - we don't have backlashes like that anymore!
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"Yes I saw her in the chip shop / so I said get yer top off"
I dunno - they had three or four top 20 hits, music paper front covers, all that sort of thing. All but written out of history after 1993 though - we don't have backlashes like that anymore!
I was trying to remember if they had any music paper fron t covers but none came to mind. There certainly a band that hasn't endured though, to the point where if you hadn't heard of them at the time you've got very little chance of stumbling upon them now. Unless you come here of course!
